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MAKING SENSE OF HISTORY Edited By: R. A. Guisepi A sense of the past is a light that illuminates the present and directs attention toward the possibilities of the future. There are two primary points of view about the historical process, and adherents of neither side can prove their conclusions. One...

Thomas Jefferson on Slavery It will probably be asked, Why not retain and incorporate the blacks into the state, and thus save the expense of supplying, by importation of white settlers, the vacancies they will leave? Deep rooted prejudices entertained by the whites; ten thousand recollections, by t...

World War Two, MUSSOLINI, Benito (1883-1945) Edited By: Robert A. Guisepi Date 2001 Driven by the spirit of conflict, Benito Mussolini was many things during his turbulent life--teacher, laborer, editor, soldier, politician, and revolutionary. Conflict, ambition, and the desire for power brought hi...

Travels Of Marco PoloBook: PrologueAuthor: Polo, MarcoPrologue Great princes, emperors and kings, dukes and marquises, counts, knights,and burgesses! and people of all degrees who desire to get knowledge of thevarious races of mankind and of the diversities of the sundry regions of theWorld, take t...

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The State The Earliest Forms Of Government Author: Wilson, Woodrow Part II. 18. Of the theories of the origination of government in individual lawgiving or in divine dictate, it is sufficient to say that the one exaggerates the part played by human choice, and the other the part played by man's im...

The Rights of Man 1789 The representatives of the French people, organized as a National Assembly, believing that the ignorance, neglect, or contempt of the rights of man are the sole cause of public calamities and of the corruption of governments, have determined to set forth in a solemn declaratio...

Persia Darius The Great Author: Grote, George DARIUS THE GREAT, king of Persia in 522-486 BC, one of the greatest rulers of the Achaemenid dynasty, who was noted for his administrative genius and for his great building projects. Darius attempted several times to conquer Greece; his fleet was destroy...

UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT, Part One Author: William Kehen, PhD. Columbia University 1996The federal government of the United States was created by the Constitution, which went into operation in 1789 when the first Congress convened and George Washington took the oath of office as president. The gover...

A History of Ancient Greece Hellenistic PoliticsGreece And The Hellenistic WorldAuthor: R.A. GuisepiDate: 1992 The collapse of Athens opened the way for Spartan domination of the Greekmainland. During the war, Sparta had accepted Persian help, particularly onthe seas, and in return it handed over co...

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Fall Of Maximilian Book: By Charles A. Fyffe Author: Fyffe, Charles A. By Charles A. Fyffe 1867 Compared with the Civil War in the United States, the contemporary French intervention in Mexico seems but a slight episode, little more than an eddy in the tremendous current of greater events. But as a ...