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Historical Context Of JIM Crow 0 elleng May 2022 May 2022 8 935
On This Day in History May 17, 1769 George Washington criticizes "taxation without representation" 2 elleng May 2022 May 2022 2 1082
Lincoln Quote of The Week... 5 elleng May 2022 May 2022 16 1140
On This Day in History May 14, 1804 Lewis and Clark depart to explore the Northwest 6 elleng May 2022 May 2022 2 1252
May 10, 1869 The Golden Spike 0 elleng May 2022 May 2022 2 926
The Man Who Accidentally Killed The Most People In History 0 Uncle Joe May 2022 May 2022 11 1384
May 2, 1927, Buck v. Bell, Supreme Ct. Sterilization of Unfit; Eugenics, 1924 Immigration Law, Nazis 0 appalachiablue May 2022 May 2022 7 1345
"The Wobblies": Iconic Film on the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) Is Rereleased for May Day 3 Uncle Joe Apr 2022 Apr 2022 4 1201
The Death of President Roosevelt, April 12, 1945 7 appalachiablue Apr 2022 Apr 2022 7 1283
Legacy of Ulysses S. Grant Complicated 200 Years After Birth 2 Sherman A1 Apr 2022 Apr 2022 5 1288
THE PEARL, Largest Attempted Slave Escape In US History, 1848, Wash., DC: Paul Jennings 2 appalachiablue Apr 2022 Apr 2022 6 1301
Fight w Descendants of The Enslaved, Employee Firings At Montpelier, Home of J. Madison, 4th US Pres 1 appalachiablue Apr 2022 Apr 2022 4 1142
Crews work to save decommissioned WWII destroyer taking on water 2 Sherman A1 Apr 2022 Apr 2022 5 1373
1911 video of New York City (remastered, colorized) 7 steve2470 Apr 2022 Apr 2022 21 1633
NY Slave Revolt of April 6, 1712: Prelude To Decades of Hardship; Sojourner Truth, Dutch New York 5 appalachiablue Apr 2022 Apr 2022 13 1601
April 9, 1865, Appomattox, Virginia hostilities cease 1 elleng Apr 2022 Apr 2022 5 1478
April 6, 1846 - 0 Sherman A1 Apr 2022 Apr 2022 8 954
Roosevelt & Churchill In Ottawa And Quebec - SOUND 0 bucolic_frolic Apr 2022 Apr 2022 5 953
The Interesting Thesis that the Turning Point of the US Civil War Was a Battle the Union Lost. 2 NNadir Jan 2022 Apr 2022 6 1593
The Founding of the United States 1 elleng Mar 2022 Mar 2022 6 973
Ghost Army honored with gold medal, but who were they? 1 Jilly_in_VA Mar 2022 Mar 2022 3 1467
Sorry About Your Sleep. 4 elleng Mar 2022 Mar 2022 1 1208
WHY THE FIRST U.S. COWBOYS WERE BLACK 2 appalachiablue Mar 2022 Mar 2022 17 1585
California and "This Guy" -- cross-posting from the California group 0 momta Mar 2022 Mar 2022 2 1334
National Churchill Museum honors 76th anniversary of Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech 2 Sherman A1 Mar 2022 Mar 2022 0 1087
Strange Event Happened In U.S.History (my opinion) Former President Totally Destroyed His Name 13 Stuart G Feb 2022 Mar 2022 10 2688
Historians just ranked the presidents. Trump wasn't last. 7 left-of-center2012 Feb 2022 Feb 2022 7 2349
Favorite period in AH -- the Revolutionary War 3 ificandream Feb 2022 Feb 2022 1 985
Arizona archaeologist says she's found artifacts linked to famed 1540 expedition 10 left-of-center2012 Feb 2022 Feb 2022 51 3373
Rarely-seen photos tell the story of America's Black Civil War soldiers 2 left-of-center2012 Feb 2022 Feb 2022 9 1340

American History Continued...

