Reading history for reasons

#UShistory #history

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/11/11/when-america-tried-to-deport-its-radicals

“The nation of South Vietnam still exists in the people who came here after the war,” Sandy said. “It is a nation that ceased existing in 1975 on a map. But there’s this diaspora of people who became Vietnamese American and brought with them their conception of that citizenship and nationality.”

https://fortworthreport.org/2025/04/29/50-years-after-saigons-fall-vietnamese-american-community-reflects-we-had-a-beautiful-country/

#aapi #aanhpi #VietnamWar #history #vietnamese #UShistory #refugees #immigrant #immigration #trauma #MentalHealth

ICYMI: Trump Declares World War Anniversaries as ‘Victory Days’ for U.S. https://www.rainsmediaradio.com/2025/05/trump-declares-world-war-anniversaries.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon Follow, Like & Share #Trump #VictoryDay #WorldWarAnniversaries #USHistory #VeteransDay

🔥 The country was tearing at the seams.

This week’s episode of US History – Understanding This Country breaks down the firestorm:

— The Wilmot Proviso
— Fugitive Slave Act
— Bleeding Kansas
— Secession
— Lincoln’s final warning

Before the first shot was fired, the Union was already at war with itself.

🎧 Listen for free on Spotify
https://open.spotify.com/episode/3A3W1fjhNnmdzvU4M6hT3k?si=9ftNTqEdQRC-foG9Q98ClA

#history #USHistory #Podcast #SupportSmallCreators

Couple of days late, sorry.

#RodneyKing #LosAngeles #USHistory #Racism #StructuralRacism #QualifiedImmunity

Trump Declares World War Anniversaries as ‘Victory Days’ for U.S. https://www.rainsmediaradio.com/2025/05/trump-declares-world-war-anniversaries.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon Follow, Like & Share #Trump #VictoryDay #WorldWarAnniversaries #USHistory #VeteransDay

Insightful article from a few years ago on the recently deceased David Horowitz. The murder of Betty Van Patter was probably the occasion rather than the cause of his beginning his migration from the new left to the far right. One important consequence of this migration was his launching of the political career of the malignant Stephen Miller.

As an individual, Horowitz sounds awful and given the politics of his latter years, a feeling of relief or even joy at the news of his death is understandable.

Yet we need to be ready to ask what in the culture of the new left and of the US left in general nourished the loathsome politics of Horowitz. Just uttering the words "horseshoe theory" will not suffice.

https://newrepublic.com/article/162227/david-horowitz-profile-trump-propagandist-radical-leftist

#USPolitics #DavidHorowitz #RightWing #StephenMiller #NewLeft #USHistory

William M. Mitchell (circa 1826 to circa 1879) was a free-born Black overseer in North Carolina who, after 12 years managing slaves on a plantation, experienced a religious awakening, condemned slavery, left North Carolina for Ohio, and became a station master and sometimes conductor on the Underground Railroad. #History #Abolitionism #Slavery #USHistory #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/2-2712-en/

"One of the first-ever uses of aerial-dropped bombs was against the miners' army in West Virginia. The Italians had done it a few years earlier in Ethiopia."

#LettersAndPolitics welcomes #RobertOvetz, author of #WhenWorkersShotBack: #ClassConflict from 1877 to 1921

https://kpfa.org/episode/letters-and-politics-april-30-2025/

#labor #labour #laborHistory #labourHistory #USlaborHistory #UShistory #AmericanHistory #GreatRailroadStrikeOf1877 #WestVirginiaCoalWars #PullmanStrike #books @bookstodon @histodons

This 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War reminds me of my trip to Vietnam in 1992, and how wonderful everyone was to me. People wanted me in their photos, wanted to practice their English with me, wanted to know if Mr. Bill Clinton was going to lift the trade embargo. No one mentioned the war.

#USHistory #Vietnam #VietnamWar

Tomorrow is Labor Day in most of the world except the USA. Never forget they changed the date in the US precisely in order to separate it from the world wide leftist labor movement. Look it up!
#laborday #leftism #us #usa #uspol #france #communism #anarchism #mayday #workersrights #solidarity #nogodsnomasters #marx #karlmarx #history #ushistory

@Deglassco

What an amazing, informative thread! Thanks for sharing.

#ushistory #revolutionarywar #blackhistory

Lear Green (circa 1839-1860) was an enslaved African American woman in Baltimore, Maryland, who had herself shipped in a chest to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to escape slavery. #History #LearGreen #Abolitionism #Slavery #USHistory #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/1-24414-en/

April 29, 1805, The Lewis and Clark Expedition has now been in what would eventually become the great state of Montana for a couple of days now. This day was also one of their first encounters with a Grizzly Bear.

Web:
https://lewisandclarkjournals.unl.edu/item/lc.jrn.1805-04-29#ln12042901

about 8 A. M. we fell in with two brown or white bear; both of which we wounded; one of them made his escape, the other after my firing on him pursued me seventy or eighty yards...

#WorldHistory
#USHistory
#MTHistory
#Montana
#History
#BSTS
#Fourosix

The Enigmatic Nirumbee: Legends of the Little People of the Pryor Mountains

Web:
https://www.bigskytreasure.org/history/mysteries#h.7useuiaqhn04

#WorldHistory
#USHistory
#MTHistory
#Montana
#History
#BSTS
#Fourosix
#MontanaToday

@romancelandia @bookstodon #Romancelandia

Via @authormsbev: Say Her Name: Sophie Mousseau

#USHistory #USPolitics

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/when-a-historian-saw-this-haunting-photograph-of-a-nameless-native-girl-she-decided-she-had-to-identify-her-180986496/

"This April, 50 years after the loss of their homeland, Vietnamese refugees and their descendants who helped shape San Jose and Silicon Valley are pondering their legacy and what it means to be Vietnamese American moving forward. For Vương, who goes by Lauren Vuong and now lives in San Francisco, this includes illuminating what became of those left behind after the U.S. withdrawal from the Vietnam War."

🎁: https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/04/27/san-joses-vietnamese-refugees/?share=on2ye4w2ss25euwotose

#aapi #aanhpi #vietnamese #VietnamWar #UShistory #refugees

80 years ago, the 855 members of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, known as the Six Triple Eight, headed to Birmingham, England, to sort an enormous backlog of mail. They were faced with millions of letters and packages addressed to American soldiers and government personnel stationed across Europe, some of whom had received nothing in years. Three months later, the predominantly Black, all-female unit, which had the motto, "no mail, low morale," had done it. In 2022, then-President Joe Biden signed into law an act that would award members of the battalion a Congressional Gold Medal. Today, the two surviving members received theirs. Here's more from @npr about the work the unit did, the campaign to get them their medals, and how the Department of Defense's DEI purge impacted their legacy.

Link: https://flip.it/jdxwB_

#History @histodons #USHistory #BlackHistory @blackmastodon #USMilitary #USGovernment #Women

US forces abandon Saigon (29.Apr.1975) #UShistory #history #empire #defeat

The Underground Railroad was a decentralized network of White abolitionists, free Blacks, former slaves, Mexicans, Native Americans, and others opposing slavery in the United States who established secret routes and havens to help slaves escape bondage. #History #Abolitionism #Slavery #USHistory #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/1-24413-en/