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· 2,100 entries from 1493 to the present. · Speeches, essays, biographies, landmark court decisions, editorials, and more that bring history to life. · Noted contributors that include Madeleine Albright, Henry Ford, John Hancock, Malcolm X, and Edgar Allan Poe. · Photos and multimedia that engage students.

William Harper wrote this passage about the morality of slavery in the 1930s. 70 years after the abolishment of slavery and in the period where IM starts college, the were still radicals who believed that African Americans were so inferioir that they deserved to be enslaved. In his article, Harper brings up the point that it is a part of human nature for the superior to conquer the inferior.

Winther explains that the imagery used in Invisible Man describes the idea of societal imprisonment that IM experiences. For example, the iron chain that he carries around in his briefcase refers not only to the physical enslavement of the Black people but the emotional and mental restrictions but on them by society.

This timeline, and the following pages which bring the information to current day, serves the purpose of providing accurate information on the history of slavery and racism in the United States. Starting with the original enslaving of Africans in Jamestown and other colonies, it describes the gross injustices committed by whites throughout the years.

This article talks about how while children are suppose to feel bonded to their parents, they are not suppose to feel in bondage to them. This switch results in a change of position of parent in child within a family unit, resulting in stress and abnormal feelings. This is seen in the Bundren household, especially with Anse, as he sees his children as objects to take care of him.

"By appealing to her readers' senses, Woolf liberates deep emotional responses while at the same time exposing a host of related impressions too cumbersome to discuss in full but too persuasive to ignore"

This source shows how Woolf's descriptions are vivid and she gets her point across using strong diction to evoke an emotional response and sell the reader on her ideas.

essay written about the theme of oppression