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Justin Boyd Doctoral History
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Doctorate Research Project
Americas rise in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries is monumental, but was it by design? One must ask how did this come to be, was it...
justin boyd
Jun 19, 20254 min read


EDMOND FREEMAN (Founder of Sandwich, Massachusetts)
I had always wondered who my distant relatives were and where my lineage originated. I had noticed different aspects of people and how...
justin boyd
Mar 2, 20253 min read


American Christianity
What were the factors and influences that enabled the founding fathers to create a constitution and nation with a Christian basis. Even...
justin boyd
Feb 3, 20257 min read


Is everything a Propaganda? How the government, media, businesses, and Hollywood use propaganda for their benefit.
Edward Bernays, known as the pioneer of public relations, utilized a concept of propaganda that affects the consumers emotion instead of...
justin boyd
Dec 8, 202422 min read


Economic Theories of The Great Depression
The great depression that lasted between 1929 and 1941 was a 12-year period that experienced an abrupt downward trend in GDP and took...
justin boyd
Nov 21, 20244 min read


Edward Bernays: Early 1900 economic influencer and father of public relations. How the idea of mass manipulation can be economic gold for businesses.
Do you ever notice advertisements that feel like they're speaking to your emotion, or media coverage that keeps propagating the same...
justin boyd
Nov 14, 20243 min read


Growth in the Postbellum Economy
Postbellum takes place following the Civil War to 1900 America. We will look at the effects on the economy in the north and south...
justin boyd
Nov 1, 20244 min read
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