Essay The Civil Rights Movement Taylor Branch The word "movement" often designates a cultural shift of less import than the American Revolution, Great Depression, and other capitalized dramas in history. To be sure, some popular movements have gained broader recognition in the...
History Now Essay Perils of the Ocean in the Early Modern Era Robert C. Ritchie Geography, Science, Technology, Engineering and Math, World History 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ A traveler considering an ocean voyage around 1600 had much to contemplate. Voyage by voyage, explorers and colonists alike needed knowledge about the seas and lands in the Atlantic world. Unfortunately, information was never shared... Appears in: 25 | Three Worlds Meet Fall 2010
History Now Essay Women of the West Virginia Scharff Geography, Government and Civics 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ Women are like water to Western history. Both have flowed through the terrain we have come to call the West, long before the inhabitants conceived of themselves as part of an expanding United States. Both have been represented as... Appears in: 9 | The American West Fall 2006
Essay The New Nation, 1783–1815 Alan Taylor Government and Civics The leaders of the American Revolution made three great gambles. First, they sought independence from the powerful British Empire, becoming the first colonies in the Americas to revolt and seek independence from their mother empire....
History Now Essay FDR and Hitler: A Study in Contrasts David M. Kennedy Government and Civics, World History 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ The Great Depression and World War II were events in world history, but they touched different countries in sometimes dramatically different ways. To paraphrase Tolstoy, many peoples suffered, but every unhappy people was unhappy in... Appears in: 14 | World War II Winter 2007
History Now Essay The Marshall and Taney Courts: Continuities and Changes R. B. Bernstein Economics, Government and Civics 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ Though the first holders of the job thought it more a burden than a position of honor or power, the office of chief justice of the United States has a pivotal role in the American constitutional system, thanks mainly to John Marshall ... Appears in: 15 | The Supreme Court Spring 2008
History Now Essay Indian Removal Theda Perdue Geography, Government and Civics In 1828 pressure was building among white Americans for the relocation of American Indians from the eastern United States to lands west of the Mississippi River. A student at a mission school in the Cherokee Nation, which lay within... Appears in: 28 | American Indians Summer 2011
Essay The Human Toll of the Great Depression Steven Mintz Economics 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ After more than half a century, images of the Great Depression remain firmly etched in the American psyche—breadlines, soup kitchens, tin-can shanties and tar paper shacks known as "Hoovervilles," penniless men and women selling...
Essay Lincoln Allen C. Guelzo 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ No one seemed less well-cast for the role of reformer, in an age of reform, than Abraham Lincoln. To begin with, he was a stranger, emotionally and intellectually, to evangelical Christianity, the great engine of reform in the...