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Alan Farmer explains why the North won the American Civil War. |
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 Alan Farmer explains why the North won the American Civil War. Published in History Review, Issue: 52, 2005
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Jonathan Marwil describes the eye-opening experience of three young Americans who went to report from the battlefields of the Italian War of Independence.
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 Was Alexander Hamilton born in 1755 or 1757? He himself was confused about the year of his birth, but January 11th 1755 is currently considered the most likely date. |
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Mark Rathbone looks at the role of the Supreme Court in the history of civil rights in the USA from 1865 onwards. |
 Richard Cavendish marks the birth of the American continent's namesake, on March 9th, 1454. |
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Forty years after the fatal assassination of JFK, during which time conspiracy theories have flourished, Andrew Cook returns to the idea of the unaided assassin, and finds several twentieth-century examples.
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Bernard Porter points out similarities and contrasts between terrorism then and now. |
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 Elizabeth A. Fenn examines a little known catastrophe that reshaped the history of a continent. |
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Peter Ling analyses Martin Luther King's involvement with non-violent protest in the USA. |
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Documentary film-maker Martin Smith calls for makers of history programmes for television to reassess their standards.
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Howard Baker explains how the chance convergence of two vessels produced tragedy and disaster.
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Mark Weisenmiller shows how the fate of Al-Qaida and Taliban prisoners in Cuba is linked to a US Supreme Court decision of sixty years ago.
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Thomas S. Garlinghouse discusses the slow acceptance of archaeological evidence for sophisticated civilisation in pre-Columbian North America
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 President William McKinley was shot at a public reception during the Pan-American Exposition in the city of Buffalo on September 6th, 1901. |
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