|
|
"A crime without a name"
|
| "A crime without a name"
Winston Churchill, Raphael Lemkin and the
World War II origins of the word "genocide"
On August 24, 1941, only two months after Germ... |
|
|
|
|
"A DATE THAT WILL LIVE IN INFAMY"
|
| The Japanese bombs that sunk the U.S.S. West Virginia, U.S.S. Arizona, and pushed America into WWII also radically changed the lives of Japanese Americans living in the Pu... |
|
|
|
|
"Dark Ages" vs. "Middle Ages"
|
| "Dark Ages" vs. "Middle Ages"
After the fall of Rome in 476 AD, the subsequent 1000 years made up a period of time called the Middle Ages. The Middle Ages are often r... |
|
|
|
|
"Easter 1916"
|
| "Easter 1916"
The 1916 Easter Rebellion spoke to the heart of Irish nationalism and emerged to dominate nationalist accounts of the origin and evolution of the Irish Stat... |
|
|
|
|
"Education and the American Dream"
|
| The "American dream" was a term coined by James Truslow Adams in his book, "The Epics of America." It has become a familiar slogan, but each individual's perception of this a... |
|
|
|
|
"Nu, Cadavre Exquius"
|
| Nu, Cadavre Exquis is a Surrealist drawing dated 1926-1927. The piece is the result of the close collaboration between four artists: Yves Tanguy, Joan Miró, Max Mor... |
|
|
|
|
"Ozymandias"
|
| Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Ozymandias" portrays a traveler's experience in the desert and his encounter with a fallen statue of an Egyptian pharaoh Ozymandias, also known as... |
|
|
|
|
"Taj Mahal"
|
| "Taj Mahal"
I think a gigantic funerary mosque of white marble, built in Agra by order of the Mogul emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his favorite wife, the Taj Mahal is the... |
|
|
|
|
"That others may live"
|
| "That Others May Live," is the motto of an Air Force Special Operations team whose primary mission is to recover personnel. Search and rescue is a fundamental military operat... |
|
|
|
|
"The American West: Racial Turmoil"
|
| "The American West: Racial Turmoil"
The Legacy of Conquest is an exceptionally written book about the West. This book does not sugar coat anything about how the west was. I... |
|
|
|
|
"The Diana Phenmenon"
|
| The Diana Phenomenon
The sudden death of Diana Princess of Wales at the end of August 1997 sparked off a massive display of emotion in the world, especially in Britain. The... |
|
|
|
|
"The Diana Phenomonen"
|
| The Diana Phenomenon
The sudden death of Diana Princess of Wales at the end of August 1997 sparked off a massive display of emotion in the world, especially in Britain. The... |
|
|
|
|
"The Holocaust"
|
| "We are the children of the holocaust. We are both Germans and Jews. We are the children of the victims. We are the children of the oppressors. We starte... |
|
|
|
|
"The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow"
|
| In 1863 Jim Crow was performing black face in major production halls. Jim Crow became a simble of racial discrimation. The erra of Jim Crow had begon at this time. This erra w... |
|
|
|