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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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