History Essays

William McKinley was the 25th President of the United States from 1897 to 1901.  It can be said that he got the world to know about America and this made him get re-elected for a second term but unfortunately was assassinated before his second term could end.  Theodore Roosevelt served as Vice President under McKinley and became the President after the assassination of McKinley in 1901.

"One Day in Jozefow" by Christopher Browning and the film Night and Fog relate to stories from the Holocaust. The Final Solution is examined from different perspectives. Browning investigates individual responsibility and collective responsibility of the community. In Night and Fog, the documentary focuses on the camps like Auschwitz.

Shannon explains that Renaissance is the transition period into the modern day. He further explains that Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’ and that it is a perfect way of describing the economic and intellectual changes that occurred in Europe. He asserts that during this time, Europe emerged from the middle ages’ economic stagnation and experienced financial growth.

He returned for it unheralded, and entering his private chambers found his wife lying on a couch in the arms of a black slave. At this the world darkened before his eyes; and the thought: “If this can happen when I am scarcely out of my city, how will this foul woman act when I am far away? (Dawood 1973 p.15-16)

In the United States, the Platt Amendment is considered a controversial policy appended on the back of the 1901 Army Appropriations Act, which would replace the Teller Amendment by dictating the conditions under which the United States would withdraw from the island of Cuba still present there from the time of the Spanish-American War.

Columbus is popularly credited with the discovery of America and other heroic deeds, he is frequently demonized as the first step in a continuous, systematic genocide and oppression of a native American people. These normative views of Columbus in the historical record, rather than helping produce a clearer picture of history.

Upon finally arriving on land, we settled into our new arrangements. While it was a relief to have arrived at the destination, finally, tremendous challenges were waiting ahead of us. The first concern was notably developing food and shelter, as it was not certain that we would have enough food to take us through the remaining months.

With the Japanese attack on Perl Harbor, avoiding war and the policy of American isolationism was gone. It was the beginning of a great war that brought death, and finally the victory to the US. At the time of Roosevelt’s appointment in 1933, historically crucial events were taking place in Japan, Italy, and Germany which had to shape the US future.

Trade laws in India required Indian industries to provide dyes, coffee, cotton and tea to British companies, forced closure of many Indian businesses and dictated which crops were to be grown. As a result of these kinds of practices, many individual farmers and even entire villages could not grow enough food.

The two countries, therefore, united with other nations in agreement that space must not be used as a platform in which to launch nuclear arsenals; that the exploration of space must entail only peaceful objectives.  “Article IV of the Outer Space Treaty prohibits the orbiting of weapons of mass destruction in space.

Women were therefore forced to be creative with the recipes as the scarcity and high prices of commodities made many communities to suffer. The churches and courts were also closed down and agricultural products destroyed due to these periodic raids hence further aggravating the scarcity problem (Collier and Hoeffler 570).

Abigail Adams is recalled as the first female of the suffrage movement. Ladies were not given the power to make decisions after marriage according to the New Jersey’s law only single women could be eligible to vote since after voting all rights went into the hands of their husbands. Divorce was more painful by law and they had no right to vote.

It is strongly believed that whatever the circumstances might have been the conspirators used Caesar’s arrogance and duty to their nation as an excuse to execute an evil plan. As had been said, it wasn’t an action done out of a fit of rage but it was well thought out plan. The conspirators are murderers despite the cause.

The author suggests that colonization bears no human contact; it only creates a relationship of domination and subjugation. In this case, the dominating force will be the colonizer and the subjugated force will be the colonized. To add to this, the author creates a sense of anachronism within the European’s notion of colonialism. 

Power is abused as it is a form of fear. Total loyalty is obtained through fear or [1]respect. In which none shall have when one suffers or the children of thy family do not eat or suffer the pains of one other's abuse. A king is a king who is weak who kills out of fear of losing power. An emperor becomes Caesar for one who keeps the "population" from revolting out of fear of retribution.   

The revolution in Egypt would encourage the agitation for democracy in oppressive regimes especially in the Arab world and communists states. In Libya for instance, mass protests demanding the resignation of Muammar Gaddafi have been ongoing in the last three months, adversely affecting the economic state of the country.

Britain's capitulation because of Churchill's decisions was another mistake that led to the war. The capitulation was aimed at pressuring the Americans in splitting Anglo-Japanese alliances, isolating, and insulting Japan. The greatest mistake done by Britain was the unsolicited guarantee of war to Poland in 1939.

