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John Trudell is such relevant poet for this day. 0 1WorldHope Jul 2024 Jul 2024 2 638
Who benefited from President Kennedy's death? 4 ailsagirl Jan 2025 Feb 2025 12 1461
June 19, 1953 Rosenbergs executed 3 AKwannabe Jun 2023 Jun 2023 8 1308
Empire State Bldg Plane Crash Accident, US Pilot, Sat June 28, 1945, 20 Yr Old Elevator Operator Survivor 5 appalachiablue Dec 2024 Dec 2024 3 1201
America's 1st Viral Post, Jan 10, 1776, Thom Paine's 'Common Sense' Sparked A Revolution, Tore Down Monarchy 2 appalachiablue Jan 2025 Jan 2025 8 827
Smithsonian, Other Museums Begin to Reopen, Welcome Visitors Back after Govt Shutdown: NPR 0 appalachiablue Nov 14 Nov 14 3 322
🗽The American Revolution - Ken Burns New Documentary - PBS Nov. 16 - Smithsonian Magazine 5 appalachiablue Nov 13 Nov 15 12 437
Horror & Heroism, Air Florida Plane Crash, Wash. DC, Jan. 13, 1982- 41 Yrs Ago: Graphic Images, Info 12 appalachiablue Jan 2023 Jan 2023 7 3117
They Posed As Master & Slave, The Saga of Ellen and Wm. Craft: Book Review, LAT 2 appalachiablue Jan 2023 Jan 2023 12 1861
Eliz Van Lew: Union Spy, Richmond, Confed Capital, Grant's Source. Spy Mary Bowser, Libby Prison 1 appalachiablue Apr 2023 Apr 2023 5 1367
NYC Slave Revolt, April 6, 1712: Prelude Yrs of Hardship, Slave Trade Hub; Sojourner Truth, Dutch NY 4 appalachiablue Apr 2023 Apr 2023 6 1572
Last Witness to Pres Lincoln Assassination, April 14, 1865: TV Game Show Guest, 1956 0 appalachiablue Apr 2023 Apr 2023 5 972
Sinking of the Titanic April 14-15, 1912 North Atlantic Ocean Voyage UK-US: Survivors Interviews 9 appalachiablue Apr 2023 Apr 2023 10 1935
President Lincoln Death, April 15, 1865. Son Robert Todd Lincoln Aided by Actor Edwin Booth c.1865 0 appalachiablue Apr 2023 Apr 2023 7 1075
Lt Col (Dr) Alexander T Augusta, US Army's 1st Black Doctor, 7th USCT, Civil War, Buried Arl Nat Cem 2 appalachiablue Apr 2023 Apr 2023 6 1438
Deadliest Strike US History, Ludlow Massacre April 20 1914, 1200 Miners: Rockefeller Jr Armed Thugs 7 appalachiablue Apr 2023 Apr 2023 6 1618
May 2 1927 Buck v Bell US Supreme Ct, Sterilization of Unfit; Eugenics,1924 Immigration Law, Nazis 2 appalachiablue May 2023 May 2023 4 1058
WW2 Ghost Army Used Art to Deceive Nazis, D-Day, Rhineland - Artists, Designers, Engineers, Painters 5 appalachiablue Jun 2023 Jun 2023 21 1704
Current Exhibit, 'Ghost Army: The Combat Con Artists of WW2' Created Deceptions To Fight the Nazis 0 appalachiablue Jun 2023 Jun 2023 7 1040
1973 Mass Fire Destroyed Millions of Military Service Records; Families Still Seek Answers More Info 0 appalachiablue Jul 2023 Jul 2023 3 1072
George Washington - Favorite Breakfast 0 appalachiablue Jul 2023 Jul 2023 5 943
Breakfast Waffles Over The Fire - 18th Century Cooking 🧇 4 appalachiablue Aug 2023 Aug 2023 11 1087
Historical French Toast, Pain Perdu 18th Century 🥖 4 appalachiablue Aug 2023 Aug 2023 7 1152
This Day In History: Aug. 14, 1935, FDR Signs Social Security Act 5 appalachiablue Aug 2023 Aug 2023 4 1212
This Day In History, August 15, 1969 - Woodstock Music Festival, Bethel, New York 0 appalachiablue Aug 2023 Aug 2023 8 1081
The Working Man's Breakfast, 18th Century 🍲 6 appalachiablue Aug 2023 Aug 2023 3 1357
Grog! Rum Rations In The 18th Century Navy ⛵ 0 appalachiablue Sep 2023 Sep 2023 5 798
Ferdinand Ward: Swindler, Fraud, Gold Digger, 'Young Napoleon of Wall St' 'Best Hated Man in the US' 0 appalachiablue Oct 2023 Oct 2023 3 749
The Start of the National Aids Movement: Act Up's Defining Moment In Queer Protest History, Oct 1988 2 appalachiablue Oct 2023 Oct 2023 2 847
1773 Apple Pie 🥧 Earliest Recipe - 18th Century Cooking 5 appalachiablue Oct 2023 Oct 2023 8 1333

American History Continued...

