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Media History Top Ten Booklist
...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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Gilded Age/Progressive Era History Top Ten Booklist
[[File:AmericanColossus.jpg|thumbnail|300px|left|American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900 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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What were the major United States slave revolts
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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19th Century American Intellectual History Top Ten Booklist
...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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How did Akhenaten Radically Change Egyptian Religion and Culture
...Donald B. “Akhenaten: New Theories and Old Facts.” Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 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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How did the Boxer Rebellion unite Imperial Powers and create Chinese Nationalism
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. Rescuing History from the Nation: Questioning Narratives of Modern China. Chicago: Unive

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What was the Albany Plan of Union of 1754
...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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Why did Westward Expansion Lead to the American Revolution
...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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What is the history of summer camps in the United States
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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What was George Washington's military experience before the American Revolution
...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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The Conspiracy of Free Trade: Interview with Marc-William Palen
...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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What are the Lasting Legacies of the Roman Empire on Modern Governments
...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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Causes of World War II Top Ten Booklist
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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Make It Rain: Interview with Kristine C. Harper
....html The University of Chicago Press] explores the bizarre and ridiculous history of state-funded attempts to control the weather. ...ddition to Make it Rain, Professor Harper also wrote the definitive history of meteorology [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0262517353/ref=as_li_t

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What were the Root Causes of the Spanish Civil War
...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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Origins of the French Revolution - Top Ten Booklist
...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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Why has the French Civil Code had a lasting influence on contemporary European law
...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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How did the Versailles Treaty lead to World War Two
...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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Did the Battle of Fredericksburg Change the Identities of Irish Soldiers
...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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What is the history of socialism in the United States
...itical history in the United States and has been, at times, influential in American politics. ...e United States because it was seen as a place that afforded the space and political opportunity to create new communities.

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What is the significance of the 1968 East L.A. Walkouts
...lavery had all had their violent and discriminatory effects on the African American/Black population, especially in the South. ...e important to them, as well as to the land they had lost from Spanish and American imperialism.

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What is the history of government shutdowns in the United States
This history of government shutdowns in the United States is relatively recent. In the 1 ...thousands of federal employees. Shutdowns now became a distinct feature of American politics. This was also significant as now appropriations began to increasi

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Why did the United States and Soviet Union Reach Detente During the Cold War
...l|300px|left|Debate between Nikita Khrushchev and Richard Nixon in 1959 in American model kitchen in Moscow.]] ...this time frame. Several major and surprising events, including the end of American involvement in the Vietnam War, a significant economic downturn in the West

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Did Midas Really Have the Golden Touch
...d into a familiar pop culture meme seen on cartoons and even adopted by an American automotive repair franchise, bringing it into the minds of millions of peop ...link, M. “The Native Kingdom of Anatolia.” In The Cambridge Ancient History. Edited by John Boardman, I.E.S. Edwards, N.GL. Hammond, E. Sollberger,

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How did the 'Malaise' Period of Struggle in the 1970s Occur in the United States
The 1970s saw a series of severe political and economic problems that convulsed much of the United States. Richard Nix ...to law enforcement was matched by government spying on anti-war and fringe political groups. Nixon also implemented a series of major government reforms includi

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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 ...was not officially recognized in the Confederate charter. In the North, a political game was afoot. Abolitionists, of course, fought adamantly to end the “pe

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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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Engineering Victory during the Civil War: Interview with Thomas F. Army, Jr.
...ducational opportunities for the middle and lower classes because those in political power feared that an educated yeomanry would be filled with radical ideas s ...rs win through logistics." Logistics is a fairly unsexy aspect of military history, but without good logistics armies cannot function. Are you trying to refoc

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What caused Bacon's Rebellion
...st stirring of revolutionary sentiment in America, which culminated in the American Revolution almost exactly one hundred years later. However, in the past few ...1676. It was during this session that he was mistakenly credited with the political reforms that came from this meeting.

