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• British Criminal and Legal History Top Ten Booklist
  ...ions to the contrary, legal history can extraordinarily fascinating. Legal history explores the conflicts that arise from civilization. A deft legal historian If you're even remotely familiar with the field of British criminal and legal history, no doubt you've seen John Beattie’s <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/produc
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• How Did the Battle of Culloden Change British and American History
  ...also put an end to the male-line succession of the House of Stuart on the British throne. The Jacobites' primary goal was to restore the Stuart line. The Jac ...lorious Revolution, see: </ref> Massie, A. (2013) <i>The Royal Stuarts: A History of the Family that Shaped Britain</i>. New York, St. Martin’s Griffin.
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• How Did the Battle of Culloden Change British and American History?
  #REDIRECT [[How Did the Battle of Culloden Change British and American History]]
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• Top 10 Books to Read on Western/British Medical History
  ...centuries saw the advent of some of the most important medical findings in history. The Industrial Revolution had resulted in a massive change in living condi I’ve arranged this list in order from the most popular, “fun” medical history books, to the more scholarly, academic books.
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  ====A Great Resource for History Teachers==== * [[51 Great Online Resources for History Teachers]]
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• Why did the Egyptians Mummify their Dead
  ...carried out throughout thousands of years. The process changed throughout history, and there is no one way that the Egyptians mummified their dead. Describe ...ey were prone to disintegration.<ref> “Mummification in Egypt.” <i>The British Medical Journal</i> 1.2409 (1907): 521–521. Web. 11 Nov. 2015.</ref> In
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• What were the major United States slave revolts
  Slavery represented the opposite of freedom. In the period of human history variously known as the modern era or the Age of Discovery, this form of unf ...nder the control of the Spanish who offered enslaved Africans owned by the British freedom as a way to increase their territorial advantages in the region. Th
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• How did the Boxer Rebellion unite Imperial Powers and create Chinese Nationalism
  The Boxer Uprising (1899-1901) was a key event in the history of China, as it reflected the colonial powers increasing influence in Chine ...foreign presence in the 19th century, Duara, Prasenjit. 1995. <i>Rescuing History from the Nation: Questioning Narratives of Modern China</i>. Chicago: Unive
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• What was the Albany Plan of Union of 1754
  ...entralized government. On July 10, 1754, representatives from seven of the British North American colonies adopted the plan. Although never carried out, the A ...the Albany Plan during a larger meeting known as the Albany Congress. The British Government in London had ordered the colonial governments to meet in 1754,
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• When were Electric Cars Invented
  ...hat has some ways to go before they become common. However, electric cars' history goes back to the 19th century, as people experimented with electricity and ==The Early History of Electric Cars==
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• How did Great Britain win the French Indian War (Seven Years War)
  ...nland North America, effectively ending any foreign military threat to the British colonies there. ...esulted from ongoing frontier tensions in North America as both French and British imperial officials and colonists sought to extend each country’s sphere o
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• Why did Westward Expansion Lead to the American Revolution
  ...merous problems of how to govern it. Conflicts arose from the inability of British officials to balance the interests of colonists and Indians, which led to c ...nd the entire present-day United States east of the Mississippi came under British control. With the official end of the war, Anglo-American colonists began t
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• How Historically Accurate is the Outlaw King
  ...ot engage in any chivalrous battles with the English would never work. The British always had superior numbers and resources, but once the Bruce switched to g ...ally merged with the English kings and became the ancestors of the current British monarch. Robert the Bruce, both his ambition and bravery, were critical to
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• How accurate is the movie The Favourite
  ...of 2018. It is a historical drama set in one of the key periods of British history. It focuses on the relationship of Queen Anne of Great Britain with two of ...s it marked the end of French expansion under Louis IV and the rise of the British Empire. <ref>Coward, Barry. <i>The Stuart Age: England, 1603-1714</i> (Lond
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• What was George Washington's military experience before the American Revolution
  ...0-year old aide on an expedition with a letter informing the French of the British claims in the region. The French thanked Washington for coming, put him up ...outhwest Pennsylvania carving roads and attempting to build a fort but the British position was overrun by a larger French force. On a dark May night in 1755
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• Was Elizabeth I Justified in having her Cousin Mary Stuart, Queen of Scotland Executed
  *[[British Criminal and Legal History Top Ten Booklist]] [[Category:British History]] [[Category:English History]][[Category:History of Elizabethan Age]]
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• The Conspiracy of Free Trade: Interview with Marc-William Palen
  ...mes'', the ''Australian'', ''The Conversation'', ''Globalist Magazine'', ''History News Network'' and many others. Palen has recently published two outstandi ...so offers a timely reminder that the Republican Party was, for much of its history, the party of protectionism and imperialism. The GOP dominated the executiv
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• What Role did the Motorcycle and Harley-Davidson play in Wartime
  ...ore the bike manufacturers. With the outbreak of the Great War in 1914 the British office of the Ministry of Defence sought out William and Edwin Douglas, bro ...Davidson Motor Company. <ref>”’H-D Supports the Military,” corporate history, Harley Davidson USA, 2015</ref>
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• Why was the Construction of the Alaska Highway so important to American History
  ...<ref>Virtue, John, ''The Black Soldiers Who Built the Alaska Highway: A History of Four U.S. Army Regiments in the North, 1942-1943'', McFarland & Company, ...heast of Fairbanks, and at the southern terminus in Dawson Creek, near the British Columbia/Alberta border. In between lay 1,700 miles of sub-arctic tundra, r
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• How did eugenics develop and why did it persist into the late 20th Century
  As modern students of history, we must divorce scientific theories of the past from the unavoidable socie ...e a couple thousand years after Plato, was Francis Galton, a member of the British landed gentry and half-cousin to Charles Darwin. Charles was Francis’s ol
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• Causes of World War II Top Ten Booklist
  The second world war was the most catastrophic war in human history. The origins of the second world war in Europe are complex and controversia ...licy, which became increasingly hostile to Germany. It directly led to the British government issuing an ultimatum to Germany over Poland and this resulted in
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• What steps did Germany take to start the Second World War in Europe
  ...ations, but ultimately the primary cause of the greatest conflict in human history was National Socialist Party's ideology and Germany's aggressive policies. ...ded the first world war, is perhaps the most controversial peace treaty in history; ‘many have judged it to be too harsh and others have judged it to be not
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• What started World War One
  ...storiography of the First World War-Part I." <i>Journal of Modern European History 121</I> pp: 5-27</ref> Germany was by far the most powerful military count ...y in Continental Europe, it lacked a large colonial Empire. The French and British Empires extended over large areas of the globe. Europe strategists at the t
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• Why did the Baroque Style develop
  ...Culture of the Baroque: Analysis of a Historical Structure</i>. Theory and History of Literature, v. 25. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.</ref> ...lready popular in Britain where the Baroque style never became popular for British tastes, emphasized proportional, free-standing buildings that were geometri
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• What was the impact of the Irish Famine on Ireland and the world
  ...impact of the famine on Irish society and how it ‘decisively shaped its history and the nature of its society and economy.<ref>Donnelly, James S (2005), '' ...2002).</ref> The country was part of the United Kingdom and was ruled by a British appointed administration in Dublin Castle, who were under the London govern
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• How does The Magna Carta influence the Modern Perceptions of Civil Rights
  ...considered and recognized to be one of the most important documents in the history of democracy itself, as well as civil rights and obligations and common law ...uck: http://www.historyextra.com/feature/magna-carta-turning-point-english-history</ref> An official version of this very document was released soon afterword
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• Did the Congress of Berlin create a more unstable Europe
  ...lity or even the breakup of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in particular. The British and the French were also alarmed by the growing power of the Russians in th ...s ‘sphere of influence’ in the Mediterranean.<ref>Glenny, 78</ref> The British made clear that they would not allow the Russians access to the Bosporus. L
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• Did multi-cultural societies become widely accepted in ancient history
  ===Early History=== ...y in World History: Multidisciplinary Approaches. Studies in Global Social History, v. 3. Leiden ; Boston: Brill.</ref> In many cases, these migrations or c
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• The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact- Stalin’s greatest mistake
  ...785&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=ef7d32545f1ecdddb1c073906b750f1b A History of Germany: 1919–1945]'' (Rowman & Littlefield, London, 2000), p. 78.</re ...itler very well it had allowed him to attack first the west and defeat the British and French. When he was completed he was able to invade the Soviet Union.<r
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• How did the Versailles Treaty lead to World War Two
  ...sponse to those terms would lead to the most destructive conflict in world history - World War Two. ...presented at the treaty conference came out with some disappointments. The British goal of stability was largely subverted by revolutions across Europe and Fr
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• Why did museums develop
  ...e think of museums as areas that display the past, our culture, or natural history of our world. This certainly has developed to be the modern norm; however, ...abylon. The Schweich Lectures 1983. Oxford ; New York: Published for the British Academy by the Oxford University Press.
