American History
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This is what American cities looked like a century ago (and what happened to them)... 🧵 1. Saratoga Springs, New York (1915) https://t.co/fcFqXLht3L
In 1979, 16-year-old Brenda Ann Spencer was arrested after killing two people in San Diego, California. When asked why she did it, she replied, "I just don't like Mondays.” htt...
1/3 I just finished reading Walter Stahr's 700-page biography of Salmon Chase. There was a lot in it that was very interesting, but I would have liked a lot more on Chase's financi...
"The first instinct of the nineteenth-century American was to ask, 'How can we make this happen?' Those raised inside the bureaucratic maze have been trained to ask a different que...
🎉🇺🇸 Today marks the 169th anniversary of the Republican Party of the United States, organized in Ripon, Wisconsin on this day in 1854! Let's take a journey through its early histor...
Great American Eclipse was 8/21/17 3 yrs, 3 mos, 3 wks, 3 days after that, the corona vax is rolled out on 12/14/2020 during a Southern American Solar Eclipse. 3 yrs, 3 mos, 3 wks...
Black History Month pop quiz . Which was the first European nation to establish a slave colony in North America, in what was to become the United States?
@TheeRougarou @GOPChairwoman Ramona Jones, wife of Juan Carlos Benitez, previously worked in Washington DC as a special advisor for economic policy in the Department of the Interio...
A multi-millionaire retired accountant with no previous criminal record committed the deadliest mass shooting in American history five years ago today and the FBI closed the case w...
"...it serves to link the Revolutionary generation to our own in the most intimate way." https://t.co/dMmNC7w24Z
Today marks the 75th anniversary since the CIA was formed. Since 1947 it has been destabilising the world all to protect American interests here is a thread documenting just some o...
1. I have been arguing for a while here a few premises: The argument that the ideas of the American Founding were corrupted by liberals is mistaken. The ideas themselves are liber...
In 1807, Omar ibn Said, a Muslim scholar, was stolen from Senegal & sold into slavery in America. He left behind an autobiography written in Arabic. To mark the International Day...
1/4 It's astonishing how little these people know about American economic history. While economic freedom has certainly been one of the great strengths of the American economy, the...
This painting is from 1833. It's by Thomas Cole, an artist of extraordinary imaginative power. But The Titan's Goblet isn't even his masterpiece... https://t.co/5ZNmnxqVgC
1. This is an excellent, and important question. Myths are a strange thing. They are part story, part symbol. They are in many ways the deepest foundation of our society and cultu...
The court claims a right to abortion is not "deeply rooted in this Nation’s history and tradition." Is that true? I searched 18th century newspapers because I wanted to learn how...
The Mexican War was a pivotal event in US history: It marks the moment when we accepted our irresistible destiny to dominate North America. Mexico was brought to heel, our militar...
People get 'race and IQ' wrong because they think in overly broad abstractions. Guaranteed the smartest groups in America are the Founding stock and former pioneer Mormons, because...
The reason no academic ever likes to talk about the work of Thomas Sowell was because he was the only one who dared discover that “Blaq American culture” is actually just older Mid...
The question is, are people fungible? Kevin Williamson thinks Appalachians should simple move en masse for tech jobs or whatever. Bill Kristol laughed about replacing the current w...
A myth accepted by both the Left and Right is that the Declaration of Independence has individual equality as an ideological commitment of the Revolution. Nothing could be further...
🇺🇸 JFK Jr Thread 🇺🇸 This isn't going to be your typical #JFKJrIsAlive thread I'm going to dive deep into a possible Deep State Spy that was able to get close to the Kennedy famil...
