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USA sexually 鈥榯eased鈥 its troops in WWI to make them fight harder

07 Nov 2022

探花直播United States Government sought to sexually stimulate then frustrate its soldiers to prepare them for an unpopular conflict in Europe, a...

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Map discovery: American 鈥榟ero鈥 plotted massive land grab and broke peace treaty

07 Feb 2022

A newly decoded map shows that the famous explorer William Clark planned the theft of 10.5 million acres of Indigenous land in Missouri, USA in the...

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Dr Robert Lee

Historian wins major journalism award for Indigenous land project

25 Feb 2021

Dr Robert Lee, 探花直播 lecturer in American History, has been awarded a George Polk Award, one of the most prestigious in journalism, for his...

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Man in a cowboy hat atop Humphreys Peak in Arizona, US

鈥榃ild West鈥 mentality lingers in US mountain regions

07 Sep 2020

Distinct psychological mix associated with mountain populations is consistent with the theory that harsh frontiers attracted certain personalities...

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Two of the four possible combinations of ancient admixture highlighted by the researchers.

First Peoples: two ancient ancestries 鈥榬econverged鈥 with settling of South America

31 May 2018

New research using ancient DNA finds that a population split after people first arrived in North America was maintained for millennia before mixing...

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Ancient genome study identifies traces of indigenous 鈥淭a铆no鈥 in present-day Caribbean populations

19 Feb 2018

A thousand-year-old tooth has provided genetic evidence that the so-called 鈥淭a铆no鈥, the first indigenous Americans to feel the full impact of...

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One Hundred Days of Trump

28 Apr 2017

Professor Andrew Preston examines the origins of the first hundred days as a measure of presidential success in American politics.

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#ICYMI - Trump鈥檚 First Hundred Days

28 Apr 2017

Dr Emily Charnock, Lecturer in American History, delivers her verdict as the Trump presidency reaches its first major milestone.

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Reagan Bids Gorbachev Farewell

Opinion: Thirty years on as 'new Cold War' looms, US and Russia should remember the Rekyjavik summit

21 Oct 2016

David Reynolds (Faculty of History) and Kristina Spohr (London School of Economics and Political Science) discuss current relations between the US...

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1904 painting "Attack on New Ulm" by Anton Gag

探花直播fall and rise of Native North America

26 Sep 2016

探花直播story of Native North America 鈥 from its vast contribution to world culture, to the often taboo social problems of drinking, gambling and...

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Detail from a list of the names, ages and prices of slaves bought by British plantation owner  William Philip Perrin from John Broomfield in 1796.

Price of Britain鈥檚 Slave Trade revealed

13 Aug 2015

Letters and papers revealing in detail how human beings were priced for sale during the 18th century Transatlantic Slave Trade have been made...

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An interview with Tony Badger: 50 years a historian

04 Jul 2014

探花直播Choir of Clare College will tomorrow (5 July 2014) perform a special concert at West Road as tribute to outgoing Master and eminent historian...

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