The 19th century saw large amounts of social change; slavery was abolished, and the First and Second Industrial Revolutions (which also overlap with the 18th and 20th centuries, respectively) led to massive urbanization and much higher levels of productivity, profit and prosperity. In the 1800s, America grew very fast. In 1803, the United States bought the Louisiana Territory from France. From 1800 to 1860, there were 17 new states. During the century, millions of immigrants came from other countries to the land of freedom.
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The Boxer Rebellion: Britain Invades China Before the Emperor Could Destroy Opium Crops
The real reason that Britain went to war against the Chinese (The Boxer Rebellion) was to prevent the emperor of China – concerned about the spread of drug use among his people – from destroying China’s opium crop. The British, who were making huge profits from the opium trade, had Parliament declare war against the Chinese for interfering with their profitable "commerce." One of the spoils ...
The Second Boer War
Rich and powerful elites have long dreamed of world control. The ambitious Romans, Attila the Hun, great Muslim leaders of Medieval Spain, the Mughals of India all exercised immense influence over different parts of the globe in set periods of recognized ascendancy. Sometimes tribal, sometimes national, sometimes religious, often dynastic, their success defined epochs, but was never effectively global until the twentieth century. At that point, ...
A New York Medical Journal Article, ‘Vaccination in Italy’, Documents Stats of Higher Deaths Among Vaccinated & Has No Place in Medicine
In an article, "Vaccination In Italy", which appeared in the New York Medical Journal, July 1899, Charles Rauta, Professor of Hygiene and Material Medical in the University of Perguia, Italy, wrote: "Italy is one of the best-vaccinated countries in the world, if not the best of all. For twenty years before 1885, our nation was vaccinated in the proportion of 98.5 percent. Notwithstanding, the epidemics of smallpox ...
Martial Law, a Frame-Up Attempt, Kidnapping, and Murder Result from an Idaho Mining Building Bombing
The Idaho murder trial: Labor unites to defeat a frame-up It began with the bombing of a building. The explosion led to a hunt for terrorists. Men were seized without warrants, transported long distances, and placed in solitary confinement. Those judicial kidnappings were defended by the Supreme Court. But the events did not originate from the mountains of Afghanistan (or anywhere in the Middle East); they ...
‘The Strenuous Life’ Speech by Theodore Roosevelt
Former President Theodore Roosevelt's famous speech The Strenuous Life begins with Roosevelt's confession, "I wish to preach... the doctrine of the strenuous life." He 'preaches' in this speech about what he believes the strenuous life really is, and why it is a valuable part of what makes America a powerful and meaningful country. He says that because life in America was difficult (especially during the early 20th century), ...
Spain signed the Treaty of Paris, ending the Spanish-American War and Relinquishing Control of Cuba to the USA
Spain signed the Treaty of Paris, ending the Spanish-American War and relinquishing control of Cuba to the USA. The US administered the island for 3 years. Independence was proclaimed on May 20, 1902 ...
Jean Jaurès “When a society… lives only by lies, truth is revolutionary.”
In 1898 French conservative-turned-socialist Jean Jaurès said, "When a society, when an institution, lives only by lies, truth is revolutionary." He was speaking with reference to the ongoing Dreyfus Affair. The statement is quoted in Ruth Harris, The Man on Devil's Island: Alfred Dreyfus and the Affair that Divided France (2010), p. 262. (She cites Le petit Meridional, 3 July 1898, as the original source.) This seems very close ...
Yellow Journalism Cartoon by Leon Barritt, first published in “Vim”
Today, William Randolph Hearst is widely known for his rivalry with Joseph Pulitzer and his extreme yellow journalism. Pulitzer's newspaper, the New York World, was already well established by the time Hearst moved to New York City and set up his newspaper, the New York Journal. Ironically, Hearst had bought the failing paper from a man who had bought it from Pulitzer's own brother, Albert Pulitzer. Over time, the ...