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Why was Nikita Khrushchev deposed as the leader of the USSR
...olitical prisoners newly released, Khrushchev eased and freed the domestic political atmosphere. The continuing investigation into the abuses further revealed S ...s primary purpose in making the speech was to consolidate his position of political leadership by associating himself with reform measures while discrediting h

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Thomas Jefferson, the Founding Fathers and Christianity: Interview with Sam Haselby
...ginsAmericanReligiousNationalism.png|thumbnail|250px|left|''The Origins of American Religious Nationalism'']] ...that underpinned the recent Twitter debate, and his understanding of early American Christianity.

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What Were the Motives of the Irish in the American Civil War
...temperate, and barbarian.’”<ref>Jay P. Dolan, ''The Irish Americans: A History'' (New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2008), 62.</ref>Most Irishmen in the U.S. we ...The oratory skills for which he was renowned did not fail him as he fired American patriotism into Irish hearts and minds.

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American Revolution Top Ten Booklist
...The successful fight for independence has had a remarkable impact on world history over the past 200 years. The United States gradually transformed itself fro ...ive on the Revolution they also to see and think about aspects of American history that we never considered. Here's our list.

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Fate of the Revolution: Interview with Lorri Glover
...wly drafted federal Constitution which would determine the fate of the new American Republic. In order for the Constitution to go in effect, nine of the states ...82aa4a8591a17de Founders as Fathers: The Private Lives and Politics of the American Revolutionaries] (Yale University Press, 2014), [https://www.amazon.

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Origins of World War One - Top Ten Booklist
...in the declaration of war. The book is a work of diplomatic and political history and Tuchman outlines the series of errors that according to her led to the ...cording to the thesis in this book, Europe was led into war by a series of political and diplomatic blunders.

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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 ...t and the Wrong Ways to think about Rights and Wrongs,” in ''Readings in Political Philosophy: Theory and Applications,'' eds. Diane Jeske and Richard Fumerto

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Who Was Responsible for the Extreme Violence During the Reconstruction Era
...“unable to compromise.”<ref>Eric Foner, ''Give Me Liberty: An American History'' (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2009), 534.</ref> ...ims being free blacks and their white allies.<ref>Herbert Shapiro, “Afro-American Responses to Race Violence During Reconstruction”, ''Science and Society'

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How Did the Great Depression and the Vietnam War Help Shape the Hollywood Western?
...eds., ''Hollywood’s West: The American Frontier in Film, Television, and History'' (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press), 6. Historian Frederic Jackson ...h as Edward G. Robinson and James Cagney had won the hearts and dollars of American film-goers. The anti-hero was emerging as a popular figure in the United St

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Nature's Path: Interview with Susan E. Cayleff
...are just a few of the medical sects born during this era of United States history. At the very end of the 19th Century, a new medical system called naturopat ...entury. Cayleff's book is an intriguing addition to the medical and social history of the United States.

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British Criminal and Legal History Top Ten Booklist
...ions to the contrary, legal history can extraordinarily fascinating. Legal history explores the conflicts that arise from civilization. A deft legal historian If you're even remotely familiar with the field of British criminal and legal history, no doubt you've seen John Beattie’s [https://www.amazon.com/gp/produc

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Hollywood and Communism: How Did ''The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'' Support Marxist Ideology
...ston and his cast, we will discover that the message addresses significant political and economic issues. ''The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'' supports Marxist ...ach other) are destitute members of the labor class who no longer fit into American society. They struggle daily to exist without purpose or intention until th

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Civil War Battles Top Ten Booklist
...ere are more self-published books on the American Civil War than any other American historical topic. ...nly looks at the military aspects of the conflict, but also the social and political aspects that influenced and shaped the battle. This is the best book to sta

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Privateering during the War of 1812: Interview with Faye M. Kert
...h the United States and Great Britain that normalized piracy. Canadian and American ship owners and investors took advantage of it and funded privateering outf ...Hopkins University Press] "highlights the economic, strategic, social and political impact of privateering" and explains why the dangers of piracy ultimately c

