Author Archives: MINARA LAMA
Night at the Museum
Barnum’s American Museum was a museum that served as a learning center of nineteenth-century urban culture, and how politics, economy, and society shaped the antebellum era. It was however, unfortunately destroyed in a fire and consequently turned into a circus. … Continue reading
Source it Out!
Typically portrayed in a negative light by many historians of its time, Five Points, modern day New York City’s Chinatown, is shown in its true essence in Tyler Anbinder’s detailed account of the infamous 19th Century neighborhood describing the many … Continue reading
Tackling Moral Delinquency
During the late 1700s to the early 1800s, the New Nation experienced substantial population growth resulting in increased unemployment and poverty, and higher crime rates. One of the various ways reformers took to solve these problems of delinquent or morally … Continue reading
The Voices of the Lower Classes
During the 1700s in Colonial America, society was a hierarchy of divided individual interests that was united in their common defense for freedom in self-governance and independence and expansion of commercial trade. Though the members of the wealthier classes and … Continue reading
Children of the Nation
Failed Diplomacy: A Major Cause of New Amsterdam’s Downfall
Amongst the many events leading to the fall of New Amsterdam and its takeover by the English in 1664, rising tensions and conflicts brought about by failed diplomacy between the Natives and the Dutch colonizers caused a substantial amount of … Continue reading
It’ll All Go Down In Twitter-ry
In today’s era, where information and technology have advanced beyond expectations, a trivial tweet you have just posted might change the course of how historians of the future define our generation or period in time. Twitter, an online social network … Continue reading