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• History of Sex (American Version) Top Ten Booklist
  ...ally changed throughout its history. These books seek to explain and place American views of sex in an historical perspective. As per usual, we included some c ...ot interested in trying to separate them for the purposes of our booklist (American Version).
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• American Legal History Top Ten Booklist
  ...ooks helped us think about legal history in new ways. Excitement and legal history are terms that are rarely used together, but after you read these books we ...prolific, and he has also published another twenty books on law and legal history. In fact, there is a very good chance that he wrote and published another
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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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• Social History of American Medicine Top Ten Booklist
  ...ential reference. Pretty much anyone who has written about the history of American medicine has cited it. Should you read it? Yes. Check it out or buy it a ...44274&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=93c00467091eecc6a379c0f7dba5f7ec American Physicians in the Nineteenth Century: From Sects to Science]</i> (Johns Hop
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• Why was the Construction of the Alaska Highway so important to American History
  ...<ref>Virtue, John, ''The Black Soldiers Who Built the Alaska Highway: A History of Four U.S. Army Regiments in the North, 1942-1943'', McFarland & Company, ...he Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor had not only laid waste to much of the American naval fleet in the Pacific but it awakened the United States government to
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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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• How Did the Battle of Culloden Change British and American History?
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• African American History Top Ten Booklist
  ...ething can be gained from a vantage point, drawn from the lives of African American works. This is a small sampling of this work. This books renders the African American experience as an epic journey of resistance, likening the latter to a river
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• African American Women's History Top Ten Booklist
  ...the roles that African American women continue to play in areas as vast as American institutional life and radical movements. Some of the pioneering works in t ...was published as an early call to write the unique experiences of African American women. Its author has inspired many of the writers and thinkers on this lis
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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 Did the Nullification Crisis of 1832-1833 Impact American History?
  #REDIRECT [[How Did the Nullification Crisis of 1832-1833 Impact American History]]
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• Why was the Construction of the Alaska Highway so important to American History?
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• Main Page
  ====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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• History of Sex (American Version) Top Ten Booklist
  ...ally changed throughout its history. These books seek to explain and place American views of sex in an historical perspective. As per usual, we included some c ...ot interested in trying to separate them for the purposes of our booklist (American Version).
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• American Legal History Top Ten Booklist
  ...ooks helped us think about legal history in new ways. Excitement and legal history are terms that are rarely used together, but after you read these books we ...prolific, and he has also published another twenty books on law and legal history. In fact, there is a very good chance that he wrote and published another
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• 19th Century Overview of United States History Top Ten Booklist
  [[File:Reconstruction.jpeg|thumbnail|left|Reconstruction: American Unfinished Revolution by Eric Foner]] ...393329216&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=JRD5IXV4RUTYNVCZ The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln]'' (New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 2005
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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 ...06057&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=4897487de0288081715e63265996a90f American Negro Slave Revolts]'' New York: International Publishers, 1983.
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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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• Social History of American Medicine Top Ten Booklist
  ...ential reference. Pretty much anyone who has written about the history of American medicine has cited it. Should you read it? Yes. Check it out or buy it a ...44274&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=93c00467091eecc6a379c0f7dba5f7ec American Physicians in the Nineteenth Century: From Sects to Science]</i> (Johns Hop
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• The Cold War, Sexuality, and American Medicine: Interview with Carolyn Herbst Lewis
  ...her about it. Carolyn Herbst Lewis is currently a Assistant Professor of History at Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa. Her current research focuses on Dr. ...century United States, but also the forces shaping professional shifts in American medicine in this same period, as well as the overlap between the two."
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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> ...rendered has come to be called the Amarna style. It is unique in Egyptian history due to its dramatic departure from traditional artistic conventions.
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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
  ...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 {{#dpl:category=Colonial American History|ordermethod=firstedit|order=descending|count=7}}
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• How did Great Britain win the French Indian War (Seven Years War)
  [[File:Nouvelle-France1750.png|thumbnail|left|250px|Map of North American in 1750]]__NOTOC__ ...ying the war’s expenses led to colonial discontent and ultimately to the American Revolution. In terms of the treaty, France gave up all its territories in m
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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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• Did Theodore Roosevelt really save Football
  In 1905, American football faced an crisis. Far to many young men were being killed while pla .... <ref>Klein, Christopher, ”How Teddy Roosevelt helped save football,” history.com, September 6, 2012</ref>
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• How did Edwin Drake create the World's first oil well
  ...f the oil well fundamentally altered the course of the 20th century. <ref>American Chemical Society, “The Development of the Pennsylvania Oil Industry,” ...cked in technical expertise he more than made up for in the quintessential American trait - stick-to-itiveness.
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• What are the "Six Flags" that have Flown over Texas
  ...real history, which when dissected, encapsulates about 400 years of early American settlement. ...sections, a la Disneyland, with each representing a period of the state's history which came alive with miniature towns, shows, and attractions.
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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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• Which Guns Won the American West
  ...]] [[Category:History of Science and Technology]][[Category:History of the American West]] {{Mediawiki:US History}}
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• What are the Origins of Astronomy
  ...lopments and mathematics Mesopotamia see: Hodgkin, Luke Howard. 2013. ''A History of Mathematics: From Mesopotamia to Modernity''. Oxford: Oxford University ...s they provide the first set of accurate ancient dates anywhere in ancient history.
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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
  ...pted and codified later. See: Stein, Peter. 1999. ''Roman Law in European History.'' New York: Cambridge University Press, pg. 31.</ref> ...discussion on the Digest see: Stein, Peter. 1999. ''Roman Law in European History.'' New York: Cambridge University Press, pg. 44.</ref> One example influenc
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• What Role did the Motorcycle and Harley-Davidson play in Wartime
  ...Davidson Motor Company. <ref>”’H-D Supports the Military,” corporate history, Harley Davidson USA, 2015</ref> ...trains mechanics today. <ref>”’H-D Supports the Military,” corporate history, Harley Davidson USA, 2015</ref>
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• How did Medicine develop in the Ancient World
  ...d their involvement in medical practices, see Sigerist, Henry E. 1987. ''A History of Medicine''. Publication / Historical Library, Yale Medical Library, no. *[[Social History of American Medicine Top Ten Booklist]]
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• Why was the Construction of the Alaska Highway so important to American History
  ...<ref>Virtue, John, ''The Black Soldiers Who Built the Alaska Highway: A History of Four U.S. Army Regiments in the North, 1942-1943'', McFarland & Company, ...he Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor had not only laid waste to much of the American naval fleet in the Pacific but it awakened the United States government to
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• Why Was Vicksburg “The Gibraltar of the Confederacy”
  ...fought at Gettysburg, and more men died than any battle ever contested on American soil. ====An American River Port City Becomes “The Gibraltar of the Confederacy”====
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• Portal:Interviews
  ...t famous and infamous security guard and detective agency in United States history. Pinkerton originally created the agency to help railroad companies investi [[File:Gregory-American-Surveillance-c.jpg|thumbnail|left|200px]]
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• How did climate change influence Medieval and Early Modern Europe
  Our changing climate shows many examples where it altered and shaped history. Climate is not a deterministic process, but it does create the conditions ...ts, see: Lieberman, B. D., & Gordon, E. (2018). <i>Climate change in human history: prehistory to the present</i>. London ; New York: Bloomsbury Academic, a
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• Portal:Booklists
  ...lyHistory.org top ten booklist focusing on best book on the battles of the American Civil War. The books on this list explore the battles of Antietam, Gettysbu ====[[American Revolution Top Ten Booklist]]====
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• How did eugenics develop and why did it persist into the late 20th Century
  As modern students of history, we must divorce scientific theories of the past from the unavoidable socie [[File: eugenicsburden.jpg|thumbnail|left|325px|American eugenics propaganda poster from 1930s]]
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• How Did Early Mathematics Evolve
  ...are the origins of mathematics and how did this field evolve in its early history?<ref>For further information on factors leading to the rise of early mathem ...seems to have happened both in Mesopotamia and Egypt (Figure 1).<ref>For a history on the development of the Pythagorean theorem, see: Katz, Victor J., and A
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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 ...ry:Military History]][[Category:European History]] [[Category:20th Century History]]
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• What was the evolution of water technologies like
  The history of water use and technologies to bring water to human societies is long, pa ...rthians, and Sasanians. In essence, water technologies altered the path of history, as it enabled a region once sparsely populated to become more central for
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• Origins of the French Revolution - Top Ten Booklist
  ...ategory:Political History]][[Category:History Booklists]][[Category:French History]][[Category:Expert Booklists]] *[[American Revolution Top Ten Booklist]]
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• How did the Sharia Law develop
  *[[American Legal History Top Ten Booklist]] *[[American Surveillance: Interview with Anthony Gregory]]
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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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• When did Social Inequality Develop in the Ancient World
  ...ode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=ba5989033a645ff589d8c3e61a6eb8a1 The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt]''. New ed. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, ...hool of American Research Advanced Seminar Series. Sante Fe, NM: School of American Research Press.</ref> In addition, as warfare became established in society
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• How Did Early Judicial Systems Evolve
  ...zens. The concept of justice, in fact, has evolved from very early written history, showing some similarities early on with modern ideas of law and justice fo ...laws of Urukagina, see: Kramer, Samuel Noah. 1995. ''The Sumerians: Their History, Culture, and Character''. 12. [pr.]. Chicago: The Univ. of Chicago Press.<
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• What was the dominant medical sect in the United States during the 19th Century
  ...>Sandvick, Clinton (2016)<i>''Defining the Practice of Medicine: Licensing American Physicians, 1870-1907.'' </i>unpublished manuscript.</ref> Each of these m ...stantly worried that they may lose their place at the head of the table of American medicine. In the later portion of the 20th century, Regular physicians cons
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• Angels of the Underground: Interview with Theresa Kaminski
  ...yh0c-20&linkId=GHWHIHREOYZOZRWG Citizen of Empire: Ethel Thomas Herold, an American in the Philippines].'' She also edited Dorothy Dore Dowle's autobiography ' Kaminski is currently a Professor of American Women's History at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. You can also follow her on [h
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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. ...d to the famous "stab in the back" theory utilized by Hitler. The sight of American, British, French, and Belgian occupying the Rhineland pierced the brief cal
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• What Was the Significance of the Southwest in the Outcome of the Civil War
  ...e, "Stonewall" Jackson, and Ulysses S. Grant are names synonymous with the American Civil War. Henry Hopkins Sibley and James Carleton are less familiar or alt ...Santa Fe. This left Arizona to essentially fend for itself against Native American raids. Lawlessness became rampant and Apache attacks more prevalent, thus p
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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. ...fitable, and the farm itself was sold (Figure 1).<ref>For early history of American socialism and Utopian socialism, see: Taylor, K. (2016). <i>Political ideas
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• The Hays Code, Gangsters, and Prohibition: How did 1934 change Hollywood
  ...ad worked for the MPPDA since 1931, in charge of the SRC in 1933. An Irish American with a strong Catholic upbringing, Breen realized harsher measures needed t
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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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• Why did museums develop
  ...e think of museums as areas that display the past, our culture, or natural history of our world. This certainly has developed to be the modern norm; however, ...past that connected Babylonian civilization to the past, showing its long history, and bringing objects of the gods back to the world. The uncovered objects
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• Hodges' Scout: Interview with Len Travers
  ...uts who were ambushed on a patrol in upstate New York by French and Native American soldiers during the French and Indian War. Travers uses this massacre to ex Len Travers is professor of history at the Univesity of Massachusetts Dartmouth and he is also the author of [h
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• What was the Bracero Program
  ...ent discussions about how documented and undocumented workers fit into the American labor system, are reminders of the United States’ biggest experiment with ...by the war. The program was intended as a temporary wartime solution, but American farms’ growing dependence on Mexican labor kept the program active for tw
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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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• When Did Jackie Robinson Integrate Baseball and Why Is It Important
  Jackie Robinson was the first African-American to play in major league baseball on April 15, 1947. He went 0 for 3. He rea ...eshadowed his later role in civil rights. Robinson and some fellow African-American soldiers applied to Officer Candidate School(OCS). Like baseball, the Army
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• How did the 'Malaise' Period of Struggle in the 1970s Occur in the United States
  ...nistration became embroiled with the largest scandal in American political history. Questions swirled about how much President Nixon knew about the break in a ...race. Carter came to the Presidency with the promise of never lying to the American people. Carter aimed to elevate human rights to the top of his agenda and s
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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 ...gland (textiles), was starting to shut down. Henry Adams, Secretary to the American Minister of London, wrote that “the suffering among the people in Lancash
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• Shantytown, USA: Interview with Lisa Goff
  ...ng Poor]. There's a chance that one of your American ancestors lived in an American shantytown. While we may not realize it now, shantytowns were a common feat ...ican Studies Program. She is also the director of the Institute for Public History. Before becoming a professor, Goff had a distinguished career as a business
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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.
