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How have immigration and citizenship changed in the U.S.
...s are melted into a new race whose labors and posterity will one day cause great changes in the world.”<ref name="Letters from an American Farmer and Sket .... However, there were two that would have a significant impact on American history: the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848) and the Dred Scott decision (1857).

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American Girls in Red Russia: Interview with Julia Mickenberg
...ww.press.uchicago.edu/index.html University of Chicago Press] explores the history of the American women who went to Russia looking for adventure, freedom, re ...iversity of Texas Austin. She writes and teaches about radicalism, women's history, Russia, and children's literature. She has written and edited two previous

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How Did Thomas Francis Meagher Really Die
...penchant for alcohol. The possibility of this strong, Catholic man with a history of perseverance committing suicide is less likely but is not without merit ...in either a tragic fall or deliberate jump resulting from alcohol induced depression. A new and compelling theory will be presented here that also involves alco

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Why Did Scandinavians Volunteer for the Union Army during the Civil War
...ted States. For instance, the Civil War was one of the first wars in world history where rifles were used extensively. The telegraph was used to relay message ...asons were ones that can be seen in previous and later periods of American history. Scandinavians believed in the Republic, were ardent supporters of Presiden

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What are the origins of Halloween
...&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=98a7c42a01a51865419f3f7123078f12 Trick or Treat: A History of Halloween]. First paperback edition. London: Reaktion Books, 2013. < [[Category:Holiday History]][[Category:Wikis]]

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Sears was the most important retailer in America - Why has it collapsed
...om/a-brief-history-of-sears-catalog-homes-233077 Built from a Kit: A Brief History of Sears Catalog Homes]," Apartment Therapy, Jan 18, 2017</ref> ....edu/pubweb/~rcollins/huwepaper.pdf THE STORY OF SEARS, ROEBUCK & COMPANY: History, and how a company aided World War II victory gardeners].</ref> By the 1950

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How did Hitler become the Dictator and Fuhrer of Germany
Hitler greeted the war with enthusiasm, as a great relief from the frustration and aimlessness of civilian life. He found disc ...he reparations demands.<ref>Signing of the Versailles Treaty - http://www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty/marcuse/classes/33d/projects/1920s/VersaillesTreatyCarlos.

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How did the workweek develop
...ncient work weeks, see: Zerubavel, E. (1989). The seven-day circle: the history and meaning of the week. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. </ref> ...institute a five-day workweek, but it only became routine during the Great Depression.

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What Started the Catholic Worker Movement during the Great Depression
...nt began as a lay community dedicated to serving the poor during the Great Depression and advocating on behalf of those oppressed by social injustice. This movem ====The Great Depression====

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Why did the United States pass and then repeal the constitutional amendment prohibiting alcohol
...) was one of the most important social issues of the day. With the Second Great Awakening and the social movements of the 1820s and 1830s, alcohol became a The Second Great Awakening also advocated the belief that humans could be individually refor

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Why did the Weimar Republic Collapse
...ver, it could have succeeded but for the economic calamity of the ‘Great Depression.’ After the failure of the last great German offensive on the western front in 1918, it was clear that Germany wo

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How accurate is the movie J. Edgar
...o the head of the most powerful law-enforcement agency in America, who had great personal power. Clint Eastwood directed the movie and it was scripted by Du ...so shows Hoover’s role in the battle against infamous criminals from the Depression such as Baby Face Nelson and John Dillinger, which was the case.

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How did Europe pay off their debts to the United States after World War I
...to international peace sparked concern in the United States, but the Great Depression curtailed U.S. willingness to act. In this environment, keeping the nation ...ermany’s economy floundered. In 1931, as the world sunk ever deeper into depression, a one-year moratorium on all debt and reparation payments was declared at

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How historically accurate is the movie The King's Speech
...time is captured very well by the director. At this critical point in its history, the British Royal Family faced its crisis. ...ewers in no doubt that the king and the Royal Family owed the Australian a great debt, and this was the case, and when George VI died, his widow, the Queen,

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Understanding Reconstruction - A Historiography
.... Carpetbaggers, scalawags, and uneducated freedmen plunged the South into depression and confusion until the white South banded together to reclaim southern cul ...Bois’s indictment served as a precursor for the explosion of revisionist history of the 1960s, which would latch onto the argument of Du Bois and refocus th

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Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin and the Great Depression - Book Review
...x|thumbnail|Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin and the Great Depression by Alan Brinkley]]__NOTOC__ ...tion about the American experience of the 1930s: why did profound economic depression and political dissent fail to shake the foundations of government, producin

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Political Parties and American Political Development from the Age of Jackson to the Age of Lincoln - Book Review
...old, and one new, essays that challenge this innovative form of political history that he once helped create. ...after both nominating conventions were held the nation slid into economic depression. In both occurrences, the Whigs failed to understand the very political st

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A Consumers’ Republic - Book Review
...basis for liberal policy in the face of political reversals and persistent depression in the late 1930s. If the government cannot regulate business and labor to [http://videri.org/index.php?title=Guide_to_the_Literature Check out other great articles at Videri.org.]

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Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America - Book Review
...ssor of Asian American Studies at Columbia University traced the intricate history of immigration legislation and construction of identities through immigrati ...“alien” immediately equated to illegal Mexicans rather than a complex history of immigration restrictions of Europeans and Chinese. Thus, the book is ref

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Top Ten Booklist on Joseph Stalin
...ns and was its wartime leader during World War II. Despite his atrocities, Great Britain and the United States were compelled to work with Stalin against Ge ...any that is the signal event of modern world history. This book covers the history of the world during the build-up to its most fateful hour, from the vantage

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