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Massacres at Sand Creek
With the massacres at Sand Creek in 1864 and Wounded Knee in 1890 as bookends, a study of intervening years reveals some of the most gruesome behavior known in United States history. Both sides committed unspeakable atrocities. What would propel two peoples to such inhumane conduct? It all revolved around land. Native Americans fought desperately to live on their ancestral lands as white Americans strove to claim it for their own. Battles raged from Dakotas to Idaho and Montana to New Mexico. -
Purchase of Alaska
When William Seward proposed the purchase of ALASKA in 1867, his peers thought he had gone mad. Russian America, as it was called, was a vast frozen wasteland surely not worth 7.2 million American dollars. "Seward's Folly," some scoffed. "Seward's Icebox," others razzed. The Senate saw the potential of its vast natural resources and approved the treaty, but the House stalled the purchase of the "Polar Bear Garden" for over a year. -
Reconstruction of The Gilded Age
The growth was astounding. From the end of RECONSTRUCTION in 1877 to the disastrous PANIC OF 1893, the American economy nearly doubled in size. New technologies and new ways of organizing business led a few individuals to the top. The competition was ruthless. Those who could not provide the best product at the cheapest price were simply driven into bankruptcy or were bought up by hungry, successful industrialists. -
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immigration
Except for Native Americans, all United States citizens can claim some immigrant experience, whether during prosperity or despair, brought by force or by choice. However, immigration to the United States reached its peak from 1880-1920. The so-called "Old Immigration" brought thousands of Irish and German people to the New World. -
America in the First World War
In the early days of the war, as Britain and France struggled against Germany, American leaders decided it was in the national interest to continue trade with all sides as before. A neutral nation cannot impose an embargo on one side and continue trade with the other and retain its neutral status. In addition, United States merchants and manufacturers feared that a boycott would cripple the American economy. Great Britain, with its powerful navy, had different ideas. -
The Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance was an intellectual, social, and artistic explosion centered in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, spanning the 1920s. At the time, it was known as the "New Negro Movement", named after The New Negro, a 1925 anthology edited by Alain Locke -
Treaty of Versailles
The Treaty of Versailles was the most important of the peace treaties that brought World War I to an end. The Treaty ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. -
The Great Depression
The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, beginning in the United States. The timing of the Great Depression varied across the world; in most countries, it started in 1929 and lasted until the late 1930s. -
Evening Falls
displays an easel placed inside a room and in front of a window. The easel holds an unframed painting of a landscape that seems in every detail contiguous with the landscape seen outside the window. At first, one automatically assumes that the painting on the easel depicts the portion of the landscape outside the window that it hides from view. -
Keys to the Fields
Light or dark, open or closed — the window opening as an architectural element in the paintings of artists serves not only as the background or accent of the composition, but also as a metaphor for hope, change, and step into the unknown. Let’s look at the painters' windows and find out what symbols they reveal! -
America in the Second World War
The military history of the United States in World War II covers the war against the Axis powers, starting with the 7 December 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. ... During the war some 16 million Americans served in the United States Armed Forces, with 405,399 killed and 671,278 wounded. -
Pearl Harbor
The Attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, just before 08:00, on Sunday morning, December 7, 1941 -
A New Civil Rights Movements
In 1950, the United States operated under an apartheid-like system of legislated white supremacy.Although the Civil War did bring an official end to slavery in the United States, it did not erase the social barriers built by that "Peculiar Institution." Despite the efforts of Radical Reconstructionists, the American South emerged from the Civil War with a system of laws that undermined the freedom of African Americans and preserved many elements of white privilege. -
Shaping aNew America
The 1960s were a decade of revolution and change in politics, music and society around the world. ... The 1960s were an era of protest. In the civil rights movement blacks and whites protested against the unfair treatment of races. Towards the end of the decade more and more Americans protested against the war in Vietnam. -
The Reagan Years
In 1980,confidence in the American economy and government hit rock bottom.Looking for a change and the promise of a better future, voters turned to Ronald Reagan for answers.His message was clear.Government has become too big and needs to be trimmed down to size.Taxes are very high and need to be cut to stimulate growth and investment.Military spending should be increased to fix the degenerating state of the American war machine.Morality and character need to be reemphasized in American life. -
New World Orders
he last decade of the 20th century was marked with dizzying change for the United States. With the Soviet Union out of the picture, American diplomats sought to create a "NEW WORLD ORDER" based on democracy, free-market capitalism and the Western lifestyle. Challenges from abroad did not disappear with the end of the Cold War. The invasion of Kuwait by Saddam Hussein's Iraq threatened a major percentage of the world's oil reserves.In the largest American military operation since the Vietnam War.
