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New This Month: May 2013 (About.com European History)
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This month we extend our First World War content ahead of next year's centenary commemorations with a look at some key battles. As well as a summary page listing these key events, we look at Amiens in 1918, Cambrai...
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New This Month: April 2013 (About.com European History)
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This month we expand our Renaissance content. First up is an article about the 'Northern Renaissance', which was no less creative than the southern. Then we examine Renaissance Humanism and one of its most famous achievements: discovering the Donation of Constantine was a fake. We also look at the machine that made it all possible with Gutenberg and moveable type, and take quick looks at two interesting people, probably legends, that were connected: Procopius Waldvogel and Laurens Coster. There is also a biography of the fascinating Renaissance preacher and leader Savonarola. Finally we clarify the ...
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New This Month: March 2013 (About.com European History)
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This month we tackle a few issues regarding Britain in the twentieth century: the creation of Britain's Welfare State, the oft asked question about why Churchill lost the 1945 election ...
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New This Month: February 2013 (About.com European History)
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As well as pieces on Pope Benedict XVI and how a pope is elected, we're starting to round off our Napoleonic content with a look at the Napoleonic Code, how Napoleon managed to become an Emperor, two of his commanders in his stepson Eugène de Beauharnais and Michael Ney, and then an examination of the revolution in warfare in this era. Finally we look at one of the era's most fascinating figures, Talleyrand.
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New This Month: November 2012 (About.com European History)
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This month we return to a narrative of the Napoleonic Wars. We start by seeing how Napoleon amazed Europe with success in Italy, then follow the emperor through the failures in Egypt and the luck against the Second Coalition to the heights of glory in the Austerlitz campaign. We also look at one of his best generals in Desaix, and one of his worst in Bernadotte, as well as his first wife, Josephine. Finally we take a quick look at the League of Armed Neutrality...
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New This Month (About.com European History)
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This month, we 're looking at Napoleon's Empire itself. We take a look at the Empire, and also how he kept control of France. We also have an explanation of the Concordat, and small bios of Marshal Davout and Joseph Bonaparte. There's also a summary of the controversial execution of the Duc d'Enghein, and we prepare for the two hundredth anniversary of the war of 1812. Finally we jump to the present day as we prepare for another anniversary: the Velvet Divorce.
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New This Month (About.com European History)
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This month we begin our coverage of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. We've got an overview of the whole period, as well as an article focusing on the first of the seven European wide coalitions. Then we look at the disastrous Declaration of Pillnitz, the siege of Toulon where a certain Napoleon Bonaparte had his first success, and then his Continental System. We also add some more Russian Revolution terminology to the site: the Romanovs, Sovdepia, and proletariat. There'll be more on the war coming, but also details about the Napoleonic empire and what it was like.
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New This Month (About.com European History)
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This month our lead article is on Bletchley Park, the code breaking unit in World War 2 which experts claim cut the length of the conflict by two years. Connected to this we also look at the Enigma code machine, the British Government code school, and quick looks at Ultra and the Y-Service. If Bletchley Park helped invent the modern computer, Charles Babbage has a claim on inventing one earlier, and we look at both him and his Analytical Engine, plus Ada Lovelace, 'the first computer programmer'. There's also a look at the origins of football / soccer.
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New This Month (About.com European History)
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This month we finish off our Norman Conquest material with a look at one of the most interesting, but to British minds forgotten, belligerents: Harald Hardrada. We also consolidate the history of the Godwine family in one place: how one battle changed their fortunes! We also look at the Mary Rose, a Tudor warship given a second life in the 1980s, and the origins of the Marseillaise. We have a glossary entry on Nepmen, explain the evolution of St. Petersburg's names, and clarify autocracy and constitutional monarchy.
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New This Month: More Norman Conquest (About.com European History)
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This month we continue to look at the events in 1066 which ended with the Norman Conquest. We look at Edward the Confessor, the king whose death began the war, and two royal brothers, Harold Godwineson (who succeeded Edward and was killed during the conquest) and Tostig. We've coverage of the Battle of Stamford Bridge...
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Reservation “Capitalism” is Book of the Month on Native America Calling (Native America, Discovered and Conquered)
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I was just interviewed about my new book on the hour long radio program Native America Calling. My book Reservation "Capitalism:" Economic Development in Indian Country was published in March and was selected by Native America Calling as its Book of the Month for May.
You can listen to the program now by going to the show's archives at http://kunm.org/two-week-archive
(Type in Wednesday May 30 and 11 am to listen to the program.)
