Peoples250: Greg Afinogenev, president of the Georgetown chapter of the AAUP, talks about the importance of union organizing in higher education.
#Peoples250 #america250 #americanhistory #highereducation #aaup
youtube.com/shorts/wK5P2...
From 1950s rock 'n' roll to the age of AI, America has changed dramatically. A sweeping look at nearly a century of cultural shifts.
Read here: www.djoinerbooks.com/lens-of-amer...
#AmericanHistory #CulturalShift #History #Society #Decades #TheTurn
🇺🇸 A memorable week in Washington, DC for our 8th graders. Visiting historic landmarks, exploring museums, and sharing special moments as they connect their learning to real places. 💙
#UnitySchoolFL #UnityMiddleSchool #WashingtonDC #AmericanHistory #StudentTravel
VIDEO - Step into 1863: Hidden treasures, mysteries and facts abound when you read a diary that's 162 years old: The Centum Diary: One Year in the Life of a Civil War Union Soldier. #AmericanHistory youtu.be/KRfz7zrAFXs
💀🇺🇸💀 The era of #AmeriKKKuh living off of its #GreatestGeneration #WWII reputation is now WAY over.
All of the myriad #regressive, #reactionary #secularlyevil & #religiouslyevil things about #Americanhistory have been thrust hard into the spotlight worldwide by #HerrTrumpenfuhrer.
PIC OF THE DAY!
A 1912 photo of the Crown King mine:
#Mining #PrescottAZHistory #CrownKingAZ #OldPhotos #OldWest #History #AmericanHistory
And They Called Me Bigfoot by Robert Clemens reflects values shaped by the Depression, tested by war, and carried into business. 📘
buff.ly/ZYv9KL6
#Memoir #AmericanHistory #Biography #MilitaryHistory #AmericanMemoir
#Books #AmReading #BookTok #ReadingCommunity
No kings.
No crowns.
No exceptions.
Lincoln understood that.
Do we?
Now available:
books2read.com/LincolnvsTrump
#NoKings #AmericanHistory #Libraries
#Reconstruction only lasted until 1877, when republicans traded the safety of African Americans to the former Confederates for the Presidency in the #CompromiseOf1877. Consolidating #WhiteSupremacist control over the region.
ugly #AmericanHistory
2/2
1867: Reconstruction Acts passed by U.S. Congress
These acts outlined requirements each Southern state need to meet to be readmitted to the Union after they got their asses kick in the #CivilWar. Example: Each state had to write a new state constitution approved by the voters.
#AmericanHistory
1/2
1866: Two African Americans Join Massachusetts State Legislature
Facts: Edward Garrison Walker (a.k.a. Edwin Garrison Walker) and Charles L. Mitchell were the first African American sworn into the Massachusetts State Legislature.
good #AmericanHistory
2/2
1866: Two African Americans Join Massachusetts State Legislature
Facts: Edward Garrison Walker (a.k.a. Edwin Garrison Walker) and Charles L. Mitchell were the first African American sworn into the Massachusetts State Legislature.
#AmericanHistory
1/2
Under Section 7 of Mississippi's Vagrancy Law, if an African American or mixed-race American failed to pay taxes or fines outline in the Vagrancy Law, the state would basically SELL them to whoever CAN pay their taxes and fines. In other words, they were re-enslaved.
ugly #AmericanHistory
5/5
"[Former Confederate soldier in state governments] passed legislation known as the #BlackCodes. The purpose of the laws were to reinstall something close to slavery." SOURCE: The #1619Project, created by Nikole Hannah-Jones
ugly #AmericanHistory
#WhiteSupremacy bullshit
3/5
"[Former Confederate soldier in state governments] passed legislation known as the #BlackCodes. The purpose of the laws were to reinstall something close to slavery." SOURCE: The #1619Project, created by Nikole Hannah-Jones
ugly #AmericanHistory
#WhiteSupremacy bullshit
3/5
1865: Mississippi and South Carolina, First States to Enact #BlackCodes
Context: After Lincoln’s death, the new president, Andrew Johnson granted amnesty to many in the Confederate leadership. SOURCE: The #1619Project, created by Nikole Hannah-Jones
ugly #AmericanHistory
#WhiteSupremacy
1/5
Turning Out For History
youtu.be/fIrgjoNQP70?... via @YouTube
#USNews #NowWatching #CurrentEvents #Discussion #Commentary #Politics #DonaldTrump #DonTheCon #USHistory #AmericanHistory #TrumpFakeHistory🤮 #AmericanHeritage
Presidents shape history. Images shape memory.
The American presidency — through the iconic design language of LIFE.
Read: https://originallifemagazines.substack.com
Shop: https://www.originallifemagazines.com
#AmericanHistory #Washington #Lincoln #FDR #JFK #Obama #LIFEMagazine #LIFE
Presidents shape history. Images shape memory.
The American presidency — through the iconic design language of LIFE.
Read: https://originallifemagazines.substack.com
Shop: https://www.originallifemagazines.com
#AmericanHistory #Washington #Lincoln #FDR #JFK #Obama #LIFEMagazine #LIFE
More than 1 million Black people fought Nazis in WWII, only to have to come home and fight the KKK in their own backyards.
Imagine risking everything for a country that would rather you didn’t even make it back.
#BlackHistory #AmericanHistory
@pbs.org, @independentlens.bsky.social, & @crockett.house.gov | PBS Documentaries, PBS, & Independent Lens: "The Black Congresswoman They DON'T Teach You About | Full Documentary" | #TheInquisitor #BarbaraJordan #Coffee #Texas #AmericanHistory #Politics #CivilRights
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwVw... ⯆
Available here linda-howes.pixels.com/featured/gen...
#Civilwar #UnionGeneral #Wallartforsale #wallart #gifts #giftideas #Lawyer #MajorGeneral #UnitedStatesHistory #AmericanHistory #war #Soldier #HenryWarnerSlocumSr #homedecor #UnitedStatesWars
Brand New Article Today!
"The First President to Visit Yavapai County"
The story of President McKinley’s visit to the Congress gold mine in 1901.
prescottazhistory.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-...
#PrescottAZHistory #Arizona #AmericanHistory #History #POTUS #CongressAZ
Lewis and Clark's journals full of wonder at this land. We still have so much to discover and protect. #LewisAndClark #Exploration #Wonder #AmericanHistory #Discovery
color photo, cloudy day, front view of St. John's Church, Richmond, VA, wooden clapboard, 4-stage tapered steeple with cross on top. The church has an active Episcopal congregation, offers Patrick Henry speech re-enactments, and has the oldest cemetery in the city.
St. John's Church, Richmond, Virginia.
Where Patrick Henry delivered his "Give me liberty or give me death" speech.
#RVA #SteepleSaturday #history #Americanhistory #architecture #church
"Though he soon recanted & insisted he was innocent, #JeremiahReeves was convicted & sentenced to death after a 2-day trial during which the all-white jury deliberated for less than 30 minutes.” SOURCE: eji.org (A History of Racial Injustice)
#AmericanHistory
calendar.eji.org/racial-injus...
4/4
#OTD in #History
1958 March 28: #JeremiahReeves, Executed
Context: "22-yr-old Black man, Reeves was executed by the State of AL after cops tortured him 'til he gave a false confession as a 16-year-old child.” SOURCE: calendar.eji.org
ugly #AmericanHistory
calendar.eji.org/racial-injus...
1/4