  ...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 Logistics is not a sexy aspect of military history, but most professional soldiers and military historians recognize its impor
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• Why did the United States Gain the Upper Hand Against the Soviet Union at the End of the Cold War
  ...arter's presidency saw its share of crises, including the overthrow of the American-allied Shah of Iran in 1979, sparking a second oil crisis. ...States fell back into recession in 1980 Carter lost the confidence of the American people and was replaced by former California Governor Ronald Reagan by a 51
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• What was Atomic Diplomacy
  ...mmediately considered the potential non-military benefits derived from the American nuclear monopoly. In the years that followed, there were several occasions ...icials hoped that the threat of the bomb would soften Soviet resistance to American proposals for free elections in Eastern Europe or reduced Soviet control ov
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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 Thus ended one of the most unusual and complicated chapters in Jamestown's history. Could it have been prevented or was it time for inevitable changes to take
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• Why did Operation Market Garden in 1944 fail
  ...mainly fought in the Netherlands. It was the largest airborne operation in history up to that time. The operation was a daring one, and it was the brainchild The combined Anglo-American divisions inflicted huge losses on the Germans. The German army was forced
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• Why was Nikita Khrushchev deposed as the leader of the USSR
  ...n evil entity. He aimed at showing off the superiority of the Soviets over American and Western products. This position further alienated Mao Zedong. As the Ch {{#dpl:category=Russian History|ordermethod=firstedit|order=descending|count=8}}
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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 was Plato's academy and why did it influence Western thought
  ...Giovanni, John R. Catan, and Giovanni Reale. 1990. Plato and Aristotle. A History of Ancient Philosophy, Giovanni Reale ; 2. Albany, NY: State Univ. of New ...y.<ref>For more on Arcesilaus, see: Algra, Keimpe, ed. 2005. The Cambridge History of Hellenistic Philosophy. 1st pbk. ed. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge U
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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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• Was the Destruction Perpetrated by Lincoln, Grant, and Sherman Necessary to End the Civil War
  January 1, 1863 marked a pivotal moment in the American Civil War. On this date the Emancipation Proclamation, the preliminary of w
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• The Greek Philosophers Top Ten Booklist
  ...recent and have helped scholars and others to understand this key time in history and its transformative effects. ...01581&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=12862945d4b559d42fe6f6c19f4f6e84 History of Western Philosophy]</i>. Reprinted. Routledge Classics. London: Routledg
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• The Best Historians and Books According to James McPherson
  ...book most responsible for shaping his career, and even the most overrated history book ever. It's a biggie. ...-20&linkId=67f56d2729096f3e91b2e721446833e8 The Ideological Origins in the American Revolution]
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• How Did God Influence the Wounded in the American Civil War
  ...Carter was far from alone as a miraculous survivor of the bloodiest of all American wars. Although Fredericksburg was a horrific battle, the one seven months h The first three days of July, 1863 witnessed the greatest amount of American blood spilled in a single battle. Of the more than 165,000 men who engaged
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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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• How Did Southern Belles Help Dispel Their Own Stereotype
  ...Ellen Carol DuBois and Lynn Dumenil, ''Through Women’s Eyes: An American History'' (Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2005), 149.</ref> In Southern culture, ...[Category:Civil War]] [[Category:Medical History]][[Category:United States History]]
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• How Did the Bed Develop as Household Furniture
  ...n today what represents a bed differs greatly from culture to culture. The history of the bed, like most furniture, has been shaped by its complex development ==Early History==
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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 ...ry:History Booklists]][[Category:Expert Booklists]][[Category:20th Century History]]
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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 ...ican, either directly or indirectly, changes the course of his society’s history. While the slave suffers, so too does the free man who does nothing, as he
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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
  ...her Hollywood heavyweights went to Washington D.C. to protest the House Un-American Activities Committee’s “black-listing” film producers and directors a ...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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• How did American football develop
  ...While we tend to think of it as a uniquely American sport, its origin and history demonstrate that it is an evolution of sports that have been played since a ==Which games inspired American Football?==
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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. ...dvance into the North, it gave birth to the most famous speech in American history. Each of these books attempts to answer different questions about Gettysbur
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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 Faye M. Kert has finally written a comprehensive history on the privateers of the War of 1812. <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product
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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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• How did baseball develop
  ...nail|left|250px|Figure 1. Baseball played in a prisoner of war camp in the American Civil War.]] ...riod and over time adapted into a very different game. As with other major American sports, Great Britain played a key role in baseball's development.
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• Who integrated the NBA
  ...ball’s Brooklyn Dodgers, was the first to step up and end segregation in American sports. ...gue baseball became a watershed in race relations in the United States. An American hero, his number 42 has been retired by every major league team.
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• What is the Magician's Oath and why is it important
  ...gicians] (founded 1922, based in St. Charles, Missouri) and The Society of American Magicians (founded in 1902), in 1993 issued a joint ethics statement that e [[Category:Wikis]][[Category:History of Magic]]
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• How did basketball develop
  ==Early History== ...during the winter months. Initially, Naismith tried to create versions of American football or soccer as indoor sports. However, all of these proved too viole
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• Reserve Police Battalion 101: How Did Ordinary Citizens Become Killers Under the Third Reich
  ...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 ...[Category:German History]] [[Category:Polish History]] [[Category:Military History]]
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• How did the modern tennis emerge
  ...following, with many of the world's top players coming from Europe, North American, and Australia. While today's sport is seen as another multi-billion dollar ...f>For more information, see: Gillmeister, H. (1998). <i>Tennis: a cultural history</i>. London: Leicester University Press, pg. 3.</ref>
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• How Did the Battle of South Mountain Alter the Course of the American Civil War
  ...John David Hoptak, ''The Battle of South Mountain'' (Charleston, S.C.: The History Press, 2011), 36.</ref> ...in a battle that led directly to the bloodiest single day in U.S. military history, Antietam, which in turn led to a new war aim for President Abraham Lincoln
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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 the marathon emerge
  ...cited as the origin of this sport. While there is truth in this story, the history of the marathon is complex and its presence in many major world cities show The earliest history of the marathon is likely legend based on some facts. The story of the lege
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• Why Did American Colonists Become United Against England
  ...to the war debt and the costs associated with stationing British troops on American soil. The British government assessed taxes on the colonies yet denied colo ...to attain money from the colonies in order to reduce England’s war debt. American citizens, already feeling the pangs of post-war recession, were feeling the
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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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• How did illegal abortions spur the push for medical licensing in the 19th Century
  ...was completely unregulated, and anyone could claim to be a physician. Most American physicians could be classified as either regular, homeopaths, or eclectics. ...tion'' (New York: W.F. Vanden Houten, 1882), 117 and ''Transactions of the American Institute of Homeopathy 1873'', Volume 26: 524-525.</ref> While many indiv
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• How did the game of golf emerge
  ...gins of Golf, with Sidelights on Polo.” The International Journal of the History of Sport 19 (1): 2–30. doi:10.1080/714001691. ...h. By 1787, in Blackheath, London, the first UK club was formed.<ref>For a history on early golf clubs, rules, and development of the sport in the 17th and 18
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• What Was the Role of Hood's Texas Brigade at the Battle of Gaines's Mill
  ...ly contributed to the outcome of certain battles and the general course of history. ...nd valor of all of the brigades that fought for the Confederacy during the American Civil War. Like Jackson, Hood was a leader who displayed no fear and projec
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• How Did Hospitals Emerge
  ...nce of hospitals is not only ancient but it also evolved through a complex history. Hospitals were seen as a way to address healthcare in increasingly urban s ...on Achaemenid hospitals, see: Shoja, M. M., & Tubbs, R. S. (2007). <i>The History of Anatomy in Persia. Journal of Anatomy</i>, 210(4), 359–378.</ref> In t
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• The Red River War, 1874-1875: What Were the Events that Led to the Uprising
  ...n and its resources for the advancement of westward expansion. In 1865 the American Civil War had at last come to an end, thus allowing for an increased milita ...r in 1874 was due to the encroachment of white buffalo hunters onto Native American soil, the lack of enforcement of the Medicine Lodge Treaty, and the attitud
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• History of God Top Ten Booklist
  ...y task, here are the ten best books that try to make sense of this complex history. ...563&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=c5f79436e48ccd70fe128e130224ab49 A History of God]</i>. London: Vintage.: The book is somewhat more narrow that later
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• How did Public Sanitation Develop
  ==Early History of Sanitation== ...uuti, P., Katko, T. S., & Vuorinen, H. S. (Eds.). (2007). <i>Environmental history of water: global views on community water supply and sanitation</i>. London
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• American Civil War Biographies Top Ten Booklist
  ...ry, the Civil War was led by some of the most renowned figures in American History. ...69025&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=195030c223511acb667c2ab7e4a15533 American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant]'' (New York: Random House, 2016).