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🎃 The Poor Man's Pumpkin - Impt. In North America, Europe, Even Rome 🥧 2 appalachiablue Oct 2023 Oct 2023 3 1078
🎄 The Original Christmas Dessert, 18th Century 0 appalachiablue Dec 2023 Dec 2023 3 854
'Fala Speech,' FDR Turns His Dog on Dewey, 1944 Campaign, WW2, Wins 4th Term US President 6 appalachiablue Jan 2024 Jan 2024 4 1529
How The Trail of Tears Impacted Wes Studi's Ancestors, Finding Your Roots, PBS 10 appalachiablue Feb 2024 Feb 2024 10 1296
Ida B. Wells: Investigative Journalist, Civil Rights Leader, Passionate Suffragist 0 appalachiablue Feb 2024 Feb 2024 8 684
Doris Miller, Hero Pearl Harbor 1941, Fired AA Machine Gun from USS West Virginia, Navy Cross 8 appalachiablue Mar 2024 Mar 2024 18 1720
Cherries Found in 18th C. Glass Bottles under Floor of Mt. Vernon, George Washington Home 🍒 4 appalachiablue Apr 2024 Apr 2024 9 1404
Freedom from Fear - Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd US Pres. - The 4 Freedoms Speech, Jan. 6, 1941 5 appalachiablue Jun 2024 Jun 2024 10 1002
Tuskegee Airmen, African American Pilots WW2; Memories - Red Tails Fighter Pilot; 1st Top Gun Winner Turns 100 0 appalachiablue Jun 2024 Jun 2024 8 660
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🥃 SWITCHEL - 18th c. Energy Drink, Hot Summer Days - Townsends Early American Cooking 0 appalachiablue Jul 2024 Jul 2024 1 780
Newly Discovered Letter Thomas Jefferson, For Sale; Dec. of Indep, 3rd US Pres; D. July 4, 1826, Same Day as John Adams 0 appalachiablue Jul 2024 Jul 2024 11 712
'We the People' Dec. of Indep., Consti., Bill of Rights, Emanc. Proc., Charters of Freedom, Natl Archives 📜 2 appalachiablue Jul 2024 Jul 2024 4 745
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 appalachiablue Jul 2024 Jul 2024 0 439
July 25, 1990, The Americans with Disabilities Act, ADA Signed into Law 4 appalachiablue Jul 2024 Jul 2024 5 727
July 30, 1965: President Lyndon B. Johnson Signed the Medicare & Medicaid Act 🥼 4 appalachiablue Jul 2024 Jul 2024 8 982
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Aug 5, 1981 Reagan Fired 11, 345 Striking Air Traffic Controllers: Consequences, War on Unions, Workers 4 appalachiablue Aug 2024 Aug 2024 5 1133
Aug. 14, 1935: FDR Signs the Social Security Act 3 appalachiablue Aug 2024 Aug 2024 11 885
The Battle of Blair Mountain, Largest US Labor Uprising: Aug. 25- Sept. 2, 1921 4 appalachiablue Aug 2024 Aug 2024 10 1072
John Adams: I Must Study Politics, War, Sons Have Liberty to Study Math, Philosophy, Children Study Ptg, Poetry 4 appalachiablue Oct 2024 Oct 2024 12 857
📜 SOLD: Rare Copy of US Constitution Up For Auction In NC, Printed in 1787 7 appalachiablue Oct 2024 Oct 2024 10 1267
Carter White House Cornbread - From Plains, Ga with Love 🌽 2 appalachiablue Oct 2024 Oct 2024 12 1154
History and the Headless Horseman, Sleepy Hollow, America's 1st Ghost Story: The History Guy 🐎 0 appalachiablue Oct 2024 Oct 2024 5 670
