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                        <title><![CDATA[Thaddeus Stevens: American Jacobin]]></title>
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                        <pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 16:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
                        <author><![CDATA[Harrison W. Mark]]></author>
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                        <firstSentence><![CDATA[Thaddeus Stevens (1792-1868) was a US politician and abolitionist, who rose to prominence in the 1860s during the American Civil War and Reconstruction eras.]]></firstSentence>
                        <twitterPreview><![CDATA[Thaddeus Stevens used is forceful personality and venomous oratorical skills to help end slavery in the US and hold former Confederates accountable during Reconstruction. ]]></twitterPreview>
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                        <description><![CDATA[Thaddeus Stevens (1792-1868) was a US politician and abolitionist, who rose to prominence in the 1860s during the American Civil War and Reconstruction eras. A leader of the abolitionist wing of the Republican Party - known as the Radical Republicans - Stevens vigorously pushed for an end to slavery, using his forceful personality and scathing oratory to further his egalitarian agenda.]]></description>
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                        <title><![CDATA[Battle of Wilson's Creek: The "Bull Run of the West"]]></title>
                        <link><![CDATA[https://www.worldhistory.org/Battle_of_Wilson's_Creek/]]></link>
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                        <guid>1-28981</guid>
                        <pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 09:01:24 +0000</pubDate>
                        <author><![CDATA[Joshua J. Mark]]></author>
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                                <media:caption><![CDATA[Battle of Wilson's Creek]]></media:caption>
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                        <firstSentence><![CDATA[The Battle of Wilson's Creek (also known as the Battle of Oak Hills, 10 August 1861) was the second major battle of the American Civil War and the first major battle of the Western theater of the war.]]></firstSentence>
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                        <description><![CDATA[The Battle of Wilson's Creek (also known as the Battle of Oak Hills, 10 August 1861) was the second major battle of the American Civil War and the first major battle of the Western theater of the war. It was fought at Wilson's Creek near Springfield, Missouri. The engagement ended in a Confederate victory and Union troops retreating from the field. The Confederate forces were too worn out to pursue and finish them, and so this battle is often referred to as the "Bull Run of the West" because its conclusion so closely resembled the First Battle of Bull Run (First Manassas) of 21 July 1861 (see Panic at Bull Run and Losing an Opportunity at Bull Run) and aspects of that engagement, such as confusion over who was friend or enemy due to non-standardized uniforms, also played a part at this one.]]></description>
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                        <title><![CDATA[Eyewitness Accounts of the Pacific War: From Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima]]></title>
                        <link><![CDATA[https://www.worldhistory.org/article/2987/eyewitness-accounts-of-the-pacific-war/]]></link>
                        <link_long><![CDATA[https://www.worldhistory.org/article/2987/eyewitness-accounts-of-the-pacific-war/]]></link_long>
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                        <guid>2-2987</guid>
                        <pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 16:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
                        <author><![CDATA[Mark Cartwright]]></author>
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                                <media:caption><![CDATA[US Infantry Reading Letters from Home, Saipan]]></media:caption>
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                        <firstSentence><![CDATA[The Pacific War (1941-45) was the theatre of the Second World War that saw Imperial Japan and the United States, with its allies, fight for control of various island archipelagos from the Solomon Islands in the south to the Ryukyu Islands in the north.]]></firstSentence>
                        <twitterPreview><![CDATA[The Pacific War (1941-45) was the theatre of the Second World War that saw Imperial Japan and the United States, with its allies, fight for control of various island archipelagos...]]></twitterPreview>
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                        <description><![CDATA[The Pacific War (1941-45) was the theatre of the Second World War that saw Imperial Japan and the United States, with its allies, fight for control of various island archipelagos from the Solomon Islands in the south to the Ryukyu Islands in the north. In this article, the experiences of those directly involved in the air, land, and sea battles are presented.]]></description>
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                        <title><![CDATA[US Presidential Election of 1860: The Election That Caused a Civil War]]></title>