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• How did police departments form
  ...ge that allowed cities to become safe enough to grow and prosper, but that history and its origin are complex. ...Egyptian policing efforts, see: Stevens, D. J. (2009). An introduction to American policing. Sudbury, Mass: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, pg. 41.</ref>
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• What was the Significance of the 1874 Second Battle of Adobe Walls in Texas
  ...livered. Because of this, and the poaching of ponies and livestock, Native American tribes were increasing their call for war. ...hite man who deemed himself likely to be killed by tribal warriors. Native American warriors only scalped men they themselves had killed; therefore, it was the
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• What Was the Importance of Bill Mauldin to WWII Infantrymen
  ...of the “brass” all the way up to General George Patton. In a time when American news outlets were sanitizing World War II for the folks on the home front, ...r Two History]] [[Category:United States History]] [[Category:20th Century History]]
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• Why are there so many Monuments to the Confederacy across the United States
  ...were portrayed as victors on the field of morality, vindicated by accepted history. ...s highlights the changing views of the monuments and their place in modern American society, a topic which has been of recent discussion among politicians, the
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• D-Day: What Factors Were Considered When Planning Operation Overlord
  ...y patrol the Atlantic Ocean.<ref>Michael J. Lyons,'' World War II: A Short History,'' 5th ed. (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 2010), 246. For an excel ...trategy and train the troops who were designated to carry out the mission. American General Dwight Eisenhower was designated as the supreme commander of the Al
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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 ...ive agency in United States history. JHU Press states O'Hara explains who "American capitalists used the Pinkertons to enforce new structures of economic and p
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• How Historically Accurate is season 1 of Victoria
  ...nce Albert, see: James, R.R. (1984) <i>Prince Albert: a biography.</i> 1st American ed. New York, Knopf : Distributed by Random House.</ref> ...n der Kiste, J. (2009) <i>Queen Victoria’s children.</i> 2nd ed. Stroud, History Press.</ref>
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• How Did Chocolate Become Popular
  ...the popularity of chocolate has substantially grown. However, chocolate's history and its consumption go back much further to about four thousand years ago. ====Early History====
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• What Is the Historical Development of Bread
  ==Early History of Bread== ...eloped from agricultural grains, see: Rubel, W. (2011). <i>Bread: a global history.</i> London: Reaktion Books.</ref>
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• What Mistakes did the Allies make during Operation Overlord on D-Day
  The American Airborne transported its paratroopers via C-47 transport planes, which were The American C-47 pilots were relatively inexperienced in combat flying. The lack of exp
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• The Rabbi's Atheist Daughter: Interview with Bonnie S. Anderson
  ...ished by the [https://global.oup.com/academic/category/arts-and-humanities/history/?lang=en&cc=us Oxford University Press] is an effort re-illuminate the cont ...389&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=ae4748818883cd06daf0f4930762dd6b A History of Their Own: Women in Europe from Prehistory to the Present Volume 1] and
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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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• How Did Wine Develop
  ...with religion, cooking, feasting, and our forms of social gatherings. The history of wine also shows it has long been associated with human societies since t ...<ref>For more on rice and palm wine, see: Cyrus Redding, Redding. 2008. <i>History and Description of Modern Wines.</i> Place of publication not identified: A
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• What was the Fatty Arbuckle Scandal and how did it influence Hollywood
  ...e "Fatty" Arbuckle, created an opportunity for critique.<ref>Lois Banner, 'American Beauty', p. 183.</ref> ...l," Smithsonian Magazine, November 8, 2011, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-skinny-on-the-fatty-arbuckle-trial-131228859/.</ref>
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• What is the significance of Orpheus and Eurydice
  ...the cosmos <ref>Heath, John. "The failure of Orpheus." Transactions of the American Philological Association (1974-) 124 (1994): 163-196 </ref>. [[Category: Myths and Gods]] [[Category: Ancient Greek History]]
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• How Did Popcorn Become Popular
  ...type of beer.<ref>For more on the variety of uses for popcorn in its early history, see: Podojil, J. (2013). <i>Popcorn Favorites: Everything you want to kno ...Americans, see: Smith, A. F. (Ed.). (2013). <i>Food and Drink in American History: A “full course” encyclopedia.</i> Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO.</ref>
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• What Is the History of Ice Cream
  ...ag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=5e4fd0680acd209879f3f29c98e8005f Ice Cream: A Global History].</i> London: Reaktion Books, pg. 19.</ref> ...g=dailyh0c-20&linkId=84e7dc5199895ae45b5f8f264f1dc432 Of Sugar and Snow: A History of Ice Cream Making].</i> University of California Press.</ref>
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• How Did Croesus Become the Wealthiest Man in the Ancient World
  ...y BC Greek historian Herodotus, who has often been called the “father of history,” the Lydian King Croesus (ruled ca. 560-540s BC) was the world’s wealt ...essors.<ref>Sayce, A. H. “The Decipherment of the Lydian Language.” <i>American Journal of Philology</i> 46 (1925) p. 38</ref>
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• What textiles were British women bringing with them to India
  ...ngland. This was for two reasons - firstly, despite India’s long textile history, by the middle and end of the 19th century the textile quality was better i ...ndia’s time of pre-eminence amongst cotton exporters, earned during the American Civil War when their largest competitor was out of commission.
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• How did the Throne Develop as a Royal Symbol
  ...iterally made from the swords of the defeated) to show the reader that the history of Westeros was extraordinarily violent. While modern government in the Wes ...the life of Mexico City.</i> Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture. Austin, University of Texas Press, pg. 216</ref
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• Why did Medical Licensing Boards prosecute Christian Scientists for practicing medicine during the 19th Century
  ...Sandvick, Clinton (2016)<i>''Defining the Practice of Medicine: Licensing American Physicians, 1870-1907.'', unpublished manuscript.</i></ref> Elite Regular, ...edicine, and it was even wryly noted by a Regular medical journal that the American School of Osteopathy recommended a book list to its students where one-hund
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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 was used for birth control in medieval Europe
  ...ic approvals to carry out these actions.<ref>Shirley Green, <i>The curious history of contraception,</i> New York: St. Martin's Press, (1971), 117</ref> Medic ...Lower Classes of Late Medieval England." The Journal of Interdisciplinary History 8, no. 1 (1977), 9.</ref>
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• When were doctors first licensed in California
  ...ere originally part of the following work: Sandvick, Clinton. <i>Licensing American Physicians: 1870-1907</i>, Dissertation, University of Oregon, 2014</ref> A ...e for a select group of California physicians to question the judgments of American medical schools and “the Medical Colleges of Europe.” The editors of t
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• What Were the Circumstances Surrounding the Battle of the Washita River
  ...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”
  *[[19th Century Overview of United States History Top Ten Booklist]] *[[American Revolution Top Ten Booklist]]
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• A Study of Subaltern Studies
  ...icle "Situating and Rethinking Subaltern Studies for Writing Working Class History" that point out the archival limitations mentioned above, as well as many o ...nd profound critique of Subaltern Studies in the introduction to the book, History after the Three Worlds. They voice fears that Postmodernism, Multiculturali
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• Fool's Crow by James Welch - Book Review
  *[[19th Century Overview of United States History Top Ten Booklist]] *[[American Revolution Top Ten Booklist]]
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• Jochen Hellbeck’s Revolution on My Mind, Writing a Diary under Stalin
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• The Power of Women and Peru's Shining Path
  ...eft.<ref>Orin Starn, Carlos DeGregori, and Robin Kirk. <I>The Peru Reader: History, Culture, Politics, </I>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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• Lester Langley’s The Americas in the Age of Revolution, 1750-1850
  ...n, 1750-1850]</I>, Lester Langley analyzes the chaos and complexity of the American Revolution (1776), the Haitian Revolution (1791), and the Spanish Wars of I ...n a manner that underscores their differences. Langley first explores the American Revolution, what he calls ‘the revolution from above,’ in great detail,
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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 {{Mediawiki:French History}}
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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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• Wartime by Paul Fussell - Book Review
  .... Fussell quotes Walt Whitman, who witnessed some of the atrocities of the American Civil War and stated that “the real war will never get in the books.” T ...d on D-Day as a result of U.S. airstrikes too far inland. They knew of the American troops who died on St. Lo during Operation COBRA from friendly fire. While
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• What if the Battle of Qadisiyyah Had a Different Result
  ...ought in 636 CE from November 1-4. The battle is not known well in Western history but it had major implications for the West and much of the globe. This was ...f the Three Gods: Romans, Persians, and the Rise of Islam.</i> First North American edition. New York, NY: Skyhorse Publishing.</ref>
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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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• When did we start sterilizing people in the United States
  ...enerations of Imbeciles Are Enough’: State Eugenic Sterilization Laws in American Thought and Practice,” Unpublished manuscript, Washington, D.C.: Walter R Sterilizations were performed unevenly across the American population, and eugenicists typically targeted poor women and/or women of c
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• What were the causes of the Second Punic War
  ...Ancient World. He is generally considered one of the greatest generals in history and Rome’s most formidable enemy. Hannibal in the Second Punic War (218- ...tered into a secret agreement with the Celts in Northern Italy.<ref> Livy, History of Rome, xxi</ref> They were based in the Po Valley and had a formidable ar
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• How Did Themistocles Fall from Grace
  ...an Wars (499-479 BC), in many ways solidified the Greeks’ place in world history. They established many attributes of Hellenic civilization that were carrie Any study of the great minds of history reveals that well most of these people were imbued with the qualities that
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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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• When were Spy Services created in the United States
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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 ...Alan. “Crusades and 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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• When did Western Medicine expand into Japan
  ...mation about “the country, the government, the court, their religion and history of past ages.”<ref>Kaempfer, <i>Kaempfer’s Japan: Tokugawa Culture Obse ...publication of this book as “a major turning point in Japanese cultural history.”<ref>Kuriyama, “Between Mind and Eye: Japanese Anatomy in the Eighteen
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• Playing Indian by Philip Deloria
  ...Indian dress and traditions to fashion and inspire a separate and distinct American character. While the specific rationale behind playing Indian changed from ...flated a relatively innocuous and meaningless practice into a quest for an American identity? Does the trend spotted by Deloria represent mainstream efforts a
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• Public Health and the Risk Factor by William Rothstein
  ...ary heart disease, Rothstein slowly builds towards the conclusion that the American medical establishment has misinterpreted the evidence of various studies ex ...e industry, identified risks factors such as “build, occupation, medical history, and residence” as related to premature mortality. The risk factors prov
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• Why was James Willard Hurst important for legal history
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• Practical Pursuits by Ellen Gardner Nakamura
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• How Did the Mongol Invasions Change Population Genetics
  ...wars. The Mongol Invasions (1206–94) represent an important event in the history of population genetics because of the large, spatial extent of the invasion ...a and Europe were directly linked for the first time. <ref>For more on the history and background to the Mongol Empire and populations, see: Fitzhugh, Willia
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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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• How was the Library of Alexandria Destroyed
  ...of Alexandria Burnt: Towards the History of a Symbol.” <i>Journal of the History of Ideas</i> 40.4 (1979):507. Web. 6 Dec, 2015, </ref> ..., Thomas. “The Invention Of The Greek Library.” <i>Transactions Of The American Philological Association</i> 144.2 (2014): 371-413. MLA International Bibli
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• When did abortion become legal in the United States
  ...t legalized abortion nationally with the ''Roe v. Wade'' decision, but the history of abortion’s decriminalization occurred on a state-by-state basis before ...d to protect women from medical quacks far from the established centers of American medicine—Philadelphia, New York, and Boston, for example. These early sta
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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
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• When did Americans begin to get obsessed with weight loss
  ...ly Tribune to Vogue. Her book is also credited with being the first modern American diet book, and spurring a generation of calorie counting and fad dieting. [[Category:Medical History]]
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• How were human genetics shaped by early migrations from Africa
  ...S.A. (2008) African Genetic Diversity: Implications for Human Demographic History, Modern Human Origins, and Complex Disease Mapping. <i>Annual Review of Gen ...gration of Modern Humans into Eastern Asia during the Last Ice Age. <i>The American Journal of Human Genetics.</i> [Online] 65 (6), 1718–1724.; for migration
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• Is Oliver Stone's movie 'Nixon' historically accurate
  ...Scandal that 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- ...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 ...ut of those movements came many of the first abolitionist organizations in history. The second factor has to do with political economy. Slaveholding republics
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• How accurate is the movie Patton
  ...ntieth Century Fox produced the film. The role of Patton was played by the American character actor George C Scott. The movie was enthusiastically received by The movie has one of the most memorable opening scenes in Hollywood history. George C. Scott emerges as Patton and gives a remarkable speech in front o
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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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• How historically accurate is the movie The Longest Day
  ...on June 6th, 1944. These landings were the largest amphibious operation in history when some 100,000 Allied troops landed on the coasts of Normandy in German- ...s. <ref> Solomon, Aubrey, Twentieth Century Fox: a corporate and financial History (Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 1989). p. 253</ref> ''The Longest Day'
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• How historically accurate is the movie 'A Bridge Too Far'
  ...nature of the allied forces in Operation Market Garden, including British, American, Canadian, Free Dutch forces and Polish Paratroopers. Hollywood has a long history of getting it wrong on history. Movies often sacrifice truth to enhance entertainment and box-office appea
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• Top Ten Books on Espionage from Oxford University Press
  ...linkId=b8dce081b68c9280dbac8241be03ae49 Near and Distant Neighbours: A New History of Soviet Intelligence]''
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• How Did Howard Carter Discover Tutankhamun’s Tomb
  ...haeology. James Henry Breasted (1865-1935) is known today as the father of American Egyptology and for helping making the Oriental Institute of Chicago into on ...t, with one being to hire Carter. <ref> Montserrat, Dominic. <i>Akhenaten: History, Fantasy, and Ancient Egypt.</i> (London: Routledge, 2003), p. 67</ref> Pet
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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 {{#dpl:category=Colonial American History|ordermethod=firstedit|order=descending|count=6}}
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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 have immigration and citizenship changed in the U.S.
