Author: Jason Xidias

Reconstruction is the name given to the period that, beginning shortly before the end of the American Civil War and running until 1877, saw the fru...

Thomas Paines 1791 Rights of Man is an impassioned political tract showing how the critical thinking skills of evaluation and reasoning can, and mu...

W.E.B Du Bois The Souls of Black Folk is a seminal work in the field of sociology, a classic of American literature and a solid example of careful...

In Civil Disobedience, Henry David Thoreau looks at old issues in new ways, asking: is there ever a time when individuals should actively oppose th...

John Lewis Gaddis had written four previous books on the Cold War by the time he published We Now Know so the main thrust of his new work was not ...

Nineteenth-century American politician John C. Calhoun occupies a paradoxical place in the history of political thought and of critical thinking. ...

A critical analysis of David C. Kangs China Rising, which is a fine example of an author making use of creative thinking skills to reach a conclusi...

Martin Luther Kings policy of non-violent protest in the struggle for civil rights in the United States during the second half of the twentieth cen...

German sociologist Max Webers 1919 lecture Politics as a Vocation is widely regarded as a masterpiece of political theory and sociology. Its centra...

The 85 essays that maker up The Federalist Papers clearly demonstrate the vital importance of the art of persuasion. Written between 1787 and 1788 ...