In 1775, hundreds of enslaved men in Virginia fled their plantations and joined the British in exchange for a single promise: freedom. They formed the Ethiopian Regiment—the first Black fighting force of the American Revolution. This is the story of how they marched under a banner that read Liberty to Slaves, and what became of them in a single, searing year.

Caption: Troiani, Don. Brave Men as Ever Fought. Museum of the American Revolution, Philadelphia.
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#OnThisDay, April 22, 1964, the 1964 World’s Fair opened at Flushing Meadows–Corona Park in Queens, New York City. Its theme was "Peace Through Understanding” (depicted in Tomorrowland, 2015)

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📕 Amanhã, o sol vai convidar a um passeio sem carro até ao lançamento do livro "A Revolução a que se se Pode Ir de Carro. Portugal, Espanha e os media (1974-1975)", de Rita Luís. Está agendado para as 18h no Centro Galego de Lisboa, com apresentação de David Martín Marcos, Júlia Leitão de Barros e José Luís Garcia. 🚗

ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/revolucao-carro-lx/

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#OTD (Apr 22) in #OrganizedCrime #History: Two accused of Agnello murder in #NewOrleans, letter connects Morello with #BarrelMurder victim, jury convicts #Baltimore Black Hand bomber, #Kastel gets three years for mail fraud, #Torrio is charged with tax fraud, murder victim found outside #HotSpringsAR, Marcello is freed of contempt charge, Manocchio convictions are restored.

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🆕 Víctor Barros and Aurora Almada e Santos were two of the researchers invited to collaborate on the exhibition ‘Before Being Independence, It Was a Struggle For Liberation’, recently opened at the Aljube Museum.

👉 We tell you all about it here: https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/barros-santos-aljube-museum/

📷 © José Frade / EGEAC

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📢 Journée d'études sur "La Seine militaire, de l’Antiquité à la Seconde Guerre mondiale"
📆 le 13 mai 2025
📍à l'université de Rouen Normandie

PRESENTATION
"La Seine, fleuve de 700 km qui relie la Bourgogne à la Manche et dont les affluents irriguent tout le Bassin parisien (au sens géologique), soit pratiquement toute la moitié nord de la France, a été un puissant un facteur de développement économique pour les régions qu’elle connecte depuis toujours. Elle organise cependant les circulations de façon contradictoires, comme vecteur ou comme obstacle, selon que l’on considère le mode de transport par eau ou par terre, mais cette contradiction trouve une solution dans le développement de villes, qui ont été autant de ports et de relais, au carrefour de ces routes fluviales et terrestres. Ces questions de circulation ont plutôt été étudiées jusqu’ici sous l’angle commercial, raison pour laquelle on voudrait dans cette journée d’études interroger cet espace naturel sous l’angle militaire, sur le temps long, en faisant le pari que cet élément naturel s’impose durablement aux hommes en dépit des évolutions techniques, politiques et militaires qui ont marquées la France de l’Antiquité à nos jours."

https://grhis.univ-rouen.fr/grhis/?event=la-seine-militaire

#OnThisDay, 22 April 1969, Bernadette Devlin makes her maiden speech in the House of Parliament in London. An Irish Republican, she had rejected their tradition of abstention in order to take her seat. She remained an MP until 1974.

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