Consult more than 15581 documents with no limitation. Our subscription options

Modern history

Filter by:

Filter by:
 
See all documents

445 results

11 Nov 2008
doc

Trials and Triumphs: A look at the leadership of the nation of Islam 1930-2005

Essay - 5 pages - Modern history

The Nation of Islam is defined as “a religious and political organization founded in the United States in 1930 with a declared aim of resurrecting the spiritual, mental, social and economic condition of the Black man and woman of America and the world.” When the Nation of Islam was...

31 Oct 2008
doc

The battle of Shiloh

Essay - 5 pages - Modern history

Before day break of June 6, 1862, Federal troops discovered that Confederate soldiers were nearby. This occurred in Pittsburgh Landing, Tennessee. The Battle of Shiloh was just beginning and it would become one of the most significant and perhaps must misunderstood battles of the war. It was...

06 Oct 2008
doc

The South African crime wave

Essay - 6 pages - Modern history

In 1997 South Africa had the highest murder rate in the world.1 For the period 1998 - 2000, it slipped to number two, losing the top spot to Colombia, but retained the number one position (per capita) in murders with firearms, rapes, and assaults.2 While there is some controversy regarding the...

30 Sep 2008
doc

The German threat to the democracy, the economy and morality of the United States

Essay - 9 pages - Modern history

When the origin of the United States' entrance into World War II is reviewed Pearl Harbor is the event that justified American intervention. Once bombs were dropped in Hawaii the U.S. had no choice but to declare war on Japan. The United States' values and interests were threatened and within...

30 Sep 2008
doc

Andrew Jackson: Trial reflection

Essay - 7 pages - Modern history

Andrew Jackson was born on March 15, 1767 in Lancaster County, straddling the state line of both North and South Carolina. Although both states claimed Jackson as their own, he himself always stated that South Carolina was his home. His parents were Presbyterian Scottish-Irish immigrants and...

25 Sep 2008
pdf

Labor and the Russian Revolution

Essay - 9 pages - Modern history

The February and October Revolutions of 1917 were based, in large part, on Marxist visions of class struggle and working class power. Despite not being an industrial power, the Russian working class was significant. Benjamin Nathans sums up the social circumstances of Russia in the late...

25 Sep 2008
doc

Salvadoran political history from 1932 until 1979

Essay - 19 pages - Modern history

The outbreak of the Salvadoran civil war at the end of the 1970's and its continuation throughout the following decade, had an immensely detrimental impact on the society as a whole. While the crimes perpetrated by all relevant actors have been well documented in the annals of history, it is...

10 Sep 2008
doc

Eisler's "Cultural evolution" and evolutionary theory

Essay - 7 pages - Modern history

Riane Eisler's “The Chalice and the Blade”, published in 1988, presents a new theory of human cultural evolution, as well as a new vision of reconstructed history. Eisler draws from archaeological discoveries made in the latter half of the 20th century, as well as from mythology and...

04 Sep 2008
doc

The fourth horseman: Disease as a unique and multi-faceted agent of Apocalypse

Essay - 6 pages - Modern history

Although there exist many manifestations of apocalypse in our society, an extensive study of the subject of apocalypse will demonstrate the presence of an inherent trait that runs constant within nearly all forms of apocalypse; despite the fact that the prospect of a destructive apocalypse is...

29 Aug 2008
doc

The President's commission on the assassination of President Kennedy and its report

Essay - 5 pages - Modern history

“THE ASSASSINATION of John Fitzgerald Kennedy on November 22, 1963, was a cruel and shocking act of violence directed against a man, a family, a nation, and against all mankind.” This is the first statement made on page 1 of the Report of the President's Commission on the...

28 Aug 2008
doc

The economic, social and political impact of the Great Depression on Southeast Asia

Essay - 9 pages - Modern history

Southeast Asia did not escape the effects of the Great Depression that burst upon the Western industrialised world at the beginning of the 1930s. The 1929 crisis formed a watershed in the history of Southeast Asia, leaving neither the economic, social nor political sphere untouched. Apart from...

12 Aug 2008
doc

Common portrayals and stereotypes of the Indian princess in popular culture

Essay - 5 pages - Modern history

Stereotypes of Native Americans have continued through to the 21st century with films like Dances with Wolves (1990), The Last of the Mohicans (1992), and Pocahontas (1995). In films like these and other popular culture, Native Americans appear with feathers in their hair, in tribal dress,...

07 Aug 2008
doc

Anarchism in the Spanish civil war

Essay - 9 pages - Modern history

In a decade of cataclysmic worldwide depression and spreading fascism, the Spanish Civil War's Anarchist forces signaled a message of renewed hope of emancipation to the scattered working-class forces throughout the globe. The question still remains though, as to whether these forces contributed...

30 Jul 2008
doc

Women and the Great War

Essay - 9 pages - Modern history

World War I, lasting from 1914 to 1918, was a culmination of entangling alliances, new technology and empirical greed. The Great War, as it is sometimes called, brought the whole of Europe into years of stalemate, death and destruction. United States soldiers were spared most of the war, and the...

28 Jul 2008
doc

Domesticity and the siege of Leningrad

Essay - 20 pages - Modern history

One of the most tragic and at the same time heroic episodes of the Second World War, or as it is referred to in the Soviet/Russian context The Great Patriotic War, is the Siege of Leningrad. The siege itself, although not a key strategic event on the Eastern front, holds an important place in the...

