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- 1201: The Rise and Fall of American Communism
- ... eds. Red Diapers: Growing Up in the Communist Left. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998. Kittrie, Nicholas N., and Eldon D.Wedlock, Jr., eds. The Tree of Liberty: A Documentary History of Rebellion and Political Crime in America. 2 vols. Rev. ed. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. Klehr, Harvey, John Earl Haynes, and Fridrikh Igorevich Firsov. The Secret World ... Paul C. Raising Reds. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. Pipes, Richard. The Russian Revolution. Rev. ed. New York: Vintage Books, 1991. Schlesinger, Arthur M., ed. The Almanac of American History. Rev. ed. New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 1993. Zinn, Howard. A People’s History of the United States: 1492—Present. New York: Harper Perennial, 1995.
- 1202: Teddy Roosevelt's Contribution to Natural Resources
- ... enjoyed collecting live animals and hunting ³specimens² to study. At age eight, after obtaining a seal¹s skull, Roosevelt and two of his cousins started the ³Roosevelt Museum of Natural History.² The skull stayed on a bookshelf in the Roosevelt household throughout the remainder of his childhood, and items such as bird nests, insects, minerals, and shells were added to the ... in his speech Roosevelt stated ³The forest and water problems are perhaps the most vital internal problems of the United States.² With that Roosevelt became the first president in American history to set forth a new attitude of importance toward conserving America¹s natural resources. Soon Roosevelt¹s interests in our natural resources were adopted by other key leaders in the ... on June 8, 1908. The Commission was responsible for preparing an inventory of all the natural resources in the nation, the first inventory of this kind ever made in American history. Under Pinchot, who was made chairman, the Commission was created in six months, and made available to the American people the essential facts regarding our natural resources. These facts ...
- 1203: Solidarity-A New Hope Of Breaking Communist Ruling
- ... and economic exploitation. It is a protest against the existing system of sovereign exploitation. We demanded not only better living conditions, though life was wretched and work hard often useless. History taught us there is no bread without freedom. We are much concerned with justice, democracy, truth, legality, human dignity, freedom of thought, with the restoration of the whole society democratically ... keeping the national spirit alive. Many said that without strong help and word of advice, Solidarity could not have existed without the influential role of the church. During Poland's history we can significantly notice how the church kept the culture and national pride alive. When Poland was divided between great empires of Central Europe, the church provided people with spiritual ... people behind him who believed he was trying to do the best gave him an easy victory. Winning meant that he became the first non-Communist president ever in the history of Poland. Many believed that after short period of time he started to feel uncomfortable. It seemed, he wasn't exactly the right person to be the head of ...
- 1204: When the Government Stood Up For Civil Rights
- ... Hamer speaks for the African Americans who stood up in the 1950's and refused to sit down. They were the people who led the greatest movement in modern American history - the civil rights movement. It was a movement that would be more than a fragment of history, it was a movement that would become a measure of our lives (Shipler 12). When Martin Luther King Jr. stirred up the conscience of a nation, he gave voice to ... The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed and passed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson on July 2nd 1994, after one of the longest running debates in Senate history. It was an idea that started with President Kennedy, and after his assassination the civil rights groups had to face the question of whether legislative strategies would be the ...
- 1205: Shih Huang Ti
- ... gathered his army and captured the surrounding kingdoms. As the ruler of so many kingdoms he became "the first emperor" of China. Shih showed his tyranny when he burned all history books to insure that his people and future generations would only remember him and none of the earlier rulers. He had a strong army but the fierce tribes north of ... which can be seen from the moon. Bibliography Delahoye, H.. Drege, J.P.. Wilson, Dick. Zewen, Lou. THE GREAT WALL. New York: Warwick Press, 1987 Huang, Ray. CHINA A MACRO HISTORY. New York: M.E. Sharp Publishers, 1988 Huges-Stanton, Penelope. AN ANCIENT CHINESE TOWN. New York: Warwick Press, 1986 Kalman, Bobbie. CHINA THE LAND. New York: Crabtree Publishing Company, 1989 ... 1981 Nancarrow, Peter. EARLY CHINA AND THE WALL. Minneapolis: Lerner Publications Company, 1980 Overbeck, Cynthia. Thompson, Brenda. THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA. Minneapolis: Lerner Publications Company, 1977 Toy, Sydney. A HISTORY OF FORTIFICATION. London: William Heinemann, 1955
- 1206: Mark Twain: Early American Subversive?