                        <link><![CDATA[https://www.worldhistory.org/US_Presidential_Election_of_1860/]]></link>
                        <link_long><![CDATA[https://www.worldhistory.org/US_Presidential_Election_of_1860/]]></link_long>
                        <link_short><![CDATA[https://whe.to/ci/1-28935-en/]]></link_short>
                        <guid>1-28935</guid>
                        <pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 08:59:26 +0000</pubDate>
                        <author><![CDATA[Harrison W. Mark]]></author>
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                                <media:caption><![CDATA[Dividing the National Map]]></media:caption>
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                        <firstSentence><![CDATA[The election of 1860 was one of the most pivotal moments in the political history of the United States and was one of the direct causes of the American Civil War.]]></firstSentence>
                        <twitterPreview><![CDATA[The Election of 1860 came at a time of great polarization, when the United States was divided over the issue of slavery. Find out how it resulted in Lincoln's victory and the start of the US Civil War]]></twitterPreview>
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                        <description><![CDATA[The Election of 1860 was one of the most consequential elections in US history. It came at a time when the nation was deeply polarized, divided over the issue of slavery; indeed, the election was seen by many as a referendum on the future of slavery itself. Abraham Lincoln, the candidate of the antislavery Republican Party, seemed a beacon of hope to abolitionists and the enslaved, but he was deemed threatening by proslavery advocates. The Democratic Party, unable to agree about its position on slavery, split in two – Stephen A. Douglas became the candidate of the more moderate Northern Democrats, while John C. Breckinridge championed the fire-eating Southern Democrats; Southern Democrats vowed to protect slavery at all costs, with some even threatening to secede if Breckinridge lost. The fourth party, the Constitutional Union Party, wanted to uphold the status quo. Find out how this four-way election resulted in not only Lincoln's victory, but the start of the US Civil War. ]]></description>
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                        <title><![CDATA[Battle of Okinawa: WWII's Last Major Battle]]></title>
                        <link><![CDATA[https://www.worldhistory.org/article/2984/battle-of-okinawa/]]></link>
                        <link_long><![CDATA[https://www.worldhistory.org/article/2984/battle-of-okinawa/]]></link_long>
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                        <guid>2-2984</guid>
                        <pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 16:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
                        <author><![CDATA[Mark Cartwright]]></author>
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                        <firstSentence><![CDATA[The Battle of Okinawa (April to June 1945) was the largest amphibious assault and last major battle of the Second World War (1939-45).]]></firstSentence>
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                        <description><![CDATA[The Battle of Okinawa (April to June 1945) was the largest amphibious assault and last major battle of the Second World War (1939-45). A massive naval fleet landed 170,000 US troops on the island, but it took two and a half months of bitter fighting to defeat a Japanese army determined to inflict as many casualties as possible on the enemy by whatever means possible. Around 100,000 Japanese combatants, up to 150,000 civilians, and around 12,000 US troops were killed on Okinawa. Victory gave the US the perfect platform from which to launch an assault on Japan's largest islands, an operation made unnecessary by the dropping of two atomic bombs and Japan's surrender in August 1945.]]></description>
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                        <title><![CDATA[Sectional Divisions of the Civil War: The Correspondence of A. Nicholas and J.M. McCue]]></title>
                        <link><![CDATA[https://www.worldhistory.org/article/2981/sectional-divisions-of-the-civil-war/]]></link>
                        <link_long><![CDATA[https://www.worldhistory.org/article/2981/sectional-divisions-of-the-civil-war/]]></link_long>
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                        <guid>2-2981</guid>
                        <pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 09:06:29 +0000</pubDate>
                        <author><![CDATA[Joshua J. Mark]]></author>
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                                <media:caption><![CDATA[Map of the United States at the Outbreak of Civil War, 1861]]></media:caption>
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                        <firstSentence><![CDATA[Sectional divisions between the North and South in the United States began long before the American Civil War (1861 to 1865) and, in fact, were noted at the Constitutional Convention of 1787.]]></firstSentence>
                        <twitterPreview><![CDATA[Sectional divisions between the North and South in the United States began long before the American Civil War (1861 to 1865) and, in fact, were noted at the Constitutional...]]></twitterPreview>
