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__NOTOC__ <div class="portal" style="font-size:90%">[[File:Napoli BW 2013-05-16 16-24-01.jpg|thumbnail|left|200px]]====[[Alexander the Great Top Ten Booklist]]====Creating a top ten list for books on Alexander the Great is not easy, since few ancient historical figures have been written about as much. Everything from his complex personality and his sexual life to his military and logistical tactics have been analyzed by historians. Alexander, simply put, stands out as unique among ancient historical figures for having so much detailed assessment made on his life and times.{{Mediawiki:kindlefireRead more|Alexander the Great Top Ten Booklist}}</div> <div class="portal" style="widthfont-size:8590%;">[[File:Conspiracy_of_Free_TradeA_Midwife's_Tale.jpg|thumbnail|left|175px150px]] ====[[The Conspiracy Gender in Early America Top Ten Booklist]]====Most of us are familiar with a narrative of colonial America that focuses on the actions of our "Founding Fathers." But what of our "Founding Mothers"? This booklist compiles ten works that explore gender in colonial North America and provide an important lens through which we can view some of Free Tradethe formative events in our shared history. {{Read more|Gender in Early America Top Ten Booklist}}</div> <div class="portal" style="font-size:90%">[[File: Interview Lighthouse.jpg|150px|thumbnail|left]]====[[How Was the Lighthouse of Alexandria Destroyed?]]====Of all the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, only the Great Pyramids of Giza in Egypt still remain. War, neglect, and natural disasters have wiped them from the face of the earth with Marconly descriptions left by ancient historians and geographers, or perhaps an occasional coin or painting, as tokens of their greatness. {{Read more|How Was the Lighthouse of Alexandria Destroyed?}}</div> <div class="portal" style="font-William Palensize:90%">[[File:William_Ellis.jpg|thumbnail|left|150px]]====[[Best Gifts for History Lovers]]====It can sometimes be difficult to find the right gift for your history loving friend or spouse. Hopefully, we can help. This is our 2017 list of great gifts for history lovers. If in doubt, get a book. History lovers adore books. Some our recommendations are less academic then some of the books that appear on our other booklists, but they do represent outstanding recent books that most history lovers should enjoy. {{Read more|Best Gifts for History Lovers}}Marc</div> <div class="portal" style="font-William Palensize:90%">[[File:Spartacus - 1960 - poster.png|thumbnail|200px|left]]====[[How accurate is Stanley Kubrick's new book 'Spartacus'?]]====The historical epic Spartacus (1960) is one of the best-known movies in cinema history. It caused a sensation on its release and was one of the most successful pictures of the 1960s. The movie was not only a commercial success it was a critical success and it received several Academy Awards. Spartacus was directed by the cinematic genius Stanley Kubrick. {{Read more|How accurate is Stanley Kubrick's 'Spartacus'?}}</div> <div class="Conspiracyportal" style="font-size:90%" >[[File:Last_Kingdom_2.jpg|thumbnail|200px|left]]====[[How Historically Accurate is Season 2 of Free TradeLast Kingdom?]]====Season 2 is divided into two novels from the Saxon Tales series written by Bernard Cornwell, namely books 3 and 4 (Season 1 was books 1-2). The novels span roughly between 878-886 (Figure 1). The main focus for Season 2 in the first four episodes is Uhtred's quest to go north from Wessex into Northumbria, a less tamed area of England that is ruled more by Danes but their hold is somewhat less clear. Uhtred seeks his ancestral home in Bebbanburg (Bamburgh Castle) and also wants revenge against Kjartan, who killed is adopted Danish father. {{Read more|How Historically Accurate is Season 2 of Last Kingdom?}}</div> <div class="portal" style="font-size:90%">[[File: Confederate_monument_Elmira_NY.jpg|thumbnail|200px|left]]====[[Why are there so many Monuments to the Confederacy across the United States?]]