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[[File:PinkertonsBritish_Troops_on_V_beach.jpgJPG|thumbnail|left|200px|left]]====[[Inventing Why did the Pinkertons: Interview with Paul O'HaraGallipoli Landings fail in WWI?]]====In 1850The Gallipoli campaign was an amphibious landing in the Dardanelles Strait in modern Turkey, Allan Pinkerton founded a detective agency that would grow into sought to knock the Pinkerton's National Detective AgencyOttoman Empire out of WW I. Pinkerton's agency is easily The landings were exceptionally daring for the most famous and infamous security guard time and detective agency in United States history. Pinkerton originally created the agency it ultimately failed to help railroad companies investigate their employees and catch train robbersachieve its objectives. But over time, the Pinkertons developed an intimate relationship with the federal government It cost tens of thousands of lives and it can be regarded as these partnerships grew a total failure for the Pinkertons' role increased dramaticallyallies and a Turkish victory. {{Read more|Inventing Why did the Pinkertons: Interview with Paul O'HaraGallipoli Landings fail in WWI?}}
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[[File:Confederate_monument_Elmira_NY1906roome_td_yale.jpgpng|thumbnail|200pxleft|left250px]]====[[Why are there so many Monuments to the Confederacy across the United StatesDid Theodore Roosevelt really save Football?]]====As one travels across the southern United StatesIn 1905, it is not unusual American football faced an crisis. Far to find monuments many young men were being killed while playing football and memorials no one was taking any serious actions to reduce the Confederate dead in many small townsrisks. In fact, these sculptural pieces, often composed The headline at the top of the same statues and plinths from the Monumental Bronze Co. of Bridgeportright hand column in ''The Chicago Sunday Tribune'' on November 26, Conn., can be found as far north as Pennsylvania and New York. A study in 2016 found some 11905 screamed,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"Football Year's Death Harvest - Record Shows That Nineteen Players Have Been Killed; One Hundred Thirty-seven Hurt - Two Are Slain Saturday. "{{Read more|Why are there so many Monuments to the Confederacy across the United StatesDid Theodore Roosevelt really save Football?}}
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[[File:Tissot Solomon Dedicates the Temple at JerusalemPrivateering.jpg|thumbnail|left|200px|left]]====[[History Privateering during the War of God Top Ten Booklist1812: Interview with Faye M. Kert]]====The concept During the War 1812, US and Canadian privateers fought most of God the naval battles between the United States and his historical development is an extraordinarily complex topic and it is not easily addressed in ten booksGreat Britain. These books seek attempt privateers were comprised of captains who were motivated by the promise of profit to explain fight for their countries. There was a complex story on how strong legal framework in both the concept of God developed in different cultures, places, United States and across timeGreat Britain that normalized piracy. The history Canadian and American ship owners and investors took advantage of the idea of God is long it and has its roots from prehistoric to early historic periods in funded privateering outfits during the ancient Near Eastwar. Later cultures developed concepts that derive from ancient IranNeedless to say, Greece, Egypt, and perhaps other regionsprivateers were incredibly risky investments.{{Read more|History Privateering during the War of God Top Ten Booklist1812: Interview with Faye M. Kert}}
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[[File:William-wallace-monument-1256291 1280Cayleff.jpegjpg|thumbnail|left|200px|left]]====[[How historically accurate is Braveheart?Nature's Path: Interview with Susan E. Cayleff]]====Braveheart At the very end of the 19th Century, a new system called naturopathy was a popular movie released in 1995 that won 5 Oscars created by Benedict and featured Mel Gibson as William WallaceLouisa Stroebel Lust. Wallace was a Scottish knight who became a hero in the Scottish rebellions against Unlike many of the English in the late 13th and early 14th century. The movie helped to inspire Scottish national pride while also19th Century medical systems created, naturopathy has persevered to some, represent an early, Medieval warrior who fought for freedom for himself this day. Naturopathic healing was founded and his people. While much based on number of the story depicted did occurinfluences including botanics, including the English occupation of Scotland during the time of Edward Ihydrotherapy, king of Englandeclecticism, the depiction of the revolt against the English temperance and other events do not correspond well to historical accountsvegetarianism.{{Read more|How historically accurate is Braveheart?Nature's Path: Interview with Susan E. Cayleff}}