  Throughout the colonial period, migration to the American continent was an open process. The desire to create permanent settlements p ===Who is an American?===
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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 'The Battle of the Bulge'
  The ‘Battle of the Bulge’ is an enduringly popular American war movie. The director of the movie was Ken Annakin and it was released on ...spective.<ref> Whiteclay, John and Culbert, David. World War II, Film, and History (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2002), p. 156</ref>
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• With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa by E.B. Sledge - Book Review
  The documented history of the United States Marines serving in the Pacific during World War II is ...erial Japan, forgetting that it was often as good as, or even superior to, American munitions.”<ref>Sledge, 1.</ref>This, coupled with the fact that the U.S.
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• What was lynching
  ...tp://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtid=2&psid=3178 Digital History].</ref> ..., vigilantism is romanticized—like in the west—as a form of outspoken, American democracy. While lynching has existed, historically, in many forms, it is m
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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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• How did dogs develop into pets
  ...ogs became domesticated relatively early in complex human societies, their history as pets is generally less clear. ...many regions stopped using dogs as main food sources.<ref>For more on the history of dogs used as food and sacrifice, see: Sterckx, R. (2015) <i>Food, sacrif
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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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• American Girls in Red Russia: Interview with Julia Mickenberg
  [[File:American_Girls_in_Red_Russia.jpg|left|270px|thumbnail|<i>American Girls in Red Russia</i> - Julia Mickenberg]] ...tions of the country and the treatment of people by the new government. <i>American Girls in Russia</i> explores the stories of these women and provides a glim
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• How did cats become pets?
  Cats around the world are among the most popular pets today. The history of cats and humans derives back before they were even domesticated. Unlike ==Domestication and Early History==
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• Why Were the Maya Such Excellent Warriors
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• When were water fountains created
  ...the medieval Islamic world</i>. The Greenwood Press ‘Daily life through history’ series. Indianapolis, IN, Hackett Pub. Co, pg. 125.</ref> ..., P., Antoniou, G., Dragoni, W., El-Gohary, F., et al. (2015) Short Global History of Fountains. <i>Water</i>. [Online] 7 (5), 2314–2348.</ref>
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• How did prisons develop
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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
  ...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 ...s saw Cyrus’ treatment of their community as a watershed moment in their history, it was a carefully calculated political move by Cyrus and part of the over
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• How Did Enlightenment Ideas Influence Modern Economics
  The Enlightenment was a period in world history that roughly corresponds with the eighteenth century, originating in the na Beginning in the Early Modern Period of world history, roughly during the early sixteenth century, corresponding with the Age of
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• African American History Top Ten Booklist
  ...ething can be gained from a vantage point, drawn from the lives of African American works. This is a small sampling of this work. This books renders the African American experience as an epic journey of resistance, likening the latter to a river
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• Working Toward Whiteness by David Roediger - Book Review
  ...s. He recasts immigrant “ethnic” history as a part of American racial history, examines the in-between nature of the immigrants’ race and explains how ...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
  ...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 ...y:United States History]] [[Category:19th Century History]] [[Category:Art History]]
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• African American Women's History Top Ten Booklist
  ...the roles that African American women continue to play in areas as vast as American institutional life and radical movements. Some of the pioneering works in t ...was published as an early call to write the unique experiences of African American women. Its author has inspired many of the writers and thinkers on this lis
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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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• Who exactly was Sacagawea
  ...mission without Sacagawea's assistance. She is a common figure in Western history and the subject of countless articles and books. ...is likely the only thing that stopped her from being lost to the annals of history.
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• What Gods Did Darius "the Great" Worship
  ...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 ...ian: Grammar, Texts, Lexicon.</i> Second Edition. (New Haven, Connecticut: American Oriental Society, 1953), p. 136</ref>
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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- ...ould more easily emerge.<ref>For more on the concepts of socialism and its history, see: Jeremy Jennings (2003) <i>Socialism. Critical concepts in political
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• In what ways did Peter the Great change Russia
  ...e. More than any other person, this Tsar changed the direction of Russian history, and many believe that he transformed the country and opened it up to the w ...B. "The Russian Aristocracy and the Reforms of Peter the Great." Canadian-American Slavic Studies 8, no. 2 (1974): 288-302 </ref> The Tsar reforms did not cha
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• Who Were the Sea Peoples
  ...s often term the “Great Powers Club.” <ref> Mieroop, Marc van de. <i>A History of the Ancient Near East: ca. 3000-323 BC.</i> 2nd ed. (London: Blackwell, ...reat Powers Club was similar to global systems from other periods in world history – it encouraged stability in the region and the development of wealth amo
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• Ten Booklist on Presidential Leadership
  ...2007) <i>The seven laws of presidential leadership: an introduction to the American presidency</i>. Upper Saddle River, N.J, Pearson/Prentice Hall. ...g its perception by the public and other politicians. These are the law of history, the law of rhetoric, the law of theory, the law of culture, law of charact
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• Presidential Leadership Top Ten Booklist
  ...d9a2c230 The Seven Laws of Presidential Leadership: An Introduction to the American Presidency]</i>. Upper Saddle River, N.J, Pearson/Prentice Hall. ...g its perception by the public and other politicians. These are the law of history, the law of rhetoric, the law of theory, the law of culture, the law of cha
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• Who was Prometheus and what did he do in Greek mythology
  ...very similar to other deities who stole fire, including Indian and Native American mythology. Moreover, the story of the Titan also has similarities with the ...re from Mount Olympus. Greeks had little or no knowledge about their early history and the development of civilization. The story of Prometheus allowed them t
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• How Was the Lighthouse of Alexandria Destroyed
  ...f> Handler, Susan. “Architecture on the Roman coins of Alexandria.” <i>American Journal of Archaeology</i> 75 (1971), p. 182</ref> ...nce and Technology]] [[Category:Roman History]][[Category:Ancient Egyptian History]]
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• How have Historians' perceptions of Native Americans changed
  ...ans undermined this argument, scholars were slow to reject it. The Native American rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s emphasized the persistence of Native ...of the heroic reinvention of Native American identity in the face of Euro-American oppression had overwritten ethnographic tragedies.”<ref> Klein, p. 195.
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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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• How Did Christmas Trees Become Christmas Symbols
  ...y was Christmas associated with Christmas trees.<ref>For more on the early history of Christmas trees and its controversy, see: Roy, C. (2005). <i>Traditional ...oldiers under British command, already by the late 18th century during the American Revolution, began to use Christmas trees in Quebec and perhaps in the Colon
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• How Did Saint Valentine's Day Develop
  ====Early History==== Modern Valentine's Day has been strongly influenced by American traditions that first derived from the mid-19th century. Esther A. Howland,
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• How Did Saint Patrick's Day Develop
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• How did Oregon pass Medical Licensing Laws in the 19th Century
  ...edical school graduate.<ref>O. Larsell, <i>The Doctor in Oregon: A Medical History</i> (Portland, Oregon State Historical Society 1947), 210.</ref> After Pope ...ulated that graduates of forty of the existing one-hundred-and-thirty-five American medical institutions would be forced to take an exam under Oregon law. The
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• Why Did Scandinavians Volunteer for the Union Army during the Civil War
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• How Did Easter Become an Important Celebration
  ...and sex in relation to the spring equinox, see: Armstrong, K. (1998) <i>A History of God: the 4000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam</i>. New Yor ...ebrations, see: Stewart, C. (2008) <i>The Catholic Church: a brief popular history</i>. Winona, MN, Saint Mary’s Press, pg. 73.</ref>
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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. ...y theories 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
  ...inkId=9187758485abe727318e423b124b3f79 The Treaty of Versailles: A Concise History]</i> by Michael S. Neiberg (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017) offers ...itain, of equal importance, however; is the reinforcement of the idea that history cannot escape itself. The Paris Peace Conference was, in part, an event by
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• How did Memorial Day develop?
  ...ple who died during the conflict was still a difficult experience for many American families. The war had led to many people taking time to remember their dead ...than other conflicts, because it was by far the bloodiest in United States history.<ref>For more on the early traditions of Decoration Day, see: Jabbour, A.,
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• What are the origins of Halloween
  ...ecause turnips, which were traditionally used, were not as common in North American, thus pumpkins were used as substitutes. In the Medieval period, in England ...&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=98a7c42a01a51865419f3f7123078f12 Trick or Treat: A History of Halloween]</i>. First paperback edition. London: Reaktion Books, 2013. <
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• Sears was the most important retailer in America - Why has it collapsed
  Sears' collapse has been tied to American consumers shift away from America's malls, the noticeable decline of Sears ...om/a-brief-history-of-sears-catalog-homes-233077 Built from a Kit: A Brief History of Sears Catalog Homes]," Apartment Therapy, Jan 18, 2017</ref>
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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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• The Assassin's Accomplice by Kate Clifford Larson - Book Review
  ...depicts the social attitudes of the time and clearly illustrates that the American Civil War was not just a battle between the states, but rather it emphasize ..., and a trip back in time to one of the tensest and emotional times in the history of the United States.
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• United States History Study Guide
  ====American Colonial History==== {{#dpl:category=Colonial American History|ordermethod=firstedit|order=descending|count=30}}
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• American Civil War Study Guide
  *[[How Did the Battle of South Mountain Alter the Course of the American Civil War?]] *[[What Were the Motives of the Irish in the American Civil War?]]
