Why Did Andrew Carnegie Donate Millions For Libraries?
Author: Mary Besecky Interviewer: Emma Fantuzzo During the Gilded Age, a select few people made immense fortunes. One of them was Andrew Carnegie, a Scottish immigrant, who became a steel tycoon and one of the wealthiest people in America at the time. Carnegie gave...
What Were the Motivations to Forcibly Sterilize American Citizens?
Carrie Buck and her mother, Emma Buck, at the Virginia Colony for Epileptic and Feebleminded Women in Lynchburg in 1924. Author: Haley McAllister Interviewer: Spencer Law Between 1880 and 1940, negative eugenics reigned in Virginia through the legal...
What did the American Expeditionary Forces contribute in World War I?
The First World War is an often-overlooked conflict in American history. The United States served a limited role in the conflict but nevertheless strove to fight on equal terms with its European counterparts. The American Expeditionary Forces would serve as...
Why Was There Only One Man Executed After The Civil War?
Author: Jordan Layne Interviewer: Nick Seidel The American Civil War has made several names famous, one name that is not famous but still played a significant role is Henry Wirz. Wirz was known primarily for two things, being a Confederate Captain in charge of the...
How did the Black Panther Party help the Black Community?
Author: Elainah Elkins Interviewer: Heath Hatfield The Black Panther Party was founded in Oakland, California in 1966. Despite how many perceived The Black Panther Party’s more radical approach to combat discrimination, the party’s goals and platform...
What Does It Take to End a Plague?
ACT UP Activists at the National Institutes of Health Author: Spencer Law Interviewer: Haley McAllister On the heels of the sexual revolution, an unknown virus swept through the gay community in major cities across the United States. By 1989, more than...
What was Ronald Reagan’s “Star Wars”?
Reagan's plan for ending the Cold War. In the early 1980's Ronald Reagan was approached about a defense strategy that would render nuclear missiles obsolete. The thought of ending the nuclear threat in the United States and ending the Cold War were two...
What Difference did WWII Propaganda Make?
Author: Kyle Hogan Interviewer: Maurice Fletcher In 1942 it was apparent that America needed some way of organizing its wartime information and propaganda. In order to manage these things President Roosevelt created the Office of War Information and...
Did America Do All It Could to Ease The Sufferings of the European Jewish Community?
Author: Anna Conrad Interviewer: Megan Brobst When the Nazis came for the Jewish community the United States knew almost immediately. Yet, they sat back and did very little to rescue them. This uncomfortable statement goes against popular historical...
How did German Eugenics lead to Hitler’s ‘Final Solution’?
Author: Megan Brobst Interviewer: Anna Conrad Between 1933 and 1945, Nazi Germany implemented a plan to eliminate all people they deemed unfit for their society. Before the Holocaust, the Nazis used the eugenic practices of sterilization and euthanasia...
How Can One Man End an Era?
Author: Liam Mullen Interviewer: Matthew Bentley Is one man capable of ending an era for an entire nation in just two nights? This research paper introduces and the examines the life of one of America’s most infamous serial killers and their impact on...
Why did the Confederacy Rely on Primitive Submarine Warfare to Desperately Beat the North?
Author: Matthew Bentley Interviewer: Liam Mullen A desperate South is looking for any advantage they can to break the tight Union blockades of their most vital ports. These Northern blockades are cutting off major Confederate supply routes leaving them...
How did Eastern European Jews Resist Holocaust Extermination Efforts?
Upon German expansion at the beginning go World War II, Jews living in Eastern Europe faced horrific genocide efforts from the Nazi party and collaborators from various local ethnic groups. Whereas many Jews were immediately executed or...
Who kidnapped the Lindbergh baby?
The Lindbergh Kidnapping occurred on March 1, 1932, during the Great Depression. Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh were the parents of Charles Lindbergh Jr, who was 20 months old when he was kidnapped. He was also 20 months old when he died. His body was...
The War over Korean Comfort Women Decades After World War II
Author: Alexandrea Riddell Interviewer: Aaron Myers Korean Comfort Women were sex slaves for Japanese soldiers during WWII. The soldiers raped, beat, and tortured the women and once they were free their lives were never the same. Hidden until the 1990's...