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unusual facts about American History: A Survey



Alan Brinkley

American History: A Survey, originally by Current, Williams & Freidel (1961), by Brinkley in recent editions — used especially for AP U.S. History and International Baccalaureate History courses

Archer Butler Hulbert

Archer Butler Hulbert, FRGS (26 Jan 1873 – 24 Dec 1933), historical geographer, writer, and professor of American history, son of Rev. Calvin Butler Hulbert and Mary Elizabeth Woodward, was born in Bennington, Vermont.

Carole Ward Allen

Almost a decade later, December 15, 2005, BART Director Ward Allen attained another major milestone as a woman in politics when she was elected among her colleagues on the BART Board of Directors to serve as its president and Lynette Sweet as its vice president, which made BART the first major transportation agency to be led by two African-American women in American history.

Cyclical theory

The cyclical theory refers to a model used by historian Arthur Schlesinger to attempt to explicate the fluctuations in politics throughout American History.

Ian Frazier

In his nonfiction works such as Great Plains, Family, and On the Rez, Frazier combines first-person narrative with in-depth research on topics including American history, Native Americans, fishing, and the outdoors.

James C. Bradford

James Chapin Bradford (born in Michigan, 1945) is a professor of history at Texas A&M University and a specialist in American maritime, naval, and military history in the early national period of American History.

Mary Beth Norton

She is the Mary Donlon Alger Professor of American History at the Department of History at Cornell University.

Saidiya Hartman

Saidiya Hartman is a professor at Columbia University specializing in African American literature and history.

Soundview Preparatory School

The school offers a variety of courses, including, but not limited to, Algebra, Geometry, Calculus, English, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, American History, World Civilization I and II, AP European History, AP US History, AP US Government, Psychology, and Art.

The Politically Incorrect Guide to Science

The Politically Incorrect Guide to Science is a 2005 book by Tom Bethell, the third book in the Politically Incorrect Guides series published by Regnery Publishing, after the Guides to American History and Islam.

William Jelani Cobb

Cobb specializes in post-Civil War African-American history, 20th-century American politics, and the history of the Cold War.


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