Eugenics: Madison Grant Book 'Passing of the Great Race,' Hitler Bible; White Sup, Nordic, Anti Immigrant 2 appalachiablue Oct 4 Oct 4 3 601
John Cleary, Wounded in Kent State Shooting, Dies at 74 2 BeyondGeography Nov 9 Nov 9 11 421
As an old slide librarian 1 BittyJenkins Feb 2023 Feb 2023 4 1574
The last known photo of Ulysses S. Grant. 19 Bleacher Creature Feb 2022 Aug 2022 33 4921
JFK's motorcade route was published in advance - @BeschlossDC 5 BootinUp Nov 2022 Dec 2022 11 2177
Private Snafu: The World War II Propaganda Cartoons Created by Dr. Seuss, Frank Capra & Mel Blanc 1 BootinUp Oct 2024 Oct 2024 6 1000

American History Continued...

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The Ziegfeld Follies 2 BootinUp Apr 2025 Apr 2025 4 940
There's no known photograph of Homer Plessy (of Plessy v Ferguson fame) 0 Bucky Dec 2023 Dec 2023 4 938
On this day 1863, Robert E Lee shouted "Never fight uphill, me b'hoys!" ... So beautiful 8 Bucky Apr 2024 Apr 2024 4 1754
15 year old lad 2 Bucky Jun 2024 Jun 2024 2 1010
Robert Hall Clothes - Life in America 6 bucolic_frolic Aug 2022 Aug 2022 5 1582
On this day, March 31, 1676 Zoeth "Zoar" Howland died, a casualty of King Philip's War 5 bucolic_frolic Mar 2023 Apr 2023 6 1672
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Nuclear Engineer, Humanitarian: President Jimmy Carter (1 Oct 1924 - 29 Dec 2024) 2 C0RI0LANUS Jan 2025 Jan 2025 13 820
64 Years Today (19 Jan 1961), Americans Celebrated President JFK with Stellar Pre-Inaugural Gala in Washington, DC 7 C0RI0LANUS Jan 2025 Jan 2025 21 1898
America's Spartacus and Brutus 1 C0RI0LANUS Jan 2025 Jan 2025 5 794
JFK Inauguration Day Photo Gallery 0 C0RI0LANUS Jan 2025 Jan 2025 10 695
Just watched some of FDR's state of the union in 1941 where he laid out the 4 freedoms 4 captain queeg Jul 2022 Aug 2022 9 2111
DC insider on the 10 most crucial days of the Obama presidency 0 catbyte Jun 2023 Jun 2023 0 810
Amelia Earhart's long-lost plane possibly detected by sonar 16,000 feet underwater, exploration team claims 3 catbyte Jan 2024 Jan 2024 3 1203
100 years: A Route 66 ghost town was 'frozen in time'. Is it on the brink of a comeback? 3 cbabe Jul 2025 Jul 2025 10 1073
The Fall of Wake Island... and Donald Trump's tooth brush... 2 DemocraticPatriot Mar 2024 Mar 2024 4 1451
1957 Voting Machines Film (curtains and levers) 2 Dennis Donovan Jan 2025 Jan 2025 4 896
SS United States to leave Philadelphia to move to Okaloosa, FL for ultimate reefing. 4 Dennis Donovan Feb 2025 Feb 2025 6 924
80 Years Ago Today: The Yalta Conference concludes 1 Dennis Donovan Feb 2025 Feb 2025 4 601
100 Years Ago Today: New hires by the White House Police Force - all taller than 6 feet 2 Dennis Donovan Feb 2025 Feb 2025 4 736
The Hill: 'The Internet? Bah!' Remembering 1995, the year of the world wide web. 2 Dennis Donovan Feb 2025 Feb 2025 4 711
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