With the exception of Native Americans, all persons living in the United States are descended from immigrants or slaves who came to the country during the last 400 years. By the late seventeenth century, foreign-born persons constituted seventy-five... | READ MORE >
Globalization is a form of cultural integration that is usually defined in terms of economics, but also encompasses cultural, biological, and political homogenization on a global scale. The term is often used to describe the process by which... | READ MORE >
Although "global warming" and "climate change" are relatively new phrases, meteorologists and lay people alike began to notice changes in weather trends as early as the 1930s. Winters, they noted, were starting later in the year and... | READ MORE >