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  ====A Great Resource for History Teachers==== * [[51 Great Online Resources for History Teachers]]
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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|<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 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.” <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 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. <i>Rescuing History from the Nation: Questioning Narratives of Modern China</i>. 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 <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_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 <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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• 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 <i>[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]</i> 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). <i>The Routledge History of Slavery</i> (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, <i>Monuments</i>, 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) <i>Prince Albert: a biography.</i> 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.” <i>American Sociological Review.</i> 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|<i>A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life</i> 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.” <i>American Sociological Review</i> 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. <i>The New Concise History of the Crusades.</i> Updated Edition. (New York: Roman and Littlefield, 200 ...nd Jihads: A Long-Run Perspective.” <i>Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science</i> 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 <i>ka</i>, 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]</i>, 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]</i> (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.</i> Modern European history. New York, Garland Pub.</ref> ...hierarchy: Franco-British diplomacy after the Peace of Utrecht.</i> 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) <i>The Royal Stuarts: A History of the Family that Shaped Britain</i>. 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. <i>From Cyrus to Alexander: A History of the Persian Empire.</i> 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) <i>The political thought of Plato and Aristotle</i>. New York, NY, Dover Publ.</ref>
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• Ten Booklist on Presidential Leadership
  ...13) <i>The presidential leadership dilemma: between the Constitution and a political party </i>. 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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• Presidential Leadership Top Ten Booklist
  ...a164ef The Presidential Leadership Dilemma: Between the Constitution and a Political Party] </i>. 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) <i>Sweat and blood: a history of U.S. labor unions. People’s history</i>. 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).<i> Bicycle: the history</i>. New Haven, Conn.; London: Yale University Press. </ref> ...see: Longhurst, James. (, 2015). <i>Bike Battles: A History of Sharing the American Road.</i> 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). <i>The Meaning of slavery in the North</i>. 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]</i>. 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.” <i>Political and Legal Anthropology Review</i> 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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• Why Did the United States Take Part in the Classical Gold Standard
  ...ed as a currency throughout the medieval and early modern periods of world history until it was finally combined with paper currency in the eighteenth century ...ickly becoming a world power, combined with powerful pro-gold economic and political interests, ensured that the United States not only joined the classical gol
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• Why did the United States pass and then repeal the constitutional amendment prohibiting alcohol
  Through the revolution, major political and social leaders drank alcohol and extolled its virtues as part of the na ...the increasingly common view of inebriation as sinful began to change the American relationship with alcohol.
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• What Did Black Politicians Accomplish during the Reconstruction Era
  ...me a critical period to study because it helps us understand the nature of political representation and the nature of democracy in moments of crisis. Coming aft ...voting rights and the potential service of Black politicians. Significant political leadership on both the federal and state levels emanated from the Black com
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• When did political parties emerge
  ...o transition into a country led by a prime minister. In the United States, political parties were not envisioned when the Constitution was developed, but they s ====Origins of Political Parties====
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• What was the impact of Commodus on Rome
  ...192 AD) was one of the most despicable rulers in Rome’s long and violent history. He has been portrayed in many popular movies and tv series. Joaquin Phoen ...equences for Rome.<ref> Gilliam, J. F. "The Plague under Marcus Aurelius." American Journal of Philology 82.3 (July 1961), pp. 225–251 </ref> However, Commo
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• Top Ten History of Voting Rights Booklist
  ...egalhistoryblog.blogspot.com/ Legal History Blog] of the best books on the history of election law and voting rights. Over the last few years, this booklist h ...0&linkId=648d7b6d22fcf31776a45993480a9b84 The Right To Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States] (Basic Books, 2000)
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• Great Gifts for History Lovers 2018
  ...friends and family can be tough, but if your friend or family member loves history these suggestions may be helpful. ...eccf2096dd4cf86ddbb7879b2b7f0e1 Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of American]</i>]]
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• Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight - Book Review
  ...ociated with suburbanization but also “prefigured the rightward shift of American politics during the postwar period.” (228) ...s whites employed several methods of "whitewashing" the city's culture and history. These methods included the use of cultural productions such as plays and
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• The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815 - Book Review
  ...for the middle ground and for Native American villages, now the preeminent political unit in the pays d'en haut, as Americans now enter the equation alongside t ...roups? In one sense, the middle ground exists in ethnically diverse Native American refugee camps before the French even show up.
