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What was the Albany Plan of Union of 1754
{{#dpl:category=Colonial American History|ordermethod=firstedit|order=descending|count=7}} * Republished from [https://history.state.gov/| Office of the Historian], United States Department of State

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How Historically Accurate is the Outlaw King
Many of us know the story of Braveheart, where William Wallace leads a major re ...know much about her, as Medieval women were rarely recorded in historical documents. She did likely take care of Marjorie Bruce, who was Robert's daughter from

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How did Medicine develop in the Ancient World
...und the world, which had early complex societies, have left us evidence or documents that describe some of the relatively sophisticated medical techniques or pr ...d their involvement in medical practices, see Sigerist, Henry E. 1987. ''A History of Medicine''. Publication / Historical Library, Yale Medical Library, no.

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How does The Magna Carta influence the Modern Perceptions of Civil Rights
...considered and recognized to be one of the most important documents in the history of democracy itself, as well as civil rights and obligations and common law ...uck: http://www.historyextra.com/feature/magna-carta-turning-point-english-history</ref> An official version of this very document was released soon afterword

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Did the Trojan War really happen
...te of the earliest known written copy of The Iliad. Thus, The Iliad tells us more about society, war, and culture in the 9th century BCE than it does ab ...hat the Trojan War was a historical event in the “Golden Age” of their history. <ref>Bryce, Trevor R. “The Trojan War: Is There Truth Behind the Legend?

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Thomas Jefferson, the Founding Fathers and Christianity: Interview with Sam Haselby
...ess]) examines how a conflict with Protestantism, in the decades following US independence transformed American national identity. It made sense to get h .... It’s a bequest that includes American slavery and American racism, the US Constitution, and the country’s first and last dynasty of Presidents. Se

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Privateering during the War of 1812: Interview with Faye M. Kert
During the War 1812, US and Canadian privateers fought most of the naval battles between the United Faye M. Kert has finally written a comprehensive history on the privateers of the War of 1812. [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product

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What caused the Hungarian Revolution of 1956
...history: War and renewed defeat -https://www.britannica.com/place/Hungary/History#ref411390</ref> Furthermore, like many of its neighboring countries in the ...e by force in Hungary. <ref>The 1956 Hungarian Revolution: A History in Documents - http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB76/</ref>

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How Did Honey Evolve in our Diet
...eeteners used by humans. Additionally, it was perhaps consumed not only by us humans but Neanderthals. In fact, honey likely played a role in the evoluti ...ore on the earliest history of honey, see: Crane, E. (1999). The world history of beekeeping and honey hunting. New York: Routledge.</ref>

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How Did Tables Evolve as Furniture
==Early History== ...d by this time from tables, where monks and others who worked with written documents required tables to have drawers or different designs to make writing and re

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Klaus Theweleit’s Male Fantasies vol 1: Men and Women
...jpg|thumbnail|300px|left|Male Fantasies, Vol. 1: Women, Floods, Bodies, History by Klaus Theweleit]] ...498fd1ef28285ba0901cf369b5a Male Fantasies, Vol. 1: Women, Floods, Bodies, History], is an examination of origins and manifestations of fascism. Thewelei

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The Power of Women and Peru's Shining Path
...eft.<ref>Orin Starn, Carlos DeGregori, and Robin Kirk. The Peru Reader: History, Culture, Politics, ed. Orin Starn, carlos Ivan Degregori, and Robin Ki ...a 1923 El Tiempo newspaper article that described Andean women’s “rich history” of involvement in rebellions in the Ancco and Chusqui districts, saying,

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How accurate is Stanley Kubrick's 'Spartacus'
...ded3d1908b Spartacus] (1960) is one of the best-known movies in cinema history. It caused a sensation on its release and was one of the most successful pi ...orically accurate record of the life of this remarkable man or merely gave us a great fictionalized account of his life?

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The Federalist Papers - Number 10
...complaints had no foundation, the evidence, of known facts will not permit us to deny that they are in some degree true. It will be found, indeed, on a c {{#dpl:category=Colonial American History|ordermethod=firstedit|order=descending|count=6}}

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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. It provoked America into declaring war on Japan, and soon the US was also at war with the other Axis powers, Italy and Germany. Tora! Tora!

