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African American History Top Ten Booklist
...etween approaches resonant in mainstream American historiography and Black history remains. The idea has always suggested that something can be gained from a 2. W.E.B. Du Bois, Black Reconstruction in America: An Essay Toward a History of the Part which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruction Democr

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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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====A Great Resource for History Teachers==== * [[51 Great Online Resources for History Teachers]]

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Gilded Age/Progressive Era History Top Ten Booklist
...s History]] [[Category:Gilded Age]] [[Category:Progressive Era]][[Category:History Booklists]]

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What were the major United States slave revolts
Slavery represented the opposite of freedom. In the period of human history variously known as the modern era or the Age of Discovery, this form of unf ...tory]] [[Category: History of the Early Republic]] [[Category:19th Century History]]

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What is the history of summer camps in the United States
The history of summer camps has in the United States has its origin in the evolution of ====Early History of Summer Camps====

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Why Was Vicksburg “The Gibraltar of the Confederacy”
...vid, Cohen, Lizabeth, Lemley, Piehl, Mel, The Brief American Pageant: A History of the Republic, Volume I: To 1877, Wadsworth Publishing, 2005, page 32 *[[Gilded Age/Progressive Era History Top Ten Booklist]]

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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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What started World War One
...storiography of the First World War-Part I." Journal of Modern European History 121 pp: 5-27</ref> Germany was by far the most powerful military count ...ory:European History]] [[Category:World War One History]][[Category:French History]]

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What Was the Significance of the Southwest in the Outcome of the Civil War
...he CSA, the Union owned 32.<ref>Eric Foner, ''Give Me Liberty: An American History,''vol.1, 2nd ed. (New York: W.W. Norton, 2009), 486.</ref>Adding to the fin ...d to Wales for the cost of $360 per ton.<ref>Thomas Sheridan, ''Arizona: A History'' (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1995), 63, 162.</ref> The Confedera

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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 ...kis]] [[Category:Civil War]] [[Category:Irish History]][[Category:Military History]]

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What is the significance of the 1968 East L.A. Walkouts
...tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=c9431f9c6cb484902ece972dde717853 North to Aztlan: A History of Mexican Americans in the United States]'', (New York: Twayne Publishers, ...Boycott and Farm Worker Justice," ''International Labor and Working Class History'', 83, (Spring, 2013): 146-153.</ref> The East L.A. School Walkouts walkout

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When Did Jackie Robinson Integrate Baseball and Why Is It Important
Jackie Robinson was the first African-American to play in major league baseball on April 15, 1947. He went 0 for 3. He rea ...reer foreshadowed his later role in civil rights. Robinson and some fellow African-American soldiers applied to Officer Candidate School(OCS). Like baseball, the Army

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Shantytown, USA: Interview with Lisa Goff
...ican Studies Program. She is also the director of the Institute for Public History. Before becoming a professor, Goff had a distinguished career as a business ...adding the evidence of the landscape to the historiography of labor, urban history, and material culture. Shantytowns are especially intriguing because they w

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Was Leni Riefenstahl a War Criminal
...world and was emotionally intimate with one of the most horrific dictators history has ever known. Leni Riefenstahl was not a war criminal. She was an arrogan ...tegory:World War Two History]] [[Category:Film History]] [[Category:German History]]

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Engineering Victory during the Civil War: Interview with Thomas F. Army, Jr.
...rs win through logistics." Logistics is a fairly unsexy aspect of military history, but without good logistics armies cannot function. Are you trying to refoc Logistics is not a sexy aspect of military history, but most professional soldiers and military historians recognize its impor

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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
...od. No divine revelation. No resurrection. Interested in science, natural history, and philosophy as substitutes and superior alternatives to religion and th ...ing other people’s faith. It’s a matter of understanding. For sure, in history many people’s ideas and actions in regard to religion remain at best opaq

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What Were the Motives of the Irish in the American Civil War
...temperate, and barbarian.’”<ref>Jay P. Dolan, ''The Irish Americans: A History'' (New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2008), 62.</ref>Most Irishmen in the U.S. we [[Category:Wikis]] [[Category:Civil War]] [[Category:Irish History]]

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Was the Destruction Perpetrated by Lincoln, Grant, and Sherman Necessary to End the Civil War
...sippi Valley for the Union.<ref>Eric Foner, ''Give Me Liberty! An American History''(New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2009), 512.</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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How Did God Influence the Wounded in the American Civil War
...f>United States Army, Surgeon General's Office, ''The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion (1861-1865),''Surgical Volume, pt.2, Case 790 ( *[[Gilded Age/Progressive Era History Top Ten Booklist]]

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American Revolution Top Ten Booklist
...The successful fight for independence has had a remarkable impact on world history over the past 200 years. The United States gradually transformed itself fro ...ive on the Revolution they also to see and think about aspects of American history that we never considered. Here's our list.