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• Revolutionary Deists: Early America's Rational Infidels - Book Review
  ...leading role in America life and influenced some of the leading figures in American life at this time and left a lasting impression on the young nation. ...al, religious and social change as reason was to transform every aspect of American life.<ref> Walters, p. 3</ref> Yet as Walters makes clear this was a moveme
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• How did smallpox and tuberculous force the Medial Corps Office of Indian Affairs to reform
  ...y.”<ref>Paul Stuart, <i>The Indian Office: Growth and Development of an American Institution, 1865 – 1900</i> (UMI Research Press, 1978), 5.</ref> The OIA ...ians, doctors were still fairly infrequent on Indian agencies in its early history. Agencies, especially early in the OIA’s existence, depended on missiona
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• Did the Biblical Exodus Actually Happen
  ...epresents one of the most fundamental aspects of Jewish religion and early history and is also recognized as an important event by Christians and Muslims. Bey ...on: Routledge, 2010), p. 417</ref> The Old Testament heavily documents the history of the Hebrews’ sojourn in and exodus from Egypt, which although historic
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• How Historically Accurate is the movie Gangs of New York
  ...engeance drama. It is set in the American metropolis before and during the American Civil War. The movie's focus is on the gangs that once controlled the Five- It follows the leader of a criminal gang tied to the political establishment in New York City. ‘Bill the Butcher,’ played by the Anglo
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• Where Was the Viking Colony of Vinland
  ...factors contributed to the raids that so epitomized the period. The loose political structure in Scandinavia allowed wealthy warlords to organize warbands to c The Vikings are the first recorded Europeans to have discovered the North American continent, although it was a long process. Viking explorers left Norway in
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• How accurate is the movie J. Edgar
  ...as a threat to his position as a communist. He often stated that senators, political opponents, judges, civil liberties advocates, and journalists were communis ...deologies. The movie also downplays the insidious influence that he had on American public life. In general, when it comes to accuracy, the 2011 motion picture
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• Why was the Embargo Act of 1807 a failure for President Thomas Jefferson
  ...rfare was noble but ultimately failed to accomplish his goal. Not only did American traders flout the blockade by smuggling goods in and out of the United Stat ==Why did France and Britain interfere with American trading ships at sea?==
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• What is the history of contested presidential elections in the United States
  ...president himself. Contested presidential elections have been a part of US history, and in the 19th century, they were more common. In many cases, it has ofte ...hn Adams and John Quincy Adams</i>, Wiley-Blackwell companions to American history. Wiley-Blackwell, A John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Publication, Malden, MA.</ref>
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• How did World War II Lead to the Cold War
  ...irlift. The effort led by the U.S. and U.K. was the largest such effort in history until that point, delivering over 200,000 flights to feed the civilians of ...ed in the conflict in 1939. The 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor led to massive American involvement in both the Atlantic and Pacific Wars. Propping up the Western
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• This Republic of Suffering - Book Review
  ...fering.jpeg|thumbnail|left|250px|This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War By Drew Gilpin Faust]] ...eath in the lives of Americans living during the deadliest war in American history, the Civil War.
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• The American Political Tradition - Book Review
  ...:The_American_Political_Tradition.jpg|thumbnail|left|300px|<i>The American Political Tradition and the Men who Made It</i> by Richard Hofstadter]] ...he book’s twelve chapters offer largely psychological insight into major political figures such as the Founding Fathers and the pro-slavery aristocrat John Ca
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• How historically accurate is the movie The King's Speech
  ...time is captured very well by the director. At this critical point in its history, the British Royal Family faced its crisis. ...reign was both brief and controversial. Edward wanted to marry a divorced American, Wallis Simpson. Marrying a divorced was unacceptable to many in Britain at
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• Understanding Reconstruction - A Historiography
  ...the best Dunning studies did, at least, attempt to synthesize the social, political, and economic aspects of the period.” In contrast, the Progressive histor ...Bois’s indictment served as a precursor for the explosion of revisionist history of the 1960s, which would latch onto the argument of Du Bois and refocus th
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• The Radicalism of the American Revolution - Book Review
  ...=dailyh0c-20&linkId=10920c74a9a4f09e0b70b9a6ecbb7bf8 The Radicalism of the American Revolution] by Gordon S. Wood]] ...n the emphasis on liberty and freedom present in British society. Even the American’s eventual repudiation of the English monarchy in some ways serves as an
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• Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin and the Great Depression - Book Review
  ...ions of government, producing reform rather than revolution? Where was the American Hitler or Mussolini? ...imitations of political dissent in the United States and the resilience of American institutions during a time of national disaster. Brinkley’s work goes a l
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• Political Parties and American Political Development from the Age of Jackson to the Age of Lincoln - Book Review
  ...-20&linkId=345a803734a9c2131108418b1575a1c3 Political Parties and American Political Development from the Age of Jackson to the Age of Lincoln]</i> by Michael F ...old, and one new, essays that challenge this innovative form of political history that he once helped create.
