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  2. AP World History: Modern - Wikipedia

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    Number of Questions Time allotted Exam Weight Section I, Part A: Multiple Choice Questions: 55 questions: 55 minutes: 40% Section I, Part B: Short-Answer Questions: 3 questions (2 required questions + 1 chosen from 2 others) 40 minutes: 20% Section II Part A: Document-Based Question: 1 question: recommended 60 minutes (includes 15-minute ...

  3. Living history - Wikipedia

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    Living history is an educational medium used by living history museums, historic sites, heritage interpreters, schools and historical reenactment groups to educate the public or their own members in particular areas of history, such as clothing styles, pastimes and handicrafts, or to simply convey a sense of the everyday life of a certain ...

  4. What Is History? - Wikipedia

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    What Is History? is a 1961 non-fiction book by historian E. H. Carr on historiography. It discusses history, facts, the bias of historians, science, morality, individuals and society, and moral judgements in history. The book originated in a series of lectures given by Carr in 1961 at the University of Cambridge.

  5. Vernacular Press Act - Wikipedia

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    1. Modelled on the Irish press act, this act provided the government with extensive rights to censor reports and editorials in the Vernacular press. 2. From now on the government kept regular track of Vernacular newspapers. 3. When a report published in the newspaper was judged as seditious, the newspaper was warned.

  6. Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States

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    In this chapter, Scott emphasizes the idea of Agro-Pastoralism, i.e. "plowed fields and domestic animals". He questions why a hunter-gatherer, who (he believes) had a relatively good and fulfilling life, would turn to this. Subsistence farming is mundane and contains more drudgery than the hunter and gatherer societies.

  7. Silesian weavers' uprising - Wikipedia

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    The revolt drew significant attention to the plight of the working class and highlighted the growing tensions between labor and capital during the early stages of industrialization. The event also inspired literature and art, most notably the poem " Die schlesischen Weber " ("The Silesian Weavers") by the German poet Heinrich Heine , which ...

  8. Theses on the Philosophy of History - Wikipedia

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    The entire history of civilized humanity would, on this scale, take up only one fifth of the last second of the last hour.' The here-and-now, which as the model of messianic time summarizes the entire history of humanity into a monstrous abbreviation, coincides to a hair with the figure, which the history of humanity makes in the universe.

  9. Ulrich B. Phillips - Wikipedia

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    Ulrich Bonnell Phillips (November 4, 1877 – January 21, 1934) was an American historian who largely defined the field of the social and economic studies of the history of the Antebellum South and slavery in the U.S. Phillips concentrated on the large plantations that dominated the Southern economy, and he did not investigate the numerous small farmers who held few slaves.