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• How Has the Mexico-US Border Changed in History
  ...r itself has changed as the two countries evolved. The border reflects the history between the two countries, that has sometimes been hostile while other time ...Western United States and modern Mexico. The first few decades of Mexico's history were turbulent, as a struggle for power between conservatives, who wanted a
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• What is the History of US Presidential Scandals
  ...hard to believe even, yet the American public has often been forgiving, as history shows. ...ly angered France, the ally of the United States, and led to a split among US politicians, with Jefferson accusing Washington of treason.
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• What is the History of US Presidential Scandals?
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• Media History Top Ten Booklist
  ...n offered his provocative entry into the little-known canon of campanarian history, considering how bells resonated across the “auditory landscape” of rur ...orthcoming Messengers of the Right (on conservative media) promise to tell us much about the manifold ways that technologies of communication intersect w
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• History of Sex (American Version) Top Ten Booklist
  ...n). American notions of sexuality have dramatically changed throughout its history. These books seek to explain and place American views of sex in an historic ...tory of sexuality list. We understand that there is a distinction but, for us, these two things blur together. Unlike other people, we do not see them a
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• American Legal History Top Ten Booklist
  ...ooks helped us think about legal history in new ways. Excitement and legal history are terms that are rarely used together, but after you read these books we ...sistant Professor at the University of Washington - Bothell, ably assisted us in developing this booklist. We can safely say that the best selections on
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• 19th Century Overview of United States History Top Ten Booklist
  ...ith conventional safe picks, you leave off some of the good stuff. Trust us, we will get to the good stuff. #Westward Expansion/Environmental History: William Cronon, ''[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0393308731/ref=as_li_t
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• The Cold War, Sexuality, and American Medicine: Interview with Carolyn Herbst Lewis
  ...her about it. Carolyn Herbst Lewis is currently a Assistant Professor of History at Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa. Her current research focuses on Dr. ...of sex since I was an undergrad. I also was working in the Contemporary History Institute, which has a post-1945 focus. At some point, I was at a garage sa
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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
  {{#dpl:category=Colonial American History|ordermethod=firstedit|order=descending|count=7}} * Republished from [https://history.state.gov/| Office of the Historian], United States Department of State
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• How did Great Britain win the French Indian War (Seven Years War)
  {{#dpl:category=Colonial American History|ordermethod=firstedit|order=descending|count=7}} Republished from [https://history.state.gov/| Office of the Historian], United States Department of State
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• Why did Westward Expansion Lead to the American Revolution
  {{#dpl:category=Colonial American History|ordermethod=firstedit|order=descending|count=6}} Republished from [https://history.state.gov/| Office of the Historian], United States Department of State
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• How Historically Accurate is the Outlaw King
  Many of us know the story of <i>Braveheart</i>, where William Wallace leads a major re [[Category: Historically Accurate]][[Category:Wikis]][[Category:British History]]
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• The Bronze Age Economy and Trade Top Ten Booklist
  ...the alphabet and other social ideas. The economy, however, seems alien to us as it was complex and had many aspects to it, spanning from elites in palac The book covers an interesting history in the Near East during the 14th century BC, when the city of Amarna briefl
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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 ...mies of the French. This war was to prove to be a key turning point in the history of Europe. As it marked the end of French expansion under Louis IV and the
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• Bronze Age (3200-1200 BC) Economy and Trade in the Near East Top Ten Booklist
  ...the alphabet and other social ideas. The economy, however, seems alien to us as it was complex and had many aspects to it, spanning from elites in palac The book covers an interesting history in the Near East during the 14th century BC, when the city of Amarna briefl
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• How did ancient Professional Armies develop
  ...ar and armies, see: Chaliand, Gérard, ed. 1994. ''The Art of War in World History: From Antiquity to the Nuclear Age''. Berkeley: University of California Pr ...early professional armies in Mesopotamia, see Bauer, S. Wise. 2007. ''The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome''. 1st
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• How did Edwin Drake create the World's first oil well
  ...il was slow to arrive. Finally, on August 27, 1859, at a depth of 69 feet, history's first oil well came in.<ref>American Chemical Society, "The Development o *[[Gilded Age/Progressive Era History Top Ten Booklist]]
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• What was George Washington's military experience before the American Revolution
  History tells us that the Continental Congress chose wisely. Washington lost more battles th {{#dpl:category=Colonial American History|ordermethod=firstedit|order=descending|count=10}}
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• Which Guns Won the American West
  ...Century History]] [[Category:History of Science and Technology]][[Category:History of the American West]] {{Mediawiki:US History}}
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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 ...ecutive throughout most of this period and it viewed any attempts to lower US tariff walls to be part of a vast transatlantic free trade conspiracy to un
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• How Did Ancient Societies Adapt to Dairy Consumption
  Natural selection, the process first uncovered by Charles Darwin, tells us that specific traits, over time, could become selected for, leading to a tr ...e different gene groups. In fact, there are different divergences known to us in relation to dairy consumption; dairy we know has become one of the stron
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• What Role did the Motorcycle and Harley-Davidson play in Wartime
  ...Davidson Motor Company. <ref>”’H-D Supports the Military,” corporate history, Harley Davidson USA, 2015</ref> ...trains mechanics today. <ref>”’H-D Supports the Military,” corporate history, Harley Davidson USA, 2015</ref>
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• How did Medicine develop in the Ancient World
  ...ral regions around the world, which had early complex societies, have left us evidence or documents that describe some of the relatively sophisticated me ...d their involvement in medical practices, see Sigerist, Henry E. 1987. ''A History of Medicine''. Publication / Historical Library, Yale Medical Library, no.
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• Why Was Vicksburg “The Gibraltar of the Confederacy”
  ...vid, Cohen, Lizabeth, Lemley, Piehl, Mel, <i>The Brief American Pageant: A History of the Republic, Volume I: To 1877</i>, Wadsworth Publishing, 2005, page 32 ...nd know what I am talking about, and as valuable as New Orleans will be to us, Vicksburg will be more so." <ref>De Togni, Elisa, “The Key in Lincoln’
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• Portal:Interviews
  ...t famous and infamous security guard and detective agency in United States history. Pinkerton originally created the agency to help railroad companies investi ...a. The Century and In Search of America were mini-series that aired on the History Channel and ABC.
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• Portal:Booklists
  ...tability. The First World War was one of the most important wars in human history. There has long been a debate about the exact cause of the First World War. ====[[Gilded Age/Progressive Era History Top Ten Booklist]]====
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• How did eugenics develop and why did it persist into the late 20th Century
  The answer is that studying such “failed” sciences of the past can give us incredible insight into the origins of scientific theories we now hold to b As modern students of history, we must divorce scientific theories of the past from the unavoidable socie
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• Make It Rain: Interview with Kristine C. Harper
  ....html The University of Chicago Press] explores the bizarre and ridiculous history of state-funded attempts to control the weather. ...ddition to <i>Make it Rain</i>, Professor Harper also wrote the definitive history of meteorology <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0262517353/ref=as_li_t
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• How has ancient Rome influenced European law
  ...Roman rules were implemented directly and even today they apply to all of us. For example the fact that we can return faulty purchases to the shop durin [[Category:Legal History]] [[Category:Roman History]] [[Category:European History]]
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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 Trojan War really happen
  ...te of the earliest known written copy of The Iliad. Thus, The Iliad tells us more about society, war, and culture in the 9th century BCE than it does ab ...hat the Trojan War was a historical event in the “Golden Age” of their history. <ref>Bryce, Trevor R. “The Trojan War: Is There Truth Behind the Legend?
