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• British Criminal and Legal History Top Ten Booklist
  ...ions to the contrary, legal history can extraordinarily fascinating. Legal history explores the conflicts that arise from civilization. A deft legal historian If you're even remotely familiar with the field of British criminal and legal history, no doubt you've seen John Beattie’s <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/produc
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• How Did the Battle of Culloden Change British and American History
  ...also put an end to the male-line succession of the House of Stuart on the British throne. The Jacobites' primary goal was to restore the Stuart line. The Jac ...lorious Revolution, see: </ref> Massie, A. (2013) <i>The Royal Stuarts: A History of the Family that Shaped Britain</i>. New York, St. Martin’s Griffin.
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• How Did the Battle of Culloden Change British and American History?
  #REDIRECT [[How Did the Battle of Culloden Change British and American History]]
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• Top 10 Books to Read on Western/British Medical History
  ...centuries saw the advent of some of the most important medical findings in history. The Industrial Revolution had resulted in a massive change in living condi I’ve arranged this list in order from the most popular, “fun” medical history books, to the more scholarly, academic books.
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• Main Page
  ====A Great Resource for History Teachers==== * [[51 Great Online Resources for History Teachers]]
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• Why did the Egyptians Mummify their Dead
  ...carried out throughout thousands of years. The process changed throughout history, and there is no one way that the Egyptians mummified their dead. Describe ...ey were prone to disintegration.<ref> “Mummification in Egypt.” <i>The British Medical Journal</i> 1.2409 (1907): 521–521. Web. 11 Nov. 2015.</ref> In
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• What were the major United States slave revolts
  Slavery represented the opposite of freedom. In the period of human history variously known as the modern era or the Age of Discovery, this form of unf ...nder the control of the Spanish who offered enslaved Africans owned by the British freedom as a way to increase their territorial advantages in the region. Th
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• How did the Boxer Rebellion unite Imperial Powers and create Chinese Nationalism
  The Boxer Uprising (1899-1901) was a key event in the history of China, as it reflected the colonial powers increasing influence in Chine ...foreign presence in the 19th century, Duara, Prasenjit. 1995. <i>Rescuing History from the Nation: Questioning Narratives of Modern China</i>. Chicago: Unive
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• What was the Albany Plan of Union of 1754
  ...entralized government. On July 10, 1754, representatives from seven of the British North American colonies adopted the plan. Although never carried out, the A ...the Albany Plan during a larger meeting known as the Albany Congress. The British Government in London had ordered the colonial governments to meet in 1754,
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• When were Electric Cars Invented
  ...hat has some ways to go before they become common. However, electric cars' history goes back to the 19th century, as people experimented with electricity and ==The Early History of Electric Cars==
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• How did Great Britain win the French Indian War (Seven Years War)
  ...nland North America, effectively ending any foreign military threat to the British colonies there. ...esulted from ongoing frontier tensions in North America as both French and British imperial officials and colonists sought to extend each country’s sphere o
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• Why did Westward Expansion Lead to the American Revolution
  ...merous problems of how to govern it. Conflicts arose from the inability of British officials to balance the interests of colonists and Indians, which led to c ...nd the entire present-day United States east of the Mississippi came under British control. With the official end of the war, Anglo-American colonists began t
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• How Historically Accurate is the Outlaw King
  ...ot engage in any chivalrous battles with the English would never work. The British always had superior numbers and resources, but once the Bruce switched to g ...ally merged with the English kings and became the ancestors of the current British monarch. Robert the Bruce, both his ambition and bravery, were critical to
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• How accurate is the movie The Favourite
  ...of 2018. It is a historical drama set in one of the key periods of British history. It focuses on the relationship of Queen Anne of Great Britain with two of ...s it marked the end of French expansion under Louis IV and the rise of the British Empire. <ref>Coward, Barry. <i>The Stuart Age: England, 1603-1714</i> (Lond
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• What was George Washington's military experience before the American Revolution
  ...0-year old aide on an expedition with a letter informing the French of the British claims in the region. The French thanked Washington for coming, put him up ...outhwest Pennsylvania carving roads and attempting to build a fort but the British position was overrun by a larger French force. On a dark May night in 1755
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• Was Elizabeth I Justified in having her Cousin Mary Stuart, Queen of Scotland Executed
  *[[British Criminal and Legal History Top Ten Booklist]] [[Category:British History]] [[Category:English History]][[Category:History of Elizabethan Age]]
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• The Conspiracy of Free Trade: Interview with Marc-William Palen
