...Museum Review for Buffalo Soldier Museum Yan Wu Museum Review for Buffalo Soldier Museum The Buffalo Soldier Museum is the only museum in the U.S. dedicated primarily to preserving the legacy and honor of the African-American soldier. It houses the largest repository of African-American military history in the world. In fall 2012, the museum moved into its new 23,000-square-foot home at the Houston Light Guard Armory in Midtown. The historic armory space is seven-times the museum’s previous space, giving the national museum significantly more room for reenactments, exhibits and lectures. The process of relocating the museum took nearly a decade to realize. The 10th cavalry, an all African-American Army unit, was nicknamed Buffalo Soldiers by Cheyenne warriors in 1867 out of respect for their fierce fighting ability. Over time, the term Buffalo Soldier was applied to all African-American soldiers. The museum aims to articulate, collect, display and preserve historical artifacts, documents, videos, prints and other historical memorabilia which detail the history of the brave men and women who overcame extreme adversity while fighting the great American wars. Original uniforms from the Indian Wars and a musket from 1775 are among the items on display. Visitors will see artifacts stretching from the Revolutionary War through both world wars to present day conflicts. Matthews, a Vietnam veteran and military historian, founded the Buffalo Soldier National Museum in 2000...
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...What is freedom? Some of us may ponder this, but don’t really fully understand the true meaning. The dictionary definition is “The state of being free or at liberty rather than in confinement or under physical restraint” or you could say its political or national independence yeah the definition of freedom to honor our veterans and know what makes us so free. Most Americans never have to risk their life for people they don’t even know! Our soldiers willingly give their lives to our country and to protect our right, they don’t know care how dangerous it may be, they care that much. A lot of Americans also have never really had their right or freedom in jeopardy, this is why so many people take it for granted.A lot of why are country is still standing strong today is because of our soldiers. They persevere though all the hardship of being a solider and they never give up. Galatians 5:1 says “It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then,and do not let yourself be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.” This verse represents soldier very well, meaning that they will stand strong and won’t give into the struggles they are facing like missing their families. I am...
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...History of African Americans in the American Civil War The civil war which lasted from 1861 until 1865, was a time of tragic loss of life in America; although, the outcome could have been much worse. In consideration of African Americans during the war, we must determine how big of a role they played in the outcome and how much worse it could have been had they not participated. It is clear that they played a major role in the civil war because without them there would not have been enough men to fight. Additionally, they practiced medicine in the war although this fact often doesn’t get a lot of attention in history. Clearly African American persons’ contributions were important in the war; however because of the politics of the time, they...
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...Bryce Beeman HIUS 222-B02 9/21/15 An American Soldier in World War 1: Book Review World War 1 was supposed to be the war to end all wars, but what it really did was propel the world into a generation of military innovation which lead to World War 2. It created a military monster in the United States and put them at the forefront of all world issues to come. Although many books and memoirs of the war have been written, there have been few that encompass a personal perspective along with providing an overview of what was happening during the war like the book An American Soldier in World War 1. Following the letters of soldier George Browne, Editor David L. Snead was able to create a picture of ordinary everyday problems surrounding the soldiers while including the big picture of the war and how these soldiers were helping the allied forces win. The United States officially entered World War 1 in April of 1917 after much deliberation and a little pushing by the allied forces. George Browne, who we follow through his letters to his girlfriend Martha, enlisted in the army in July and was assigned to the 117th Engineers Regiment, 42nd division. When the United States entered the war they were just simply not prepared and had very little time to train an entire army to be battle ready. The army lacked experienced officers and had a shortage on everything from underwear to guns. In George’s case he was often sleeping on the ground while training. “I didn’t tell you that they...
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...Women, Slaves, and Free Blacks in the Civil War What roles did the Northern women play in the war effort on the Union side during the Civil War? What roles did the Southern women play in the war effort on the Confederate side during the Civil War? How did the war affect each group? “There were just shy of 400 documented cases of women who served as soldiers during the Civil War, according to the records of the Sanitary Commission.” (Brown, 2012) Women during the 19th century, according to Historian Barbara Welters were “hostage of the home”. (Brown, 2012) Women were considered what we know now as home wives, without really the option of doing anything outside of the home. When the Civil War began, that meant that men left home behind to go join the ranks. Therefore, the duty lie heavily on the women. The war, in a sense, gave women independence. Instead of just taking care of the home and children, women had to fulfill the duties their husbands, fathers, brothers, and sons once fulfilled due to the economic hardships. (“Over the course of the war, inflation in the South caused prices to rise by 9000%.”) (U.S. History Online Textbook, 2015) The women in the South held fundraisers to raise money for army supplies and also provided soldiers with necessary supplies of everyday life. In the South, many women had to become school teachers (for the first time) and eventually were granted permission to work in the hospitals due to the lack of nurses due to all the casualties...
