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  • ====A Great Resource for History Teachers==== * [[51 Great Online Resources for History Teachers]]
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  • ...n addition to his responsibilities at West Point, Brewster is the Director of The Peter Jennings Project for Journalists and the Constitution. The Proje ...ths that Gave America the Emancipation Proclamation and Changed the Course of the Civil War]''. Brewster's book explores the six months when Lincoln str
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  • ...left|250px|Doctors Without Borders: Humanitarian Quests, Impossible Dreams of Médecins Sans Frontières by Renée Fox]] ...merican Association for the Advancement of Science, and an Honorary Member of Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society.
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  • ...le: Constantinople.jpg |250px|thumbnail|left|Sultan Mehmet I the conqueror of Constantinople]] ...s capital fell to the Ottoman Turkish army, and this was the effective end of the Byzantine Empire, which had endured for almost 1000 years.
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  • ...megaphone implied that people as a mass were pliant, susceptible to a sort of top-down manipulation that sits uneasily with most historians, with their c ...andscape” of rural France. (Anyone who remembers ''The Semaphore Version of Wuthering Heights'' can take relish in his work.)
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  • ...unnies.jpg|200px|left|thumbnail|Bachelors and Bunnies: The Sexual Politics of Playboy by Carrie Pitzulo]] ...roughout its history. These books seek to explain and place American views of sex in an historical perspective. As per usual, we included some caveats an
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  • ...mericanColossus.jpg|thumbnail|300px|left|<i>American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900</i> by H.W. Brands]] ...ther words, several of these books are seeking to create a grand narrative of the era to help their readers understand it.
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  • ...u. It is probably the one book on the list that most historians are aware of and that is why we left it off. ...9c0f7dba5f7ec American Physicians in the Nineteenth Century: From Sects to Science]</i> (Johns Hopkins University Press, reprint edition 1992) and Judith Walz
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  • ...hat has some ways to go before they become common. However, electric cars' history goes back to the 19th century, as people experimented with electricity and ==The Early History of Electric Cars==
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  • ...historical questions and help readers find well-researched and accessible history articles, book lists, and book reviews. DailyHistory.org was created in 201 ...a historical question because that is how historians approach the study of history. DailyHistory.org is not an encyclopedia; it is a site that tries to answe
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  • ...x-Victory_stele_of_Naram_Sin_9066.jpg|thumbnail|left|300px|Figure 1. Stele of Naram-Sin (2254–2218 BC), an Akkadian king, standing over his enemies and ...and empires to compete more with each other, helping to develop a variety of other social and technical innovations, including shaping our own world.
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  • ...e of the 20th century. <ref>American Chemical Society, “The Development of the Pennsylvania Oil Industry,” 2009.</ref> ...6531b9cd0d8bea4" Dictionary of Canadian Biography]'', (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1959).</ref>
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  • It rode on the hip of Buffalo Bill Cody, Teddy Roosevelt, Judge Roy Bean and Pat Garrett, the she Out on the open range the gun of choice for ranchers and frontiersmen was a lever-action repeating rifle. Aw
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  • ...and mathematics Mesopotamia see: Hodgkin, Luke Howard. 2013. ''A History of Mathematics: From Mesopotamia to Modernity''. Oxford: Oxford University Pre ...in agriculture and religion, see: Olson, Richard. 2010. ''Technology and Science in Ancient Civilizations. Prayer Series on the Ancient World''. Santa Barba
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  • [[File:Uluburun3.jpg|thumbnail|250px|left|Blue glass bar of the Uluburun Shipwreck]] ...and Gerry Martin. 2002. <i>Glass: A World History</i>. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.</ref> Perhaps the earliest glass anywhere comes from the an
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  • ...D. 2010. ''What Makes Civilization?: The Ancient Near East and the Future of the West''. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press.</ref> ...n: New Genetic and Archaeological Paradigms''. Berkeley, Calif: University of California Press.</ref>
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  • ..._82nd_Armored_Reconnaissance_Battalion.jpg|thumbnail|250px|left|Members of of 82nd Armored Reconnaissance on Harley Davidson WLAs during WWII]] ...icant impact by a gasoline-powered machine in modern warfare. And the role of the military motorcycle continues more than a century later.
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  • ...vigation increasingly made movement by sea easier over time; however, much of this knowledge that facilitated movement was accumulated knowledge that too However, such as knowledge of astronomy grew and reached a critical threshold, we begin to see rapid deve
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  • ...as war animals, while in other places and periods there use was the privy of royalty. ...n, John Storer, et al. 2005. “Evolution, Systematics, and Phylogeography of Pleistocene Horses in the New World: A Molecular Perspective.” Edited by
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  • ...ical force. While the Maya, as a people, persisted long after the collapse of the Classical Maya civilizations, their cities were much reduced or abandon ====Rise of the Maya====
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