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• How Did Early Judicial Systems Evolve
  ...zens. The concept of justice, in fact, has evolved from very early written history, showing some similarities early on with modern ideas of law and justice fo ...laws of Urukagina, see: Kramer, Samuel Noah. 1995. ''The Sumerians: Their History, Culture, and Character''. 12. [pr.]. Chicago: The Univ. of Chicago Press.<
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• How Did Gold Become Desired by Ancient Civilizations
  ...e finds at Nahal Qanah and Varna Necropolis show is that early from gold's history it had already become an object that differentiated wealth and status in so ...y Life in Ancient Mesopotamia''. The Greenwood Press “Daily Life through History” Series. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, pg. 123.</ref> Gold, for privat
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• Did the Battle of Fredericksburg Change the Identities of Irish Soldiers
  ...esidents between 1730 and 1754.<ref>Jay P. Dolan, ''The Irish Americans: A History'' (New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2008), 6-8.</ref> With vast expanses of fert
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• What is the history of socialism in the United States
  ...tatorships or Marxist states. Nevertheless, socialism has a long political history in the United States and has been, at times, influential in American politi ...roved unprofitable, and the farm itself was sold (Figure 1).<ref>For early history of American socialism and Utopian socialism, see: Taylor, K. (2016). <i>Pol
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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, The world's first museum known to us appears to be from Babylon, now in southern Iraq, found within the palace o
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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 ...or parts of them, are recovered in this book. Together their stories give us a “snapshot” of early American lives not commonly found in histories of
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• How did Joseph Stalin react to the German invasion during WWII
  ...he news was true. The Soviet leader had also ignored all warnings from the US, British governments, and even his own intelligence officers. Economic and ...reach the Kremlin gates. <ref>Joseph Stalin and World War II - http://www.history.com/topics/joseph-stalin</ref> The German assault on the Soviet Union was w
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• What was the Bracero Program
  ...bnail|left|300px|Mexican workers in Mexicali waiting for legal work in the US]] ...can farm laborers, "Braceros" in Spanish, to come to the US to augment the US farm labor force. Debates about immigration policy, including recent discus
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• What is the history of government shutdowns in the United States
  ...nt shutdowns has not only emerged but has increasingly been as a weapon in US politics. Why has this happened? ...o furlough its workers. Initially, it was interpreted that agencies of the US government could continue working without sufficient funds, and fund employ
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• Why did the United States and Soviet Union Reach Detente During the Cold War
  ====The Collapse of US/USSR relations after World War 2==== ...not to run for re-election. <ref>Gaddis, John Lewis, ''The Cold War: a New History.''' New York: Penguin Books, 2006. pgs. 79-80.</ref>
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• When Did Jackie Robinson Integrate Baseball and Why Is It Important
  ...athlete was short-lived. After the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, and the US entry into World War Two, Robinson was drafted into the army in 1942. Like The color line was receding to history, but racial intolerance and discrimination were not. During that 1947 seaso
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• How Joseph Stalin became the leader of the Soviet Union
  Stalin was one of the bloodiest tyrants in world history. He was the absolute ruler of the Soviet Union and later of the Communist b * [[What is the History of US Presidential Scandals?]]
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• How did Aristotle fundamentally change philosophy and science
  ...n how the concept of the university developed and Aristotle's lifetime and history, see: Höffe, O. (2003). <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/079145634X/r Few thinkers directly known to us have so influenced the modern world as Aristotle. While in many ways, he wa
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• What were Joseph Stalin's goals as World War Two ended
  ...in the Tehran Conference. The main discussion of the meeting, held by the US President Franklin Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and ...accordance with the decisions made at the Tehran Conference, Britain and US troops launched an invasion of France, opening the so-called “second fron
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• The Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798: Interview with Terri Halperin
  Terri Halperin is a member of the University of Richmond History Department and an adjunct professor of the James Madison Memorial Foundatio ...e think about how Congress worked at its beginnings. My dissertation was a history of the United States Senate from 1789 to 1821.
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• Why did the United States Gain the Upper Hand Against the Soviet Union at the End of the Cold War
  ..._U.S._embassy_in_Tehran.jpg|left|thumbnail|250px|Iranian Students invading US Embassy]] ...with the West. <ref>Gaddis, John Lewis. ''We now know: rethinking Cold War history.'' Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997. Pages 45-49.</ref>
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• What was Atomic Diplomacy
  * Republished from [https://history.state.gov/| Office of the Historian, United States Department of State] * Article: [https://history.state.gov/milestones/1945-1952/atomic| Atomic Diplomacy]
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• What caused Bacon's Rebellion
  ...probably one of the most confusing and intriguing chapters in Jamestown's history. For many years, historians considered the Virginia Rebellion of 1676 to be Thus ended one of the most unusual and complicated chapters in Jamestown's history. Could it have been prevented or was it time for inevitable changes to take
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• Why was Nikita Khrushchev deposed as the leader of the USSR
  ...t to the Stalinist emphasis on heavy industry. Khrushchev began seeing the US and the West much more as a rival instead of an evil entity. He aimed at sh
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• The Mysterious Illness of Jim Bowie: How Did He Contribute to His Own Decline
  ...orandum and Official Correspondence Relating to the Republic of Texas, Its History and Annexation'' (New York: 1859), 12-13.</ref> The reasons for Bowie’s a ...rter, Interview.</ref> Given Bowie’s alcoholic tendencies and documented history as a binge drinker, this diagnosis is highly plausible if not probable.
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• Thomas Jefferson, the Founding Fathers and Christianity: Interview with Sam Haselby
  ...ess]) examines how a conflict with Protestantism, in the decades following US independence transformed American national identity. It made sense to get h .... It’s a bequest that includes American slavery and American racism, the US Constitution, and the country’s first and last dynasty of Presidents. Se
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• What was Plato's academy and why did it influence Western thought
  ...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 ...y.<ref>For more on Arcesilaus, see: Algra, Keimpe, ed. 2005. The Cambridge History of Hellenistic Philosophy. 1st pbk. ed. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge U
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• How did hunting become a symbol of the royalty
  ...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, ...ancient royal parks, see: Allsen, T. T. (2006). The royal hunt in Eurasian history. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.</ref>
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• How did hunting become a symbol of the aristocracy/royalty
  ...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, ...ancient royal parks, see: Allsen, T. T. (2006). The royal hunt in Eurasian history. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.</ref>
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• The Best Historians and Books According to James McPherson
  ...book most responsible for shaping his career, and even the most overrated history book ever. It's a biggie. ...-20&linkId=64535fc33a5e01427eaba9f0b184e82a Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad]
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• Why Were the Philistines and Israelites Enemies
  ...mson, asking him: “Knowest thou not that the Philistines are rulers over us?” <ref> Judges 15:10</ref> [[Category:Religious History]] [[Category:Ancient History]] [[Category:History of the Middle East]][[Category: Wikis]]
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• Fate of the Revolution: Interview with Lorri Glover
  Lorri Glover is the John Francis Bannon Professor of History at Saint Louis University. She has written extensively about the early Amer ...Richmond, in June 1788, were one of the greatest dramas in all of American history. In no other gathering during the entire revolutionary era was there so fie
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• How Did the Bed Develop as Household Furniture
  ...n today what represents a bed differs greatly from culture to culture. The history of the bed, like most furniture, has been shaped by its complex development ==Early History==
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• Who Was Responsible for the Extreme Violence During the Reconstruction Era
  ...“unable to compromise.”<ref>Eric Foner, ''Give Me Liberty: An American History'' (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2009), 534.</ref> ...of black citizens; there were zero convictions.<ref>Eric Foner, ''A Short History of Reconstruction, 1863-1877'' (New York: Harper&Row, 1990), 85.</ref>
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• How Did the Great Depression and the Vietnam War Help Shape the Hollywood Western?