  ...mes'', the ''Australian'', ''The Conversation'', ''Globalist Magazine'', ''History News Network'' and many others. Palen has recently published two outstandi ...so offers a timely reminder that the Republican Party was, for much of its history, the party of protectionism and imperialism. The GOP dominated the executiv
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• What Role did the Motorcycle and Harley-Davidson play in Wartime
  ...ore the bike manufacturers. With the outbreak of the Great War in 1914 the British office of the Ministry of Defence sought out William and Edwin Douglas, bro ...Davidson Motor Company. <ref>”’H-D Supports the Military,” corporate history, Harley Davidson USA, 2015</ref>
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• Why was the Construction of the Alaska Highway so important to American History
  ...<ref>Virtue, John, ''The Black Soldiers Who Built the Alaska Highway: A History of Four U.S. Army Regiments in the North, 1942-1943'', McFarland & Company, ...heast of Fairbanks, and at the southern terminus in Dawson Creek, near the British Columbia/Alberta border. In between lay 1,700 miles of sub-arctic tundra, r
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• How did eugenics develop and why did it persist into the late 20th Century
  As modern students of history, we must divorce scientific theories of the past from the unavoidable socie ...e a couple thousand years after Plato, was Francis Galton, a member of the British landed gentry and half-cousin to Charles Darwin. Charles was Francis’s ol
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• Causes of World War II Top Ten Booklist
  The second world war was the most catastrophic war in human history. The origins of the second world war in Europe are complex and controversia ...licy, which became increasingly hostile to Germany. It directly led to the British government issuing an ultimatum to Germany over Poland and this resulted in
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• What steps did Germany take to start the Second World War in Europe
  ...ations, but ultimately the primary cause of the greatest conflict in human history was National Socialist Party's ideology and Germany's aggressive policies. ...ded the first world war, is perhaps the most controversial peace treaty in history; ‘many have judged it to be too harsh and others have judged it to be not
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• What started World War One
  ...storiography of the First World War-Part I." <i>Journal of Modern European History 121</I> pp: 5-27</ref> Germany was by far the most powerful military count ...y in Continental Europe, it lacked a large colonial Empire. The French and British Empires extended over large areas of the globe. Europe strategists at the t
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• Why did the Baroque Style develop
  ...Culture of the Baroque: Analysis of a Historical Structure</i>. Theory and History of Literature, v. 25. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.</ref> ...lready popular in Britain where the Baroque style never became popular for British tastes, emphasized proportional, free-standing buildings that were geometri
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• What was the impact of the Irish Famine on Ireland and the world
  ...impact of the famine on Irish society and how it ‘decisively shaped its history and the nature of its society and economy.<ref>Donnelly, James S (2005), '' ...2002).</ref> The country was part of the United Kingdom and was ruled by a British appointed administration in Dublin Castle, who were under the London govern
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• How does The Magna Carta influence the Modern Perceptions of Civil Rights
  ...considered and recognized to be one of the most important documents in the history of democracy itself, as well as civil rights and obligations and common law ...uck: http://www.historyextra.com/feature/magna-carta-turning-point-english-history</ref> An official version of this very document was released soon afterword
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• Did the Congress of Berlin create a more unstable Europe
  ...lity or even the breakup of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in particular. The British and the French were also alarmed by the growing power of the Russians in th ...s ‘sphere of influence’ in the Mediterranean.<ref>Glenny, 78</ref> The British made clear that they would not allow the Russians access to the Bosporus. L
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• Did multi-cultural societies become widely accepted in ancient history
  ===Early History=== ...y in World History: Multidisciplinary Approaches. Studies in Global Social History, v. 3. Leiden ; Boston: Brill.</ref> In many cases, these migrations or c
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• The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact- Stalin’s greatest mistake
  ...785&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=ef7d32545f1ecdddb1c073906b750f1b A History of Germany: 1919–1945]'' (Rowman & Littlefield, London, 2000), p. 78.</re ...itler very well it had allowed him to attack first the west and defeat the British and French. When he was completed he was able to invade the Soviet Union.<r
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• How did the Versailles Treaty lead to World War Two
  ...sponse to those terms would lead to the most destructive conflict in world history - World War Two. ...presented at the treaty conference came out with some disappointments. The British goal of stability was largely subverted by revolutions across Europe and Fr
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• Why did museums develop
  ...e think of museums as areas that display the past, our culture, or natural history of our world. This certainly has developed to be the modern norm; however, ...abylon. The Schweich Lectures 1983. Oxford ; New York: Published for the British Academy by the Oxford University Press.
