#Confederacy

Jared Yates Sexton

JYSexton

America's history has been intentionally and maliciously scrubbed clean of ugly, necessary truths.Let's talk about the Civil War, the Confederacy, Lincoln, and why certain truths have been hidden.Here's what I

Kevin M. Kruse

KevinMKruse

Hey, look who's back and needs attention!No, I won't produce any new threads until you answer the old ones that you ran away from.Here, I'll do you a favor and

Mari: pseud for NATIVE AMERICAN: offensive for NDN

wordglass

I liked @/theryangeorge until I saw this video. I get that he thinks its apt giving the skit, but I was only reminded about NonNatives mining Indigenous cultures to use

Ibrahim Tanner

IbrahimTanner1

When wyt women put their heads together under the guise of femininism, Black family doesn't stand a chance. From owning 40% of slave, Daughters of Confederacy rewriting history, Women of

Austen Risolvato

AustenRisolvato

Every time a statue comes down I hear @EmbryEthan’s voice in my head from Sweet Home Alabama saying “oh you know us southerners, the minute the confederacy died it became

Larry Schweikart

LarrySchweikart

1) Thoughts on secession.2) Before 1861, the Federalists in 1814 briefly toyed with seceding from the Union over the War of 1812. (They were strongly pro-Brit). It fizzled.3) As everyone

madeline odent

oldenoughtosay

okay because I haven't seen anyone else do this a thread on this yet, a short list of historic flags carried by the Capitol mob, and why they matter:(cw obviously

Your Friendly Butch Anarchist

butchanarchy

Too little known fact: Marx and Engels’ work was significantly influenced by American anthropologist Lewis H. Morgan’s study of the practices (which he called “communist in living”) of the Iroquois.Yet

Jemar Tisby

JemarTisby

#OTD: February 8, 1915 The 3-hour long blockbuster silent film “Birth of a Nation” debuts in Los Angeles. It was a white supremacist propaganda film that takes place during Reconstruction.

Dr. Joel C. Miller

joel_c_miller

#StatesRights - a :Growing up in Texas, I frequently heard the argument about how important it was that states have their individual rights to set their own policies within the

Jared Yates Sexton

JYSexton

The people decrying the loss of things like Aunt Jemima syrup, Confederate monuments, and superheroes and pop culture figures being recast are more worried about perceived loss of cultural power

I'm Obviously Not Shelby Foote

booksandbbq

Had no internet yesterday, but on 1 July 1862, my 3x great grandfather, a non-slave holding rural schoolteacher, drafted into the Confederate Army after NC seceded, was shot at the

One Dish One Mic - We now have a PATREON account

OneDishOneMic

Dear Canadians,Please ask your leaders to stop trying to shoot us, arrest us, erase us, and remove us from our lands. If all we ever see from Canadian authorities is

Stonewall Jackson

1776Stonewall

Today In History 1861: Jefferson Davis Elected President of the Confederate States Of America. Davis, a decorated War veteran of the Mexican-American War and the Black Hawk War, was also

kenosha brick for abolish ice dude wtf🏳️‍🌈🖤💯

antifascistsoup

I am going to come out and admit the most embarrassing thing about me, and if I get canceled, I deserved it. About a year ago it came to my

Adam Bunch

TODreamsProject

1. This is the Queen's Hotel. It once stood on Front Street in Toronto. During the American Civil War, it was filled with Confederate soldiers and spies — from there,

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