  ...eds., ''Hollywood’s West: The American Frontier in Film, Television, and History'' (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press), 6. Historian Frederic Jackson ...s address by stating, “We cannot afford to neglect the plain duty before us.”<ref>Gordon, 310-11.</ref>
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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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• Privateering during the War of 1812: Interview with Faye M. Kert
  During the War 1812, US and Canadian privateers fought most of the naval battles between the United Faye M. Kert has finally written a comprehensive history on the privateers of the War of 1812. <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product
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• How did modern boxing emerge
  Boxing is one of the oldest sports known to us. From very early historical records, to its professional development in the ...odriguez, Robert G., and George Kimball. 2009. The Regulation of Boxing: A History and Comparative Analysis of Policies among American States. Jefferson, N.C:
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• How did baseball develop
  ...nt, see: Williams, J. (1999) <i>Cricket and England: A Cultural and Social History of the Inter-war Years.</i> Sport in the global society. London ; Portlan ...are out. These and other rules advanced in this convention are still with us today and many recognize these rules as the true origin of modern baseball.
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• What is the Magician's Oath and why is it important
  ...as Vegas. Penn & Teller even have a television show, ''Penn & Teller: Fool Us,'' where magicians try to perform tricks that Penn & Teller cannot figure o [[Category:Wikis]][[Category:History of Magic]]
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• How did basketball develop
  ==Early History== ...haste, six of the original thirteen rules Naismith created are still with us. This includes not using your fist, shoulder, and not being allowed to run
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• Reserve Police Battalion 101: How Did Ordinary Citizens Become Killers Under the Third Reich
  ...is position that most men of the 101st were in fact ordinary and common to us all. For example, American veterans of the Vietnam “conflict” still exh ...[Category:German History]] [[Category:Polish History]] [[Category:Military History]]
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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 Perpetrators of the Rwandan Genocide Show No Remorse
  ...killings, there was time for friendship, and meeting with friends brought us light hearts…we shared drinks, we ate.’”<ref>Hatzfeld, 82.</ref>Remin [[Category:Wikis]] [[Category:Genocide]][[Category:African History]]
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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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• American Surveillance: Interview with Anthony Gregory
  ...://uwpress.wisc.edu/index.html University of Wisconsin Press] examines the history of surveillance in the United States and grapples with these problems. He e ...onse to foreign threats that did not respect borders. A rocky path brought us to the global war on terror. I think some civil libertarians tend to exagge
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• How did the marathon emerge
  ...cited as the origin of this sport. While there is truth in this story, the history of the marathon is complex and its presence in many major world cities show The earliest history of the marathon is likely legend based on some facts. The story of the lege
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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
  ...rstand ancient Egypt’s Late Period – or any period in ancient Egyptian history for that matter – will fall short if the textual/historiographical eviden ...as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=1e608e192bb2c217541ca0684680dcb0 The Writing of History in Ancient Egypt during the First Millennium BC (ca. 1070-180 BC): Trends a
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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 Hospitals Emerge
  ...nce of hospitals is not only ancient but it also evolved through a complex history. Hospitals were seen as a way to address healthcare in increasingly urban s ...on Achaemenid hospitals, see: Shoja, M. M., & Tubbs, R. S. (2007). <i>The History of Anatomy in Persia. Journal of Anatomy</i>, 210(4), 359–378.</ref> In t
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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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• History of God Top Ten Booklist
  ...y task, here are the ten best books that try to make sense of this complex history. ...563&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=c5f79436e48ccd70fe128e130224ab49 A History of God]</i>. London: Vintage.: The book is somewhat more narrow that later
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• How did Public Sanitation Develop
  ==Early History of Sanitation== ...uuti, P., Katko, T. S., & Vuorinen, H. S. (Eds.). (2007). <i>Environmental history of water: global views on community water supply and sanitation</i>. London
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• Primed for Violence in Interwar Poland: Interview with Paul Brykczynski
  ...Brykczynski received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in European History and <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/029930700X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&c ...tics. I wanted to understand why this was the case, and what this can tell us about the relationship between politics, ideology, and violence more genera
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• What was the Significance of the 1874 Second Battle of Adobe Walls in Texas
  [[File:US-MAPS(1891)_p504_-_MAP_OF_TEXAS,_OKLAHOMA_AND_INDIAN_TERRITORY_(l).jpg|thumb ...uld keep track of [other outfits]…by the sound of the guns. If either of us got into trouble, the sound of the buffalo guns would be interrupted with t
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• What Was the Importance of Bill Mauldin to WWII Infantrymen
  ...n said of Mauldin, “‘…to appreciate what moments of relief Bill gave us…you had to be reading a soaking wet ''Stars and Stripes'' in a water-fill ...isted man and veteran of Omaha Beach, said of Mauldin: “‘He was one of us. He supported the enlisted man. I was an enlisted man. Period. He was our c
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• Inventing the Pinkertons: Interview with Paul O'Hara
  ...t famous and infamous security guard and detective agency in United States history. Pinkerton originally created the agency to help railroad companies investi ...real picture of the most famous private detective agency in United States history. JHU Press states O'Hara explains who "American capitalists used the Pinker
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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 Did Honey Evolve in our Diet
  ...eeteners used by humans. Additionally, it was perhaps consumed not only by us humans but Neanderthals. In fact, honey likely played a role in the evoluti ...ore on the earliest history of honey, see: Crane, E. (1999). <i>The world history of beekeeping and honey hunting.</i> New York: Routledge.</ref>
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• What Is the Historical Development of Bread
  ...societies, bread has come to symbolize the primary food that God has given us. Bread and life are intertwined as being seen as being part of each other. ==Early History of Bread==
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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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• How Did Popcorn Become Popular
  ...type of beer.<ref>For more on the variety of uses for popcorn in its early history, see: Podojil, J. (2013). <i>Popcorn Favorites: Everything you want to kno ...Americans, see: Smith, A. F. (Ed.). (2013). <i>Food and Drink in American History: A “full course” encyclopedia.</i> Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO.</ref>
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• What Is the History of Ice Cream
  ...ce cream has been present for millennia. Ice treats, which eventually gave us ice cream, were refreshing snacks usually reserved for elites or those who ...ag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=5e4fd0680acd209879f3f29c98e8005f Ice Cream: A Global History].</i> London: Reaktion Books, pg. 19.</ref>
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• How did the Throne Develop as a Royal Symbol
  ...iterally made from the swords of the defeated) to show the reader that the history of Westeros was extraordinarily violent. While modern government in the Wes ...al period, see: Collins, R. (2010) <i>Early medieval Europe, 300-1000.</i> History of Europe. 3rd ed. Houndmills, Basingstoke [England] ; New York, NY, Palg
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• Why did Medical Licensing Boards prosecute Christian Scientists for practicing medicine during the 19th Century
  ...prayer. Buswll stated that when a person “request[ed] aid and c[a]me to us for and assistance we treat them as a mother treats her child that is frigh *[[Social History of American Medicine Top Ten Booklist]]</div>
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• How Did Tables Evolve as Furniture
  ==Early History== ...ef>For more on the trestle, see: Sparkes, I. G. (1980). <i>An illustrated history of English domestic furniture, 1100-1837: the age of the craftsman.</i> Bou
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• What is the Deep Impact of Plant Domestication
  ...ndustry: a Strategy for Food Quality Improvement.</i> Boston, MA: Springer US.</ref> ...ve many of our problems and enhance our lives. However, this has also made us vulnerable to environmental damage, all the while global population continu
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• Top Ten Books on Julius Caesar
  Julius Caesar has cast a shadow over western history for two millennia. He was a remarkable general, a people's champion, the de ...t perennially fascinating question." -- Paul Cartledge, Professor of Greek History, University of Cambridge
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• Benedict Anderson’s Imagined Communities
  ...derson’s <i>Imagined Communities</i> is a conceptual toll-kit that helps us understand the origin, function, and power of nationalism. The smoothness w [[Category:Book Review]] [[Category:Political History]] [[Category:Historiography]]
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• Klaus Theweleit’s Male Fantasies vol 1: Men and Women
  ...jpg|thumbnail|300px|left|<I>Male Fantasies, Vol. 1: Women, Floods, Bodies, History</I> by Klaus Theweleit]] ...498fd1ef28285ba0901cf369b5a Male Fantasies, Vol. 1: Women, Floods, Bodies, History]</I>, is an examination of origins and manifestations of fascism. Thewelei