                        <blueskyPreview><![CDATA[Sectional divisions between the North and South in the United States began long before the American Civil War (1861 to 1865) and, in fact, were noted at the Constitutional Convention of 1787. https://whe.to/ci/2-2981-en/]]></blueskyPreview>
                        <description><![CDATA[Sectional divisions between the North and South in the United States began long before the American Civil War (1861 to 1865) and, in fact, were noted at the Constitutional Convention of 1787. It was during this convention that the first in a series of compromises between North and South was made law through the Three-Fifths Clause in the US Constitution. The Three-Fifths Compromise was a concession to the Southern states, with fewer people than the North, agreeing to count three out of every five enslaved Africans as part of a state's population to inflate numbers and give Southern States more balanced political power in the House of Representatives.]]></description>
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                        <title><![CDATA[P. G. T. Beauregard: The Confederate Advocate for Civil Rights]]></title>
                        <link><![CDATA[https://www.worldhistory.org/P._G._T._Beauregard/]]></link>
                        <link_long><![CDATA[https://www.worldhistory.org/P._G._T._Beauregard/]]></link_long>
                        <link_short><![CDATA[https://whe.to/ci/1-28936-en/]]></link_short>
                        <guid>1-28936</guid>
                        <pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 15:55:29 +0000</pubDate>
                        <author><![CDATA[Joshua J. Mark]]></author>
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                                <media:caption><![CDATA[Confederate General P. G. T. Beauregard]]></media:caption>
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                        <firstSentence><![CDATA[Pierre Gustave Toutant-Beauregard (P. G. T. Beauregard, 1818 to 1893) was an engineer and Confederate general during the American Civil War.]]></firstSentence>
                        <twitterPreview><![CDATA[Pierre Gustave Toutant-Beauregard (P. G. T. Beauregard, 1818 to 1893) was an engineer and Confederate general during the American Civil War.]]></twitterPreview>
                        <blueskyPreview><![CDATA[Pierre Gustave Toutant-Beauregard (P. G. T. Beauregard, 1818 to 1893) was an engineer and Confederate general during the American Civil War. https://whe.to/ci/1-28936-en/]]></blueskyPreview>
                        <description><![CDATA[Pierre Gustave Toutant-Beauregard (P. G. T. Beauregard, 1818 to 1893) was an engineer and Confederate general during the American Civil War. He is famous as the first general commissioned to lead the Provisional Army of the Confederate States (on 1 March 1861) and the Confederate officer who ordered the first shots fired at the Battle of Fort Sumter on 12 April 1861, starting the war. As such, he became the first war hero of the Confederacy, and his popularity in the South became even greater after he commanded the Confederate Army (along with General Joseph E. Johnston) at the First Battle of Bull Run (First Manassas) on 21 July 1861, the first major battle of the Civil War and a decisive Confederate victory.]]></description>
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                        <title><![CDATA[Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor]]></title>
                        <link><![CDATA[https://www.worldhistory.org/Charles_V,_Holy_Roman_Emperor/]]></link>
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                        <link_short><![CDATA[https://whe.to/ci/1-25877-en/]]></link_short>
                        <guid>1-25877</guid>
                        <pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 09:02:43 +0000</pubDate>
                        <author><![CDATA[Liam Athas]]></author>
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                                <media:caption><![CDATA[Charles V with a Dog by Titian]]></media:caption>
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                        <firstSentence><![CDATA[Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (24 February 1500 to 21 September 1558) reigned from 1519 until his abdication in 1556 and was one of the most powerful rulers in the history of the Habsburg dynasty.]]></firstSentence>
                        <twitterPreview><![CDATA[Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (24 February 1500 to 21 September 1558) reigned from 1519 until his abdication in 1556 and was one of the most powerful rulers in the history of the Habsburg dynasty.]]></twitterPreview>
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                        <description><![CDATA[Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (24 February 1500 to 21 September 1558) reigned from 1519 until his abdication in 1556 and was one of the most powerful rulers in the history of the Habsburg dynasty. Through a series of dynastic inheritances from his Habsburg and Trastámara ancestors, Charles came to rule over several major kingdoms spanning much of Western and Central Europe by his teenage years. His possessions and titles included Archduke of Austria (1519-1521), King of Castile and Aragon (1516-1556), King of Naples (1516-1554), King of Sicily (1516-1556), and Duke of Burgundy (1506-1555), among many others. The reign of Charles V also coincided with the rapid expansion of the Spanish Empire in the Americas, which included the Spanish conquests of the Aztec and Inca civilizations.]]></description>
