Internal competition in a country can be a strong force for development and improvements in some industries. This “American versus American” phenomenon appeared in many industries in the US. In the early twentieth century, the United States was still developing. At that time, many industries were still in their early stage -- the car industry and aviation industry, for example. Because these...
This is a story that spans centuries of history, beginning in the 1700s with the French settlement of Detroit. The Detroit of the mid-18th century would have looked very different from the sprawling metropolis of today. Where the imposing skyscrapers of Detroit's downtown now dominate the riverfront, there would have been a sparsely populated settlement consisting of humble farms built along the...
On August 5, 1914, American President William Jennings Bryan and Nicaraguan President Senor General Don Emiliano Chamorro met in Washington D.C. to draw up the Bryan-Chamorro Convention. This convention allowed Nicaragua to cede rights to the United States for the construction of a canal through the Lake of Nicaragua. “Whereas a Convention between the United States of America and the Republic...
In 1907, the city of San Francisco wanted to flood the Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park by creating a dam to provide water to their city’s increasing population and support urban reform after the devastating 1906 earthquake. John Muir, a leader of environmental preservation activists, was enraged that they would taint this beautiful creation of God with 170 feet of water. He published...
During the summer of 1916, five people were injured by a Great White Shark along the Jersey Shore area of New Jersey. Four of the victims were bitten while swimming in areas that were not considered to be a hotspot for sharks, and the other victim was bitten while trying to rescue another person. At first, many people had no idea what type of animal could have attacked these people, and journalists...
A young Chinese girl poses in front of a boulder. She is dressed in all black with a tumor the size of a cantaloupe on the right side of her face. Her name is Akae, and she was one of Peter Parker’s many patients during his mission to Canton, China in the 1830s. Parker, an American physician, would treat patients for little to no cost, but his main goal was not to cure their bodies. He wanted...
On July 12th, 1917 about 1,200 people were deported from Bisbee, Arizona and the event was orchestrated by the major mining company Phelps Dodge. The Bisbee deportation was not just a localized event, but instead one that involved many cities in Arizona. Tucson was just one of the cities that monitored Bisbee heavily and supported the deportation. The Tucson Citizen, one of the local...
From the eye of a non-historian, this photo which shows hundreds of people marching
from a small town to what looks like a rural area, would look pretty unusual. A large string of
people being escorted by other men to an open area, whilst a factory seems to be running in the
far background from the big crowd of people. Some questions would arise, such as, “Where are
those...
With World War 1 underway the price of copper had tripled in comparison to before the war. Even with the price increase of copper, the wages of the miners however, stayed the same. The copper mine owners were hoarding the proceeds. Many of the copper miners were immigrants or children of immigrants and saw the hierarchy between the first class owners and they themselves as the working middle class....
In April of 1916, Dr. Clark of Indiana University School of Medicine went behind the backs of administration to pay out-of-pocket for the healthcare services of a patient who was unable to pay his or her healthcare fee. Caught in this scandalous act by his supervisor, Dr. Charles P. Emerson, instead of being reprimanded for his defiant behavior, Dr. Clark's rebellious actions were...