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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 ...d to drop behind the German lines before the invasion. With the aid of the French underground network, their mission was to secure roads and bridges and cut

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What was Pope Julius IIs contribution to Renaissance Italy
...e Venice's, ended the role of the Borgias in Rome, but failed to drive the French from Italy. Julius II's policies and actions delayed foreign domination of ...nprecedented situation - how to limit Venice's growing power and expel the French empire from Italy. Like every other Pope, Julius II was determined to maint

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Why did the Reformation fail in Renaissance Italy
There was a long history in Italy of ‘heresy’. Many Italians especially, in the Northern Cities ...netto, p. 134</ref> It appears that many foreign Protestants, especially French Huguenots fled to the cities of Italy to escape persecution at home. Accord

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What was the impact of the St Bartholomew's Day Massacre (1572) on France
...re began as a series of events that changed the Huguenots and weakened the French monarchy. The massacre also failed to end the war and instead prolonged it. ...d-16th Century. The massacre can only be understood, within the context of French politics and the deep religious hatreds of the times. France had been weake

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When did Men Start Wearing Pants
...s limited construction and materials. <ref>Douglas A. Russell, Costume history and style (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1983), 2</ref> ...from the 6th centuries BCE.<ref>Susan Brown, Fashion: the definitive history of costume and style (New York, NY: DK Publishing, 2012), 15.</ref> S

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What Mistakes did the Allies make during Operation Overlord on D-Day
...d, the men of the 101st and 82nd were scattered haphazardly throughout the French countryside. In the dark, these men had to blindly navigate the terrain aft ...Pointe du Hoc at 0710 hours.<ref>Michael J. Lyons, ''World War II: A Short History,'' 5th ed. (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 2010), 250.</ref>

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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. History and Description of Modern Wines. Place of publication not identified: A

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What textiles were British women bringing with them to India
...Kashmir (or Cashmere) shawl. Introduced into the European fashion world by French noblewomen in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, they became a crucial ...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

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Scratching the Surface of “Everyday Forms of State Formation”
*[[19th Century Overview of United States History Top Ten Booklist]] *[[Origins of the French Revolution - Top Ten Booklist]]

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Lynn Hunt’s Politics, Culture, and Class in the French Revolution
..._Revolution.jpg|thumbnail|250px|left|Politics, Culture and Class in the French Revolution]] ...tury. In Part I of her book, Hunt argued that the origin and legacy of the French Revolution are fundamentally political because the failed political culture

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Fool's Crow by James Welch - Book Review
*[[19th Century Overview of United States History Top Ten Booklist]] *[[Origins of the French Revolution - Top Ten Booklist]]

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Jochen Hellbeck’s Revolution on My Mind, Writing a Diary under Stalin
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Southwest to Whom - An Analysis of the Historiography of the American West
The American Southwest – the title hints at the meaning, history and mental imagry attached to the region by inhabitants and observers. The ...d the field. Once seen as a cultural artifact or a Hollywood backdrop, the history of the Southwest has become a dynamic exploration of continuity and variety

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Was Joel Poinsett an Agent of Empire and a Patron of Science
...his Unpublished Report on the Present Political State of Mexico. A Social History of Anthropology in the United States, by Thomas C. Patterson provides the b ...ented language of equality and fraternity prevalent during the time of the French Revolution. These Rousseauian terms are evident in Commerson’s account of

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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 Ultimately contributing the observation that the French visionaries of the nineteenth century were most likely “prompted by uncon

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David Blackbourn's Marpingen: Apparitions of the Virgin Mary in a Nineteenth-Century German Village
...413113 The Cult of the Virgin Mary] and the solid background of social history provided by Jonathon Sperber from his classic book [https://www.amazon.c ...by faith and repentance was a source of hope.” The secular legacy of the French Revolution and the state-building reaction to the Napoleonic Wars had disru

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2016 American Historical Association Book Awards
...rehensive history society in the United States. Basically, every flavor of history is represented in the AHA. Unsurprisingly, the AHA awards a massive number 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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Wartime by Paul Fussell - Book Review
The Americans did not have a tangible goal for which to fight. The Free French were fighting for the land as were Russia and Britain. German soldiers may ...of the military foul-ups that never made the news. They were aware of the French civilians who had died on D-Day as a result of U.S. airstrikes too far inla

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How Did the Activities of the Ancient Vandals Lead to the Creation of the Modern Term ‘Vandalism’
...ermed “vandals.” A historical examination of the term reveals that its history is much more interesting and important than some broken windows or graffiti For a brief period in world history, the Vandals were one of the most important peoples in late antiquity as th

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What if the Vikings Never Invaded England
...triumph over the Vikings, see: Dougherty, M.J. (2014) Vikings: a dark history of the Norse people. New Holland Publishers.</ref> ...e: Stafford, P. (1989) Unification and conquest: a political and social history of England in the tenth and eleventh centuries. London ; New York :

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