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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 <i>The Cambridge Ancient History.</i> 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]</i> (Yale University Press, 2014), <i>[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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