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• How did "Stonewall" Jackson die
  ...ly Thomas J. Jackson. His contributions to the Confederate Army during the American Civil War cannot be overstated. Historians have often posited that had Jack After graduation, he was deployed into action as the Mexican-American War was raging. Due to his gallantry in battle, he was promoted several tim
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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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• What Were the Results of the Second Seminole War
  ...characterized by asymmetrical warfare, resulting in the loss of over 1,000 American lives and 3,000 Seminoles. The war was also very expensive, costing the gov ...de=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=efedad5e44ee9812e3610d47d8164f9f The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln].</i> (New York: W. W. Norton and Company),
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• How has our understanding of Democracy changed
  ...ocracy – or rather democracies – owes its origin more specially to the American and French Revolutions and their respective aftermaths. The remarkable Engl ...itical History]][[Category:Ancient Greek History]][[Category:United States History]][[Category:Special Comment]][[Category:Wikis]]
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• Who helped Lawrence of Arabia shape the Arab Revolt
  ...ntroversy for a hundred years. His legend was promoted in the 1920s by the American Lowell Thomas’s travelogue; renewed in 1935 through his book Seven Pillar ...commemorated, a century after their vital work fell through the cracks of history. It is not unreasonable to believe that Lawrence—complex and unfathomable
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• The History of Things Guide
  * [[How Did Astronomy Fundamentally Change Human History?]] * [[How did American football develop?]]
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• When was Mesothelioma Discovered
  ...erious, because it is an incurable and typically fatal type of cancer. The history of mesothelioma is complicated. Medicine struggled to establish its existen ====What is the History of Mesothelioma?====
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• How do you study the history of espionage
  There are numerous ways to write secret history—and challenge government secrecy. Most importantly, more exists in the ar This is secret history. MI6 files remain classified and many of these operations are still not off
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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 ...n New York City history. On an Eighth Avenue corner in midtown, an African-American man challenged a plainclothes cop over the arrest of his girlfriend for...
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• Did Christianity Positively Impact the Civil Rights Movement
  ...|250px|Martin Luther King Jr. at The March on Washington D.C.]] In popular American culture, religion, especially Christianity, is often looked at as a hindran ...his dedication to progressivism and establishing equality for all African American men and women before the law. I will cover three main ways that King’s Ch
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• What was the First Wave Feminist Movement
  ...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 ...his movement included Scottish activist Marion Reid, who collaborated with American feminists and began to see that greater interest in the ideals of a virtuou
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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. ..., one could not walk outside without being bombarded by the poverty lining American streets. Families were cast out of their homes, desperate for work, and dep
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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. ==Myth as history==
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• What is the history of New Year celebrations
  ...hey, D.M., Tyrrell, I.R. (Eds.), 2003. <i>Alcohol and temperance in modern history: an international encyclopedia</i>. ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara, Calif.</ref> [[Category:Holiday History]]
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• What did Commodore Robert W. Shufeldt accomplish during his worldwide trip between 1878-1880
  ...mmercial representatives with a view to the encouragement and extension of American Commerce.” They chose Commodore Robert Wilson Shufeldt (1822–1895), who ...an agreement. Shufeldt also hoped that Li Hongzhang would be interested in American assistance in reorganizing the Chinese Navy, but the Chinese government had
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• What was the Second Wave Feminist Movement
  ...598cf2d3940b8f On Gender, Labor, and Inequality, Working Class in American History]</i>. Urbana, Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2016. Pg. 83.</ref> ...rspectives on Second-Wave Feminism in the United States, Women in American History].</i> Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008.</ref>
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• What Were the Aztec ‘Flower Wars’
  ...> Townsned, pgs. 210</ref> Since the 1970s, many scholars of Pre-Columbian history have challenged this theory based on reexaminations of the available primar ...ar.” <ref> Hicks, Frederic. “‘Flowery War’ in Aztec History.” <i>American Ethnologist</i> 6 (1979) p. 88</ref> Hicks contended that the emphasis in t
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• How did hot dogs develop into a popular food
  ...t use of meat remains after the processing of meat products. The hot dog's history is often seen or attributed to German origins, but there is a dispute about ...rms used to refer to sausages, see: Kraig, B. (2009). <i>Hot dog: a global history</i>. London: Reaktion Books. </ref>
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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 ...d, or neither to back its currency in the nineteenth century. Early in the American Republic, support for the metal-backed currency was most concentrated in no
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• Why did the United States pass and then repeal the constitutional amendment prohibiting alcohol
  ...the increasingly common view of inebriation as sinful began to change the American relationship with alcohol. ...o the 20th century as part of the Progressive Movement. For much of human history, access to clean drinking water presented a significant engineering challen
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• How did the hamburger develop into a popular food
  ...e history of the 'sandwich' see: Wilson, B. (2010).<i> Sandwich: a global history</i>. London: Reaktion.</ref> ...are of minced meat being a favorite from the town, that began to create an American idea of hamburgers.
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• Why Was the Parthian Empire So Powerful
  ...y AD, making it one of the longest enduring empires and dynasties in world history. In terms of geographic scope, the Parthian Empire stretched from Bactria ( ...ce and also retire to a distance speedily.” <ref> Cassius Dio. <i> Roman History.</i> Translated by Earnest Cary. (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard Univers
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• What Did Black Politicians Accomplish during the Reconstruction Era
  The Reconstruction era of United States history has spawned renewed interest. It has become a critical period to study beca ====How the History Has Been Told====
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• When did political parties emerge
  ...largely true for most democracies today, this was not the case earlier in history when elections and democratic systems developed. Political parties likely d ...(2017). <i>Revolution against empire: taxes, politics, and the origins of American independence</i>. New Haven: Yale University Press. </ref>
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• Was Claudius an effective Roman Emperor
  One of the most unusual Emperors in Roman history was Claudius (10-54 AD). Historians have divergent interpretations of Claud ...fight a series of campaigns to conquer that kingdom.<ref> Cassius Dio, <i>History of Rome</i>, LX, 18</ref>
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• Front page mock up
  ==== United States History ==== {{#dpl:category= United States History |ordermethod=firstedit|order=descending|count=8}}
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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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• Shifting Boundaries by Alexis M. Silver - Book Review
  ...nt youth and their families. Silver places immigration policies within the history of the South that demonstrates the influence of race on experiences of inco ...migration laws, resulting in a hostile local context for immigrants in the American South. While the nation moved towards more inclusive immigration policies,
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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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• Top Ten Books on American War Powers
  ...tly published a post to her blog War Time about teaching a seminar on the history of war powers.  As part of the post, she provided a book list for teaching 1. Drew Gilpin Faust, This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (Vintage Civil War Library)
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• Top Ten Books on the History of Women's Citizenship
  ...0&linkId=2717fb04033627095a8ca5435413297e The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States]]] ...DailyHistory.org.  Check out [http://legalhistoryblog.blogspot.com/ Legal History Blog].
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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
  ...Revolution causes even more problems for the middle ground and for Native American villages, now the preeminent political unit in the pays d'en haut, as Ameri ...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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• Why was the Turner Thesis abandoned by historians
  ...part of his thesis because they did not fit his model of the democratizing American. The closing of the frontier in 1890 by the Superintendent of the census p ...the mid-twentieth century, most people lost interest in the history of the American West.
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• Pox Americana by Elizabeth Fenn - Book Review
  Ultimately, Fenn found that it was plausible that the North American smallpox epidemic stretched into the Pacific Northwest by crossing North Am ...Century History]] [[Category:Medical History]] [[Category:Native American History]]
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• Why did Los Angeles adopt Cars instead of Mass Transit
  ...ess district was not as densely populated as comparable downtowns in other American cities, and it never catered to pedestrians. ...ame increasingly frustrated with streetcar and train companies. Like many American cities, Los Angeles depended on private rail companies for the mass transit
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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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• Why were Eclectic Physicians in the United States divided on Medical Licensing
  ...rapple with a wave of new laws modeled after the Illinois law. Unlike the American Medical Association, NEMA’s response to medical regulation was hampered b ...achusetts, Ohio, and Wisconsin successfully defeated bills proposed by the American Social Science Association designed to consolidate control under the old-sc
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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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• Why Did Babylon Collapse in the Late Bronze Age
  ...gious figures. Babylon was the primary city in Mesopotamia for most of its history and the capital for three of the greatest dynasties in Mesopotamian civiliz ...ations of Babylonia from 1600 to 625 B.C.: The Documentary Evidence.” <i>American Journal of Archaeology</i> 76 (1972) p. 272</ref> Once the Kassites had est
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• How accurate is the movie The Aviator
  ...released in 2004, traces some of the key moments in the life of the famous American industrialist and Hollywood producer Howard Hughes. The movie was directed ...g the world that the subject of the biopic was a significant figure in the history of aviation.
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• Where Did the Tradition Of Death Photography Emerge From
  ...is one photographer who recently created a traveling exhibition of African-American post-mortem photographs showing the deceased in their finest clothing and l {{#dpl:category=19th Century History|ordermethod=firstedit|order=descending|count=6}}
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• Where Did the Tradition Of Greeting Cards Develop
  ...roduced greeting cards and use in Christmas, see: Buday, G. (1992). <i>The history of the Christmas card</i>. Detroit: Omnigraphics. </ref> ...ry, see: Shank, B. (2004). <i>A token of my affection: greeting cards and American business culture</i>. New York: Columbia University Press.</ref>
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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- ...d plots revenge against Bill the Butcher for killing his father during the American Civil War. Di Caprio’s character successfully ingratiates himself into Bi
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• Where Was the Viking Colony of Vinland
  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 ...udson. “Some Observations on Vinland.” <i>Annals of the Association of American Geographers</i> 60 (1970) p. 604</ref>
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• How accurate is the movie J. Edgar
  ...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 Fried, Albert, ed. McCarthyism: The great American red scare: A documentary history (Oxford University Press, USA, 1997).
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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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• What was the Geneva Naval Conference of 1927
  ...and Italy were restricted to navies 35 percent the size of the British and American forces. In 1927, U.S. President Calvin Coolidge invited these powers to mee ...at is required to defend its territory; this idea was in opposition to the American preference that the size of the fleet required should be proportional to th
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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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• The Vietnam Wars 1945-1990 - Book Review
  ...n Young’s <i>The Vietnam Wars 1945-1990</i> examines the fine details of American involvement in Vietnam. Young introduces her examination by raising a criti ...nd historians alike to take into account the process her writing narrative history when much of it was still considered current events.
