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• How Was Totila Able to Sack Rome in AD 546
  ...t world, but one of the greatest cities of all time. For most of its early history, Rome was as safe as it was prosperous and cultured. It was threatened on n ...enable situation. <ref> Sinnigen, William G, and Arthur E. R. Boak. <i>The History of Rome to A.D. 565.</i> 6th ed. (New York: Macmillan, 1977), p. 460</ref>
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• Did Egyptian President Gamal Nasser Protect the Copts
  ...rt, non-practicing and personally respected the rights of Egypt’s native Christian minority, the Copts. Despite his personally moderate views on religion, Nas ...i>Aegyptus</i>. <ref> Nisan, Modechai. <i>Minorities in the Middle East: A History of Struggle and Self-Expression.</i> Second Edition. (Jefferson, North Caro
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• Great Gifts for History Lovers 2018
  ...friends and family can be tough, but if your friend or family member loves history these suggestions may be helpful. ...t to. <i>Custer's Trials</i> was the winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for history.The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery, by Eric Foner (W.W.
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• How did Savonarola influence the Reformation and Counter-Reformation
  ...ety <ref> Ruggiero, Guido. The Renaissance in Italy: A Social and Cultural History of the Rinascimento (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2015), p. 648 < ...ed by the Church and committed to a political system that was based on the Christian scriptures.
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• Revolutionary Deists: Early America's Rational Infidels - Book Review
  ...rines such as the Trinity and the Divinity of Jesus. Deists also condemned Christian ethics. The majority of Deists were hostile to Christianity as they viewed ...However, it could also be argued that Jefferson was as much an unorthodox Christian as a Deist after Jefferson Walters studies the poet Philip Freneau, whose p
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• How Did the Ancient City of Memphis Rise to Prominence
  ...Memphis served as Egypt’s political capital throughout most of pharaonic history, with the exception of Thebes being the capital in the Eleventh, Seventeent ...for nobles and other important Egyptians to be buried throughout pharaonic history.
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• How did smallpox and tuberculous force the Medial Corps Office of Indian Affairs to reform
  ...ndian policy including Indian Commissions, Congress, the Army, and various Christian Churches. Ultimately, the OIA was a weak, decentralized agency which was ...ians, doctors were still fairly infrequent on Indian agencies in its early history. Agencies, especially early in the OIA’s existence, depended on missiona
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• Where Did Different Christmas Traditions Come From
  ...s his origin from Saint Nicholas but other traditions that may also be pre-Christian influenced the concept.]]__NOTOC__ In 1809, Washington Irving's <i>History of New York</i> merged different traditions of the English Father Christmas
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• Did the Biblical Exodus Actually Happen
  ...epresents one of the most fundamental aspects of Jewish religion and early history and is also recognized as an important event by Christians and Muslims. Bey ...on: Routledge, 2010), p. 417</ref> The Old Testament heavily documents the history of the Hebrews’ sojourn in and exodus from Egypt, which although historic
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• How Historically Accurate is the movie Gangs of New York
  ...prostitution in the city. <ref>Czitrom, Daniel. "Gangs of New York." Labor History 44, no. 3 (2003): 301-304 </ref> Gambling and bare-knuckle boxing were com ...but in fact, the area by the 1860s had significantly improved. Evangelical Christian missionaries concerned with the Five Points' sinfulness had managed to pers
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• How accurate is the movie J. Edgar
  ...BI targeted many organizations such as the Black Panthers and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference on the orders of Hoover.<ref> Gentry, p 302 </ref> Fried, Albert, ed. McCarthyism: The great American red scare: A documentary history (Oxford University Press, USA, 1997).
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• The American Political Tradition - Book Review
  ...e oft-mentioned-but-rarely-observed “educated general interest reader of history” 70 years after its publication. Trends in historiography may have left H ...h a burden of wartime leadership that he shouldered with a tragic, vaguely Christian sense of responsibility. (If Lincoln was auditioning to be Christ, he was a
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• The Visible Saints - Book Review
  [[File:Visible_Saints.jpg|left|250px|thumbnail|<i>Visible Saints: The History of a Puritan Idea</i> by Edmund S. Morgan]] The Visible Saints: The History of a Puritan Idea by Edward S Morgan. Publisher: Martino Fine Books (Novemb
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• How did Petrarch influence the Renaissance
  ...and of course, the Black Death, the most lethal pandemic known in European history. However, despite these disasters, there were dramatic changes in European ...h as reason, and argued that this world had worth and meaning, contrary to Christian teachings. It taught that human agency could improve society and give digni
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• The Many Faces of Weimar Cinema - Book Review
  ...ces of Weimar Cinema: Rediscovering Germany's Filmic Legacy]</i> edited by Christian Rogowski]] ...ces of Weimar Cinema: Rediscovering Germany's Filmic Legacy]</i> edited by Christian Rogowski is an anthology of essays dedicated to showing the tremendous vari
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• Is the Film Exodus: Gods and Kings Historically Accurate
  The 2014 film, <i>Exodus: Gods and Kings</i>, starring Christian Bale in the lead role as Moses, is a fictional take on some historical even ...ed each plague separately, assigning logical explanations to each based on history, anthropology, geography, and biology. More recently, Egyptologist Kenneth
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• How did the wars of the Byzantine Emperor Justinian, change history
  ...abitants regarded themselves as Romans. One of the greatest figures in the history of this Empire is the Emperor Justinian (483-565). He is regularly known as ...r, the conquests of Justinian in Italy and Africa later helped to save the Christian realm during the Arab and Persian wars. The Emperor’s wars of reconques
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• How historically accurate is the movie the Kingdom of Heaven
  ...ee religious: Christianity, Judaism, and Islam.<ref> Runciman, Steve. <i>A History of the Crusades, vol. II: The Kingdom of Jerusalem</i> (Cambridge, Cambridg ...While the Battle of Hattin is one of the most significant battles in world history, it was a one-sided slaughter. Scott does not spend much time on the Hattin
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• What Were the Impacts of the Maccabean Rebellion on the Ancient Near East
  ...rice, Simon. “The History of the Hellenistic Period.” In <i>The Oxford History of Greece and the Hellenistic World.</i> Edited by John Boardman, Jasper Gr ...their reigns. <ref> Bryce, Trevor. <i>Ancient Syria: A Three Thousand Year History.</i> (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), pgs. 168-73</ref>
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• How did Dante influence the Renaissance
  ...100 cantos. The Comedy is an imagined account of Dante’s journey in the Christian afterlife. The poem is divided into the Inferno which depicts hell, then Pu Unlike conventional Christian morality, he did not think that it was wrong to be happy and to enjoy this
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