This age was also full of other losses, besides the Black Death. There was also a devastating depression that hit Europe during this period as well. Following the demise of half of the European population, there was a big depression economically since tradesmen and merchants could not find customers for the sustainability of the economy.

The decision of Yaroslav in 1054, before his death, to assign princedoms to his sons set the stage for the Keiven Russia that ruled the most gloried states for a remarkable two hundred years in history. This advent of the Mongols changed the course of history for the Russian Empire (Charles).

Like previous regimes' failures, the republican government had a hard time reversing the adverse effects of social, political, and economic deterioration, including erosion of morals, increased violence, declining standards of living, a rise in crime levels, and violation of human rights. Consequently, the conservatives restructured their objectives, changed their approach to politics.

The main building has 200 interesting galleries with classic paintings, highly carved stone pieces with rooms entirely rooms allocated for distinct architectural works worldwide. The Perelman Building, which sits across the main building, is renovated, modernized, enhanced, and elegantly preserves Art Deco facade to visitors' delight (Hiesinger, p37).

However, scholars have translated Chinese writing system to help other cultures understand the history of China.Aside from scholarly writing, we can learn about ancient China through world and Asian history books, internet, historians, synthesis of evidence and traditional Chinese records, teachers, and word of mouth.          

European countries between the early 1600s to the late 1700s brawled for control of North America. The superpowers of the period involved Britain, France, and Spain that were aiming to colonize the free worlds and expand their empires. On the rivalry of the three countries, England became superior and victorious in taking over the new world.

In the Odyssey, the role of either gender is most clear and appears quite early in the story and becomes elaborate as the scenes advance. In the Epic of Gilgamesh, the first apparent role is that of men. The Hebrew Bible largely describes the state and interactions of the Jewish people. One way of identifying the gender balance at the time is looking at the representation in the Bible.

The Estates-General played an important role in the French Revolution era. As per the historical facts, French King ordained the Estates-General to assemble. During this assembly, it was noted that the Third Estate did not assemble with other Estates. It was mainly because of the fact that had the lesser privilege in terms of voting.

In this paper, the author draws from primary and secondary sources to develop their interpretation of gender roles in late medieval through early modern Europe. In addressing the topic, the author considers three questions. The first question relates to the roles that society expected of men and women. 

More than a hundred years ago, before the world wars, there was the Spanish American war. While the causes of the war were many and complex, the spark which led to the start of the war was the sinking of the USS Maine which was situated in the Havana Harbor to protect American interests in present-day Cuba.

World War I came to an end following the armistice in November 1918, which demanded Germany to withdraw its troops and evacuate all occupied territory. Germany had surrendered to the terms laid out in the armistice and lost the war. Fuel food and ammunition were running out and there was no way except to surrender.

The horrific actions of the Third Reich were a culmination of centuries of German cultural bonding through the ideas Volkism founded and not a drastic misrepresentation of the general ideologies of the time. By the 1930’s Volkism had come to imply much more than its initial concepts of culture, heritage and value of a race to the German populous.

Due to the more conservative direction of the Lyons’ government Australia re-established its relations with the UK and relied much on the British course of the coming out of the great economic crisesю This course helped Australia greatly in managing the difficulties of the Great Depression and gradually the problem was solved, however, experts consider that the consequences of the Great Depression in Australia influenced its further development.

Racism in the 19th century in America was the history of racial segregation of services, facilities, education, housing, transportation, and employment along racial lines. It also means physical separation and arrangement for separate facilities. Some other manifestations of racism can also be included in it.

The author provides the reason for such intense hate for American aviators. The Bushido code of the Japanese provided the Japanese soldiers with a misguided sense of honor and warrior spirit. Generally, the Americans by their own atrocities became a target of this misguided sense of honor and warrior spirit.

Civilizations and empires throughout history have marked the advancement of humanity. Some civilizations stand over others and amongst these is the Islamic and the Mongol empire. These civilizations not only captured more than half the world, but they also changed the way people thought and lived. 

The Islamic empire has seen many dynasties, rulers, and kings. Considering the opinions of the Abbasid revolutionaries, that they were justified in overthrowing the Umayyad dynasty because the Umayyads were godless and corrupt, it is difficult to find much merit in the argument presented by the Abbasid apologists.