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• What were the goals of the Axis powers and the Soviet Union during World War Two
  ...Suez Canal in Egypt from the Italian colony Libya were largely repelled by British forces. Italy desired a string of colonies along the Adriatic coast in Yugo ...:World War Two History]] [[Category:European History]] [[Category:European History]]
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• Hodges' Scout: Interview with Len Travers
  Len Travers is professor of history at the Univesity of Massachusetts Dartmouth and he is also the author of [h [[File:A_Battle_of_the_French-Indian_War.jpg|thumbnail|250px|Ambush British soldiers during the French and Indian War]]
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• How did Joseph Stalin react to the German invasion during WWII
  ...German army conquered France without suffering appreciable losses, and the British withdrew from the continent. The Germans were astonished at how badly the S ...ews was true. The Soviet leader had also ignored all warnings from the US, British governments, and even his own intelligence officers. Economic and diplomati
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• How did Winston Churchill become Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in World War Two
  ...failed invasion of Gallipoli. Churchill later served as an officer in the British army on the western front. After the war, he joined the British Liberal Party and was to serve as the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he
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• Why Was the Battle of Antietam a Pivotal event in the American Civil War
  ...an, in Sharpsburg, Maryland. In this one poignant moment in time, American history was forever altered. If Gettysburg was the most significant battle in terms ...summer of 1862 proved to be the most hopeful for the South with regard to British and French intervention on the behalf of the CSA. Although news took ten da
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• Shantytown, USA: Interview with Lisa Goff
  ...ican Studies Program. She is also the director of the Institute for Public History. Before becoming a professor, Goff had a distinguished career as a business ...adding the evidence of the landscape to the historiography of labor, urban history, and material culture. Shantytowns are especially intriguing because they w
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• Why was France defeated in 1940
  In September 1939, the French with the British declared war on Germany after Hitler invaded Poland. For several months, th ...360,000 casualties. A further two million men were captured. Some 300,000 British and French troops escaped the Germans after being evacuated by naval forces
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• What were Joseph Stalin's goals as World War Two ended
  ...Franklin Roosevelt). Each brought his agenda to the Yalta Conference. The British wanted to maintain their empire, the Soviets wished to secure and obtain mo
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• Why did the Germans suffer a defeat at Kursk in 1943
  ...he Eastern Front during World War II. Kursk was the largest tank battle in history, and it was the last attempt by the German army to slow down the Soviet Mil ...ir western Allies<ref> George, p. 167</ref>. Despite constant demands, the British and the Americans had failed to open a ‘second front’ in western Europe
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• Engineering Victory during the Civil War: Interview with Thomas F. Army, Jr.
  ...rs win through logistics." Logistics is a fairly unsexy aspect of military history, but without good logistics armies cannot function. Are you trying to refoc ...ze its importance. The quote I use in the book succinctly states the case. British Field Marshall Archibald Percival Wavell, a veteran of the Boer War, World
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• Why did Operation Market Garden in 1944 fail
  ...hat time. The operation was a daring one, and it was the brainchild of the British General Bernard Montgomery. This operation was even the subject of the 1977 ...he Allies' supply lines were overstretched, slowing down the Americans and British in particular. The shortage of oil meant that Patton’s armored divisions
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• Thomas Jefferson, the Founding Fathers and Christianity: Interview with Sam Haselby
  ...Protestant pamphlet for every man, woman and child in the country. If the British are a people of the novel, and the French a people of the philosophical tra ...od. No divine revelation. No resurrection. Interested in science, natural history, and philosophy as substitutes and superior alternatives to religion and th
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• What Were the Motives of the Irish in the American Civil War
  ...temperate, and barbarian.’”<ref>Jay P. Dolan, ''The Irish Americans: A History'' (New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2008), 62.</ref>Most Irishmen in the U.S. we ...> This exacerbated the feelings of animosity held by the Irish towards the British Empire and also to the strong feelings of advocacy they had regarding slave
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• How did hunting become a symbol of the royalty
  ...he Assyrian palace at Nineveh, dead lions and a lioness, about 645-635 BC, British Museum (12255284476).jpg|thumbnail|left|A lion hunt scene shown dead lions ...on ancient royal hunting in India, see: Sen, S. N. (1999). Ancient Indian history and civilization. New Delhi: New Age International, pg. 134.</ref> In fact,
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• How did hunting become a symbol of the aristocracy/royalty
  ...he Assyrian palace at Nineveh, dead lions and a lioness, about 645-635 BC, British Museum (12255284476).jpg|left|thumbnail|Figure 1. A lion hunt scene shown d ...on ancient royal hunting in India, see: Sen, S. N. (1999). Ancient Indian history and civilization. New Delhi: New Age International, pg. 134.</ref> In fact,
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• American Revolution Top Ten Booklist
  ...The successful fight for independence has had a remarkable impact on world history over the past 200 years. The United States gradually transformed itself fro ...ive on the Revolution they also to see and think about aspects of American history that we never considered. Here's our list.
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• Why was Rommel defeated at El Alamein
  ...e the most important battles of the North African conflict. The German and British armies were led two of their most capable commanders, Erwin Romel and Berna ...itish and French defeats in 1940. This led him to order his army to attack British controlled Egypt from the Italian colony of Libya.<ref>Carell, p. 67</ref>
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• Why did the Battle of the Somme largely fail to achieve its objectives
  ...offensive was not effective and achieved very little for the allies. The British only advanced a few miles, and the German lines held. The offensive did not ...ians have argued whether the Somme was a failure or a partial success. The British and French did not secure their main objectives during the battle. Why did
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• Why did Germany not achieve victory at Verdun in 1916
  ...mselves and had only been able to continue the war with the support of the British.<ref> Clayton, p. 120</ref> ...aware of the build-up by the Germans in the area. They had been ignored by British intelligence that a German attack was imminent and had prepared for an assa
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• Nature's Path: Interview with Susan E. Cayleff
  ...are just a few of the medical sects born during this era of United States history. At the very end of the 19th Century, a new medical system called naturopat ...entury. Cayleff's book is an intriguing addition to the medical and social history of the United States.
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• British Criminal and Legal History Top Ten Booklist
  ...ions to the contrary, legal history can extraordinarily fascinating. Legal history explores the conflicts that arise from civilization. A deft legal historian If you're even remotely familiar with the field of British criminal and legal history, no doubt you've seen John Beattie’s <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/produc
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• Why did the Gallipoli Landings fail in WWI
  [[File:British_Troops_on_V_beach.JPG|thumbnail|left|300px|British Troops Ashore on "V Beach" at Camp Helles]] ...me their success.<ref> Keegan, p. 153</ref> They also managed to limit the British advances in the Persian Gulf. However, the Ottoman Empire's conflict with t
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• Privateering during the War of 1812: Interview with Faye M. Kert
  ...vateering" and explains why the dangers of piracy ultimately convinced the British to end its conflict with the United States. ...hundreds of trained men to sail them and fire their guns. Meanwhile, the British Royal Navy had hundreds of ships and men, seasoned by fighting Napoleon and
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• How did modern boxing emerge
  ...odriguez, Robert G., and George Kimball. 2009. The Regulation of Boxing: A History and Comparative Analysis of Policies among American States. Jefferson, N.C: ...the rise of boxing in Europe, see: Boddy, Kasia. 2009. Boxing: A Cultural History. First paperback pr. London: Reaktion.</ref> In particular, swords became l
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• Why was Napoleon defeated at Waterloo
  [[File: Waterloo 2.jpg|thumbnail|left|350px|British Cavalry charging at Waterloo]] ..., Prussia, and their allies on the other. The battle was a victory for the British and the Prussians, and it is widely seen as the end of the series of wars t
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• Why was Germany defeated at the First Battle of the Marne (1914)
  ...d its hinterland and was a counter-attack by the French field army and the British Expeditionary Force leading to the German withdrawing from the area around ...the capture of Mulhouse.<ref> Brooks, Richard, <i>Atlas of World Military History</i>. (London: HarperCollins, 2000), p. 117</ref> The Germans then invaded F
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• What caused the Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  ...history: War and renewed defeat -https://www.britannica.com/place/Hungary/History#ref411390</ref> Furthermore, like many of its neighboring countries in the ...of response by force in Hungary. <ref><i>The 1956 Hungarian Revolution: A History in Documents</i> - http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB76/</ref>
