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• Electronic Encyclopedia of American Government
  .../0-library.cqpress.com.catalog.sewanee.edu/eeag Electronic Encyclopedia of American Government]''''' ...t, where, when, and how of every era of American history from the American Revolution to the present.
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• Bibliography of American Literature
  ...s://collections.chadwyck.co.uk/marketing/home_bal.jsp '''''Bibliography of American Literature'''''] ...e than 37,000 works are listed, essentially the complete printed record of American literature from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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• Encyclopedia of the New American Nation
  ...to the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War American Revolution] and ending with the inauguration of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_
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• History in Dispute
  *Volume 2 - American Social and Political Movements, 1945-2000 *Volume 3 - American Social and Political Movements, 1900-1945: Pursuit of Progress
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• Nationalism
  ...nt specifically to the ultra-nationalist party in France during the French Revolution. ...vereignty] that came to a head with the French Revolution and the American Revolution in the late 18th century. Since that time, nationalism has become one of th
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• Oxford Companion to American Military History
  ....sewanee.edu/views/BOOK_SEARCH.html?book=t126 '''''The Oxford Companion to American Military History'''''] ...pieces to extensive essays, the entries examine every major war from [[the Revolution]] to the [[Persian Gulf]]; important battles from [[Bunker Hill]], to [[the
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• Declaration of Independence
  ...Declaration stressed two themes: [[individual rights]] and the [[right of revolution]]. The birthday of the United States of America—Independence Day—is cel ...mericans, and had an influence internationally, in particular the [[French Revolution]]. [[Abraham Lincoln]], beginning in 1854 as he spoke out against slavery a
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• Auctoritas
  ...or|La Terreur]]). Arendt views a crisis of authority as common to both the American and French Revolutions, and the response to that crisis a key factor in the *Hannah Arendt, ''On Revolution'', Chapter 5, Section 2. (1965)
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• Peacemakers
  '''Peacemakers''', was an American [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacifist pacifist] [[organization]]. The nam ...edia.org/wiki/Committee_for_Nonviolent_Revolution Committee for Nonviolent Revolution], which had been formed two years before.
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• Industry
  ...lowing the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Revolution Industrial Revolution], perhaps a third of the world's economic output is derived from [[manufact
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• Pollution
  ...during the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_revolution industrial revolution], and extending into the recent past with the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wik ...of untreated human [[waste]]. Chicago and Cincinnati were the first two [[American]] [[cities]] to enact laws ensuring cleaner air in 1881. Other cities follo
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• Curfew
  ...directed at certain [[groups]] in many cities or states, such as Japanese-American university students on the West Coast of the United States during [[World W ...ime after which a game must end, or play be suspended. For example, in the American League the curfew rule for many years decreed that no inning could begin af
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• Great Awakening
  ...us revival in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_the_United_States American religious history]. Historians and theologians identify three or four waves ...er Revivals" in the mid-1730s, though this was on the wane by 1737. But as American religious historian Sydney E. Ahlstrom noted the Great Awakening "was still
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• Labor Unions
  A '''trade union''', or '''labor union''' (American English) is an [[organization]] of workers who have come [[together]] to [[ ...during the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Revolution Industrial Revolution]. Trade unions may be composed of individual workers, professionals, past w
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• Hippie
  ...://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Sheidlower Jesse Sheidlower], the principal American editor of the [[Oxford English Dictionary]], argues that the terms ''hipste ...ere Hobart, Jim Hickey, ''A Story of the One-Night Stands'', where a black American character uses the [[slang]] phrase "Are you hip?"
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• The Enlightenment
  ...ing the Haitian Revolution. It has been argued that the signatories of the American Declaration of Independence, the United States Bill of Rights, the French D ...e scholars use the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolution French Revolution] of 1789 or the beginning of the Napoleonic Wars (1804–15) as a convenien
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• Liberalism
  ...evolution] and the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolution French Revolution] used liberal [[philosophy]] to justify the [[violent]] overthrow of [[tyra
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• United States
  ...refer to the country adjectivally ("American [[values]]", "U.S. forces"). "American" is rarely used in [[English]] to refer to subjects not connected with the ...of America. The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War American Revolutionary War], which ended with the recognition of independence of the
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• Abraham Maslow
  '''Abraham Harold Maslow''' (April 1, 1908 – June 8, 1970) was an American [[psychology|psychologist]]. He is noted for his conceptualization of a "[ In 1967, the American Humanist Association named him Humanist of the Year.
