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THE PEARL, Largest Attempted Slave Escape In US History, 1848, Wash., DC: Paul Jennings 2 appalachiablue Apr 2022 Apr 2022 6 1587
Fight w Descendants of The Enslaved, Employee Firings At Montpelier, Home of J. Madison, 4th US Pres 1 appalachiablue Apr 2022 Apr 2022 4 1366
Crews work to save decommissioned WWII destroyer taking on water 2 Sherman A1 Apr 2022 Apr 2022 5 1572
1911 video of New York City (remastered, colorized) 7 steve2470 Apr 2022 Apr 2022 21 2077
NY Slave Revolt of April 6, 1712: Prelude To Decades of Hardship; Sojourner Truth, Dutch New York 5 appalachiablue Apr 2022 Apr 2022 13 1983
April 9, 1865, Appomattox, Virginia hostilities cease 1 elleng Apr 2022 Apr 2022 5 1620
April 6, 1846 - 0 Sherman A1 Apr 2022 Apr 2022 8 1050
Roosevelt & Churchill In Ottawa And Quebec - SOUND 0 bucolic_frolic Apr 2022 Apr 2022 5 1075
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 1795
The Founding of the United States 1 elleng Mar 2022 Mar 2022 6 1104
Ghost Army honored with gold medal, but who were they? 1 Jilly_in_VA Mar 2022 Mar 2022 3 1615
Sorry About Your Sleep. 4 elleng Mar 2022 Mar 2022 1 1434
WHY THE FIRST U.S. COWBOYS WERE BLACK 2 appalachiablue Mar 2022 Mar 2022 17 1913
California and "This Guy" -- cross-posting from the California group 0 momta Mar 2022 Mar 2022 2 1494
National Churchill Museum honors 76th anniversary of Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech 2 Sherman A1 Mar 2022 Mar 2022 0 1288
Strange Event Happened In U.S.History (my opinion) Former President Totally Destroyed His Name 13 Stuart G Feb 2022 Mar 2022 10 3364
Historians just ranked the presidents. Trump wasn't last. 7 left-of-center2012 Feb 2022 Feb 2022 7 2729
Favorite period in AH -- the Revolutionary War 3 ificandream Feb 2022 Feb 2022 1 1169
Arizona archaeologist says she's found artifacts linked to famed 1540 expedition 10 left-of-center2012 Feb 2022 Feb 2022 51 3839
Rarely-seen photos tell the story of America's Black Civil War soldiers 2 left-of-center2012 Feb 2022 Feb 2022 9 1524
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre 1 Sherman A1 Feb 2022 Feb 2022 5 1110
Illinois Agriculture Boomed During World War I 0 Sherman A1 Feb 2022 Feb 2022 0 1141
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 1465
'Dollar Princesses': American Women Married British Aristocrats, 1870- 1920, The Gilded Age 12 appalachiablue Feb 2022 Feb 2022 5 2425
What We Can Learn From How the 1918 Pandemic Ended 4 elleng Feb 2022 Feb 2022 17 1886
Biden Signs Bill to Honor WWII Ghost Army Soldiers 1 Sherman A1 Feb 2022 Feb 2022 8 1215
Hercules Posey: George Washington's unsung enslaved chef 1 Jilly_in_VA Feb 2022 Feb 2022 11 1432
80% of St. Louis County homes built by 1950 have racial covenants, researcher finds 0 Sherman A1 Jan 2022 Jan 2022 5 1354
Radio City Music Hall opened to the public on December 27, 1932 3 Sherman A1 Dec 2021 Jan 2022 0 1548
JFK: 61 years ago today. 1 Tomconroy Jan 2022 Jan 2022 5 1248

American History Continued...

