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  • American Legal History Top Ten Booklist
    ...ooks helped us think about legal history in new ways. Excitement and legal history are terms that are rarely used together, but after you read these books we ...prolific, and he has also published another twenty books on law and legal history. In fact, there is a very good chance that he wrote and published another
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  • Gilded Age/Progressive Era History Top Ten Booklist
    ...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 Age is ...e has illuminated the critical role African American women played as civil rights activists. As Jim Crow reordered southern society, women fought for the cre
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  • What was the Albany Plan of Union of 1754
    ...overnments, sensing that it would curb their own authority and territorial rights, either rejected the plan or chose not to act on it at all. The British Gov ...Council is to be obtained, before they receive their commissions. And all civil officers are to be nominated by the Grand Council, and to receive the Presi
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  • Which Guns Won the American West
    ...to abandon its Springfield single-shot muzzle-loading firearm. During the Civil War the New Haven Arms Company sold only 1,730 carbines to the Union Army. ...e first time. <ref>Haar, Dan, ”Gun That Won The West: Two Claim Bragging Rights,” ''Hartford Courant'', 2016</ref> It was created by a copywriter for a W
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  • Was Elizabeth I Justified in having her Cousin Mary Stuart, Queen of Scotland Executed
    *[[British Criminal and Legal History Top Ten Booklist]] *[[How does The Magna Carta influence the Modern Perceptions of Civil Rights?]]
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  • What are the Lasting Legacies of the Roman Empire on Modern Governments
    ...similar to today, was considered as the primary way to uphold citizens’ rights and have checks and balances in government.<ref>For a general discussion on ...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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  • Why was the Construction of the Alaska Highway so important to American History
    ...<ref>Virtue, John, ''The Black Soldiers Who Built the Alaska Highway: A History of Four U.S. Army Regiments in the North, 1942-1943'', McFarland & Company, ...road to civil rights.” <ref>Weingroff, Richard F. “The Road to Civil Rights,” fhwa.dot.gov, </ref>
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  • Portal:Interviews
    ...t famous and infamous security guard and detective agency in United States history. Pinkerton originally created the agency to help railroad companies investi ...ernment surveillance? What can advocates do to strengthen personal privacy rights? These concerns will only intensify in the years to come.
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  • What were the Root Causes of the Spanish Civil War
    ...ctors, some of which will be discussed here. The main cause of the Spanish Civil War, was the failure of Spanish democracy. This was because there was a re ...&linkId=b54b43da8965b066ed125b18696e983b The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936–1939]''. London, UK: Weidenfield and Nicolson</ref> These ideolo
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  • How did Vladimir Lenin Rise To Power
    ...tal state ownership of all property, abolishing Tsarists privileges, equal rights for all, and eliminating unemployment. As the tension grew, Lenin decided t In the following three years of civil war, the Bolsheviks successfully assumed total control of Russia. Lenin act
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  • How did the Sharia Law develop
    *[[How does The Magna Carta influence the Modern Perceptions of Civil Rights?]] *[[American Legal History Top Ten Booklist]]
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  • How does The Magna Carta influence the Modern Perceptions of Civil Rights
    ...t important documents in the history of democracy itself, as well as civil rights and obligations and common law in general. ...III, the English king John and his barons specifically addressing the very rights of the monarch. <ref>Causes and effects of the Magna Carta: http://www.skw
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  • Why has the French Civil Code had a lasting influence on contemporary European law
    ...Code represents a comprehensive reformation and codification of the French civil law and was considered by Napoleon himself to be one of his most significan ...e French society. Its long-lasting effect is closely connected to the very history of its creation.
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  • How Did Early Judicial Systems Evolve
    ...zens. The concept of justice, in fact, has evolved from very early written history, showing some similarities early on with modern ideas of law and justice fo ...roceedings are not known, they do show that individuals were provided with rights to prevent abuse by authorities and to remove state authority from certain
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  • What is the significance of the 1968 East L.A. Walkouts
    ...ivil rights activists. What we know about the African American/Black civil rights movements are the obvious events leading up to the political revolutions th ...tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=c9431f9c6cb484902ece972dde717853 North to Aztlan: A History of Mexican Americans in the United States]'', (New York: Twayne Publishers,
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  • When Did Jackie Robinson Integrate Baseball and Why Is It Important
    ...isode in Robinson’s military career foreshadowed his later role in civil rights. Robinson and some fellow African-American soldiers applied to Officer Cand The color line was receding to history, but racial intolerance and discrimination were not. During that 1947 seaso
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  • Why Was the Battle of Antietam a Pivotal event in the American Civil War
    ...an, in Sharpsburg, Maryland. In this one poignant moment in time, American history was forever altered. If Gettysburg was the most significant battle in terms ...o end the debate. The Battle of Antietam was the most pivotal event of the Civil War as it erased the threat of European recognition of the Confederate Stat
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  • The Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798: Interview with Terri Halperin
    Terri Halperin is a member of the University of Richmond History Department and an adjunct professor of the James Madison Memorial Foundatio ...e think about how Congress worked at its beginnings. My dissertation was a history of the United States Senate from 1789 to 1821.
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  • What Were the Motives of the Irish in the American Civil War
    ...liefs. The irony of Irish countrymen fighting on opposite sides during the Civil War is that both were fighting for the cause of their beloved Ireland. This By 1860, on the eve of the Civil War, only 84,000 of the 1.2 million Irish in America resided in the South.
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  • Were Members of the Underground Railroad Criminals
    ...he North, through various undertakings, she was able to write her personal history. In the preface to her story——and throughout the text——she appeals America was built on the backs of slaves. On the eve of the Civil War, these human beings were second only to land as the most valuable commo
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