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- ====A Great Resource for History Teachers==== * [[51 Great Online Resources for History Teachers]]6 KB (851 words) - 18:02, 15 March 2023
- ...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), Fred6 KB (855 words) - 20:25, 30 September 2016
- [[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 A7 KB (1,123 words) - 06:03, 8 June 2019
- 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 ironic13 KB (2,123 words) - 23:22, 4 October 2021
- ...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 balancing4 KB (656 words) - 20:07, 22 September 2017
- ...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 a12 KB (1,950 words) - 00:07, 16 September 2021
- 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: Unive10 KB (1,632 words) - 16:39, 16 September 2021
- ...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 was13 KB (2,025 words) - 16:40, 16 September 2021
- ...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.6 KB (885 words) - 01:18, 16 September 2021
- 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 of12 KB (1,958 words) - 00:53, 28 September 2021
- ...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 the8 KB (1,237 words) - 20:34, 16 September 2021
- ...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 outstandi13 KB (1,998 words) - 21:15, 22 November 2018
- ...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>8 KB (1,219 words) - 05:35, 5 October 2021
- 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 to9 KB (1,457 words) - 19:28, 15 April 2018
- ....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_t14 KB (2,191 words) - 21:14, 22 November 2018
- ...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 to10 KB (1,612 words) - 06:56, 22 September 2021
- ...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 gove10 KB (1,608 words) - 21:17, 22 November 2018
- ...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 fou9 KB (1,404 words) - 05:10, 15 September 2021
- ...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 draine10 KB (1,606 words) - 05:23, 15 September 2021
- ...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>15 KB (2,308 words) - 18:51, 13 September 2021