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4) The Diadochi: The History of Alexander the Great's Successors and the Wars that Divided His Empire
6) Shays' Rebellion and the Whiskey Rebellion: The History and Legacy of Early America's Domestic In
8) Juneteenth: The History and Legacy of the Holiday that Commemorates the End of Slavery in the South
Inevitably, for many across the South, the news of the Emancipation Proclamation arrived slowly, and in other locales, the new was withheld entirely, sometimes by years. Slaveowners were not simply going to give up slaves, and in the wake of the Civil War and Reconstruction, others created statewide legislation to preserve the old order under a different system of semantics. Credible African American citizenship did not come in a single wave,
...The 19th century saw the rise of one of the largest, most powerful empires of the modern era. The sun never set on the British Empire, whose holdings spanned the globe, in one form or another. Its naval supremacy linked the Commonwealth of Canada with the colonies in South Africa and India, and through them trade flowed east and west. An integral but underutilized part of this vast trade network included China, a reclusive Asian kingdom closed
...Since the early days of human warfare, which may date back to the Stone Age, combatants have sought to gain an advantage through the acquisition of secret information. With the growth of technology, a parallel advantage was sought through the application of numerous types of torture. In the 19th century, the concept of manipulation was added to military tactics, an attempt to influence the minds of assassins, double agents, and world leaders alike
...A white seabird with a teal beak dappled with pink and orange colors and a set of apple-red webbed feet hops from one branch to another with all the grace of a toddler learning to take his first steps. Not far from this charming bird, the red-footed booby, a majestic lizard the size of a plump house cat with coral-pink scales and black stripes, scuttles across the earth and ducks underneath a shrub for some much-needed shade. Feet away from the
...12) Rome and Germania: The History of the Roman Empire's Conflicts and Interactions with Germanic Tribes
16) Spanish Empire in the Americas: The History of Spain's Colonization across Central America and South
20) Trade in the Ancient World: The History and Legacy of Trade in Europe, the Near East, and Africa
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