Lucinda MacKethan, English professor at North Carolina State University, offers a comparison of two classic slave narratives: Frederick Douglass's 1845 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: an American Slave and Harriet Jacobs's...

The Warsaw pact in 1955 was a treaty of friendship, co-operation, and cooperation assistance. Website gives the clauses of the Warsaw Pact in 1955.

As white populations moved westward in the 19th century, Chinese immigrants and Hispanic Americans faced racism and discrimination and were unable to compete on an equal basis for land. Eventually, both groups settled into urban areas...

Web companion site to the Alcoa Foundation Hall of American Indians exhibit at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. It focuses on American Indians' relationships with the natural world and explores four different visions: the Tlingit...

PublicBookShelf.com offers an excerpt from "The Great Republic by the Master Historians," a book published in the early 1900s that covers the history of the United States. Excerpt provides the reasons behind the Regulators revolt in 1771.

This site discusses two international issues President Bush encountered during his time in office. They were the "War on drugs," and what to do with countries and/or leaders that played a role and the hotly-debated North American Free...