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    The True Story of 'Wolf Hall'

    The Dramatic Rise & Fall of Thomas Cromwell Thomas Cromwell, chief architect of the English Reformation, served as principal minister of Henry VIII from 1532 to 1540, the most tumultuous period in Henry's thirty-seven year reign. Many of the momentous events of the 1530s are attributed to Cromwell's agency: the Reformation, the dissolution of the monasteries and the fall of Henry's second wife, ... Read more

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    Thomas Cromwell, chief architect of the English Reformation, served as minister of Henry VIII from 1531 to 1540, the period during which more political and religious reform was accomplished than at any other time in Henry's thirty-seven-year reign. Thus the momentous events of the 1530s are generally (but not universally) attributed to Cromwell's agency. Cromwell has been the subject of close and ... Read more

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  • The Constitutional Convention of 1787

    Constructing the American Republic

    Series series Reacting to the Past™
    The Constitutional Convention of 1787 brings to life the debates that most profoundly shaped American government. As representatives to the convention, students must investigate the ideological arguments behind possible structures for a new government and create a new constitution. ... Read more

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  • Machiavelli's Romans

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    Series series Applications of Political Theory
    Although Machiavelli is usually considered a pioneer among modern political philosophers, he read deeply in and was greatly influenced by the works of classical Roman thinkers such as Livy. There is thus a fundamental tension between the modern and the ancient within Machiavelli's philosophy; he is both a precursor to the Enlightenment and a throwback to republican Rome. This is the main thesis ... Read more

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  • Henry VIII and the Reformation Parliament

    Series series Reacting to the Past™
    Henry VIII and the Reformation Parliament transforms students into English lords and commoners during the tumultuous years of 1529 to 1536. Cardinal Wolsey has just been dismissed as lord chancellor for failing to obtain an annulment of King Henry’s marriage to Catherine of Aragon. Thomas More, the humanist author of Utopia, is named as Wolsey’s replacement. More presides over Parliament, which ... Read more

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  • Inventing the Individual

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  • Of The Social Contract and Other Political Writings

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