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Why was Rommel defeated at El Alamein
...ref> The first major problem was that it is recognized throughout military history that an attacker may need a numerical advantage of up to three to one, in o ...gory:European History]] [[Category:20th Century History]][[Category:German History]]

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How Did Southern Belles Help Dispel Their Own Stereotype
...Ellen Carol DuBois and Lynn Dumenil, ''Through Women’s Eyes: An American History'' (Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2005), 149.</ref> In Southern culture, ...[Category:Civil War]] [[Category:Medical History]][[Category:United States History]]

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Were Members of the Underground Railroad Criminals
...he North, through various undertakings, she was able to write her personal history. In the preface to her story——and throughout the text——she appeals ...ican, either directly or indirectly, changes the course of his society’s history. While the slave suffers, so too does the free man who does nothing, as he

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Hollywood and Communism: How Did ''The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'' Support Marxist Ideology
*[[Social History of American Medicine Top Ten Booklist]] *[[Gilded Age/Progressive Era History Top Ten Booklist]]

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Civil War Battles Top Ten Booklist
The Civil War is the most written about event in United States history. There are an extraordinary number of books covering all aspects of the war ...dvance into the North, it gave birth to the most famous speech in American history. Each of these books attempts to answer different questions about Gettysbur

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How did baseball develop
...nt, see: Williams, J. (1999) Cricket and England: A Cultural and Social History of the Inter-war Years. Sport in the global society. London ; Portlan ...seball in the early 20th century, see: Hogan, L.D. (2014) The Forgotten History of African American Baseball. Santa Barbara, California, Praeger, ABC-C

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Who integrated the NBA
...many ways professional sports was the face of race in the cultural fabric. African-American athletes competed in their own separate, but unequal, professional leagues ...and a culture of segregation had not yet hardened. But there were still no African-American players in the league when the owners convened for a player draft on April

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Why Did the Perpetrators of the Rwandan Genocide Show No Remorse
[[Category:Wikis]] [[Category:Genocide]][[Category:African History]]

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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). The Routledge History of Slavery (1. publ. in paperback). London: Routledge.</ref>. Initially

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The Red River War, 1874-1875: What Were the Events that Led to the Uprising
*[[Gilded Age/Progressive Era History Top Ten Booklist]] ...ry History]] [[Category:United States History]] [[Category:Native American History]][[Category:Reconstruction]]

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American Civil War Biographies Top Ten Booklist
...ry, the Civil War was led by some of the most renowned figures in American History. ...tegrating the contradictions of the man who may have changed the course of history.

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Why are there so many Monuments to the Confederacy across the United States
...were portrayed as victors on the field of morality, vindicated by accepted history. ...me. Through this effort, these women were able to put forward a version of history which differed from that within the official record but which many today st

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How Historically Accurate is season 1 of Versailles
====History and Key Events==== ...ntext ; Essays in Honour and Memory of Walter C. Utt. Studies in the History of Christian Traditions 156. Leiden: Brill.</ref>

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What were the impact of the military reforms of Marius on Rome
*[[What was the contribution of Pompey the Great to Roman History?]] *[[How did the Etruscans shape Roman history and society?]]

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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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Was Joel Poinsett an Agent of Empire and a Patron of Science
...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 ...modernity as motors driving these changes.”<ref> Patterson, A Social History of Anthropology in the United States, pg 1.</ref>

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2017 Organization of American Historians Book Awards
...ified historians and they highlight some of the best new books in American history for 2017. ...ward is given to an author for their first scholarly book on United States history.

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2016 Organization of American Historians Book Awards
...alified historians and who identify some of the best new books in American history for 2016. ...ward is given to an author for their first scholarly book on United States history.

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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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Great Gifts for History Lovers 2017
...r spouse. Hopefully, we can help. This is our 2017 list of great gifts for history lovers. ...st history lovers should enjoy. Here are some releases that are worth your history lovers attention. In addition to the standard paper format, some of these b

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Playing Indian by Philip Deloria
...visioned a society for boys that emphasized America’s frontier past, the history of white Americans and military order. Unsurprisingly, over time Seton’s ...oriography]] [[Category:United States History]] [[Category:Native American History]]

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The Abraham Lincoln Brigade: the Historiography of the American soldiers in the Spanish American War
...coln Brigade], stated that there had already been three generations of history written about the Lincoln Brigade by 1994. The first generation consisted o ...hard, “The Men of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade” Journal of American History, Vol. 54, No. 2. (1967) p. 335.</ref> In fact, the Soviets in Moscow m

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How were human genetics shaped by early migrations from Africa
...S.A. (2008) African Genetic Diversity: Implications for Human Demographic History, Modern Human Origins, and Complex Disease Mapping. Annual Review of Gen ...ce, see: Barbujani, G. & Bertorelle, G. (2001) Genetics and the population history of Europe. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. [Online]

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What are the Origins of the Abolitionist Movement
...has been remembered as one of the great humanitarian initiatives in modern history. Occurring as it did in a world that was rent by the slaveholding republics ...ut of those movements came many of the first abolitionist organizations in history. The second factor has to do with political economy. Slaveholding republics

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Why did African Americans join the British Army during the American Revolution
...f Liberation Historiography: African American Writers and the Challenge of History, 1794-1861]'' (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2004), ====The History of British Abolitionism====

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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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Was the Constitution Pro-Slavery
*[[American Legal History Top Ten Booklist]] *[[Why was James Willard Hurst important for legal history?]]

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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 ...Civil War. The movie focuses on Lincoln's efforts to ensure the freedom of African-American slaves, which had been promised under the Emancipation Proclamation (1863).

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