====As one travels across the southern United States, it is not unusual to find monuments and memorials to the Confederate dead in many small towns. In fact, these sculptural pieces, often composed of the same statues and plinths from the Monumental Bronze Co. of Bridgeport, Conn., can be found as far north as Pennsylvania and New York. A study in 2016 found some 1,500 monuments still standing. While in recent years these monuments have become a new source of political conversation their very erection was a movement by Confederate women. {{Read more|Why are there so many Monuments to the Confederacy across the United States?}}</div> <div class="portal" style="font-size:90%">[[File:16307509620 d1ab80ba6b.jpg|thumbnail|200px|left]]====[[What was lynching?]]====Lynching is often described as a form of extralegal, vigilante violence or justice; however, its meaning has evolved over time—from the tarring and feathering of individuals in the Colonial period to the lethal, racial violence that proliferated in the South. According to Digital History, "Lynching received its name from Judge Charles Lynch, a Virginia farmer who punished outlaws and Tories with "rough" justice during the American Revolution." The AngloUnited States has a long history of vigilance committees whose purposes were to protect the community. According to Linda Gordon, “vigilantism generally means bypassing the legal procedures of the state and substituting direct, usually punitive and coercive action by self-appointed groups of citizens".{{Read more|What was lynching?}}</div> <div class="portal" style="font-American Struggle over Empire size:90%">[[File:Tomb_of_Nakht.jpg|thumbnail|200px|left]]====[[What Was the Importance of Alcohol Consumption in Ancient Egypt?]]====There is a common misconception today that life in ancient Egypt was a dreary one for anyone not in the nobility. This image is probably at least partially derived from pop culture where scenes are common in movies that depict Egyptian peasants being worked to the death to make tombs and temples for their gods and kings. The reality is that although the ancient Egyptian social system was quite different from that of the modern world, and Economic Globalisationthey had few of today’s modern conveniences, 1846Egyptians from all social classes enjoyed a leisure culture that was not much different than today’s. {{Read more|What Was the Importance of Alcohol Consumption in Ancient Egypt?}}</div> <div class="portal" style="font-1896'size:90%">[[File:L' aquarium; vue intérieure.jpg|thumbnail|200px|left]]====[[How Did Public Aquariums Develop?]]====Large public aquariums have become fixtures in most major urban regions. In some places, they have become among the leading attractions for city tourism, where many aquariums have also expanded into conservation efforts and applied research along with being tourist destinations. The history of such aquariums is relevant not only completely modern, although the form in which we know aquariums today is mostly a recent development. {{Read more|How Did Public Aquariums Develop?}}</div> <div class="portal" style="font-size:90%">[[File:Karl XII i Ystad 1715, målning av Johan Heinrich Wedekindt från 1719.jpg|thumbnail|200px|left]]====[[Why did Charles XII of Sweden fail to conquer Russia in 1708?]]====The failed invasion of Russia by Hitler and Napoleon are well known. Less well-known is invasion of Russia by the Swedes under their most famous king, Charles XII. Sweden in 1700 was the greatest Northern European power and this provoked the jealousy of its neighbors. This led to the Great Northern War. The culmination of this war was the Swedish monarch’s invasion of Russia and his subsequent defeat by Tsar Peter the Great at Poltava (1709).{{Read more|Why did Charles XII of Sweden fail to conquer Russia in 1708?}}</div> <div class="portal" style="font-size:90%">[[File:The_Native_Ground.jpg|thumbnail|200px|left]]====[[How have Historians' perceptions of Native Americans changed?]]====In 1997, Kerwin Lee Klein, among others, observed that a wholesale change had occurred in how historians portrayed Native American history. Previously, historians and ethnographers had focused on “the tragedy of the vanishing Indian.”[1] Many Americans, even those sympathetic to Native Americans, argued that Indians ultimately faced extinction. Even though this argument was undermined by the continued survival of Native Americans, scholars were slow to reject it. The Native American rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s emphasized the persistence of Native Americans. {{Read more|How have Historians' perceptions of Native Americans changed?