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[[File:OriginsAmericanReligiousNationalismBritish_Lancers.pngjpg|thumbnail|left|200px|left]]====[[Thomas Jefferson, Why did the Founding Fathers and Christianity: Interview with Sam HaselbyBattle of the Somme largely fail to achieve its objectives?]]====The Oxford University Press has released Sam Haselby's book <i>The Origins Battle of American Religious Nationalism</i> in the Somme or the Somme Offensive was a new affordable paperback versionseries of battles that occurred during the Summer and Autumn of 1916. This is It involved British and French forces launching a fantastic book that has been getting praise from prominent historians since it massive assault on the German lines in an effort to break the stalemate on the Western Front. The Battle was originally released. Gordon Wood described his book in primarily a battle between the New York Review of Books as an "impressive Germans and powerfully argued book - that the British.The offensive achieved very little and both sides suffered heavy casualties.The British only advanced a few miles and the German lines held..it The stalemate was American Protestantism and not any sort of classical republicanism that was most important in shaping broken by the development of American nationalismoffensive."{{Read more|Thomas Jefferson, Why did the Battle of the Founding Fathers and Christianity: Interview with Sam HaselbySomme largely fail to achieve its objectives?}}
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[[File: DrysocksFrench_soldiers.JPG jpg|thumbnail|left|200px|left]] ====[[What Was the Importance Origins of Bill Mauldin to WWII Infantrymen?World War One - Top Ten Booklist]]====Bill Mauldin once said that the infantryman “gives more The First World War was an incredibly destructive and gets less than anybody elsewide ranging catastrophe.” He knew this from his experience on Not only did it dramatically change the front lines with K Company, 180th Infantry Regiment, map of Europe and the 45th Divisionworld and it led to further instability. Mauldin went through basic training as an infantryman and stayed with his regiment throughout the invasion The First World War was one of Sicily and the Allied campaign up most important wars in human history. There has long been a debate about the boot exact cause of Italythe First World War. The talented cartoonist succeeded in ruffling the feathers assassination of the “brass” all Archduke Ferdinand triggered the way up to General George Pattonwar but its ultimate causes were far more complex.{{Read more|What Was the Importance Origins of Bill Mauldin to WWII Infantrymen?World War One - Top Ten Booklist}}
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[[File:Hendrick WGA01076Queen_Anne's_Lace_(25468119510).jpg|thumbnail|left|200px|left]] ====[[How did the game of golf emergeWhat was used for birth control in medieval Europe?]]====The game of golf today Birth is globally popular a universal experience for humanity and watched by millions on televisiontherefore, so is conception. The origins This makes the issue of the sport may go contraception one which stretched back to ancient periodsinto antiquity. While this topic is frequently in modern news, but most historians trace the definitive beginning historic practices of the sport to Medieval Scotland contraception and/or the Netherlands. However, it was in the 19th century that the sport emerged as both a modern one and started to become a global phenomenonspecific methods utilized are rarely touched upon. {{Read more|How did the game of golf emergeWhat was used for birth control in medieval Europe?}}
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<div class="portal">[[File:Chuck_CooperGW-painting.jpg|thumbnail|200pxleft|left180px]]====[[Who integrated What was George Washington's military experience before the NBAAmerican Revolution?]]====Sports, like American society, was segregated well into the 20th century. In many ways professional sports was the face The Second Continental Congress voted unanimously to put George Washington in charge of race in the cultural fabric. African-American athletes competed Continental Army in their own separate, but unequal, professional leagues and little was done to challenge the status quo1775. Branch Rickey, who Washington was only 43 years old at the general manager of baseball’s Brooklyn Dodgerstime, was the first to step up a gentleman planter and end segregation in American sportslocal Virginian politician. {{Read more|Who integrated What was George Washington's military experience before the NBAAmerican Revolution?}}
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<div class="portal">[[File:leecover512px-Filip II Macedonia.jpg|thumbnail|120pxleft|left]]====[[American Civil War Biographies Top Ten Booklist200px]]====The library of texts pertaining to the Civil War Era ranges from scholarly research to pure fiction. Some of the most informative works come in the biography genre. The countless memoirs and autobiographies are essential to professional researchers and historians and have proved indispensable to the modern biographer. {{Read more|American Civil War Biographies Top Ten Booklist}}</div>