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• When Did Recreational Drugs Emerge
  ...l use of drugs has been a fairly consistent phenomenon throughout recorded history and most likely much longer. ...tory of drugs in the Old World, see: Escohotado, Antonio. 1999. <i>A Brief History of Drugs: From the Stone Age to the Stoned Age</i>. Rochester, Vt: Park Str
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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
  [[File:The_American_Political_Tradition.jpg|thumbnail|left|300px|<i>The American Political Tradition and the Men who Made It</i> by Richard Hofstadter]] ...fstadter far behind, but that may be all to the good in the case of <i>The American Political Tradition</i>. The book’s twelve chapters offer largely psychol
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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
  ...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 ...ry Thomas) have labeled either the Civil War or Reconstruction as a second American revolution. Eric Foner’s work ''Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Re
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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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• Hiroshima: Why America Dropped the Atomic Bomb - Book Review
  ...phenomenon of anti-Japanese racism in the U.S., and the psychology of key American leaders, with a particular emphasis upon President Harry S. Truman’s psyc ...chapter, for instance, is devoted to the idea of saving “half a million American lives” by opting for atomic bombing over an invasion of Japan. Takaki sta
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• Political Parties and American Political Development from the Age of Jackson to the Age of Lincoln - Book Review
  ...=dailyh0c-20&linkId=345a803734a9c2131108418b1575a1c3 Political Parties and American Political Development from the Age of Jackson to the Age of Lincoln]</i> by ...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 Moreover, though urban riots and conflicts had long been a feature of American city life, during the Gilded Age, its association, mistaken or not, with la
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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 ...of the Viet Cong in the rural areas of the country. Against the advice of American advisors, Diem and his brother, Ngo Dinh Nhu, who oversaw the program, plac
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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]] ...in to what others have called 'collective individualism' the core of early American political thought – remained in uneasy and increasingly contradictory rel
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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 ...ica’s domestic affairs. Despite their insistence that they were entirely American citizens, nativist political forces still saw the Irish presence in America
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• A Consumers’ Republic - Book Review
  ...ared shortly after the war, along with the notion that “thrift is now un-American.” So much of the mania for shopping emanated from the raw new horizon of American life, the Levittowns and other sprawling new communities built to house the
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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
  ...ut they only accounted for some six percent of the entire northern African-American population. Several northern states prohibited African-Americans from testi ...nd Plessy vs. Ferguson? Both cases, though significant in their shaping of American race relations, receive little attention from Litwack here. Most importantl
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• Race Relations in the Urban South: 1865-1890 - Book Review
  ...Codes, many of which did not specifically mention race, regulated African-American life in the South in ways that ranged from prohibiting interracial marriage ...ook Review]] [[Category:United States History]][[Category:African American History]] [[Category:Videri.org]]
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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 ...of Indians selling games and herbs" in the nineteenth century, and African American street peddlers in Natchez and New Orleans. People clung to these old ways
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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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• Top Ten Books from the Oxford Battle Series
  ...es themselves but how they were commemorated and their long term impact on history. The books try to understand not just how the battle took place, but why th Why is Agincourt one of the best known and celebrated battles in history? What made it remarkable? Like many of the battles in the series, the legen
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• Conquest by Law: How the Discovery of America Dispossessed Indigenous Peoples of Their Lands - Book Review
  ...son</i> proved futile as <i>Worcester v. Georgia</i> failed to prevent the American Indian removal by Jackson in the 1830s. As a result of how these circumstan ...Robertson’s observation is justified as the early modern era of American history was that of new encounters and exchanges between invading European customs
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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 Has the Mexico-US Border Changed in History
  ...r itself has changed as the two countries evolved. The border reflects the history between the two countries, that has sometimes been hostile while other time ...Western United States and modern Mexico. The first few decades of Mexico's history were turbulent, as a struggle for power between conservatives, who wanted a
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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
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• 51 Great Online Resources for History Teachers
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• What is the history of impeachment in the United States
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• How Did the Athenians Fund Their Military during the Peloponnesian War?
  ...Simon. “Greece: The History of the Classical Period.” In <i>The Oxford History of Greece and the Hellenistic World.</i> Edited by John Boardman, Jasper Gr ...Alec. “Athenian Finance, 454-404 BC.” <i>Hesperia: the Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens</i> 70 (2001) p. 99</ref> The strong-
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• How did higher education develop in the United States
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• How did the United States Escalate the Vietnam War
  ...in South Vietnam. At the beginning of the year, there was just over 23,000 American military personnel in South Vietnam. This number grew steadily over the yea ...m (ARVN) during May and June convinced General Westmoreland that even more American troops were needed to prevent a complete defeat of South Vietnam. Instead o
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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 Did the Bretton Woods Economic System End
  ...Bank and paved the way for a new era of globalization that was led by the American dollar. ...nce, attempted to convert all of their dollars into gold. Finally, in 1973 American President Richard Nixon took the United States out of the system and into t
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• Did the Carthaginians Really Practice Human Child Sacrifice
  .... <ref> Clifford, Richard J. “Phoenician Religion.” <i>Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research</i> 279 (1990) p. 58</ref> Other modern schola ...of gaping pit filled with fire. <ref> Diodorus Siculus. <i> The Library of History.</i> Translated by C.H. Oldfather. (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard Unive
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• Top Ten Books on the Bubonic Plague
  ...ages in Europe when one in three people were killed. Not surprisingly, the history of the bubonic plague itself is much longer. These books describe the impac ...gue finally ended, more than 25 million people were dead. Weaving together history, microbiology, ecology, jurisprudence, theology, and epidemiology, Justinia
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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 ...ntry, that country has a right to concentrate your affections. The name of American, which belongs to you in your national capacity, must always exalt the just
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• Why did the United States Continental Congress approve The Model Treaty of 1776
  ...and Spain to secure assistance in the struggle against the British in the American Revolution. Congress approved the treaty on September 17, 1776. The Model T ...couraged other countries to join the alliance, but only if both French and American negotiators were present. The 1778 treaty also included a secret clause all
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• Why did the Continental Congress adopt the Articles of Confederation
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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
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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 ...oner's "masterful treatment of one of the most complex periods of American history" (New Republic) redefined how the post-Civil War period was viewed. <i>Reco
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• Why did the United States fail to support the Haitian Revolution of 1801 against France
  ...whelming majority of the population. Prior to and after U.S. independence, American merchants enjoyed a healthy trade with St. Domingue. ====American leaders terrified of a slave revolt====
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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. ...icans hoped for democratic reforms that would solidify the existing Franco-American alliance and transform France into a republican ally against aristocratic a
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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 9
  ...er against domestic faction and insurrection. It is impossible to read the history of the petty republics of Greece and Italy without feeling sensations of ho {{#dpl:category=Colonial American History|ordermethod=firstedit|order=descending|count=7}}
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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
  ...the poison which it conveys; the kindred blood which flows in the veins of American citizens, the mingled blood which they have shed in defense of their sacred ...nd the world for the example, of the numerous innovations displayed on the American theatre, in favor of private rights and public happiness. Had no important
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• The Federalist Papers - Number 16
  ...h barely observing here, that of all the confederacies of antiquity, which history has handed down to us, the Lycian and Achaean leagues, as far as there rema {{#dpl:category=Colonial American History|ordermethod=firstedit|order=descending|count=7}}
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• The Federalist Papers - Number 17
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• The Federalist Papers - Number 18
  ...on, it bore a very instructive analogy to the present Confederation of the American States. ...deliberations, vigorously opposed and defeated the attempt. This piece of history proves at once the inefficiency of the union, the ambition and jealousy of
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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
  {{#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
  ...n laws. It will appear, from the specimens which have been cited, that the American Confederacy, in this particular, stands discriminated from every other inst ...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 ...common stock, and to overbalance the obligations of duty. Hence it is that history furnishes us with so many mortifying examples of the prevalency of foreign
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• The Federalist Papers - Number 23
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• The Federalist Papers - Number 24
  {{#dpl:category=Colonial American History|ordermethod=firstedit|order=descending|count=7}} ...ds, belonging to these two powers create between them, in respect to their American possessions and in relation to us, a common interest. The savage tribes on
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• The Federalist Papers - Number 25
  ...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 {{#dpl:category=Colonial American History|ordermethod=firstedit|order=descending|count=6}}
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• The Federalist Papers - Number 26
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• The Federalist Papers - Number 27
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• The Federalist Papers - Number 28
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• The Federalist Papers - Number 29
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• The Federalist Papers - Number 30
  ...ly unconfined. I believe it may be regarded as a position warranted by the history of mankind, that, IN THE USUAL PROGRESS OF THINGS, THE NECESSITIES OF A NAT {{#dpl:category=Colonial American History|ordermethod=firstedit|order=descending|count=6}}
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• The Federalist Papers - Number 33
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• The Federalist Papers - Number 34
  ...n have looked with so hostile an aspect upon each other? To judge from the history of mankind, we shall be compelled to conclude that the fiery and destructiv {{#dpl:category=Colonial American History|ordermethod=firstedit|order=descending|count=6}}
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• The Federalist Papers - Number 35
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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
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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 40
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• The Federalist Papers - Number 41
  ...tive objects of civil society. It is an avowed and essential object of the American Union. The powers requisite for attaining it must be effectually confided t {{#dpl:category=Colonial American History|ordermethod=firstedit|order=descending|count=8}}
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• The Federalist Papers - Number 42
  ...commercial treaties; and that where no such treaties exist, the mission of American consuls into foreign countries may PERHAPS be covered under the authority, {{#dpl:category=Colonial American History|ordermethod=firstedit|order=descending|count=6}}
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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 ...ur domestic enemy,” whether officially or unofficially, or risk an Anglo-American war. But the Union realized that Europe’s declarations of neutrality also
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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
  ...he individual States? Was, then, the American Revolution effected, was the American Confederacy formed, was the precious blood of thousands spilt, and the hard ...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
  ...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 [[Category: US History Documents]] [[Category: Historical Documents]] [[Category: Federalist Pap
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• The Federalist Papers - Number 55
  ...ce for very different purposes; their private fortunes, as they must allbe American citizens, cannot possibly be sources of danger. The only means, then, which [[Category: US History Documents]] [[Category: Historical Documents]] [[Category: Federalist Pap
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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 ...in the 1860s and 1870s. Increasingly, abolitionists pressured European and American governments to end slavery and other forms of bondage in their territories.
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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 70
  ..., on an experiment of two Praetors, were induced to abolish one. The Roman history records many instances of mischiefs to the republic from the dissensions be ...degree as a hostage to the national justice for his good behavior. In the American republic, it would serve to destroy, or would greatly diminish, the intende
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• The Federalist Papers - Number 78
  ...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 [[Category: US History Documents]] [[Category: Historical Documents]] [[Category: Federalist Pap
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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 ...tes of America. This law remains critically important in understanding how American notions of equity and justice were first applied to those were themselves f
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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 Although Eisenhower never directly invoked the Eisenhower Doctrine, the American action in Lebanon was meant not only to help Chamoun’s Government against
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• Why did the Soviet Union build the Berlin Wall
  ...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 * Republished from [https://history.state.gov/| Office of the Historian, United States Department of State]
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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 {{#dpl:category=Cold War History|ordermethod=firstedit|order=descending|count=10}}
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• Was the Gulf of Tonkin incident staged
  ..., especially soldiers, to the fight in Asia. Johnson did not want to anger American voters by putting US servicemen in harm’s way, but he was conscious of th ...of the troop build-up that many were calling for, but kept the increase of American personnel relatively modest. Financial and material aid was increased. Next
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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 * Republished from [https://history.state.gov/| Office of the Historian, United States Department of State]
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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 ...interest in ridding the Western Hemisphere of European colonial powers and American public outrage over brutal Spanish tactics created much sympathy for the Cu
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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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• Scholarship on the Spinner Rack: Rutgers University Press’ Comics Culture Series
  ...rs over time have begun to take both content of comics and their impact on American culture very seriously. The Comics Culture series of monographs from Rutger ...lish professor at the University of Calgary and author of other comic book history monographs, examines a limited run of the Archie comics from the 1960s to c
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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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• How Did St. Clair’s Defeat Happen
  ...role in the Northwest Indian War (1785-1795), setting the stage for future American-Indian conflicts. Many of the eastern Indian tribes supported the British during the American Revolution because they were told the British would stop or severely limit
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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
  ...e elected by the members not entitled to appoint directors, other than the American Republics; and (iv) Two shall be elected by The American Republics not entitled to appoint directors.
