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… author and statesman Thomas More (c.1478-1435) fashioned a history of England in which Richard was a humpbacked man … accounts like More’s to inform his own version of England’s history. More, however, had worked for both Henry VII and … Curry.  Bosworth 1485: A Battlefield Rediscovered . Oxbow Books, 2013. Hicks, Michael.  The Wars of the Roses . Yale …

… ways to break out of the feminine mystique. Given Friedan’s history as an advocate for working-class and working women … continues to be recognized as one of the most influential books of the twentieth century and one of the leading …

… amendment adopted in 1976. Copson does not present new history in these considerations, but he usefully underscores …

… how things are now. Yet in point of fact, the idealistic history we imagine is almost always entirely false and it is … past and figure out where romanticism ends and actual history begins. In Chivalry in Medieval England , Nigel Saul … he discusses one of the most distorted topics in medieval history: the code of chivalry. Although not without its …

… Fire is an unquestionably important event in international history. For hundreds of years, it has signified a key … and sometimes rewritten entirely.   Further Reading:  Roman History Introduction:  Potter, David S.  Ancient Rome: A New History . Third Edition. New York, New York: Thames & …

… story, but one that does not tell the entire history of Europe's meeting with the native populations of … the Bible ever mentioned, is the main theme of Abulafia's history. The indigenous peoples of the Americas both … the modern individual emerged to take his place in history. This is an extremely interesting part of the book, …

… of the 1917 Russian Revolution with a flood of new books which explore the Revolution and its long-term impact … it will appeal to both specialists in the field of Russian history and to general audiences that wish to unpack the rich and complex history of the Russian Revolution.    … Review of Russia in …

… we can learn from the last 200 years of women's political history to better inform our present, and future. For  … Dr. Joan Flores-Villalobos is a historian of women's history who recently joined the University of Southern California's history department. And she found that her students were …

… the rest of the book. The second chapter presents a brief history of archaeology in Romania, whose roots as an … in learning about a burgeoning field in European prehistory—and rethinking some assumptions and conclusions …

… In the Beginning . Lienesch begins with a brief but solid history of the development of American fundamentalism. … continuance up to today. As well as providing a detailed history of the movement, Lienesch, a political scientist, … the past seventy-five years combined. Given the plethora of books on Scopes, including Edward Larson's excellent Summer …

… the Oklahoma City bombing squarely within the longer history of a White Power movement that had its genesis in …

… the importance of fresh and local ingredients.  Many cookbooks published in past ten years promise simple and … some of the primary sources available for studying the history of food in this period.  Pinkard's summary of early … as restaurants developed in the eighteenth century and cookbooks became less expensive and readily available.  …

… through our foreign aid. This is a quiet, measured history, but it is not without a point of view, one which … other words, that Eisenhower was right. Sometimes writing history is about charting change over time. Sometimes it is …

… including much of their own previous work. Throughout the history of U.S. relations with Latin America, the Crandalls … far outside the realm of official policymaking in their history.  While a book with the subtitle The United States … objectivity.  But undergraduates being exposed to the history for the first time will benefit from the Crandalls’ …

… the Vikings and Norse mythology are having a moment.  From History Channel’s  Vikings  to Marvel’s  Thor  films, to … remember. Icelanders in particular had a keen interest in history, as evidenced by works such as  The Sagas of … of  Vikings  paved the way for many of the shows and books mentioned in the first paragraph of this article, with …

… Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. In this month’s History Talk , we speak with Professors Laura Beers and Ian … Image Source) … Eric Michael Rhodes   Hello and welcome to History Talk . We're the podcast that brings together … Britain is Dr. Laura Beers. She's associate professor of history at American University in Washington. There, Dr. …

… studied kung fu Russo also provides a necessarily concise history of kung fu itself, carefully negotiating the many “invented traditions” that exist in the history of martial arts. He goes into greater detail about the history of kung fu as it was taught in America, especially …

… book is dedicated to the idealists of the world, for whom history always ends in disappointment." The ironic turn of … influencing the trajectory of twentieth century world history until he was finally frozen by the cult of …

… says as much about how we understand our collective history and ourselves as it does about the tragic couple and … of JFK, Jake’s knowledge of the dead president is more history than memory, and yet he takes up the mission when … film “the saddest movie ever made.” According to Lubin’s history of the Kennedys in pop culture, Life magazine …

… ultimately fail him, he becomes the insufferable boar that history has revealed. Dos Passos's precarious fame always … 1970, but his art died in 1937. Koch's book is light on the history of the war, biography, and literary analysis. If one …

… United Nations announced “the worst food crisis in modern history.”  The phrase “ global polycrisis ” captures the … mostly successful. In his 2018 book, Mass Starvation: The History and Future of Famine , Alex de Waal notes “a … and some even die as a result of starvation.  The Long History of Food Insecurity in Africa Food insecurity in …