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                        <title><![CDATA[Braxton Bragg: The Most Controversial Confederate General]]></title>
                        <link><![CDATA[https://www.worldhistory.org/Braxton_Bragg/]]></link>
                        <link_long><![CDATA[https://www.worldhistory.org/Braxton_Bragg/]]></link_long>
                        <link_short><![CDATA[https://whe.to/ci/1-25765-en/]]></link_short>
                        <guid>1-25765</guid>
                        <pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 16:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
                        <author><![CDATA[Harrison W. Mark]]></author>
                        <translator><![CDATA[]]></translator>
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                                <media:caption><![CDATA[Confederate General Braxton Bragg]]></media:caption>
                                <media:credit><![CDATA[Unknown Photographer (Public Domain)]]></media:credit>
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                        <firstSentence><![CDATA[Braxton Bragg (1817-1876) was a Confederate general from North Carolina, best known for commanding the Army of Tennessee in the Western Theater of the American Civil War (1861-1865).]]></firstSentence>
                        <twitterPreview><![CDATA[Known for his strict discipline and prickly temper, Braxton Bragg was one of the most hated generals in the Confederate Army. Find out why:]]></twitterPreview>
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                        <description><![CDATA[Braxton Bragg was a Confederate general from North Carolina, who led the Army of Tennessee in the American Civil War. A strict disciplinarian with a prickly temper, he was despised by his men - indeed, Private Sam Watkins once wrote that "not a single soldier in the army ever loved or respected him". He was also hated by his subordinate generals and corps commanders, who often tried to get him fired or replaced. Yet for all that, Bragg retained the trust of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, who he had once saved in the Mexican-American War, and scored a significant victory for the Confederacy at the Battle of Chickamauga in September 1863. A controversial and hated figure, Bragg was nonetheless an important character in the short history of the Southern Confederacy.]]></description>
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                        <title><![CDATA[Battle of Iwo Jima: The Pacific War's Bloodiest Encounter]]></title>
                        <link><![CDATA[https://www.worldhistory.org/article/2982/battle-of-iwo-jima/]]></link>
                        <link_long><![CDATA[https://www.worldhistory.org/article/2982/battle-of-iwo-jima/]]></link_long>
                        <link_short><![CDATA[https://whe.to/ci/2-2982-en/]]></link_short>
                        <guid>2-2982</guid>
                        <pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 09:02:39 +0000</pubDate>
                        <author><![CDATA[Mark Cartwright]]></author>
                        <translator><![CDATA[]]></translator>
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                                <media:caption><![CDATA[Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima]]></media:caption>
                                <media:credit><![CDATA[Joe Rosenthal (Public Domain)]]></media:credit>
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                        <firstSentence><![CDATA[The Battle of Iwo Jima (February to March 1945) was the bloodiest battle of WWII's Pacific War.]]></firstSentence>
                        <twitterPreview><![CDATA[The Battle of Iwo Jima (February to March 1945) was the bloodiest battle of WWII's Pacific War.]]></twitterPreview>
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                        <description><![CDATA[The Battle of Iwo Jima (February to March 1945) was the bloodiest battle of WWII's Pacific War. A 72-day bombing campaign pounded the island before 110,000 US Marines landed on the beaches. The Japanese defenders had dug themselves a bewildering maze of bunkers, tunnels, and pillboxes, which made clearing the island a deadly business. The US forces won the battle after 36 days of intense fighting but suffered over 27,000 casualties. From the Japanese garrison of 21,000, only 216 men survived the battle. The prize of victory was a strategically important island that could now be used to launch fighter planes to escort the heavy bombers already flying from the Mariana Islands and hitting the main Japanese islands.]]></description>
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                        <hashtags><![CDATA[#AmphibiousLanding #IwoJima #PacificWar #SecondWorldWar #USHistory #USMarines #WorldWarII #WWII]]></hashtags>
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                        <title><![CDATA[Kish: The First City of Political Prominence in History]]></title>
                        <link><![CDATA[https://www.worldhistory.org/kish/]]></link>
