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Presidential Leadership Top Ten Booklist
...a164ef The Presidential Leadership Dilemma: Between the Constitution and a Political Party] . Albany, State University of New York Press. ...leader" for all Americans while still, in reality, act as the leader of a political party. The rhetoric given to the public often tries to combine election res

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Top Ten War Books that were turned into Movies
...cture is an adaptation of a work of history. Here is a list of the top ten history books, in no particular order that have inspired some of the most popular h ...ay from a variety of perspectives. He was not only interested in the Anglo-American actions on that historic day but also the French and German roles on D-Day.

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Why Did Scandinavians Volunteer for the Union Army during the Civil War
...ted States. For instance, the Civil War was one of the first wars in world history where rifles were used extensively. The telegraph was used to relay message ...rs of President Abraham Lincoln, and wanted to prove to their generational American neighbors that they too belonged in the United States. Along with the ideol

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What are the origins of Labor Day
...he choosing of the date in the United States. The complex, often political history, of Labor Day has also shifted in recent periods. ..., G. (2008) Sweat and blood: a history of U.S. labor unions. People’s history. Minneapolis, Twenty-First Century Books.</ref>

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What Is the Legacy of the 1993 Waco Tragedy
...edible by peacetime standards, the Waco tragedy sent shockwaves throughout American society that continue to be felt today. ...s on both the far-right and far-left became more prevalent in the American political discourse.

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The Treaty of Versailles: A Concise History by Michael S. Neiberg - Book Review
...versity Press, 2017) offers a detailed account of the players, events, and political environment that contributed to the drafting of arguably the most significa ...her, the terms of the Treaty of Versailles were concerned more with future political power struggles than with ending the First World War.

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Why did Indian Removal cause the Trail of Tears
Under this kind of pressure, Native American tribes—specifically the Creek, Cherokee, Chickasaw, and Choctaw—realize ...cumseh lead a revolt against the United States to push back the advance of American settlers. Tecumseh's revolted was defeated at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend

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How did cycling become popular
...cycles and how they developed, see: Herlihy, D. V. (2006). Bicycle: the history. New Haven, Conn.; London: Yale University Press. </ref> ...see: Longhurst, James. (, 2015). Bike Battles: A History of Sharing the American Road. University of Washington Press. </ref>

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How has our understanding of Democracy changed
.... In his famed funeral address, President Lincoln hailed his own state’s political system as a form of democracy, ‘government of the people, by the people, ...f democracy into fledgling being a further flurry of reforms in 462/1 gave political access to ever widening layers of the qualified Athenian people: that is, f

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Why was it difficult to punish the police for brutality during the Gilded Age
...brutality and routine harassment endured by minority citizens in too many American cities, from New York to Baltimore to Cleveland to Ferguson. A recent repor Over a century ago, in 1894, the first sensational political investigation of the modern era revealed in shocking and unprecedented deta

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What was the First Wave Feminist Movement
...18th century (Figure 1). She was heavily influenced by Rousseau and French political thinkers who began to advocate that societies, and individuals specifically ...on, see: Roediger, D. R., Blatt, M. H., & Lowell Conference on Industrial History (Eds.). (1999). The Meaning of slavery in the North. New York: Garla

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Why was the United States the first country to establish National Parks
...different, however, is both their intended use and their intended users. American national parks represent the culmination of several disparate ideas into on ...” and the protection of wild places is the distinguishing feature in the history of intensive management for the purposes of recreation and the relative hum

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What Started the Catholic Worker Movement during the Great Depression
...will also illuminate the relationship between Catholic Social Teaching and American social justice movements in the 20th century. ...commitments and socialist leanings in her writing as a journalist and her political activism.

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What were the historical events that led to the United States involvement in the Vietnam War
...spread of global communism. This overarching goal was the driving force of American diplomacy immediately after World War II until the fall of the Soviet Union ...ope like no other war. It was said to be the “war to end of all wars.” History teaches us this was not to be. When World War I reached an armistice in Nov

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Why did Andrew Jackson want to destroy the Bank of the United States
[[File: Andrew_Jackson_Portrait.jpg|250px|thumbnail|left|The Seventh American President, Andrew Jackson (1767-1845) (In Office 1829-1837)]]__NOTOC__ ...mocracy because these private interests would have too much influence over American monetary policy and the national economy if they were left unchecked. He be

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What is the history of vaccinations
...formal acceptance of a vaccine by authorized medical authorities in recent history. However, vaccinations have now been with us for more than 200 years, and e ...arned by others, and eventually, it spread variolation practice within the American colonies, where one of the earliest examples of its practice in the America

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Who was Theseus the great Athenian king and hero
...vilization. His cycle of myths offers unique insights into Athens and its history. ...united all the various settlements in Attica and merged them into a single political unit. His reign was still seen as something of a Golden Age when the Atheni

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What was the Second Wave Feminist Movement
...t/gender scholars describe today’s feminist theory, ideology, and social/political movement as the [[What was the Third Wave Feminist Movement?|''Third Wave'' ...598cf2d3940b8f On Gender, Labor, and Inequality, Working Class in American History]. Urbana, Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2016. Pg. 83.</ref>

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What Were the Aztec ‘Flower Wars’
...Attractors: Some Patterns of Disorder and Killing in Aztec Society.” Political and Legal Anthropology Review 16 (1993) p. 68</ref> Violence was endemi ...> Townsned, pgs. 210</ref> Since the 1970s, many scholars of Pre-Columbian history have challenged this theory based on reexaminations of the available primar

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How Was History Written in the Ancient Near East
...raphical tradition, the people of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia also wrote history. ...ears before Herodotus was born, but to the people of Egypt and Mesopotamia history served a much different purpose and therefore their historiographical tradi

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