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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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Is the movie Dunkirk historically accurate
...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 ...ng too much on British involvement. Dunkirk has a special place in British history, and the success of Operation Dynamo helped to save the country from the Ge

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How Did Thomas Francis Meagher Really Die
...penchant for alcohol. The possibility of this strong, Catholic man with a history of perseverance committing suicide is less likely but is not without merit ...ith Meagher further increased when Meagher advocated for voting rights for African-American war veterans and denounced the poor treatment of Native-Americans in the re

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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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Working Toward Whiteness by David Roediger - Book Review
...s. He recasts immigrant “ethnic” history as a part of American racial history, examines the in-between nature of the immigrants’ race and explains how ...60s. He essentially recasts immigrant history in terms of American racial history.

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How Did Art Propagate Slavery in 19th Century America
...Slavery,” (1857), quoted in Eric Foner, ''Give Me Liberty!: An American History'', vol. 1, 2nd ed. (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2009), 390.</ref>He be ...y:United States History]] [[Category:19th Century History]] [[Category:Art History]]

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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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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 Emperor Septimius Severus change the Roman Empire
...e of the better known Roman Emperors, was one of the most important in the history of Rome. He was a very capable man, a successful administrator, and an exce {{#dpl:category=Roman History|ordermethod=firstedit|order=descending|count=7}}

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The Treaty of Versailles: A Concise History by Michael S. Neiberg - Book Review
...inkId=9187758485abe727318e423b124b3f79 The Treaty of Versailles: A Concise History] by Michael S. Neiberg (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017) offers ...itain, of equal importance, however; is the reinforcement of the idea that history cannot escape itself. The Paris Peace Conference was, in part, an event by

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How Did the Nubians Impact Ancient Egypt
...> Smith, p. 64</ref> Egypt was clearly the stronger state at that point in history and influenced Nubia much more culturally than the other way around. For in ...y. “The Eighteenth Dynasty before the Amarna Period.” In The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt. Edited by Ian Shaw. (Oxford, Oxford University Press,

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United States History Study Guide
====American Colonial History==== {{#dpl:category=Colonial American History|ordermethod=firstedit|order=descending|count=30}}

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American Civil War Study Guide
*[[19th Century Overview of United States History Top Ten Booklist]]

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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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Why was the First Heart Transplant a Failure
...cts that survived typically only lived a few hours.<ref>Ellis, Harold A History of Surgery, (Cambridge University Press, 2002) p. 247.</ref> ...he chimpanzee heart simply could not support a human body.<ref>Ellis, A History of Surgery, p. 247.</ref>

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Why was it difficult to punish the police for brutality during the Gilded Age
...riots in New York City history. On an Eighth Avenue corner in midtown, an African-American man challenged a plainclothes cop over the arrest of his girlfriend for... ...:United States History]][[Category:Gilded Age]][[Category:African American History]][[Category:Wikis]]

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Did Christianity Positively Impact the Civil Rights Movement
...red to a specific role of the church and the nation of Israel in salvation history. King’s rejection of this theological position was crucial in understandi ...ious History]][[Category:African American History]][[Category:Civil Rights History]]

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How did Rome benefit from the destruction of Carthage in 146 BC
The final defeat of Carthage in the Third Punic War transformed the history of Ancient Europe. For over a century, the Romans and the Carthaginians had ...d to a dependency of the Italian city-state.<ref>Scullard, Howard Hayes: A History of the Roman World, 753 to 146 BC (New York, Routledge, 2002), p 316</ref>

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What did Achilles do in the Trojan War and how important was he in Greek culture
...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 [[Category:Wikis]] [[Category:Ancient Greek History]] [[Category:Myths and Gods]]

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How Did the God Baal Become Popular
...cient History]] [[Category: History of the Levant]] [[Category: Religious History]][[Category:Wikis]]

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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]. Urbana, Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2016. Pg. 83.</ref> ...rspectives on Second-Wave Feminism in the United States, Women in American History]. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008.</ref>

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What Did Black Politicians Accomplish during the Reconstruction Era
The Reconstruction era of United States history has spawned renewed interest. It has become a critical period to study beca ====How the History Has Been Told====

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How did climate change influence the rise of ancient Egypt
...History]][[Category:Ancient Egyptian History]][[Category:Wikis]][[Category:History of Science]]

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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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Great Gifts for History Lovers 2018
...friends and family can be tough, but if your friend or family member loves history these suggestions may be helpful. ...t to. Custer's Trials was the winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for history.The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery, by Eric Foner (W.W.