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• What were the goals of the Axis powers and the Soviet Union during World War Two
  ...Suez Canal in Egypt from the Italian colony Libya were largely repelled by British forces. Italy desired a string of colonies along the Adriatic coast in Yugo ...:World War Two History]] [[Category:European History]] [[Category:European History]]
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• Hodges' Scout: Interview with Len Travers
  Len Travers is professor of history at the Univesity of Massachusetts Dartmouth and he is also the author of [h [[File:A_Battle_of_the_French-Indian_War.jpg|thumbnail|250px|Ambush British soldiers during the French and Indian War]]
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• How did Joseph Stalin react to the German invasion during WWII
  ...German army conquered France without suffering appreciable losses, and the British withdrew from the continent. The Germans were astonished at how badly the S ...ews was true. The Soviet leader had also ignored all warnings from the US, British governments, and even his own intelligence officers. Economic and diplomati
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• How did Winston Churchill become Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in World War Two
  ...failed invasion of Gallipoli. Churchill later served as an officer in the British army on the western front. After the war, he joined the British Liberal Party and was to serve as the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he
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• Why Was the Battle of Antietam a Pivotal event in the American Civil War
  ...an, in Sharpsburg, Maryland. In this one poignant moment in time, American history was forever altered. If Gettysburg was the most significant battle in terms ...summer of 1862 proved to be the most hopeful for the South with regard to British and French intervention on the behalf of the CSA. Although news took ten da
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• Shantytown, USA: Interview with Lisa Goff
  ...ican Studies Program. She is also the director of the Institute for Public History. Before becoming a professor, Goff had a distinguished career as a business ...adding the evidence of the landscape to the historiography of labor, urban history, and material culture. Shantytowns are especially intriguing because they w
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• Why was France defeated in 1940
  In September 1939, the French with the British declared war on Germany after Hitler invaded Poland. For several months, th ...360,000 casualties. A further two million men were captured. Some 300,000 British and French troops escaped the Germans after being evacuated by naval forces
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• What were Joseph Stalin's goals as World War Two ended
  ...Franklin Roosevelt). Each brought his agenda to the Yalta Conference. The British wanted to maintain their empire, the Soviets wished to secure and obtain mo
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• Why did the Germans suffer a defeat at Kursk in 1943
  ...he Eastern Front during World War II. Kursk was the largest tank battle in history, and it was the last attempt by the German army to slow down the Soviet Mil ...ir western Allies<ref> George, p. 167</ref>. Despite constant demands, the British and the Americans had failed to open a ‘second front’ in western Europe
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• Engineering Victory during the Civil War: Interview with Thomas F. Army, Jr.
