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  2. AP World History: Modern - Wikipedia

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    AP World History: Modern was designed to help students develop a greater understanding of the evolution of global processes and contacts as well as interactions between different human societies. The course advances understanding through a combination of selective factual knowledge and appropriate analytical skills.

  3. Competitive debate in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The first, informal, intercollegiate debate was held between Harvard and Yale in 1892 and was followed by similar contests on the West Coast and in the Midwest. [6] From 1904 to 1911, a flurry of intercollegiate debate activity led to the establishment of four different honor societies, or leagues, for debate.

  4. Advanced Placement - Wikipedia

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    AP World History [38] The course will now be split up into two different exams: AP World History: Modern - It will cover world history from the year 1200 CE to the present. AP World History: Ancient - This course will be released at a later, unspecified date. The Exam format will remain the same.

  5. Associated Press - Wikipedia

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    The Associated Press was formed in May 1846 by five daily newspapers in New York City to share the cost of transmitting news of the Mexican–American War. [7] The venture was organized by Moses Yale Beach (1800–68), second publisher of The Sun, joined by the New York Herald, the New York Courier and Enquirer, The Journal of Commerce, and the New York Evening Express.

  6. Yale Report of 1828 - Wikipedia

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    The Yale Report of 1828 is a document written by the faculty of Yale College in staunch defense of the classical curriculum. The report maintained that because of Yale's primary object of graduating well-educated and well-rounded men, it should continue to require all of its students to follow a single thorough curriculum, with Latin and Greek literature at its core.

  7. Yale College - Wikipedia

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    Yale College is the undergraduate college of Yale University.Founded in 1701, it is the original school of the university. Although other Yale schools were founded as early as 1810, all of Yale was officially known as Yale College until 1887, when its schools were confederated and the institution was renamed Yale University.

  8. White Anglo-Saxon Protestants - Wikipedia

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    WASPs have dominated American society, culture, and politics for most of the history of the United States. Critics have disparaged them as " The Establishment ". [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Although the social influence of wealthy WASPs has declined since the 1960s, [ 7 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ] the group continues to play a central role in American finance, politics, and ...

  9. Yale University - Wikipedia

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    Official seal used by the college and the university. Yale University is a private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States.Founded in 1701, Yale is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, and one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution.