history
Past politicians, legislation and political movements have changed the course of history in ways both big and small. Welcome to our blast to the past.
The Power War
Two thousand, four hundred, sixty-one. That’s a number. It represents the scores of American military lives stolen from young men and women in the fight against Islamic Totalitarianism. But it’s more than that. The number means that sons, daughters, brothers, sisters, husbands, and wives received military funerals and memorials all over this land. A knock at the door or ring of a bell led to arrangements, and the process of saying goodbye to a fallen hero.
By Skyler Saunders4 years ago in The Swamp
"Black" history
No place in America shows as many cultural differences as in the religious services of a “Black” church and a “white” church. In America, the church is actually two different things because one of those buildings is filled with a bunch of Muslims and they don’t even know it. Very little is known about Africa from the descendants of Africa in America and it is easy to be ashamed of everything African. America had three television networks that were all programmed by white men, as was every magazine and any other source of information, from history books to movies. The parts that showed Africa was like watching a documentary that was filmed by someone who hated the subject. It was years before I realized that I saw the world through “white men’s eyes” that programmed everything I saw and it affected the way I thought about Africa and the part of me that is African.
By Abasa Aziz ibn Horace4 years ago in The Swamp
Kabul: The Modern Dunkirk
It's 4:40 pm eastern time as I stare at this dirty screen of my laptop. The last few years haven't been good to me, but at least I'm not in Kabul. Sure as an aspiring, but failed author trying to relaunch his Patricians: Sinful Seven it was great to get a professional review that gave me some hope, but emotions are funny things. Hope the strangest of them all. So I wake up from my sombulant lifestyle, quit smoking, and looked around at the ruination I've caused because of my great depression. The necrosis in my front teeth glare back from a mirror should i have the courage to look, yet one thought keeps echoing, and that's at least I'm not in Kabul.
By Magnus Void4 years ago in The Swamp
Was ancient Athenian democracy a model to be followed?
When people argue that democracy is the best possible form of government they often cite ancient Athens as the prime example of “pure” democracy and the ultimate exemplum that other civilized communities and nations should seek to follow.
By John Welford4 years ago in The Swamp
1947 Partition of India & the River Indus: An Untold Tale
Millions of Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs were forced to journey hundreds of miles and experience brutal violence as the Indian subcontinent was divided into two independent nation states following the dissolution of the British crown rule on the part of the United Kingdom. The partition involved the division of two provinces, Bengal and Punjab, based on district-wise non-Muslim or Muslim majorities. The self-governing countries of Hindu-majority India and Muslim-majority Pakistan came into existence. The partition also saw the division of the British Indian Army, the Royal Indian Navy, the Indian Civil Service, the railways, and the central treasury. As a person from this region, I am closely related to this event, and in this blog I will tell a different and lesser known story about the impacts of partition on the mighty Indus river system that connects the Indian Subcontinent.
By aman mehta 4 years ago in The Swamp
Magna Carta
Leaders have elected their 25 members to support this cause and to maintain peace and freedom, and to provide and guarantee their charter. If we are not within 40 days of the date on which the charges were announced, the Chief Justice will take action, four of whom will say that they will take the matter to others and will disturb us and attack us. in every way, with the support of the whole community of the country, to oppress our castles, the land, and our property, save our people, the Queen, and our children until they defend the reward they will decide.
By Sita Dahal4 years ago in The Swamp
Atom bomb in Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Two bombs fell on Japan in 1945 and killed hundreds of thousands of people, and their effects are still visible. Koko Kondo, who was buried under the rubble with his mother and eight-month-old baby after the Hiroshima attack, has spent his entire life fighting for nuclear disarmament.
By Radha Karki5 years ago in The Swamp
The Missing Pages Of American History Part IV
Throughout our brief history, the United States government has either subconsciously or not perpetuated a level of imbalances within our society. The consequences are profound. The inequality, the racial divides, and the level of corruption that has seeped into the very framework of our Democratic process have all succeeded in rendering our society almost incapable of bridging the enormous gaps of inequality in our nation today. In fact, any attempt to rectify the crisis we face has always created yet another crisis.
By Dr. Williams5 years ago in The Swamp