}}</div> <div class="portal" style="font-size:90%">[[File:Abraham_Lincoln_Brigade.jpg|thumbnail|200px|left]] ====[[The Abraham Lincoln Brigade: the Historiography of imperialismthe American soldiers in the Spanish American War]]====During the Spanish Civil War, capitalismapproximately 2, 800 American men and women answered the call from the Communist party to defend the Spanish republic from fascist aggression. These men and economicswomen served in the Fifteenth International Brigade and formed the Abraham Lincoln, but Washington and MacKenzie-Papineau Battalions. These soldiers’ stories have been controversial, because 80 percent of these volunteers were Communists. {{Read more|The Abraham Lincoln Brigade: the Historiography of the American soldiers in the Spanish American War}}</div> <div class="portal">[[File:American_Girls_in_Red_Russia.jpg|thumbnail|left|150px]]====[[American Girls in Red Russia: Interview with Julia Mickenberg]]====Julia L. Mickenberg's new book American Girls in Russia: Chasing the Soviet Dream published by the University of Chicago Press explores the history of the American women who went to Russia looking for adventure, freedom, revolution, work and new life. After they moved to Russia they found challenges and hardships. Many were disturbed by both the 2016 conditions of the country and the treatment of people by the new government. {{Read more|American presidential primary electionGirls in Red Russia: Interview with Julia Mickenberg}}</div> <div class="portal">[[File: GermanHyperChart. Once againjpg|150px|thumbnail|left]] ====[[What Were the Causes of Germany's Hyperinflation of 1921-1923?]]====Among the defining features of early twentieth century Europe and one of the contributing factors to World War II, free trade has was the economic maelstrom known as “hyperinflation” that ravaged Germany from 1921 until 1923. Although the short period is often overlooked in popular histories of the period, there is no denying the impacts that the process had on Germany, Europe, and the world. {{Read more|What Were the Causes of Germany's Hyperinflation of 1921-1923?}}</div> <div class="portal">[[File:32936173946 bc0836c5c5 o.jpg|thumbnail|left|200px]] ====[[When did abortion become legal in the United States?]]====In colonial America, abortion was dealt with in a central campaign issue during manner according to English common law. Abortion was typically only frowned upon, or penalized, when it occurred after “quickening,”—when a presidential electionwoman felt fetal movement—because it suggested that the fetus had manifested into its own separate being. Quickening could vary from women to woman, and sometimes as late as four months. {{Read more|When did abortion become legal in the United States?}}</div> <div class="portal">[[File: Ancient_ziggurat.jpg|150px|thumbnail|left]]====[[What Was the Importance of Ziggurats in Ancient Mesopotamia?]]====The people of ancient Mesopotamia practiced a religion that modern scholars are only just now beginning to understand and the physical focal point of their religion were the monumental, triangular structures known as ziggurats. {{Read more|What Was the Importance of Ziggurats in Ancient Mesopotamia?}}</div> <div class="portal">[[File:Immigrants_Ellis.jpg|thumbnail|left|200px]]====[[Working Toward Whiteness by David Roediger]]====David Roediger’s book <i>Working Toward Whiteness: How America’s Immigrants Became White: The Conspiracy Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs</i> continues his provocative exploration of whiteness studies by examining how southern and eastern European immigrants became white during the first half of the twentieth century. Roediger argues that “the long, circuitous process by which ‘new immigrants’ became ‘white ethnics’” matters. {{Read more|Working Toward Whiteness by David Roediger}}</div> <div class="portal">[[File:Marco Polo traveling.jpeg|left|thumbnail|200px]] ====[[What Is the History of Free TradeIce Cream?]]====Ice cream has been a popular treat that many see today as having developed relatively recently, as ice cream usually requires a form of refrigeration. While the modern form of ice cream is relatively more recent, the idea of ice cream has been present for millennia. Ice treats, which eventually gave us ice cream, were refreshing snacks usually reserved for elites or those who can obtain ice in times of warm or hot weather. {{Read more|What Is the History of Ice Cream?