Category: Historical Figures

To mold her son into a successful and virtuous man, Abigail Adams wrote many letters to John Quincy Adams, who was always on the road with his father. In her letters, Abigail Adams often reminds John how he has been endowed with special privileges. She explains that the easy passage does not make a proper…

Ho Chi Minh was the leader of the Vietnamese nationalist movement that fought against the Japanese as well as the French colonialists. Until his death, he was the President of North Vietnam (BBC History, 2014, para. 1). First Response In my opinion, the service Ho Chi Minh mentions in his Declaration of Independence of the…

Thomas Jefferson is one of the most intriguing historic figures because he is the author of the Declaration of Independence and developer of the ideals of freedom and equality valued in the American society. However, in spite of Jefferson’s significant contribution to the development of the American democratic society, historians cannot agree on his personality…

Introduction One of the longest periods in the political history of the 20th century is the Cold War between the alliance of the Western countries and the Soviet Union. The latter was politically and ideologically separated from the rest of the world with the Iron Curtain. This phrase was first introduced by Winston Churchill in…

Nelson Mandela is known as a strong and purposeful fighter against racism and apartheid, the protector of the oppressed populations of South Africa. He is an honorable winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, and the first South African President, who came to power through the democratic elections (The life and times of Mandela, n. d.).…

I believe that the implementation of Woodrow Wilson’s “Fourteen Points” could have resulted in the creation of an international peace organization. In his speech, Woodrow Wilson proposed several principles and goals for maintaining peace in the world, which might have been a foundation for an intergovernmental organization such as the League of Nations. The similarities…

Table of Contents Introduction Summary of the previous work Structure and overview of the book Strengths of the book Weaknesses of the book Conclusion Works Cited Introduction John Lewis Gaddis provides an engaging and elegant biography of George F. Kennan. In the book, George F. Kennan: An American Life, Gaddis presents a lucid and masterfully…

If we do not read the literature of our own culture and that of the world, we impoverish ourselves intellectually, spiritually, and lose opportunities to connect with others across time and geographic separation. The literature of all kinds is eminently worth the investment of time, for its power to display different ways of expressing ideas.…

Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X have come to be two profoundly controversial figures in American history. The way these remarkable men died has become the last manifestation of intolerance and loathing that was the ultimate message of the white society’s segregative practices. With their vibrant rhetoric and revolutionary ideas, King and Malcolm X…

During the time of the uprising in French, a great mathematician by the name Marie-Sophie Germain was born in Paris on April 1, 1776. Even though at this time when revolution was taking place in French, unfortunately, this rebellion never favored women who were eager to venture into the competitive and male-dominated field of mathematics.…