  ...rs win through logistics." Logistics is a fairly unsexy aspect of military history, but without good logistics armies cannot function. Are you trying to refoc ...ze its importance. The quote I use in the book succinctly states the case. British Field Marshall Archibald Percival Wavell, a veteran of the Boer War, World
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• Why did Operation Market Garden in 1944 fail
  ...hat time. The operation was a daring one, and it was the brainchild of the British General Bernard Montgomery. This operation was even the subject of the 1977 ...he Allies' supply lines were overstretched, slowing down the Americans and British in particular. The shortage of oil meant that Patton’s armored divisions
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• Thomas Jefferson, the Founding Fathers and Christianity: Interview with Sam Haselby
  ...Protestant pamphlet for every man, woman and child in the country. If the British are a people of the novel, and the French a people of the philosophical tra ...od. No divine revelation. No resurrection. Interested in science, natural history, and philosophy as substitutes and superior alternatives to religion and th
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• What Were the Motives of the Irish in the American Civil War
  ...temperate, and barbarian.’”<ref>Jay P. Dolan, ''The Irish Americans: A History'' (New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2008), 62.</ref>Most Irishmen in the U.S. we ...> This exacerbated the feelings of animosity held by the Irish towards the British Empire and also to the strong feelings of advocacy they had regarding slave
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• How did hunting become a symbol of the royalty
  ...he Assyrian palace at Nineveh, dead lions and a lioness, about 645-635 BC, British Museum (12255284476).jpg|thumbnail|left|A lion hunt scene shown dead lions ...on ancient royal hunting in India, see: Sen, S. N. (1999). Ancient Indian history and civilization. New Delhi: New Age International, pg. 134.</ref> In fact,
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• How did hunting become a symbol of the aristocracy/royalty
  ...he Assyrian palace at Nineveh, dead lions and a lioness, about 645-635 BC, British Museum (12255284476).jpg|left|thumbnail|Figure 1. A lion hunt scene shown d ...on ancient royal hunting in India, see: Sen, S. N. (1999). Ancient Indian history and civilization. New Delhi: New Age International, pg. 134.</ref> In fact,
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• American Revolution Top Ten Booklist
  ...The successful fight for independence has had a remarkable impact on world history over the past 200 years. The United States gradually transformed itself fro ...ive on the Revolution they also to see and think about aspects of American history that we never considered. Here's our list.
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• Why was Rommel defeated at El Alamein
  ...e the most important battles of the North African conflict. The German and British armies were led two of their most capable commanders, Erwin Romel and Berna ...itish and French defeats in 1940. This led him to order his army to attack British controlled Egypt from the Italian colony of Libya.<ref>Carell, p. 67</ref>
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• Why did the Battle of the Somme largely fail to achieve its objectives
  ...offensive was not effective and achieved very little for the allies. The British only advanced a few miles, and the German lines held. The offensive did not ...ians have argued whether the Somme was a failure or a partial success. The British and French did not secure their main objectives during the battle. Why did
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• Why did Germany not achieve victory at Verdun in 1916
  ...mselves and had only been able to continue the war with the support of the British.<ref> Clayton, p. 120</ref> ...aware of the build-up by the Germans in the area. They had been ignored by British intelligence that a German attack was imminent and had prepared for an assa
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• Nature's Path: Interview with Susan E. Cayleff
  ...are just a few of the medical sects born during this era of United States history. At the very end of the 19th Century, a new medical system called naturopat ...entury. Cayleff's book is an intriguing addition to the medical and social history of the United States.
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• British Criminal and Legal History Top Ten Booklist
  ...ions to the contrary, legal history can extraordinarily fascinating. Legal history explores the conflicts that arise from civilization. A deft legal historian If you're even remotely familiar with the field of British criminal and legal history, no doubt you've seen John Beattie’s <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/produc
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• Why did the Gallipoli Landings fail in WWI
  [[File:British_Troops_on_V_beach.JPG|thumbnail|left|300px|British Troops Ashore on "V Beach" at Camp Helles]] ...me their success.<ref> Keegan, p. 153</ref> They also managed to limit the British advances in the Persian Gulf. However, the Ottoman Empire's conflict with t
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• Privateering during the War of 1812: Interview with Faye M. Kert
  ...vateering" and explains why the dangers of piracy ultimately convinced the British to end its conflict with the United States. ...hundreds of trained men to sail them and fire their guns. Meanwhile, the British Royal Navy had hundreds of ships and men, seasoned by fighting Napoleon and
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