}}</div> <div class="portal">[[File: Interview Tod des Spartacus by Hermann Vogel.jpg|thumbnail|left|200px]]====[[What was the impact of Spartacus' uprising on Rome? ]]====Spartacus was a Thracian and he had once fought with Marcthe Romans. According to Plutarch, he was enslaved by them after he had deserted. Due to his strength and military skills he was trained as a gladiator. In 73BC, he plotted to escape from his gladiatorial school, near Capua in southern Italy and was joined in the conspiracy by up to 100 other gladiators.{{Read more|What was the impact of Spartacus' uprising on Rome?}}</div> <div class="portal">[[File:Hoecke_Croesus_showing_his_treasures.jpg|thumbnail|left|200px]]====[[How Did Croesus Become the Wealthiest Man in the Ancient World?]]====According the fifth century 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 wealthiest king who ruled the world’s wealthiest kingdom. When Salon, the legendary Athenian law giver, came to Lydia see the king’s wealth personally, Croesus immediately had his servants “take him on a tour of the royal treasuries” in order to “point out the richness and magnificence of everything.”{{Read more|How Did Croesus Become the Wealthiest Man in the Ancient World?}}</div> <div class="portal">[[File:Oseberg_ship_-William Palen_IMG_9129.jpg|thumbnail|left|200px]] ====[[What if the Vikings Never Invaded England?]]====The Viking, or more accurately Danish and Norsemen, invasions of England in the 9th century CE (865) helped lead to what ultimately would become the united country of England. Before 865, England was divided into four or sometimes more countries, populated by Angles and Saxons (or Anglo-Saxons).{{Read more|What if the Vikings Never Invaded England?}}

[[File: Battle_of_Fredericksburg,_Dec_13,_18621906roome_td_yale.png|thumbnail|left|195px250px]]==== [[Did the Battle of Fredericksburg Change the Identities of Irish SoldiersTheodore Roosevelt really save Football?]] ====During the In 1905, American Civil War, the Battle of Fredericksburg football faced an crisis. Far to many young men were being killed while playing football and no one was but one meeting ground of Irish immigrants from both taking any serious actions to reduce the Union and Confederacyrisks. Once fellow countrymen, these soldiers were forced to assume new perspectives on their identities amidst The headline at the chaos top of war. the right hand column in ''The ability to consider themselves Irish immigrants vanished when they donned a blue or gray uniformChicago Sunday Tribune'' on November 26, 1905 screamed, "Football Year's Death Harvest - Record Shows That Nineteen Players Have Been Killed; One Hundred Thirty-seven Hurt - Two Are Slain Saturday."{{Read more| Did the Battle of Fredericksburg Change the Identities of Irish SoldiersTheodore Roosevelt really save Football?}}

[[File:ReconstructionPrivateering.jpegjpg|thumbnail|left|135px150px]]====[[19th Century Overview Privateering during the War of United States History Top Ten Booklist1812: Interview with Faye M. Kert]]====During the War 1812, US and Canadian privateers fought most of the naval battles between the United States and Great Britain. These books each cover a specific aspect or period privateers were comprised of captains who were motivated by the 19th Centurypromise of profit to fight for their countries. This list is not meant to be comprehensive, but it is designed to give you an overview of There was a strong legal framework in both the entire centuryUnited States and Great Britain that normalized piracy. Each Canadian and American ship owners and investors took advantage of these books has an extremely wide scope it and broad ambitionsfunded privateering outfits during the war. Needless to say, privateers were incredibly risky investments.{{Read more| 19th Century Overview Privateering during the War of United States History Top Ten Booklist1812: Interview with Faye M. Kert}}

