Was Britain Ready to Let Go of its American Colonies?: British Ambivalence...
The Revolutionary War is generally taught as the first American underdog story. It is the original Rocky; except in this saga, Philadelphia is filled with red, white, and blue flags, instead of...
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On a standard map of the United States, Hawaii sits in the bottom left corner in a box next to Alaska. It would seem that the islands are as close to the Southwest as Cuba is to Florida. These maps...
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EARLY AFRICAN HISTORY The Neolithic Revolution and Bantu Origins Jan Vansina, “New Linguistic Evidence and the ‘Bantu Expansion,’” Journal of African History 36, no. 2 (1995): 173-195. Christopher...
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On Independence Day, you won’t see Americans toast the United States with mugs of tea. Hot weather aside, tea is the villain of Fourth of July celebrations.While the holiday honors the Declaration of...
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