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• The Power of Women and Peru's Shining Path
  ...eft.<ref>Orin Starn, Carlos DeGregori, and Robin Kirk. <I>The Peru Reader: History, Culture, Politics, </I>ed. Orin Starn, carlos Ivan Degregori, and Robin Ki ...a 1923 El Tiempo newspaper article that described Andean women’s “rich history” of involvement in rebellions in the Ancco and Chusqui districts, saying,
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• Lester Langley’s The Americas in the Age of Revolution, 1750-1850
  ...ment of commonality, for as he moves through time and space to narrate the history of Royalist Peru, Imperial Mexico and the Independent Republic of Colombia, ...e-formation. However his thoughtful analysis of the political and social history of the region and time period is helpful, as is his exploration of the cont
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• Southwest to Whom - An Analysis of the Historiography of the American West
  The American Southwest – the title hints at the meaning, history and mental imagry attached to the region by inhabitants and observers. The ...d the field. Once seen as a cultural artifact or a Hollywood backdrop, the history of the Southwest has become a dynamic exploration of continuity and variety
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• Was Joel Poinsett an Agent of Empire and a Patron of Science
  ...f the new nation. During the 1830s and 1840s, Poinsett worked as both the US Secretary of War, and a patron of the human sciences, and was involved in t ...his Unpublished Report on the Present Political State of Mexico. A Social History of Anthropology in the United States, by Thomas C. Patterson provides the b
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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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• How Did Themistocles Fall from Grace
  ...an Wars (499-479 BC), in many ways solidified the Greeks’ place in world history. They established many attributes of Hellenic civilization that were carrie Any study of the great minds of history reveals that well most of these people were imbued with the qualities that
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• When were Spy Services created in the United States
  ...the Civil War and World Wars, history has shaped what spying means to the US. ...wers that developed spying services is the relatively short history of the US. The experiences, therefore, are different in how they have influenced gove
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• When did interracial marriage become legal in the United States
  ...acial couple. <ref name="Justia"> https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/106/583/case.html.</ref> ...ovings’ Fourteenth Amendment rights. The case made it all the way to the US Supreme court and the court declared state laws prohibiting interracial mar
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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 ...orically accurate record of the life of this remarkable man or merely gave us a great fictionalized account of his life?
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• How were texts selected for the New Testament
  Though throughout Christian history it was believed that each of these narratives was authored by Jesus’ disc ...nt of the ecumenical councils, which will be discussed later. For now, let us examine each of the four criteria.
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• Is Oliver Stone's movie 'Nixon' historically accurate
  ...er U.S. President Richard Nixon, one of the most infamous Presidents in US history. The movie narrates the Watergate Scandal that led to Nixon’s downfall, h ...what occurred during the most controversial Presidency in modern American History?
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• What are the Origins of the Abolitionist Movement
  ...g from those intellectuals and moralists who denied that progress benefits us all if it comes at a human cost. Therein lies the paradox. How could a syst ...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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• How accurate is the movie Patton
  ...r fame and Edward Hill. <ref>Cousins, Mark. The Story of Film: A Worldwide History (New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 2006), p. 213</ref> Twentieth Century Fox The movie has one of the most memorable opening scenes in Hollywood history. George C. Scott emerges as Patton and gives a remarkable speech in front o
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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), ====The History of British Abolitionism====
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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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• Where did the concept of Human Rights come from
  ...to explain what sorts of privileges or entitlements should be afforded to us merely for being born human. Typically we attach the word “inalienable” ...y. This is but one more evolutionary development that will eventually lead us to the modern conception of human rights we observe in the West. For this d
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• The Federalist Papers - Number 10
  ...complaints had no foundation, the evidence, of known facts will not permit us to deny that they are in some degree true. It will be found, indeed, on a c {{#dpl:category=Colonial American History|ordermethod=firstedit|order=descending|count=6}}
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• How have immigration and citizenship changed in the U.S.
  [[File:Passengers_going_to_angel_island.png|left|350px|thumbnail|US officials examining immigrants in 1931]] .... However, there were two that would have a significant impact on American history: the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848) and the Dred Scott decision (1857).
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• How historically accurate is the movie 'Tora, Tora, Tora'
  ...0 US service personnel were killed. The attack on Pearl Harbor changed the history of the world. It provoked America into declaring war on Japan, and soon the US was also at war with the other Axis powers, Italy and Germany. Tora! Tora!
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• How did the Enlightenment Philosophers View Race
  [[File:Hegel.jpg|left|thumbnail|200px|Hegel's Lectures on the Philosophy of History (1837)]]__NOTOC__ ...In some ways, it reifies and extends George W.F. Hegel’s ''Philosophy of History'' (1837). In others, it privileges American exceptionalism. But what such r
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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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• With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa by E.B. Sledge - Book Review
  The documented history of the United States Marines serving in the Pacific during World War II is ...here the struggle “eroded the veneer of civilization and made savages of us all.”<ref>Sledge, 120.</ref>Living in savagery on Peleliu and Okinawa cam
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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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• How historically accurate is the movie Lincoln (2012)
  ...was making a movie based on his life during a critical moment in American history, the project was great excitement and interest. In 2012 Lincoln was release ...is was a piece of brilliant political scheming. The movie accurately shows us that 'Honest Abe' was a shrewd political operator and that he was not above
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• American Girls in Red Russia: Interview with Julia Mickenberg
  ...ww.press.uchicago.edu/index.html University of Chicago Press] explores the history of the American women who went to Russia looking for adventure, freedom, re ...iversity of Texas Austin. She writes and teaches about radicalism, women's history, Russia, and children's literature. She has written and edited two previous
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• Is the movie Dunkirk historically accurate
  ...e, and Tom Hardy. The movie is an international co-production between the US, UK, and France. Nolan, regarded as one of the finest directors of his gene ...as the ‘miracle of Dunkirk.’<ref>Taylor, A.J.P. and S.L. Mayer, Eds. A History of World War Two. London: Octopus Books, 1974, p. 57</ref> It was widely be
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• Did Victorian era popular scientists try to deny biblical teachings
  ...new discoveries. Yet, just because some sciences of the time seem silly to us now, our job is not to pass judgment, but rather to place ourselves in this ...hen science, as a discipline, was still in its infancy. Phrenology reminds us that sciences of the past should not be analyzed based upon their accuracy
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• When were water fountains created
  ...of Rome and its Trevi Fountain. Since their inception, fountains have awed us as a way humans have controlled an important element of life, that being wa ...the medieval Islamic world</i>. The Greenwood Press ‘Daily life through history’ series. Indianapolis, IN, Hackett Pub. Co, pg. 125.</ref>
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• How did prisons develop
  ...and philosophy, see: Mühlhahn, K. (2009) <i>Criminal justice in China: a history</i>. Cambridge, Mass, Harvard University Press, pg. 363.</ref> ...ullianum and Roman punishment, see: Norval Morris (ed.) (1998) The Oxford history of the prison: the practice of punishment in Western society. Oxford paperb
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• How did Mother's Day develop
  ...any countries, including Christian, Muslim, and other countries. The early history of the holiday connect to the ancient Near East, Greek, and other Old World ...a Jarvis. After the elder Jarvis died, Anna helped create the first modern US Mother's Day celebration in Grafton, West Virginia. Anna wanted it to simpl
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• When did taxation emerge
  ====Early History==== ...g in 1799 to the present day related to the social, economic and political history of the period</i>. London; New York, Routledge.</ref>
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• How Did Cremation Emerge as a Death Ritual
  [[File:1024px-2006 US cremation rates map.svg.png|thumbnail|left|350px|Figure 2. Cremation in the ...ions in the United States, see: Prothero, S.R. (2001) Purified by fire: a history of cremation in America. Berkeley, University of California Press.</ref>
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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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• African American Women's History Top Ten Booklist
  African American Women’s History exploded onto the scene in the wake of second wave feminism. As the converg A narrative history that traces Black Women’s history from the late nineteenth century.