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<div class="portal">[[File:thomas paineEgyptian kitchen Berlin 1.jpg|thumbnail|left|150px220px]]=====[[Why Did American Colonists Become United Against EnglandHow did kitchens develop?]]=====Colonial Americans enjoyed relative independence from England until 1763, which marked Few places in a home are as important or symbolic for our social bonds than the cessation of the Seven Years’ Warkitchen. Prior to that timeIn almost every culture, the British government had paid little attention to kitchen serves not only as the domestic affairs conducted by place where food is prepared, but serves as a social hub for families and friends. Humans develop deep social bonds with family and friends in their American colonistskitchen. The war was costly; howeverkitchen does not simply provide for our daily nutrition but also helps to reinforce our social character. Whether humans are cooking around a fire or chopping vegetables on a granite counter-top, and England deemed it appropriate that American colonies contribute to the war debt and the costs associated they are also interacting with stationing British troops on American soilone another. {{Read more|Why Did American Colonists Become United Against EnglandHow did kitchens develop?}}
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[[File:Mithra sacrifiant le Taureau-005Christiaan_Barnard_(1968).JPGjpg|thumbnail|left|200px]] ====[[Why was When did the worship of Mithra so popularFirst Heart Transplant take place?]]====Today When Christiaan Barnard performed the god Mithra or Mithras is not recognized by many first heart transplant in the West. Mithra is often 1967, it was initially seen as just one of the many gods that was once worshiped in Europeremarkable scientific achievement, but overtime both the Near East, medical community and South Asiathe general public were forced to re-evaluate heart transplants. However, in The medical community quickly realized that the early centuries of Christianity, one can argue the worship of Mithras rivaled influence first transplants were little more than dangerous and importance of Christianityunpredictable experiments. {{Read more|Why was When did the worship of Mithra so popularFirst Heart Transplant take place?}}
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<div class="portal">[[File:626px-Edwin_Smith_Papyrus_v2_copyKeller.jpg|thumbnail|left|300px200px]]====[[How did Medicine develop in the Ancient WorldWhy Did Helen Keller Become a Socialist?]]====Early medicine developed in a number of societiesHelen Keller (1880–1967) is best known for her triumph over blindness, deafness, both in and muteness. Rescued from the New and Old Worlds, isolation of her afflictions as populations around a young girl by the Perkins Institute for the world were able Blind teacher Anne Sullivan, Keller learned to understand a basic form of sign language and learned to quickly learn that plants that grew around them often have natural healing qualities “feel” and health benefits. Several regions around imitate the world, which had early complex societies, have left us evidence or documents that describe some sound of the relatively sophisticated medical techniques or practices that developed at early dateshuman voice. {{Read more|How did Medicine develop in the Ancient WorldWhy Did Helen Keller Become a Socialist?}}
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<div class="portal">[[File:America's_ConstitutionAnthophyllite_asbestos_SEM.jpg|thumbnail|left|200px]]====[[American Legal History Top Ten BooklistWhen was Mesothelioma First Diagnosed?]]====These are our Top Ten legal The history booksof Mesothelioma is complicated. Medicine struggled to establish its existence and understand what caused it. Why do we like these books? Besides being awesome, we believe Mesothelioma is a rare form of cancer that forms on the "tissues that these are some of cover the most exciting legal history books we have readlungs and abdomen. These books helped us think about legal history " Mesothelioma is typically tied to the exposure of people to asbestos in new wayseither their environment or workplace. {{Read more|American Legal History Top Ten BooklistWhen was Mesothelioma First Diagnosed?}}