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New this Month (About.com European History)
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This month we begin coverage on the Norman Conquest of England in 1066, an event that changed the history of Western Europe permanently. We've got an article on the background, one on William the Conqueror, an overview of the whole Norman Conquest, a look at the Battle of Hastings, and quick snapshots on the battles of Fulford Gate and Val-ès-Dunes. Next month we'll tackle some of the lesser known events. We've also got a few quick pieces on Tsars and Red Guards.
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New This Month (About.com European History)
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This month I am focusing on the Falklands War of 1982. As well as an older piece on the history of European interaction with the Falklands, we now have a new narrative of the war, and a whole host of supporting glossary entries, such as those dealing with the Black Buck Raids, Constantino Davidoff, LADE and STUFT, and explanations for Tabbing and Yomping. I also take a look at the history behind the 'Keep Calm and Carry On' posters.
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Summer the Most Dangerous Month for Tudors (About.com European History)
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Historian Steven Gunn has studied nine thousand coroner's reports from the Tudor period, and concluded that the summer was the most dangerous period, not the freezing winter. Between 1558 and 1560, nearly three quarters of all fatal accidents took place in the summer, and chief to blame were outdoor accidents such as cart crashes, lethal farming methods and general horse based calamity. This BBC article has plenty of examples from Gunn's work, and the study follows on from earlier reports of unusual ways Tudors died.
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New This Month (About.com European History)
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This month I'm rounding off our World War 1 content. We look at the battle of Gallipoli, which turned into a failure for the allies, as well as examining the role of aircraft and trenches. We cover the seaborne aspect of the war with an article on the Anglo-German naval race, and one on the War at Sea itself. Finally we narrate the event which provided the final trigger, the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, and then look at the major consequences of the conflict. We've also got a glossary entry on soviets.
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Also New this Month (About.com European History)
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I've just put up some glossary entries relating to my content on Revolutionary and late Imperial Russia : one on the Okhrana, a secret police, one on the peasant villages called Mirs, and the persecuted ( and made up) class of Kulaks, and finally a look at the Zemstovs.
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New This Month (About.com European History)
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This month we have articles related to some of the events happening this year. First there is an article on the Titanic, because of the centenary commemorations, as well as a biography of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, who celebrates sixty years on the throne this year. We also review Andrew Marr's book on Elizabeth II. We look at the ancient Olympic Games, because the modern ones come to London in 2012. There's also an article on Piltdown Man, the hoax Britain's archaeologists would probably prefer to forget, a review of one of my favourite books ...
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New This Month (About.com European History)
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For this month's articles, we've gone back to Western Europe in the central middle ages. We look at the 'Angevin Empire' and two of its rulers: brothers, and Kings of England, Richard I and John. The former was famed for centuries for his martial prowess and bravery, and the latter for his failure, but the situation has changed in recent decades. We also look at one product of John's reign that still resonates: Magna Carta, or 'The Great Charter, and the brothers' mother Eleanor of Aquitaine, arguably the most powerful women in Europe during her ...
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New This Month (About.com European History)
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This month we finish looking at Yugoslavia. We have a long piece all about the Wars of the Former Yugoslavia, a conflict which has almost as many names as rival factions. We look at Serb leader Slobodan Milosevic and Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, both accused of war crimes, and explain what happened at the Srebrenica Massacre...
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New This Month (About.com European History)
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This month begins our coverage of Yugoslavia, a country which looks to have vanished from the maps of Europe for at least several generations. We have a tour through the full length of the nation's history, a look at two of the factions who fought during World War 2 - The Ustasha and the Chetniks - and a biography of Tito...
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New Content this Month (About.com European History)
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This month we continue our World War One coverage with a look at the key events on the Eastern Front, as well as tackling the reputation of one of the war's most controversial figures: Douglas Haig. There's also detail on gas and tanks, as well as a quick explanation of Mitteleuropa. In addition, it's October and that means Halloween, so I've written a piece on Countess Elizabeth Bathory, who actually existed but probably didn't kill everyone she was accused of. And she's been accused of killing a lot of people...
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Gender Matters: My Lesson for Women’s History Month (RELIGION IN AMERICAN HISTORY)
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Okay, so I am a little late to the party. It is already March 14th, and I am just getting around to my own reflections on National Women's History Month (NWHM). I even missed International Women's Day, but I think President Obama had it covered. (Historiann, the better blogger, already commented on the sausage fest that is the National Endowment Humanities Medal winners.) Timely, I am not.
The theme for NWHM this year is "Our History is Our Strength." As a historian and as a woman (I wonder why I feel the need to ...
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Women’s History Month (About.com American History)
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March is Women's History Month. The celebration of women in our society dates back to March 8, 1911 when Europe celebrated International Women's Day. Since then, the celebration has evolved over time to a the month of March instead of one particular day.
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Women’s History Month (About American History)
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