American historians

QUESTIONS Historical Memory is oral and written testimonies from individuals who wither witnessed for took part in historical moments in history. Benjamin Bussey Thatcher was an American author who wrote Traits of the Tea Party (1835) which was the second biography to be written about George Robert Twelve Hewes. The American Revolution was a political upheaval that took place between 1765 and 1783. It started with the rejection of the British Parliaments authority to tax the colonies. After ten…

George Washington that prevented a disaster that could have ruined the growing democracy that is the United States. An address so important that historians now reference Washington as an ideal leader who puts our nation’s state of well being above all. The year is 1783. British General Charles Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown two years earlier and the American Revolution ended with a brutal finale. Impatience is growing at West Point as the Treaty of Paris has yet to be signed to officially…

place where supposedly everyone is welcomed; no matter your gender or race. That has not always been the case and it is something that the community still struggles with. Working in theatre is one of the oldest professions on the planet. As far as historians know theatre has been around since cavemen roamed the earth. There is not too much evidence to support that theory, but there is proof that shows that Tribal Africans used performances to pass down their history (Hill & Hatch, 2003, p. 1).…

British fleet during the American Revolution, creating some sort of resistance to hinder the British and to get them away from their naval assets proved to be an integral element in eventually gaining independence in 1783. Also in the nation’s formative years, attacks against U.S. ships by foreign powers including the French and British forced the United States to develop their Navy. An excellent example of the important role of the grossly inferior U.S. navy in the American Revolution was…

After the conclusion of WWII, it was quickly realized that the countries that held such international power were rapidly losing their authority. In the late 18th century decolonization began but by no means had the European expansion reached its uttermost point. Most European statesmen prized their colonies as extensions of power and state power. There is no question that power matters in the international community. While decolonization may have been the favourable option to the ruling powers,…

One of the greatest cries for American racial equality has been during the 1960 's Civil Rights Movement. This was the first grand display and radical time in history where African Americans would gather together and stand up for their constitutional rights as American citizens. The movement would later drift away from nonviolent and peaceful protests, towards a new movement called "Black Power," that would change and challenge the cultural and racial war in America. Some of the leading figures…

run today, with no allegiance to a national government and only a social base that supports federal power nothing is the same after that, there is no way of being able to change something that important and huge back to the way it was. During the American Civil War, the Confederate States of America consisted of the governments of 11 Southern states that seceded from the Union in 1860 to 1861, carrying on all the affairs of a separate government and fighting in a major war until defeated in the…

Although African Americans are often overlooked when students are learning about the American West, African Americans are a significant component of the history of the American West. Bradford Luckingham claims in his book, Minorities in Phoenix: A Profile of Mexican American, Chinese American, and African American Communities, 1860-1992, that African Americans have lived in the West since the beginning of Spanish settlement and were among the founders of Los Angeles. However, the impact that…

Essay Wonder how the American revolution had an impact in ways many historians thought? John Friske a Historian and philosopher who argued about the dangers in which after The Treaty Of Paris, poor whites that did not have properties were voting,there was inflation where money wasn't valued that much, Africans wanted freedom After the American Revolution.The Benjamin Franklin in the letter to an English friend included positive remarks of what America have become however, The Article of…

the age 12, in 1779, John Quincy Adams started to write a diary, which he continued until just before he died in 1848. Most of his early John’s childhood was spent with his father while traveling overseas. His father, John Adams, also served as an American envoy to France from 1778 to 1779, and to the Netherlands from 1780 to 1782, so John Quincy Adams had a lot of adventures with…