• Whig history (or Whig historiography) is an approach to historiography that presents history as a journey from an oppressive and benighted past to a "glorious...
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  • Whigs contested power with their rivals, the Tories. The Whigs merged into the Liberal Party with the Peelites and Radicals in the 1850s. Many Whigs left...
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  • Look up Whig in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Whig or Whigs may refer to: Whigs (British political party), one of two political parties in England,...
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  • The Whig Party was a political party that existed in the United States during the mid-19th century. Alongside the slightly larger Democratic Party, it...
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  • The history of the United States Whig Party lasted from the establishment of the Whig Party early in President Andrew Jackson's second term (1833–1837)...
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  • post-colonial India Urban history American urban history Whig history, history interpreted as the story of continuous progress World history Zeitgeist Important...
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  • Hallam's Constitutional History of England of 1827 contains the "authoritative Whig presentation of modern English history", and it "immediately took...
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    Whiggism (redirect from Whigism)
    Elephant and Castle in Cornhill, 1682) Whig history Patriot Whigs Radical Whigs Rockingham Whigs True Whig Party Whig Party (United States) Patriot (American...
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    Thomas Babington Macaulay (category Whig history)
    Whig politician, who served as the Secretary at War between 1839 and 1841, and as the Paymaster General between 1846 and 1848. Macaulay's The History...
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    peace theory End of history Last Man Post-truth politics Sociocultural evolution Thumos The Clash of Civilizations Whig history Glaser, Eliane (March...
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  • expression. This model of human progress has been called the Whig interpretation of history. Macaulay's approach has been criticised by later historians...
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  • a Whig government may refer to the following British governments administered by the Whigs: Whig Junto, a name given to a group of leading Whigs who...
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    The American Whig–Cliosophic Society, sometimes abbreviated as Whig-Clio, is a political, literary, and debating society at Princeton University and the...
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  • Presentism (historical analysis) (category Whig history)
    presentism was the so-called "Whig history", in which certain 18th- and 19th-century British historians wrote history in a way that used the past to...
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    that was a permanent benefit to the French. Allan Greer argues that Whig history was once the dominant style of scholars. He says the: interpretive schemes...
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    Revolutionary Structure and agency Timeline of scientific discoveries Übermensch Whig history Bentley, Eric (1944). A Century of Hero-Worship: A study of the idea...
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    English Revolution (category Whig history)
    II, and a constitutional monarchy was established that was described by Whig historians as the "English Revolution". That interpretation suggests that...
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    The Whig was a polemical American newspaper published and edited by William G. "Parson" Brownlow (1805–1877) in the mid-nineteenth century. As its name...
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  • The Rockingham Whigs (or Rockinghamites) in 18th-century British politics were a faction of the Whigs led by Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of...
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    appointed by the Prime Minister. The young Queen was so attached to her Whig ladies of the bedchamber that after Melbourne's resignation in 1839, she...
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    alongside or before ARPANET. These histories of the Internet have since been characterized as teleologies or Whig history; that is, they take the present...
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    in American history, which would not occur again until 1892. In 1839, the Whigs held a national convention for the first time. The 1839 Whig National Convention...
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    President Martin Van Buren defeated four candidates fielded by the nascent Whig Party. The 1835 Democratic National Convention chose a ticket of Van Buren...
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  • The Radical Whigs were a group of British political commentators associated with the British Whig faction who were at the forefront of the Radical movement...
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    The Whig government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland that began in November 1830 and ended in November 1834 consisted of two ministries:...
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  • unintentional evidence provided by historical sources. urban history Victorian warfare Whig history A mode of historical interpretation which presents the past...
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    Herbert Butterfield (category Whig history)
    chiefly for a short volume early in his career entitled The Whig Interpretation of History (1931) and for his Origins of Modern Science (1949). Butterfield...
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    Retrofuturism Skeuomorph Society for Creative Anachronism Steampunk Whig history "Metachronism". Merriam-Webster. Retrieved 26 January 2024. "Art in December:...
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  • as the Whig Party, characterised by its opposition to absolute monarchy; in the early to middle 1700s it was taken up by opponents of the Whig Walpole...
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    his memoirs, which are regarded as significant in the development of Whig history. Waldegrave was born the eldest son of James Waldegrave, 1st Earl Waldegrave...
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