How did the colony of New York get started? How did the Goliad massacre start? How did slavery begin in Jamestown? How did the westward expansion lead to the Civil War? How did the North finance the Civil War? How did the Boxer Rebellion start?
How did the Mexican-American War cause the Civil War? How did slavery in Texas lead to the Mexican-American War? How did slavery influence the Mexican-American War? How did the Mexican-American War serve to heighten tensions over slavery?
We talk about the history of slavery in this country and how we approach, excavate, recognize, and react to that history — and how we have a responsibility and accountability to get the story and the history right. Because when we can be honest about the history, we can begin to ...
The villain who kidnapped Tony Stark, the Mandarin, was unseen in 2008’sIron Man, the movie that kicked off the genre-defining Marvel Cinematic Universe. But the origins of the MCU supervillain begin even decades before his 1964 comic book debut. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings,...
aspirations,per-ceptions and evaluations of their social im/mobility in a locality-specific way.IV. Methodology and MethodsTo accompany the overall relocation processes and observe changes overtime from an actor-oriented perspective, the study’s methodology did notonly profit from its multi-sited ...
Slavery brought Voodoo to the Americas. Next, we'll look at the changes to Voodoo that took place on the other side of the Atlantic. The Babe With the Power In many Voodoo communities, people consider twins to be sacred. According to tradition, twins have two halves of the same soul. ...
Christopher Columbus arrived there in 1493, followed by Spanish and then from 1632 English colonization: all of the dreadful effects of European arrival and exploitation ensured, including disease, extirpation and slavery. There is much physical evidence of its time as an early English colony ...
England captured the island and imported large numbers of African slaves to work thesugarplantations. After slavery was abolished, England imported Chinese and Indian indentured servants to the island. Jamaica won independence from England in 1962, but the racial melting pot that came from past colon...
at the dawn of the Transatlantic Slave Trade which in the 15th century would force some 12 million Africans into slavery over the next 400 years. By the time the first enslaved Africans landed on the shores of the British Colony of Virginia in 1619, Europeans had al...
which brought with it private property, and then the rise of cities which meant the emergence of civilization properly speaking. Civilization meant many bad things (wars, taxes, bureaucracy, patriarchy, slavery…) but also made possible written literature, science, philosophy, and most other great ...