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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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• Who exactly was Sacagawea
  ...mission without Sacagawea's assistance. She is a common figure in Western history and the subject of countless articles and books. ...is likely the only thing that stopped her from being lost to the annals of history.
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• How did Spain's defeat in the Spanish-American War (1898) change the country
  ...t became an Imperial power and expanded overseas for the first time in its history. The Spanish who were defeated in the war experienced even greater changes. ...ed into the hands of those in Washington D.C. and elsewhere who wanted the US to become an Imperial power. America was well prepared for expansion after
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• History of Evolutionary Theory: Top Ten Books to Read
  ...tand the place of evolutionary theory during its infancy, and thereby give us a better understanding of why it remains so controversial in modern times. ...y Publication, Reception, and Secret Authorship of Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation]'' by James A. Secord (University of Chicago Press, 2003.)
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• Ten Booklist on Presidential Leadership
  ...g its perception by the public and other politicians. These are the law of history, the law of rhetoric, the law of theory, the law of culture, law of charact
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• Presidential Leadership Top Ten Booklist
  ...g its perception by the public and other politicians. These are the law of history, the law of rhetoric, the law of theory, the law of culture, the law of cha ...ategory:Booklists]] [[Category:United States History]] [[Category:Military History]]
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• How did Weather Monitoring Develop
  ...st centuries, weather monitoring technologies, such as radar, have allowed us to obtain much more warning before events occur. However, weather monitorin ...us giving us some standard ways we measure temperature that are still with us today. By the early 1800s, Luke Howard began to formulate cloud types in a
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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
  ...f fir, pine, and spruce trees, are closely linked with the visuals most of us have for Christmas. However, in many ways, the symbol of the Christmas tree ...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
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• How Did Saint Valentine's Day Develop
  ====Early History==== ...mes of the person they wanted to marry on their sleeves, which has come to us in the expression of putting your heart on your sleeve.
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• How Did Saint Patrick's Day Develop
  ...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> ...h-American traditions, see: Dolan, J. P. (2008). <i>The Irish Americans: a history</i> (1st U.S. ed). New York: Bloomsbury Press.</ref>
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• How did Oregon pass Medical Licensing Laws in the 19th Century
  ...to ask, ‘What kind of bill are you going to pass? Are you going to shut us out?” Strong evaded this question by sending postcards to any members wh ...edical school graduate.<ref>O. Larsell, <i>The Doctor in Oregon: A Medical History</i> (Portland, Oregon State Historical Society 1947), 210.</ref> After Pope
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• How Did Easter Become an Important Celebration
  ...and sex in relation to the spring equinox, see: Armstrong, K. (1998) <i>A History of God: the 4000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam</i>. New Yor ...ebrations, see: Stewart, C. (2008) <i>The Catholic Church: a brief popular history</i>. Winona, MN, Saint Mary’s Press, pg. 73.</ref>
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• What are the origins of Labor Day
  ...he choosing of the date in the United States. The complex, often political history, of Labor Day has also shifted in recent periods. ..., G. (2008) <i>Sweat and blood: a history of U.S. labor unions. People’s history</i>. Minneapolis, Twenty-First Century Books.</ref>
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• How did Memorial Day develop?
  Memorial Day is a US holiday honoring those who died for their country during its armed conflict ...than other conflicts, because it was by far the bloodiest in United States history.<ref>For more on the early traditions of Decoration Day, see: Jabbour, A.,
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• Why did the United States blockade the Confederacy during the Civil War
  ====US blockades Confederacy 1861==== ====Britain objected to US blockade, but did little else====
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• Why did Indian Removal cause the Trail of Tears
  ====US Treaties with Native Americans==== ...oe Bend in 1814, but Jackson had already decided that Native Americans and US settlers could not live together peacefully. As a result, the Tecumseh's de
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• How did "Stonewall" Jackson die
  ...yonder! There are Jackson and his brigade standing like a stone wall. Let us determine to die here, and we will conquer. Rally behind them!"''<ref>John ...nvincible and maneuvered his army in some of the most magnificent military history displays. Had Jackson been at his side three months hence in Gettysburg, th
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• How did cycling become popular
  ...feet, as pedals had not been introduced. The bicycle frame is familiar to us, which made it different from earlier forms and gave it an appearance we wo ...cycles and how they developed, see: Herlihy, D. V. (2006).<i> Bicycle: the history</i>. New Haven, Conn.; London: Yale University Press. </ref>
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• How has our understanding of Democracy changed
  ...ivided and divisive outcomes, could have told us a thing or two and warned us in advance. Brexit wrecks it? Politically speaking, unambiguously – alas ...itical History]][[Category:Ancient Greek History]][[Category:United States History]][[Category:Special Comment]][[Category:Wikis]]
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• Who helped Lawrence of Arabia shape the Arab Revolt
  ...en Few who Shaped the Arab Revolt]'' ([https://global.oup.com/academic/?cc=us&lang=en& Oxford University Press], 2018) ...ved in 1962 by the epic film Lawrence of Arabia. The hype should not blind us to the fact that Lawrence’s contribution to the Arab Revolt of 1916-18 ag
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• How did the workweek develop
  ...ncient work weeks, see: Zerubavel, E. (1989). <i>The seven-day circle: the history and meaning of the week</i>. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. </ref> ...any businesses stay viable during a very difficult economic period for the US and the world. By 1940, what solidified the modern weekend in the United St
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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
  ...hings, of interfering in the 2016 US presidential election. Meanwhile, the US has a long track record of using the CIA to overthrow governments abroad. I There are numerous ways to write secret history—and challenge government secrecy. Most importantly, more exists in the ar
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• Why was it difficult to punish the police for brutality during the Gilded Age
  ...liar today to August 1900 and one of the worst race riots in New York City history. On an Eighth Avenue corner in midtown, an African-American man challenged ...ion of labor unions and political radicals, though occasionally still with us, is no longer understood as central to the “police power.”
