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Evangelizing For The American Way: The Professed Mission Of Harding Under George S. Benson’S Presidency, Laren Houstoun
Evangelizing For The American Way: The Professed Mission Of Harding Under George S. Benson’S Presidency, Laren Houstoun
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Creating A New World: A Historiography Of The Atlantic World, Sam Traughber
Creating A New World: A Historiography Of The Atlantic World, Sam Traughber
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Atlantic History, the study of the transatlantic connections between Western Europe, the Americas, and West Africa during the early modern period, has grown in use and popularity in recent years. This paper follows the historiography of the Atlantic World from a 1917 article in The New Republic to the publication of a popular history on the subject with Charles C. Mann’s 2011 book 1493. It discusses developments and contributions from a wide variety of scholars including political historians, economic historians, social historians, biological historians, historiographers, and geographers as well as the influence of the transatlantic nature of the Cold War …
The General And The Diplomat: Comparing Andrew Jackson And John Quincy Adams On The Issue Of Florida And The Transcontinental Treaty Of 1821, Samuel Aly
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John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson both played critical, contradictory roles in the long, arduous saga of the accession of Florida which culminated in 1821 with the Adams-Onís treaty, a story which examines the development of republican sentiment on issues such as slavery, Indian relations, and foreign policy.