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• Urban Masses and Moral Order in America: 1820-1920 - Book Review
  ...on during the 1970s only amplified such emotions. However, the debate over American cities in recent decades often includes government as a central figure, unl ...e a rearguard action by elites to exert social control where they had lost political power, Boyer cautions that such views ignore the “nuances” of the movem
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• Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England - Book Review
  ...not draw the wrong conclusions from his work. Though European and Native American ideas about property and land use differed, neither proved “purer” rath ...virgin lands” but rather an environment that had been altered by Native American practices. When these practices collapse in the face of colonial settlemen
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• Why was South Vietnam's President Ngo Dinh Diem assassinated in 1963
  ...further expansion of American financial and military aid to South Vietnam. American military presence, though not an active combatant, grew to over 3000 milita ...n traveled to Vietnam as a show of support. He was also sent to assess the political situation. Johnson famously called Diem “our Winston Churchill in Asia”
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• The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History - Book Review
  ...story.jpg|left|250px|thumbnail|<i>The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History - Book Review</i> ed. Gary W. Gallagher and Alan T. Nolan]]__NOTOC__ ...ructed by numerous historians in "The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History." Edited by Gary Gallagher and the late Alan Nolan, this collection of ess
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• Chants Democratic and A City in the Republic - Book Reviews
  ...3472868c679af1f406c16 Chants Democratic: New York City and the Rise of the American Working Class: 1788-1850]</i> by Sean Wilentz]] ...ocratic]'' each explore the creation of working-class consciousness in the political life of antebellum New York. However, though the works overlap and draw sim
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• How the Irish Became White - Book Review
  ...ion of an Irish parliament. He was also a staunch abolitionist. Naturally, American abolitionists thought an appeal from him to his countrymen in the United St ...spite their insistence that they were entirely American citizens, nativist political forces still saw the Irish presence in America as a problem. Capitalizing o
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• A Consumers’ Republic - Book Review
  ...s’ embrace of consumerism as the basis for liberal policy in the face of political reversals and persistent depression in the late 1930s. If the government ca ...ared shortly after the war, along with the notion that “thrift is now un-American.”
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• A War of Frontier and Empire: The Philippine-American War, 1899-1902 - Book Review
  ...7c7c498fb24e696d01decee714593 A War of Frontier and Empire: The Philippine-American War, 1899-1902]</i> by David Silbey]]__NOTOC__ ...uing that for the U.S., “It was a war that brought together the dominant American experience….the chaotic and defining expansion westward, with a new…and
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• North of Slavery: The Negro in the Free States: 1790 – 1860 - Book Review
  ...ad their antecedents in the antebellum North.” Northern whites and their political representatives actively discriminated against African-Americans because th ...tain a careful distinction between granting Negroes legal protection. .and political and social equality.” Patterns of discrimination were not uniform among t
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• Race Relations in the Urban South: 1865-1890 - Book Review
  ...rt for blacks. Burgeoning black communities looked for whatever social and political gains they could find, and many viewed separation as an improvement over ex ...Codes, many of which did not specifically mention race, regulated African-American life in the South in ways that ranged from prohibiting interracial marriage
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• Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in a Frontier Exchange Economy: The Lower Mississippi Valley Before 1783 - Book Review
  ...rates that the idea of the Old South of both postwar and colonial southern history should not obscure historians views of the Deep South before Americans colo ...culture, the Indians became marginalized, pressed for space, diminished in political leverage and unable to keep up production of skins and other goods for the
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• Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America - Book Review
  ...ssor of Asian American Studies at Columbia University traced the intricate history of immigration legislation and construction of identities through immigrati ...d fraudulent certificates that identified them as merchants, claimed to be American citizens by native birth, or as the Chinese born sons of U.S. citizens, kno
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• How did the United States and USSR react to the Francis Gary Powers U2 incident
  On May 1, 1960, the pilot of an American U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying through Soviet airspace. The fallo ...of it were recovered and placed on public display in Moscow as evidence of American deceit.
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• Top Ten Booklist on Joseph Stalin
  Joseph Stalin was one of bloodiest dictators in world history and one of the most significant people of the 20th Century. He was the abso ...any that is the signal event of modern world history. This book covers the history of the world during the build-up to its most fateful hour, from the vantage
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• How Did the Nullification Crisis of 1832-1833 Impact American History
  [[File: Andrew_Jackson_Portrait.jpg|250px|thumbnail|left|The Seventh American President, Andrew Jackson (1767-1845) (In Office 1829-1837)]]__NOTOC__ ...ful, but defined his presidency nonetheless and set the course of American history for the following few decades. Most people know about President Jackson’s
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• How have the relations between the United States of America and Russia changed since 1776
  ...ly recognize the United States during the war, refusing the request of the American ambassador Francis Dana sent to talk to Catherine to supporting the new Uni ...917, during the Russian Revolution, the leaders of the rebellion cited the American Revolution as an inspiration for their revolt.