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• Why did the Italians lose the Battle of Caporetto in WWI
  ...Italians.<ref> Morselli, M. <i>Caporetto 1917: Victory or Defeat? Military History and Policy</i>. London: Frank Cass, 2001), p. 17</ref> Furthermore, they be Cadorna was planning another offensive in the Isonzo. The British and the French informed Rome that the Germans had begun to deploy in the ar
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• How did the modern tennis emerge
  ...f>For more information, see: Gillmeister, H. (1998). <i>Tennis: a cultural history</i>. London: Leicester University Press, pg. 3.</ref> ...read its popularity beyond royal families and into the nobility.<ref>For a history of royal courts playing tennis in the late Medieval period and early Renais
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• Why did the Germans win the Battle of Tannenberg in 1914
  ...The German losses were far less. The Russian defeat shocked the West. One British Field Marshall declared it to be the greatest defeat suffered by any army i ...suffered a defeat in the west. At the Battle of the Marne, the French and British defeated the Germans and halted their advance on Paris.<ref> Harrison, p. 2
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• Why did the German Spring Offensive of 1918 fail
  ...Spring Offensive had succeeded in the outcome of the war and the course of history in the Twentieth Century would have been very different. The German Spring ...to seize the remaining ports in Belgium. They hoped that by defeating the British that they would seek peace terms with Germany and after capitulating, the F
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• How Was Hitler Responsible for the German Defeat in World War II
  ...Germany’s land grabs did not go unnoticed by formidable European powers. British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain organized a conference in Munich that in ...he two conquering countries.<ref>Michael J. Lyons, ''World War II: A Short History'', 5th ed. (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2010), 57-58.</ref>This
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• Why Did American Colonists Become United Against England
  ...the costs associated with stationing British troops on American soil. The British government assessed taxes on the colonies yet denied colonists the right to ...ves as being subordinates to the Crown rather than as equal members of the British Empire, thus prompting the colonists to rebel against their mother country
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• How Did Slavery Develop
  ...as been used as a form of punishment or to deal with prisoners of war. The history of this institution has, however, evolved over the millennia. ...he origins of slavery, see: Heuman, G. J. (Ed.). (2012). <i>The Routledge History of Slavery</i> (1. publ. in paperback). London: Routledge.</ref>. Initially
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• Ancient Egypt’s Third Intermediate and Late Periods Top Ten Booklist
  ...alysis of Egyptian, Assyrian, biblical, and Greek primary sources, eminent British Egyptologist, Kenneth Kitchen, presents the first and most accurate chronol ...rstand ancient Egypt’s Late Period – or any period in ancient Egyptian history for that matter – will fall short if the textual/historiographical eviden
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• How did the game of golf emerge
  ...gins of Golf, with Sidelights on Polo.” The International Journal of the History of Sport 19 (1): 2–30. doi:10.1080/714001691. ...h. By 1787, in Blackheath, London, the first UK club was formed.<ref>For a history on early golf clubs, rules, and development of the sport in the 17th and 18
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• How did universities develop
  ...op economic success, where universities play a critical role. However, the history of universities was very different, and these institutions were first relat ...Giovanni, John R. Catan, and Giovanni Reale. 1990. Plato and Aristotle. A History of Ancient Philosophy, Giovanni Reale ; 2. Albany, NY: State Univ. of New
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• How historically accurate is Braveheart
  ...kirk in Wallace's life, see: Hamilton, J. S. (2010). <i>The Plantagenets: History of a Dynasty</i>. London ; New York: Continuum, pg. 79.</ref> *[[British Criminal and Legal History Top Ten Booklist]]
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• How Historically Accurate is Alexander
  *[[British Criminal and Legal History Top Ten Booklist]] ...gory:Ancient History]] [[Category:Historically Accurate]] [[Category:Greek History]]
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• How Did Firefighting Develop
  ...rtments and respondent to events. As with other institutions, however, the history of firefighting is complicated and influenced by the major technical and so ====Early History====
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• How Did Roads Develop
  ...elation to royal roads, see: Briant, P. (2002). From Cyrus to Alexander: a history of the Persian Empire. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, pg. 364.</ref> ...oved roads, see: Guildi, E.J. 2001. The Road to Rule: The Expansion of the British Road Network, 1726--1848. Proquest.</ref> Such types of roads remained comm
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• How Historically Accurate is season 1 of Versailles
  ====History and Key Events==== ...ntext ; Essays in Honour and Memory of Walter C. Utt.</i> Studies in the History of Christian Traditions 156. Leiden: Brill.</ref>
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• D-Day: What Factors Were Considered When Planning Operation Overlord
  ...y patrol the Atlantic Ocean.<ref>Michael J. Lyons,'' World War II: A Short History,'' 5th ed. (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 2010), 246. For an excel ...as designated as the supreme commander of the Allied Expeditionary Forces. British General Bernard Montgomery was charged with the command of all Allied groun
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• How Historically Accurate is season 1 of The Last Kingdom
  ====Anglo-Saxon and Danish History and Culture==== ...341&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=ff5b5676acff27932d33829e68aa84b0 A history of the Vikings]</i> (2nd ed). London ; New York: Oxford University Press.
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• How Historically Accurate is season 1 of Victoria
  ...) who ruled at a time when there were many social and technical changes in British society during the 19th century. Her long rule also saw the United Kingdom ...n der Kiste, J. (2009) <i>Queen Victoria’s children.</i> 2nd ed. Stroud, History Press.</ref>
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• What was the impact of the Dissolution of the Monasteries by Henry VIII on English Society?
  {Mediawiki:British History}} ...ory:British History]][[Category:16th Century History]][[Category:Religious History]]
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• What Mistakes did the Allies make during Operation Overlord on D-Day
  ...milar operation to secure access to the Sword, Gold, and Juno Beaches. The British divisions achieved a greater measure of success than the Americans. ...Pointe du Hoc at 0710 hours.<ref>Michael J. Lyons, ''World War II: A Short History,'' 5th ed. (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 2010), 250.</ref>
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• How Did Black Pepper Spread in Popularity
  ...<i>Berenike and the Ancient Maritime Spice Route.</i> The California World History Library 18. Berkeley: University of California Press.</ref> ...i> The Race to the New World: Christopher Columbus, John Cabot, and a Lost History of Discovery.</i> 1st Palgrave Macmillan pbk. ed. New York: Palgrave Macmil
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• How Did Wine Develop
  ...with religion, cooking, feasting, and our forms of social gatherings. The history of wine also shows it has long been associated with human societies since t ...<ref>For more on rice and palm wine, see: Cyrus Redding, Redding. 2008. <i>History and Description of Modern Wines.</i> Place of publication not identified: A
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• What textiles were British women bringing with them to India
  ...ate, as much as was possible, the comforts of the homes left behind on the British Isles. One of the main ways of doing this was through the liberal use of te ...onial system of government. At the same time, the interactions between the British and the native Indians changed to match the political situation. Where befo
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• What is the Deep Impact of Ferrous Metallurgy
  ...eadrick, Daniel R. 2009. Technology: A World History. The New Oxford World History. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, pg. 37.</ref> ...on the spread of iron making technology, see: Schenck, Helen R.. 1980. <i>History of Technology: The Role of Metals.</i> University of Pennsylvania Museum.</
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• What is the Deep Impact of Gold
  ...ns, and culture, see: Bernstein, Peter L. 2004. <i>The Power of Gold: The History of an Obsession.</i> Illustrated ed. New York: Wiley.</ref> ...iu C. 2011. <i>Money and Market in the Economy of All Times: Another World History of Money and Pre-Money Based Economies.</i> London and New York.</ref>
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• A Study of Subaltern Studies
  ...icle "Situating and Rethinking Subaltern Studies for Writing Working Class History" that point out the archival limitations mentioned above, as well as many o ...nd profound critique of Subaltern Studies in the introduction to the book, History after the Three Worlds. They voice fears that Postmodernism, Multiculturali
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• How Were the Assyrians able to Conquer the Ancient Near East
  ...n trade and merchant activities. Modern scholars generally divide Assyrian history into three periods known as the Old, Middle, and Neo-Assyrian periods or dy ...the Egyptians, Hittites, and Babylonians. <ref> Mieroop, Marc van de. <i>A History of the Ancient Near East: ca. 3000-323 BC.</i> 2nd ed. (London: Blackwell,
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• 2016 Organization of American Historians Book Awards
  ...:Pirate_Nests.jpg|thumbnail|250px|left|<i>Pirate Nests and the Rise of the British Empire, 1570-1740</i>]] ...alified historians and who identify some of the best new books in American history for 2016.