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<div class="portal">[[File:Florence_CathedralRabbbi's_Atheist_.jpgjpeg|thumbnail|left|200px]]====[[Why did the Italian Renaissance End?The Rabbi's Atheist Daughter: Interview with Bonnie S. Anderson]]====The Italian Renaissance History is fickle. During the 19th Century, Ernestine Rose was one of the most exciting periods in human civilisation. It witnessed a great flourishing of the artsimportant and famous international advocates for feminism, literature, philosophy, architecture free thought and politicsanti-slavery. Many of the greatest She worked closely with renowned figures in World Civilisation appeared during the Renaissance in Italythis movement such as Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Despite her contributions to feminism, including Michelangeloatheism, Leonardo Da Vinciand anti-slavery, Machiavelli and Raphaelsince her death she has slowly been erased from history. {{Read more|Why did the Italian Renaissance End?The Rabbi's Atheist Daughter: Interview with Bonnie S. Anderson}}
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<div class="portal" style="font-size:90%">[[File:Gregory-American-Surveillance-cSkythian_archer_plate_BM_E135_by_Epiktetos.jpg|thumbnail|200px|left|200px]]====[[American Surveillance: Interview with Anthony GregoryWhen did Men Start Wearing Pants?]]====The United States has been conducting surveillance Why did humans start wearing pants? To answer this question it’s important to understand two things - first, what were the earliest forms of its citizens since it was createdclothing and how did they evolve into pants and secondly, but why did a need for pants develop? It is also helpful to define what is meant by pants - specifically a bifurcated garment for the ability bottom half of any government the body which covers from waist to spy on its citizens has dramatically improved in the digital agelower leg. How should United States balance national security and personal privacy? Does It is also helpful to define what is meant by pants - specifically a bifurcated garment for the bottom half of the Constitution provide adequate protection against unrestricted government surveillance? What can advocates do body which covers from waist to strengthen personal privacy rights? These concerns will only intensify in the years to comelower leg.{{Read more|American Surveillance: Interview with Anthony GregoryWhen did Men Start Wearing Pants?}}
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[[File:1896 Olympic marathonInto_the_Jaws_of_Death_23-0455M_edit for my series headline photo.jpg|thumbnail|left|thumb|300px200px]]====[[How did the marathon emerge?]]====The marathon is seen today as grueling long-distance, usually over 26 mile race. The battle of Marathon, fought between the Greek and Persian armies, and the resulting run by a Greek warrior to tell the victory is usually cited as the origin of this sport. While there is truth in this story, the history of the marathon is complex and its presence in many major world cities shows it still stands as one of the great events that tests human will and skill.{{Read more|How did the marathon emerge?}}</div>
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====[[FileBook Review:662px-Official_Francisco_Franco"The Assassin's Accomplice.jpg||left|thumb|200px"]]====[[What were the Root Causes of the Spanish Civil War?File:Assassins_accomplice.jpg|left|thumb|150px]]====Spain was a very divided, unstable Kate Clifford Larson's book The Assassin’s Accomplice: Mary Surratt and weak country in the 19th century. Once Plot to Kill Abraham Lincoln is a great power, Spain lost almost the last of its colonies after it defeat in the Spanishwell-American war.[1] It was technically a monarchy, but power had frequently been in researched narrative exploring the hands prosecution of military dictatorsMary Surratt. The country was bitterly dividedAssassin’s Accomplice details the events that revolved around Mrs. The acute poverty of Surratt in the Spanish people meant that many were drawn days and weeks leading up to Communism, Anarchism and Socialismthe assassination of President Lincoln.{{Read more|What were the Root Causes of the Spanish Civil War?Book Review: "The Assassin's Accomplice."}}
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====[[File:Privateering.jpg|thumbnail|left|200pxHow Did Black Pepper Spread in Popularity?]]====[[Privateering during the War of 1812File: Interview with Faye MBlack pepper (By R.Boroujerdi). Kertjpeg|left|thumb|205px]]====During Visiting a restaurant in the War 1812, US Western world or even a home often means finding salt and Canadian privateers fought most of black pepper as common condiments on the naval battles between the United States and Great Britaintable used to give taste to our dishes. These privateers were comprised of captains who were motivated by the promise of profit Salt has been native to fight for their countries. There many regions and is commonly found; however, black pepper was a strong legal framework far more limited plant (Piper nigrum) that natively grew in both the United States South and Great Britain that normalized piracy. Canadian and American ship owners and investors took advantage of it and funded privateering outfits during the war. Needless to say, privateers were incredibly risky investmentsSoutheast Asia.{{Read more|Privateering during the War of 1812: Interview with Faye M. KertHow Did Black Pepper Spread in Popularity?}}
