Friendly forums for passionate Dems!
More than 94 million posts since 2001
Home Latest Greatest Videos Forums Hide ads Join up!
Home Latest Greatest
Videos Forums Help
Hide ads Join up!
Latest Discussions»Culture Forums»American History
DU needs your support -- please contribute to this week's tip jar fund drive!
Welcome to DU! The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards. Join the community: Create a free account Support DU (and get rid of ads!): Become a Star Member Latest Breaking News Editorials & Other Articles General Discussion The DU Lounge All Forums Issue Forums Culture Forums Alliance Forums Region Forums Support Forums Help & Search

American History

Related: About this forum
Start a new discussionStart discussion Subscribe to this forum (see My DU » Subscriptions)Subscribe Mark this forum as read (yellow icons will turn white)Mark as read Search this forum using Advanced SearchSearch forum You will no longer see this forum (see My DU > Trash Can)Trash forum Get forum information and statisticsAbout forum
This is a group, not a forum. Groups often serve as safe havens for members who share similar interests and viewpoints. Individuals who post messages contrary to a particular group's stated purpose can be excluded from posting in that group. For detailed information about this group and its purpose, click here.
Title Replies Author Start time Last reply Recs Views
Doris 'Dorie' Miller 'Hero of Pearl Harbor' Dec. 7, 1941 USS West Virginia 'Above & Beyond the Call of Duty' WW2 0 appalachiablue 42 min ago 42 min ago 3 128
On May 15, 1855, Louis Bamberger was born. 0 mahatmakanejeeves 16 hrs ago 16 hrs ago 0 255
"Vancouver! Vancouver! This is it!" On May 18, 1980, Mount St. Helens erupted. 5 mahatmakanejeeves 18 hrs ago 16 hrs ago 6 331
On this day, May 18, 1927, the deadliest school massacre in U.S. history occurred. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Monday Monday 8 398
On May 15, 1979, Willie Nelson and Charley Pride presented Jimmy Carter with a gold record. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sunday Sunday 10 326
On May 15, 2008, California became the second U.S. state to legalize same-sex marriage. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sunday Sunday 0 265
On May 15, 1916, Jesse Washington, a teenage African-American farmhand, was lynched in Waco, Texas. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sunday Sunday 3 290
On this day, May 15, 1979, Willie Nelson and Charley Pride presented Jimmy Carter with a gold record. 3 mahatmakanejeeves May 2024 Sunday 7 1006
On May 14, 1945, house painter Albert Stevens was injected with the highest known accumulated radiation dose in a human. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sunday Sunday 8 550
On May 17, 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that segregation in public education was unconstitutional. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Sunday Sunday 3 349
On May 15, 1970, Mississippi Police Opened Fire on Crowd of Jackson State College Students, Killing Two 0 mahatmakanejeeves Saturday Saturday 9 401
On May 13, 1993, Bill Clinton got a haircut while on board Air Force One at LAX. 4 mahatmakanejeeves Saturday Saturday 17 628
"I shrink from butchery" 0 orangecrush Saturday Saturday 4 423
On this day, May 14, 1804, the Lewis and Clark Expedition set out from Camp Dubois, Illinois. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Thursday Thursday 5 387
On May 13, 1958, Eisenhower sent troops to rescue Vice President Nixon when he was endangered. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Thursday Thursday 8 437
On this day, May 14, 1988, the deadliest incident involving drunk driving in U.S. history occurred. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Thursday Thursday 7 448
On this day, May 14, 1961, a Freedom Riders bus was attacked and set on fire near Anniston, Alabama. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Thursday Thursday 6 261
On this day, May 14, 2022, ten people, all African Americans, were murdered in a mass shooting in Buffalo, New York. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Thursday Thursday 3 253
Gore Vidal on Understanding America's Terrorist Crisis (April 18, 2002) 0 BootinUp Wednesday Wednesday 2 318
Bobby Cox, Hall of Fame manager of Atlanta Braves, dies at age 84 1 mahatmakanejeeves May 10 May 10 5 323
Everyone Remembers Paul Revere's Midnight Ride. His Forgotten Race to Secure a Trove of Documents 2 G_j May 6 May 6 6 444
On this day, May 6, 1937, the Hindenburg floated high over Manhattan on its way to NAS Lakehurst. 4 mahatmakanejeeves May 6 May 6 4 541
On this day, May 2, 2011, Osama bin Laden was killed by US special forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan. 1 mahatmakanejeeves May 2024 May 6 0 1055
On May 2, 1939, Lou Gehrig took the day off. 2 mahatmakanejeeves May 5 May 5 4 440
On May 1, 1971, Amtrak began operation. 6 mahatmakanejeeves May 5 May 5 4 812
On the night of April 30, 2011, Donald Trump attended the WH Correspondents' Association dinner. 2 mahatmakanejeeves May 5 May 5 3 546
On May 2, 2011, Osama bin Laden was killed by US special forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan. 0 mahatmakanejeeves May 5 May 5 1 283
On this day, May 5, 1961, "Freedom 7" launched from Cape Canaveral, carrying Alan Shepard, the first American in space. 0 mahatmakanejeeves May 5 May 5 3 247
America recalls the hellish agony of May 5, 2009: the day Barack Hussein Obama ordered Dijon mustard on his hamburger. 3 mahatmakanejeeves May 5 May 5 9 585
On April 29, 1970, U.S. troops entered Cambodia. 1 mahatmakanejeeves May 4 May 4 0 314

