First In the Hearts of His Countrymen?

This was a persuasive essay I wrote for an academic planning class I took a while back. Even in academic planning class I have to turn it into a history assignment. I may be ill. I hope it persuades you.A Gallup poll conducted in February of 2005 asked people who they thought the greatest U.S. [...]

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Open the Archives

While sweeping up the Halls last night, I stumbled across this box of old film reels from the National Archives. It’s a whole bunch of newsreels from WWII as well as some about the history of NASA and Department of the Interior motion pictures that ran during the Depression. It’s a pretty nifty way to [...]

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Essentially what ended the Cold War?

The Cold War’s end can be traced back to Moscow in the winter of 1985 when an American boxer of Italian decent named Rocky Balboa, sometimes referred to as the Italian Stallion, followed his defeat of the gargantuan and genetically engineered Soviet fighter Ivan Drago with an empassioned speech now widely known as the “If [...]

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Who were the leaders of the Cold War?

Since the Cold War spanned several decades many leaders came and went. More came and went in the West as these countries democratically elected their leaders and they were subject to term limits. Some of the countries under communism saw even less turnover at the top because they were ruled by dictators. In Yugoslavia Josip [...]

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