[[File:466px-John_TCayleff._Hoffman_(portrait_by_Jacob_Lazarus).pngjpg|thumbnail|left|135px150px]]====[[How did botched abortions spur the push for medical licensing in 19th Century?Nature's Path: Interview with Susan E. Cayleff]]====In 1872At the very end of the 19th Century, American medicine a new system called naturopathy was completely unregulatedcreated by Benedict and Louisa Stroebel Lust. Up until that point nothing had occurred Unlike many of the 19th Century medical systems created, naturopathy has persevered to galvanize support for medical licensing until the summer this day. Naturopathic healing was founded and based on number of 1872influences including botanics, hydrotherapy, eclecticism, temperance and vegetarianism. {{Read more|How did botched abortions spur the push for medical licensing in 19th Century?Nature's Path: Interview with Susan E. Cayleff}}

[[File: Angels_of_the_Underground_British_Lancers.jpg|thumbnail|left|175px200px]]====[[Angels Why did the Battle of the Underground: Interview with Theresa KaminskiSomme largely fail to achieve its objectives?]]====The Oxford University Press recently published Theresa Kaminski's Angels Battle of the Somme or the Somme Offensive was a series of battles that occurred during the Underground: The American Women who Resisted Summer and Autumn of 1916. It involved British and French forces launching a massive assault on the Japanese German lines in an effort to break the stalemate on the Philippines in World War IIWestern Front. Kaminski's book follows The Battle was primarily a battle between the lives of four American women who were stranded in Germans and the Philippines after Japan invaded during World War IIBritish. The offensive achieved very little and both sides suffered heavy casualties. Publishers Weekly described her book as The British only advanced a "fast-paced true story" that documents how these women resisted Japanese occupationfew miles and the German lines held. The stalemate was not broken by the offensive. {{Read more|Angels Why did the Battle of the Underground: Interview with Theresa KaminskiSomme largely fail to achieve its objectives?}}

[[File:Yemen landscape 05French_soldiers.jpg|thumbnail|left|thumb|175px200px]]====[[What was the evolution Origins of water technologies like?World War One - Top Ten Booklist]]====The history First World War was an incredibly destructive and wide ranging catastrophe. Not only did it dramatically change the map of water use Europe and the world and technologies it led to bring water to human societies is long, particularly in some further instability. The First World War was one of the world's most arid regions where important wars in human settled societies first beganhistory. Technologies There has long been a debate about the exact cause of water also evolved as other technologies developed and social organization and states changedthe First World War. While we often think The assassination of Roman aqueducts as a great marvel, which they the Archduke Ferdinand triggered the war but its ultimate causes were, other far more complex water technologies, just as complex, existed before.{{Read more|What was the evolution Origins of water technologies like?World War One - Top Ten Booklist}}

[[File:Stele Naram Sim Louvre Sb4Queen_Anne's_Lace_(25468119510).jpg|thumbnail|left|thumb200px]]====[[What was used for birth control in medieval Europe?]]====Birth is a universal experience for humanity and therefore, so is conception. This makes the issue of contraception one which stretched back into antiquity. While this topic is frequently in modern news, the historic practices of contraception and the specific methods utilized are rarely touched upon. {{Read more|What was used for birth control in medieval Europe?}}</div> <div class="portal" >[[File:GW-painting.jpg|thumbnail|left|180px]]====[[What was George Washington's military experience before the American Revolution?]]====The Second Continental Congress voted unanimously to put George Washington in charge of the Continental Army in 1775. Washington was only 43 years old at the time, a gentleman planter and local Virginian politician. {{Read more|What was George Washington's military experience before the American Revolution?}}</div> <div class="portal" >[[File:512px-Filip II Macedonia.jpg|thumbnail|left|200px]] ====[[How did Phillip II of Macedon change Ancient Greek history?]]====Alexander the Great is one of the most famous men in history. However, it is generally recognized that Alexander’s achievements would have been impossible without his father, Philip II of Macedon, who reigned from 359 to 336 B.C. He is not as well-known as his son but he laid the foundations for the great Empire of Alexander.