… war from Britain, so to shut off the Confederacy from receiving these imports, Lincoln ordered the Navy to blockade all southern ports, and stop both international trade and the short-distance coastal traffic. This blockade started out very weak and…

… into Obscurity Question: After its startling successes of the late 1880's and early 1890's, why did the Populist Party quickly fade into oblivion after 1896? Key Words: Analyze - examine the motives; answer the question Time Period: 1880's-1900 …

… Men, written by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, is an account of the events concerning the break-in at the Watergate during Richard M. Nixon's term as President. Bernstein and Woodward have the most authority to write this book, as they uncovered…

… Virginia, established 1607. When it was first founded, the colony contained only several hundred people. During the two hundred years that followed the population increased greatly, due in part to massive immigration from the Old World. By 1790…

… a third presidential period, but he helped elect the Democratic-Republican candidate from Virginia, James Madison, as president in 1808. Madison was the 4th president who also presided for two periods, from 1809 to 1817. During these years he had to…

… nature to our country's history - that trends, attitudes, and events tend to repeat themselves with marked regularity and that Americans tend to move back and forth between two different and competing impulses or motivations. One of the first to…

… is trying to solve the dilemma of whether the events that happened in America during the Seventeenth and the Eighteenth Century were the consequences of an experiment, trying to follow the example of the Republic of Rome, or whether destiny,…

… that governed American politics over the past two centuries in The Cycles of American History. I enjoyed it immensely for a variety of reasons. First, Schlesinger makes his novel appealing to both the avid history fan, student of history, and teacher…

… the real, previously obscured meaning of the role of women in America. It is more than obvious that women were the "men's pleasure " only, and before they were referred as the ignorant part of the world. The vision people, usually men, had about…

… by Sara M. Evans is the written path of being informed of the History of Women in America. As it is mentioned in the first few pages of this book, there is a lack of information that we need to fill in ourselves. We have all heard from many historians…