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• What is the history of presidential transitions in the United States
  ...in a few cases, some of the transitions were awkward or even hostile. The history of transitions has also sometimes set precedent followed to this day. ==Early History==
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• 51 Great Online Resources for History Teachers
  We are currently building this page to help history and social studies teachers, instructors and professors find useful online * [[United States History Study Guide|United States History]]
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• What is the history of impeachment in the United States
  ...eachment and convictions are often compared to trials, they are inherently political. Politics can play an as large or even greater role than the evidence that ...lleged crime has been committed by an official, often during their tenure. History also shows that it is possible to remove an official for a crime committed
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• How did higher education develop in the United States
  ...l|left|250px|Figure 1. Harvard was established as the first college in the American Colonies. ]]__NOTOC__ ...of universities in the United States is relatively recent, with the early history of higher education often dominated by a few universities that were very pa
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• What is the History of US Presidential Scandals
  ...hard to believe even, yet the American public has often been forgiving, as history shows. ...n of early American political culture</i>. In Political Development of the American Nation. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press.</ref>
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• What is the early history of the United States Supreme Court
  ...dford</i> in 1857 case, under Chief Justice Robert Taney, established that American citizenship was not to be given to black people, regardless if they were fr ...e: Fehrenbacher, D. E. (2001). <i>The Dred Scott Case: its significance in American law and politics</i>. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Pr. </ref>
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• Why was George Washington's Farewell Address in 1796 Significant
  ...egree a slave.” Washington’s remarks have served as an inspiration for American isolationism, and his advice against joining a permanent alliance was heede ...nsolation to believe that, while choice and prudence invite me to quit the political scene, patriotism does not forbid it.
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• Why did the Continental Congress adopt the Articles of Confederation
  ...ral institution. As the American Revolution gained momentum, however, many political leaders saw the advantages of a centralized government that could coordinat {{#dpl:category=Colonial American History|ordermethod=firstedit|order=descending|count=15}}
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• How did the Treaty of Paris of 1783 end the American Revolution
  ...njamin_West_1783.jpg | thumbnail|left|300px|Unfinished sketch with oil of American Delegates done by Benjamin West. The British delegates refused to sit for t
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• Why did the Continental Congress draft and sign the Declaration of Independence
  ...r seeking independence. By declaring themselves an independent nation, the American colonists were able to confirm an official alliance with the Government of ...inate a colonial boycott of British goods. When fighting broke out between American colonists and British forces in Massachusetts, the Continental Congress wor
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• What was the purpose of the Committee of Secret Correspondence during the American Revolution
  ...e to communicate with sympathetic Britons and other Europeans early in the American Revolution. The committee coordinated diplomatic functions for the Continen ...ffairs in April 1777 but retained its intelligence functions. As the first American government agency for both foreign intelligence and diplomatic representati
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• Why did the United States buy the Gadsden Purchase in 1854
  ...ailroad and attempted to resolve conflicts that lingered after the Mexican-American War. While the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo formally ended the Mexican-American War in February 1848, tensions between the Governments of Mexico and the Un
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• What caused the French and Indian War
  ...available land and control over the new trading opportunities in the North American colonies. ...more heated, fighting broke out between the French and the British in the American colonies.
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• Why did France side with the American Colonies during the American Revolution
  ...hn Burgoyne at Saratoga, on October 17, 1777 convinced France to side with American Colonies against Britain]] During the American Revolution, the American colonies faced the significant challenge of conducting international diplom
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• The Federalist Papers - Number 2
  ..., it certainly would not be wise in the people at large to adopt these new political tenets without being fully convinced that they are founded in truth and sou ...to preserve and perpetuate it. They formed it almost as soon as they had a political existence; nay, at a time when their habitations were in flames, when many
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• Top Ten Books on the History of Reconstruction
  ...ction in America 1860–1880</i> has justly been called a classic. Du Bois history undermined the previous historical works on Reconconstruction written by hi ...pated slaves' quest for economic autonomy and equal citizenship shaped the political agenda of Reconstruction; the remodeling of Southern society and the place
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• Why did the United States fail to support the Haitian Revolution of 1801 against France
  ...y in the Americas after the United States became independent in 1783. U.S. political leaders, many of them slaveowners, reacted to the emergence of Haiti as a s ...whelming majority of the population. Prior to and after U.S. independence, American merchants enjoyed a healthy trade with St. Domingue.
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• How did the Citizen Genet Affair derail relations between the United States and France
  The events surrounding the French Revolution dominated American foreign policy in the 1790s. Following the overthrow of the monarchy in 179 ...ty which allowed attacks on British merchant shipping using ships based in American ports. Genêt’s attempt to carry out his instructions would bring him int
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• How did the United States react to the French Revolution
  ....S. politics, as pro- and anti- Revolutionary factions sought to influence American domestic and foreign policy. ...c and monarchical Britain. However, the revolutionary changes also brought political instability, violence, and calls for radical social change in France that f
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• How did the XYZ Affair lead to the Quasi-War between France and the United States
  ...1796 French leaders decided to issue an order allowing for the seizure of American merchant ships, carefully timed to catch as many as possible by surprise. ...had been involved in funneling French aid to the United States during the American Revolution.
