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  • ====A Great Resource for History Teachers==== * [[51 Great Online Resources for History Teachers]]
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  • ...n offered his provocative entry into the little-known canon of campanarian history, considering how bells resonated across the “auditory landscape” of rur ...ch and complicated place of media within cultural, political, and economic history. Works such as Elena Razlogova’s The Listener’s Voice (on radio), Fred
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  • [[File:AmericanColossus.jpg|thumbnail|300px|left|<i>American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900</i> by H.W. Brands]] ...nts that can be pointed to for defining eras such as Colonial America, the American Civil War, Reconstruction or the Cold War. Arguably, even the term Gilded A
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  • Slavery represented the opposite of freedom. In the period of human history variously known as the modern era or the Age of Discovery, this form of unf ...the region. These territorial disputes are important in understanding the political shifts that led directly to the creation of the United States. In an ironic
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  • ...eply concerned with the history of ideas. Intellectual history is not the history of old, white philosophers stroking their beards behind mahogany desks. ...contained important intellectual ideas that changed the course of American history. Each of these books, in their own way, accomplish this delicate balancing
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  • ...Donald B. “Akhenaten: New Theories and Old Facts.” <i>Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research</i> 269: 4-15</ref> ...o his father’s reign, the priests in Amen's cult had attained a level of political clout that rivaled even that of the pharaoh. Akhenaten inoculated himself a
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  • The Boxer Uprising (1899-1901) was a key event in the history of China, as it reflected the colonial powers increasing influence in Chine ...foreign presence in the 19th century, Duara, Prasenjit. 1995. <i>Rescuing History from the Nation: Questioning Narratives of Modern China</i>. Chicago: Unive
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  • ...le:Benjamin_Franklin_-_Join_or_Die.jpg|thumbnail|left|230px|"Join, or Die" political cartoon attributed Ben Franklin in favor of the Albany Plan Union]]__NOTOC_ ...ernment. On July 10, 1754, representatives from seven of the British North American colonies adopted the plan. Although never carried out, the Albany Plan was
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  • ...l dissatisfaction with imperial rule and, ultimately, to the causes of the American Revolution. ...ssippi came under British control. With the official end of the war, Anglo-American colonists began to pour over the Appalachian Mountains in search of land.
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  • For children and adolescents, summer camp has been a fixture of American life. In the summer months, parents have often placed their children in sum The history of summer camps has in the United States has its origin in the evolution of
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  • ...tinguished. What qualified Washington for the supreme confidence the young American rebels placed in him? ...lderness were not over. The British mounted the largest military force the American colonies had ever seen under Edward Braddock, the commander-in-chief of the
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  • ...es behind free trade and protectionism. Palen's book explores a world when American extreme economic nationalism came into conflict with Britain's advocacy of ...mes'', the ''Australian'', ''The Conversation'', ''Globalist Magazine'', ''History News Network'' and many others. Palen has recently published two outstandi
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  • ...its governing influence see: Millar, Fergus. 2002. ''The Roman Republic in Political Thought.'' The Menahem Stern Jerusalem Lectures. Hanover: University Press ...pted and codified later. See: Stein, Peter. 1999. ''Roman Law in European History.'' New York: Cambridge University Press, pg. 31.</ref>
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  • The second world war was the most catastrophic war in human history. The origins of the second world war in Europe are complex and controversia ...nd they were faced with rising powers in Europe such as Italy and Germany. American isolationism meant that it was reluctant to help the British and Empires to
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  • ....html The University of Chicago Press] explores the bizarre and ridiculous history of state-funded attempts to control the weather. ...ddition to <i>Make it Rain</i>, Professor Harper also wrote the definitive history of meteorology <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0262517353/ref=as_li_t
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  • ...Spain lost almost the last of its colonies after it defeat in the Spanish-American war.<ref>Vincent, Mary (2007). ''[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0198731 ...en the left and the right and between the regions. There began a series of political assassinations. The right openly called for the military to stage a coup to
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  • ...narchy was actually reforming itself and this resulted in the formation of political opposition to the royal government for the first time in centuries. This to ...ment and growing levels of literacy, people began to question the existing political system of France. Many French citizens came to believe that the Royal gove
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  • ...e French society. Its long-lasting effect is closely connected to the very history of its creation. ...ic code, therefore, was founded on the premise that, for the first time in history, a purely rational law should be created, which justification was to be fou
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  • ...sponse to those terms would lead to the most destructive conflict in world history - World War Two. ...nce's constant desire for revenge alienated its allies and sparked radical political movements in Germany. The French understood that Germany was utterly draine
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  • ...cember 13, 1862 on the battlefield in Fredericksburg, Virginia? During the American Civil War, the Battle of Fredericksburg was but one meeting ground of Irish ...“Ethnicity and the Self: The Shifting Identity of Irish Soldiers in the American Civil War.” (2014).</ref>
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