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• Could Another Alphabet Have Developed
  ...ed at the time that promoted the more ancient scripts.<ref>For more on the history of the Late Bronze Age, see: Steel, Louise. 2013. <i>Materiality and Consu ...the Past.</i> London / Published for the Trustees of the British Museum by British Museum Publications. John F. Healey.</ref>
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• 2016 American Historical Association Book Awards
  ...rehensive history society in the United States. Basically, every flavor of history is represented in the AHA. Unsurprisingly, the AHA awards a massive number While the list is long, it is a great place to find great new history books on a lot of different topics. The breadth of subject of the books on
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• What if the Vikings Never Invaded England
  ...ccupied by the remaining Britons, who were the pre-Roman population of the British Isles. ...new areas, where a more stable economy could be established for them. The British Isles, fed by the warmer waters from the Gulf stream, were attractive and f
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• What was the impact of Attila the Hun on the Roman Empire
  Attila the Hun is one of the most infamous conquerors and warriors in history. He ruled a large nomadic confederation known as the Huns. Attila either as No one really knows the origins of the Huns. The great British historian Gibbon believed that they were identical to the Xiongnu tribes wh
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• Archive Stories edited by Antoinette Burton
  ...says comprising <i>Archive Stories – Facts, Fictions, and the Writing of History</i>, (Duke University Press, 2005) effectively challenges the claims of obj ...e historian’s personal relationships with archives, its curators and the history of those archives. Archive Stories seeks to create “a more accountable b
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• When were Spy Services created in the United States
  ...nded across the West, and its experiences in the Civil War and World Wars, history has shaped what spying means to the US. ...erty formed as a group that fought against the Stamp Act and would observe British troop movements in Boston and other places. This group included well known
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• Playing Indian by Philip Deloria
  ...y known; they were used to create a new American identity in opposition to British domination. While it would seem an odd choice to dress like Indians becaus ...visioned a society for boys that emphasized America’s frontier past, the history of white Americans and military order. Unsurprisingly, over time Seton’s
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• How Did the Mongol Invasions Change Population Genetics
  ...wars. The Mongol Invasions (1206–94) represent an important event in the history of population genetics because of the large, spatial extent of the invasion ...a and Europe were directly linked for the first time. <ref>For more on the history and background to the Mongol Empire and populations, see: Fitzhugh, Willia
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• Why Did the Ancient Egyptians Mummify Animals
  ...vered that relates the precise details of the art, modern archaeology, art history, and the writings of the fifth century BC Greek historian, Herodotus, have ...t of mummification can be traced back to the earliest periods of pharaonic history and was done so that the deceased’s <i>ka</i>, or spirit, could have a ve
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• How Historically Accurate is Season 2 of Last Kingdom
  ...139&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=a5bdf413f75cfbfe3838ad70df0785b4 A history of London].</i> London, Macmillan, pg. 64.</ref> ...ing Guthrud his blessing.<ref>For more on St. Cuthbert, see: Marner, D. & British Library (2000) <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0712346864/ref=as_li_t
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• Was there an Ancient Suez Canal
  ...mus in Egypt would save an immense amount of time and money. Under a joint British and French effort, construction of the modern Suez Canal began in the mid-1 ...Gae. “The Middle Kingdom Renaissance (c. 2055-1650 BC). In <i>The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt.</i> Edited by Ian Shaw. (Oxford: Oxford University Press,
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• How did the defeat of the Spanish Armada (1588) change England
  ...had been successful, it could have changed the course of English and world history. The defeat of the Armada had profound consequences for England. The first ...ious European naval power. Britain's navy was the foundation of the future British Empire. As a result of the failed invasion by Catholic Spain, England beca
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• How accurate is Stanley Kubrick's 'Spartacus'
  ...ded3d1908b Spartacus]</i> (1960) is one of the best-known movies in cinema history. It caused a sensation on its release and was one of the most successful pi Nearly everything that we know about the life of Spartacus comes from Roman history. According to the Roman historian Appian, Spartacus was a Thracian, a war-l
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• What are the Origins of the Abolitionist Movement
  ...has been remembered as one of the great humanitarian initiatives in modern history. Occurring as it did in a world that was rent by the slaveholding republics ...ut of those movements came many of the first abolitionist organizations in history. The second factor has to do with political economy. Slaveholding republics
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• Why did African Americans join the British Army during the American Revolution
  ...f Liberation Historiography: African American Writers and the Challenge of History, 1794-1861]'' (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2004), ...nlike other “Loyalists,” a sizable segment of those who fought for the British, and most importantly their descendants, remained to incur the wrath of the
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• How historically accurate is the movie The Longest Day
  ...on June 6th, 1944. These landings were the largest amphibious operation in history when some 100,000 Allied troops landed on the coasts of Normandy in German- ...s. <ref> Solomon, Aubrey, Twentieth Century Fox: a corporate and financial History (Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 1989). p. 253</ref> ''The Longest Day'
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• How Historically Accurate is Season 2 of Versailles
  ...IV and the origins of the Dutch War.</i> Cambridge studies in early modern history. Cambridge [England] ; New York, Cambridge University Press.</ref> ...(2009) <i>The state in early modern France.</i> New approaches to European history ; 42. 2nd ed. Cambridge, UK ; New York, Cambridge University Press.</re
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• How historically accurate is the movie 'A Bridge Too Far'
  ...rs. The 1977 motion picture was directed by Richard Attenborough, a former British movie star. The movie had a huge budget and is visually spectacular. ...diverse nature of the allied forces in Operation Market Garden, including British, American, Canadian, Free Dutch forces and Polish Paratroopers.
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• Top Ten Books on Espionage from Oxford University Press
  ...ef17ea6 Disrupt and Deny: Spies, Special Forces, and the Secret Pursuit of British Foreign Policy]'' 
Rory Cormac ...linkId=b8dce081b68c9280dbac8241be03ae49 Near and Distant Neighbours: A New History of Soviet Intelligence]''
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• How Did Howard Carter Discover Tutankhamun’s Tomb
  The history of Egyptology is filled with the names of many influential scholars, who no ...t, with one being to hire Carter. <ref> Montserrat, Dominic. <i>Akhenaten: History, Fantasy, and Ancient Egypt.</i> (London: Routledge, 2003), p. 67</ref> Pet
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• What is the Long Term Impact of the War of the Spanish Succession on Europe
  ...ve role in the war. By 1708, France was ready to make terms. Nevertheless, British demands proved onerous, as Britain wanted Louis to send his own army to dep ...borough's role, see: Dorrell, N. (2015) <i>Marlborough’s other army: the British Army and the campaigns of the First Peninsula War, 1702-1712.</i> Century o
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• How have immigration and citizenship changed in the U.S.
  .... 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). ...a of quantitative restriction.<ref name="Office of the Historian">[https://history.state.gov/milestones/1921-1936/immigration-act], Office of the Historian.</
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• How Did the Battle of Culloden Change British and American History
  ...also put an end to the male-line succession of the House of Stuart on the British throne. The Jacobites' primary goal was to restore the Stuart line. The Jac ...lorious Revolution, see: </ref> Massie, A. (2013) <i>The Royal Stuarts: A History of the Family that Shaped Britain</i>. New York, St. Martin’s Griffin.
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• How Did the Ancient City of Nineveh Fall
  ...the details concerning how the city fell are as important to the city’s history as its great monuments. As great as Nineveh once was, it fell victim to a c ...BC.</i> 2nd ed. (London: Blackwell, 2007), p. 3</ref> For most of Assyrian history, the primary political capital was located in the city of Ashur. Still, Nin
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• Was the Constitution Pro-Slavery
  *[[American Legal History Top Ten Booklist]] *[[Why was James Willard Hurst important for legal history?]]
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• How historically accurate is the movie 'The Battle of the Bulge'
  ...spective.<ref> Whiteclay, John and Culbert, David. World War II, Film, and History (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2002), p. 156</ref> ...sive of the war. The movie was controversial at the time played loose with history.
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• How Did Finland Survive the Winter War of 1939-1940
  ...Finns and Russians has been relatively peaceful. For most of early modern history, Finland was a colony of Imperial Tsarist Russia. Finns were allowed to ser ...rench military openly advocating for Avonmouth, such as general Audet, the British never came on board and so the threat of foreign intervention on Finland’
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• What was lynching
  ...tp://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtid=2&psid=3178 Digital History].</ref> The United States has a long history of vigilance committees whose purposes were to protect the community. Accor
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• What Are the Origins of Egyptology
  ...le: Rosetta_Stone_London.jpg|250px|thumbnail|left|The Rosetta Stone in the British Museum, London]] ...de but are not limited to some of the following: archaeology, art history, history/chronology, and philology. Essentially, Egyptology is a modern study that c
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• How did cats become pets?