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How did modern boxing emerge
...Regulation of Boxing: A History and Comparative Analysis of Policies among American States. Jefferson, N.C: McFarland, pg. 23.</ref> ...the rise of boxing in Europe, see: Boddy, Kasia. 2009. Boxing: A Cultural History. First paperback pr. London: Reaktion.</ref> In particular, swords became l

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Reserve Police Battalion 101: How Did Ordinary Citizens Become Killers Under the Third Reich
...faced with a moral dilemma. Executing civilians, regardless of ethnicity, political agenda, or religion, did not coincide with the humane composition of certai ...men of the 101st were in fact ordinary and common to us all. For example, American veterans of the Vietnam “conflict” still exhibit symptoms of PTSD more

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American Surveillance: Interview with Anthony Gregory
...08804&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=88f43e98245c09932f516c1eb8248040 American Surveillance] by Anthony Gregory]] ...://uwpress.wisc.edu/index.html University of Wisconsin Press] examines the history of surveillance in the United States and grapples with these problems. He e

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How Did Slavery Develop
...as been used as a form of punishment or to deal with prisoners of war. The history of this institution has, however, evolved over the millennia. ...he origins of slavery, see: Heuman, G. J. (Ed.). (2012). The Routledge History of Slavery (1. publ. in paperback). London: Routledge.</ref>. Initially

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Why are there so many Monuments to the Confederacy across the United States
.../</ref> While in recent years these monuments have become a new source of political conversation their very erection was a movement by Confederate women. ...ef>Mills, Monuments, 141.</ref> These actions epitomize the postwar political climate during which Confederate Veterans and their children dominated the

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Inventing the Pinkertons: Interview with Paul O'Hara
...t famous and infamous security guard and detective agency in United States history. Pinkerton originally created the agency to help railroad companies investi ...capitalists used the Pinkertons to enforce new structures of economic and political order." Professor Maury Klein had said that the book not only explains how

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How Historically Accurate is season 1 of Victoria
The show focuses on political rivalries that were occurring at the time in the late 1830s between the Tor ...nce Albert, see: James, R.R. (1984) Prince Albert: a biography. 1st American ed. New York, Knopf : Distributed by Random House.</ref>

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What Mistakes did the Allies make during Operation Overlord on D-Day
...rmor and killing squads sent east to execute and imprison Russian Jews and political prisoners. The Western front Stalin had been insisting upon was finally com The American Airborne transported its paratroopers via C-47 transport planes, which were

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How did Father's Day develop
...ditions and roots, although most modern celebrations are influenced by the American-style celebration. Nevertheless, Fatherhood has been celebrated for centuri ====Early History====

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What textiles were British women bringing with them to India
...teractions between the British and the native Indians changed to match the political situation. Where before the Europeans living in India had embraced Indian c ...hin the ruling core of the Raj. From there it descended through the Indian Political Service, Indian Medical Service, the Public Works Department, and the Europ

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Why Did Helen Keller Become a Socialist
...ame, however, not many know that Keller was also a prominent figure in the American socialist movement: a champion of the working class against industrial oppr ..., silence, and darkness that many marginalized groups were experiencing in American society during the 1910s, the period just after Keller graduated from Radcl

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What Were the Circumstances Surrounding the Battle of the Washita River
...After the four years of the “brothers’ war,” the cultural, economic, political, social, and regional fabric of the United States was drastically altered u ...d the western U.S. as hunters and settlers encroached on designated Native American lands. Many of the tribes of the Plains were nomadic and relied on the buff

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Scratching the Surface of “Everyday Forms of State Formation”
...(374) and, ultimately, whether hegemony is a “problematic, contested, political process of domination and struggle” (358) that is inherently fragile and ...ate with local experiences, values and practices in order to maintain both political equilibrium and a degree of popular consent? None of the articles claim to

