US History
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Us Europeans often get confused about this whole Thanksgiving business, because in Europe Thanksgiving is on the 1st Sunday in October. That’s when we say thanks for the harvest. Although the US Thanksgiving has also an element of harvest in it, it is not the same as the European one. In 1621, the Plymouth colonists…
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No one in their right mind will argue that Abraham Lincoln was one of the greatest states men in US and World History. However his moral values weren’t as pure as many people think they were. But in my view that probably makes him even a greater leader then he has been given credit for.…
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November 11, 1918. 10:59 am, one last volley of machine gun fire, one last soldier to die.Henry Nicholas John Gunther took one last charge with his bayonet. The enemy warned him , but he wanted to proof himself. He wanted to show his demotion from Sergeant to Private had been unjustified. One last hoorah, one…
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The Salem Witch Trials of 1692 stand as one of the most infamous episodes in early American history. Rooted in fear, religious extremism, and social tensions, these trials led to the execution of twenty individuals and the imprisonment of many more in colonial Massachusetts. Although often remembered as a tragic example of mass hysteria, the…
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Anyone who loves westerns or has an interest of the history of the so called Wild West, will undoubtedly have heard of “the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral”. The infamous event that took place in Tombstone, Arizona on October 26,1881. If you believe the Hollywood versions of the event, you’d think that the gunfight lasted…
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You all have to forgive me for the cheeky title of this blog, but I just couldn’t resist the pun.Fact is though that Emma Nutt was a pioneer and she probably didn’t realize it herself. The first telephones were hard enough to use without the added harassment of the teenage boys who worked as the earliest switchboard…
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“Southern trees bear strange fruitBlood on the leaves and blood at the rootBlack bodies swinging in the southern breezeStrange fruit hanging from the poplar tree.” The lines above are from the song “Strange Fruit,” a beautiful song about a horrific event. It’s very hard to listen to it, but equally, it’s impossible not to listen…
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No matter how you twist or turn it, when you are complicit to a crime, you are just as guilty as the perpetrator, and perhaps even more guilty because you were an enabler of that crime. Hermann Stieve was Director of the Berlin Institute of Anatomy from 1935 to 1952, which was from the early…
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In the great annals of American history, there are certain dates that echo across the decades: July 4, 1776; December 7, 1941; July 20, 1969. And then, of course, January 26, 1998 — the day President Bill Clinton stood before the nation, wagged his finger at the camera, and gave us the immortal line: “I…
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On the night of August 7, 1930, the small city of Marion, Indiana became the site of one of the most infamous and haunting episodes of racial violence in American history—the lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith. What makes this event particularly searing in the American consciousness isn’t just the brutality of the act.…
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