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The St. Valentine's Day Massacre 1 Sherman A1 Feb 2022 Feb 2022 5 979
Illinois Agriculture Boomed During World War I 0 Sherman A1 Feb 2022 Feb 2022 0 1007
Baseball Legend Jackie Robinson Was Court-Martialed for Refusing to Move to the Back of a Bus 1 Sherman A1 Feb 2022 Feb 2022 5 1327
'Dollar Princesses': American Women Married British Aristocrats, 1870- 1920, The Gilded Age 12 appalachiablue Feb 2022 Feb 2022 5 1771
What We Can Learn From How the 1918 Pandemic Ended 4 elleng Feb 2022 Feb 2022 17 1669
Biden Signs Bill to Honor WWII Ghost Army Soldiers 1 Sherman A1 Feb 2022 Feb 2022 8 1076
Hercules Posey: George Washington's unsung enslaved chef 1 Jilly_in_VA Feb 2022 Feb 2022 11 1192
80% of St. Louis County homes built by 1950 have racial covenants, researcher finds 0 Sherman A1 Jan 2022 Jan 2022 5 1149
Radio City Music Hall opened to the public on December 27, 1932 3 Sherman A1 Dec 2021 Jan 2022 0 1323
JFK: 61 years ago today. 1 Tomconroy Jan 2022 Jan 2022 5 1090
EDUCATION OF THE ENSLAVED WAS A CRIME, 1 elleng Jan 2022 Jan 2022 8 1093
Union Stops Confed Attempt To Capture US Capital - Battle of Ft Stevens 1864, Lincoln Wash Defenses 2 appalachiablue Jan 2022 Jan 2022 5 1445
Weary from the strain of war and too much time away from home, General George Washington 3 elleng Dec 2021 Dec 2021 3 1289
December 28, 1832 - Missouri Governor Daniel Dunklin signed the charter for St. Louis University 0 Sherman A1 Dec 2021 Dec 2021 0 1050
134-year-old Confederate time capsule possibly found under removed Robert E. Lee statue 8 Sherman A1 Dec 2021 Dec 2021 9 1800
A Grim, Long-Hidden Truth Emerges in Art: Native American Enslavement 0 Eugene Dec 2021 Dec 2021 3 998
Magnificent Storyteller Soldier Reveals What He Saw In Vietnam 7 Uncle Joe Dec 2021 Dec 2021 7 1459
The Founding of the United States On This Day in History December 3, 1776: 1 elleng Dec 2021 Dec 2021 6 1154
Learn Our History Today: On December 2, 1823, during his annual address to Congress, 0 elleng Dec 2021 Dec 2021 8 1163
St. Louis homeowners want to get rid of racial covenants. But in Missouri, it's complicated 2 Sherman A1 Nov 2021 Dec 2021 7 1477
How a Coastline 100 million years ago influences modern election results in Alabama 0 elleng Nov 2021 Nov 2021 0 1134
Alabama researchers closing in on site of Spanish explorer's pivotal battle with Chief Tascalusa 1 eppur_se_muova Nov 2021 Nov 2021 3 1333
Santa Fe Trail, Part 4: The pain of Native life on the trail 2 left-of-center2012 Nov 2021 Nov 2021 1 1267
Path carved history into New Mexico; so did those who traveled it 3 left-of-center2012 Nov 2021 Nov 2021 5 1236
WW2: Did The British Kill Glenn Miller? Famous American Musician, Band Leader 3 appalachiablue Nov 2021 Nov 2021 2 1782
Shrewsbury's Amanda Berry Smith: 'Our house was one of the main stations of the Under Ground Railroa 2 JoeOtterbein Nov 2021 Nov 2021 1 1400
Reverend Solomon Sir Jones was both a filmmaker and a minister who, between 1924 and 1928, 0 elleng Nov 2021 Nov 2021 5 1169
Summer 1812: The USS Constitution shatters the aura of British naval superiority 1 Sherman A1 Nov 2021 Nov 2021 9 1277
Autumn 1811: The Battle of Tippecanoe 0 Sherman A1 Nov 2021 Nov 2021 1 989
SNL: Raygun, The Gipper Gives Soviet Leader Gorbachev A Tour of DC: History & DC Lovers Horror 0 appalachiablue Nov 2021 Nov 2021 3 1228

American History Continued...

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PBS: NATIVE AMERICA, 4- Part Series: Full Documentary (2018) 5 appalachiablue Oct 2021 Oct 2021 11 1567
Accounts of African American service during the War of 1812 0 Sherman A1 Oct 2021 Oct 2021 9 1129
Native Americans: DNA From Sitting Bull's Hair Confirms US Man Is His Great-Grandson 2 appalachiablue Oct 2021 Oct 2021 9 1296
How Prohibition Put the 'Organized' in Organized Crime 0 bucolic_frolic Oct 2021 Oct 2021 8 1180
Wm. Randolph Hearst Transformed US News Media- Hitler, Mussolini, Churchill Wrote For His Papers 3 appalachiablue Oct 2021 Oct 2021 1 1404
Fun To Watch 1960s Teenage Baby Boomers Who DIDN'T Rebel 10 Uncle Joe Oct 2021 Oct 2021 9 1761
The Two Navy Holidays: Navy Birthday and Navy Day 1 discntnt_irny_srcsm Oct 2021 Oct 2021 3 1192
7 Black Americans Express Their Rage In The 1960s 1 Uncle Joe Oct 2021 Oct 2021 5 1276
Woody Guthrie Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma 0 appalachiablue Oct 2021 Oct 2021 3 1112
Former Slaves In Alabama In 1936-1937 With Slave Song "Waitin On You" 0 appalachiablue Oct 2021 Oct 2021 10 1114
Arizona's Tuzigoot National Monument: Ancient Legacy of the Sinagua People 2 left-of-center2012 Oct 2021 Oct 2021 9 1128
Fitz John's Folly: An Accident of the Most Thrilling Nature 0 yaesu Sep 2021 Sep 2021 3 1113
I Saw John Wilkes Booth Shoot Abraham Lincoln. 11 Tomconroy Sep 2021 Sep 2021 7 1676
Viking Map of North America Identified as 20th-Century Forgery 3 left-of-center2012 Sep 2021 Sep 2021 7 1443
Kenneth B. Morris, Jr : Direct Descendant of Frederick Douglass & Booker T. Washington 0 appalachiablue Sep 2021 Sep 2021 3 1291
So one of the books I'm reading is "Robert E. Lee and Me, A Southerners Reckoning with the Lost... 2 NNadir Sep 2021 Sep 2021 19 1555
Clara Barton Nursed Ft Wagner Survivors, Smallpox Epidemic, She Was Immune: So. Carolina Civil War 4 appalachiablue Sep 2021 Sep 2021 20 2072
The 10 U.S. National Parks Devoted To Women's History 3 appalachiablue Sep 2021 Sep 2021 7 1282
Massachusetts In The Civil War- Antislavery Activists, Politicians, Nurses, Generals, Repub. Party 0 appalachiablue Sep 2021 Sep 2021 3 914
Harriet Tubman, 54th Mass. Reg. Civil War- Union Scout, Spy, Nurse, Cook- Shaw Last Meal, Carney MH 0 appalachiablue Sep 2021 Sep 2021 10 1380
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