One can say that a written account of historical facts is a more credible way to preserve history but it is equally true that other media of maintaining records of historical values, also have the same importance because they are able to inform us about the evolution of cultural and political values of the place and people, which is the main objective of the history.

An investigation into the nineteenth-century European socialist movement would be useless without taking into account the political expression which the French Revolution helped to create. With regard to this idea, there are two primary individuals that have to be discussed. One of the individuals found the basis of what is essentially the French communist movement. 

Founded as a result of the Treaty of Versailles on January 15th, 1919 as an idea mainly adopted by the Democratic US President Woodrow Wilson — disgusted by the massacre that had taken place during World War I — the League of Nations was born under the main goals of preventing war, disarmament and pacific settling of disputes. In addition to moral reasons there were also economic and political reasons.

The US was once the land where people went to be free, to find a means of making a living more productive and satisfying than that of their fathers while living a life in close harmony with our maker and God. For many, this has no longer become possible thanks to persecutions and other disruptions of evil men upon those who would do only good.

After drilling, the second major innovation that became a routine was the ‘oil pipeline’, which facilitated rapid transportation of oil to railheads, where tankers could be filled and easily transported. Till the end of the 19th century, the Standard Oil Company became the giant of the oil industry in the United States, which met almost 50%.

Kinzer’s “Overthrow” and Johnson’s “The Sorrows of Empire” have offered a different perspective on what we once thought was our country’s political aspirations and objectives. America was supposed to be a democratic nation that respected foreign nations' freedom and, in fact, influenced Britain to give up her colonies after the World Wars.

There was a new insistence, brought about partially as a result of the new inventions of the age, such as the invention of photography, which was perceived to be the only means by which the real could be captured in image form. Photography has been hailed by the masses as one of the best means of bringing the rest of the world to the public.

Stanton employs the concept of relativism in making her case that women need to be included in the law-making and law-keeping process. Relativism acknowledges that people from different cultures nevertheless hold equal merit in the world. Using relativism, she argues that men are incapable of understanding the particular viewpoint of women

The war between the Philippines and the US has started in February 1899 under controversial circumstances, with its exact reasons unknown to anyone. The war officially ended on July 4, 1902. The revolutionaries in the Philippines concluded that they could not compete with them, and turned to guerrilla warfare.

It’s interesting to compare the time of Livy’s Rome to the time of 1 and 2 Samuel because in many ways the Romans and Hebrews faced the same challenges: How to build a strong, financially solvent government from a group of quarrelsome, semi-nomadic revolutionaries. Both Rome and the nascent nation of Israel succeeded, and they did it in a particularly interesting way.

Nick Knight argues that “the East and Southeast Asian region is of immense economic, strategic and cultural significance to Australia……. Australians, therefore, need to have some understanding of their northern neighbors and to be able to think about them in an informed way”(Knight, 2004:1).

The figure is created was cast from bronze and used a lost-wax method of casting. Gold overlay embellishes the figure and acts as a decoration. She is quite possibly representational of a deity and could be the Canaanite goddess Asherah who is considered a protectress of sailors and was kept onboard a ship to watch over a crew (Metropolitan, 2009).

Natural disasters come from the sky above, from underground, and from the ocean. These natural disasters of course come suddenly and without any warning. But human technology has become so advanced that it is not at all difficult for a man to predict disasters in advance and take proper and immediate steps to avoid or at least lessen the losses and damages. But for this proper management is very necessary.

Zara is now one of the most valuable and the 2nd leading brands in the world. It has successfully raised its brand significance by adopting several new brand strategies like offering ultimate fashion at a low cost. The company attracts customers through product rotation, that is, it frequently changes the style of its products and also introduces several new products in the market.

Egyptian pyramids still attract many people from all around the world because of their beauty, artistic design, and architectural expertise. The mystery behind the tradition of making pyramids as the tomb of Pharaohs is still not clear to many historians and research people. This paper briefly explains the pyramids of Egypt, its history, the new and old pyramids, the kings of this kingdom, why and how they built the pyramids, etc.

The Syro-Ephraimite war is mentioned in The Bible, and the conditions surrounding the sides involved are greatly confirmed in Assyrian records. The major groups involved were Rezin of Damascus (Aram) and Pekah of Israel (Ephraim), in a coalition against Jotham and his son Ahaz.