While social scientists gather data about the effects of guns today, much of the debate about whether and how to regulate gun ownership is fought out on the terrain of history: What did the Second Amendment mean? Is there a tradition of gun control in America? Have Americans always been ...
What did America gain from the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo? What connection was made between imperialism and the American frontier? What was an effect of the Land Act of 1851? What role did Native Americans play in the Revolutionary War? What was the significance of the American Indian Movem...
We’ve started in the last two years now with Frontier to make purchases from a number of those companies. It’s already proving to be very successful in the sense that it’s helped those companies to move more quickly to raise capital, to develop their projects, and hopefully...
“Muhammad,” I said, zoning out (the cigarettes were good). “Right from the start, how did you know I was American?” I had thought, stupidly, that Americans passed under the stylistic radar screen. That being American wasn’t so much a look or a manner as it was an absence of ...
Except for gingham cloth which they did purchase, almost all their clothes were home made. They built their own houses, cured their own meat, hunted their own venison and made their own butter and cheese. Nevertheless, in this frontier home, there was also time for music, reading and book...
A British sociologist has advanced the theory that many working - class children are unsuccessful at school because of the nature of their language. They use what he terms a "restricted" code of speec...
Recently I had "See Agent" on my boarding pass for my United flight, and I wasn't sure what that was going to actually mean. Thankfully, I was able to get it all straightened out by ...
The other main area of challenge by the New Western Historians was that Turner really, in their view, underestimated the role of the federal government and large cor-corporations in shaping the economic life of the frontier. I mean, just as a for-instance, the federal government to this day...
What did the French and Indian War mean for Oklahoma? What was the Battle of Little Bighorn? Who was the most important Native American during the American-Indian Wars? Why was the Battle of White Plains fought? What was the war when the Apache tribe ended?
The concept of the American Dream is a kind of American civic religion that is intimately connected to the notion of a classless society and may draw its roots from the frontierism in early and 19th century America—and to a secularized version of the religious yearnings of early American set...