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Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight - Book Review
...s whites employed several methods of "whitewashing" the city's culture and history. These methods included the use of cultural productions such as plays and ...in the contested area of Chavez Ravine also prove valuable. By tracing the history of the Dodgers from Brooklyn to Los Angeles, Avila illustrates the very dif

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Why was the Turner Thesis abandoned by historians
...nt westward explain American development.” (The Frontier in American History, 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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Where Did the Tradition Of Death Photography Emerge From
...Heyert is one photographer who recently created a traveling exhibition of African-American post-mortem photographs showing the deceased in their finest clothing and l {{#dpl:category=19th Century History|ordermethod=firstedit|order=descending|count=6}}

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How Historically Accurate is the movie Gangs of New York
...prostitution in the city. <ref>Czitrom, Daniel. "Gangs of New York." Labor History 44, no. 3 (2003): 301-304 </ref> Gambling and bare-knuckle boxing were com ...re were many well-known and influential gang leaders in New York. Indeed, history offers many infamous and colorful characters that could have been used by t

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How accurate is the movie J. Edgar
Fried, Albert, ed. McCarthyism: The great American red scare: A documentary history (Oxford University Press, USA, 1997). ...lly Accurate]] [[Category: 20th Century History]] [[Category:United States History]]

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What were the Klu Klux Klan and the Enforcement Acts of 1870-71
...States House of Representatives] and [https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/generic/Senate_Historical_Office.htm| The Senate Historical Office] ...s://history.state.gov/ The Enforcement Acts of 1870 and 1871] and [https://history.house.gov/Historical-Highlights/1851-1900/hh_1871_04_20_KKK_Act/ The Ku Klu

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Understanding Reconstruction - A Historiography
...Bois’s indictment served as a precursor for the explosion of revisionist history of the 1960s, which would latch onto the argument of Du Bois and refocus th Subsequent counterrevolutions have consumed many revolutions throughout history. The French Revolution ended with France in much the same state as when it

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Urban Masses and Moral Order in America: 1820-1920 - Book Review
...ategory:Political History]][[Category:Book Review]][[Category:19th Century History]][[Category:Videri.org]]

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How the Irish Became White - Book Review
...Blacks attempting to defend themselves against violence in this period of history often provoked an even greater backlash. White people, by contrast, did hav ...ish Became White'', ignore troubled race relations to discover a “usable history” to guide new labor movements. In particular, Ignatiev criticizes their f

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North of Slavery: The Negro in the Free States: 1790 – 1860 - Book Review
...ights, but they only accounted for some six percent of the entire northern African-American population. Several northern states prohibited African-Americans from testi {{#dpl:category=African American History|ordermethod=firstedit|order=descending|count=12}}

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Race Relations in the Urban South: 1865-1890 - Book Review
...he Black Codes, many of which did not specifically mention race, regulated African-American life in the South in ways that ranged from prohibiting interracial marriage ...ook Review]] [[Category:United States History]][[Category:African American 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 ...gory:Videri.org]] [[Category:Historiography]] [[Category:Colonial American History]]

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Top Ten Books from the Oxford Battle Series
...es themselves but how they were commemorated and their long term impact on history. The books try to understand not just how the battle took place, but why th Why is Agincourt one of the best known and celebrated battles in history? What made it remarkable? Like many of the battles in the series, the legen

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How did the wars of the Byzantine Emperor Justinian, change history
...abitants regarded themselves as Romans. One of the greatest figures in the history of this Empire is the Emperor Justinian (483-565). He is regularly known as ...d made the Emperor unpopular in some circles.<ref>Procopius, The Secret History, translated by Anthony Kaldellis (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing, 201

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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 early history of the United States Supreme Court
...has at times maintained a level of independence as envisioned early in its history. <ref>For more on the partial leanings of the Court, see: Baum, L. (2017). ...these have been continually interpreted and applied differently during the history of the United States.

