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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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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), ...nlike other “Loyalists,” a sizable segment of those who fought for the British, and most importantly their descendants, remained to incur the wrath of the

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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 Season 2 of Versailles
...IV and the origins of the Dutch War. Cambridge studies in early modern history. Cambridge [England] ; New York, Cambridge University Press.</ref> ...(2009) The state in early modern France. New approaches to European history ; 42. 2nd ed. Cambridge, UK ; New York, Cambridge University Press.</re

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How historically accurate is the movie 'A Bridge Too Far'
...rs. The 1977 motion picture was directed by Richard Attenborough, a former British movie star. The movie had a huge budget and is visually spectacular. ...diverse nature of the allied forces in Operation Market Garden, including British, American, Canadian, Free Dutch forces and Polish Paratroopers.

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Top Ten Books on Espionage from Oxford University Press
...ef17ea6 Disrupt and Deny: Spies, Special Forces, and the Secret Pursuit of British Foreign Policy]''  Rory Cormac ...linkId=b8dce081b68c9280dbac8241be03ae49 Near and Distant Neighbours: A New History of Soviet Intelligence]''  Jonathan Haslam

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How Did Howard Carter Discover Tutankhamun’s Tomb
The history of Egyptology is filled with the names of many influential scholars, who no ...t, with one being to hire Carter. <ref> Montserrat, Dominic. Akhenaten: History, Fantasy, and Ancient Egypt. (London: Routledge, 2003), p. 67</ref> Pet

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What is the Long Term Impact of the War of the Spanish Succession on Europe
...ve role in the war. By 1708, France was ready to make terms. Nevertheless, British demands proved onerous, as Britain wanted Louis to send his own army to dep ...borough's role, see: Dorrell, N. (2015) Marlborough’s other army: the British Army and the campaigns of the First Peninsula War, 1702-1712. Century o

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How have immigration and citizenship changed in the U.S.
.... However, there were two that would have a significant impact on American history: the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848) and the Dred Scott decision (1857). ...a of quantitative restriction.<ref name="Office of the Historian">[https://history.state.gov/milestones/1921-1936/immigration-act], Office of the Historian.</

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How Did the Battle of Culloden Change British and American History
...also put an end to the male-line succession of the House of Stuart on the British throne. The Jacobites' primary goal was to restore the Stuart line. The Jac ...lorious Revolution, see: </ref> Massie, A. (2013) The Royal Stuarts: A History of the Family that Shaped Britain. New York, St. Martin’s Griffin.

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How Did the Battle of Culloden Change British and American History?
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How Did the Ancient City of Nineveh Fall
...the details concerning how the city fell are as important to the city’s history as its great monuments. As great as Nineveh once was, it fell victim to a c ...BC. 2nd ed. (London: Blackwell, 2007), p. 3</ref> For most of Assyrian history, the primary political capital was located in the city of Ashur. Still, Nin

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Was the Constitution Pro-Slavery
*[[American Legal History Top Ten Booklist]] *[[Why was James Willard Hurst important for legal history?]]

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How historically accurate is the movie 'The Battle of the Bulge'
...spective.<ref> Whiteclay, John and Culbert, David. World War II, Film, and History (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2002), p. 156</ref> ...sive of the war. The movie was controversial at the time played loose with history.

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How Did Finland Survive the Winter War of 1939-1940
...Finns and Russians has been relatively peaceful. For most of early modern history, Finland was a colony of Imperial Tsarist Russia. Finns were allowed to ser ...rench military openly advocating for Avonmouth, such as general Audet, the British never came on board and so the threat of foreign intervention on Finland’

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What was lynching
...tp://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtid=2&psid=3178 Digital History].</ref> The United States has a long history of vigilance committees whose purposes were to protect the community. Accor

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What Are the Origins of Egyptology
...le: Rosetta_Stone_London.jpg|250px|thumbnail|left|The Rosetta Stone in the British Museum, London]] ...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

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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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Evolutionary Science before Charles Darwin
...ing, founded upon principles of separateness from the upper classes, or as British historian EP Thompson puts it, “the consciousness of an identity of inter ...y of natural selection, in 1844, a book entitled ''Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation'' was published in London.<ref> For an excellent study of this

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Is the movie Dunkirk historically accurate
...2017 war film scripted, produced, and directed by Christopher Nolan about British troops' evacuation from Dunkirk during World War II. The film has an all-st ...force of British and French troops into an area around Dunkirk's port. The British and the French, numbering over 300,000, 're surrounded and under constant a

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