To End All Wars?: Striking Arizona Copper Workers Targeted for Impeding War Effort
Bisbee, Arizona is the center of copper mining in the United States at the turn of the century. Copper's military importance causes copper costs to increase dramatically. Mine workers stage work stoppages for better work..
To End All Wars?: U. S. Society in Turmoil after World War I
In Post World War I America, the country plunges into recession once industries lose their government contracts. This results in union strikes and race riots where African Americans, Socialist, and unions are targeted. L..
To End All Wars?: Versailles Treaty--A Truce, Not Peace, The
The Versailles Treaty marks the end of World War I between the Allies and Germany. Germany refuses to accept full responsibility for the war, new countries are established in Eastern Europe, and not all Allies agree with..
To End All Wars?: Wilson and the Ratification Battle
The Senate Foreign Relations committee chaired by Henry Cabot Lodge rejects the treaty negotiated at Versailles. The idea of collective security required by membership in League of Nations is problematic for both liberal..
Turbulent Virginia: Pirate Base...Royal Colony: England Revises Approach to Colonization and Establishes Royal Colony of Virginia
England and its Virginia Company surrogate take steps to revise their approach to colonization yet again. They increase incentives for families willing to migrate, attempt to attract merchants rather than aristocrats, an..
Turbulent Virginia: Pirate Base...Royal Colony: France and the Netherlands Attempt to Establish Presence in North America
In the 16th century a pirate base established by the French on the Florida coast irritates the powerful Spanish. They quickly dispatch an expedition to seize control of the region and establish a fort at St. Augustine. T..
Turbulent Virginia: Pirate Base...Royal Colony: Indentured Servitude
The majority of colonists who immigrate to the Chesapeake in the 17th century pay for their passage by working as indentured servants for a specified number of years. Initially men outnumber women six to one, so willing ..
Turbulent Virginia: Pirate Base...Royal Colony: Lost Colony of Roanoke, The
Over 100 men, women, and children leave for Roanoke in 1587 to establish the family-centered colony Raleigh envisions. The commander of the expedition John White returns to England for more supplies and families. He plan..
Turbulent Virginia: Pirate Base...Royal Colony: Relationship between Early English Settlers and Native Americans
The people of Jamestown would not have survived at all without the assistance of Native Americans. They taught the settlers how to plant corn and give them gifts of food. The paradox of Jamestown, as Edmond Morgan descri..
Turbulent Virginia: Pirate Base...Royal Colony: Roanoke, the First English Colony
The English use the "black legend of Spanish conquest" as the moral justification for their incursions into the Western Hemisphere. Sir Walter Raleigh, supported by Queen Elizabeth, selects Roanoke as his base of operati..