Eras of American history 18 Articles

by C. A. Pruit

It has been said that the United States of America is a land of many different people. But it is also a land of many different eras. It is true that folks from many countries and cultures have come together into what has b...read more

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by John Sarkis

As I was driving home from work the other day, I was listening to a commentary about the Media It's not just now days, this goes back three/four hundred years ago from the time of the first settlers (for lack of a better...read more

by Marcus Brooks

Certain times in America history, our country has been geared to make a change or to stand pat. Unfortunately, keeping with the status quo was accepting by a majority of our citizens. Whenever a change occurred, that cha...read more

by D. J. Poe

The blood and sweat of our Founding Fathers freed us from the rule of King George III, and allowed them to create a government by the people and for the people. Freedom would ring after much bloodshed and ravaged, inexperi...read more

by Jerry Curtis

The era of America's history that above all others made us a united country was the period 1789 through 1865. Our country's so-called "trying years" began with the hope and vision of a united country and ended with the blo...read more

by Donald Courtney

Home Labor sixty years ago: The old house that dad and granddad built in 1945, the last time we were there five years ago was standing tall. Grandpa and grandma had been living in It those five years that we had been ...read more

by Kathryn Jones

The most famous and influential figures of the Civil Rights era, Martin Luther King and Jr., Rosa Parks, are well known to the world today. But long before the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Brown vs. the Board of Education and t...read more

by Brandon Murphy

Undoubtedly, American history begins with the Colonial Era in the sixteenth and early seventeenth century when Jamestown was colonized and the Pilgrims sailed to Plymouth Rock. This time period was characterized by violenc...read more

by Truth Blazer

The life cycle of a person can be compared to that of a nation. It is born, has growing pains and spurts, it matures, it flourishes in time, and just like a life, it ceases to exist. Every empire born in the faraway pa...read more

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by R E Payne

A significant era of United States history includes the period of the great "Red Scare" and the infamous House Un-American Activities Committee (UHAC). Much of what we read and see about this period is highly critical of t...read more

by Will Kester

American history is ripe with "eras." Every period of our history can be placed in some era, often overlapping into other eras. There was the era of exploration, followed by the era of colonization, then era of expansion...read more

by Jimmy Bobby

To compare Britain to America is laughable, why you ask? Well, America was born from British settlers who betrayed the crown, and with the aid of France and Spain, were granted independence, so no war between America and ...read more

by EMSalem

An Era of American History would not be right if it began only with the discovery of this Continent by Europeans. The first era therefore began with the Native Americans that lived here many centuries before they were so r...read more

by T. Youngblood

The Beat Generation. Here they come, those merry pranksters. They've come to save the world from the clone armies. Drunken and perverted poets, madcap painters, masters of illusion and oxy-genuis ridden brains are o...read more

by G. Everett

American History of the Cowboys The latter of the nineteenth century in America was full of colorful legends and unruly behavior. Shortly after the American Civil War men and families flourished towards the West with dr...read more

by Marquis Canaday

Generation X,(1970-1985 est. date) the generation right after the babyboomer generation has become the most high tech of any generation...so far. During this generation, we have seen the emergence of the personal computer,...read more

by Todd Daigneault

A significant era of American history was the "Reagan-era" of 1981-1988. Reagan swept into power in a landslide victory against President Carter in the 1980 general election. With his inaugaration, came the release of th...read more

by Stan Dyer

"The Era of Good Feelings" "The Era of Good Feelings (First Turning, 1794-1822) witnessed what Joel Barlow called The Conquest of Canaan'- an era of epical social harmony and empire building. Canals, steamboats, and ...read more