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<div class="portal">[[File:CayleffAlmost_a_Miracle.jpg|thumbnail|left|200px]]====[[Nature's Path: Interview with Susan E. CayleffAmerican Revolution Top Ten Booklist]]====At On July 4, 1776, the very end Declaration of the 19th Century, a new system called naturopathy Independence was created signed by Benedict and Louisa Stroebel Lustthe Continental Congress. Unlike many This act was only the first step towards the creation of the 19th Century medical systems created, naturopathy has persevered to this dayUnited States. Naturopathic healing was founded and based on number The impact of influences including botanics, hydrotherapy, eclecticism, temperance and vegetarianismthis revolution cannot be ignored. {{Read more|Nature's Path: Interview with Susan E. CayleffAmerican Revolution Top Ten Booklist}}
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<div class="portal" style="font-size:90%">[[File:Congress_of_Vienna_1815Pinkertons.jpg|thumbnail|200px|left|250px]]====[[Why did Inventing the Congress of Vienna fail to stop future European wars?Pinkertons: Interview with Paul O'Hara]]====The Congress of Vienna was In 1850, Allan Pinkerton founded a gathering of representatives of European kingdoms detective agency that was presided over by would grow into the Austrian Chancellor Klemens Von MetternichPinkerton's National Detective Agency. The Congress was held Pinkerton's agency is easily the most famous and infamous security guard and detective agency in Vienna from 1814 to 1815United States history. The goals of Pinkerton originally created the Congress were agency to secure peace help railroad companies investigate their employees and stability in Europe catch train robbers. But over time, the Pinkertons developed an intimate relationship with the federal government and to ensure that revolutions did not destabilize as these partnerships grew the ContinentPinkertons' role increased dramatically. {{Read more|Why did Inventing the Congress of Vienna fail to stop future European wars?Pinkertons: Interview with Paul O'Hara}}
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====[[File:VDC_book_cover.jpg|thumbnail|left|200pxGilded Age/Progressive Era History Top Ten Booklist]]====[[Fate of the RevolutionFile: Interview with Lorri GloverAmerican_Colossus.jpeg|left|thumb|125px]]====Starting in 1787, states began to ratify Creating a Top Ten List for the newly drafted federal Constitution which would determine the fate Gilded Age/Progressive Era is challenging. There are an extraordinary number of outstanding books on this period. These books are a selection of the new American Republicour favorites. In order Creating a Top Ten List for the Constitution 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 go in effectdefine this era as whole, nine instead of the states needed to agree to the document. While five states quickly ratified the Constitution between December 1787 and January 1788, the country's eyes stayed focusing on Virginia. Virginia was the most populated and largest state and it was critical for the state to ratify the Constitution to legitimize the processa single issue. {{Read more|Fate of the Revolution: Interview with Lorri GloverGilded Age/Progressive Era History Top Ten Booklist}}
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[[File:Px-Epikouros BM 1843Samuel_Hahnemann_1841.jpg|thumbnail|left|200px]]====[[Why What was Epicurus and his philosophy so importantthe dominant medical sect in the United States during the 19th Century?]]====Epicurus is often associated as one Nineteenth-century medicine was characterized by constant competition among three major medical sects: Regulars, Eclectics, and Homeopaths.[1] Each of the Greek philosophers more interested in pleasure or its pursuit than other ideals. While at times this led these medical sects not only meaningfully disagreed on how to a negative view of his philosophy, the reality is his thinking was very advanced treat illnesses and developeddiseases, leading but sought to his ideas becoming highly influential in modern thought in many regions portray their type of practice as the world today. He was one of the first Greek philosophers to develop a strong tradition that avoid superstition as a core idealmost effective and scientific.{{Read more|Why What was Epicurus and his philosophy so importantthe dominant medical sect in the United States during the 19th Century?}}
