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In 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|Inventing the Pinkertons: Interview with Paul O'Hara}}
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====[[How did Edwin Drake create the World's first oil well?]]====
 
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. {{Read more|How did Edwin Drake create the World's first oil well?}}
 
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====[[Gilded Age/Progressive Era History Top Ten Booklist]]====
 
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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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====[[What was the dominant medical sect in the United States during the 19th Century?]]====
 
Nineteenth-century medicine was characterized by constant competition among three major medical sects: Regulars, Eclectics, and Homeopaths.[1] Each of these medical sects not only meaningfully disagreed on how to treat illnesses and diseases, but sought to portray their type of practice as the most effective and scientific.{{Read more|What was the dominant medical sect in the United States during the 19th Century?}}
 
 
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====[[Why are there so many Monuments to the Confederacy across the United States?]]====
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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?}}
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====[[Why did the Congress of Vienna fail to stop future European wars?]]====
 
The Congress of Vienna was a gathering of representatives of European kingdoms that was presided over by the Austrian Chancellor Klemens Von Metternich. The Congress was held in Vienna from 1814 to 1815. The goals of the Congress were to secure peace and stability in Europe and to ensure that revolutions did not destabilize the Continent. {{Read more|Why did the Congress of Vienna fail to stop future European wars?}}
 
 
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The concept of God and his historical development is an extraordinarily complex topic and it is not easily addressed in ten books. These books seek attempt to explain  a complex story on how the concept of God developed in different cultures, places, and across time. The history of the idea of God is long and has its roots from prehistoric to early historic periods in the ancient Near East. Later cultures developed concepts that derive from ancient Iran, Greece, Egypt, and perhaps other regions.{{Read more|History of God Top Ten Booklist}}
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Braveheart was a popular movie released in 1995 that won 5 Oscars and featured Mel Gibson as William Wallace. Wallace was a Scottish knight who became a hero in the Scottish rebellions against the English in the late 13th and early 14th century. The movie helped to inspire Scottish national pride while also, to some, represent an early, Medieval warrior who fought for freedom for himself and his people. While much of the story depicted did occur, including the English occupation of Scotland during the time of Edward I, king of England, the depiction of the revolt against the English and other events do not correspond well to historical accounts.{{Read more|How historically accurate is Braveheart?}}
 
 
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====[[What Was the Importance of Bill Mauldin to WWII Infantrymen?]]====
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Bill Mauldin once said that the infantryman “gives more and gets less than anybody else.” He knew this from his experience on the front lines with K Company, 180th Infantry Regiment, of the 45th Division. Mauldin went through basic training as an infantryman and stayed with his regiment throughout the invasion of Sicily and the Allied campaign up the boot of Italy. The talented cartoonist succeeded in ruffling the feathers of the “brass” all the way up to General George Patton.{{Read more|What Was the Importance of Bill Mauldin to WWII Infantrymen?}}
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The Italian Renaissance was one of the most exciting periods in human civilisation. It witnessed a great flourishing of the arts, literature, philosophy, architecture and politics. Many of the greatest figures in World Civilisation appeared during the Renaissance in Italy, including Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci, Machiavelli and Raphael.
 
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Hitler saw the war in terms of his personal rivalry with Stalin and he decided to attack the city, because of its symbolic value. However, the original aim of the offensive in Southern Russian was to secure the oil fields in the Caucasus. The oil was essential for the German war machine. Hitler knew this – instead of opting for concentrating all his forces on the conquest of the oil fields, he made perhaps a fateful mistake.{{Read more|Why did Germany lose the Battle of Stalingrad?}}
 
 
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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.
 
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*[[What was Plato's academy and why did it influence Western thought?]]
 
*[[How did Monotheism Develop?]]
 
*[[How did the concept of paradise develop?]]
 
*[[How did Akhenaten Radically Change Egyptian Religion and Culture?]]
 
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*[[What Were the Circumstances Surrounding the Death of "Stonewall" Jackson?]]
 
*[[Why Was the Battle of Antietam a Pivotal event in the American Civil War?]]
 
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*[[Why Was Vicksburg “The Gibraltar of the Confederacy?”]]
 
 
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*[[How did the Boxer Rebellion unite Imperial Powers and create Chinese Nationalism?]]
 
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*[[How did the Sharia Law develop?]]
 
*[[How has the Roman Lex Mercatoria evolved to play a role in modern International Trade and Commerce Codification?]]
 
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*[[Primed for Violence in Interwar Poland: Interview with Paul Brykczynski]]
 
*[[The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact- Stalin’s greatest mistake?]]
 
*[[The Nazi triumph: how did Adolf Hitler become the Fuehrer of Germany?]]
 
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*[[How Was Hitler Responsible for the German Defeat in World War II?]]
 
*[[D-Day: What Factors Were Considered When Planning Operation Overlord?]]
 
*[[What were the goals of the Axis powers and the Soviet Union during World War Two?]]
 
*[[Why was France defeated in 1940?]]
 
*[[Why was Rommel defeated at El Alamein?]]
 
*[[Why did the Germans suffer a defeat at Kursk in 1943?]]
 
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*[[Fate of the Revolution: Interview with Lorri Glover]]
 
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*[[Angels of the Underground: Interview with Theresa Kaminski]]
 
*[[Why was Rommel defeated at El Alamein?]]
 
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