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• How did the Civil Rights Movement Begin
  ...tory. It is one subject that is almost universally encountered in American history classrooms. While the general narrative of protest leading to massive chang As stated in [[What is the History of Civil Rights Legislation in the United States?]], much of what constitut
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• Why did the Philippine American War of 1899-1902 start
  ...99UStroops.jpg|thumbnail|left|250px|US Troops dug in during the Philippine-American War in 1899]] ...ays before the U.S. Senate ratified the treaty, fighting broke out between American forces and Filipino nationalists led by Emilio Aguinaldo who sought indepen
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• The Federalist Papers - Number 11
  ...with painful solicitude. They foresee the dangers that may threaten their American dominions from the neighborhood of States, which have all the dispositions, ...ing with the pre-possessions of a great part of the nation in favor of the American trade, and with the importunities of the West India islands, would produce
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• The Federalist Papers - Number 14
  ...s, whose writings have had a great share in forming the modern standard of political opinions. Being subjects either of an absolute or limited monarchy, they ha ...power in government, by the simple agency of which the will of the largest political body may be concentred, and its force directed to any object which the publ
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• The Federalist Papers - Number 16
  ...st deserved, and have most liberally received, the applauding suffrages of political writers. {{#dpl:category=Colonial American History|ordermethod=firstedit|order=descending|count=7}}
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• The Federalist Papers - Number 17
  {{#dpl:category=Colonial American History|ordermethod=firstedit|order=descending|count=6}} ...case at the disposal of individuals, in the other case at the disposal of political bodies.
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• The Federalist Papers - Number 18
  ...on, it bore a very instructive analogy to the present Confederation of the American States. ...ess, were administered by deputies appointed wholly by the cities in their political capacities; and exercised over them in the same capacities. Hence the weakn
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• The Federalist Papers - Number 19
  The history of Germany is a history of wars between the emperor and the princes and states; of wars among the p {{#dpl:category=Colonial American History|ordermethod=firstedit|order=descending|count=6}}
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• Why did the United States go to war against the Barbary States in 1815
  ...Muhammad of Algiers declared war on the United States and captured several American ships. The financially troubled Confederation Government of the United Stat ...es agreed to pay tribute to these states. The treaty with Algiers freed 83 American sailors.
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• Why did the war between Britain and Napoleon's France led to the War of 1812?
  ...the army he sent met with defeat. Napoleon had also re-obtained the North American province of Louisiana from Spain in 1800. However, the loss of Haiti made L ...mes Monroe sought to negotiate a treaty that would halt the impressment of American sailors, but when the signed treaty came back without any British concessio
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• The Federalist Papers - Number 20
  In his political capacity he has authority to settle disputes between the provinces, when ot {{#dpl:category=Colonial American History|ordermethod=firstedit|order=descending|count=6}}
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• The Federalist Papers - Number 21
  ...ion of a similar kind, and exhibits a new and unexampled phenomenon in the political world. ...those nations. If the like parallel were to be run between several of the American States, it would furnish a like result. Let Virginia be contrasted with Nor
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• The Federalist Papers - Number 22
  ...would be prudent to persist in the plan until it should appear whether the American government was likely or not to acquire greater consistency.<ref>This, as n ...e smaller. To acquiesce in such a privation of their due importance in the political scale, would be not merely to be insensible to the love of power, but even
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• The Federalist Papers - Number 23
  ...er nations and between the States; the superintendence of our intercourse, political and commercial, with foreign countries. {{#dpl:category=Colonial American History|ordermethod=firstedit|order=descending|count=6}}
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• The Federalist Papers - Number 24
  ...rite point, has occasioned the discontent which appears to influence these political champions. {{#dpl:category=Colonial American History|ordermethod=firstedit|order=descending|count=7}}
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• The Federalist Papers - Number 25
  ...ut this would be, in reality, an inversion of the primary principle of our political association, as it would in practice transfer the care of the common defens ...economy, not less than of stability and vigor, confirm this position. The American militia, in the course of the late war, have, by their valor on numerous oc
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• The Federalist Papers - Number 26
  ...the spirit of party, in different degrees, must be expected to infect all political bodies, there will be, no doubt, persons in the national legislature willin {{#dpl:category=Colonial American History|ordermethod=firstedit|order=descending|count=6}}
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• The Federalist Papers - Number 27
  ...citizens are accustomed to meet with it in the common occurrences of their political life, the more it is familiarized to their sight and to their feelings, the {{#dpl:category=Colonial American History|ordermethod=firstedit|order=descending|count=6}}
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• The Federalist Papers - Number 28
  ...ciple of republican government), has no place but in the reveries of those political doctors whose sagacity disdains the admonitions of experimental instruction It may safely be received as an axiom in our political system, that the State governments will, in all possible contingencies, aff
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• The Federalist Papers - Number 29
  ...artifice to instil prejudices at any price; or as the serious offspring of political fanaticism. Where in the name of common-sense, are our fears to end if we m {{#dpl:category=Colonial American History|ordermethod=firstedit|order=descending|count=6}}
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• The Federalist Papers - Number 33
  ...aim of these papers to inculcate, that the danger which most threatens our political welfare is that the State governments will finally sap the foundations of t ...faith of the parties, and not a goverment, which is only another word for POLITICAL POWER AND SUPREMACY. But it will not follow from this doctrine that acts of
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• The Federalist Papers - Number 34
  ...gislative authority, in the last resort, resided for ages in two different political bodies not as branches of the same legislature, but as distinct and indepen ...naval wars would involve contingencies that must baffle all the efforts of political arithmetic.
