Tag: American history
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Link to a story with national ramifications.
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I study European history, so why did I post about Sand Creek earlier today? And why excerpt seemingly gratuitous violence? I have no expertise in U.S. history, but I am interested in the history of violence per se, which can reveal a lot about peoples and cultures at a given…
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Quotation and link to an article by Ned Blackhawk on the 150th anniversary of this atrocity.
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Today citizens of the United States celebrate Independence Day. On this day, 232 years ago, thirteen American colonies proclaimed their independence from Great Britain in a famous document that Thomas Jefferson wrote, the Declaration of Independence. As a history teacher, I find this document fascinating, because it fuses together two…
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YouTube video: Donald Duck, the working man, pays “taxes to sink the Axis.”
