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World War II

World War II was the central event of the twentieth century. It involved all six major continents, all three of the great...

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1945 to the Present

No event proved more important to the course of modern American history than World War II. The war cast America onto the world stage as a...

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Exploration

We often speak of America as “unknown,” except to its own inhabitants, in the Middle Ages. But so, in a sense, was Europe, which hardly figured on the...

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When Christopher Columbus made his plans to sail westward across the Atlantic, he first set off across Europe to find sponsors. His brother Bartholomew went to the court of the English King Henry VII (who turned him down,...

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England on the Eve of Colonization

When James VI of Scotland and his entourage began his journey south to take up the crown of England in April of 1603, it looked as if the ancient enmity between the two realms had finally been swept away. With England’s aristocratic elite greeting their new...

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, ca. 1890. (Library of Congress P&P)

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Nineteenth-Century Feminist Writings

Contemporaries sometimes called the nineteenth century “The Woman’s Century.” Certainly it is true that there were dramatic changes in the status and...