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• The Federalist Papers - Number 35
  {{#dpl:category=Colonial American History|ordermethod=firstedit|order=descending|count=6}} Nothing remains but the landed interest; and this, in a political view, and particularly in relation to taxes, I take to be perfectly united,
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• How did the Napoleonic Wars in Europe cause the War of 1812
  ...the army he sent met with defeat. Napoleon had also re-obtained the North American province of Louisiana from Spain in 1800. However, the loss of Haiti made L ...mes Monroe sought to negotiate a treaty that would halt the impressment of American sailors, but when the signed treaty came back without any British concessio
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• Why did France sell the Louisiana Purchase to the United States
  ...ckney treaty in place and the weak Spanish empire in control of Louisiana, American politicians felt comfortable that the United States’ westward expansion w ...ica. The deadly outbreak of yellow fever ultimately ended Napoleon's North American dreams. He decided to give up his plans for Louisiana and surprised Monroe
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• The Federalist Papers - Number 36
  ...ssive poll-taxes, have been played off with all the ingenious dexterity of political legerdemain. {{#dpl:category=Colonial American History|ordermethod=firstedit|order=descending|count=6}}
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• The Federalist Papers - Number 38
  IT IS not a little remarkable that in every case reported by ancient history, in which government has been established with deliberation and consent, th ...ceeded the apprehension of treachery or incapacity in a single individual. History informs us, likewise, of the difficulties with which these celebrated refor
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• The Federalist Papers - Number 41
  ...to dwell on the inconveniences which must be unavoidably blended with all political advantages; and on the possible abuses which must be incident to every powe ...er evil, at least of the GREATER, not the PERFECT, good; and that in every political institution, a power to advance the public happiness involves a discretion
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• How did the United States open Japan to trade in 1853
  On July 8, 1853, American Commodore Matthew Perry led his four ships into the harbor at Tokyo Bay, se ...steady stream of maritime traffic between North America and Asia. Then, as American traders in the Pacific replaced sailing ships with steam ships, they needed
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• What are the Monroe Doctrine and the Roosevelt Corollary
  ...roe and his Secretary of State John Quincy Adams drew upon a foundation of American diplomatic ideals such as disentanglement from European affairs and defense ...ans feared that Spain and France might reassert colonialism over the Latin American peoples who had just overthrown European rule. Signs that Russia was expand
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• What was the United States role in founding Liberia
  [[File:Memcertf.jpg|thumbnail|300px|left|Member Certificate for the American Colonization Society signed by Henry Clay]]__NOTOC__ ...foreign policy interests. In 1816, a group of white Americans founded the American Colonization Society (ACS) to deal with the “problem” of the growing nu
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• How did the North prevent the Diplomatic Recognition of the South during the Civil War
  ...nd Denmark, the most important factor stills rise from the battlefields on American soil. The Confederate states were incapable of winning enough consecutive v ...rompt the response expected from the Europeans. The blockade’s legal and political implications took on greater significance than its economic effects because
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• How did Yellow Journalism lead to the Spanish-American War
  ...ow journalism seized upon it and called for war. By early May, the Spanish-American War had begun. ...f yellow journalism contributed to creating public support for the Spanish-American War, a war that would ultimately expand the United States' global reach.