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<div class="portal" style="font-size:90%">[[File:Almost_a_MiracleConfederate_monument_Elmira_NY.jpg|thumbnail|200px|left|200px]]====[[American Revolution Top Ten BooklistWhy are there so many Monuments to the Confederacy across the United States?]]====On July 4As one travels across the southern United States, 1776it 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 Declaration of Independence was signed by same statues and plinths from the Continental CongressMonumental Bronze Co. This act was only the first step towards the creation of the United StatesBridgeport, Conn., can be found as far north as Pennsylvania and New York. The United States then fought a seven year war to cement its independence from EnglandA study in 2016 found some 1,500 monuments still standing. The successful fight for independence has had a remarkable impact on world history over the past 200 While in recent years. The United States gradually transformed itself from these monuments have become a former colony into new source of political conversation their very erection was a superpower. The impact of this revolution cannot be ignoredmovement by Confederate women. {{Read more|American Revolution Top Ten BooklistWhy are there so many Monuments to the Confederacy across the United States?}}
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[[File:Plato Academy MAN Napoli Inv124545Congress_of_Vienna_1815.jpg|thumbnail|left|200px250px]]====[[What was Plato's academy and why Why did it influence Western thoughtthe Congress of Vienna fail to stop future European wars?]]====The Academy, founded by the philosopher Plato in the early 4th century BCE, Congress of Vienna was perhaps one a gathering of representatives of European kingdoms that was presided over by the earliest institutions of higher learningAustrian Chancellor Klemens Von Metternich. While it The Congress was not like a university where people would enroll and obtain advanced degrees, it functioned as one held in Vienna from 1814 to 1815. The goals of the first places for dedicated research into scientific Congress were to secure peace and philosophical questions, at least stability in Europe, took place by gathered scholars. Its main function was and to teach Plato's philosophical understanding, but it also challenged its scholars to develop a new understanding of our universeensure that revolutions did not destabilize the Continent. {{Read more|What was Plato's academy and why Why did it influence Western thoughtthe Congress of Vienna fail to stop future European wars?}}
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<div class="portal" style="font-size:90%">[[File:The_Alien_and_Sedition_Acts_of_1789Tissot Solomon Dedicates the Temple at Jerusalem.jpg|thumbnail|200px|left|200px]]====[[The Alien and Sedition Acts History of 1798: Interview with Terri HalperinGod Top Ten Booklist]]====The Alien concept of God and Sedition Acts of 1798 were four laws that were passed by the predominantly Federalist Congress his historical development is an extraordinarily complex topic and signed by John Adams it is not easily addressed in ten books. These books seek attempt to strengthen explain a complex story on how the national security concept of the United StatesGod developed in different cultures, places, and across time. These acts not only restricted The history of the ability idea of an immigrant God is long and has its roots from prehistoric to become a citizenearly historic periods in the ancient Near East. Later cultures developed concepts that derive from ancient Iran, Greece, Egypt, but made it easier to deport non-citizens who were either deemed dangerous or were citizens of hostile countriesand perhaps other regions. {{Read more|The Alien and Sedition Acts History of 1798: Interview with Terri HalperinGod Top Ten Booklist}}
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<div class="portal" style="font-size:90%">[[File:Danse_macabre_by_Michael_WolgemutWilliam-wallace-monument-1256291 1280.pngjpeg|thumbnail|200px|left|250px]]====[[How did the Bubonic Plague make the Italian Renaissance possiblehistorically accurate is Braveheart?]]====The Black Death (1347-1350) Braveheart was a pandemic popular movie released in 1995 that devastated won 5 Oscars and featured Mel Gibson as William Wallace. Wallace was a Scottish knight who became a hero in the populations of Europe Scottish rebellions against the English in the late 13th and Asiaearly 14th century. The plague was movie helped to inspire Scottish national pride while also, to some, represent an unprecedented human tragedy in Italy. It not only shook Italian societyearly, but transformed itMedieval warrior who fought for freedom for himself and his people. The Black Death marked an end While much of an era in Italythe story depicted did occur, its impact was profound and it resulted in wide-ranging socialincluding the English occupation of Scotland during the time of Edward I, economicking of England, cultural the depiction of the revolt against the English and religious changesother events do not correspond well to historical accounts.{{Read more|How did the Bubonic Plague make the Italian Renaissance possiblehistorically accurate is Braveheart?}}