28 Jul 2008
doc

The political role of prisoners of war in postwar Germany

Essay - 7 pages - Modern history

In the period immediately following its defeat in the Second World War Germany was faced with many problems: rebuilding itself after the destruction of the war, re-establishing a political infrastructure, and coming to grips with its Nazi past. Although these were critical issues, perhaps one of...

20 Jul 2008
doc

Rigoberta Menchu Tum: A peacemaker from the start

Essay - 4 pages - Modern history

Rigoberta Menchu? Tum, a great nonviolent leader, born in 1959 in Guatemala, struggled through many hardships with her family. Her mother and father, community leaders working towards their goal of giving power to the peasant workers, fought through to the end when tortured and killed by the...

17 Jul 2008
doc

Salem Village through the eyes of 20th century historians: A historical and geographical review

Essay - 9 pages - Modern history

In 1953, Arthur Miller composed a highly-charged work for the theater that struck its audiences as frighteningly relevant to the times. That play was called The Crucible, and its fictional examination of the Salem Witch trials has become a classic of American Theater. Miller's play was well...

09 Jul 2008
doc

The road to the civil war

Essay - 4 pages - Modern history

As a result of the Mexican American War, Mexico lost almost half of its territory to the United States. The victory of the Mexican American War seemed to fulfill the citizens' beliefs in Manifest Destiny. The newly acquired territories of the United States put pressure between the Northern and...

09 Jul 2008
doc

The Cold War

Essay - 4 pages - Modern history

Communism is a political structure based on economic principles that promote the establishment of a classless society in which everything is commonly owned. (“Communism” Par 1) On the contrary, Capitalism is based on the principle that land and means of production can be privately...

09 Jul 2008
doc

Conformity, radicals, conservatives, and Clinton

Essay - 8 pages - Modern history

In the United States, the 1950s was the rise of suburbia. Undeveloped areas were constructed into planned communities. One of the most famous subdivisions of this time was known as Levittown. Levittown was a political subdivision of Long Island, New York. It was the first truly mass-produced...

09 Jul 2008
doc

Lo siniestro como producto de la guerra civil española: el caso de La Voz Dormida

Essay - 5 pages - Modern history

El año 1939 señaló un momento triunfante para el general Francisco Franco y su banda nacional, marcando el fin de la Guerra Civil y el principio de “La Paz de Franco” que supuestamente siguió. Al contrario, para la población derrotada (los republicanos y otros que no se identificaron...

08 Jul 2008
doc

The Virginian dynasty

Essay - 5 pages - Modern history

George Washington was born in 1732 into a Virginia planter family and was raised to be an eighteenth century Virginia gentlemen. Washington was a general and took part in the French and Indian War as well as the American Revolutionary War. Washington became of the most important figures in the...

08 Jul 2008
doc

The Armenian transnation as unified in opposition to its Ottoman past

Essay - 5 pages - Modern history

At the turn of the twentieth century, the Armenians were already a dispersed people; one scattered around the world but primarily divided between the Ottoman and Russian Empires. Their dispersion, however, became part of their self-conception as a people in 1915, when the Ottoman Armenians found...

08 Jul 2008
doc

Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce War

Essay - 3 pages - Modern history

The Nez Perce War is a series of wars that occurred from June, 1877 to September, 1877 between the white settlers and the tribes of the Nez Perces. The Nez Perce lost over fifty of their tribe members during a surprise raid by the white settlers while they were sleeping. This attack led to more...

07 Jul 2008
doc

Revolutionary music: The Republicans and the Anarchists

Essay - 4 pages - Modern history

Music is a creation capable of greatly influencing and inspiring the people that it reaches. Many musicians and scholars suggest that a generation may even be defined by its choice of music. Music is even revered by some as a form of therapy, believed to have the ability to reach a person's...

07 Jul 2008
doc

Unconscious discord: The battle between modern Greece and its ideal in the mind

Essay - 4 pages - Modern history

In the 18th and 19th centuries, many men from the West journeyed to Greece, trading in their comfortable existences in Europe and America for exciting adventures where many risked their lives in the face of pirates, brigands, and plague; and for some of these men, traveling to Greece “was by...

07 Jul 2008
doc

The War of 1812

Essay - 4 pages - Modern history

The War of 1812 was mainly between the United States and Great Britain. The “relatively small conflict” (Heidler & Heidler, 2002, p.1) lasted for almost three years—from June of 1812 to Spring of 1815. The war still continued for a few months after a peace treaty ending the war was...

07 Jul 2008
doc

Life and history of Jane Adams

Essay - 6 pages - Modern history

Introduction Throughout the course of history, there have been numerous female leaders that have demonstrated their strength and courage to the world. While many of these leaders have been written about in the annals of history, some have left a timeless impression on society, such that their...

17 Jun 2008
doc

The specific events that shaped the development of Europe between the years of 1914 and 1965

Essay - 3 pages - Modern history

In the aftermath of World War II, Europe showed a notable overall decline in both its economic production and its overall primacy in the international community. While some historians have argued that the Second World War is what had served as the impetus for the decline of Europe, when tracing...