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EDUCATION OF THE ENSLAVED WAS A CRIME, 1 elleng Jan 2022 Jan 2022 8 1238
Union Stops Confed Attempt To Capture US Capital - Battle of Ft Stevens 1864, Lincoln Wash Defenses 2 appalachiablue Jan 2022 Jan 2022 5 1755
Weary from the strain of war and too much time away from home, General George Washington 3 elleng Dec 2021 Dec 2021 3 1487
December 28, 1832 - Missouri Governor Daniel Dunklin signed the charter for St. Louis University 0 Sherman A1 Dec 2021 Dec 2021 0 1184
134-year-old Confederate time capsule possibly found under removed Robert E. Lee statue 8 Sherman A1 Dec 2021 Dec 2021 9 2265
A Grim, Long-Hidden Truth Emerges in Art: Native American Enslavement 0 Eugene Dec 2021 Dec 2021 3 1173
Magnificent Storyteller Soldier Reveals What He Saw In Vietnam 7 Uncle Joe Dec 2021 Dec 2021 7 1827
The Founding of the United States On This Day in History December 3, 1776: 1 elleng Dec 2021 Dec 2021 6 1313
Learn Our History Today: On December 2, 1823, during his annual address to Congress, 0 elleng Dec 2021 Dec 2021 8 1293
St. Louis homeowners want to get rid of racial covenants. But in Missouri, it's complicated 2 Sherman A1 Nov 2021 Dec 2021 7 1630
How a Coastline 100 million years ago influences modern election results in Alabama 0 elleng Nov 2021 Nov 2021 0 1265
Alabama researchers closing in on site of Spanish explorer's pivotal battle with Chief Tascalusa 1 eppur_se_muova Nov 2021 Nov 2021 3 1536
Santa Fe Trail, Part 4: The pain of Native life on the trail 2 left-of-center2012 Nov 2021 Nov 2021 1 1418
Path carved history into New Mexico; so did those who traveled it 3 left-of-center2012 Nov 2021 Nov 2021 5 1427
WW2: Did The British Kill Glenn Miller? Famous American Musician, Band Leader 3 appalachiablue Nov 2021 Nov 2021 2 2042
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 1571
Reverend Solomon Sir Jones was both a filmmaker and a minister who, between 1924 and 1928, 0 elleng Nov 2021 Nov 2021 5 1301
Summer 1812: The USS Constitution shatters the aura of British naval superiority 1 Sherman A1 Nov 2021 Nov 2021 9 1402
Autumn 1811: The Battle of Tippecanoe 0 Sherman A1 Nov 2021 Nov 2021 1 1112
SNL: Raygun, The Gipper Gives Soviet Leader Gorbachev A Tour of DC: History & DC Lovers Horror 0 appalachiablue Nov 2021 Nov 2021 3 1403
PBS: NATIVE AMERICA, 4- Part Series: Full Documentary (2018) 5 appalachiablue Oct 2021 Oct 2021 11 1927
Accounts of African American service during the War of 1812 0 Sherman A1 Oct 2021 Oct 2021 9 1282
Native Americans: DNA From Sitting Bull's Hair Confirms US Man Is His Great-Grandson 2 appalachiablue Oct 2021 Oct 2021 9 1569
How Prohibition Put the 'Organized' in Organized Crime 0 bucolic_frolic Oct 2021 Oct 2021 8 1286
Wm. Randolph Hearst Transformed US News Media- Hitler, Mussolini, Churchill Wrote For His Papers 3 appalachiablue Oct 2021 Oct 2021 1 1705
Fun To Watch 1960s Teenage Baby Boomers Who DIDN'T Rebel 10 Uncle Joe Oct 2021 Oct 2021 9 2176
The Two Navy Holidays: Navy Birthday and Navy Day 1 discntnt_irny_srcsm Oct 2021 Oct 2021 3 1323
7 Black Americans Express Their Rage In The 1960s 1 Uncle Joe Oct 2021 Oct 2021 5 1452
Woody Guthrie Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma 0 appalachiablue Oct 2021 Oct 2021 3 1300
Former Slaves In Alabama In 1936-1937 With Slave Song "Waitin On You" 0 appalachiablue Oct 2021 Oct 2021 10 1271

American History Continued...

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Arizona's Tuzigoot National Monument: Ancient Legacy of the Sinagua People 2 left-of-center2012 Oct 2021 Oct 2021 9 1296
Fitz John's Folly: An Accident of the Most Thrilling Nature 0 yaesu Sep 2021 Sep 2021 3 1218
I Saw John Wilkes Booth Shoot Abraham Lincoln. 11 Tomconroy Sep 2021 Sep 2021 7 2267
Viking Map of North America Identified as 20th-Century Forgery 3 left-of-center2012 Sep 2021 Sep 2021 7 1654
Kenneth B. Morris, Jr : Direct Descendant of Frederick Douglass & Booker T. Washington 0 appalachiablue Sep 2021 Sep 2021 3 1455
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 1713
Clara Barton Nursed Ft Wagner Survivors, Smallpox Epidemic, She Was Immune: So. Carolina Civil War 4 appalachiablue Sep 2021 Sep 2021 20 2343
The 10 U.S. National Parks Devoted To Women's History 3 appalachiablue Sep 2021 Sep 2021 7 1564
Massachusetts In The Civil War- Antislavery Activists, Politicians, Nurses, Generals, Repub. Party 0 appalachiablue Sep 2021 Sep 2021 3 1070
Harriet Tubman, 54th Mass. Reg. Civil War- Union Scout, Spy, Nurse, Cook- Shaw Last Meal, Carney MH 0 appalachiablue Sep 2021 Sep 2021 10 1565
54th Mass. African American Regiment, Battle of Ft. Wagner, S.C. July 18, 1863: GLORY Film 1 appalachiablue Sep 2021 Sep 2021 6 1409
"The North can't afford to have the mouth of the Mississippi in a foreign country." 4 raccoon Sep 2021 Sep 2021 1 1384
Depression 1932, 'Bonus Army' March On DC- Broke WWI Vets Try To Cash War Bonds, Gen Sm. Butler: PBS 6 appalachiablue Sep 2021 Sep 2021 13 1865
Red Summers--How racist propaganda inspired riots in America's biggest cities 1 Jilly_in_VA Aug 2021 Aug 2021 3 1427
In conversation with Gore Vidal and Noam Chomsky-1991 1 Uncle Joe Aug 2021 Aug 2021 3 1174
The Flapper Story - Roaring '20s Documentary 0 Uncle Joe Aug 2021 Aug 2021 8 1069
Freddy D. vs. TJ - Epic Rap Battles of History 2 appalachiablue Jul 2021 Jul 2021 0 2124
Forget the Alamo censored by the usual suspects! 10 CCExile Jul 2021 Jul 2021 2 3680
Gold Rush Ghost Ships (documentary) 4 Worried2020 Jul 2021 Jul 2021 1 1330
Abraham Lincoln Jumped Out Of A Window To Avoid Quorum 0 appalachiablue Jul 2021 Jul 2021 7 2313
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