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Affect Theory and History of Emotions
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The Abuse of History
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African American Women and the History of Medicine
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African Nationalist Historiography
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The Anthropocene in History and Historiography
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Autobiography and Other Life Narratives
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Big History
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Causality
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Conceptual History
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Counterfactual History
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Critical Heritage Studies
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The End of History and the End of the World
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Environmental History
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Epistemology
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Evidence and Proof in Historical Research
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Fact
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Global History in China
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Historical Analogies, Historia magistra vitae
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Historical Culture
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The Historical Novel
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Historical Optimism, Historical Pessimism
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Historical Realism
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Historical Sociology/History and Sociology
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Historicism
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History and Anthropology
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The History of Children and Childhood
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History of Historiography
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History of Ideas and Its Surroundings
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History of International Organizations
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History of Knowledge
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The History of Society
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History of Technology
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History of the Idea of Europe
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Intellectual Honesty and the Purposes of History
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Marxism and Its Influences
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The Material Turn in Historical Writing
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Memory Laws
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Memory/Memory Studies
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Microhistory
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Moving History to Moving Histories: From Historiophoty to Historiography
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The Myth of Origins in South Asian National Histories
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Narrative
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(New) Imperial History
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Objectivity
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Oral History
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Philosophy of Historiography
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Philosophy of History: Speculative Approaches
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Posthuman History
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Postnarrativism
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Professionalization of History
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Public History
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Regimes of Historicity
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Regional History
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Regional History
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Requiem for a Field: The Strange Journey of US Diplomatic History
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Rethinking National History Education: Experiences from the United States
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The Rise, Fall, and Transformation of Consensus History
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The Role of Antiquity in Medieval Historiography
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The Role of Cliometrics in History and Economics
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Transnational History
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Urban History
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Visual History
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What Is Historiography and Why Does It Matter
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What Is History and Why Does It Matter?
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What Is the Relationship between School History and University History? The Example of History Education in England
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Adu Boahen
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Ahmed Vâsıf Efendi
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Arai Hakuseki
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Arthur Coleman Danto
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Bala Usman
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Baruch Spinoza
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Bethwell Ogot
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Bolanle Awe
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Carl Schmitt
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Catharine Macaulay
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Catherine Hall
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Cheikh Anta Diop
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Eduardo Grüner
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Frank Ankersmit
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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Gilberto Freyre
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G.W.F. Hegel
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Gyula Szekfű
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Hannah Arendt
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Henry of Livonia
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Ibn Khaldûn
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J.F. Ade Ajayi
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Jide Osuntokun
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Joan Wallach Scott
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Johan Huizinga
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Johann Gustav Droysen
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Jörn Rüsen
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Jörn Rüsen
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Karl Marx
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Kenneth Dike
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Kātib Çelebi, Muṣṭafā b. ʿAbdallāh
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Liang Qichao
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Lynn Hunt
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Lélia Gonzalez
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Michel Foucault
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Michel-Rolph Trouillot
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Obaro Ikime
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Odia Ofeimun
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Philippe de Mézières
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Rashid al-Din Fadl Allah Hamadani
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Reinhart Koselleck
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R.G. Collingwood
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Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni
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Saidiya Hartman
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Samuel Johnson
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Sima Guang (1019–86)
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Sima Qian
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Tulio Halperin Donghi
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Verónica Tozzi
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Wilhelm von Humboldt
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William Herbert Dray
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Zhang Xuecheng
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Ancient Chronicles in South and Southeast Asia
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Asylum Archives
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Autobiography
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Digital Databases
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Diplomatic Sources
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Early Modern Diaries
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Ecclesiastical Records
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Epigraphy
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Fashion
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Film
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Folklore
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Letters (Modern)
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Magazines
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Maps
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Mass-Observation
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Museum Objects As Historical Sources
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Newspapers
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Oral History
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Parliamentary Records
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Portraits
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Slave Narratives
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Statistics
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Afrocentricity
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Agency
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Anachronism
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Class
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Communalism
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Contingency
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Covering Laws
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Diaspora
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Empathy
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Equality
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Event/Eventual History
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Experience
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Gender
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Genocide
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Heritage
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Hermeneutics
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Histoire Croisée
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Historical Consciousness
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Historical Culture
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Historical Thinking
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Historicity
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History and Shared Authority
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Identity/Collective Identities
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Immediacy/Hypermediacy
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KZ Syndrome/PTSD
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Medievalism
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Multiperspectivity in History Education
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Narrative Template
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Orientalism
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Pleasurescapes
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Popular Culture
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Positivism
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Power
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Progress
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Racial Literacy
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Reenactment
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Representation
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Secularization
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Social Movements
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Time
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Virtual Reality History
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Bede’s Ecclesiastical History
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Benedict Anderson’s Imagined Communities
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Charles Austin Beard, An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States
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Christine de Pizan, The Book of the City of Ladies
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The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy by Jacob Burckhardt
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Collingwood, An Autobiography
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Cotton Mather’s Magnalia Christi Americana
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David Hume’s History of England
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Droysen, Outline of the Theory of History
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Eileen Power’s Medieval People
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Emma Willard’s Geographic History
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Explorations of Sanjay Subrahmanyam’s Concept of “Connected Histories”: From Tagus to the Ganges
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Frederick Jackson Turner, “The Significance of the Frontier in American History”
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Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Gulbadan Begam’s Humayunnama
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Herodotus, Histories
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Jules Michelet’s History of the French Revolution
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Kalhaṇa, Rājataraṅgiṇī
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Livy
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Lucy Hutchinson’s Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson
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Marx’s Capital
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The Muqaddima of Ibn Khaldûn
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Warren, History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution
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Prescott’s History of the Conquest of Mexico
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Ranke, History of the Latin and Teutonic Nations
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Sima Qian and the Shiji
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Spring and Autumn Annals (Chunqiu) and the Zuo Commentary (Zuo zhuan)
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Tacitus’ Annals
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William Robertson’s History of America
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