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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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• What is the history of vacations in the United States
  ====Early History of the Vacation==== ..., see: Falk, J.D., Kinnell, S.K., Brown, J.S., 1987. <i>Searching America: History and life </i>. ABC-Clio, Santa Barbara, Calif, pg. 737. </ref>
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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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• What happened at the "Big Three" conferences between the Allies during World War II
  The Casablanca Conference took place just two months after the Anglo-American landings in French North Africa in November 1942. At this meeting, Roosevel {{#dpl:category=World War Two History|ordermethod=firstedit|order=descending|count=10}}
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• What is the history of music festivals
  ...since the rise of Rock and more liberal lifestyles since the 1960s, their history goes back much further. Music festivals have always been about bringing peo ...uth Festival on music and festivals, see: Spotts, Frederic. <i>Bayreuth: A History of the Wagner Festival</i>. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1994. </ref>
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• Was Robinson Crusoe based on a real person
  ...eat books: With some serious reflections on Robinson Crusoe." New Literary History 39, no. 2 (2008): 335-353</ref> ...Simpson, Lesley Byrd (1929), "The Spanish Crusoe, 1528-1536", The Hispanic American Historical Review, 9 (3): 368–376</ref>
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• What Happened to the Volga German Colonies in Russia
  ...ith the urban Germans in Russia was somewhat similar to that of the German-American experience. ...re lucky enough to escape the gulags made their way to the plains of North American and rural regions of Argentian.
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• What is the history of cooling a home in summer
  ====Early History of Cooling==== ...s to help cool people and homes, see: Gantz, Carroll. <i>Refrigeration: A History</i>. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2015
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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
  ...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 ...lature rejected the new constitution. Law-makers began drafting a new anti-American constitution, but the United States forced President Dartiguenave dissolve
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• How did the United States respond to the Taiwan Straits Crises in the 1950s
  ...ributed to the tensions in the Taiwan Strait. In late 1949 and early 1950, American officials were prepared to let PRC forces cross the Strait and defeat Chian * Republished from [https://history.state.gov/| Office of the Historian, United States Department of State]
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• Why did the United States declare war on Germany during World War I in 1917
  ...over the territory it had ceded to the United States following the Mexican-American War. In return for this assistance, Germany asked for Mexican support in th * Republished from [https://history.state.gov/| Office of the Historian, United States Department of State]
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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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• Why did the Mukden Incident lead to the creation of the Stimson Doctrine in 1932 by the United States
  ...the Far East. The United States engaged in trade and investment in China. American missionaries representing many denominations worked within the region. The * Republished from [https://history.state.gov/| Office of the Historian, United States Department of State]
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• Why did the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations increase Foreign Aid
  ...of humanitarian aid as a form of diplomacy, and reinforced the belief that American security was linked to the economic progress and stability of other nations * Republished from [https://history.state.gov/| Office of the Historian, United States Department of State]
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• Why did diplomatic relations between the United States and Japan worsen at the beginning of the 20th Century
  * Republished from [https://history.state.gov/| Office of the Historian, United States Department of State] * Article: Japanese-American Relations at the Turn of the Century, 1900–1922
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• How did the Second Great Awakening change the United States
  ...revival that spread across the United States from the 1790s to the 1830s. American religious leaders were deeply concerned by low church attendance; only abou ...ican Temperance Society in 1826, and it grew rapidly. Within 10 years, the American Temperance Society had over 4 million members.
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• What is the history of the playground
  ====Early History==== ...how the concept of playgrounds firs evolved, see: Frost, Joe L. 2010. <i>A History of Children’s Play and Play Environments: Toward a Contemporary Child-Sav
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• How Did the Scythians Influence the Achaemenid Empire
  ...ious kingdoms and therefore sometimes played a major role in the course of history. From China in the east to Greece in the west, Scythian hordes quickly brou Early in the history of the Achaemenid Empire, rulers such as Darius I (ruled 522-486 BC) and Xe
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• Top Ten Books on Los Angeles History
  ...teristic of the American west, and contrary to the racial dichotomy in the American South. For those who are interested in studying the history of Los Angeles, these ten books below are a start. These ten books cover a
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• Was El Dorado a real place
  ...ry of the fabulously wealthy city was to play a very important role in the history of Latin America. Those who sought the fabled place helped to explore the c ...eggers, B. J. (2001). The continuing quest for El Dorado: round two. Latin American Antiquity, 12(3), 304-325</ref> When Raleigh returned to England he was inc
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• How did the Great Depression change American Foreign Policy
  ...ibuted to the emergence of the United States as a world leader after that. American policymakers believed that the isolationist policies contributed enabled th * Republished from [https://history.state.gov/| Office of the Historian, United States Department of State]
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• Why did the Republican administrations during the interwar period support high tariffs on international trade
  To provide protection for American farmers, whose wartime markets in Europe were disappearing with the recover ====The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act hoped to Protect American Farmers====
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• Was Zorro based on a real figure
  ...a superstar at the time. <ref>Curtis, Sandra. Zorro Unmasked: The Official History (LA, Hyperion, 1998), p. 12</ref> ...European competitors would seize the area. <ref>Chapman, Charles Edward. A history of California: the Spanish period. (London, Macmillan, 1921), p. 114</ref>
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• How did the United States react to the 1967 Arab-Israeli War
  Lyndon Johnson’s presidency witnessed the transformation of the American role in the Arab-Israeli conflict.
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• Why did Japan attack Pearl Harbor in 1941
  ====American Officials more concerned about Japan's invasion China==== * Republished from [https://history.state.gov/| Office of the Historian, United States Department of State]
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• What Were the LA Water Wars
  ...>Donald Worster, ''Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity, and the Growth of the American West'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992).</ref> ...radition and the English common law."<ref>Remi Nadeau, "The Water Wars," ''American Heritage'', vol. 13, no. 1 (December 1961).</ref>
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• When was the Southeast Asian Trade Organization (SEATO) created
  Beyond its activities, the SEATO charter was also vitally important to the American rationale for the Vietnam War. The United States used the organization as i * Republished from [https://history.state.gov/| Office of the Historian, United States Department of State]
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• What was the 1930 London Naval Conference and was it so important
  [[File:London_Naval_Conference_1930.jpg|thumbnail|left|250px|Members of the American delegation to the London Naval Conference in 1930]]__NOTOC__ ...key naval officers concerned that the naval limitations would inhibit the American ability to defend its control of the Philippine islands. Then the United St
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• What caused the War of 1812
  ====Britain stopped US merchant ships and impressed American sailors into the British Navy==== ...utral commerce. Madison made the issue of impressment from ships under the American flag a matter of national sovereignty—even after the British agreed to en
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• Why did the United States free the African captives on the Spanish schooner Amistad
  ...ound itself with an explosive legal and diplomatic case that would pit the American system’s ability to provide justice for all on its shores against the fed ====American officials seized the Amistad after captured Africans mutinied====
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• Why did Daniel Webster negotiate the Webster-Ashburton Treaty with Britain
  ...Ashburton Treaty, signed August 9, 1842, resolved these frictions in Anglo-American relations. On April 4, 1842, British diplomat Lord Ashburton arrived in Was ...bellion of 1837, several participants fled to the United States where some American adventurers joined them. This band occupied a Canadian island in the Niagar
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• How historically accurate is the movie 'The Revenant'
  ...of the American frontier was a wilderness peopled by often-hostile Native American tribes. The movie is set in a period when the fur trade was big business. I ...tain Fur Company were attacked by Arikara warriors. Several hundred Native American warriors attacked the band of 70 or so trappers.
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• Why did the United States establish a strong maritime presence in the Pacific during the 19th Century
  ...shed full colonial rule over the Philippines in 1900 during the Philippine-American War. * Republished from [https://history.state.gov/| Office of the Historian, United States Department of State]
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• The Coming of the French Revolution - Book Review
  ...h century. While philosophical, Arendt’s discourse anchors itself in the history of the two of the most colossal political and social events of the Western ...American Revolution in its political reverberations, “Much more than the American Revolution, the French movement raised fundamental political questions.”
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• How did the United States resolve its dispute with Great Britain over the Oregon Territory
  ...’ obligation and right to extend its rule and liberties across the North American continent. The Oregon Territory stretched from the Pacific coast to the Roc As early as 1818 British and American Commissioners had fixed the border between the United States and Canada at
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• How did Theodore Roosevelt help resolve the Russo-Japanese War with the Treaty of Portsmouth
  ...e Japanese military victories, Roosevelt worried about the consequences to American interests if Japan managed to drive Russia out entirely. ====American public supported Japanese position====
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• How did Richard Nixon normalize diplomatic relations with China in 1972
  ...rst of these trips was conducted in great secrecy and only revealed to the American public during a dramatic speech by President Nixon. Kissinger’s second tr * Republished from [https://history.state.gov/| Office of the Historian, United States Department of State]
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• How did the French defeat at Dien Bien Phu change the diplomatic approach of the United States to Vietnam
  ...sted their return to colonial status, resulting in a surge of nationalism. American officials involved in the U.S. occupation of Japan also developed a strong ...erence that ended World War I. In the 1940s, he made repeated requests for American aid and campaigned for independence. Following unsuccessful discussions wit
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• How did the United States react to the Chinese Revolution of 1949
  ====Nationalist government fled to Taiwan and American Policy towards China Flailed==== * Republished from [https://history.state.gov/| Office of the Historian, United States Department of State]
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• Why was NATO (the North Atlantic Treaty Organization) created in 1949
  ...the Truman Administration considered the possibility of forming a European-American alliance that would commit the United States to bolster the security of Wes ...arrangements in NATO served to place the whole of Western Europe under the American “nuclear umbrella.” In the 1950s, one of the first military doctrines o
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• How did the United States react to the decolonization of Africa between 1945-1960
  ...licate the U.S. position, as U.S. support for decolonization was offset by American concern over communist expansion and Soviet strategic ambitions in Europe. * Republished from [https://history.state.gov/| Office of the Historian, United States Department of State]
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• How did the United States react to the Arab-Israeli War of 1973
  ...mmunity. Until the fall of 1973, the President and Kissinger held that any American diplomatic initiative would have to wait until after Israel’s elections t ...o the same for them. Not wanting to see Israel defeated, Nixon agreed, and American planes carrying weapons began arriving in Israel on October 14.