  Cats around the world are among the most popular pets today. The history of cats and humans derives back before they were even domesticated. Unlike ==Domestication and Early History==
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• Evolutionary Science before Charles Darwin
  ...ing, founded upon principles of separateness from the upper classes, or as British historian EP Thompson puts it, “the consciousness of an identity of inter ...y of natural selection, in 1844, a book entitled ''Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation'' was published in London.<ref> For an excellent study of this
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• Is the movie Dunkirk historically accurate
  ...2017 war film scripted, produced, and directed by Christopher Nolan about British troops' evacuation from Dunkirk during World War II. The film has an all-st ...force of British and French troops into an area around Dunkirk's port. The British and the French, numbering over 300,000, 're surrounded and under constant a
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• How did zoos develop
  ...t clearly were intended to simply display animals to a curious public. The history of zoos has changed, from one of limited display to upper society, to one t ...d the Identification of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon Resolved. <i>Garden History</i>, 21, pp. 1 – 13. </ref>
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• Did Victorian era popular scientists try to deny biblical teachings
  ...time rife with scientific discoveries – some which changed the course of history as we know it (Darwin’s theory of evolution), and some which sputtered ou ...lation. A common phrase during this time was: “The sun never sets on the British Empire”. See: Winter, Alison. <i>Mesmerized: powers of mind in Victorian
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• In what ways did the Freikorps influence interwar Germany (1918-1933)
  ...e paramilitaries were only active for a brief period, but they changed the history of Germany. The Freikorps were instrumental in defeating the radical left a ...Germany but were eventually expelled by local forces with the help of the British. By late 1919, the communist threat had ended and the Freikorps were no lon
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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 ...n example to others wanting to rebel against England. There were, however; British soldiers in Fort Benton that day to investigate a reported plot against the
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• When did taxation emerge
  ====Early History==== ...repealed and reintroduced as it was in earlier periods. By the 1860s, the British government had become too dependent on progressive tax, making it then a pe
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• What was the Achaemenid Persian Empire
  ...ake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns, 2002), pgs. 17-18</ref> For most of their early history, the Persians played little role in the machinations of geo-politics in the [[File: Cyrus_Cylinder.jpg|300px|thumbnail|left|The Cyrus Cylinder in the British Museum, London]]
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• How Did Enlightenment Ideas Influence Modern Economics
  The Enlightenment was a period in world history that roughly corresponds with the eighteenth century, originating in the na Beginning in the Early Modern Period of world history, roughly during the early sixteenth century, corresponding with the Age of
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• History of Empires Top Ten Book List
  1. Burbank, J. & Cooper, F. (2010) <i>Empires in world history: power and the politics of difference </i>. Princeton, Princeton Univ. Pres 2. Kwarteng, K. (2015) <i>War and gold: a five-hundred-year history of empires, adventures and debt</i>. Paperback ed. London, Bloomsbury. This
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• Gender in Early America Top Ten Booklist
  ...lens through which we can view some of the formative events in our shared history. These books are listed in no particular order and explore topics from the ...ica with clarity. Expressing that the history of witchcraft ''is'' women's history, and our analysis of can shift when we explore for an explicitly gendered l
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• The Beginning of Science-Based Religious Disbelief: Atheism and Disbelief in Victorian Britain
  ...tically assume that irreligion was only a working-class phenomenon, as the British working classes were those who had the most grievances against the governme While much of the modern historiography on Victorian social history holds that religion and scientific doctrines were not mutually exclusive be
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• The History of Atheism, Secularism, and Free-Thought in Europe: Top Ten Books to Read
  The history of atheism and agnosticism are not very well-tread topics, even in the 21st ...inning of the history of irreligion in Europe, mostly because much of this history remains to be written. It is only recently that academia, in general, has b
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• Victorian Britain and the Empire: Top Ten Books to Read
  ...st deals with things at "home" in Britain, as well as things abroad in the British Empire. ...010.</ref> No small feat. As the saying went: “The sun never sets on the British Empire.”<ref>This phrase was commonly published in multiple newspapers, m
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• Top 10 Books to Read on Western/British Medical History
  ...centuries saw the advent of some of the most important medical findings in history. The Industrial Revolution had resulted in a massive change in living condi I’ve arranged this list in order from the most popular, “fun” medical history books, to the more scholarly, academic books.
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• When were Spy Services in England Created?
  ====Early History==== ...s (eds.) (2002) <i>Reformation and rebellion 1485 - 1750</i>. Headstart in history series ed.: Rosemary Rees ; 22002. 1. publ. Oxford, Heinemann.</ref>.
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• How have Historians' perceptions of Native Americans changed
  ...wholesale change had occurred in how historians portrayed Native American history. Previously, historians and ethnographers had focused on “the tragedy of ====New Approaches to Native American History====
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• Top Ten War Books that were turned into Movies
  ...cture is an adaptation of a work of history. Here is a list of the top ten history books, in no particular order that have inspired some of the most popular h ...ss accounts from those who took part in the largest amphibious landings in history. Ryan himself had been a war correspondent from 1940-1945. The book focuse
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• How Did Christmas Trees Become Christmas Symbols
  ...y was Christmas associated with Christmas trees.<ref>For more on the early history of Christmas trees and its controversy, see: Roy, C. (2005). <i>Traditional ...th the Christmas tree shown, helping to make the imagery popular among the British public (Figure 2).
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• What was the impact of the Balfour Declaration (1917) on the Middle East
  ...lyh0c-20&linkId=77d49366f857a0897f3fbd76f0809035 The Modern Middle East: A History]</i> (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), p. 114</ref>. The declaration ...e Middle East in the aftermath of the war. They saw a Jewish homeland as a British ‘protectorate’, that would be an ally and be dependent on them and this
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• How Did Saint Valentine's Day Develop
  ====Early History==== ...on how modern Valentine's day traditions started, see: Lee, R. W. (1984). History of valentines. Wellesley Hills, Mass.: Lee Publications.</ref>
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• How Did Saint Patrick's Day Develop
  ...bringing Christianity to Ireland, little else is known. He may have been a British-Roman missionary who migrated from Britain in the 5th century CE, perhaps i ...tions, see: Cronin, M., & Adair, D. (2002).<i> The wearing of the green: a history of St. Patrick’s Day</i>. London ; New York: Routledge, pg. 22.</ref>
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• What was the impact of John Knox, on Scotland and on religion
  ...argely forgotten. However, he was one of the most important figures in the history of Scotland and he changed that nation and his influence is still felt to t ...nd he played a pivotal role in the political evolution of Scotland and the British Isles. This article will argue that John Knox overthrew Catholicism in Scot
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• How did Emperor Septimius Severus change the Roman Empire
  ...e of the better known Roman Emperors, was one of the most important in the history of Rome. He was a very capable man, a successful administrator, and an exce ...ce of Britannia from Pict attacks for many years. Moreover, he divided the British province in two. This was to make the administration of the provinces more
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• Why did the United States blockade the Confederacy during the Civil War
  ...rsuaded Lincoln to adopt British neutrality policies by promising that the British Government would continue to view the blockade as a legitimate war tool. Although British Prime Minister Henry John Temple, Viscount Palmerston, was personally sympa
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• What made Julius Caesar a great general
  ...irers were Napoleon and Rommel. Many regard him as the greatest general in history. ...<ref> Hans Delbrück, Warfare in Antiquity, trans. Walter J. Renfroe, Jr., History of the Art of War 1 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1990), p. 541</
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• Who helped Lawrence of Arabia shape the Arab Revolt
  ...om collapse. This untold story centres on Colonel Cyril Edward Wilson, the British representative at the Jeddah Consulate. Wilson was a dependable officer of ...n pilgrims (passing through Jeddah on their way to Mecca) to rebel against British rule in their homeland. Bray helped keep the revolt on course by neutralisi
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• When was Mesothelioma Discovered
  ...erious, because it is an incurable and typically fatal type of cancer. The history of mesothelioma is complicated. Medicine struggled to establish its existen ====What is the History of Mesothelioma?====
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• How do you study the history of espionage
  ...ef17ea6 Disrupt and Deny: Spies, Special Forces, and the Secret Pursuit of British Foreign Policy]</i> (Oxford University Press, 2018) ...ueen Elizabeth II, witnessed a dizzying array of secret schemes to promote British interests as London’s international power waned.
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• What were the historical events that led to the United States involvement in the Vietnam War
  ...ope like no other war. It was said to be the “war to end of all wars.” History teaches us this was not to be. When World War I reached an armistice in Nov ...rying degrees of access to the negotiations. A young student, [https://www.history.com/topics/vietnam-war/ho-chi-minh Ho Chi Minh], from French Indochina was
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• Why was Britain able to establish an Empire in India
  ...modern-day India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka from the 1750s. The British effectively ruled the sub-continent for almost two centuries, from the 1750 ...trade with India, not to conquer it. Trade with India was controlled by a British joint-stock company, The East India Company, that was first created in 1600
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• What is the history of vaccinations
  ...formal acceptance of a vaccine by authorized medical authorities in recent history. However, vaccinations have now been with us for more than 200 years, and e ...on and its history, see: Oldstone, M.B.A., 2020. <i>Viruses, plagues, and history: past, present, and future</i>, Third edition. ed. Oxford University Press,
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• How did William the Conqueror and the Normans win at the Battle of Hastings in 1066
  ...nd political institutions, which have had an immense impact far beyond the British Isles. ...nd changed the course of the clash and probably altered English and global history.
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• Why did Five Arab states attack Israel after its creation in 1948
  The British, who held a colonial mandate for Palestine until May 1948, opposed both the ...ssistant Secretary of State, who entered into negotiations with a parallel British committee to discuss the future of Palestine.
