In the wake of the Revolutionary War, at the Treaty of Paris in 1783, a new nation, the United States of America, was created, although the seeds had been planted some 20 years earlier. In 1763, as the result of the treaty ending the French and Indian War, France lost its military ...
The American Revolutionary War (1775-1783), also known as the American War of Independence, was a war between the Kingdom of Great Britain and thirteen British colonies on the North American continent (as well as some naval conflict). The war was the culmination of the political American ...
It was America that was at the forefront of the industrial revolution. It was America that showed the world how to mass produce everything from automobiles to televisions to airplanes. It was the great American manufacturing base that crushed Germany and Japan in World War II. In fact, the p...
The Revolutionary Communist Party also promotes a resistance to the election process of the nation. It often promotes candidates that most likely will not win office, but uses the publicity to attain goals of spreading information. In the past, it has worked closely with Reverend Jesse Jackson's...
Revolutionary. Finally, I am sick to death of the divisive commentary that passes for analysis about why the LGBT movement has made strides, while the war on women continues. This disturbing piece from the Daily Beast, “Ten Reasons Women Are Losing While Gays Keep Winning” has its ...
The eponymous revolutionary in this film by Ostrander, Irv Drasnin, and Don Sellers is Sidney Rittenberg (b. 1921), an American from South Carolina interested in union organizing and workers' rights, who was drafted and sent to China toward the end of World War II. Having learned Chinese ...
In this film, the mother of Pavel Vlasov is pulled into the revolutionary conflict when her husband and son find themselves on opposite sides during a worker's strike. After her husband dies during the failed strike, she betrays her son's ideology in order to try, in vain, to save his ...
being sold each month. By the mid-1940s, eager would-be publishers were blockaded from entering this expanding field by the paper shortages of World War II. Kids were encouraged to donate their used comics to paper drives, resulting in their rarity and consequent high prices in the 21st ...
Pictures were important during the French Revolution, from the grandly painted masterpieces which helped define revolutionary rule, to the basic drawings appearing in cheap pamphlets. This collection of pictures from the Revolution has been ordered and annotated to take you through the events. Louis...