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The American Presidency
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/pl3071
Module code: PL3071 With control over the most expensive military, the largest economy by GDP, an enormous amount of hard and soft power and a third of the world's total wealth, the Presidency of the United States is arguably the most powerful political position in the world.
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Slavery, the Civil War and Reconstruction in the United States
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/hs2346
Module code:HS2346 This module explores US history from the final years of slavery through the Civil War and Reconstruction in the mid-19th century.
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Slavery, the Civil War and Reconstruction in the United States
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/hs2346
Module code:HS2346 This module explores US history from the final years of slavery through the Civil War and Reconstruction in the mid-19th century.
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Slavery, the Civil War and Reconstruction in the United States
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/hs2346
Module code:HS2346 This module explores US history from the final years of slavery through the Civil War and Reconstruction in the mid-19th century.
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The Connecting Sea
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/ar7076
Module code: AR7076 You’ll be piecing together the past, present and future of the Caribbean from various archaeological materials. Throughout this module you’ll develop a critical awareness of the major themes in precolonial, colonial and contemporary Caribbean.
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Alex Keller
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2020/alex-keller
The University has learned, with regret, of the death of Professor Alex Keller who taught history of science and technology at Leicester 1963-1997.
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Criminology in the News
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/cr3027
Module code: CR3027 We only have to check social media, switch on the television, or pick up a newspaper to see headlines about crime and victimisation, and to realise how relevant to everyday life the study of criminology has become.
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University of Leicester rated one of the best in the world
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/september/16-university-of-leicester-rated-one-of-the-best-in-the-world
The University of Leicester is ranked one of the top 200 universities in the world and top 25 in the UK according to the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings 2020.
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Barbarians from the West the Crusades seen from an Arabic perspective
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/june/barbarians-from-the-west-the-crusades-seen-from-an-arabic-perspective
The writings of Arabic communities during the Crusades, long overlooked by most historians in the West, will be explored in a lecture that aims to provide a new perspective on this bloody period of history.
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Discovering the remains
https://le.ac.uk/richard-iii/discovery
Find out more about the project to find the remains of King Richard III from pinpointing potential locations and the digging of the trenches, to locating the remains and preserving the grave for posterity.