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...occurs when people of Caucasian or white decent receive more rights or benefits than another racial group such as African Americans. In Steven Spielberg’s 2012 film, Lincoln, white privilege can not be surpassed without the support of a higher leader, such as Lincoln and his colleagues. Thus being said, there are two specific scenes in the movie where racial problems occur leading to the idea of white privilege and how it prevails. Lincoln has always supported the abolition of slavery and we can see that in the first few minutes of the Lincoln film. However, at the beginning, there is an incident that exemplifies how Lincoln treated the African Americans he is fighting for and how white people treat the blacks. The movie starts out with a battle scene and right after we see Lincoln under a canopy talking to two black soldiers, Ira Clark and Harold Green. Green says to Lincoln, “Us 2nd Kansas boys, whenever we fight now we-…” and Clark jumps into the conversation and says, “Another three dollars subtracted from our pay for our uniforms…” This comes as a surprise to Green because Clark is complaining to Lincoln, a man who has a lot of power over these black soldiers. The conversation continues and mentions, “… still no commissioned Negro officers.” Green becomes embarrassed by Clark’s actions so he tries to change the subject. As the two black soldiers are talking to Lincoln, we can see...
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...Africans Americans in the Revolution Damon Davis Damon Davis Mrs. Lafaele 11th Grade English 19 November 2012 African Americans in the Revolution The American Revolution was not only the colonist’s fight to gain independence but also the African-Americans to gain freedom as well. There was a conflict in the whites wanting to gain liberation from England while also having black slaves and taking away their freedom at the same time. The contradiction to this is that the white’s concept of their freedom they were fighting for was different of those by the African Americans. To white Americans the war meant freedom and liberty in a being free from England’s political hold and taxes on the united states rather than what the blacks faced in personal, labor bondage the blacks suffered from. The whites in fighting for their freedom gave the blacks a great chance to try to get their own personal freedom. They increased the number of chances a black would have in getting his freedom. They had to form a petition to let numerous amounts of blacks be freed at one time. The unfairness of this pushed blacks to fight for their freedom. African Americans saw this as an opportunity to use as leverage in their own quest in search of freedom. However the blacks got most of their freedom by volunteering of taking up arms. They took up arms fighting for the British early in the Revolution. The British also...
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...significant for the Americans because this was the first battle they had that made the Americans look like a contender. The reason the patriots had a chance was because of their leader William Prescott. This battle was also the turning point of the American Revolution. Because of William Prescott commanding the Americans contended at Bunker Hill. James L Nelson says in his book, With Fire and Sword, the Patriots required to be identical patient at Bunker Hill (267). The patriots obligated to wait until daylight to move at the British. The British’s objective was to circle around the Americans. The British wanted...
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...James Cameron Mr. Randolph Engl. 210 9/21/12 Tainted History in Natasha Tretheway’s Native Guard Passion, precision, and technique are all synonyms used to describe Natasha Tretheway’s Native Guard that take the reader through the heart of the south and the heart of the family. This essay will examine the contradictions of (African) American life, especially concerning themes of history and memory. “Southern History”, “Incident”, and “South” will demonstrate these contradictions of (African) American history and memory. Serving as a scribe, Tretheway writes these poems for those people history has muted and closed the veil on. Southern History, Incident, and South; poems from section two of her book, depict racism during slavery and the Civil War, which is a part of forgotten history in the eyes of “Americans.” These historic experiences have not been given the proper examination, discussion, or acknowledgement. Tretheway refuses to allow African American history to remain as footnotes and brings out the real “American” history in her collection of poems. Tretheway’s personal experience growing up as a mulatto in the South is seen in her poem “Southern History”. This poem shows that even after more than a hundred years after the Civil War, history is still tainted. History is imperfect and at times intentionally false as textbooks in this time period were used to misinform students; keeping them bound and restricted from the real history of America. As Tretheway’s...
