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[[File: Banner2.png]] <div class="portal" style="widthfont-size:8590%;">[[File:The_Alien_and_Sedition_Acts_of_1789.jpg|thumbnail|left|200px]]==[[The Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798: Interview with Terri Halperin]]==Articles====The Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 were four laws that were passed by the predominantly Federalist Congress and signed by John Adams to strengthen the national security of the United States. These acts not only restricted the ability of an immigrant to become a citizen, but made it easier to deport non-citizens who were either deemed dangerous or were citizens Here are of hostile countries. Perhaps the our most contentious aspect of the new laws criminalized the printing or speaking allegedly false statements about the federal government. Not surprisingly, these laws were incredibly controversial and strongly opposed by Thomas Jefferson's opposition Democratic-Republican partynewest articles.{{Read more#dpl:category=Wikis|ordermethod=firstedit|order=descending|The Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798: Interview with Terri Halperincount=10}}
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<div class="portal" style="widthfont-size:8590%;">[[File:Thomas_Jefferson_by_Rembrandt_Peale,_1800.jpg|thumbnail|left|200px]]==[[Thomas Jefferson, the Founding Fathers and Christianity: Interview with Sam Haselby]]==Booklists====Recently on Twitter, a debate broke out between Annette Gordon-Reed, Sam Haselby, and John Fea on the nature of Thomas Jefferson's religious beliefs. Instead of recreating the debate, it made more sense to contact one of the participants, Sam Haselby, whose Here are our most recent book ''The Origins of American Religious Nationalism'' (published by Oxford University Press) examines how a conflict with Protestantism, in the decades following US independence transformed American national identitybooklists.{{Read more#dpl:category=Booklists|Thomas Jefferson, the Founding Fathers and Christianity: Interview with Sam Haselbyordermethod=firstedit|order=descending|count=10}}
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<div class="portal" style="font-size:90%">[[File:Engineeringvictory.jpg|thumbnail|left|200px]]====[[Engineering Victory during the Civil War: Interview with Thomas F. Army, Jr.]]Book Reviews====Logistics win wars. Logistics is the coordination Here are some of complex operations such as moving, housing and supplying troops and their equipment. War is the ultimate test of any logistician. During the Civil War, the Union troops fought almost the entire war in the South. Thomas F. Army, Jr. argues in his new our most recent book Engineering Victory: How Technology Won the Civil War published by Johns Hopkins University Press that the Union's engineering prowess during Civil War gave it an distinct advantage over the Confederacyreviews.{{Read more#dpl:category=Book Review|ordermethod=firstedit|order=descending|Engineering Victory during the Civil War: Interview with Thomas F. Army, Jr.count=8}}
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<div class="portal" style="font-size:90%">[[File:Shantytown_USA.jpg|thumbnail|left|200px]]===[[Shantytown, USA: Interview with Lisa Goff]]= United States History ====The Harvard University Press recently published Lisa Goff's new book Shantytown, USA: Forgotten Landscapes of the Working 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 feature of 19th century America. Goff's book explores not only how shantytowns became a prominent feature of America's towns and cities, but why middle class Americans eventually turned on them and their residents. {{Read more#dpl:category= United States History |Shantytown, USA: Interview with Lisa Goffordermethod=firstedit|order=descending|count=8}}
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<div class="portal" style="font-size:90%">[[File:portraitbowie.jpg|thumbnail|left|200px]]====[[The Mysterious Illness of Jim Bowie: How Did He Contribute to His Own Decline?]]Ancient Greek History====Directly or indirectly, Jim Bowie’s enigmatic illness resulted from his own actions. A hearty man of six feet in height, Bowie was a walking contradiction; a slave trader who fought for freedom, a generous and congenial man who called out his thunderous temper on a whim, and a commanding leader who was prone to binges of sloppy drunkenness.{{Read more#dpl:category=Ancient Greek History|ordermethod=firstedit|order=descending|The Mysterious Illness of Jim Bowie: How Did He Contribute to His Own Decline?count=8}}
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<div class="portal" style="font-size:90%">[[File:82nd_Grave.jpg|thumbnail|left|250px]]====[[Why did Operation Market Garden in 1944 fail?]]Renaissance History====Operation Market Garden, launched in September 1944, was an unsuccessful Allied offensive 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 of the British General Bernard Montgomery. His intended the airborne offensive to allow the allies to break into the German heartland and to end the war, quickly. {{Read more#dpl:category=Renaissance History|ordermethod=firstedit|Why did Operation Market Garden in 1944 fail?order=descending|count=8}}