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History of Empires Top Ten Book List
1. Burbank, J. & Cooper, F. (2010) Empires in world history: power and the politics of difference . Princeton, Princeton Univ. Pres 2. Kwarteng, K. (2015) War and gold: a five-hundred-year history of empires, adventures and debt. Paperback ed. London, Bloomsbury. This

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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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How have Historians' perceptions of Native Americans changed
...wholesale change had occurred in how historians portrayed Native American history. Previously, historians and ethnographers had focused on “the tragedy of ====New Approaches to Native American History====

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Who helped Lawrence of Arabia shape the Arab Revolt
...en Few who Shaped the Arab Revolt]'' ([https://global.oup.com/academic/?cc=us&lang=en& Oxford University Press], 2018) ...ved in 1962 by the epic film Lawrence of Arabia. The hype should not blind us to the fact that Lawrence’s contribution to the Arab Revolt of 1916-18 ag

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How do you study the history of espionage
...hings, of interfering in the 2016 US presidential election. Meanwhile, the US has a long track record of using the CIA to overthrow governments abroad. I There are numerous ways to write secret history—and challenge government secrecy. Most importantly, more exists in the ar

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How historically accurate is the movie The Post
...papers and Katharine Graham, who was the first female publisher of a major US newspaper. ...t in Vietnam and how it cannot be won. However, after arriving back in the US, McNamara gives a glowing review of the war effort. Daniel Ellsberg had gon

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Why was the Turner Thesis abandoned by historians
...nt westward explain American development.” (The Frontier in American History, Turner, p. 1.) Jackson believed that westward expansion allowed Ameri ...nored. During the mid-twentieth century, most people lost interest in the history of the American West.

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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 US Presidential Scandals
...hard to believe even, yet the American public has often been forgiving, as history shows. ...ly angered France, the ally of the United States, and led to a split among US politicians, with Jefferson accusing Washington of treason.

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Federalist Number 1 - Introducing the Constitution's Goals
...them to suspicion) into interested or ambitious views. Candor will oblige us to admit that even such men may be actuated by upright intentions; and it c ...of zeal for the firmness and efficiency of government. History will teach us that the former has been found a much more certain road to the introduction

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Why was George Washington's Farewell Address in 1796 Significant
...abuse it, which predominates in the human heart, is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of this position. The necessity of reciprocal checks in the ex ...ducation on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious prin

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The Federalist Papers - Number 67
...ity and splendor to those of a king of Great Britain. He has been shown to us with the diadem sparkling on his brow and the imperial purple flowing in hi ...tion of the clauses, and to the obvious meaning of the terms, will satisfy us that the deduction is not even colorable.

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Why did the Continental Congress adopt the Articles of Confederation
...that we the undersigned delegates, by virtue of the power and authority to us given for that purpose, do by these presents, in the name and in behalf of {{#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
{{#dpl:category=Colonial American History|ordermethod=firstedit|order=descending|count=9}} * Republished from [https://history.state.gov/| Office of the Historian], United States Department of State

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Why did the Continental Congress draft and sign the Declaration of Independence
...stems of government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the estab He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies, without the consent of our legislature

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Why did France side with the American Colonies during the American Revolution
* Republished from [https://history.state.gov/| Office of the Historian, United States Department of State] * Article: [https://history.state.gov/milestones/1776-1783/french-alliance| French Alliance, French Ass

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The Federalist Papers - Number 2
...ts have hitherto prevailed among all orders and denominations of men among us. To all general purposes we have uniformly been one people each individual ...may be so considered and examined. Experience on a former occasion teaches us not to be too sanguine in such hopes. It is not yet forgotten that well-gro

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The Federalist Papers - Number 3
...e comes first in order, it is proper it should be the first discussed. Let us therefore proceed to examine whether the people are not right in their opin ...them, except Prussia, are maritime, and therefore able to annoy and injure us. She has also extensive commerce with Portugal, Spain, and Britain, and, wi

