🔥 ASSASSINATION AT FORD'S THEATRE

April 14, 1865 — In the dim gaslight of Washington's Ford's Theatre, President Abraham Lincoln sits in the presidential box during "Our American Cousin." As the third act unfolds, John Wilkes Booth slips silently into the box behind him. The nation that just celebrated Union victory five days after Lee's surrender is about to be plunged into mourning.

This post is 100% AI generated.

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If you haven't read A People's History of the United States...
https://bookshop.org/p/books/a-people-s-history-of-the-united-states-howard-zinn/c2b74cff038cd259

But want to see just how disgusting the white christian nationalists are, you might want to watch Sitting Bull. https://www.netflix.com/title/82765251

No one should trust the US. If your nation has resources, the US will try to take it. If you're not white or christian these goons do not believe you have rights. And any agreement isn't worth the paper it's written on.

#WhiteNationalism #USHistory #SittingBull #Capitalism

Poplar's valedictorian was bludgeoned to death beside the river in 1979. A neighbor confessed — but the confession was full of holes, key evidence was tampered with, and rumors pointed elsewhere. Barry Beach spent 32 years in prison. The real killer may never face justice.

Web:
https://www.bigskytreasure.org/history/mysteries/the-murder-of-kimberly-nees

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#Montana
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:The glass panels of the Lynching Victims Monolith are simple, etched with the names of more than 600 victims of documented racial killings in Mississippi, along with the attackers’ motives...The panels are among thousands of exhibits and artifacts inside the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum and the adjoining Museum of Mississippi History."

https://apnews.com/article/america-250-history-mississippi-slavery-trump-whitewash-a8a836ec20ada0776da18e87f90fe6b1

#UShistory #CivilRights #Indigenous #NativeAmericans #BlackMastodon #mississippi

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/in-a-new-documentary-one-of-britains-most-famous-historians-reframes-the-american-revolution-as-a-messy-divorce-180988457/

As a Brit resident in the USA who has more than a passing interest in US history and culture, my feelings about the American Revolution are so mixed and multitudinous that I won't try to put them all down here, although I might post some reflections over the course of the year.

I am glad that the article I've posted mentions the Gordon riots, an all too often forgotten episode exhibiting both the repressive violence wielded by Britain's rulers against their compatriots in the crowd, and the ugly bigotry coursing through that crowd.

Those riots also offer a jumping off point for an exercise in counterfactual history: what if those disorders had not been contained, but had turned out to be the beginnings of the British Revolution of 1780?

#History #AmericanRevolution #USHistory #BritishHistory #GordonRiots #CounterfactualHistory #BritishAmericanRelations

They had no land, no treaty, and no country willing to claim them. For decades, the Chippewa and Cree wandered Montana — deported, ignored, and desperate. Then a misnamed chief, a painter, and a writer changed everything. The unlikely story of how Rocky Boy’s Reservation came to be.

Web:
https://www.bigskytreasure.org/history/institutions/rocky-boys-indian-reservation

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#Montana
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#OTD April 12, 1861, the treasonous Confederate losers attacked a Union held fort, starting the US Civil War. The Confederates firnly believed owning another human being was their right.

Click this link to see if you can find where this took place on a #map:
https://www.whereintheworldgame.com/?id=229&type=q

#History #USHistory #Geography

Mit dem Beschuss von #FortSumter begann heute vor 165 Jahren der #Bürgerkrieg in den #USA. Wie dieser Vorstellungen von #Männlichkeit verändert hat, untersuchen:

▶ N. Finzsch/M. Hampf, Männlichkeit im Süden, Männlichkeit im Norden. Zur Genese moderner amerikanischer Männlichkeitskonzepte in der Epoche des Bürgerkriegs (1861–1865), #WerkstattGeschichte 29/2001, https://werkstattgeschichte.de/alle_ausgaben/maenner/

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