Alyson Underhill

In 1983, Ronald Reagan gave what has now been coined as his “Evil Empire" speech. He gave the speech about the Cold War at the National Association of Evangelicals in Florida. In the speech, he...

After the Civil War, there were many different plans for the reconstruction of the South. Lincoln had a detailed plan that he wanted to enact, but he was assassinated before he was able to do so....

The Mexican Revolution came on the heels of the Latin American Revolutions that spread across the region after the American and French Revolutions. The enlightenment ideas of philosophers such as...

Haiti is an island nation in the Caribbean that shares a landmass with the Dominican Republic. The country has a free market economy but has historically been considered a third-world nation owing...

Maximilien Robespierre is best known as the leader of the bloody Reign of Terror during French Revolution. While his name might be synonymous with power-hungriness, blood-thirstiness, and possibly...

Ghana and Mali were both rich and powerful West African empires that thrived on the continent before European colonization. Ghana rose first, benefitting from their rich gold resources and becoming...

Russians refer to their defeat of the Nazi’s at Stalingrad (August 1942 – February 1943) as the second “Great Patriotic War,” marking their defeat of the Nazis in WWII. The first “Great Patriotic...

Manifest Destiny, as a feeling of divine obligation to spread from “sea to shining sea”, built slowly over our history. Each generation demanded more and more territory. America purchased the...

Presently, Mount Eden is a working-class New York city (NYC) neighborhood in the West Bronx within Claremont Park. Streets running through Mount Eden include Jerome Ave., Walton Ave., Teller Ave.,...

The American, French, and Haitian Revolutions had much in common, as each was inspired by a desire to overthrow a ruler and bolstered by Enlightenment thought. They were all part of the “Age of...

Both Angola and Ethiopia experienced civil conflicts in the 1970’s stemming, in large part, from the post-World War II push for independence movements in Africa, as well as Cold War tensions. Both...

There are many reasons why the North won the Civil War over the South. For one, the North had more heavy industry than the South, which had remained largely agricultural leading up to the war....

Franklin D. Roosevelt's (FDR) New Deal was a program designed to dig America out of the Great Depression by creating public work projects, financial reforms, and business regulations. Some of the...

The Group Areas Act (GAA) of 1950 was a series of three acts passed by the Parliament of South Africa as part of the country’s system of Apartheid (a policy of segregation and discrimination based...

The Bourbon Monarchy was undoubtedly both the main cause and the main victim of the French Revolution. Enlightenment ideas encouraged the people of France to question their government and demand...

Genghis Khan, also known as Temüjin, was the ferocious leader of the Mongolian Empire. The empire stretched from the Pacific Ocean to the Caspian Sea, creating the largest contiguous land empire...

Mass culture exploded in the last decade of the nineteenth century, when American culture saw the emergence of multiple new forms of mass communication—such as newspapers, book-length nonfiction...

The Iron Curtain greatly impacted the geographic, political, and economic landscape of Europe starting in 1945 and extending to the modern day. For one, the Iron Curtain physically separated people...

Perceptions and misperceptions were very important causes of the Cold War. For one, Stalin broke promises he made to the Allies after World War II, creating an atmosphere of suspicion and mistrust....

During the Industrial Revolution in America and Europe, there were many reasons why farmers decided to stop farming and migrate to rapidly growing urban centers. The first reason for rural to urban...

The Market Revolution from 1815 to 1860 in the United States had a large social, economic, and political impact on all regions of the new nation. The Market Revolution redefined technology,...

In 1962, Nelson Mandela was arrested and imprisoned for conspiring to use terroristic tactics against the South African government with the help of his anti-apartheid group, the African National...