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• What did Commodore Robert W. Shufeldt accomplish during his worldwide trip between 1878-1880
  ...rate a boundary dispute between the West African nation of Liberia and the British colony of Sierra Leone. ...s ruler, Sultan Abdallah, on October 4, 1879. Abdallah was concerned about British and French encroachments upon his rule and hoped to cultivate the United St
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• What was the impact of Andronicus I on the Byzantine Empire
  ...of countless noblewomen, including his niece. <ref>Norwich, John Julius, A history of Byzantium (volume iii, London, Penguin, 1996), p 116</ref> ...d ended many abuses, despite his cruelty. His reign according to the great British historian Gibbon, ‘exhibited a singular contrast of vice and virtue. Whe
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• What was the role of women in Sparta
  [[File: Spartan helmet 2 British Museum.jpg |270px|thumb|left| Spartan helmet]] However, one aspect of its history that may surprise many is women's role in that society. While scholars view
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• When did political parties emerge
  ...largely true for most democracies today, this was not the case earlier in history when elections and democratic systems developed. Political parties likely d ...in the United States, see: Berkin, C. (Ed.). (2012). <i>Making America: a history of the United States </i> (6th ed). Boston: Wadsworth, Cengage Learning. </
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• Why did surnames emerge
  ...e: Redmonds, G., King, T., & Hey, D. (2011). <i>Surnames, DNA, and family history</i>. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press.</ref> ...nations such as 'de' to identify their land ownership.<ref>For more on the history of English surnames, see: Fiennes, J. (2015). <i>The origins of English sur
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• Was Claudius an effective Roman Emperor
  One of the most unusual Emperors in Roman history was Claudius (10-54 AD). Historians have divergent interpretations of Claud ...fight a series of campaigns to conquer that kingdom.<ref> Cassius Dio, <i>History of Rome</i>, LX, 18</ref>
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• Gallipoli by Jenny MacLeod - Book Review
  ...re as their army was attacking Russian soldiers in the Caucuses Mountains. British politicians engaged in internal fighting over whether they would launch a l ...tish_soldier_at_grave_near_Cape_Helles,_Gallipoli_1915.jpg|thumbnail|300px|British soldier at fallen comrade's grave on Cape Helles, 1915.|left]]
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• Did Egyptian President Gamal Nasser Protect the Copts
  ...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 The year 642 proved to be a watershed in the history of the Copts because it was during that year that the Arab Muslims conquere
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• How Historically Accurate is season 3 of The Last Kingdom
  ...d Interpretations of Anglo-Saxon Warfare in the Viking Age</i>. Warfare in History. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press. </ref> ...es, Eric John, and Patrick Wormald. 1991. <i>The Anglo-Saxons</i>. Penguin History. London, England ; New York, N.Y., USA: Penguin Books. </ref>
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• The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815 - Book Review
  ...ngland grew weary of brooking the expenses that mediation required), while British prisoners fulfilled the function of cultural representatives in various Ind ...gia for Onontio among Algonquians, and failing military fortunes among the British helped set the patterns of communication during this tumultuous era.
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• The Other Founders by Saul Cornell - Book Review
  In 1798, after Jay negotiated a treaty with the British, Federalists and Anti-Federalists argued over the “original intent” of ...US Early Republic]] [[Category: Legal History]] [[Category: United States History]]
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• Where Did Different Christmas Traditions Come From
  In 1809, Washington Irving's <i>History of New York</i> merged different traditions of the English Father Christmas ...or more on Christmas lights, see: Iwamasa, R. T., & Fay, P. (2006). <i>The history of the Christmas figural light bulb: a companion guide to antique Christmas
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• How accurate is the movie J. Edgar
  ...e Hoover struggling with his sexuality. His mother played by the acclaimed British actress Judi Dench is portrayed as a very domineering woman who knew that h Fried, Albert, ed. McCarthyism: The great American red scare: A documentary history (Oxford University Press, USA, 1997).
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• Why was the Embargo Act of 1807 a failure for President Thomas Jefferson
  ...g US merchant ships and impressing United States merchant sailors into the British navy. To limit United States involvement in the European conflicts, Jeffers ...just of the coast of Virginia. The British ship was allegedly looking for British deserters, but this was part of Britain's effort to harass American shippin
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• What was the Geneva Naval Conference of 1927
  ...rge. France and Italy were restricted to navies 35 percent the size of the British and American forces. In 1927, U.S. President Calvin Coolidge invited these ...id not exceed 10,000 tons, but light cruisers did not exceed 7,000. As the British had a far greater need for light cruisers, it proposed limiting the product
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• Why was the Treaty of Versailles signed after World War I a failure
  According to French and British wishes, the Treaty of Versailles subjected Germany to strict punitive measu * Republished from [https://history.state.gov/| Office of the Historian, United States Department of State]
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• When Did Recreational Drugs Emerge
  ...l use of drugs has been a fairly consistent phenomenon throughout recorded history and most likely much longer. ...tory of drugs in the Old World, see: Escohotado, Antonio. 1999. <i>A Brief History of Drugs: From the Stone Age to the Stoned Age</i>. Rochester, Vt: Park Str
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• How historically accurate is the movie The King's Speech
  ...scar for his portrayal of George IV/ The King’s Speech was produced by a British company, and it was shot mainly in London. Among the supporting cast was He ...ured very well by the director. At this critical point in its history, the British Royal Family faced its crisis.
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• The Radicalism of the American Revolution - Book Review
  ...sh citizens, expanding upon the emphasis on liberty and freedom present in British society. Even the American’s eventual repudiation of the English monarchy [[File:Gordon_Wood_historian_2006.jpg|thumbnail|left|300px|Brown Univesity History Professor Gordon S. Wood, 2006]]
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• How the Irish Became White - Book Review
  ...1841. O’Connell was a critical Irish political leader and member of the British House of Commons who held influence over Irish everywhere. In Ireland, he c ...immigrants had known both in Ireland. Before the Act of Union in 1800, the British ruled Ireland under a system of racial oppression in which the Catholics we
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• Top Ten Books from the Oxford Battle Series
  ...es themselves but how they were commemorated and their long term impact on history. The books try to understand not just how the battle took place, but why th Why is Agincourt one of the best known and celebrated battles in history? What made it remarkable? Like many of the battles in the series, the legen
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• Conquest by Law: How the Discovery of America Dispossessed Indigenous Peoples of Their Lands - Book Review
  ...Robertson’s observation is justified as the early modern era of American history was that of new encounters and exchanges between invading European customs ...that recognized claims were only to be given by the crown which prevented British subjects from purchasing private lands from American Indians. These restric
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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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• How have the relations between the United States of America and Russia changed since 1776
  ...he United States. Russia's formal support of the Union may have swayed the British not to support the South, as Great Britain would not have wanted to start a ...it became much less profitable. Russia also saw it as a way to counter the British because it put the United States in a position to block Great Britain, via
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• 51 Great Online Resources for History Teachers
  We are currently building this page to help history and social studies teachers, instructors and professors find useful online * [[United States History Study Guide|United States History]]
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• How Did the Athenians Fund Their Military during the Peloponnesian War?
  ...eum_Perikles.jpg|300px|thumbnail|left|Bust of the Athenian Pericles in the British Museum, London]] ...Simon. “Greece: The History of the Classical Period.” In <i>The Oxford History of Greece and the Hellenistic World.</i> Edited by John Boardman, Jasper Gr
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• Was Camelot based on a real place
  ...pagan Anglo-Saxons who killed and enslaved the native Britons. Many Romano-British warlords emerged who fought the invaders and established kingdoms in the 6t ...87, no. 1 (2018): 1-22 </ref> The Welsh author Geoffrey of Monmouth in his history of the kings identifies Tintagel as the site of the conception of Arthur. T
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• Why Did the Bretton Woods Economic System End
  ...known of the two and the most academically accomplished. He worked for the British government off and on throughout his life as well as lecturing at universit {{#dpl:category=Economic History|ordermethod=firstedit|order=descending|count=8}}
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• Who Was King Tut’s Father?
  ...er, which proved to be one of the best-preserved tombs in ancient Egyptian history. Other than the beautiful items recovered from his tomb and the fact that h ...Period and the Later New Kingdom, (ca. 1352-1069 BC).” In <i>The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt.</i> Edited by Ian Shaw. (Oxford: Oxford University Press,
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• What was Blitzkrieg and Who Created it
  ...les, and—especially—quick-firing artillery like the French 75mm or the British 18-pounder favored the defensive over the offensive. The new weapons techno ...by modern firepower. <ref>Howard Bailes, “Technology and Tactics in the British Army, 1866-1900,” pp. 21-47. From Men, Machines, and War, eds. Ronald Hay
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• Were the Knights of the Round Table real figures
  ...he greatest castles in England, and it played an essential part in English history. It was originally built by William the Conqueror and later rebuilt by Henr ...ildings. Vol. 1 (Cardiff, National Museum of Wales, 1986</ref> Many Romano-British cities and towns had amphitheaters, and based on the remaining evidence, th
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• Why did the United States Continental Congress approve The Model Treaty of 1776
  ...ake with France and Spain to secure assistance in the struggle against the British in the American Revolution. Congress approved the treaty on September 17, 1 More importantly, France agreed not to seek peace with Great Britain without British acknowledgment of American independence, and neither allied country was to
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• Why did the Continental Congress adopt the Articles of Confederation
  ..., which, like the Albany Plan, continued to recognize the authority of the British Crown. By then, the British capture of Philadelphia had made the issue more urgent. Delegates finally f
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• How did the Treaty of Paris of 1783 end the American Revolution
  ...nfinished sketch with oil of American Delegates done by Benjamin West. The British delegates refused to sit for the painting.]] ...oined by peace commissioners John Adams and John Jay, Franklin engaged the British in formal negotiations beginning on September 27, 1782.
