Google celebrates America’s 250th anniversary with AI-driven history experience

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2026/05/google-america-250/

From the copper mines of Butte, Montana, Robert Craig Knievel crashed motorcycles, broke 433 bones, became a national icon — then beat a man with a baseball bat and went broke. His life was as spectacular as his jumps and as brutal as his landings. This is the full, unvarnished story of Evel Knievel.

Web:
https://www.bigskytreasure.org/history/people/evel-knievel

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

Russell Harrison came to Montana in 1878 with a famous last name, a mining degree, and big ambitions. He ran the federal gold assay office, schemed in cattle country, bought a newspaper, got sued for libel, and watched his father become president — all from Helena. His Montana years were messy, ambitious, and revealing.

Web:
https://www.bigskytreasure.org/history/people/russell-benjamin-harrison

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

Folks have posted this photo today without #attribution

"Recognize this photograph? It shows 14-year-old Mary Ann Vecchio screaming and kneeling over the body of 20-year-old Jeffrey Miller, shot during the Kent State Massacre. Kent State photojournalism student John Paul Filo — just 22-years-old at the time — captured the image, and was later awarded the 1971 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography."

https://petapixel.com/2012/08/29/the-kent-state-massacre-photo-and-the-case-of-the-missing-pole/ #StateViolence #UShistory

We take access to weather forecasts for granted today, but back in the 1870s, you needed to go to your local post office.

Here's a nice story about the beginning of weather forecasting in the US

Starts at 7:30
https://www.npr.org/2026/05/01/nx-s1-5806259/the-history-of-americas-weather-forecasts

#Weather #WeatherForecast #USHistory

Butte’s Columbia Gardens was Montana’s only major amusement park — a copper king’s political gift that became a community treasure. For 74 years, families rode carousels and swam in a mountain oasis. Then a corporation, an expanding pit mine, and a suspicious fire erased it forever. What remained? Grief, scattered relics, and unanswered questions.

Web:
https://www.bigskytreasure.org/history/places/columbia-gardens

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

Quaker lawyer meets copper kings. Joseph M. Dixon clawed his way from frontier Missoula to the U.S. Senate, ran Teddy Roosevelt’s legendary Bull Moose campaign, then waged war on Anaconda Copper as Montana’s governor — and lost his job while winning his biggest reform. A complicated legacy worth knowing.

Web:
https://www.bigskytreasure.org/history/people/joseph-m-dixon

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

Everyone Who Could Be in Trump's 'Garden of Heroes'

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/02/us/politics/trump-garden-of-heroes-national-statues-list.html

#Politics #USHistory #Presidency

Everyone Who Could Be in Trump's 'Garden of Heroes'

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/02/us/politics/trump-garden-of-heroes-national-statues-list.html

#Politics #USHistory #Statues

"#HarrietTubman [was] a brave woman who was called 'the Moses of her people.' Tubman memorized the routes and went back at least 19 times to the Eastern shore of Maryland where she originally escaped from. Carrying a rifle, she would walk with her company at night, heading north and passing through New York’s Finger Lakes, across the international bridge at Niagara Falls, to St. Catharines in Canada."

"#WilliamStill, who was born in New Jersey to a formerly enslaved couple from Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay region, moved to #Philadelphia in 1844. ...known as 'the Father of the #UndergroundRailroad,' Still coordinated many Underground Railroad escapes and received over 900 passengers who made their way to Philadelphia and continued on to points farther north, including Canada.

#USHistory #Slavery

https://theconversation.com/how-harriet-tubman-and-philadelphia-abolitionists-coordinated-dangerous-journeys-to-freedom-281105