Facts About the Louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana Purchase was one of the most important land acquisitions ever to be made by the United States and many say that it was what really qualified the U.S. as a preeminent world power and rival of Europe. 1. What it was? The Louisiana Purchase was the purchase of land by the United States from France. It was made up of about 828, square miles that was taken from the French…
Industrial Revolution in the 19th century
Industrial Revolution , power loomHulton Archive/Getty Imagesin modern history, the process of change from an agrarian, handicraft economy to one dominated by industry and machine manufacture. This process began in Britain in the 18th century and from there spread to other parts of the world. Although…
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World War II and its Aftermath
Hemingway and Kennedy: What s the Connection? When Mary Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway s widow, chose to give her late husband s papers to the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, she did so as a gift to Hemingway scholars and readers around the world. When Ernest Hemingway died in 1961, a large portion…
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Green Berets Vietnam War
GREEN BERETS: THE QUIET PROFESSIONALS For more than 60 years Green Berets have been at the forefront of America’s most dangerous humanitarian missions around the world. They crept along the rigid rocks at the base of a mountain held by the militant group Ansar al-Islam in northern Iraq, commonly known…
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Years of American Civil War
The Battle of Gettysburg, lithograph (Currier and Ives/Wikimedia Commons) In early July, on the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, pilgrims will crowd Little Round Top and the High Water Mark of Pickett s Charge. But venture beyond these famous shrines to battlefield valor and you ll find…
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Recent American History
Publications The Organization of American Historians publishes the and OAH Outlook, the membership newsletter of the OAH. We also publish the annual OAH Annual Meeting Program. Advertising is accepted in all publications. Follow this link for more information. The Journal of American History is the leading…
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Native Americans after the Civil War
The histories of the Civil War and of the emerging West were tangled together from their beginnings. Although the war was fought mostly in the East, the events that set it off were born of the expansion of the 1840s, and in turn the war and its aftermath shaped profoundly western development between 1861 and 1877. Moved by the threat to the Union, then the demands of war, and finally…
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Jefferson justified the Purchase of Louisiana by
We always hear about Thomas Jefferson in our history classes, as one of the most influential American politicians at the time of the nation’s birth. Though, we don’t always take the time to understand why this is the case. Looking at what he accomplished as president and politician seems mind boggling. In my blog, I will discuss Thomas Jefferson’s major accomplishments, his leadership…
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Berlin after World War 2
Germany 1945 On 2 May 1945, after one of the most intense battles in human history, the guns at last stopped firing amongst the ruins of Berlin. According to Soviet veterans, the silence that followed the fighting was literally deafening. Less than four years after his attack on the Soviet Union, Hitler s self-proclaimed thousand-year Reich had ceased to exist. The German Führer…
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