- ... Twain: Early American Subversive? In a series of stories Written in 1901, Mark Twain envisioned the creation of a "Orwellen society" where books and libraries were banned, confiscated and destroyed. History was to be rewritten glorifying the conquest of foreign lands. Twain's views were shaped by expansion of the American empire during the Philippine-American War, and the suppression of ... slavery and racial strife. It further demonstrates an unwillingness, by design, to address racism past or present. We have a similar aversion to acknowledging the bloody origins of our "shared History" with the Philippines. Mark Twain's writings provide a good reference for understanding the contours of the public debate over imperialism. Today, as works of original debate, they still retain political significance. Suppressed during WW1 and debated during the Cold War, they provide a rare glimpse of how the history of imperialism was suppressed And more importantly how Americans became mis-educated about their government's historical role in the world. Mark Twain's anti-imperialist writings, wonderfully rich ...
- 1207: The Salem Witch Trials
- ... her specter. Martha Corey soon joined Tituba and the others in the Boston jail. Her indictment marked a frightening change of course. She was the first "gospel woman" in the history of New England to be arrested and imprisoned on the charge of witchcraft. Previous cases had all involved women of questionable reputation our low status, women like Tituba, Osborne, and ... Putnum issued statements of repentance and read them in front of the congregations in their various churches. In 1697 the Reverend John Hale went a step further. He wrote a history in which he stated that the court erred because of ignorance. Innocent people had died with the guilty. For the sake of their surviving relations, he encouraged the government to ... filed complaints and received compensation. The tragic affair at Salem Village, now more than three centuries old, ranks only as a speck on the larger blemish of mankind's long history of inhumanity toward its own. It is one of histories greatest forgotten holocausts, but it is often pushed to the background of such tragedies as the Inquisition and the ...
- 1208: The First Atomic Test
- ... because it provided isolation for secrecy and safety, and was only 230 miles south of Los Alamos. Plus, most of the Jornada del Muerto was already under government control. The history of the Jornada is in itself quite fascinating, since it was given its name by the early Spanish colonists of New Mexico. The Jornada was a short cut on the ... sermon writer. The sonnet started, "Batter my heart, three-personed God."(2) Another version of the name's origin comes from the book, The Day the Sun Rose Twice, by history professor Ferenc M. Szasz. In the book, Robert W. Henderson (head of the Engineering Group in the Explosives Division of the MED) tells us that the name Trinity came from ... second plaque was added below the first by The National Park Service, designating Trinity Site a National Historic Landmark. The plaque reads, "This site possesses national significance in commemorating the history of the U.S.A." Jumbo Lying next to the entrance to the fence surrounding Trinity Site, are the remains of Jumbo. Jumbo was a 214-ton steel container ...
- 1209: The Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute
- ... tribes for over 100 years. The story is an ever-changing one, evolving from local conflict to forcible relocation to big business interests. The incredible breadth of the dispute's history makes it impossible to objectively cover the entire progression from all viewpoints. I will therefore focus on current issues - and their historical causes - facing the two tribes as they mutually ... problems now facing both sides. I will also offer my own insight on the current state of affairs and the possible resolution to the dilemma plaguing 5 generations. The recent history of the land dispute has its origins in 1882 when President Chester A. Arthur issued an executive order creating the ˜3.5 million acre Hopi reservation; one degree latitude by ... Chron.htm Redhouse, John. 1985 Geopolitics of the Navajo Hopi Land Dispute. Albuquerque, N.M. : Redhouse/Wright Prod. Wood, Daniel B. 1999 Caught in a tangled web of US-Indian History. Christian Science Monitor January 26.
- 1210: Comparing Hitler And Stalin In Their Rise To Power
- ... day, from hour to hour. Gentlemen, not you who will be the ones that deliver the verdict over us, but that verdict will be given by the eternal judgement of history, which will speak out against the accusation that has been made against us....That court will judge us....as Germans (who) wanted only the best for their people and their Fatherland, who fought and were willing to die. You might just as well find us guilty a thousand times, but the goddess of the eternal court of history will smile and tear up the motions of the states attorney and the judgement of this court: for she finds us not guilty". After Hitler gave this speech, the court ... nothing terrible, or exceptional, or surprising in the fact that they prefer to be outside the party, that they are cutting themselves off from the party. If you study the history of our party, you will find that always, at certain serious turns taken by our party, a certain section of the old leaders fell out of the cart of ...
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