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• What was the Trent Affair and why did it disrupt relations between the United States and Britain during the Civil War
  ...d that the British were willing to defend their neutrality position in the American Civil War, a position that both the Union and the Confederacy had hoped to * Republished from [https://history.state.gov/| Office of the Historian, United States Department of State]
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• The Federalist Papers - Number 45
  ...that the solid happiness of the people is to be sacrificed to the views of political institutions of a different form? ...d form are transmitted, must have borne a still greater analogy to it. Yet history does not inform us that either of them ever degenerated, or tended to degen
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• The Federalist Papers - Number 48
  IT WAS shown in the last paper that the political apothegm there examined does not require that the legislative, executive, a ...appears to have been principally relied on by the compilers of most of the American constitutions. But experience assures us, that the efficacy of the provisio
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• The Federalist Papers - Number 55
  In general it may be remarked on this subject, that no political problem is less susceptible of a precise solution than that which relates t ...o seven or eight members. Nothing can be more fallacious than to found our political calculations on arithmetical principles. Sixty or seventy men may be more p
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• The Federalist Papers - Number 63
  ...with liberty. I am not unaware of the circumstances which distinguish the American from other popular governments, as well ancient as modern; and which render The difference most relied on, between the American and other republics, consists in the principle of representation; which is
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• What were the diplomatic consequences of the US victory in the Civil War
  ...tes and calls by some U.S. politicians for the annexation of British North American territory allowed Canadian politicians to overcome their own sectional diff ...on to build the Panama Canal. The postwar period also saw attempts by U.S. political leaders, including Seward, to resettle freed slaves abroad in either Mexico
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• How did the United States react to France's takeover of Mexico during the Civil War
  ...eward offered a plan that would provide mining concessions in exchange for American loans. ...n Minister to the United States, Matías Romero, worked carefully to build American support for Mexico. Seward soon began to show increased support for Juárez
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• The Federalist Papers - Number 78
  ...rom the nature of its functions, will always be the least dangerous to the political rights of the Constitution; because it will be least in a capacity to annoy ...s may be declared void. As this doctrine is of great importance in all the American constitutions, a brief discussion of the ground on which it rests cannot be
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• What is the History of Civil Rights Legislation in the United States
  ...of civil rights has a much longer and complicated history. The legislative history of civil rights reveals the ways in which citizenship was broadened to not ...the passage of the 14th amendment these formerly enslaved persons lacked a political definition. If they were not enslaved, what were they? And if they were cit
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• What was the Eisenhower Doctrine of 1957
  ...h of the same year. Under the Eisenhower Doctrine, a country could request American economic assistance and/or aid from U.S. military forces if it was being th ...ment of U.S. forces “to secure and protect the territorial integrity and political independence of such nations, requesting such aid against overt armed aggre
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• Why did the Soviet Union build the Berlin Wall
  The United States heralded the economic success and political freedom of West Berlin as a symbol of the success of the capitalist system, ...States in 1959, relations became tense after the Soviet Union shot down an American U-2 spy plane canvassing Soviet territory in 1960. In the wake of this inci
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• Why did the United States diplomatically recognize the Soviet Union in 1933
  On November 16, 1933, President Franklin Roosevelt ended almost 16 years of American non-recognition of the Soviet Union following a series of negotiations in W ...ent, ignored pre-existing treaty agreements with other nations, and seized American property in Russia following the October Revolution.
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• Landmark Legal Cases: Roe v. Wade (1973)
  ...tenwieser for the American Ethical Union et al.; by Norma G. Zarky for the American Association of University Women et al.; by Nancy Stearns for New Women Lawy ...place some emphasis upon, medical and medical-legal history and what that history reveals about man's attitudes toward the abortion procedure over the centur
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• Why was the United States concerned by the launch of Sputnik in 1957
  ...senhower had tried to downplay the importance of the Sputnik launch to the American people, he poured additional funds and resources into the space program in Eventually, lawmakers and political campaigners in the United States successfully exploited the fear of a “mi
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• What were the events that led to the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo of 1848
  ...nkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=9e0b1045b3d7ff8e6f91ab801fbbc5a3 Mexican-American War] in 1848, which ended with the signing and ratification of the Treaty o ...xican territory, he realized that prolonging the war would have disastrous political consequences and decided to submit the treaty to the Senate for ratificatio
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• What were the International Consequences of the Union Victory in 1865
  ...itration commission, which issued its decision in September 1872, rejected American claims for indirect damages but did order Britain to pay the United States ...tes and calls by some U.S. politicians for the annexation of British North American territory allowed Canadian politicians to overcome their own sectional diff
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• How did the Spanish American War of 1898 turn the United States into a Pacific Power
  ...de=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=0378549215c52c8c88d2e2af57b6bec0 The Spanish-American War of 1898] ended Spain’s colonial empire in the Western Hemisphere and ...conflict in Cuba captured Americans' attention because of the economic and political instability produced in a region within such close geographical proximity t
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• How did the Kennedy Administration respond to the Laos Crisis between 1960-1963
  ...rn Affairs the following November. Harriman took the lead in orchestrating American policy toward Laos as an international conference on Laos convened in Genev ...March Harriman had become disenchanted with Phoumi, and decisively shifted American policy toward a coalition government led by Souvanna Phouma. The Laotian gr
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• How did the Kennedy Administration avoid war with the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis
  ...so enabled the United States to receive the support of the Organization of American States. ====Kennedy explains the Crisis to the American people====
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• What were the Neutrality Acts and why did the Roosevelt Administration favor them
  ...ng arms manufacturers in the United States to apply for an export license. American citizens traveling in war zones were also advised that they did so at their ...law, U.S.citizens were forbidden from traveling on belligerent ships, and American merchant ships were prevented from transporting arms to belligerents even i
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• Why did the American public favor isolationism during the Great Depression of the 1930s
  ...rests in Latin America. The leaders of the isolationist movement drew upon history to bolster their position. ====Isolationism has a long history in the United States====
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• What was Lend-Lease and how did it provide Aid to US Allies at the start of World War II
  ...United States would remain neutral in law, he could “not ask that every American remain neutral in thought as well.” Roosevelt himself made significant ef ...ed that Britain would surrender following the collapse of France, and thus American supplies sent to the British would fall into German hands.
