History

The gilded age is one that was filled with the rise of industrialization across America. This period was characterized by the rise of industry and the triumphant entry of the business class into society.

Women's lives were more centered on household chores, childbirth and bringing up children, and any other tasks that were considered female. Even those women who had some form of employment...

During the Tang dynasty in China, women's autonomy and independence were unequaled to any other ancient era. Wu Zetian who was a trained classical musician became the only female in Chinese history to rule as empress.

The Columbian Exchange refers to the exchange of ideas, food, crops, diseases, and population between the New World and the Old following the arrival of Christopher Columbus in America in the year 1492.

The narrative of Frederick Douglass demonstrates how white owners of slaves perpetrate slavery through ensuring that their slaves remain ignorant. By virtue of this eleme...

Slavery was considered the legal institution of human chattel slavery and it existed in the US between the 18th and 19th centuries after gaining its independence. The practice was common in British and was made legal...

During the gold rush the Chinese ethnic group made the great migration from China. Upon their arrival and settlement in America, this ethnic group was received with a lot...

Long before the Europeans settled in North America, a group of six native Indian tribes had formed a powerful union known as the Iroquois Confederacy who lived and thrived northeast of Lake Ontario.

During the uprising of the Kenyan Kikuyu people against the oppressive colonial government, there emerge a rebellious group referred to as the Mau Mau.

What were the reasons for the intensified warfare between Native Americans and settlers in New England in the late 1600s illustrated in the bloody King Philip's War?

During the revolutionary, the lives of most American women were shaped by the set ideas that were called the cult of true womanhood. According to Strachan (2014), these...

A history of Australia is a book written by Mark Peel and Christina Twomey giving a clear chronological narrative of Australia both politically, culturally, and socially. It starts from the first explorers to present-day Australia.

The current housing landscape is riddled with a host of problems. The majority of governments worldwide have not been able to meet the housing demands of the populace, th...

Capitalism is an economic system where there is less regulation by the government on the way owners of factors of production should use them in their daily life. Capitalism has greatly shaped the development of businesses...

In the fourteenth century, the Spanish territory had the largest population of Jews in Western Europe. However, the turning point came in 1391 when the urban mobs in the whole of Peninsula destroyed Spain's major Jewish quarters.

According to Millard (2005), the pyramids of Giza were the largest and only surviving among the seven wonders of the ancient world. These massive stone structures are loc...

Seuss was against the discrimination of people against their race, especially the prejudice shown against the blacks and the Semites. However, as indicated in the above cartoon, Dr. Seuss believed that the Japanese...

Democracy, communism and supremacist nationalism all resulted as each countrys own form of adaptation to modernity. To begin with, the three patterns tried to accommodate ethnicity for the advancement of a nation.

Puerto Rico is considered one of the most beautiful Caribbean islands within the US territory. Puerto Ricans since the year 1917 have been citizens of the US but recently the island's legal status...