The Great American History Blog

The opening of vast new oil reserves in Mexico, coupled with the conviction that the existing Mexican government under Victoriano Huerta wa...

In 1904 when Theodore Roosevelt announced the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, declaring in a message to Congress that: “If a ...

Jacobson contends that the concept of race is a product of politics and culture and is in fact “a modem superstition”. The perception o...

A truly thought provoking book on the nature and purpose of punishment. In the final analysis, Foucault argues that the purpose of punishm...

The work establishes the question, “Is objectivity possible in the writing of history”, as the central proposition of the development of ...

Perhaps a groundbreaking book in its day, Orientalism now seems rather trite in its conclusion that intellectual schemas support the poli...

After World War I the British Empire was at the height of its world wide power. The rivalry between the United States and Great Britain dur...

                                                              Bradford Smith-Hoskins It was not unusual to find British officers vis...

How much have our thought processes changed since the werewolf scares of the Middle Ages? Sometimes one wonders. In August 1972, the O...

At the age of 81, Benjamin Franklin became the president of the Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and the Relief of Negro...

George Washington died on December 14, 1799. At the time of Washington’s death, there were some 317 slaves living on his Mount Vernon es...

In the 1960s, Berry Gordy (founder of Motown Records) stressed the creation of music that was, “simple, direct and emotional” with cross ov...

What do Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally, the Vietnam War, the KKK, Martin Luther King Jr., and Gay & Lesbians have in common? They...

The first cocktail known to history was described in an American periodical of 1816. The first British cocktail bar was opened in Lond...

Hercules Hercules, a slave at the Mount Vernon plantation , who had been George Washington’s long time cook was summoned to Phila...

History while it purports to tell the truth is, in fact, just an interpretive story of chronological events, a made up story that we have a...

Unemployment During the Great Depression Average rate of unemployment in 1929: 3.2% in 1930: 8.9% in 1931: 16.3% in 1932: 24.1% in 1...

"It is impossible for the United States to preserve itself as a republic or as a democracy when 600 families own more of this nation...

By 1870, the Chinese were the largest ethnic component of the foreign-born workforce in California, constituted some nine percent of t...

The development of slavery in Virginia set the pattern for the development of slavery throughout the South and laid the foundations for the...