Salem Poor was one of the brave soldiers of the American Revolution who hailed from Massachusetts. Salem Poor was born in Andover, MA in the late 1740s or the early 1750s. The story of how he made his way from a boy in Andover to a man who fought in Boston and beyond is a ...
The history of the settlers of Louisiana is colorful and rich. Louisiana was once a land populated by Native Americans as was the majority of what we now call the United States. The first settlers to Louisiana were the French, though Spanish explorers had visited Louisiana many years earlier. These French settlers imparted much more ...
There have been numerous debates concerning the reason why white men do not want to marry black women. Although untrue, the argument is that white men don’t date and marry black women because they generally don’t find them sexually attractive. This has become a hot issue within Stanford University Professor Ralph Richard Banks’ new book ...
In the article, “The Trail of Tears”, author Dee Brown argues that the hostile conditions of the west had killed many Indian tribes’ because so many Indians had to cede land and leave their homes behind. 1. Two men, Ross and Scott had much to do with the ceding of the Indian lands. Scott wanted ...