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A Study of Subaltern Studies
...ot backward and ‘pre-political’, but instead active agent in their own political destiny, experiencing “dominance without hegemony” (Chakrabarty 21) and ...icle "Situating and Rethinking Subaltern Studies for Writing Working Class History" that point out the archival limitations mentioned above, as well as many o

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Jochen Hellbeck’s Revolution on My Mind, Writing a Diary under Stalin
...his thesis, while also providing a solid historical background of social, political, and cultural factors that shaped the lives and perspectives of the people *[[American Revolution Top Ten Booklist]]

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The Power of Women and Peru's Shining Path
...ian women through their inclusion in the Revolution, nor neutralized their political agency through their co-optation into a patriarchal organization, but rathe Several scholars have studied the political, economic, and social context of the rise of the Shining Path, and a brief

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Lester Langley’s The Americas in the Age of Revolution, 1750-1850
..., and each remains a foundational historical reference in the national and political identity of the nations that emerged. Langley’s focus is not on the orig ...s that relied on the very popular mobilization that threatened the social, political and economic dominance of the Creole leadership.(2)

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Southwest to Whom - An Analysis of the Historiography of the American West
...s designation implies its conquest by the United States in 1848, as if the American nation’s sovereignty over the region could change the spatial position of ...nged over the last few decades. The American Southwest was once defined by American historians as part of the rewards of Manifest Destiny, and its incorporatio

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Was Joel Poinsett an Agent of Empire and a Patron of Science
...rder enrich the interpretation of this era, the career contributions of an American traveler, diplomat, and politician, Joel Poinsett, need to be explored. ...ions for human variation became integral to debates over race, slavery and American Exceptionalism, Poinsett published an article defining innate differences b

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How Was Marriage in Ancient Egypt Different than the Modern Concept
...ll. “Brother-Sister and Father-Daughter Marriage in Ancient Egypt.” American Sociological Review. 27 (1962) p. 604</ref> [[category:Ancient Egyptian History]][[Category:Wikis]][[Category:History of Sex]]

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Cult of the Virgin Mary by Michael Carroll
...ll investigates the aspects of Marian devotion that make it exceptional in history, and claims that this process will lead to a more complete understanding of ...y Swanson connected Marian devotion to agricultural societies with certain political systems, while the structuralist approach of Edmund Leach revealed links be

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2017 Organization of American Historians Book Awards
...ified historians and they highlight some of the best new books in American history for 2017. ...ward is given to an author for their first scholarly book on United States history.

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2016 Organization of American Historians Book Awards
...alified historians and who identify some of the best new books in American history for 2016. ...ward is given to an author for their first scholarly book on United States history.

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2015 Organization of American Historians Book Awards
...jpg|thumbnail|250px|left|A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life by Allyson Hobbs]] ...alified historians and who identify some of the best new books in American history for 2016.

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2016 American Historical Association Book Awards
...gly, the AHA awards a massive number of prizes to historians. In 2016, the American Historical Association (AHA) awarded 24 book prizes. While the list is long, it is a great place to find great new history books on a lot of different topics. The breadth of subject of the books on

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2014 Organization of American Historians Book Awards
...alified historians and who identify some of the best new books in American history for 2016. ...ward is given to an author for their first scholarly book on United States history.

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How Did Modern Monetary Theory Develop
...But gold as the standard backing a national currency officially ended when American President Richard Nixon terminated the Bretton Woods financial regime in 19 ...ne. “Money, Moral Authority, and the Politics of Creditworthiness.” American Sociological Review 76 (2011) p. 439</ref> Outside of economist circles

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Great Gifts for History Lovers 2017
...r spouse. Hopefully, we can help. This is our 2017 list of great gifts for history lovers. ...st history lovers should enjoy. Here are some releases that are worth your history lovers attention. In addition to the standard paper format, some of these b

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What Were the Financial Benefits of the Crusades
...“those who sign the cross.” <ref> Madden, Thomas F. The New Concise History of the Crusades. Updated Edition. (New York: Roman and Littlefield, 200 ...nd Jihads: A Long-Run Perspective.” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 53 (2003) p. 117</ref>

