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History is often taught as part of primary and secondary education, and the academic study of history is a major discipline in university studies. From the origins of national school systems in the 19th century, the teaching of history to promote national sentiment has been a high priority. In the United States after World War I, a strong movement emerged at the university level to teach courses in Western Civilization, so as to give students a common heritage with Europe. In the U.S. after 1980, attention increasingly moved toward teaching world history or requiring students to take courses in non-western cultures, to prepare students for life in a globalized economy.

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An example of content that is represented different in different regions of the country is the history of the Southern states, where slavery and the American Civil War are treated as controversial topics. McGraw-Hill Education for example, was criticised for describing Africans brought to American plantations as "workers" instead of slaves in a textbook. In several countries’ history textbooks are tools to foster nationalism and patriotism, and give students the official narrative about national enemies.

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Google also offers a tool to automatically delete things in your search history that are three, 18, or 36 months old. Google is finally bringing the ability to delete the last 15 minutes of your search history to its Android app, the company confirmed to The Verge. The Century dictionary; an encyclopedic lexicon of the English language Archived 2 February 2021 at the Wayback Machine. In the United States, scholarship was concentrated at the major PhD-producing universities, while the large number of other colleges and universities focused on undergraduate teaching. A tendency in the 21st century was for the latter schools to increasingly demand scholarly productivity of their younger tenure-track faculty. Furthermore, universities have increasingly relied on inexpensive part-time adjuncts to do most of the classroom teaching.

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The national press demanded a public inquiry in to the action of the troops’ firing at the rioters and criticised it bitterly. There was also resentment towards Lt Dashwood for making a donation to the fund to assist the families of those his soldiers had killed. Browse an unrivalled portfolio of real-time and historical market data and insights from worldwide sources and experts.

In two decades from 1975 to 1995, the proportion of professors of history in American universities identifying with social history rose from 31% to 41%, while the proportion of political historians fell from 40% to 30%. Social history was contrasted with political history, intellectual history and the history of great men. For the principal treatment of the subject of historiography and the scholarly research necessary for the discipline, see historiography. Information on any specific historical topic, such as the history of specific peoples, cultures, countries, and regions, will be found under the relevant title. The general articles contain many cross-references to specific historical movements and events and to biographies of significant figures. Gender history is a subfield of History and Gender studies, which looks at the past from the perspective of gender.

SHANGHAI, March China stands on the right side of history over the Ukraine crisis as time will tell, and its position is in line with the wishes of most countries, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said. For example, cyber warfare and utilization of data to attack populations could dismantle countries and cause conflict almost instantaneously. Cybersecurity failure has been ranked among the top 10 most likely risks to the world today.