{{Read more|How did Phillip II of Macedon change Ancient Greek history?}}</div> <div class="portal" >[[File:Egyptian kitchen Berlin 1.jpg|150pxthumbnail|left|220px]]=====[[How did kitchens develop?]]=====Few places in a home are as important or symbolic for our social bonds than the kitchen. In almost every culture, the kitchen serves not only as the place where food is prepared, but serves as a social hub for families and friends. Humans develop deep social bonds with family and friends in their kitchen. The kitchen does not simply provide for our daily nutrition but also helps to reinforce our social character. Whether humans are cooking around a fire or chopping vegetables on a granite counter-top, they are also interacting with one another. {{Read more|How did kitchens develop?}}</div> <div class="portal" >[[File:Christiaan_Barnard_(1968).jpg|thumbnail|left|200px]]====[[When did the First Heart Transplant take place?]]====When Christiaan Barnard performed the first heart transplant in 1967, it was initially seen as remarkable scientific achievement, but overtime both the medical community and the general public were forced to re-evaluate heart transplants. The medical community quickly realized that the first transplants were little more than dangerous and unpredictable experiments.{{Read more|When did the First Heart Transplant take place?}}</div> <div class="portal" >[[File:Keller.jpg|thumbnail|left|200px]]====[[Why Did Helen Keller Become a Socialist?]]====Helen Keller (1880–1967) is best known for her triumph over blindness, deafness, and muteness. Rescued from the isolation of her afflictions as a young girl by the Perkins Institute for the Blind teacher Anne Sullivan, Keller learned to understand a basic form of sign language and learned to “feel” and imitate the sound of the human voice. {{Read more|Why Did Helen Keller Become a Socialist?}}</div> <div class="portal" >[[File:Anthophyllite_asbestos_SEM.jpg|thumbnail|left|200px]]====[[When was Mesothelioma First Diagnosed?]]====The history of Mesothelioma is complicated. Medicine struggled to establish its existence and understand what caused it. Mesothelioma is a rare form of cancer that forms on the "tissues that cover the lungs and abdomen." Mesothelioma is typically tied to the exposure of people to asbestos in either their environment or workplace.{{Read more|When was Mesothelioma First Diagnosed?}}</div> <div class="portal" >[[File:Rabbbi's_Atheist_.jpeg|thumbnail|left|200px]] ====[[The Rabbi's Atheist Daughter: Interview with Bonnie S. Anderson]]====History is fickle. During the 19th Century, Ernestine Rose was one of the most important and famous international advocates for feminism, free thought and anti-slavery. She worked closely with renowned figures in this movement such as Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Despite her contributions to feminism, atheism, and anti-slavery, since her death she has slowly been erased from history. {{Read more|The Rabbi's Atheist Daughter: Interview with Bonnie S. Anderson}}</div>

<div class="portal" style="font-size:90%">[[File:Skythian_archer_plate_BM_E135_by_Epiktetos.jpg|thumbnail|200px|left]]====[[Did multi-cultural societies become widely accepted in ancient historyWhen did Men Start Wearing Pants?]]====Multicultural societies are today common Why did humans start wearing pants? To answer this question it’s important to understand two things - first, what were the earliest forms of clothing and how did they evolve into pants and ubiquitoussecondly, but when why did such societies become not only normal or typical but accepted or even celebrateda need for pants develop? Most likely, multiIt is also helpful to define what is meant by pants -cultural societies begin specifically a bifurcated garment for the bottom half of the body which covers from waist to the lower leg. It is also helpful to evolve early in prehistory, as ethnic groups migrated define what is meant by pants - specifically a bifurcated garment for the bottom half of the body which covers from waist to regions and integrated into existing societies. However, we rarely see multiculturalism celebrated until much later in historical periods when large states became the normlower leg.{{Read more|Did multi-cultural societies become widely accepted in ancient historyWhen did Men Start Wearing Pants?}}

