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1776, if it's not on TCM or elsewhere, I may actually pay to 'rent' it, sucker that I am. 12 elleng Jun 2022 Jul 2022 4 2365
The Siena Presidential Ranking Poll Screws Up Again. Unfair to James Buchanan and Andrew Johnson. 5 NNadir Jun 2022 Jun 2022 8 1556
'Bringing us together': The Ann Richards Legacy Project releases new book 'The One Ann Only.' 1 TexasTowelie Jun 2022 Jun 2022 5 1335
Battle of St. Leonard Creek 0 elleng Jun 2022 Jun 2022 4 1120
THE BURNING DESIRE FOR EDUCATION 1 elleng Jun 2022 Jun 2022 3 1102
--Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1938 3 elleng Jun 2022 Jun 2022 5 1098
Learn Our History Today: On June 16, 1858, Abraham Lincoln gave his famous "House Divided" 0 elleng Jun 2022 Jun 2022 1 940
Charles Blockson's grade school teacher told him Black people have no history. He set out to prove h 0 cbabe Jun 2022 Jun 2022 5 1231
Audie Murphy, 'What's My Line?': One of the Most Decorated Combat Soldiers of WW2, Texan, Democrat 12 appalachiablue May 2022 Jun 2022 5 2634
Documents Rediscovered: Sojourner Truth's Historic Fight to Save Her Young Son from Slavery 6 appalachiablue Jun 2022 Jun 2022 20 1778
On This Day - June 13, 1777, during the American Revolution, a young French aristocrat 4 elleng Jun 2022 Jun 2022 5 1244
On This Day in History June 12, 1776 In Williamsburg, the Virginia Convention adopted 2 elleng Jun 2022 Jun 2022 0 1021
How RFK Could Have Become President 3 Jilly_in_VA Jun 2022 Jun 2022 4 1528
Did Jack Welch break Capitalism? 6 SleeplessinSoCal Jun 2022 Jun 2022 2 1739
Historical Context Of JIM Crow 0 elleng May 2022 May 2022 8 970
On This Day in History May 17, 1769 George Washington criticizes "taxation without representation" 2 elleng May 2022 May 2022 2 1161
Lincoln Quote of The Week... 5 elleng May 2022 May 2022 16 1260
On This Day in History May 14, 1804 Lewis and Clark depart to explore the Northwest 6 elleng May 2022 May 2022 2 1368
May 10, 1869 The Golden Spike 0 elleng May 2022 May 2022 2 971
The Man Who Accidentally Killed The Most People In History 0 Uncle Joe May 2022 May 2022 11 1436
May 2, 1927, Buck v. Bell, Supreme Ct. Sterilization of Unfit; Eugenics, 1924 Immigration Law, Nazis 0 appalachiablue May 2022 May 2022 7 1451
"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 1335
The Death of President Roosevelt, April 12, 1945 7 appalachiablue Apr 2022 Apr 2022 7 1529
Legacy of Ulysses S. Grant Complicated 200 Years After Birth 2 Sherman A1 Apr 2022 Apr 2022 5 1401
THE PEARL, Largest Attempted Slave Escape In US History, 1848, Wash., DC: Paul Jennings 2 appalachiablue Apr 2022 Apr 2022 6 1450
Fight w Descendants of The Enslaved, Employee Firings At Montpelier, Home of J. Madison, 4th US Pres 1 appalachiablue Apr 2022 Apr 2022 4 1238
Crews work to save decommissioned WWII destroyer taking on water 2 Sherman A1 Apr 2022 Apr 2022 5 1469
1911 video of New York City (remastered, colorized) 7 steve2470 Apr 2022 Apr 2022 21 1881
NY Slave Revolt of April 6, 1712: Prelude To Decades of Hardship; Sojourner Truth, Dutch New York 5 appalachiablue Apr 2022 Apr 2022 13 1769
April 9, 1865, Appomattox, Virginia hostilities cease 1 elleng Apr 2022 Apr 2022 5 1540

American History Continued...