                        <link_long><![CDATA[https://www.worldhistory.org/kish/]]></link_long>
                        <link_short><![CDATA[https://whe.to/ci/1-266-en/]]></link_short>
                        <guid>1-266</guid>
                        <pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 16:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
                        <author><![CDATA[Nathalie Choubineh]]></author>
                        <translator><![CDATA[]]></translator>
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                                <media:caption><![CDATA[The Ziggurat at Kish]]></media:caption>
                                <media:credit><![CDATA[Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin (Copyright)]]></media:credit>
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                        <firstSentence><![CDATA[Kish was one of the most significant and politically prestigious city-states in ancient Mesopotamia.]]></firstSentence>
                        <twitterPreview><![CDATA[Kish was one of the most significant and politically prestigious city-states in ancient Mesopotamia.]]></twitterPreview>
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                        <description><![CDATA[Kish was one of the most significant and politically prestigious city-states in ancient Mesopotamia. According to the Sumerian King List, it was the first city to be given divine kingship after the Great Flood, suggesting that Kish was one of the earliest known contributors to the development of political authority in human history. Kish maintained a predominant position in the region for nearly four centuries before the rise of Sargon of Akkad (the Great, reign 2334-2279 BCE) and the foundation of his new capital, Akkad (aka Agade). Still, despite being constantly mistaken with Akkad or Babylon in ancient sources, Kish continued its existence as a pivotal political centre and remained inhabited for at least 3000 years.]]></description>
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                        <hashtags><![CDATA[#Sumerians #SargonOfAkkad #Mesopotamia #Kish #Hammurabi #BabylonianEmpire #MesopotamianTablet #UrukPeriod]]></hashtags>
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                        <regions><![CDATA[MiddleEast]]></regions>
                        <subjects><![CDATA[StatesCultures,Places]]></subjects>
                        <periods><![CDATA[Ancient]]></periods>
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                        <title><![CDATA[Battle of Guam: The US Takes Back its Territory in WWII]]></title>
                        <link><![CDATA[https://www.worldhistory.org/article/2980/battle-of-guam/]]></link>
                        <link_long><![CDATA[https://www.worldhistory.org/article/2980/battle-of-guam/]]></link_long>
                        <link_short><![CDATA[https://whe.to/ci/2-2980-en/]]></link_short>
                        <guid>2-2980</guid>
                        <pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 08:58:18 +0000</pubDate>
                        <author><![CDATA[Mark Cartwright]]></author>
                        <translator><![CDATA[]]></translator>
                        <media:content url="https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/1500x1500/22060.png">
                                <media:caption><![CDATA[Amphibious Assault, Guam]]></media:caption>
                                <media:credit><![CDATA[Imperial War Museums (CC BY-NC-SA)]]></media:credit>
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                        <firstSentence><![CDATA[The Battle of Guam, in the Mariana Islands, took place in July and August 1944 during the Pacific War of the Second World War (1939-45).]]></firstSentence>
                        <twitterPreview><![CDATA[The Battle of Guam, in the Mariana Islands, took place in July and August 1944 during the...]]></twitterPreview>
                        <blueskyPreview><![CDATA[The Battle of Guam, in the Mariana Islands, took place in July and August 1944 during the Pacific War of the Second World War (1939-45). https://whe.to/ci/2-2980-en/]]></blueskyPreview>
                        <description><![CDATA[The Battle of Guam, in the Mariana Islands, took place in July and August 1944 during the Pacific War of the Second World War (1939-45). Guam had been US territory prior to the conflict but was occupied by the Japanese military in 1941. A massive US naval bombardment and amphibious assault eventually cleared the island of the Japanese occupiers but at the cost of around 1,700 US lives. Guam became an important naval and air base for the rest of the war, greatly helping US forces move deeper into Japan's Pacific empire and attack Japan itself.]]></description>
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                        <hashtags><![CDATA[#AmphibiousLanding #BattleOfGuam #Guam #JapaneseEmpire #MarianaIslands #PacificWar #SecondWorldWar #USHistory #USMarines #WorldWarII #WWII]]></hashtags>
                        <hashtagsCSV><![CDATA[#AmphibiousLanding,#BattleOfGuam,#Guam,#JapaneseEmpire,#MarianaIslands,#PacificWar,#SecondWorldWar,#USHistory,#USMarines,#WorldWarII,#WWII]]></hashtagsCSV>
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                        <title><![CDATA[Battle of Saipan]]></title>
                        <link><![CDATA[https://www.worldhistory.org/article/2975/battle-of-saipan/]]></link>
