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United States History
- Why did Los Angeles adopt Cars instead of Mass Transit?
- Pox Americana by Elizabeth Fenn - Book Review
- The Other Founders by Saul Cornell - Book Review
- Working Toward Whiteness by David Roediger - Book Review
- The Assassin's Accomplice by Kate Clifford Larson - Book Review
- How did Ngo Dinh Diem fall in Vietnam?
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World War I
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- Why did the Italians lose the Battle of Caporetto in WWI?
- Why did the Gallipoli Landings fail in WWI?
- Why did Germany not achieve victory at Verdun in 1916?
World War II
- With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa by E.B. Sledge - Book Review
- Wartime by Paul Fussell - Book Review
- Why did the Weimar Republic Collapse?
- Why did Germany Persecute LGBT people during World War II?
- How did Adolf Hitler become the Fuhrer of Germany?
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Ancient Greek History
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Roman History
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Renaissance History
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- What Is the History of Ice Cream?
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History of Religion
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Russian History
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- American Girls in Red Russia: Interview with Julia Mickenberg
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History of Medicine
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- How did Oregon pass Medical Licensing Laws?
- Top 10 Books to Read on Western/British Medical History
- Did Victorian era popular scientists try to deny biblical teachings?
- Breeding Better Humans: A Brief History of Eugenics
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- When did abortion become legal in the United States?
History of Science and Technology
- How Was Science Practiced in Ancient Babylon?
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- How did fountains develop?
- What Was the Importance of Alcohol Consumption in Ancient Egypt?
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American Civil War
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- How Did Thomas Francis Meagher Really Die?
- Inventing the Pinkertons: Interview with Paul O'Hara
- Why are there so many Monuments to the Confederacy across the United States?
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- How Did the Battle of South Mountain Alter the Course of the American Civil War?
Political History
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- When did political parties emerge?
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- How has our understanding of Democracy changed?
- How did Emperor Septimius Severus change the Roman Empire?
- How Did Spy Services Develop in England?
- Are there Ancient Roots to Socialism?
- What saved Vienna from the Ottoman Turks in 1683?
- What Were the Causes of Germany's Hyperinflation of 1921-1923?
- The Power of Women and Peru's Shining Path
19th Century History
- The Assassin's Accomplice by Kate Clifford Larson - Book Review
- Why Did the United States Take Part in the Classical Gold Standard?
- How did "Stonewall" Jackson die?
- How did Memorial Day develop?
- What are the origins of Labor Day?
- Why Did Scandinavians Volunteer for the Union Army during the Civil War?
- How did Oregon pass Medical Licensing Laws?
- How Did Art Propagate Slavery in 19th Century America?
Military History
- How Did Lysimachus Impact the Hellenistic World?
- With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa by E.B. Sledge - Book Review
- Good-Bye to All That by Robert Graves - Book Review
- Wartime by Paul Fussell - Book Review
- Category:Vietnam War
- Why Was the Parthian Empire So Powerful?
- What Were the Aztec ‘Flower Wars’?
- How did "Stonewall" Jackson die?
Sports History
- When Did Jackie Robinson Integrate Baseball and Why Is It Important?
- Who integrated the NBA?
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- How did modern boxing emerge?
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- How did the hamburger develop into a popular food?
- What Was the Importance of Alcohol Consumption in Ancient Egypt?
- When did Americans begin to get obsessed with weight loss?
- What is the Deep Impact of Plant Domestication?
- How did kitchens develop?
- What Is the History of Ice Cream?
- How Did Popcorn Become Popular?
- How Did Wine Develop?
Legal History
- The Other Founders by Saul Cornell - Book Review
- Top Ten History of Voting Rights Booklist
- Why did the United States pass and then repeal the constitutional amendment prohibiting alcohol?
- How did Oregon pass Medical Licensing Laws?
- Was the Constitution Pro-Slavery
- Where did the concept of Human Rights come from?
- Why was James Willard Hurst important for legal history?
- American Surveillance: Interview with Anthony Gregory
European History
- Why did the Baroque Style develop?
- The Treaty of Versailles: A Concise History by Michael S. Neiberg - Book Review
- Gallipoli by Jenny MacLeod - Book Review
- How Did Enlightenment Ideas Influence Modern Economics?
- How Was Totila Able to Sack Rome in AD 546?
- How did the hamburger develop into a popular food?
- How did the Emperor Trajan change the Roman Empire?
- How historically accurate is the Medici Masters of Florence Series?
German History
- Why did the Weimar Republic Collapse?
- Why did Germany Persecute LGBT people during World War II?
- How did Adolf Hitler become the Fuhrer of Germany?
- In what ways did the Freikorps influence interwar Germany (1918-1933)?
- How did the Reformation change Christianity?
- What Were the Causes of Germany's Hyperinflation of 1921-1923?
- Popular Catholicism in Nineteenth-century Germany by Jonathon Sperber
- David Blackbourn's Marpingen: Apparitions of the Virgin Mary in a Nineteenth-Century German Village
British History
- How Historically Accurate is season 3 of The Last Kingdom?
- When did political parties emerge?
- How do you study the history of espionage?
- What was the impact of John Knox, on Scotland and on religion?
- How Did Spy Services Develop in England?
- Top 10 Books to Read on Western/British Medical History
- Did Victorian era popular scientists try to deny biblical teachings?
- Evolutionary Science before Charles Darwin
Book Reviews
- Pox Americana by Elizabeth Fenn - Book Review
- The Other Founders by Saul Cornell - Book Review
- Why was the Turner Thesis abandoned by historians?
- Working Toward Whiteness by David Roediger - Book Review
- Fool's Crow by James Welch - Book Review
- With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa by E.B. Sledge - Book Review
- The Treaty of Versailles: A Concise History by Michael S. Neiberg - Book Review
- Good-Bye to All That by Robert Graves - Book Review
- Wartime by Paul Fussell - Book Review
- The Assassin's Accomplice by Kate Clifford Larson - Book Review
Interviews
- Make It Rain: Interview with Kristine C. Harper
- American Girls in Red Russia: Interview with Julia Mickenberg
- Inventing the Pinkertons: Interview with Paul O'Hara
- Primed for Violence in Interwar Poland: Interview with Paul Brykczynski
- American Surveillance: Interview with Anthony Gregory
- Privateering during the War of 1812: Interview with Faye M. Kert
- Fate of the Revolution: Interview with Lorri Glover
- The Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798: Interview with Terri Halperin
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- Process: A Blog for American History
- Legal History Blog
- Balkinization
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- Oxford University Press Blog
- Johns Hopkins University Press Blog
- Cooking in the Archives
- Videri: The Historiographical WIki
- Historista
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