Author: MYLIFE

Whether its by an expedition through the woods to chop down a spruce, or a last-minute run to the trailer in the parking lot; the Christmas tree, no matter how…

When researching American history it is sometimes difficult to imagine yourself in another era doing things those of the past have done. What makes reading and writing about history so…

Thomas Jefferson’s long time rival Alexander Hamilton in my opinion, is one of America’s more underrated ‘founding fathers’. Only those that truly study history have any idea what he did…

Hello class, and welcome to our new class forum. Periodically I will be giving you a discussion question and I will expect everyone to comment on the topic. I may…

Howard Zinn beleives that a very important aspect of the Civil War that is often times left out of the history books is the conflict between rich and poor. Fact:…

I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black…

The characters from the Movie “Glory” which depicts the the 54th Massachusetts Regiment, the Civil War’s first all-black volunteer company, demonstrate many qualities of leadership. Robert Gould Shaw (Mathew Broderick),…

In the modern Olympic athletics program there are several events which will always be considered marquee, setting the identity more often than not for that specific games. The 100 metres…

At every Olympic Games during the modern era there have been athletes who stamp their mark on their events imperiously, silencing critics and shrugging off rivals. At the 1988 Seoul…

Without a doubt the 1936 Berlin Summer Games were the largest, most controversial and most nationalistic games of the modern era before the beginning of the Second World War. Originally…