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I have a PhD in United States History and I am a legal refugee. I run a history wiki called DailyHistory.org and the blog Dailyhistoryblog.com.
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What Was the Importance of Bill Mauldin to WWII Infantrymen?
From Dailyhistory.org: Bill Mauldin once said that the infantryman “gives more and gets less than anybody else.”[1]He knew this from his experience on the front lines with K Company, 180th Infantry Regiment, of the 45th Division. Mauldin went through basic… Read More ›
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Edwin Drake and the First Oil Well
From Dailyhistory.org: Even though there was no one “first discover” of oil. Oil was known in antiquity when it was used to heal wounds. But by the middle of the 19th-century methods for collecting oil from the ground had not… Read More ›
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How did Ancient Macedonia differ from Ancient Greece?
From Dailyhistory.org: The most well-documented period of ancient Greek history and probably the best-known era of all Greek history, modern and ancient, is the Hellenistic Period (323-31 BC). The Hellenistic Period was marked by well-detailed sculpture, monumental architecture, excellent literature,… Read More ›
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Stankonia – Hip Hop in the South
From UNC Press Blog excerpting Regina N. Bradley’s Chronicling Stankonia: The Rise of the Hip-Hop South While I do not suggest that hip-hop’s presence in the South is the sole marker of its contemporary existence, I do suggest that hip-hop… Read More ›
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What was the Sepoy Rebellion (Indian Mutiny)?
From Dailyhistory.org: One of the most important events in Indian history was the Indian Mutiny of 1857, also known as the First War for Independence or the Sepoy Rebellion. The Rebellion represented the single greatest threat to British control of… Read More ›
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This Massacre of Black Soldiers During the Civil War Is Reason Enough to Bring Down the Confederate Statues
From History New Network by Alan Singer author of New York’s Grand Emancipation Jubilee: April 12 is the 154th anniversary of the Civil War battle and massacre at Fort Pillow, located on the Mississippi River near Henning, Tennessee. It was a… Read More ›
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The Germanic Tribes migration from Scandinavia
From Dailyhistory.org: The fall of the Western Roman Empire in AD 476 was certainly one of the most events in world history, but unfortunately, it is often misrepresented in popular histories. The collapse is generally depicted as taking place due… Read More ›
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Rethinking the Historical Approach to Drug Enforcement
By Brooks Hudson from Points History Blog: Defunding the police triumphed at the polls, even if we do not call it that. And it was bipartisan. By defunding, I mean Washington D.C. voting to decriminalize psilocybin, Oregon voters approving two… Read More ›
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When did the First Heart Transplant take place?
From Dailyhistory.org: When Christiaan Barnard performed the first heart transplant in 1967, it was initially seen as a remarkable scientific achievement, but overtime both the medical community and the general public were forced to re-evaluate heart transplants. The medical community… Read More ›
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Gordon Wood’s “The Radicalism of the American Revolution” – Book Review
From Dailyhistory.org: Gordon Wood’s The Radicalism of the American Revolution, winner of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for History, challenges the argument that the American Revolution lacked sufficient social or economic change to considered truly revolutionary. Historians and philosophers (Wood cites Hannah… Read More ›
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The Vikings Conversion to Christianity
From Dailyhistory.org: The Vikings are known today for being piratical raiders of Europe, capturing whatever goods they could, including people, in lighting raids and then returning to their homes in Scandinavia. Churches and monasteries were among their favorite targets because… Read More ›
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How are Museums preparing to the tell the story of COVID-19?
From Andrew Dickson at The New Yorker: Alexandra Lord, a curator at the National Museum of American History, in Washington, D.C., started to get worried in February. She was deep into planning a major exhibition called “In Sickness and in… Read More ›
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San Francisco Dynamite Factories Blew Up all the Time
By Tessa McLean from SFGate: Strolling into Glen Canyon Park, it’s easy to miss the large plaque proclaiming the site to be “the first dynamite factory in America.” While historic, it also seems like an odd location to commemorate —… Read More ›
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How did the Abolitionist Movement Grow?
From Dailyhistory.org: The movement toward the abolition of the system of enslavement has been remembered as one of the great humanitarian initiatives in modern history. Occurring as it did in a world that was rent by the slaveholding republics and… Read More ›
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The Norman conquest at the Battle of Hastings
From Dailyhistory.org The Battle of Hastings (1066) is perhaps the most famous in Medieval Britain, if not Europe. This bloody day changed British history and had a profound impact on the development of the modern world. It led not only… Read More ›
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How did Agriculture Develop?
From Dailyhistory.org: The rise of agriculture is a complex topic but from what we do know the earliest region to witness the domestication of plants and animals was in the Fertile Crescent region of the Near East, spanning modern-day Iraq, Syria,… Read More ›
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George Washington and the Building of the Capitol
By Robert P. Watson on History News Network The idea of a capital had been debated since the start of the war, but with little progress. For instance, the Continental Congress moved from one temporary capital to another. Needless to… Read More ›
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Vinland – Where was it?
From Dailyhistory.org Norse or Viking exploration is fairly well-known thanks in large part to a considerable amount of surviving primary sources. The Vikings explored and established colonies as far west as North America and to the east in Russia. Modern… Read More ›
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Three Women who fought White Supremacy before the Civil War
By Dorothy Wickenden from The New Yorker Senator William H. Seward’s enemies in Congress called him a villain and a traitor, but they rarely missed his parties. Invitations to his soirées—which took place several times a week in the eighteen-fifties, during Washington’s winter… Read More ›
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Did Fatty Arbuckle murder Virginia Rappe?
From Dailyhistory.org In the 1920s and 1930s, as Hollywood became a more organized institution with recognizable, marketable actors and actresses, individuals who were part of this unique, and exclusive community came under increasing scrutiny. Men and women who were a… Read More ›