Category Essays

New Global Challenges and Opportunities

New Global Challenges and Opportunities As the United States completed the 20th century, it entered into a new global economic, social, and political phase after spending 40 years under the Cold War umbrella. This new phase created challenges and opportunities…

Inequality and democracy in the Gilded Age

Write a short (100 word) essay on inequality and democracy in the Gilded Age, based on The Autobiography of Mother Jones. How does Jones discuss the relationship between economic power and political power? How can the government be made more responsive…