                        <link_long><![CDATA[https://www.worldhistory.org/article/2975/battle-of-saipan/]]></link_long>
                        <link_short><![CDATA[https://whe.to/ci/2-2975-en/]]></link_short>
                        <guid>2-2975</guid>
                        <pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 08:59:02 +0000</pubDate>
                        <author><![CDATA[Mark Cartwright]]></author>
                        <translator><![CDATA[]]></translator>
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                                <media:caption><![CDATA[US Marines, Battle of Saipan]]></media:caption>
                                <media:credit><![CDATA[Signal Corps Archive (Public Domain)]]></media:credit>
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                        <firstSentence><![CDATA[The Battle of Saipan took place in June-July 1944.]]></firstSentence>
                        <twitterPreview><![CDATA[The Battle of Saipan took place in June-July 1944.]]></twitterPreview>
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                        <description><![CDATA[The Battle of Saipan took place in June-July 1944. US forces engaged in a titanic three-week struggle with Japanese defenders to finally take the island, part of the Mariana Islands, during the Pacific War of WWII (1939-45). The battle for Saipan inflicted total casualties of over 45,000. Control of the island and others in the archipelago allowed the US to operate airfields with B-29 bombers that were now close enough to bomb any city in Japan.]]></description>
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                        <hashtags><![CDATA[#BattleOfSaipan #ImperialJapan #MarianaIslands #PacificWar #Saipan #SecondWorldWar #USHistory #USMarines #WWII]]></hashtags>
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                        <title><![CDATA[South Carolina Declaration of Secession: Why South Carolina Left the Union]]></title>
                        <link><![CDATA[https://www.worldhistory.org/article/2979/south-carolina-declaration-of-secession/]]></link>
                        <link_long><![CDATA[https://www.worldhistory.org/article/2979/south-carolina-declaration-of-secession/]]></link_long>
                        <link_short><![CDATA[https://whe.to/ci/2-2979-en/]]></link_short>
                        <guid>2-2979</guid>
                        <pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 16:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
                        <author><![CDATA[Harrison W. Mark]]></author>
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                        <media:content url="https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/1500x1500/22066.jpg">
                                <media:caption><![CDATA[The Charleston Mercury on South Carolina's Secession]]></media:caption>
                                <media:credit><![CDATA[Charleston Mercury (Public Domain)]]></media:credit>
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                        <firstSentence><![CDATA[On 20 December 1860, 169 delegates met in Institute Hall in Charleston, South Carolina, to consider the motion of secession from the United States of America.]]></firstSentence>
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                        <description><![CDATA[On 20 December 1860, 169 delegates met in Institute Hall in Charleston, South Carolina, to consider the motion of secession from the United States of America. They voted unanimously to do so; by voting to cut ties with the Union, South Carolina would trigger the Secession Crisis of 1860-61 which would lead to the formation of the Confederate States of America and, ultimately, to the American Civil War (1861-65).]]></description>
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                        <hashtags><![CDATA[#AmericanCivilWar #Secession #SecessionCrisis #Slavery #SouthCarolina #USHistory]]></hashtags>
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                        <title><![CDATA[Jefferson Davis' Message to Congress: States' Rights and Defense of Slavery]]></title>
                        <link><![CDATA[https://www.worldhistory.org/article/2976/jefferson-davis-message-to-congress/]]></link>
                        <link_long><![CDATA[https://www.worldhistory.org/article/2976/jefferson-davis-message-to-congress/]]></link_long>
                        <link_short><![CDATA[https://whe.to/ci/2-2976-en/]]></link_short>
                        <guid>2-2976</guid>
                        <pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 16:02:22 +0000</pubDate>
                        <author><![CDATA[Joshua J. Mark]]></author>
                        <translator><![CDATA[]]></translator>
                        <media:content url="https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/1500x1500/21493.jpg">
                                <media:caption><![CDATA[Jefferson Davis, 1859]]></media:caption>
                                <media:credit><![CDATA[Julian Vannerson (Public Domain)]]></media:credit>
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                        <firstSentence><![CDATA[There were many events leading up to the American Civil War, with tensions becoming increasingly heightened between the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 and, the final tipping point, the US Presidential Election of 1860.]]></firstSentence>
