History essays

About halfway through World War II, on February 19, 1942, President Franklin Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066 (History Matters). This order granted the United States military the authority to exclude citizens of Japanese ancestry from areas deemed important to national defense and potentially susceptible to espionage. The military issued an order that banned “All Japanese … Read more

Queen Esther, a beautiful young woman who took the world by storm, saving her people, the Jews, from death and destruction around roughly 465 B.C., has died. Her story will live on for centuries to come as an example of the enduring nature of the Jewish people and her own strength of mind and spirit. … Read more

Ethiopia is something of an outlier in modern African history in that it was largely spared from European colonization in the 19th and 20th centuries. Some have ascribed this anomaly to the strength of the Ethiopian state compared to other African polities, the difficulty of the geography, and the ineptitude of the Italians as a … Read more

Multispectral imaging offers potential to support both conservation and preservation studies of manuscripts, books and other two-dimensional objects.  This includes images that offer insight into the unseen, as well as data for scientific studies and comparisons against standard samples and other manuscripts.  During the past 18 years, narrowband multispectral imaging systems have advanced with the … Read more

Waldstein, David. “Battle over Indians’ Name and Logo Moves to the World Series.” NYTimes.com. The New York Times Company, 22 Oct. 2016. Web. 23 Oct. 2016. In this article, David Waldstein discusses the negative caricatures that are associated with the Cleveland Indians.  David focuses on Philip Yenyo, the leader of the American Indian Movement of … Read more

Mill operators Grove is a removal site in Southern Illinois in Pope County that was initially settled in the 1800s as a place of refuge for runaway slaves. The site was a part of the ever acclaimed, Underground Railroad. The site was extremely required with African American culture as a result of it being a … Read more

Before the 1920s, air travel for the masses seemed like little more than a pipe dream, and anyone who thought they could make a career out of aviation was considered crazy. Suddenly though, everything changed, and the decade saw huge advancements in the world of flight, with the transition from wooden planes to metal, milestone … Read more

The black death was one of the most catastrophic pandemics in human history. It killed one third of the population in Europe between the years 1346 and 1353.The black plague was a disease that was caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis which circulates amongst wild rodents. This bacterium lives in a large number and density … Read more

Throughout prehistoric and ancient times, Africans have migrated from their home continent to different parts of the world. These migrations and dispersals of Africans throughout the years have fostered the African diaspora. The term “African diaspora” however recently emerged and became popular in the 1950s and 1960s, but the African diasporas existed long before then … Read more

The Lost Colony of Roanoke was a failure by all matters as a colonial establishment which had little effect on following colonies like Jamestown; however, Roanoke did establish a cantankerous relationship with American natives through massacre and betrayal. The colonists of Roanoke were not in fact lost; many of them were murdered and some were … Read more

About half a century before the beginning of the Christian era, Julius Caesar, the great Roman-General, was en a .ed in subduing. the Gauls. The Britons of England were of a kindred race to the Gauls, and so they sometimes helped their continental kinsmen against the Romans. Hence Caesar planned an invasion of Britain. His … Read more

Since there has been information, there has been people that have been trying to hide it from people. And since there has been people hiding information, someone has wanted to know this information. The most common way that people have wanted to find out this intelligence is torture. Torture doesn’t necessarily have to be just … Read more

The Indians of Pueblo, gentle and placid, but uniquely lethal than any other group of Indians. In the fragile and sad chronicle of Europe’s conquest of the America’s, the Pueblo revolt is the most remarkable. In 1680, Pueblo Indians were able to throw their conquerors out of their territory and keep them at bay for … Read more