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Why was James Willard Hurst important for legal history
...al sciences. Hurst worked hard throughout his career to reform both legal history and education. ...o believe that any history of American laws would also have to be a social history of the United States.<ref>Ernst, p. 9.</ref>

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Practical Pursuits by Ellen Gardner Nakamura
...Nakamura instead has focused on his medical scholarship and put aside his political writing. ...would be his students, patrons and collaborators on future works. Unlike American or European physicians, the Japanese doctors were not limited by any codes

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Why Did the Ancient Egyptians Mummify Animals
...vered that relates the precise details of the art, modern archaeology, art history, and the writings of the fifth century BC Greek historian, Herodotus, have ...t of mummification can be traced back to the earliest periods of pharaonic history and was done so that the deceased’s ka, or spirit, could have a ve

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The Abraham Lincoln Brigade: the Historiography of the American soldiers in the Spanish American War
...y tell the story of these men and women, but access to new archives of the American soldiers and Soviet archives have provided a much fuller picture of the sto ...544037f6853d805f0f8cea67fedee The Odyssey of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade: American in the Spanish Civil War], Stanford University Press, Stanford, Califor

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How did the defeat of the Spanish Armada (1588) change England
...had been successful, it could have changed the course of English and world history. The defeat of the Armada had profound consequences for England. The first ...0&linkId=94311aba3c2131eec83402c57e9f3338 The Oxford Companion to Military History] (Oxford, Oxford University Press. 2001), p. 214</ref> The English Quee

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When did interracial marriage become legal in the United States
[[File:Philosophic Cock.jpg|thumbnail|left|Political Cartoon of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemmings]] ...cegenation law violated their freedom of religion. Andrea Perez, a Mexican American woman, and Sylvester Davis, a black man, were both Catholics and wanted to

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Is Oliver Stone's movie 'Nixon' historically accurate
...hat led to Nixon’s downfall, his role in the Vietnam War and in American political life in the 1960s and early 1970s. The motion picture had an all-star cast ...what occurred during the most controversial Presidency in modern American History?

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What are the Origins of the Abolitionist Movement
...has been remembered as one of the great humanitarian initiatives in modern history. Occurring as it did in a world that was rent by the slaveholding republics ...st abolitionist organizations in history. The second factor has to do with political economy. Slaveholding republics like the United States and slaveholding emp

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Why did African Americans join the British Army during the American Revolution
...f Liberation Historiography: African American Writers and the Challenge of History, 1794-1861]'' (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2004), ...portantly their descendants, remained to incur the wrath of the victorious American rebels.

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The Federalist Papers - Number 10
...ve their most specious declamations. The valuable improvements made by the American constitutions on the popular models, both ancient and modern, cannot certai .... But it could not be less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilati

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What is the Long Term Impact of the War of the Spanish Succession on Europe
...English view and conduct of grand strategy, 1702-1712. Modern European history. New York, Garland Pub.</ref> ...hierarchy: Franco-British diplomacy after the Peace of Utrecht. Legal history library volume 17. Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston, Brill Nijhoff.</ref>

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How historically accurate is the movie 'Tora, Tora, Tora'
...0 US service personnel were killed. The attack on Pearl Harbor changed the history of the world. ...s to be as historically accurate as possible. The film was directed by the American director Richard Fleischer and the Japanese duo of Toshio Masuda and Kanji

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How did the Enlightenment Philosophers View Race
[[File:Hegel.jpg|left|thumbnail|200px|Hegel's Lectures on the Philosophy of History (1837)]]__NOTOC__ ...created the space for self-government, for democracy. In this reading, the American Revolution, rather than the French, was Enlightenment’s crowning achievem

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How Did the Battle of Culloden Change British and American History
...lorious Revolution, see: </ref> Massie, A. (2013) The Royal Stuarts: A History of the Family that Shaped Britain. New York, St. Martin’s Griffin. ...had ties to the battle at Culloden did ultimately become supporters of the American Revolution, and even participated in the battles, but this was not universa