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                        <description><![CDATA[There were many events leading up to the American Civil War, with tensions becoming increasingly heightened between the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 and, the final tipping point, the US Presidential Election of 1860. After the election of Abraham Lincoln, South Carolina seceded on 20 December 1860 and other Southern States soon followed the same course.]]></description>
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                        <hashtags><![CDATA[#JeffersonDavis #AmericanCivilWar #Slavery #USHistory]]></hashtags>
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                        <title><![CDATA[Gilbert and Marshall Islands Campaign: The US Island-Hopping Advance in the Pacific]]></title>
                        <link><![CDATA[https://www.worldhistory.org/Gilbert_and_Marshall_Islands_Campaign/]]></link>
                        <link_long><![CDATA[https://www.worldhistory.org/Gilbert_and_Marshall_Islands_Campaign/]]></link_long>
                        <link_short><![CDATA[https://whe.to/ci/1-28923-en/]]></link_short>
                        <guid>1-28923</guid>
                        <pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 09:05:03 +0000</pubDate>
                        <author><![CDATA[Mark Cartwright]]></author>
                        <translator><![CDATA[]]></translator>
                        <media:content url="https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/1500x1500/22041.png">
                                <media:caption><![CDATA[Wrecked Japanese Plane, Makin Atoll, 1943]]></media:caption>
                                <media:credit><![CDATA[Imperial War Museums (CC BY-NC-SA)]]></media:credit>
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                        <firstSentence><![CDATA[The Gilbert and Marshall Islands Campaign (November 1943 to February 1944), a key strategic step forward in WWII's Pacific War, saw US forces launch multiple amphibious landings against Japanese-held islands and coral atolls in Micronesia.]]></firstSentence>
                        <twitterPreview><![CDATA[The Gilbert and Marshall Islands Campaign (November 1943 to February 1944), a key strategic step forward in WWII's Pacific War, saw...]]></twitterPreview>
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                        <description><![CDATA[The Gilbert and Marshall Islands Campaign (November 1943 to February 1944), a key strategic step forward in WWII's Pacific War, saw US forces launch multiple amphibious landings against Japanese-held islands and coral atolls in Micronesia. Victory came at a high price in casualties, but the campaign further secured the US's supply lines in the South Seas and enclosed Japan within the western half of the Pacific. US forces could now launch attacks on Japan's main naval base at Truk Atoll and begin to push Japan back to its home islands.]]></description>
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                        <hashtags><![CDATA[#BattleOfTarawa #MarshallIslands #PacificWar #SecondWorldWar #USMarines #USNavy #WorldWarII #WWII]]></hashtags>
                        <hashtagsCSV><![CDATA[#BattleOfTarawa,#MarshallIslands,#PacificWar,#SecondWorldWar,#USMarines,#USNavy,#WorldWarII,#WWII]]></hashtagsCSV>
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                        <title><![CDATA[Georgia's Declaration of Secession: Why Georgia Left the Union]]></title>
                        <link><![CDATA[https://www.worldhistory.org/article/2972/georgias-declaration-of-secession/]]></link>
                        <link_long><![CDATA[https://www.worldhistory.org/article/2972/georgias-declaration-of-secession/]]></link_long>
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                        <pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 16:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
                        <author><![CDATA[Harrison W. Mark]]></author>
                        <translator><![CDATA[]]></translator>
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                                <media:caption><![CDATA[Georgia's Ordinance of Secession]]></media:caption>
                                <media:credit><![CDATA[Unknown Photographer (Public Domain)]]></media:credit>
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                        <firstSentence><![CDATA[On 19 January 1861, at a state convention held in Milledgeville, Georgia voted to secede from the United States of America, becoming the fifth state to do so.]]></firstSentence>
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                        <description><![CDATA[On 19 January 1861, at a state convention held in Milledgeville, Georgia voted to secede from the United States of America, becoming the fifth state to do so. Ten days later - 29 January - it issued a 'Declaration of the Causes of Secession', in which it expressed its grievances with the federal government and gave its reasons for seceding from the Union. Its main grievance was over slavery; it condemns the North for being too aggressive in its push to end slavery and cites the rise of the anti-slavery Republican Party and the election of Abraham Lincoln as reasons for its cutting ties with the Union. Read on to see the full transcript of Georgia's Declaration of Secession.
