… and a playwright who attacked the British government. She also fit time into be a wife and a mother to five sons, while writing a three volume book published in 1805 called The Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution, based…

… covered in thick ice sheets of the Wisconsinan glaciation. By 12,000 years ago, the ice sheets began to retreat and a series of large pro-glacial lakes formed between the land to the south, and the edge of the ice. As people followed the retreating…

… occurred in the late 1700s and the early 1800s. England was the leader of the nations with France following right behind. The United States was left in their dust. In fact, we weren’t ahead of England till 1900. Though the American economy only…

… was the first war to involve the new technologies in warfare we know of today. The machine gun and heavy artillery reduced the individual soldier to insignificance, leaving no room for heroes. Tanks, bombs, and poisonous gas were the new age of war,…

… of plantation owners and missionaries from the United States, was invaded by the United States. In doing so, a treaty was being broken between the United States and the Hawaiian government. It also broke an international law, which forbids acts of aggres…

… States, enacted significant reform legislation and led the United States during World War I. Wilson's belief in international cooperation through an association of nations led to the creation of the League of Nations and ultimately to the United…

… University of Vermont. Born in Decatur, Illinois, his father was a doctor and his mother was a housewife and junior high school librarian. He is co-author of the first integrated state-history textbook, Mississippi: Conflict and Change, and creator of…

… bring free and deprives them of there god given rights secured by the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. An example of this is in “The Case of Sacco and Vanzetti”. In this incident two men (both foreigners form Italy) for a crime that…

… he ascended to the throne. He played only a ceremonial role along with Ivan. The real regent to take the throne was Ivan's sister, Sophia . Sophia was a very intelligent woman. She did not spend her days sewing gold thread around crosses the way her…

… the surrounding cities, the Renaissance was a time of awakening and rebirth. A time of examining the present and looking towards a future that would turn out to seem entirely different from the past, but at the same time hold striking similarities. How…