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Was the Constitution Pro-Slavery
...nce, the Constitution continues to be a privileged site of explorations of American exceptionalism. Much like the Declaration, however, the document contains a ...y, given the ways in which resistance to slavery was inscribed in both the American Revolution and the other key document, the Declaration of Independence. His

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How historically accurate is the movie Lincoln (2012)
...was making a movie based on his life during a critical moment in American history, the project was great excitement and interest. In 2012 Lincoln was release ...r. The movie focuses on Lincoln's efforts to ensure the freedom of African-American slaves, which had been promised under the Emancipation Proclamation (1863).

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What Are the Origins of Egyptology
...de but are not limited to some of the following: archaeology, art history, history/chronology, and philology. Essentially, Egyptology is a modern study that c ...nd decipherment of the Rosetta Stone represented a watershed moment in the history of Egyptology, the march toward understanding the pharaohs began hundreds o

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How Did Thomas Francis Meagher Really Die
...penchant for alcohol. The possibility of this strong, Catholic man with a history of perseverance committing suicide is less likely but is not without merit ...a bold escape in February 1852 and was rescued while floating at sea by an American whaler ship. He was transported to New Haven, Connecticut and from there mi

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What was the Achaemenid Persian Empire
...abylonians inherited much of the Assyrians’ empire and were the dominant political force in the region until they were replaced in the sixth century BC by the ...ake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns, 2002), pgs. 17-18</ref> For most of their early history, the Persians played little role in the machinations of geo-politics in the

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How Did Enlightenment Ideas Influence Modern Economics
...neteenth centuries. Although the Enlightenment is known today more for the political ideas that came from it, there were also major changes in economic theories Beginning in the Early Modern Period of world history, roughly during the early sixteenth century, corresponding with the Age of

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Working Toward Whiteness by David Roediger - Book Review
...ing white required them to sacrifice their own heritage and take part in a political alliance which focused on the continued exclusion of nonwhites, most notabl ...an racial views were maddeningly inconsistent and regional. By the 1920s, American nativism and organized racism were strengthened by this wave of immigration

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How Did Art Propagate Slavery in 19th Century America
...often violent debates as to the merits of “owning” a human being. The political, social, and economic angles were argued with each side offering its own sp ...Slavery,” (1857), quoted in Eric Foner, ''Give Me Liberty!: An American History'', vol. 1, 2nd ed. (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2009), 390.</ref>He be

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Gender in Early America Top Ten Booklist
...lens through which we can view some of the formative events in our shared history. These books are listed in no particular order and explore topics from the ...ica with clarity. Expressing that the history of witchcraft ''is'' women's history, and our analysis of can shift when we explore for an explicitly gendered l

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What Gods Did Darius "the Great" Worship
...ilitary endeavors that helped make the Achaemenid Empire the most powerful political entity of the period. He initiated several internal reforms that made the e ...y Babylonia in 539 BC. <ref> Briant, Pierre. From Cyrus to Alexander: A History of the Persian Empire. Translated by Peter T. Daniels. (Winona Lake, In

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How did Spain's defeat in the Spanish-American War (1898) change the country
...t became an Imperial power and expanded overseas for the first time in its history. The Spanish who were defeated in the war experienced even greater changes. ...ianas, and the Philippines <ref>Hendrickson, Kenneth E., Jr, The Spanish–American War (Greenwood, Greenwood Publishing, 2003), p. 67</ref>.

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Are there Ancient Roots to Socialism
...cieties were often small, often hunter-gatherer groups such as some Native American societies or those in Africa and South America. Examples of agriculturally- ...and Plato in regards to equality and class, see: Barker, E. (1956) The political thought of Plato and Aristotle. New York, NY, Dover Publ.</ref>

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Ten Booklist on Presidential Leadership
...13) 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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