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...this issue has picked up since November 2011. Its been known, that Americans are concerned because Israel has been pushing the U.S. to take military action to damage Iran’s program before it reaches the point where they will have capability to make an atomic bomb. For the most part, going to war with Iran will be more expensive than us going to with Iraq and Afghanistan. Personally, I would not want our military to go to war again after we have been in war with Iraq for a very long time. Therefore, when analyzing the picture it looks like mothers of current soldiers and veterans would be against going to war with Iran, what outcomes may occur if we do go to war, and want can our government do differently with this situation. For one thing, the cartoon sketch is describing international relations policy with Iran. According to a report from February 2010, the United Nations states that Iran’s military was or is trying to develop a nuclear warhead and some believed that this activity has been going on before 2004. For instance, in August 2005, Mr. Ahmadinejad took over as president of Iran and had announced that they would resume enrichment work and this lead to the three European nations to break off their long-running talks of peace in the region. In the picture it looks like Uncle Sam wants to go to war since it does not want to hear what Americans think about the situation, since we have many soldiers come back with PTSD (Post Traumatic...
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...artist Emanuel Leutze took the negative space in this painting and turned it into a day sky, with a shining sun. Historically, however, this event didn’t happen during the day so why did Leutze choose to portray it like that? After seeing the majestic painting Washington Crossing the Delaware I was struck by a lot of things. The painting is a very vivid depiction of an event that happened during the American Revolutionary War. You can tell that this was the American Revolutionary War because the person who is most prominent is George Washington. He looks heroic in the picture and looks like a leader who is in charge of the situation. The saying “cool, calm, and collected” is a perfect description. One of the most poignant things that can be seen in the paining is that the wind is howling. A few perfect examples are the waving flag, and the flapping scarves around soldiers’ necks. A further example to the harsh conditions is the man sitting on the front of the boat struggling to control and keep the boat off the ice has a grimace on his face. You can also see that all the soldiers in this painting are very determined to accomplish the goal as the stern demeanor on their faces makes them look very serious and focused. Also noticeable is the ice that is in the water and that shows how hard it was to complete this mission. The boats look very rickety and old and look like they will break as soon as they hit a block of ice. This was one of the reasons why they were so determined to...
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...|French and Indian War|Lasted from 1756-1763 and was the bloodiest American war in the 18th century and took more|The disagreement caused the colonists to believe that they would be looked at by the | | |lives that the American Revolution. It involved people on three different continents |British as one colony instead of separate colonies. The people resented any efforts | | |including the Caribbean. This was a clash between the French and the English over |from the British. | | |territory and wealth. The war was also known as The Seven Years War. For the first three | | | |years of the war, the outnumbered French dominated the battlefield, soundly defeating the | | | |English in battles at Fort Oswego and Ticonderoga. Perhaps the most notorious battle of | | | |the war was the French victory at Fort William Henry, which ended in a massacre of British| | | |soldiers by Indians allied with the French. Finally in 1758, the tide...
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...September 17th, 1849. On that night, a black slave and her two brothers escaped from the drudges of slavery. The girl had suffered greatly at the hands of her masters, even so much as suffering significant head injuries from violent beatings that handicapped her for life. Despite this, she was running. Her master, a man by the name of Brodess had died, and his wife, seeing her skills diminishing and finding her more and more useless, sought to sell her. So she ran. Although she successfully escaped, she went back, only to really escape the second time. Along with a third, and a fourth. In total, this woman would save around 70 of her friends and family, along with being a nurse, and spy for the Union during the Civil War. After the war, she would go on to become a women’s rights activist. Also, she...
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...and describe two events that led to and/or deepened the Cold War. You are free to pick from any number of events but analyze in depth each event (e.g., the Korean War, the Cuban Missile Crisis, or the Vietnam War). The Vietnam War was the longest war in United States (U.S.) history. This war did begin with the U.S. offering financial aid and military advisement to South Vietnam to support them against the communism in North Vietnam. North Vietnamese communist forces led by Ho Chi Minh first battled the French and then the South Vietnamese. After the attack by North Vietnamese, President Johnson passed the Gulf of Tonkin resolution allowing him to make decisions on the war without the approval of Congress (ushistory.org). This led to establish troops in Vietnam, 500,000 soldiers in South Vietnam (Brower, 2012). Many American soldiers lost their lives and the war lacked support and made widespread protests in the U.S. According to Brower, President Lyndon Johnson stated he did not want to be the “first president to lose a war.” Finally with the denial to send additional troops, there was a cease fire. However, soon after the troops of U.S. were came back home, North Vietnam attacked and took over South Vietnam and became one communist county. This became a war that U.S. lost 58,000 Americans soldiers, and more than 150,000 were injured (Kelly, n.d.). Controversy remains today over what was really true and whether the U.S. should have been involved. Was the U.S. Government...
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...race peacefully, John F. Kennedy’s successful attempts at diplomacy with European countries, and the negative mentality of some active soldiers in the Korean War. The Arms Race between the United States and the Soviet Union started with the first nuclear bombings of the cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This escalated to a period of time where international tensions were at an all time high, this era now referred to as the Cold War. During the early...
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