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John Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933) was the thirtieth president of the United States. He has become symbolic of the smug and self-satisfied conservatism that helped bring on the Great Depression. Calvin Coolidge (he dropped the John after col...
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Who Is an American?...
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The life story of Charles Dickens is, from several perspectives, a success story. Generally regarded today as one of the greatest novelists in the English language, Dickens had the unusual good fortune to have been recognized by his contem...
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Charles Francis Adams, Jr., was born in Boston on 27 May 1835, the third child and second son of Charles Francis and Abigail Brooks Adams. He was the great-grandson of John Adams, the second president of the United States, and the grandson...
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The twenty-first president of the United States, Chester Alan Arthur (1830-1886) was reputed to be one of the leading spoilsmen in American politics when he took office, but he proved to be a dignified and an able administrator. Political ...
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In general, the lives of women and the roles they played in society were very similar throughout the colonies. However, certain conditions in the Chesapeake region changed the roles of the women who lived there and created a life that was ...
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Education was at the heart of European efforts to colonize America. Whether Spanish, Portuguese, French, Dutch, or English, colonists from the Old World found success only as they adapted familiar ways of life and their own expectations t...
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The Europeans and Africans who came to the New World brought with them ideas and attitudes about religion, society, gender, race, and power. Europeans self-consciously tried to model their new societies after what they had known before, a...
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Political theory advocating community ownership of all property, the benefits of which are to be shared by all according to the needs of each. The theory was principally the work of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Their “Communist Ma...
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In March 1917, as the people of Russia demonstrated against the hunger and privations brought by World War I, the tsar of the Russian Empire gave up his throne. A provisional government took power in St. Petersburg, the imperial capital. Se...
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(May–September 1787) Assembly that drafted the Constitution of the United States. All states but Rhode Island sent delegates in response to a call by the Annapolis Convention for a meeting in Philadelphia to amend the Articles of Con...
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military expeditions, beginning in the late 11th century, that were organized by Western Christians in response to centuries of Muslim wars of expansion. Their objectives were to check the spread of Islam, to retake control of the Holy Lan...
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