It was in the mid-1980s, before the age of cell phones. What did over-achieving, workaholic professionals carry so that their companies could have unlimited access to them at every possible moment? Pocket pagers. Pocket pagers were the greatest invention since Britain thought up indentured servants for their colonies! It was great for companies whose goal ...
Bacon’s Rebellion was an insurrection in the Virginia Colony in 1676. The uprising was led by Nathaniel Bacon and was focused on eradicating Native Americans from the Virginia frontier and neighboring areas. Bacon’s Rebellion brought together poor whites and blacks to fight against the perceived larger threat of Native American violence. While the rebellion did ...
In the late Middle Age era, Europe, including England, suffered from a severe plague epidemic known as the “Black Death”. The Black Death curbed population increases initially, but as the British people gradually began to build-up immunity to the disease, the island’s population immediately soared upward. Though there were numerous reasons as to why the ...
When thinking about slavery today, many people automatically assume that the origins of slavery were rooted in racial discrimination and the quest for European supremacy. Surprisingly, however, upon closer inspection we find that the catalyst for the initiation of the West African slave trade was not racism but greed. In the fifteenth century, Portugal has ...
Long before food critics coined the phrase fusion cuisine, to describe food that blends culinary traditions of two or more nations, Jamaican cuisine existed. Considering the history of the island, it is unsurprising that Jamaican food combines a variety for techniques and styles. Before Columbus arrived in Jamaica in 1494, Arawak Indians lived there. They ...
Disclaimer: This paper is, in no way, intended to offend any of the communities that dislike the Confederate flag. It is not a paper on hating any of these groups. It is simply an overview on the meaning of the flag, the history of the flag, and the reasons it should keep proudly flying. Throughout ...
If you are a white American who can trace their family tree back to any point in the 17th century, you may or may not want to read this article. An indentured servant was typically a young, unskilled laborer who came to America under contract to work for an employer for a fixed period of ...
The colonizing of North America was a perilous proposition at the best of times, of all the many dangers that could have derailed the settling of the New World a constant labor shortage was one of the more significant. The reasons were varied for settling in North America. Most of those that left from Europe ...
Racial segregation in the United States has had a long and interesting history. But unfortunately, because of white America’s underlying sense of shame and the unresolved hurt and anger of many African-Americans surrounding anything to do with slavery, segregation, the Civil Rights Movement and modern race relations, students of all races are being shortchanged. In ...