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Did the Carthaginians Really Practice Human Child Sacrifice
...of gaping pit filled with fire. <ref> Diodorus Siculus. The Library of History. Translated by C.H. Oldfather. (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard Unive The history of Canaanite and Phoenician child sacrifice along with Diodorus’ above ac

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Top Ten Books on the History of Reconstruction
...ction in America 1860–1880 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. Reco

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Why did the United States fail to support the Haitian Revolution of 1801 against France
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How did the Civil Rights Movement Begin
...tory. It is one subject that is almost universally encountered in American history classrooms. While the general narrative of protest leading to massive chang As stated in [[What is the History of Civil Rights Legislation in the United States?]], much of what constitut

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Why was the French Foreign Legion Created
====History of the French Foreign Legion==== ...rce of mercenaries in their army.<ref> Geraghty, Tony. March or Die: A New History of the French Foreign Legion (London, Putnam Press, 1987), p. 6</ref>

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Why did the United States go to war against the Barbary States in 1815
* Republished from [https://history.state.gov/| Office of the Historian, United States Department of State] * Article: [https://history.state.gov/milestones/1801-1829/barbary-wars | Barbary Wars, 1801–1805 and

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What was the United States role in founding Liberia
...le for the races to integrate and therefore did not support the idea of an African-American colony in Africa. Still, the ACS had powerful support and its colonization * Republished from [https://history.state.gov/| Office of the Historian, United States Department of State]

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What is the History of Civil Rights Legislation in the United States
...of civil rights has a much longer and complicated history. The legislative history of civil rights reveals the ways in which citizenship was broadened to not ...ances to that foundational moment like Jim Crow. As such, this legislative history remains relevant today.

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Scholarship on the Spinner Rack: Rutgers University Press’ Comics Culture Series
...lish professor at the University of Calgary and author of other comic book history monographs, examines a limited run of the Archie comics from the 1960s to c ...Persistence of an American Icon], "At any given time, or place, in his history, Superman is, and has long been, an amalgam of factors including myth, memo

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How did the Second Great Awakening change the United States
...0c-20&linkId=535b5859acd7be05fa3c47741cf68243 Give Me Liberty: An American History] (W.W. Norton & Co, 2013) ...0c-20&linkId=086e29d1726e401930768b782126c5f0 The Great Awakening: A Brief History Documents]'' (Bedford's/St. Martins Press, 2007)

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Top Ten Books on Los Angeles History
...ms of historical scholarship, Los Angeles sits at an interesting spot. Its history can be explored from Indigenous, Spanish, and American points of view, it c For those who are interested in studying the history of Los Angeles, these ten books below are a start. These ten books cover a

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Why did the United States free the African captives on the Spanish schooner Amistad
* Republished from [https://history.state.gov/| Office of the Historian, United States Department of State] * Article: [https://history.state.gov/milestones/1830-1860/amistad| The Amistad Case, 1839]

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What happened to the ark of the covenant
====The history of the ark of the covenant==== The ark is tied up with the early history of the Jewish people, and for many centuries it was the symbol of their nat

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How did the United States react to the decolonization of Africa between 1945-1960
* Republished from [https://history.state.gov/| Office of the Historian, United States Department of State] * Article: [https://history.state.gov/milestones/1945-1952/asia-and-africa| Decolonization of Asia and

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How did the World React to the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan in 1978 according to the CIA
...gory:20th Century History]] [[Category:Diplomatic History]] [[Category: US History Documents]] [[Category: Historical Documents]]

