Les représentations de la bataille de La Nouvelle-Orléans by Pierre-François PEIRANO

“…A landmark event in the military history of the United States, the battle of New Orleans, fought on January 8th, 1815, accounted for the strategic role still played by the city in the early 19th century. …”
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African American Womanhood: A Study of Women’s Life Writings (1861-1910s) by Élise Vallier

“…Drawing on their correspondence, diaries, and autobiographies, this article explores these women’s economic circumstances, their views on men, marriage, their roles as women, wives, and mothers, and the condition of being a woman of color between 1861 and the late 1910s—a period of dramatic change in the history of the United States, particularly regarding the question of women’s rights. …”
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Only Dead Metaphors Can Be Resurrected: A Review of Jill Lepore’s These Truths by George Blaustein

“…Jill Lepore’s recent synthesis—These Truths: A History of the United States (2018)—is the most prominent such text to emerge in the wake of the 2016 presidential election. …”
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Sound, Vision, and Embodied Performativity in Beyoncé Knowles’ Visual Album Lemonade (2016) by Johanna Hartmann

“…Thirdly, through intermedial references Beyoncé locates Lemonade within the cultural history of the United States and American music history in particular. …”
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Castle Lite by Ron Irwin

“…Light beer branding has a long and successful history in the United States, where brand names like Bud Light have long held a significant market share. …”
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Défendre le corps des femmes. Libre pensée et féminisme aux États-Unis (1820-1920) by Auréliane Narvaez

“…The nineteenth century has long been conceived as a critical period of the history of the United States for women whose religious beliefs motivated their commitment to reform; conversely, women activists who publicly rejected the authority of churches and positive theologies have gone almost entirely unnoticed. …”
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La désobéissance civile aux Etats-Unis contemporains : triomphe incomplet du libéralisme sur la gauche, routine et réactivation par les mouvements sociaux de l’immigration by Mathieu Bonzom

“…Firstly, civil disobedience will be situated in the political history of the United States in the light of the weakness of the left, and the preserved influence of a political tradition that the left has not managed to challenge once and for all: liberalism. …”
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De l’utopie socialiste au réalisme chrétien by Isabelle Richet

“…The New Deal was the first major reformist experiment in the history of the United States that was neither inspired nor supported by Protestantism. …”
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American Studies by V. O. Pechatnov

“…His lecture courses, given at the end of the 1940s at MGIMO, became the basis for the first post-war history textbooks USA - "Essays on the history of the United States." At least as colorful a figure was Professor Leo Izrailevich Zubok - a man of unusual destiny. …”
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THE PHENOMENON OF TRAMP AND THE AMERICAN SYSTEM OF SEPARATION OF POWERS by N. V. Molchakov, V. Y. Yakunin

“…Trump managed to be elected under the slogan of such a revolution, becoming the first the president in the political history of the United States, which has no firm support among the elites.  …”
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