… savings and loan institutions (S&Ls) in the late 1980s. The failure of hundreds of S&Ls in 1988 hurt investors and caused the U.S. government to bail out the industry with public funds. A policy set by the federal government before…

… 1901 after the assassination of President McKinley. Roosevelt was the youngest person to take presidency at the age of forty-two. His first annual message to Congress began his administration's policy. He noticed the big business corporations were…

… to cure many of the problems that had developed during the great burst of industrial growth in the last part of the 19th century. The frontier had been controlled, great cities and businesses developed and an overseas empire established, but not all…

… of rich and poor immigrants and the social status each held. Also this essay will discuss about how the immigrants from different ethnic backgrounds lived as a whole, examples of ethnicity, housing, Victorian style buildings will also be given.…

… the perspective of a Native American. By most Europeans accounts the settlement of the western Hemisphere brought civilization to an uncivilized people. What they failed to understand was that the Indians had their own beliefs and ways of life that…

… 2, 1795, in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. Polk died on June 15, 1849, in Nashville, Tennessee. Nicknamed "Young Hickory" he was the 11th president and served from March 4, 1845 to March 3, 1849. Polk was being a lawyer and a Colonel in the…

… mean? The answer to this question depends on whom is being asked. Someone born and raised in America, knowing no other way of life is going to feel differently about this subject than someone who has lived in a third-world country his or her entire…

… equality. <Tab/> <Tab/>Reconstruction was the effort of rebuilding the South based on free labor instead of slave labor. The issue to Northern politicians was how? At the end of the Civil War, Congress proposed the Thirteenth…

… history there have been many unsolved murder cases, from Jack the Ripper to Lizzie Borden. These cases have plagued criminal investigators and historians alike for centuries. One of the greatest unsolved Canadian murder cases is…

… of historically significant people and how certain parts of their lives were either changed or neglected in society's modern text books. Perhaps by focusing in on these people and the lost pieces of their lives a better understanding of American…