America’s Best Shopping Streets

Holiday shopping can be stressful, cutthroat and, at its worst, fruitless. Sometimes the journey to the perfect present starts with an hour-long line at the mall parking garage. Talk about frustrating: You can’t take your foot off the brake, let alone step into a store. So, we decided to ditch our wheels and take to the streets on foot.

Spotting…

The 50 Best Beers In America

Zymurgy magazine, the official publication of the American Homebrewers Association, has released its ninth-annual list of the 50 best beers in America. To assemble the list, its editors ask readers to submit lists of their top 20 favorite beers.

Russian River’s acclaimed Pliny the Elder beer won the top slot for the third year in a row. But if…

Food: America’s 21st Century Manifest Destiny?

Earlier this year, World Bank President Robert Zoellick sounded an alarm that the world was “one shock away” from a crisis in food supply. “For most commodities stocks are relatively low. You have one other weather event in some of these areas and you really start to push people over the edge.”

That is now. What of the future?…

HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Steps to independence: AD 1775-1776

Events during 1775 should leave the British government in no doubt as to the strength of the resentment felt by their American colonists. The engagements at Lexington and Bunker Hill provide a powerful display of military confidence, while the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia demonstrates a strong political resolve. So there are…

HISTORY OF SLAVERY

An evil of civilization

Slavery enters human history with civilization. Hunter-gatherers and primitive farmers have no use for a slave. They collect or grow just enough food for themselves. One more pair of hands is one more mouth. There is no economic advantage in owning another human being.

Once people gather in towns and cities, a surplus of food created in…

How to Legally Immigrate To America

There are more than 35 million legal and illegal immigrants in the United States. Staunch opponents of illegal immigration very easily tell foreigners to Get In The Line before coming to America for work. But are you not curious to know how long this line really is and how most of the people spend years (even…

Comprehensive School Health Program

The Comprehensive School Health Program (CSHP) is a national program in the United States that makes efforts in schools to improve the health of children. Since schools profoundly influence the health of young people, the CSHP is very important. The program is supported by a national health organization, the American School Health Association (ASHA), which is…

Two Can Play at the Wired War Game

As the United States military increases the use of robots like unmanned drones in battle, it increases the danger that our enemies will take and adapt the technology to use against us, according to Peter Warren Singer, senior fellow and director of the 21st Century Defense Initiative at the Brookings Institution.

“Just like what happened in software, warfare is…

HISTORY OF NORTH AMERICA

The people of north America: 1500 BC – 1500 AD

The original people of north America live in a wide range of environments. On the east side of the continent there are woodlands, where they kill elk and deer. On the grass plains of the midwest they hunt to extinction several American species, including the camel, mammoth and horse….

HISTORY OF NICARAGUA

Within Guatemala: to AD 1821

Within the Spanish empire the long narrow strip of central America is known as Guatemala. It is among the earliest of colonial conquests on the mainland. Pedro de Alvarado, a leading member of Cortés’ small party in the conquest of Mexico (1519-21), is sent south in 1523 to subdue the smaller area now known as…

African Americans, Diet of

The 2000 U.S. Census revealed that there were almost 35 million African Americans, or about 13 percent of the total U.S. population. This small percentage of the populace has had a significant influence on American cuisine, not only because African-American food is diverse and flavorful, but also because of its historical beginnings. Despite their cultural, political,…