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#1 The Kansas Territory was formed in 1854, and in 1855, the settlers there voted to allow slavery. This became known as Bleeding Kansas, as the territory was constantly being threatened by pro-slavery settlers from Missouri.
#2 The violence between the Jayhawkers and the Bushwhackers continued to escalate, and it was not uncommon for towns like Fort Scott to be raided...
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#1 The Vikings had discovered Greenland in the search for more land, and turned its stock of walrus and narwhals into a global enterprise. They had then launched even farther west, and discovered sailing routes from Europe to North America five hundred years before Columbus.
#2 The story of Iceland begins with exile. Like many people, I used to romanticize stormy ocean...
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#1 The myths about Native Americans come from the ways experts in the social sciences talk about history, the society we live in, and how modern countries are formed. The narratives are used to construct a sense of national identity.
#2 The myth of the vanishing Indian, which was used to justify the removal of Indians from their lands, was also used by politicians to...
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#1 Two new concepts that focus on the origins, legacies, and persistence of white supremacy in the United States and other settler societies have emerged in the last few decades. They are settler colonialism, which documents the contact and colonization by a nation that wishes to populate the encountered land, and racial capitalism, which describes the intertwined history...
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#1 I spent a year building a wooden flatboat and sailing it down the Mississippi to New Orleans. I was fascinated by the history of America's westward expansion and the economic woes of America following the American Revolution. I was entranced by the idea of sailing down the Mississippi River.
#2 Yoder built a wooden flatboat and sailed it down the Mississippi to New...
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#1 The first Balkan settlers were small, transitory tribes that followed the animals they hunted and gathered whatever wild-growing crops they could as they moved. Around 10,000 BCE, these hunter-gatherers began to put down more sturdy roots. They began to build villages on the same piece of land over and over.
#2 The Balkan region was home to many different tribes and...
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#1 The relationship between the native peoples in the United States and the European settlers was initially friendly. However, as the settlers were able to achieve some level of security, they began to spread and take the land they wanted.
#2 The American colonists and the natives were never safe from each other, as the colonists would break their peace treaties...
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Get the Summary of S.C. Gwynne's Empire of the Summer Moon in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Empire of the Summer Moon spans two astonishing stories. The first traces the rise and fall of the Comanches, the most powerful Indian tribe in American history. The second entails one of the most remarkable narratives ever to come out of the Old West: the epic saga of the pioneer woman Cynthia...
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Get the Summary of Michael Harriot's Black AF History in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Black AF History" by Michael Harriot is a comprehensive examination of the often-ignored contributions and experiences of Black Americans throughout the nation's history. Harriot begins with personal anecdotes about his Uncle Junior, who instilled in him a skepticism that would shape his understanding of America's past. He...
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Get the Summary of Luther Standing Bear's My People the Sioux in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "My People the Sioux" is a personal narrative by Luther Standing Bear, chronicling his life and experiences as a member of the Sioux tribe. Born into a prominent family, Luther was raised in a world rich with Sioux traditions and values. His early life was marked by significant cultural moments, such as his first hunt...
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#1 The Pleistocene Epoch, which began about 2. 6 million years ago and lasted until about 11,700 years ago, marked profound changes in the history of the human race. People began to form into bands of hunters and foragers who lived nomadic lives in temporary camps.
#2 The first Native Americans, who were the first settlers in the Americas, were forced to go east or west...
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#1 The area of Michigan now known as Clinton County was inhabited by indigenous tribes. The Saginaw Chippewa, who were allied with the Ottawa, invaded the Sauk village and slaughtered everyone there, leaving no survivors. The Chippewa claimed the land as their own.
#2 The Chippewa people were relocated from Michigan to the West in 1837, and their land was given to Clinton...
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Get the Summary of Bob Drury and Tom Clavin's The Heart of Everything That Is in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Heart of Everything That Is" recounts the historic assembly of over 10,000 Native Americans at Fort Laramie in 1851, aiming to broker peace among tribes and with white settlers. As westward migration increased, conflicts arose, leading to a council to negotiate safe passage through Sioux lands. Notable...
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#1 The story of human beings in Ireland is very short. The first evidence of people living in Ireland goes back only to c. 8000 BC, to the era known as the Mesolithic or middle stone age. The first Irish settlers, at sites such as Mount Sandel in Co. Derry and Lough Boora in Co. Offaly, seem to have depended on wild boar and fish for their non-plant foods.
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#1 In March 2014, the Lakota Sioux tribe president, Bryan Brewer, declared war on the Keystone XL Pipeline, which would have passed directly through Oceti Sakowin territory.
#2 The KXL also crossed through the permanent reservation boundaries of the Great Sioux Nation, and unceded lands of the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty, which forbids white settlement without Indigenous...
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Book Preview: #1 The United States, a Western European settler colony in North America, emerged from World War II as the most powerful state on Earth. The country came to represent and champion revolutionary, democratic ideals, but internally, things were much more complicated.
#2 The American people were proud of their country after World War II, as they had stood up to an entirely...
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#1 Benjamin Franklin was one of the first to fear German immigrants, who were flooding the colonies in large numbers. He believed that they would never assimilate and would instead, outnumber the English.
#2 The story of German immigrants in Pennsylvania highlights the complexity of xenophobia, as well as the different contexts in which it flourishes. German immigrants...
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#1 The United States was designed from its very inception to be an empire. The Founding Fathers were very confident in their empire-building abilities, and they envisioned a country that would extend far beyond its initial boundaries.
#2 The American Empire was established in the 1760s, and by the 1800s, the vision of a continental empire was largely realized....
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#1 The city-state of Sparta was known for its powerful military, but was actually very small in size. It was noted by the Greeks that Sparta was unremarkable.
#2 The geography of the Peloponnese had a profound effect on the history and psychology of the Spartans. The dew-claw of this dragon-like peninsula is the Argolid peninsula in the north-east, and above it lies...
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