American History Continued...

Title Replies Author Start time Last reply Recs Views
On May 3, 1963, "Bull" Connor turned fire hoses and police dogs on schoolchildren walking in Birmingham. 0 mahatmakanejeeves May 4 May 4 3 501
On this day, May 2, 1972, J. Edgar Hoover died. 2 mahatmakanejeeves May 2 May 3 2 426
Donald W. Riegle, Representative Who Switched Parties, Dies at 88 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 28 Apr 28 7 490
Lionel Rosenblatt Dies at 82; Led Daring Rescue of Vietnamese Refugees 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 25 Apr 25 9 529
On this day, April 25, 1946, 45 people were killed and some 125 were injured in a train wreck in Naperville, Illinois. 4 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 25 Apr 25 3 679
On this day, April 25, 1945, United States and Soviet troops met in Torgau and Strehla along the Elbe River. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 25 Apr 25 4 396
Inside Frank Lloyd Wright's Hidden Woodland Utopia Unique Spaces Architectural Digest 0 Uncle Joe Apr 25 Apr 25 6 620
On April 23, 1951, Barbara Johns launched a student strike for equal education in Virginia. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 24 Apr 24 3 363
On this day, April 24, 1980, eight U.S. servicemen died in Operation Eagle Claw, a failed attempt to rescue hostages. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 24 Apr 24 2 364
On April 23, 1945, the US Army's 90th Infantry Division liberated Flossenburg concentration camp. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 24 Apr 24 5 471
On April 17, 1967, Jock Semple tried to keep Kathrine Switzer from running in the Boston Marathon. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 23 Apr 23 3 535
On April 16, 1947, the SS Grandcamp, filled with ammonium nitrate, blew up in Texas City. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 23 Apr 23 2 506
Considering History: Jackie Robinson, Japanese Americans, and the Best of American Sports and Community 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 23 Apr 23 1 330
On this day, April 23, 1987, 28 construction workers died in the collapse of the L'Ambiance Plaza. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 23 Apr 23 0 404
On this day, April 23, 1940, 209 people were killed in the Rhythm Club fire in Natchez. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 23 Apr 23 2 373
On this day, April 22, 1994, Richard Nixon died. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 22 Apr 22 3 554
On the first Earth Day, April 22, 1970, CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite narrated a special report. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 22 Apr 22 7 545
On April 17, 1964, the Ford Mustang was introduced to the public at the New York World's Fair. 6 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 21 Apr 21 10 738
On this day, April 21, 1910, Mark Twain died. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 21 Apr 21 6 510
On April 17, 1965, the first pickets in DC for gay rights took place in front of the White House. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 21 Apr 21 6 451
On this day, April 19, 1993, 76 people died when the Branch Davidian compound outside Waco, Texas, was set fire. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 19 Apr 20 4 531
On this day, April 20, 1914, approximately 21 people were killed in the Ludlow Massacre. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 20 Apr 20 2 1470
On this day, April 19, 1995, 168 people were killed in the truck bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Building. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 19 Apr 19 7 661
Iris Long, Scientific Mentor to AIDS Activists, Dies at 92 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 18 Apr 19 6 456
On this day, April 19, 1927, Mae West was sentenced to 10 days in jail for "corrupting the morals of youth." 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 19 Apr 19 5 663
Listen, my children, and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-Five 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 18 Apr 18 5 601
Ishmael Jaffree, Who Won Case Rejecting School Prayer, Is Dead at 80 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 15 Apr 15 9 614
On this day, April 13, 1873, the Ku Klux Klan carried out the Colfax Massacre in response to an 1872 Republican victory. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 13 Apr 13 5 596
On this day, April 12, 1955, it was announced that the polio vaccine Jonas Salk developed was safe. 4 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 12 Apr 12 6 649
On this day, April 11, 1945, American forces liberated the Buchenwald concentration camp. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 11 Apr 11 6 560