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• Empire
  ...nd [[religion]]; the Spanish Empire established Spanish in most all of the American continent, but less so in Paraguay and in the Philippines; the British Empi ...rging of the American Empire: From the Revolution to Vietnam: A History of American Imperialism, Plkuto press, ISBN 0745321003
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• Tools
  ...ols in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_revolution industrial revolution]. Advocates of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanotechnology nanotechnology # [https://www.pbs.org/saf/1504/resources/transcript.htm Scientific American Frontiers, Program#1504 "Chimp Minds]" transcript PBS.org Airdate Feb 9, 20
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• Slavery
  In his book about the slave trade and the American Revolution, author Charles Rappleye writes:
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• Transcendentalism
  ...ew England]] in the early to middle 19th century. It is sometimes called ''American Transcendentalism'' to distinguish it from other uses of the word ''[[trans ...]] which also inspires all men." Emerson closed the essay by calling for a revolution in human consciousness to emerge from the new idealist philosophy:
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• Social movement
  ...or example in Russia with the [[Russian Revolution of 1905]] and [[Russian Revolution of 1917|of 1917]], resulting in the collapse of the Russian State around th ...hange. In the post-war period, Women's rights, Gay rights, peace movement, American Civil Rights Movement (1955-1968), anti-nuclear movement and environmental
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• Archives
  ...e of their library setting, a degree certified by the [https://www.ala.org American Library Associatio]n is preferred for employment in an academic archive in ...ves defy categorization. There are [[tribal]] archives within the [[Native American nations]] in North America, and there are archives that exist within the pa
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• Equality
  ...or lower classes. However, before the relatively recent [[agricultural]] [[revolution]], [[humanity]] existed in primarily hunter-gatherer societies that, some b A study of American college students published in ''Nature'' showed that people are willing to
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• Abdication
  ...gdom] in 1936. Edward abdicated the British throne in order to [[marry]] [[American]] divorcée Wallis Simpson, over the objections of the British [[establishm During the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glorious_Revolution Glorious Revolution] in 1688, James II of England and VII of Scotland fled to France, dropping
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• Racism
  * Dain, Bruce (2002), A Hideous Monster of the Mind : American Race Theory in the Early Republic, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA. ...cent F. (2000), Reel Racism : Confronting Hollywood's Construction of Afro-American Culture, Westview Press.
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• Rebellion
  ...acy] by the Union in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War American Civil War]. It also includes members of paramilitary forces who take up arm *Revolution, which is carried out by radicals, usually meant to overthrow the current g
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• Trepidation
  ...hrough the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecliptic ecliptic], completing a revolution in approximately 25,800 years (according to [[modern]] astronomers). Theon ...Solar Year' and 'On the Motion of the Eighth Sphere'," Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 106 (1962): 264–299.
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• Letters I-VII, Mr. Jefferson Returns: American Mentor and Prophet
  ...of King George the Third and his English aristocracy had to transform into American democracy, the [[power]] of the people. In the next progressive stage, the ...our present and future times are in comparison to ours at the birth of the American nation.
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• Marilyn Ferguson
  '''Marilyn Ferguson''' (April 5, 1938 - October 19, 2008) was an influential American author, editor and public speaker, best known for her 1980 book ''The Aquar == ''The Brain Revolution'' and ''Brain/Mind Bulletin'' ==
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• 2013-06-12-Longevity of the US Constitution
  ...at King George the III’s abuses while reigning over his “subjects” in the American colonies. As is the custom of tempered men that have knowledge about laws a ...erein we would tell the king what we were thinking about his rule over the American Colonies and what we were going to do about it.
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• Totalitarianism
  ...and could [[function]] with a [[collective]] [[leadership]], which led the American historian [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Laqueur Walter Laqueur] to ...the concept has disparaged by the "revisionist" school, a group of mostly American left-wing historians, some of whose more prominent members are Sheila Fitzp
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• Rest
  ...Victorian Britain in the late nineteenth century, late in the [[Industrial Revolution]]. Early factories required workers to perform long shifts, often up to eig ...y S. 2004. Encyclopedia of recreation and leisure in America. The Scribner American civilization series. Farmington *Hills, Michigan: Charles Scribner's Sons.