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• What was the First Wave Feminist Movement
  ...on, see: Roediger, D. R., Blatt, M. H., & Lowell Conference on Industrial History (Eds.). (1999). <i>The Meaning of slavery in the North</i>. New York: Garla ...rage movement in the UK, see: Pankhurst, E. S. (2015). <i>SUFFRAGETTE: the history of the women’s militant suffrage movement</i>. Dover Children's.</ref>
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• Why was the United States the first country to establish National Parks
  ...what might be described as “nature recreation” has a long and storied history in many of the ancient civilizations of the world. Royal forests, sacred g ...” and the protection of wild places is the distinguishing feature in the history of intensive management for the purposes of recreation and the relative hum
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• What were the historical events that led to the United States involvement in the Vietnam War
  ...r 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 November of 19 ...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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• What did Achilles do in the Trojan War and how important was he in Greek culture
  ...e siege of Troy. The Aethiopis, a lost epic known only in fragments, tells us that the Amazons joined the Trojans after the death of Hector. The Queen of ...orks are now lost. He was revered by many of the greatest figures in Greek history. He was the embodiment of the great warrior and, in many ways, was the idea
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• Why did Andrew Jackson want to destroy the Bank of the United States
  ...in 1836, President Martin Van Buren was left to pick of the pieces of the US economy after the collapsed in 1837. - https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/andrew-jackson-shuts-down-second-bank-of-the-u-s
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• What is the history of vaccinations
  ...al authorities in recent history. However, vaccinations have now been with us for more than 200 years, and ever since the discovery that there were ways ...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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• What Events Led to the Vietnam War - From Partition to the Viet Cong
  ...was active in trying to find an opportunity to overthrow Diem because the US did not believe he could control the country, especially in the face of com ...aced with the escalating war with the north. Diem held on to power and the US as an ally, but for how long was becoming a more pressing question each mon
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• Why did Five Arab states attack Israel after its creation in 1948
  * Republished from [https://history.state.gov/| Office of the Historian, United States Department of State] ...nes/1945-1952/arab-israeli-war| The Arab-Israeli War of 1948] and [https://history.state.gov/milestones/1945-1952/creation-israel| Creation of Israel, 1948]
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• What did Commodore Robert W. Shufeldt accomplish during his worldwide trip between 1878-1880
  * Republished from [https://history.state.gov/| Office of the Historian, United States Department of State] * Article: [https://history.state.gov/milestones/1866-1898/commodore-shufeldt| Commodore Robert W. Shuf
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• What was the Second Wave Feminist Movement
  ...598cf2d3940b8f On Gender, Labor, and Inequality, Working Class in American History]</i>. Urbana, Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2016. Pg. 83.</ref> ...rspectives on Second-Wave Feminism in the United States, Women in American History].</i> Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008.</ref>
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• How historically accurate is the movie The Post
  ...papers and Katharine Graham, who was the first female publisher of a major US newspaper. ...t in Vietnam and how it cannot be won. However, after arriving back in the US, McNamara gives a glowing review of the war effort. Daniel Ellsberg had gon
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• How did hot dogs develop into a popular food
  ...t use of meat remains after the processing of meat products. The hot dog's history is often seen or attributed to German origins, but there is a dispute about ...rms used to refer to sausages, see: Kraig, B. (2009). <i>Hot dog: a global history</i>. London: Reaktion Books. </ref>
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• Why did the United States pass and then repeal the constitutional amendment prohibiting alcohol
  ...o the 20th century as part of the Progressive Movement. For much of human history, access to clean drinking water presented a significant engineering challen ...jor cities throughout the United States and Europe, including one near the US Capitol that continues to be a source of controversy. These fountains occa
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• How did the hamburger develop into a popular food
  ...e history of the 'sandwich' see: Wilson, B. (2010).<i> Sandwich: a global history</i>. London: Reaktion.</ref> ...rg, in the United States, see: mith, A. F. (2008). <i>Hamburger: a global history</i>. London: Reaktion Books, pg. 8.</ref>
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• What Did Black Politicians Accomplish during the Reconstruction Era
  ...enewed interest. It has become a critical period to study because it helps us understand the nature of political representation and the nature of democra ====How the History Has Been Told====
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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 The Federalists shaped much of US politics and political development in the 1790s. During this time, they beg
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• Why did the Weimar Republic Collapse
  In 1929 the Great Depression was triggered by a massive US stock market crash. Counterproductive and damaging economic policies exacer ...:Economic History]] [[Category:World War One History]][[Category:Political History]]
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• What were the consequences of Alexander the Great's invasion of India
  ...356-323 BC) is widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest conquerors in history and the equal of any general who has ever lived. He campaigned successfully ...king Demeter 1 conquered a large area of Afghanistan.<ref>Singh, Upinder A History of Ancient and Early Medieval India: From the Stone Age to the 12th Century
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• How did climate change influence ancient Chinese societies?
  ...all, see: Brooke, J. L. (2014). <i>Climate Change and the Course of Global History</i>. West Nyack: Cambridge University Press, pg. 295.</ref> ...g and Zhou rivalries, see: Marks, R. (2012). <i>China: its environment and history</i>. Lanham, Md: Rowman & Littlefield.</ref>
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• What Are the Origins of the Sasanian Empire
  ...chaemenid dynasties in their use and acceptance of religion, language, and history, which ultimately made the dynasty strong enough to resist outside forces. ...e Sasanian Dynasty came chronologically just after the Parthian in Persian history, the former’s homeland was much closer to the Achaemenid homeland, which
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• Top Ten History of Voting Rights Booklist
  ...egalhistoryblog.blogspot.com/ Legal History Blog] of the best books on the history of election law and voting rights. Over the last few years, this booklist h ...0&linkId=648d7b6d22fcf31776a45993480a9b84 The Right To Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States] (Basic Books, 2000)
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• Why was the Turner Thesis abandoned by historians
  ...nt westward explain American development.” (<i>The Frontier in American History</i>, Turner, p. 1.) Jackson believed that westward expansion allowed Ameri ...nored. During the mid-twentieth century, most people lost interest in the history of the American West.
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• The Other Founders by Saul Cornell - Book Review
  ...US Early Republic]] [[Category: Legal History]] [[Category: United States History]]
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• Where Did Different Christmas Traditions Come From
  Perhaps among the best-known traditions for many of us is Santa Claus or Father Christmas in some countries. Saint Nicholas is the ...Claus. What made modern Santa Claus was the 1821 poem that is now know to us as 'The Night Before Christmas,' which characterizes the figure, describes
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• Where Did the Tradition Of Death Photography Emerge From
  ...ent traditions did begin to emerge in Europe and the United States. In the US, families began to take photos and put them in boxes or mantels that would ...f dead celebrities or famous people. This, in a way, is similar or reminds us of our more common display of the diseased in photography in the past.