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• Why did the Continental Congress draft and sign the Declaration of Independence
  ...nded to enforce the boycott, to coordinate resistance against the British. British officials throughout the colonies increasingly found their authority challe Despite these changes, colonial leaders hoped to reconcile with the British Government, and all but the most radical members of Congress were unwilling
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• What was the purpose of the Committee of Secret Correspondence during the American Revolution
  ...tes whom he trusted to protect the communications from interception by the British. ...Battle of Bunker Hill in 1775. He was exchanged later that next year for a British prisoner and was elected to the Continental Congress in 1777. While serving
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• What caused the French and Indian War
  ...rth American colonies. To increase their political and economic power, the British and the French competed to acquire a better share of the available land and ...e's wars became more heated, fighting broke out between the French and the British in the American colonies.
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• Why did France side with the American Colonies during the American Revolution
  ...urrender_of_General_Burgoyne.jpg|thumbnail|left|300px|The surrender of the British General John Burgoyne at Saratoga, on October 17, 1777 convinced France to ...omacy and seeking the international support it needed to fight against the British. The single most important diplomatic success of the colonists during the W
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• The Federalist Papers - Number 3
  The neighborhood of Spanish and British territories, bordering on some States and not on others, naturally confines [[Category: US History Documents]] [[Category: Historical Documents]] [[Category: Federalist Paper
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• The Federalist Papers - Number 4
  ...e its navigation and fleet--let those four of the constituent parts of the British empire be be under four independent governments, and it is easy to perceive ...gh such conduct would not be wise, it would, nevertheless, be natural. The history of the states of Greece, and of other countries, abounds with such instance
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• Why did the United States fail to support the Haitian Revolution of 1801 against France
  ...e next decade was a complex and multi-sided civil war in which Spanish and British forces also intervened. ...y. Consequently, Adams decided to provide aid to L’Ouverture against his British-supported rivals. This situation was complicated by the Quasi-War with Fran
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• How did the Citizen Genet Affair derail relations between the United States and France
  ...ement portions of the 1778 Franco-American treaty which allowed attacks on British merchant shipping using ships based in American ports. Genêt’s attempt t ...ns authorized the bearers, regardless of their country of origin, to seize British merchant ships and their cargo for personal profit, with the approval and p
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• How did the United States react to the French Revolution
  ...resulted in the alignment of the political elite along pro-French and pro-British lines. Secretary of State [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0465094686/ref ...policy was made difficult by heavy-handed British and French actions. The British harassed neutral American merchant ships, while the French Government dispa
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• How did the XYZ Affair lead to the Quasi-War between France and the United States
  ...d to prevent further hostility with the United States. For their part, the British had delighted in the anti-French uproar in the United States and moved to a * Republished from [https://history.state.gov/| Office of the Historian, United States Department of State]
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• Why did the United States ally with the Soviet Union during World War II
  ...n late 1941 and thus began coordinating directly with the Soviets, and the British, as allies. ...ern front against the German forces], and the Soviets began pleading for a British invasion of France immediately after the German invasion in 1941. In 1942,
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• How Accurate is the Movie Peterloo
  ...o</i> tells the story of a mass demonstration in Manchester in 1819, where British forces ultimately broke up the protest that was calling for increased democ ...on foreign grain, making it very expensive to buy food and the quality of British grain was much lower and increasingly expensive. Many people could not affo
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• Why was the French Foreign Legion Created
  ...aining mercenary forces in the world alongside the Gurkha regiments in the British army. The French Foreign Legion has been portrayed in countless movies and ====History of the French Foreign Legion====
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• The Federalist Papers - Number 11
  ...ansferring to other hands the management of this interesting branch of the British commerce? ...e would derive the most substantial benefits. Such a point gained from the British government, and which could not be expected without an equivalent in exempt
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• Why did the United States go to war against the Barbary States in 1815
  ...diterranean trade, and Barbary leaders chose not to challenge the superior British or French navies. ====United States ships lost protection of British navy after Revolution====
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• Why did the war between Britain and Napoleon's France led to the War of 1812?
  ...ssment, British seizure of British-born naturalized U.S. citizens into the British navy. ...ment of American sailors, but when the signed treaty came back without any British concessions on the impressment issue, Jefferson did not pass it on to the S
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• The Federalist Papers - Number 24
  {{#dpl:category=Colonial American History|ordermethod=firstedit|order=descending|count=7}} ...t to the dominion of Britain. On the other side, and extending to meet the British settlements, are colonies and establishments subject to the dominion of Spa
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• How did the Napoleonic Wars in Europe cause the War of 1812
  ...ssment, British seizure of British-born naturalized U.S. citizens into the British navy. ...ment of American sailors, but when the signed treaty came back without any British concessions on the impressment issue, Jefferson did not pass it on to the S
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• Why did France sell the Louisiana Purchase to the United States
  ...St. Domingue (Haiti) during its expedition. Similarly, ten years earlier, British troops suffered a similar fate on the island and had casualty rates as high {{#dpl:category=History of the Early Republic|ordermethod=firstedit|order=descending|count=10}}
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• The Federalist Papers - Number 41
  {{#dpl:category=Colonial American History|ordermethod=firstedit|order=descending|count=8}} ...y, it cannot be unknown to the authors of the fallacy themselves, that the British Constitution fixes no limit whatever to the discretion of the legislature,
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• The Federalist Papers - Number 43
  ...ed States; and the other COLONIES, by which were evidently meant the other British colonies, at the discretion of nine States. The eventual establishment of N ..., are not under one government, provision is made for this object; and the history of that league informs us that mutual aid is frequently claimed and afforde
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• How did the United States open Japan to trade in 1853
  ...a more extended treaty. Ultimately, Japanese officials learned of how the British used military action to compel the opening to China, and decided that it wa ...th Century History]] [[Category:Political History]] [[Category:Diplomatic History]]
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• What are the Monroe Doctrine and the Roosevelt Corollary
  ==The United States interfered with British imperial motives in Latin America== ...could limit United States expansion in the future. He also argued that the British were not committed to recognizing the Latin American republics and must hav
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• What was the United States role in founding Liberia
  ...e was the first economic sector to grow in the colony. However, French and British traders continually encroached upon Liberian territory. As it was not a sov Despite protests by the affected British companies, London was the first to extend recognition to the new republic,
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• How did the North prevent the Diplomatic Recognition of the South during the Civil War
  ...ade on Southern ports. Any interruption of cotton supply would disrupt the British economy and reduce the workers to starvation, they thought. Britain would h ..., fearing that is was the first step toward diplomatic recognition, but as British Foreign Secretary Lord John Russell said, “The question of belligerent ri
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• What was the Trent Affair and why did it disrupt relations between the United States and Britain during the Civil War
  ...mail ship, the Trent. Great Britain accused the United States of violating British neutrality, and the incident created a diplomatic crisis between the United ====Confederate Envoys by US aboard British Ship====
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• The Federalist Papers - Number 46
  ...acquainted with the last successful resistance of this country against the British arms, will be most inclined to deny the possibility of it. Besides the adva [[Category: US History Documents]] [[Category: Historical Documents]] [[Category: Federalist Pap
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• The Federalist Papers - Number 47
  ...endeavor, in the first place, to ascertain his meaning on this point. The British Constitution was to Montesquieu what Homer has been to the didactic writers On the slightest view of the British Constitution, we must perceive that the legislative, executive, and judicia
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• The Federalist Papers - Number 52
  ...aracter ought to be applied, is the House of Commons in Great Britain. The history of this branch of the English Constitution, anterior to the date of Magna C ...Let us bring our inquiries nearer home. The example of these States, when British colonies, claims particular attention, at the same time that it is so well
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• The Federalist Papers - Number 56
  ...been preserved under all these circumstances, but that the defects in the British code are chargeable, in a very small proportion, on the ignorance of the le [[Category: US History Documents]] [[Category: Historical Documents]] [[Category: Federalist Pap
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• The Federalist Papers - Number 57
  ...FACTS? It was shown in the last paper, that the real representation in the British House of Commons very little exceeds the proportion of one for every thirty ...favorable circumstances, and notwithstanding some very unequal laws in the British code, it cannot be said that the representatives of the nation have elevate
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• The Federalist Papers - Number 58
  ...e purse that powerful instrument by which we behold, in the history of the British Constitution, an infant and humble representation of the people gradually e ...ic affairs. To those causes we are to ascribe the continual triumph of the British House of Commons over the other branches of the government, whenever the en
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• The Federalist Papers - Number 63
  It adds no small weight to all these considerations, to recollect that history informs us of no long-lived republic which had not a senate. Sparta, Rome, ...States. Unfortunately, however, for the anti-federal argument, the British history informs us that this hereditary assembly has not been able to defend itself
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• What were the diplomatic consequences of the US victory in the Civil War
  ...rans launched several unsuccessful raids into Canada. This resulted in the British North America Act of 1867, which united Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia and Ne ...n restitution for claims stemming from the attacks on merchant shipping by British-built Confederate warships such as the Alabama.