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                        <hashtags><![CDATA[#AmericanCivilWar #Georgia #PrimarySource #Secession #Slavery]]></hashtags>
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                        <title><![CDATA[Bronze Age Collapse: The Decline and Fall of Mediterranean Civilization]]></title>
                        <link><![CDATA[https://www.worldhistory.org/Bronze_Age_Collapse/]]></link>
                        <link_long><![CDATA[https://www.worldhistory.org/Bronze_Age_Collapse/]]></link_long>
                        <link_short><![CDATA[https://whe.to/ci/1-10433-en/]]></link_short>
                        <guid>1-10433</guid>
                        <pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 08:58:32 +0000</pubDate>
                        <author><![CDATA[Joshua J. Mark]]></author>
                        <translator><![CDATA[]]></translator>
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                                <media:caption><![CDATA[Map of the Late Bronze Age Collapse and Transfromation]]></media:caption>
                                <media:credit><![CDATA[Simeon Netchev (CC BY-NC-ND)]]></media:credit>
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                        <firstSentence><![CDATA[The Bronze Age Collapse (also known as Late Bronze Age Collapse) is a modern-day term referring to the decline and fall of major Mediterranean civilizations during the 13th-12th centuries BCE.]]></firstSentence>
                        <twitterPreview><![CDATA[The Bronze Age Collapse (also known as Late Bronze Age Collapse) is a modern-day term referring to the decline and fall of major Mediterranean civilizations during the...]]></twitterPreview>
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                        <description><![CDATA[The Bronze Age Collapse (also known as Late Bronze Age Collapse) is a modern-day term referring to the decline and fall of major Mediterranean civilizations during the 13th-12th centuries BCE. The precise cause of the Bronze Age Collapse has been debated by scholars for over a century, as well as the date it probably began and when it ended, but no consensus has been reached.]]></description>
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                        <hashtags><![CDATA[#SeaPeoples #Mitanni #Hittite #BronzeAgeCollapse #AmarnaLetters]]></hashtags>
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                        <title><![CDATA[Guadalcanal Campaign: WWII's Brutal Fight to Control the Solomons]]></title>
                        <link><![CDATA[https://www.worldhistory.org/Guadalcanal_Campaign/]]></link>
                        <link_long><![CDATA[https://www.worldhistory.org/Guadalcanal_Campaign/]]></link_long>
                        <link_short><![CDATA[https://whe.to/ci/1-28887-en/]]></link_short>
                        <guid>1-28887</guid>
                        <pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 09:29:53 +0000</pubDate>
                        <author><![CDATA[Mark Cartwright]]></author>
                        <translator><![CDATA[]]></translator>
                        <media:content url="https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/1500x1500/22034.jpg">
                                <media:caption><![CDATA[Kinugawa Maru, Guadalcanal]]></media:caption>
                                <media:credit><![CDATA[US Navy (Public Domain)]]></media:credit>
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                        <firstSentence><![CDATA[The Guadalcanal Campaign (aka Battle for Guadalcanal) in the Solomon Islands was a series of land, air, and sea battles between US and Japanese forces in the Pacific War of WWII.]]></firstSentence>
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                        <description><![CDATA[The Guadalcanal Campaign (aka Battle for Guadalcanal) in the Solomon Islands was a series of land, air, and sea battles between US and Japanese forces in the Pacific War of WWII. Lasting from August 1942 to February 1943, the campaign was a titanic struggle for control of Guadalcanal Island and its vital airstrip. The landing of tens of thousands of US Marines aimed to stop further Japanese expansion into the South Pacific and follow up the US victory at the Battle of Midway, but a large amphibious landing of Japanese forces and tit-for-tat naval encounters meant the final US victory came at a cost of over 6,000 US casualties and the loss of 24 ships, including the aircraft carrier Hornet.]]></description>
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                        <hashtags><![CDATA[#Guadalcanal #PacificWar #SecondWorldWar #SolomonIslands #SouthPacific #USMarines #USNavy #WWII]]></hashtags>
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                        <title><![CDATA[Macedon: Birthplace of Alexander the Great]]></title>
                        <link><![CDATA[https://www.worldhistory.org/macedon/]]></link>
                        <link_long><![CDATA[https://www.worldhistory.org/macedon/]]></link_long>
                        <link_short><![CDATA[https://whe.to/ci/1-386-en/]]></link_short>
                        <guid>1-386</guid>
                        <pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 09:01:30 +0000</pubDate>
                        <author><![CDATA[Joshua J. Mark]]></author>
                        <translator><![CDATA[]]></translator>
                        <media:content url="https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/1500x1500/3185.jpg">
                                <media:caption><![CDATA[Apollo, Macedonian Gold Stater]]></media:caption>
                                <media:credit><![CDATA[Mark Cartwright (CC BY-NC-SA)]]></media:credit>
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                        <firstSentence><![CDATA[Macedon was an ancient kingdom located in the north of the Greek peninsula first inhabited by the Mackednoi tribe whose identity was challenged by some southern Greeks but who, according to Herodotus (5:22), were Greek.]]></firstSentence>
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                        <description><![CDATA[Macedon was an ancient kingdom located in the north of the Greek peninsula first inhabited by the Mackednoi tribe whose identity was challenged by some southern Greeks but who, according to Herodotus (5:22), were Greek. It is famously known as the birthplace of Alexander the Great.]]></description>
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                        <hashtags><![CDATA[#Thessalonica #Philippi #Macedon #Hephaestion #Cynane #BattleOfChaeronea #AlexanderTheGreat]]></hashtags>
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                        <regions><![CDATA[Mediterranean]]></regions>
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