http://www.free-articles-zone.com Morenos en 15/12/2009 The article talks about Allen Ginsberg most famous, controversial, and challenging poems "Howl" which changed the American Culture forever. http://www.free-articles-zone.com/article.php?id=262433 2009-05-27 The article talks about French and Indian War Which brought George Washington's first great victory and his first great loss. http://www.free-articles-zone.com/article.php?id=262462 2009-05-27 The article talks about two famous writers F. Scott Fitzgerald & Ernest Hemingway and their real-life relationship. http://www.free-articles-zone.com/article.php?id=262466 2009-05-27 April 29 isn't a date that would normally stand out on the calendar. This year it falls on a Wednesday, almost but not quite marking the end of the month. We suspect that most years, April 29 would slip by without most of us taking any particular notice of it. http://www.free-articles-zone.com/article.php?id=251831 2009-04-28 Sometimes it seems that all is new in the world. New developments in science and technology roll out at a staggering pace, revolutionizing our day-to-day lives and enticing us with the promise of allowing us to boldly go where no man has gone before. http://www.free-articles-zone.com/article.php?id=251832 2009-04-28 No one in American culture personifies boom times quite like Jay Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald's fictional scion of West Egg. When times are good, we all imagine ourselves crashing one of Gatsby's legendary parties, rubbing elbows with the rich and famous as we celebrate our ascent out of the hoi polloi and into the financial elite. http://www.free-articles-zone.com/article.php?id=251833 2009-04-28 April 30 may not (yet) be a national holiday on par with July 4 or January 1, but maybe it will be soon. Why? Because it's National Poem in Your Pocket Day. http://www.free-articles-zone.com/article.php?id=251834 2009-04-28 April is an important month in American history. The Civil War both began and ended in April; between the April of Fort Sumter and the April of Appomattox Court House, more than half a million Americans died on battlefields stretching from Pennsylvania to Arizona. http://www.free-articles-zone.com/article.php?id=251835 2009-04-28 Anybody else sleep right through the shift to Daylight Savings Time this year? Anybody else find out they were supposed to have "sprung forward" only after showing up an hour late for Sunday brunch? (Sorry Grandma!) http://www.free-articles-zone.com/article.php?id=237436 2009-03-18 This March marks the 76th anniversary of one of the most important turning points in American history. On March 4, 1933, new President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaimed to the world that "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself." The president's words helped to buoy the public's confidence in an economy that had been crashing for nearly four years, and recovery began almost immediately. It was one of the most important—and effective—inaugural addresses of all time. http://www.free-articles-zone.com/article.php?id=237437 2009-03-18 Did you know that March is National Women's History Month? If you didn't, you should; the month-long celebration is a federally sanctioned event, and each year the Library of Congress organizes a fabulous online exhibit designed to remind us of women's critical contributions to American history. http://www.free-articles-zone.com/article.php?id=237438 2009-03-18 George Orwell has been dead for 59 years. The brilliant British author, whose nightmare vision of a future in which technology and ideology combine to enslave humanity has been haunting readers for more than half a century, never lived to see the rise of the real-world inventions that might make "Big Brother" real. Orwell never encountered closed-circuit surveillance cameras, data-mining universal wiretaps, criminal psychological profiling, Air America Radio, or the Fox News Channel. http://www.free-articles-zone.com/article.php?id=237439 2009-03-18 What is your favorite book? What are you reading right now? Do your answers to those questions tell us anything meaningful about who you are as a person? Or is the book in your hand just something to pass the time, signifying nothing? http://www.free-articles-zone.com/article.php?id=235722 2009-03-13 This February, we honor Black History Month for the 84th time since Professor Carter G. Woodson began the tradition as "Negro History Week" all the way back in 1926. In 2009, though, something about our national recognition of the African-American past seems just a bit different. For the very first time, we celebrate Black History Month while a black American sits in the White House, filling the country's top job as our commander-in-chief. http://www.free-articles-zone.com/article.php?id=227036 2009-02-16 Obama gave a powerful speech, promising the American people that they could and would unite to overcome the economic and military difficulties facing the nation. “Our challenges may be new,” the president said. “The instruments with which we meet them may be new. But those values upon which our success depends—honesty and hard work, courage and fair play, tolerance and curiosity, loyalty and patriotism—these things are old. He also spoke about a few presidents’ inaugurals which have gone down as great moments in history. http://www.free-articles-zone.com/article.php?id=223856 2009-02-07 Professor Elizabeth Alexander had the challenging task of writing a poem for the inauguration of President Barack Obama. Alexander chose to write her poem in the form of a “praise song.” A praise song is a traditional form of African poetry, one that usually celebrates an individual, a god, a village, or an aspect of nature. This choice of form seems particularly apt in light of President Obama’s African heritage. When looking at this poem, a good place to start is by asking whom or what is Alexander’s poem praising? http://www.free-articles-zone.com/article.php?id=223860 2009-02-07 This January, Barack Obama became the President of the United States. It was truly a remarkably moment in our history, for a wide variety of reasons. Obama’s inauguration marked a dramatic reversal in our national politics, likely ending a generation of conservative Republican domination in Washington. But more than anything, Barack Obama’s inaugural was remarkable—amazing, astounding, almost unbelievable, considering the long arc of American history—because a black man just became the President of the United States. http://www.free-articles-zone.com/article.php?id=223861 2009-02-07 Barrack Obama is all about change. American History in Obama’s inauguration speech. Where in he invokes the experiences of a wide variety of Americans, from all walks of life, in triumphing over adversity and refers to American victories in World War II (over fascism) and the Cold War (over communism). http://www.free-articles-zone.com/article.php?id=223864 2009-02-07