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• What was the Red Line Agreement that carved up the Ottoman Empire's oil resources after World War I
  ...r known as the “Red Line” Agreement) was a deal struck between several American, British, and French oil companies concerning the oil resources within terr ...n independent French oil company that could compete with major British and American oil companies, which became known collectively as the seven sisters. The se
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• Why did the Tet Offensive (1968) weaken American support for the Vietnam War
  ...e vivid reporting on the Tet Offensive by the U.S. media made clear to the American public that an overall victory in Vietnam was not imminent. * Republished from [https://history.state.gov/| Office of the Historian, United States Department of State]
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• How did the United States end the Vietnam War
  ...rably was essential to his success in the presidency. He expected that the American people would give him a year to end U.S. involvement in the war, and he exp In order to buy time with the American people, Nixon began to withdraw forces from Vietnam, meeting with South Vie
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• Why did the Treaty of Wangxia negotiated with the United States ultimately alienate China
  ...treaty signed between the United States and China in 1844. It served as an American counterpart to the Anglo-Chinese Treaty of Nanjing that ended the First Opi ...lready discovered a great market in southern China for smuggled opium, and American traders soon also turned to opium to supplement their exports to China.
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• How did the World React to the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan in 1978 according to the CIA
  ...ding that, despite political differences with the United States, continued American access to Philippine bases is essential to stability in the region '''REDAC ...fghanistan has been almost universally critical. The Caribbean and Central American countries—with the exceptions of Cuba and, surprisingly, Grenada--voted i
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• How Did Trade Tariffs Develop
  ====Early History of Tariffs==== ...e: Temin, Peter. 2017. <i>The Roman Market Economy. The Princeton Economic History of the Western World</i>. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press. </ref>
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• How did the Reagan Administration react to the Falklands War
  ...ain as a betrayal of the hemispheric solidarity embodied in the 1947 Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance (the Rio Treaty). In addition to offering b * Article: [https://history.state.gov/milestones/1981-1988/south-atlantic| Crisis in the South Atlantic
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• What did the Open Door policy with China Accomplish
  ...espect for China’s administrative and territorial integrity. British and American policies toward China had long operated under similar principles, but once The idea behind the Open Door Notes originated with British and American China experts, Alfred E. Hippisley and William W. Rockhill. Both men believ
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• How Did Black Friday Develop
  ...Christmas promotion attempts, including parades, see: Kathan BW (2017) <i>American Holy Days: The Heart and Soul of Our National Holidays</i>. Eugene: Wipf an ...he United States do not celebrate Thanksgiving, countries in Europe, North American and even east Asia began adopting either Black Friday as a discount day for
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• How Did Government Propaganda Develop
  ...statements on public works such as temples created. A consistent theme in history is as new media became invented, governments used those as vehicles of offi ...2 with radio personalities such as Tokyo Rose that attempted to discourage American soldiers.
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• Why did the Carter Administration establish official diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China in 1979
  During Jimmy Carter’s presidency, the most dramatic moment in Sino-American relations occurred on December 15, 1978, when, following months of secret n ...remely successful as he charismatically wooed Congress, the media, and the American people. Journalists depicted the Chinese leader as personable, famously pho
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• Why did the Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928 which outlawed war fail
  ...ated to promoting internationalism that was established in 1910 by leading American industrialist Andrew Carnegie. Though the suggestion had the enthusiastic support of some members of the American peace movement, U.S. President Calvin Coolidge and Secretary of State Frank
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• Did Woodrow Wilson state that the film The Birth of Nation was "like writing history with lightning'
  ...e film at the White House, Wilson reportedly stated, “It is like writing history with lightning, and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.”<r ...the scene.<ref>Melvyn Stokes, D. W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation: A History of the Most Controversial Motion Picture of All Time (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford
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• How Did Historiography Evolve in the Hellenic World
  ...ry Greek historian, Herodotus, is generally thought of as “the father of history,” while Thucydides (c. 460-400 BC) is often seen as the leader of the sec ...llenic Civilization, followed the Greek methods of writing and researching history but also added a few of their own ideas. The Romans were particularly fond
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• What is Zoroastrianism
  ...orld; but it also happens to be one of the more misunderstood religions in history. Originating in ancient Persia probably in the middle of the second millenn ...mples, some of which still exist. <ref> Clark, pgs. 93-96</ref> Throughout history outsiders have consistently misunderstood the Zoroastrian reverence for fir
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• Was Atlantis based on a real place
  ...hera). This is one of the largest known volcanic eruptions in all of human history. It was so large that it caused havoc as far away as China. Based on the am ...ef> Chamorro, Javier G. "Survey of Archaeological Research on Tartessos". American Journal of Archaeology. 91 (2): (1987) 197–232 </ref> Many believe that t
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• Why were women put into Twilight Sleep during childbirth
  ...cine became an organized profession in the 19th century, much of its early history revolved around consolidating that knowledge into medical men’s hands.<re ...birth in hospitals.<ref>Richard Wertz and Dorothy C. Wertz, ''Lying-In: A History of Childbirth in America'' (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989)</ref>
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• How did the Phoenicians contribute to western civilization
  The Phoenicians emerged in history about 1800 BC, during the Bronze Age. They occupied a narrow strip of coas ...y of Tyre.<ref>Clifford, Richard J. "Phoenician religion." Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 279, no. 1 (1990): 55-64 </ref> It has been cl
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• What Was the Purpose of the Mesoamerican Ballgame
  ...” played an important role in their daily lives. From el Salvador to the American southwest, remnants of ball courts where different versions of the ballgame ...es, and a substitute for war. Finally, like all sporting events throughout history, the ballgame was also a source of entertainment, where spectators bet on g
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• Was 'To Kill a Mockingbird' based on real events
  ...mily and friends. To Kill a Mockingbird also accurately reflects a time in American society when racial inequality was the norm and accepted. ...to the notorious case of the Scottsboro boys, they were a group of African American youths, who were wrongly convicted of rape and sentenced to death. It seems
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• What is the history of creation mythologies
  ...d other creatures are born over a given night. In Cherokee and some Native American mythology, the Earth was seen as a great floating island where life spread. The creation myth central to Christianity still plays an important role in American political culture. Creationists still seek to undermine scientific theories
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• Why are American states referred to as Red and Blue states
  The history of terming states red or blue relates to United States elections since the ...). <i>The election of the century and what it tells us about the future of American politics</i>. Armonk, N.Y: M.E. Sharpe. </ref>
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• What is the history of how gods ruled over humanity
  ...-knowing and powerful god or sometimes gods. This understanding has a long history and surprisingly many faiths have taken it as given that god(s) rule over m ...hips that keeps a type of balance or harmony.<ref>For more on native North American beliefs, see: Sullivan, L.E., 2003. <i>Native religions and cultures of Nor
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• What is the history of apocalyptic mythologies
  ...re on Aztec beliefs and myths, including related cultures and other Native American cultures, see: Johnson, W.G. (Ed.), 2017. <i>End of days: an encyclopedia ...ommon themes. The concept of the apocalypse was relatively recent in human history, where we do not see any evidence for this in early Bronze Age cultures. Ho
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• City of Quartz - Book Review
  Davis traces LA history back to the turn of the century exploring some of its socialist roots that ...s awash in racial and class supervision … Angelenos came to define their history through the imagery of noir “Los Angeles understands its past … through
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• Magical Urbanism - Book Reivew
  Mike Davis adds to his prolific output concerning Southern California history, especially his attention to Latino immigration and urban life. While this ====Mexico and the American Southwest radically changed in 1980s and 1990s====
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• Redeeming the Dial - Book Review
  ...gth is that it serves as an ideal introduction to American religious radio history. Hangen covers more than four decades of material without sacrificing the p ...provides a valuable contribution to an under-researched topic in American history that will, hopefully, encourage further scholarship.
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• Betty Friedan and the Making of “The Feminine Mystique” - Book Review
  ...multaneously reifying the “great man” or “great woman” approach to history. ...own life may not have been as exact as her work claims. Still, her time in American suburbs, work with the IRP, and her former Smith connections shifted her ga
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• Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics - Book Review
  ...ban California, 2009) and Glen Mimura’s Ghostlife of Third Cinema: Asian American Film and Video (2009) reveal the diversity of works and approaches that uti ...' that aestheticizes ethnic differences as if they could be separated from history.” (9)
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• My Blue Heaven - Book Review
  ...this phenomena as much if not more than any other century in United States history. Becky M. Nicolaides locates the birth and growth of the white taxpaying wo ...liest inceptions in 1920 to the Watts Riots of 1965. Nicolaides uncovers a history that illustrates fluctuations in residents ideas of themselves and the subu
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• Window on Freedom - Book Review
  ...en also gives examples of many international news outlets that wrote about American civil rights struggles after World War II ended. Of course, no criticism of ...om overseas, with help from press outlets such as the ‘’Baltimore Afro-American,’’ and the fate of many of the mixed-race children that ended up stayin
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• Building the Dream: A Social History of Housing in America - Book Review
  ...into residents through architecture and interior design, “The history of American houses shows how Americans have tried to embody social issues in domestic a ...ise, rather than planning for the overall public good, which characterized American society.” (89) As well, Wright clearly illustrates shifts in housing ideo
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• Favelas and Ghettos - Book Review
  ...and Ghettos: Race and Class in Rio De Janeiro and New York City.” Latin American Perspectives (1996): 71–89. ...iveira concludes that despite diminished funding (in comparison with their American counterparts), Rio’s favelas organize more effectively, remain independen
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• The Power of the Zoot - Book Review
  ...ans, and zoot suiters themselves thought about too and what was considered American." (2) Deviating from previous works, <i>The Power of the Zoot</i> departs f ...oot suiter in New York … was often not the same as dignity for a Mexican American female zoot suiter in Los Angeles." (8) Moreover, some zoots opposed the wa
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• What did the China Ambassadorial talks of 1955 accomplish
  ...them for sixteen years. The Chinese proposed the negotiations because Sino-American tensions were high, causing concern to bystanders throughout the region. ...he Chinese of ignoring the text of the announcement and continuing to hold American citizens as political prisoners on false charges. China insisted that it ha
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• What was the Venezuela Boundary Dispute
  ...nned the globe. Lord Salisbury’s government submitted the dispute to the American boundary commission and said nothing else of the Monroe Doctrine. Venezuela ...undary dispute incident asserted for the first time a more outward-looking American foreign policy, particularly in the Western Hemisphere. Internationally, th
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• American Slavery, American Freedom - Book Review
  ...&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=e5724e6a23cd81180337e476099b3321 American Slavery, American Freedom]'' by Edmund Morgan]] ...&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=e5724e6a23cd81180337e476099b3321 American Slavery, American Freedom]" explores the dynamics of pre-Revolutionary Virginia from its fail
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• What is the History of Pandemics
  ...1. The Justinian Plague is perhaps among the most devastating pandemics in history.]] Pandemics have long been a part of human history. This includes various diseases that spread globally and has, in many diffe
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• How did the Burlingame-Seward Treaty of 1868 change the relationship between China and the United States
  ...to ease immigration restrictions and represented a Chinese effort to limit American interference in internal Chinese affairs. ...ports and cities, and established the right of China to appoint consuls to American port cities. The more groundbreaking articles included measures that promis
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• What was the history of marriage in the United States
  ...ty and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America'', 2011.</ref>. Throughout history, the United States has idealized faithful, intraracial monogamy in the name ...--and their variability from state to state--became more visible after the American Civil War. When the federal government recognized a need to provide pension
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• What is the History of Social Distancing
  ...periods, it has been the most effective and common form of practice. Some history of this practice is given. ==Early History==
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• How does Planned Parenthood vs. Casey differ from Roe v. Wade
  ...Charles Hoffer, ''Roe v. 2ade: The Abortion Rights Controversy in American History'', Second Edition (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2010).
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