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• Where Did the Tradition Of Greeting Cards Develop
  ...today, and giving them to friends or acquaintances seems second nature to us. How did this tradition develop? As one might expect, greeting cards develo ...roduced greeting cards and use in Christmas, see: Buday, G. (1992). <i>The history of the Christmas card</i>. Detroit: Omnigraphics. </ref>
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• What is the history of New Year Resolutions
  ...utions are often not kept. While this seems to us as an annual ritual, the history of New Year resolutions is ancient and, just like today, people in the dist ====Early History====
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• How accurate is the movie J. Edgar
  ...ellian operator, who used the fear of communism to secure his power in the US.<ref> Gentry, p. 318</ref> 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
  Soon, Britain began attacking US merchant ships and impressing United States merchant sailors into the Briti ...s with Britain and France ramped up as both countries refused to honor the US's neutral status. Both countries boarded American merchant ships, impressed
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• What is the history of contested presidential elections in the United States
  ...president himself. Contested presidential elections have been a part of US history, and in the 19th century, they were more common. In many cases, it has ofte ...hn Adams and John Quincy Adams</i>, Wiley-Blackwell companions to American history. Wiley-Blackwell, A John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Publication, Malden, MA.</ref>
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• What was the Geneva Naval Conference of 1927
  * Republished from [https://history.state.gov/| Office of the Historian, United States Department of State] ...States History]] [[Category:20th Century History]] [[Category:Diplomatic History]]
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• How did Europe pay off their debts to the United States after World War I
  * Republished from [https://history.state.gov/| Office of the Historian, United States Department of State] ...e Young Plan, German Reparations, and Inter-allied War Debts] and [https://history.state.gov/milestones/1921-1936/foreword| 1921–1936: Interwar Diplomacy]
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• Who was Asclepius: Greek god of medicine
  ...any shrines and sanctuaries to this deity. Understanding this god can help us understand not only ancient beliefs but also the evolution of medicine. ...the foundation of modern ideas about medicine. The myths of Asclepius help us to understand what the ancient thought about medicine and health. Medical t
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• The American Political Tradition - Book Review
  ...e oft-mentioned-but-rarely-observed “educated general interest reader of history” 70 years after its publication. Trends in historiography may have left H Hofstadter portrays the giants of US political history as men of their time and place, who were nonetheless caught up in circumsta
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• Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin and the Great Depression - Book Review
  ...r analysis, Brinkley called the book “comparative biography as political history,” an attempt to use the lives of several people to illuminate larger tren ...n who struggled against economic changes too advanced to be reversed helps us understand why two of the most promising would-be demagogues ultimately wer
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• Why was South Vietnam's President Ngo Dinh Diem assassinated in 1963
  ...that were ferrying in the ARVN troops. The communist forces shot down five US helicopters and damaged ten others. It was a boost in morale to the Viet C ...s point. Though it was more of a quid pro quo than originally thought (the US agreed to pull missiles from Turkey in exchange for the Cuban missiles bein
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• The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History - Book Review
  ...story.jpg|left|250px|thumbnail|<i>The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History - Book Review</i> ed. Gary W. Gallagher and Alan T. Nolan]]__NOTOC__ ...ructed by numerous historians in "The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History." Edited by Gary Gallagher and the late Alan Nolan, this collection of ess
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• Chants Democratic and A City in the Republic - Book Reviews
  ...sociate with machine politics, we must look further back in American urban history than the arrival of the immigrants or the ascent of the Irish to political ...egory:Book Review]][[Category:19th Century History]] [[Category: Political History]][[Category:Videri.org]]
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• Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in a Frontier Exchange Economy: The Lower Mississippi Valley Before 1783 - Book Review
  ...rates that the idea of the Old South of both postwar and colonial southern history should not obscure historians views of the Deep South before Americans colo ...w the 31st parallel to Spain and everything else east of the MS to the new US. The period between these treaties set the stage for more dramatic changes
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• How did the United States and USSR react to the Francis Gary Powers U2 incident
  {{#dpl:category=Cold War History|ordermethod=firstedit|order=descending|count=6}} * Republished from [https://history.state.gov/| Office of the Historian, United States Department of State]
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• How did Comedy develop overtime
  ...origins in ancient periods. Comedians from the ancient Greeks are known to us, but there is evidence that mass or even organized comedy was likely develo ...seem to deal with flatulence. One of the earliest comedic stories known to us may not have been performed to the masses but seems to have been written fo
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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 ...rge III established the Proclamation of 1763. During this time in American history legitimization by the hegemonic sovereignty was critical as the continent w
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• How Has the Mexico-US Border Changed in History
  ...r itself has changed as the two countries evolved. The border reflects the history between the two countries, that has sometimes been hostile while other time ...Western United States and modern Mexico. The first few decades of Mexico's history were turbulent, as a struggle for power between conservatives, who wanted a
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• How have the relations between the United States of America and Russia changed since 1776
  ...atherine to supporting the new United States.<ref>For more on early Russia-US relations, see: Saul, Norman E. 1991. <i>Distant Friends: The United State ...he Cold War period, see: Westad, Odd Arne. 2017. <i>The Cold War: A World History</i>. London: Allen Lane. </ref>
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• What is the history of presidential transitions in the United States
  ...800.jpg|thumbnail|left|400px|Figure 1. Thomas Jefferson becoming the third US President, which John Adams helped ensure by not contesting the ultimate de ...in a few cases, some of the transitions were awkward or even hostile. The history of transitions has also sometimes set precedent followed to this day.
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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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• What is the history of impeachment in the United States
  ...lleged crime has been committed by an official, often during their tenure. History also shows that it is possible to remove an official for a crime committed ...ight and decision. The Senate did remove him anyway, but during this early history of the United States, the Senate wanted more separation from the House.<ref
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• How did higher education develop in the United States
  ...of universities in the United States is relatively recent, with the early history of higher education often dominated by a few universities that were very pa ...ndowments, although funding also came from local legislative bodies in the US colonies. Higher education was seen as unnecessary for most at this time, w
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• How did the United States Escalate the Vietnam War
  After the clash of US forces and North Vietnamese forces in the Gulf of Tonkin and the North Viet ...of 1965, the ambassador to South Vietnam, Maxwell Taylor, did not advocate US ground troops' deployment into the country. Instead, he supported actions t
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• How Did Alexander the Great Die
  ...in the Greek speaking world and preparing for the greatest invasion in the history of the world until that time. He left Macedon with his army in 334 BC and w ...d been destroyed by Alexander." <ref> Diodorus Siculus. <i> The Library of History.</i> Translated by C. Bradford Welles. (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard U
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• How did Boccaccio influence the Renaissance
  ...of humanism, and new forms of cultural expression, all of which influence us to this day. There are many important figures in this era which lasted roug ...al breakdown.<ref> Bowsky, William M. The Black Death: A Turning Point in History (Holt Rinehart & Winston, New York, 1971), p. 13</ref>
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• What is the History of US Presidential Scandals
  ...hard to believe even, yet the American public has often been forgiving, as history shows. ...ly angered France, the ally of the United States, and led to a split among US politicians, with Jefferson accusing Washington of treason.
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• Top Ten Books on The Medici Family during the Renaissance
  A dazzling history of the modest family which rose to become one of the most powerful in Europ ...temporaries with his prodigious talents and magnetic personality. Known to history as Il Magnifico (the Magnificent), Lorenzo was not only the foremost patron
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• Top Ten Books on the Bubonic Plague
  ...ages in Europe when one in three people were killed. Not surprisingly, the history of the bubonic plague itself is much longer. These books describe the impac ...gue finally ended, more than 25 million people were dead. Weaving together history, microbiology, ecology, jurisprudence, theology, and epidemiology, Justinia
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• What was Blitzkrieg and Who Created it
  {{#dpl:category=World War Two History|ordermethod=firstedit|order=descending|count=8}} ...tobiography Achtung Panzer! Guderian was indeed an essential figure in the history of the panzer forces, but he exaggerated his role. And while there was some
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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 ...endless wars. An examination of Romano-British and Celtic culture can help us understand the inspiration for the story about the gallant knights. Arthur
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• Federalist Number 1 - Introducing the Constitution's Goals
  ...them to suspicion) into interested or ambitious views. Candor will oblige us to admit that even such men may be actuated by upright intentions; and it c ...of zeal for the firmness and efficiency of government. History will teach us that the former has been found a much more certain road to the introduction
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• Why was George Washington's Farewell Address in 1796 Significant
  ...abuse it, which predominates in the human heart, is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of this position. The necessity of reciprocal checks in the ex ...ducation on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious prin
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• Why did the United States Continental Congress approve The Model Treaty of 1776
  [[File: US Navy 031029-N-6236G-001 A painting of President John Adams (1735-1826), 2nd {{#dpl:category=United States History|ordermethod=firstedit|order=descending|count=6}}
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• The Federalist Papers - Number 67
  ...ity and splendor to those of a king of Great Britain. He has been shown to us with the diadem sparkling on his brow and the imperial purple flowing in hi ...tion of the clauses, and to the obvious meaning of the terms, will satisfy us that the deduction is not even colorable.
