Emotions are a very important aspect of human life. All human beings experience emotions in their lives because of different reasons and in different circumstances. Emotions are very unique to human life and can be used as the basis of the difference between human beings and other primates on the planet earth. Emotions have important meaning to human beings depending on the context in which they are applied. Both positive and negative emotions tend to affect human life. As emotions continue affecting human life, people have engaged themselves in studies that try to search for the beginning of emotions in the society and the development process emotion have gone through to the current state. This also includes how people in society have undergone developments into better managers of their emotions. Emotions in American society have a long-standing history starting from pre-modern colonial America. Emotions have since that time been part of human daily life. This has been observed at home, at the workplace, on the streets, and in other places that people interact. Different authors have adopted different approaches in their effort to provide answers to the history and origin of emotions such as anger, happiness, joy, envy, and many others. Anger is one of the ways people express their emotions. In society, many things spark anger. One of the things is oppression and unfairness in dealings. During the colonial times, American society was being oppressed by their colonial masters. Mistreatments were a very common phenomenon that led to anger in protest of such happenings. On the other hand, the British colonizers were also angered when the Americans were trying to rise against oppression. All human beings have to struggle to keep their anger at low levels to prevent the consequences it can have on their lives and those they are against. People, therefore, adopt mechanisms of controlling their emotions for the sake of leaving in peace and harmony with friends, neighbors, and even strangers. Carol and Stearns (p214 )the book Anger: The Struggle for Emotional Control in America’s History, indicates that “the need to keep the lid on anger has the most persistent motif in the emotional reconstruction of the American personality that has been taking place in the past two centuries.” This sentiment indeed illustrates that emotions are a very essential aspect of human life in the sense that they shape personality. The personality of Americans has been under construction for the past two centuries and emotions have played a very significant role in this process. In their history with emotions, Americans have become people who can manage their anger and emotions in their current state. This process of personality development can also be viewed in terms of emotional development. This article is emphatic of the fact that the current emotional situations in Americans have a long history that was characterized by anger and other undesirable components. Americans as a result of their emotional development, are people who can easily suppress anger and avert the bad repercussions that are associated with the vice. American society has had a long history of controlling anger. This book is relevant