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Why did Apartheid end in South Africa in the 1990s
* Republished from [https://history.state.gov/| Office of the Historian, United States Department of State] * Article: [https://history.state.gov/milestones/1989-1992/apartheid| The End of Apartheid]

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Why did the Angola Civil War of 1974-75 turn into a Cold War battleground
* Republished from [https://history.state.gov/| Office of the Historian, United States Department of State] * Article: [https://history.state.gov/milestones/1969-1976/angola| The Angola Crisis 1974–75]

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Why did the United States support Mobutu Sese Seko's coup in Congo in 1960
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Did Woodrow Wilson state that the film The Birth of Nation was "like writing history with lightning'
...e film at the White House, Wilson reportedly stated, “It is like writing history with lightning, and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.”<r ...the scene.<ref>Melvyn Stokes, D. W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation: A History of the Most Controversial Motion Picture of All Time (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford

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How did the Phoenicians contribute to western civilization
The Phoenicians emerged in history about 1800 BC, during the Bronze Age. They occupied a narrow strip of coas ...em. This alphabet was one of the most important inventions in all of human history. It was different from hieroglyphs, used by many societies in the Levant, a

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Was 'To Kill a Mockingbird' based on real events
...lping to change attitudes to race in America at a critical juncture in its history. This book was very autobiographical, and the author based many of the char

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What is the history of how gods ruled over humanity
...-knowing and powerful god or sometimes gods. This understanding has a long history and surprisingly many faiths have taken it as given that god(s) rule over m In religious doctrines where it has been recorded spanning human history, including cases prior to the rise of modern monotheistic religions, define

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Magical Urbanism - Book Reivew
Mike Davis adds to his prolific output concerning Southern California history, especially his attention to Latino immigration and urban life. While this ...ry:Book Review]] [[Category:United States History]][[Category:20th Century History]] [[Category:Videri.org]] [[Category:Historiography]]

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Window on Freedom - Book Review
...II," by the editor, Brenda Gayle Plummer, a historian of African American History and US Foreign Relations at the University of Wisconsin. This essay mostly

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The Power of the Zoot - Book Review
...in addition to more traditional categories of electoral politics or labor history. ...d other youth cultural workers forces us to recognize that race and ethnic history in the United States Is not a story only of conflict or togetherness, but a

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What is the History of Mass Protests in the United States
...e movements have been both a positive and sometimes destructive part of US history. ...largest US history protests have occurred since 2016; however, early in US history, mass protests were vital to social and political change. Class discontent

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Who was Memnon the African hero in Greek Mythology
...was based on an unknown African king, whose name has not been recorded by history. Still, the Greeks were made aware of his achievements by tales spread by m ...undermine the narrative that Africans have not played an essential role in history and the development of culture.

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How did Florida become a State
...one M. Amos, Thomas P. Senter, and Rosalyn Howard. The Black Seminoles: History of a Freedom-Seeking People. Rev. ed. Gainesville: Univ. Press of Flori ...st Seminole War in Florida's history, see Wasserman, Adam. A People’s History of Florida, 1513-1876: How Africans, Seminoles, Women, and Lower Class Whit

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When Did the Nubian Kingdom of Meroe Rise to Prominence
...and nomenclature of Nubia and the Nubians varied widely throughout ancient history depending upon the people and time writing about the subject. Owing to the ...c-Roman relations. <ref> Welsby, p. 71</ref> The Meroitic Period of Nubian history finally ended in 350 when King Aezanas of Axum conquered Meroe. <ref> O’

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What is the history of the United States Capitol Building
Early in the United States' history, the Capitol Building, or United States Capitol, was authorized and built i ==Construction and Early History==

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What issues divided the United States in the 1920 election
...the gilded age and progressive era, Wiley Blackwell companions to American history. John Wiley & Sons Inc, Hoboken, pg. 368. </ref> ...eriod, see: Conlin, J.R., 2014. The American past: a survey of American history. Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, Boston, MA, pg. 640. </ref>

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