American History Continued...

Title Replies Author Start time Last reply Recs Views
On this day, April 10, 1963, the USS Thresher sank. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 10 Apr 10 2 751
On April 5, 2010, twenty-nine coal miners were killed in an explosion in the Upper Big Branch coal mine. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 10 Apr 10 2 511
On the night of April 10, 1956, Nat King Cole was beaten onstage in Birmingham, Alabama. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 10 Apr 10 3 534
On April 10 and April 11, 1945, President Roosevelt was photographed in Warm Springs, Georgia. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 10 Apr 10 3 542
Martin Gugino, Activist Shoved by Buffalo Police at 2020 Protest, Dies 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 10 Apr 10 6 645
On this day, April 10, 1880, Frances Perkins was born. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 10 Apr 10 6 511
On this day, April 9, 2003, a 40-foot statue of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad's Firdos Square was toppled. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 9 Apr 9 2 510
On this day, April 9, 1939, Easter Sunday, Marian Anderson performed at the Lincoln Memorial. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 9 Apr 9 4 661
Has any American President ever received a Tito letter? 5 Wolf Frankula Apr 8 Apr 9 3 898
'Duck and Cover,' Nuclear Attack Civil Defence Film 1952; Lewis Black Comedy Gold 5 appalachiablue Apr 8 Apr 8 2 781
PBS: How Thoreau Told the Stories of the Black Community near Walden 1 marmar Apr 8 Apr 8 8 615
PBS: FDR's Path to the White House (1884-1933) 2 marmar Apr 8 Apr 8 4 656
For baseball fans: 0 discntnt_irny_srcsm Apr 8 Apr 8 7 698
Lucy Worsley Investigates: The American Revolution FULL EPISODE 1 (from PBS's youtube) 2 eShirl Apr 7 Apr 7 2 735
On this day, April 7, 1933, the Cullen-Harrison Act was enacted. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 7 Apr 7 5 437
April 6, 1712, In Labor History: One Of The First Slave Revolts, In New York City 0 erronis Apr 6 Apr 6 4 521
On this day, April 5, 1976, a photographer in Boston, Massachusetts, took this picture. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 5 Apr 5 45 2157
On this day, June 24, 1994, a B-52 crashed at Fairchild Air Force Base during practice for an airshow. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2025 Apr 3 3 997
On this day, March 30, 1942, 227 residents of Bainbridge Island, Washington, were rounded up and removed. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 30 Mar 30 9 736
On this day, March 30, 1954, Supreme Court justice Robert H. Jackson suffered a massive heart attack 2 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 30 Mar 30 5 653
Latest Discussions»Culture Forums»American History
Home | Latest Discussions | Greatest Discussions | Latest Videos | All Forums

About | Copyright | Privacy | Terms of service | Contact

In Memoriam

© 2001 - 2026 Democratic Underground, LLC. Thank you for visiting.