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• Why did the Continental Congress adopt the Articles of Confederation
  ...that we the undersigned delegates, by virtue of the power and authority to us given for that purpose, do by these presents, in the name and in behalf of {{#dpl:category=Colonial American History|ordermethod=firstedit|order=descending|count=15}}
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• How did the Treaty of Paris of 1783 end the American Revolution
  {{#dpl:category=Colonial American History|ordermethod=firstedit|order=descending|count=9}} * Republished from [https://history.state.gov/| Office of the Historian], United States Department of State
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• Why did the Continental Congress draft and sign the Declaration of Independence
  ...stems of government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the estab He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies, without the consent of our legislature
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• What was the purpose of the Committee of Secret Correspondence during the American Revolution
  {{#dpl:category=Colonial American History|ordermethod=firstedit|order=descending|count=10}} * Republished from [https://history.state.gov/| Office of the Historian, United States Department of State] and
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• Why did the United States buy the Gadsden Purchase in 1854
  ...-arizona-us-border-between-arizona-and-mexico.jpg|left|300px|thumbnail|The US/Mexico Border in Nogales along the Southern border of the Gadsden Purchase] ====Mexico demanded monetary compensation for US failures====
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• What caused the French and Indian War
  {{#dpl:category=Colonial American History|ordermethod=firstedit|order=descending|count=7}} Republished from the [https://history.state.gov/ Office of the Historian, United States Department of State]
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• Why did France side with the American Colonies during the American Revolution
  * Republished from [https://history.state.gov/| Office of the Historian, United States Department of State] * Article: [https://history.state.gov/milestones/1776-1783/french-alliance| French Alliance, French Ass
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• The Federalist Papers - Number 2
  ...ts have hitherto prevailed among all orders and denominations of men among us. To all general purposes we have uniformly been one people each individual ...may be so considered and examined. Experience on a former occasion teaches us not to be too sanguine in such hopes. It is not yet forgotten that well-gro
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• The Federalist Papers - Number 3
  ...e comes first in order, it is proper it should be the first discussed. Let us therefore proceed to examine whether the people are not right in their opin ...them, except Prussia, are maritime, and therefore able to annoy and injure us. She has also extensive commerce with Portugal, Spain, and Britain, and, wi
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• The Federalist Papers - Number 4
  ...and India, we interfere with more than one nation, inasmuch as it enables us to partake in advantages which they had in a manner monopolized, and as we ...and the enterprise and address of our merchants and navigators, will give us a greater share in the advantages which those territories afford, than cons
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• The Federalist Papers - Number 5
  ...uld invite dangers from abroad; and that nothing would tend more to secure us from them than union, strength, and good government within ourselves. This ...is the one with which we are in general the best acquainted, and it gives us many useful lessons. We may profit by their experience without paying the p
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• The Federalist Papers - Number 6
  ...h of the fallacy and extravagance of those idle theories which have amused us with promises of an exemption from the imperfections, weaknesses and evils [[Category: US History Documents]] [[Category: Historical Documents]] [[Category: Federalist Pap
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• Top Ten Books on the History of Reconstruction
  ...ction in America 1860–1880</i> has justly been called a classic. Du Bois history undermined the previous historical works on Reconconstruction written by hi ...oner's "masterful treatment of one of the most complex periods of American history" (New Republic) redefined how the post-Civil War period was viewed. <i>Reco
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• Why did the United States fail to support the Haitian Revolution of 1801 against France
  {{#dpl:category= History of the Early Republic|ordermethod=firstedit|order=descending|count=6}} * Republished from [https://history.state.gov/| Office of the Historian, United States Department of State]
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• How did the Citizen Genet Affair derail relations between the United States and France
  ====The Impact of the French Revolution on US Foreign Policy==== ====Genêt Seeks to Outfit French Privateers in US Ports====
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• How did the United States react to the French Revolution
  {{#dpl:category=French History|ordermethod=firstedit|order=descending|count=6}} * Republished from [https://history.state.gov/| Office of the Historian, United States Department of State]
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• How did the XYZ Affair lead to the Quasi-War between France and the United States
  ====US diplomats respond to French Piracy==== * 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
  ====In 1939, the US and USSR were Enemies not Allies==== ====US and USSR forge an uneasy alliance====
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• Why did the Philippine American War of 1899-1902 start
  [[File:1899UStroops.jpg|thumbnail|left|250px|US Troops dug in during the Philippine-American War in 1899]] * Republished from [https://history.state.gov/| Office of the Historian, United States Department of State]
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• The Federalist Papers - Number 7
  ...nts of a federal constitution, we have had sufficient experience to enable us to form a judgment of what might be expected if those restraints were remov ...lated the earth have sprung from this origin. This cause would exist among us in full force. We have a vast tract of unsettled territory within the bound
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• The Federalist Papers - Number 8
  ...to the lot of all neighboring nations not united under one government, let us enter into a concise detail of some of the consequences that would attend s ...iderable. The history of war, in that quarter of the globe, is no longer a history of nations subdued and empires overturned, but of towns taken and retaken;
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• The Federalist Papers - Number 9
  ...s with a transient and fleeting brilliancy, they at the same time admonish us to lament that the vices of government should pervert the direction and tar {{#dpl:category=Colonial American History|ordermethod=firstedit|order=descending|count=7}}
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• The Federalist Papers - Number 11
  ...ally indicate the policy of fostering divisions among us, and of depriving us, as far as possible, of an ACTIVE COMMERCE in our own bottoms. This would a ...hange in the system of Britain, because she could prosecute her trade with us through the medium of the Dutch, who would be her immediate customers and p
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• The Federalist Papers - Number 12
  ...e remarks have any foundation, that state of things which will best enable us to improve and extend so valuable a resource must be best adapted to our po ...ould have extensive connections of foreign trade. The passage from them to us, in a few hours, or in a single night, as between the coasts of France and
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• The Federalist Papers - Number 13
  ...trengthened by another supposition, more probable than that which presents us with three confederacies as the alternative to a general Union. If we atten [[Category: US History Documents]] [[Category: Historical Documents]] [[Category: Federalist Pap
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• The Federalist Papers - Number 14
  ...we may form a juster estimate with regard to this interesting subject, let us resort to the actual dimensions of the Union. The limits, as fixed by the t ...wild of all projects, the most rash of all attempts, is that of rendering us in pieces, in order to preserve our liberties and promote our happiness. Bu
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• The Federalist Papers - Number 15
  ...our national system, and that something is necessary to be done to rescue us from impending anarchy. The facts that support this opinion are no longer o ...achments? The imbecility of our government even forbids them to treat with us. Our ambassadors abroad are the mere pageants of mimic sovereignty. Is a vi
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• The Federalist Papers - Number 16
  ...at of all the confederacies of antiquity, which history has handed down to us, the Lycian and Achaean leagues, as far as there remain vestiges of them, a ...o inquire how far so odious an engine of government, in its application to us, would even be capable of answering its end. If there should not be a large
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• The Federalist Papers - Number 17
  ...lly possess over the people; a circumstance which at the same time teaches us that there is an inherent and intrinsic weakness in all federal constitutio {{#dpl:category=Colonial American History|ordermethod=firstedit|order=descending|count=6}}
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• The Federalist Papers - Number 18
  ...deliberations, vigorously opposed and defeated the attempt. This piece of history proves at once the inefficiency of the union, the ambition and jealousy of ...as it is called, was another society of Grecian republics, which supplies us with valuable instruction.
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• The Federalist Papers - Number 19
  The history of Germany is a history of wars between the emperor and the princes and states; of wars among the p {{#dpl:category=Colonial American History|ordermethod=firstedit|order=descending|count=6}}
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• Why did the United States go to war against the Barbary States in 1815
  ====US Government negotiated Tribute payments to Algiers==== ====US negotiates treaty with Barbary States and eliminates Tribute====
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• Why did the war between Britain and Napoleon's France led to the War of 1812?
  ====Britain blockades France and seizes US ships==== ====US declares war against Britain in 1812====
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