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Thebes and the Middle Kingdom of Egypt

Hatshepsut’s Mortuary Temple – Just west of Thebes Fom Dailyhistory.org: When ancient Egyptian civilization rose from the Nile River valley, Thebes was not one of the important centers. In fact, Thebes did not become an important city until about 2160 BC, more than 1,000 years after the creation of the Egyptian state. Like many small urban centers in ancient Egypt, Thebes lingered in obscurity…

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Agriculture and Slaves: The Keystones of the Roman Economy

Wine was one of the largest agricultural products in the Roman Empire. Dionysus was the Roman God of Wine. Ancient Roman Economy from UNRV.com. For all of the glory and grandeur of Ancient Rome, the Roman economy never developed into anything terribly complex compared to modern economies. Ancient Rome was an agrarian and slave based economy whose main concern was feeding the vast number of…

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Violence in the Capitol: The Beating of Charles Sumner and Jan. 6, 2021

From Tropics of Meta – The Caning of Charles Sumner in the U.S. Senate: White Supremacist Violence in and Pixels But in the mid-nineteenth century, conditions for obtaining second-hand glimpses of dramatic public events were strikingly different. There is no Zapruder film of President Lincoln’s assassination in 1865; no hand-held video of John Wilkes Booth leaping from the presidential box at…

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The Deterioration of US/Japanese Relations at the turn of the 20th Century

Japanese Ambassador Takahira Kogoro in 1900

In the first two decades of the twentieth century, the relationship between the United States and Japan was marked by increasing tension and corresponding attempts to use diplomacy to reduce the threat of conflict. Each side had territory and interests in Asia that they were concerned the other might threaten. U.S. treatment of Japanese immigrants and…

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Death on the Kansas Prairie

I hope you enjoy dinner.

From Nursing Clio’s true crime series Killing Clio

by Michelle M. Martin

With the close of the American Civil War, western states like Kansas teemed with travelers and refugees seeking opportunity and solace as shattered families worked to rebuild their interrupted lives. Filled with open space and limitless development potential, Kansas attracted former Union and…

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Third Wave Feminism

Previous DailyHistory articles have discussed the First and Second Wave Feminist Movements. Like Second Wave feminism, Third Wave feminism emerged from some of the failures and conversations left behind from the wave before.

While there were many successes of the first two waves, including voting rights and greater access to reproductive control, Third Wave feminists have argued that these…

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Did the Volga German Colonies Vanish?

A Volga German Couple

Germany and Russia have had a long relationship going back to the Medieval Period. During the thirteenth century, the Teutonic Knights conquered much of the Baltic region in order to Christianize the pagans but stayed for centuries well into the modern Russian Imperial Period as landed nobles.

Later, Peter I (ruled 1682-1725), the Tsar of Russia, and Catherine (reigned…

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Robinson Crusoe - Historical person?

Robinson Crusoe – Historical person?

Daniel Defoe

There are some literary characters that become part of the culture and have entered the popular imagination. A select few fictional personages have achieved great fame and even mythic status. One of these is Robinson Crusoe, the hero of an eponymous set of novels. This character has inspired many other literary works, many movies and there is even an island named after the hero of…

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Playgrounds through the Years

An early playground focused on structured play

The playground is something many of us consider intertwined with childhood playtime around many parts of the world. The idea of playgrounds developed in the mid-19th century, as people realized increasingly urban areas needed to create space for children to play rather than have them play on streets where it was dangerous. The movement was slow to…

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Anti-Lynching Legislation in US History

Warren G. Harding in 1920

On October 26, 1921, President Warren G. Harding traveled to Birmingham, Alabama to participate in the city’s fiftieth-anniversary celebration. The Republican Harding, just seven months into his first term, was immensely popular. But the speech he gave that day was soon condemned by the Birmingham Post as an “untimely and ill-considered intrusion into a question of…

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Do Civil Rights need the Supreme Court?

The United States Supreme Court in 2018

By Millington Bergeson-Lockwood

2018 was a tough year for civil rights advocates at the US Supreme Court. Often in close decisions, the court repeatedly narrowed the scope of civil rights protections for consumers, workers, voters, and immigrants. As if this were not enough, the appointment of Justice Brett Kavanaugh to replace retired Justice Anthony…

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How did the Johnson-Reed Act of 1924 restrict immigration?

Changes in immigration to US between 1881 and 1940

The Immigration Act of 1924 limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States through a national origins quota. The quota provided immigration visas to two percent of the total number of people of each nationality in the United States as of the 1890 national census. It completely excluded immigrants from Asia.

Immigration Act…

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The British and the American navies on the Great Lakes were eliminated. Why?

John Quincy Adams

The Rush-Bagot Pact was an agreement between the United States and Great Britain to eliminate their fleets from the Great Lakes, excepting small patrol vessels. The Convention of 1818 set the boundary between the Missouri Territory in the United States and British North America (later Canada) at the forty-ninth parallel. Both agreements reflected the easing of diplomatic…

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The US Occupation from Haiti from 1915-1934 Following the assassination of the Haitian President in July of 1915, President Woodrow Wilson used that incident as a pretext to send the United States Marines into Haiti to restore order and maintain political and economic stability in the Caribbean.

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The Mukden Incident and the Stimson Doctrine

Japanese Infantry invading Manchuria in 1931 after the Mukden Incident

In 1931, a dispute near the Chinese city of Mukden (Shenyang) precipitated events that led to the Japanese conquest of Manchuria. In response, U.S. Secretary of State Henry Stimson issued what would become known as the Stimson Doctrine, stating that the United States would not recognize any agreements between the Japanese and…

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How much of Moby Dick was real?

Herman Melville

Herman Melville’s Moby Dick (1851) is not only one of the best known but most important works of fiction in United States history. While Melville’s book is undoubtedly fiction, he drew widely from his experiences as a whaler and some incredible stories of remarkably dangerous 19th-century whales. His book is an extraordinarily accurate depiction of life at sea.

Unsurprisingly for…

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The Importance of "Big Conferences" between the Allies during World War II

The Importance of “Big Conferences” between the Allies during World War II

Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill at the Casablanca Conference, Jan. 14-24, 1943

The first involvement of the United States in the wartime conferences between the Allied nations opposing the Axis powers actually occurred before the nation formally entered World War II. In August 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill met secretly and devised an…

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