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• Why was the Jay Treaty so unpopular in the United States
  ...resolved since American independence. The treaty proved unpopular with the American public but did accomplish the goal of maintaining peace between the two nat ...ese areas, also frustrated Americans. Finally, Britain’s impressments of American sailors and seizure of naval and military supplies bound to enemy ports on
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• The Bretton Woods Agreements for the IMF and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
  The Bank may guarantee, participate in, or make loans to any member or any political sub-division thereof and any business, industrial, and agricultural enterpr ...ttention to considerations of economy and efficiency and without regard to political or other non-economic influences or considerations.
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• Why was the Limited Test Ban Treaty of 1963 created during the Cold War
  ...orts to spy on Soviet advancements. After the Soviet military shot down an American U-2 spy plane over Russia in 1960, the prospects for reaching an agreement ...1961, the Soviet Union also tested Tsar Bomba, the largest nuclear test in history. The Tsar Bomba test had a blast yield of 58 Megatons TNT and represented a
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• Why did the United States Repeal the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1943
  ...heir own unique prohibition had long been a source of contention in Sino‑American relations. ...an onslaught of Chinese (or Asian) immigration and its potential impact on American society and racial composition believed that even this small quota represen
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• How did the United States acquire Florida
  ...nies of East Florida and West Florida remained loyal to the British during American independence. Still, by the Treaty of Paris in 1783, they returned to Spani == Why did Americans move into Florida during the American Revolution? ==
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• Was Robinson Crusoe based on a real person
  ...iter was very interested in politics and he became embroiled in the bitter political battles of the Tories and the Whigs. Defoe was a supporter of the Tories an ...eat books: With some serious reflections on Robinson Crusoe." New Literary History 39, no. 2 (2008): 335-353</ref>
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• How did the United States and Great Britain eliminate their dueling navies on the Great Lakes and establish their borders in 1818
  ...tensions that had led to the War of 1812 and marked the beginning of Anglo-American cooperation. ====Disarming the British and American navies on the Great Lakes====
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• How did American Filibusterers try to acquire territory for the United States in Latin America
  During the years between the Mexican-American War and the Civil War, the United States became increasingly involved in Ce ...le, the last resulting in his capture and execution in Havana in 1851. The American public condemned Spanish actions, especially López’s execution without t
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• Why did the United States pass the Chinese Exclusion Acts
  ...ese immigrants were particularly instrumental in building railroads in the American West. As Chinese laborers grew successful in the United States, many became ..., so did the strength of anti-Chinese sentiment among other workers in the American economy. The expanding popularity of Chinese exclusion finally resulted in
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• How did Charles Mahan's "The Influence of Sea Power" shape American Foreign Policy
  ...20&linkId=6af39f430c29f3dbe72f7f98764f5893 The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660–1783], a revolutionary analysis of the importance of naval power as ...s dominant military, political, and economic power. Mahan and some leading American politicians believed that these lessons could be applied to U.S. foreign po
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• Why did the United States invade and occupy Haiti from 1915-34
  ...to send the United States Marines into Haiti to restore order and maintain political and economic stability in the Caribbean. This unofficial occupation continu ...eemed necessary. The U.S. Government also forced the election of a new pro-American President, Philippe Sudré Dartiguenave, by the Haitian legislature in Augu
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• Why did the United States declare war on Germany during World War I in 1917
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• Was Moby Dick based on real historical events
  ...one of the best known but most important works of fiction in United States history. While Melville's book is undoubtedly fiction, he drew widely from his expe ...His novels, short stories, and poems are regarded not only as classics of American literature but of World literature.<ref>Delbanco, p 112</ref>
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