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April 6, 1846 - 0 Sherman A1 Apr 2022 Apr 2022 8 996
Roosevelt & Churchill In Ottawa And Quebec - SOUND 0 bucolic_frolic Apr 2022 Apr 2022 5 1005
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 1691
The Founding of the United States 1 elleng Mar 2022 Mar 2022 6 1032
Ghost Army honored with gold medal, but who were they? 1 Jilly_in_VA Mar 2022 Mar 2022 3 1536
Sorry About Your Sleep. 4 elleng Mar 2022 Mar 2022 1 1313
WHY THE FIRST U.S. COWBOYS WERE BLACK 2 appalachiablue Mar 2022 Mar 2022 17 1749
California and "This Guy" -- cross-posting from the California group 0 momta Mar 2022 Mar 2022 2 1400
National Churchill Museum honors 76th anniversary of Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech 2 Sherman A1 Mar 2022 Mar 2022 0 1187
Strange Event Happened In U.S.History (my opinion) Former President Totally Destroyed His Name 13 Stuart G Feb 2022 Mar 2022 10 3066
Historians just ranked the presidents. Trump wasn't last. 7 left-of-center2012 Feb 2022 Feb 2022 7 2550
Favorite period in AH -- the Revolutionary War 3 ificandream Feb 2022 Feb 2022 1 1076
Arizona archaeologist says she's found artifacts linked to famed 1540 expedition 10 left-of-center2012 Feb 2022 Feb 2022 51 3619
Rarely-seen photos tell the story of America's Black Civil War soldiers 2 left-of-center2012 Feb 2022 Feb 2022 9 1400
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre 1 Sherman A1 Feb 2022 Feb 2022 5 1036
Illinois Agriculture Boomed During World War I 0 Sherman A1 Feb 2022 Feb 2022 0 1073
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 1385
'Dollar Princesses': American Women Married British Aristocrats, 1870- 1920, The Gilded Age 12 appalachiablue Feb 2022 Feb 2022 5 2125
What We Can Learn From How the 1918 Pandemic Ended 4 elleng Feb 2022 Feb 2022 17 1784
Biden Signs Bill to Honor WWII Ghost Army Soldiers 1 Sherman A1 Feb 2022 Feb 2022 8 1137
Hercules Posey: George Washington's unsung enslaved chef 1 Jilly_in_VA Feb 2022 Feb 2022 11 1286
80% of St. Louis County homes built by 1950 have racial covenants, researcher finds 0 Sherman A1 Jan 2022 Jan 2022 5 1253
Radio City Music Hall opened to the public on December 27, 1932 3 Sherman A1 Dec 2021 Jan 2022 0 1440
JFK: 61 years ago today. 1 Tomconroy Jan 2022 Jan 2022 5 1173
EDUCATION OF THE ENSLAVED WAS A CRIME, 1 elleng Jan 2022 Jan 2022 8 1150
Union Stops Confed Attempt To Capture US Capital - Battle of Ft Stevens 1864, Lincoln Wash Defenses 2 appalachiablue Jan 2022 Jan 2022 5 1565
Weary from the strain of war and too much time away from home, General George Washington 3 elleng Dec 2021 Dec 2021 3 1380
December 28, 1832 - Missouri Governor Daniel Dunklin signed the charter for St. Louis University 0 Sherman A1 Dec 2021 Dec 2021 0 1129
134-year-old Confederate time capsule possibly found under removed Robert E. Lee statue 8 Sherman A1 Dec 2021 Dec 2021 9 2034
A Grim, Long-Hidden Truth Emerges in Art: Native American Enslavement 0 Eugene Dec 2021 Dec 2021 3 1069

American History Continued...

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Magnificent Storyteller Soldier Reveals What He Saw In Vietnam 7 Uncle Joe Dec 2021 Dec 2021 7 1650
The Founding of the United States On This Day in History December 3, 1776: 1 elleng Dec 2021 Dec 2021 6 1236
Learn Our History Today: On December 2, 1823, during his annual address to Congress, 0 elleng Dec 2021 Dec 2021 8 1236
St. Louis homeowners want to get rid of racial covenants. But in Missouri, it's complicated 2 Sherman A1 Nov 2021 Dec 2021 7 1545
How a Coastline 100 million years ago influences modern election results in Alabama 0 elleng Nov 2021 Nov 2021 0 1213
Alabama researchers closing in on site of Spanish explorer's pivotal battle with Chief Tascalusa 1 eppur_se_muova Nov 2021 Nov 2021 3 1424
Santa Fe Trail, Part 4: The pain of Native life on the trail 2 left-of-center2012 Nov 2021 Nov 2021 1 1327
Path carved history into New Mexico; so did those who traveled it 3 left-of-center2012 Nov 2021 Nov 2021 5 1310
WW2: Did The British Kill Glenn Miller? Famous American Musician, Band Leader 3 appalachiablue Nov 2021 Nov 2021 2 1913
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 1486
Reverend Solomon Sir Jones was both a filmmaker and a minister who, between 1924 and 1928, 0 elleng Nov 2021 Nov 2021 5 1233
Summer 1812: The USS Constitution shatters the aura of British naval superiority 1 Sherman A1 Nov 2021 Nov 2021 9 1327
Autumn 1811: The Battle of Tippecanoe 0 Sherman A1 Nov 2021 Nov 2021 1 1055
SNL: Raygun, The Gipper Gives Soviet Leader Gorbachev A Tour of DC: History & DC Lovers Horror 0 appalachiablue Nov 2021 Nov 2021 3 1318
PBS: NATIVE AMERICA, 4- Part Series: Full Documentary (2018) 5 appalachiablue Oct 2021 Oct 2021 11 1754
Accounts of African American service during the War of 1812 0 Sherman A1 Oct 2021 Oct 2021 9 1199
Native Americans: DNA From Sitting Bull's Hair Confirms US Man Is His Great-Grandson 2 appalachiablue Oct 2021 Oct 2021 9 1421
How Prohibition Put the 'Organized' in Organized Crime 0 bucolic_frolic Oct 2021 Oct 2021 8 1234
Wm. Randolph Hearst Transformed US News Media- Hitler, Mussolini, Churchill Wrote For His Papers 3 appalachiablue Oct 2021 Oct 2021 1 1564
Fun To Watch 1960s Teenage Baby Boomers Who DIDN'T Rebel 10 Uncle Joe Oct 2021 Oct 2021 9 2008
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