==Articles==[[What Mistakes did the Allies make during Operation Overlord on D-Day?]]====Articles are wiki pages with history essays written by our experts June 6, 1944 was arguably the most pivotal day of World War II. Operation Overlord was set to be launched and if successful, was to open a second front in Europe so as to attack Germany from all sides. Stalin’s Soviet Army had been battling the German Army since late 1942 in Stalingrad, Leningrad, and your contributionsMoscow. {{#dpl:category=Wikis|ordermethod=firsteditRead more|order=descending|count=15What Mistakes did the Allies make during Operation Overlord on D-Day?}}

==Interviews==[[Book Review: "The Assassin's Accomplice."]]====These are our interviews with historians discussing their new books[[File:Assassins_accomplice.jpg|left|thumb|150px]]Kate Clifford Larson's book The Assassin’s Accomplice: Mary Surratt and the Plot to Kill Abraham Lincoln is a well-researched narrative exploring the prosecution of Mary Surratt. The Assassin’s Accomplice details the events that revolved around Mrs. Surratt in the days and weeks leading up to the assassination of President Lincoln.{{#dplRead more|Book Review:category=Interviews|ordermethod=firstedit|order=descending|count=15"The Assassin's Accomplice."}}

==Booklists==[[How Did Black Pepper Spread in Popularity?]]====[[File:Black pepper (By R.Boroujerdi).jpeg|left|thumb|205px]]Includes both Expert Visiting a restaurant in the Western world or even a home often means finding salt and User created black pepper as common condiments on the table used to give taste to our dishes. Salt has been native to many regions and is commonly found; however, black pepper was a far more limited plant (Piper nigrum) that natively grew in South and Southeast Asia.{{Read more|How Did Black Pepper Spread in Popularity?}}</div> <div class="portal" >[[File:Almost_a_Miracle.jpg|thumbnail|left|200px]]====[[American Revolution Top Ten History BooklistsBooklist]]====On July 4, 1776, the Declaration of Independence was signed by the Continental Congress. This act was only the first step towards the creation of the United States. The impact of this revolution cannot be ignored.{{#dplRead more|American Revolution Top Ten Booklist}}</div> <div class="portal" style="font-size:90%">[[File:categoryPinkertons.jpg|thumbnail|200px|left]]====[[Inventing the Pinkertons: Interview with Paul O'Hara]]==Booklists|ordermethod=firstedit|order=descendingIn 1850, Allan Pinkerton founded a detective agency that would grow into the Pinkerton's National Detective Agency. Pinkerton's agency is easily the most famous and infamous security guard and detective agency in United States history. Pinkerton originally created the agency to help railroad companies investigate their employees and catch train robbers. But over time, the Pinkertons developed an intimate relationship with the federal government and as these partnerships grew the Pinkertons' role increased dramatically. {{Read more|count=15Inventing the Pinkertons: Interview with Paul O'Hara}}

[[File:652px-First_Oil_Well.jpg|thumbnail|left|200px]]====[[How did Edwin Drake create the World's first oil well?]]==Blog Roll==Even though there was no one "first discover" of oil. Oil was known in antiquity when it was used to heal wounds. But by the middle of the 19th century methods for collecting oil from the ground had not changed for thousands of years. Edwin Drake's oil fundamentally changed this process and dramatically increased oil production around the world. {{TemplateRead more|How did Edwin Drake create the World's first oil well?}}</div> <div class="portal">====[[Gilded Age/Progressive Era History Top Ten Booklist]]====[[File:Blog RollAmerican_Colossus.jpeg|left|thumb|125px]]Creating a Top Ten List for the Gilded Age/Progressive Era is challenging. There are an extraordinary number of outstanding books on this period. These books are a selection of our favorites. Creating a Top Ten List for the Gilded Age/Progressive Era is challenging. There are an extraordinary number of outstanding books on this period. These books are a selection of our favorites. Most of these books are focused on trying to define this era as whole, instead of focusing on a single issue.{{Read more|Gilded Age/Progressive Era History Top Ten Booklist}}

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