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<div class="portal" style="font-size:90%">[[File:AlexanderTheGreat_Bust.jpg|left|thumb|250px]]====[[Alexander the Great Top Ten Booklist]]History of Religion====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. {{Read more#dpl:category=Religious History|ordermethod=firstedit|Alexander the Great Top Ten Booklistorder=descending|count=8}}
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<div class="portal" style="font-size:90%">[[File:grant.jpg|left|thumb|200px]]====[[Was the Destruction Perpetrated by Lincoln, Grant, and Sherman Necessary to End the Civil War?]]Russian History====January 1, 1863 marked a pivotal moment in the American Civil War. On this date the Emancipation Proclamation, the preliminary of which was issued by President Lincoln on September 22, 1862, took full and permanent effect, thus changing the Union’s ultimate war goal. Once the aim of the war changed for the Union, so too did its leaders. The harsh and unpopular actions that were necessary to prevent the prolonged bloody carnage of continual war were tasked to three men: Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, and William T. Sherman. {{Read more#dpl:category=Russian History|ordermethod=firstedit|Was the Destruction Perpetrated by Lincoln, Grant, and Sherman Necessary to End the Civil War?order=descending|count=8}}
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<div class="portal" style="font-size:90%">==[[What Factors Led to the Creation == History of the First Cities?]]Science and Technology ====The rise {{#dpl:category= History of cities in the ancient Near East during the fourth millennium BC (4000-3000 BC) is a key event in the history of the world, as urban patterns that first arose there became patterns inherited in many societies, including in the West. Cities in the ancient Near East were the first to develop major temples, palaces, large urban dwelling areas, city walls, governments, Science and religious authorities that become features seen in later cities. {{Read moreTechnology |ordermethod=firstedit|order=descending|What Factors Led to the Creation of the First Cities?count=8}}
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<div class="portal" style="font-size:90%"> ====[[Why was France defeated in 1940?]]Political History ====In September 1939, the Nazi War Machine invaded Poland and World War II began. France and its Britain declared against Nazi Germany in 1939. The French army was in theory as strong as the Germanys and it had a vast Empire and a sophisticated arms industry. It had also established a series of fortifications in the east of the country, known as the Maginot Line. The Line was designed to keep German forces out of France.{{Read more#dpl:category= Political History |Why did the United States and Soviet Union Reach Detente During the Cold War?ordermethod=firstedit|order=descending|count=8}}
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====[[Hodges' Scout: Interview with Len Travers]]Religious History ====Johns Hopkins University Press has recently published Len Traver's new book Hodges' Scout: A Lost Patrol of the French and Indian War. Travers' book examines a group of colonial scouts 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 explore the lives of the colonists who fought, died and even survived this massacre.{{Read more#dpl:category= Religious History | Hodges' Scout: Interview with Len Traversordermethod=firstedit|order=descending|count=8}}
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<div class="portal" style="font-size:90%">====[[Angels of the Underground: Interview with Theresa Kaminski]]Military History ====The Oxford University Press recently published Theresa Kaminski's Angels of the Underground: The American Women who Resisted the Japanese in the Philippines in World War II. Kaminski's book follows the lives of four American women who were stranded in the Philippines after Japan invaded during World War II. Publishers Weekly described her book as a "fast-paced true story" that documents how these women resisted Japanese occupation. {{Read more#dpl:category= Military History | Angels of the Underground: Interview with Theresa Kaminskiordermethod=firstedit|order=descending|count=8}}
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<div class="portal" style="font-size:90%">====Legal History==Interviews==These are our interviews with historians discussing their new books.{{#dpl:category=InterviewsLegal History|ordermethod=firstedit|order=descending|count=78}}
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<div class="portal" style="font-size:90%">====World War II==Booklists==Includes our most recent Expert and User created Top Ten History Booklists.{{#dpl:category=BooklistsWorld War Two History|ordermethod=firstedit|order=descending|count=158}}
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