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The Federalist Papers - Number 4
...and India, we interfere with more than one nation, inasmuch as it enables us to partake in advantages which they had in a manner monopolized, and as we ...and the enterprise and address of our merchants and navigators, will give us a greater share in the advantages which those territories afford, than cons

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The Federalist Papers - Number 5
...uld invite dangers from abroad; and that nothing would tend more to secure us from them than union, strength, and good government within ourselves. This ...is the one with which we are in general the best acquainted, and it gives us many useful lessons. We may profit by their experience without paying the p

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The Federalist Papers - Number 6
...h of the fallacy and extravagance of those idle theories which have amused us with promises of an exemption from the imperfections, weaknesses and evils [[Category: US History Documents]] [[Category: Historical Documents]] [[Category: Federalist Papers]]

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The Federalist Papers - Number 7
...nts of a federal constitution, we have had sufficient experience to enable us to form a judgment of what might be expected if those restraints were remov ...lated the earth have sprung from this origin. This cause would exist among us in full force. We have a vast tract of unsettled territory within the bound

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The Federalist Papers - Number 8
...to the lot of all neighboring nations not united under one government, let us enter into a concise detail of some of the consequences that would attend s ...iderable. The history of war, in that quarter of the globe, is no longer a history of nations subdued and empires overturned, but of towns taken and retaken;

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The Federalist Papers - Number 9
...s with a transient and fleeting brilliancy, they at the same time admonish us to lament that the vices of government should pervert the direction and tar {{#dpl:category=Colonial American History|ordermethod=firstedit|order=descending|count=7}}

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The Federalist Papers - Number 11
...ally indicate the policy of fostering divisions among us, and of depriving us, as far as possible, of an ACTIVE COMMERCE in our own bottoms. This would a ...hange in the system of Britain, because she could prosecute her trade with us through the medium of the Dutch, who would be her immediate customers and p

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The Federalist Papers - Number 12
...e remarks have any foundation, that state of things which will best enable us to improve and extend so valuable a resource must be best adapted to our po ...ould have extensive connections of foreign trade. The passage from them to us, in a few hours, or in a single night, as between the coasts of France and

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The Federalist Papers - Number 13
...trengthened by another supposition, more probable than that which presents us with three confederacies as the alternative to a general Union. If we atten [[Category: US History Documents]] [[Category: Historical Documents]] [[Category: Federalist Papers]]

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The Federalist Papers - Number 14
...we may form a juster estimate with regard to this interesting subject, let us resort to the actual dimensions of the Union. The limits, as fixed by the t ...wild of all projects, the most rash of all attempts, is that of rendering us in pieces, in order to preserve our liberties and promote our happiness. Bu

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The Federalist Papers - Number 15
...our national system, and that something is necessary to be done to rescue us from impending anarchy. The facts that support this opinion are no longer o ...achments? The imbecility of our government even forbids them to treat with us. Our ambassadors abroad are the mere pageants of mimic sovereignty. Is a vi

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The Federalist Papers - Number 16
...at of all the confederacies of antiquity, which history has handed down to us, the Lycian and Achaean leagues, as far as there remain vestiges of them, a ...o inquire how far so odious an engine of government, in its application to us, would even be capable of answering its end. If there should not be a large

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The Federalist Papers - Number 17
...lly possess over the people; a circumstance which at the same time teaches us that there is an inherent and intrinsic weakness in all federal constitutio {{#dpl:category=Colonial American History|ordermethod=firstedit|order=descending|count=6}}

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The Federalist Papers - Number 18
...deliberations, vigorously opposed and defeated the attempt. This piece of history proves at once the inefficiency of the union, the ambition and jealousy of ...as it is called, was another society of Grecian republics, which supplies us with valuable instruction.

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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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The Federalist Papers - Number 20
{{#dpl:category=Colonial American History|ordermethod=firstedit|order=descending|count=6}} ...llow-citizens, for one moment, over this melancholy and monitory lesson of history; and with the tear that drops for the calamities brought on mankind by thei

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The Federalist Papers - Number 21
...the domestic concerns of the members. A scruple of this kind would deprive us of one of the principal advantages to be expected from union, and can only {{#dpl:category=Colonial American History|ordermethod=firstedit|order=descending|count=6}}

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