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• How did the United States react to France's takeover of Mexico during the Civil War
  ...for two years. In response, representatives from the Spanish, French, and British governments met in London, and on October 31, 1861, signed a tripartite agr ...lobal ambitions, and French forces captured Mexico City, while Spanish and British forces withdrew after French plans became clear. In 1863, Napoleon III invi
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• The Federalist Papers - Number 69
  ...egative of the President differs widely from this absolute negative of the British sovereign; and tallies exactly with the revisionary authority of the counci ...forces, as first General and admiral of the Confederacy; while that of the British king extends to the DECLARING of war and to the RAISING and REGULATING of f
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• The Federalist Papers - Number 70
  ..., on an experiment of two Praetors, were induced to abolish one. The Roman history records many instances of mischiefs to the republic from the dissensions be ...personally responsible for his behavior in office the reason which in the British Constitution dictates the propriety of a council, not only ceases to apply,
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• The Federalist Papers - Number 71
  ...other, it is not enough to justify any alarm for the public liberty. If a British House of Commons, from the most feeble beginnings, FROM THE MERE POWER OF A [[Category: US History Documents]] [[Category: Historical Documents]] [[Category: Federalist Pap
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• The Federalist Papers - Number 73
  If a magistrate so powerful and so well fortified as a British monarch, would have scruples about the exercise of the power under consider [[Category: US History Documents]] [[Category: Historical Documents]] [[Category: Federalist Pap
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• The Federalist Papers - Number 76
  ...e most corrupt periods of the most corrupt governments. The venalty of the British House of Commons has been long a topic of accusation against that body, in [[Category: US History Documents]] [[Category: Historical Documents]] [[Category: Federalist Pap
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• The Federalist Papers - Number 81
  ...House of Lords, which is a branch of the legislature; and this part of the British government has been imitated in the State constitutions in general. The Par ...e by a future legislature of the United States. The theory, neither of the British, nor the State constitutions, authorizes the revisal of a judicial sentence
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• The Federalist Papers - Number 84
  ...on the habeas-corpus act, which in one place he calls "the BULWARK of the British Constitution.''<ref>Vide Blackstone's "Commentaries," vol. iv., p. 438.</re [[Category: US History Documents]] [[Category: Historical Documents]] [[Category: Federalist Pap
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• How did the United States react to the Suez Crisis in 1956
  ...Nasser announced the nationalization of the Suez Canal Company, the joint British-French enterprise which had owned and operated the Suez Canal since its con Although Nasser offered full economic compensation for the Company, the British and French Governments, long suspicious of Nasser’s opposition to the con
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• Why did the United States diplomatically recognize the Soviet Union in 1933
  ...lin’s greatest mistake?|Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact]] with Germany after the British and French rejected Soviet offers to establish a military alliance against ...ory:Political History]] [[Category:Diplomatic History]][[Category:Russian History]]
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• Was Merlin based on a real person
  ...es for the original Merlin, and these include a Scottish prophet, an early British king, and the theory that he was a Celtic priest, a druid. ...o one fixed version of the story of Merlin. He is first mentioned in the ''History of the Kings of Britain'' by Geoffrey de Monmouth. The same author then wro
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• Why was Los Alamos created by the Manhattan Project
  ...rt Wilson, and many more. In the spring of 1943, a sizeable contingent of British scientists arrived at Los Alamos as well. It was an unimaginable collectio * Republished from [https://www.osti.gov/opennet/manhattan-project-history/index.htm| The Manhattan Project: An Interactive Project]
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• What were the International Consequences of the Union Victory in 1865
  ...ips intended for the Confederacy. Most famously, on September 3, 1863, the British Government impounded two ironclads, steam-driven “Laird rams” that Conf ...United States in compensation. Such proposals were not taken seriously by British statesmen, but they convey the passion with which some Americans viewed the
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• How Did St. Clair’s Defeat Happen
  ...uld have actually happened is irrelevant because the Americans won and the British allied tribes were forced to move farther west. The Miami, Shawnee, and Del ...tration believed the tribes could be dealt with peacefully, as long as the British were not in the picture.
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• What was Lend-Lease and how did it provide Aid to US Allies at the start of World War II
  ...r following the collapse of France, and thus American supplies sent to the British would fall into German hands. ...n another war. Even though American public opinion generally supported the British rather than the Germans, President Roosevelt had to develop an initiative t
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• Why was the Jay Treaty so unpopular in the United States
  ...estrictions and tariffs. The British occupation of northern forts that the British Government had agreed to vacate in the Treaty of Paris (1783), as well as r ...Hamilton and sent pro-British Chief Justice John Jay to negotiate with the British Government. Jay looked to Hamilton for specific instructions for the treaty
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• Why did the United States Repeal the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1943
  ..., if the Chinese of Hong Kong were to apply under the vast, largely unused British quota, thousands could enter each year on top of the number of available Ch * Republished from [https://history.state.gov/| Office of the Historian, United States Department of State]
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• How did the United States acquire Florida
  The colonies of East Florida and West Florida remained loyal to the British during American independence. Still, by the Treaty of Paris in 1783, they r ...kCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=588edbe5327b76ccc9ede6e741ba22cc American History], 11th edition (McGraw Hill, 2003), p. 226.</ref>
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• What happened at the "Big Three" conferences between the Allies during World War II
  ...lly entered World War II. In August 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill met secretly and devised an eight-point st ...Conference was a meeting between U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in the city of Casablanca, Morocco that to
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• Was Sherlock Holmes a real person
  ...likely candidates for the original model for the most famous detective in history. The British writer Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) created Sherlock Holmes. Doyle was a
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• Was Robinson Crusoe based on a real person
  ...eat books: With some serious reflections on Robinson Crusoe." New Literary History 39, no. 2 (2008): 335-353</ref> ...of Robinson Crusoe. One possible model for the most famous castaway in the history of literature was the rebel and surgeon Henry Pitman. He was the personal p
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• How did the United States and Great Britain eliminate their dueling navies on the Great Lakes and establish their borders in 1818
  ...8 set the boundary between the Missouri Territory in the United States and British North America (later Canada) at the forty-ninth parallel. Both agreements r ====Disarming the British and American navies on the Great Lakes====
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• How did American Filibusterers try to acquire territory for the United States in Latin America
  ...in Cuba. Cuban property owners were concerned that Spain would give in to British pressure to abolish slavery in Cuba. However, Walker’s policies hurt British business interests, as well as those of American tycoon Cornelius Vanderbil
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• How did Charles Mahan's "The Influence of Sea Power" shape American Foreign Policy
  ...y analysis of the importance of naval power as a factor in the rise of the British Empire. Two years later, he completed a supplementary volume, [https://www. Mahan argued that British control of the seas, combined with a corresponding decline in the naval str
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• Why did the United States declare war on Germany during World War I in 1917
  ...s attempts to cement a secret alliance with Mexico. On January 19, 1917, British naval intelligence intercepted and decrypted a telegram sent by German Fore ...elp sway U.S. official and public opinion in favor of joining the war. The British finally forwarded the intercepted telegram to President Wilson on February
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• Was Moby Dick based on real historical events
  ...one of the best known but most important works of fiction in United States history. While Melville's book is undoubtedly fiction, he drew widely from his expe They were eventually rescued by a passing British ship. Only eight men, out of the original crew of twenty, survived.<ref> Se
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• How was the United Nations formed after World War Two
  At the Quebec Conference in August 1943, Secretary of State Cordell Hull and British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden agreed to draft a declaration that included U.S., British, Soviet, and Chinese representatives met at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington in
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• What is the history of going to the beach
  ...not exist outside of those for the very wealthy.<ref>For more on the early history of visiting beaches, see: Brodie, Allan, and Matthew Whitfield. 2014. <i>B ...ach for the masses, see: Jenkinson, Jo. 2015. <i>The Lure of the Beach: A History of Public Bathing in Brighton</i>. Brighton Historical Society (Vic.).</ref
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• Was El Dorado a real place
  ...ry of the fabulously wealthy city was to play a very important role in the history of Latin America. Those who sought the fabled place helped to explore the c ...Meggers, p. 113</ref> Some believed that this was not the case such as the British adventurer Percy Fawcett. His expedition to discover a legendary city in th
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• What is the history behind Frankenstein
  Frankenstein is perhaps one of the best-known monsters in all of literary history and popular culture. The monster and the tale of his creation has been por {{#dpl:category=British History|ordermethod=firstedit|order=descending|count=9}}
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• How did governments develop the idea of Prime Minister Evolve
  ==Early History== ...es II) invited back to govern, English and subsequently British and global history changed. Now, Parliament with much greater authority and having the ability
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• How did governments develop the idea of Prime Minister
  ====Early History==== ...es II) invited back to govern, English and subsequently British and global history changed. Now, Parliament with much greater authority and having the ability
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• Did the Ancient Minoans Play Organized Sports
  ===Minoan Culture and History=== ...ame. The name “Minoan” was given to the Bronze Age culture of Crete by British archaeologist Arthur Evans, who discovered the palace of Knossos in 1900. H
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• What was the 1930 London Naval Conference and was it so important
  ...f 5:5:3 for capital ships—for every five capital ships the Americans and British had, the Japanese were allowed to have three. As in 1927, Japan insisted th ...pite of the fact that the other powers were far more willing to accept the British maximum of 7,000 tons. In the end, the U.S. position prevailed.
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