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• Theognis
  Theognis lived at Megara on the Isthmus of Corinth during the democratic revolution in the 6th century BC; some critics hold that he witnessed the "Persian ter ...w Approach to the Theognis Question"], Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association, Vol. 58, (1927), pp. 170-198, The Johns Hopkins U
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• University
  ...ed are the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_revolution scientific revolution] of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and the transformation of the l *Heilbron, John L. 2006. Coming to Terms with the Scientific Revolution. Uppsala, Sweden: Uppsala University, Office for the History of Science.
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• Sturm and Drang
  ...the unfolding [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolution American Revolution], in which the [[author]] gives [[violent]] [[expression]] to [[difficult]]
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• Dance
  In the U.S. many professional dancers are members of unions such as the [[American Guild of Musical Artists]], the [[Screen Actors Guild]] and [[Actors' Equit ...especially for women; these reforms were in part a result of the [[French Revolution]]. Heeled street shoes were replaced by slippers, and corsets and heavy pet
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• Society
  ...r-gatherer tribes settled around seasonal foodstocks to become [[Neolithic Revolution|agrarian village]]s. Villages grew to become towns and cities. Cities turne ...mselves as societies (e.g., the [[American Society of Civil Engineers]], [[American Chemical Society]]). In the [[United Kingdom]] and the United States, learn
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• Immanuel Wallerstein
  ...2003 he received the Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award from the [[American Sociological Association]]. ...attempted to resolve the dispute. He has argued in several works that this revolution marked the end of 'liberalism' as a viable [[ideology]] in the modern world
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• Natural Sciences
  ...con]] popularized this approach, thereby helping to forge the [[scientific revolution]]. ...Chemical Substances'' by the American chemist [[Gilbert N. Lewis]] and the American physical chemist [[Merle Randall]], the natural sciences contain three grea
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• Persona
  ...s://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brett_Easton_Ellis Brett Easton Ellis]' novel, ''American Psycho'', the story of a sociopathic murderer living in [[New York City]], ...ictorian_England Victorian England] and the effect of England's industrial revolution on contemporary life, respectively, and their attitudes were clearly [[refl
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• Conservatism
  ...alues. But it was not until Edmund Burke’s polemic ''[[Reflections on the Revolution in France]]'' that conservatism in the Western world, in its current form, ...nch Revolution]], also sympathized with some of the aims of the [[American Revolution]]. This classical conservative tradition often insists that conservatism ha
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• George Soros
  ...,[2] Hungarian: [ˈʃoroʃ]) (born August 12, 1930, as György Schwartz) is an American currency speculator, stock investor, businessman, philanthropist, and polit ...epresented on the board.[4] His funding and organization of Georgia's Rose Revolution was considered by Russian and Western observers to have been crucial to its
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• Sovereignty
  ...cedure. Strictly speaking, any deviation from this principle constitutes a revolution or a coup d'état, regardless of the intentions. ...rine of noninterference in the affairs of other nations. The 1789 [[French Revolution]] shifted the possession of sovereignty from the sovereign ruler to the nat
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• English
  Development of [[American English]]. By 19th century, a standard variety of American English develops, based on the dialect of the Mid-Atlantic states. *20th century [[Communications]] revolution. Spread of a few languages at the expense of many. Languages of the world b
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• The Revolution of Everyday Life/ Chapter 7
  ...egard to everyday life, the bourgeois revolution looks more like a counter-revolution. The market in human values has rarely known such a collapse. The aristocra ...s, but you forget it at your peril... as Saint-Just said, those who make a revolution by halves do nothing but dig their own graves.
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• 2019-12-02-New Era Transition 78
  ...ividuals. You have been taught many times by us and many teachers that the American family (which is typical of many modern nations), is dysfunctional in the m .... First of all, you must become aware that you do have a boil. And in your American political situation you may realize that you do have a political, social, a
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• 2015-11-16-New Era Conversations 57
  ...on of 1789, which was more egregious than the causes for revolution in the American Colonies in 1776. This is a most despicable situation that does not lead t ...levels in your atmosphere, the inertia that has begun with the industrial revolution will continue.
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