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<div class="portal" style="font-size:90%">[[File:Stalingrad threeDrysocks.jpgJPG |thumbnail|200px|left|250px]]====[[Why did Germany lose What Was the Battle Importance of StalingradBill Mauldin to WWII Infantrymen?]]====Hitler saw Bill Mauldin once said that the war in terms of infantryman “gives more and gets less than anybody else.” He knew this from his personal rivalry experience on the front lines with Stalin and he decided to attack the cityK Company, 180th Infantry Regiment, because of its symbolic valuethe 45th Division. However, Mauldin went through basic training as an infantryman and stayed with his regiment throughout the original aim invasion of Sicily and the offensive in Southern Russian was to secure the oil fields in Allied campaign up the Caucasusboot of Italy. The oil was essential for talented cartoonist succeeded in ruffling the German war machine. Hitler knew this – instead feathers of opting for concentrating the “brass” all his forces on the conquest of the oil fields, he made perhaps a fateful mistakeway up to General George Patton.{{Read more|Why did Germany lose What Was the Battle Importance of StalingradBill Mauldin to WWII Infantrymen?}}
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<div class="portal" style="font-size:90%">[[File:Samuel_Hahnemann_1841Florence_Cathedral.jpg|thumbnail|left|200px]]====[[What was the dominant medical sect in Why did the United States during the 19th CenturyItalian Renaissance End?]]====Nineteenth-century medicine The Italian Renaissance was characterized by constant competition among three major medical sects: Regularsone of the most exciting periods in human civilisation. It witnessed a great flourishing of the arts, literature, Eclecticsphilosophy, architecture and Homeopathspolitics.[1] Each Many of these medical sects not only meaningfully disagreed on how to treat illnesses and diseasesthe greatest figures in World Civilisation appeared during the Renaissance in Italy, including Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci, but sought to portray their type of practice as the most effective Machiavelli and scientificRaphael.{{Read more|What was the dominant medical sect in the United States during Why did the 19th CenturyItalian Renaissance End?}}
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[[File:Thomas_Jefferson_by_Rembrandt_Peale,_1800Gettysburg.jpgjpeg|thumbnail|left|200px]]====[[Thomas Jefferson, the Founding Fathers and Christianity: Interview with Sam HaselbyCivil War Battles Top Ten Booklist]]====Recently A DailyHistory.org top ten booklist focusing on Twitter, a debate broke out between Annette Gordon-Reed, Sam Haselby, and John Fea best book on the nature battles of Thomas Jefferson's religious beliefsthe American Civil War. Instead The books on this list explore the battles of recreating the debateAntietam, it made more sense to contact one of the participantsGettysburg, Sam HaselbyChancellorsville, whose recent book ''The Origins of American Religious Nationalism'' (published by Oxford University Press) examines how and many others. Take a conflict with Protestantism, in the decades following US independence transformed American national identitylook at our list.{{Read more|Thomas Jefferson, the Founding Fathers and Christianity: Interview with Sam HaselbyCivil War Battles Top Ten Booklist}}
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<div class="portal" style="font-size:90%">[[File:EngineeringvictoryStalingrad three.jpg|thumbnail|left|200px250px]]====[[Engineering Victory during Why did Germany lose the Civil War: Interview with Thomas F. Army, Jr.Battle of Stalingrad?]]====Logistics win wars. Logistics is Hitler saw the coordination war in terms of complex operations such as movinghis personal rivalry with Stalin and he decided to attack the city, housing and supplying troops and their equipmentbecause of its symbolic value. War is However, the ultimate test original aim of any logisticianthe offensive in Southern Russian was to secure the oil fields in the Caucasus. Thomas FThe oil was essential for the German war machine. Army, Jr. argues in Hitler knew this – instead of opting for concentrating all his new book <i>Engineering Victory: How Technology Won forces on the Civil War</i> published by Johns Hopkins University Press that conquest of the Union's engineering prowess during Civil War gave it an distinct advantage over the Confederacyoil fields, he made perhaps a fateful mistake.{{Read more|Engineering Victory during Why did Germany lose the Civil War: Interview with Thomas F. Army, Jr.Battle of Stalingrad?}}
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<div class="portal">[[File:Shantytown_USA.jpg|thumbnail|left|200px]] style====[[Shantytown, USA"font-size: Interview with Lisa Goff]]====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|Shantytown, USA: Interview with Lisa Goff}}</div> <div class="portal90%">
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====[[The Mysterious Illness of Jim Bowie: How Did He Contribute to His Own Decline?]]====
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*[[Why did the Italian Renaissance End?]]
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*[[How did Vladimir Lenin Rise To Power?]]
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