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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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How will history judge our response to the COVID-19 pandemic? Historians are already collecting the records.
By Anthony Faiola from The Washington Post: On the wooded site of a former golf course in suburban Washington, archivists are building a global time capsule of the pandemic. The digital repository — to be housed at the National Library… Read More ›
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What were the different medical sects in the United States during the 19th Century?
From Dailyhistory.org: Nineteenth-century medicine was characterized by constant competition among three major medical sects: Regulars, Eclectics, and Homeopaths.[1] Each of these medical sects not only meaningfully disagreed on how to treat illnesses and diseases but sought to portray their type… Read More ›
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The History of the Capitol Building
From Dailyhistory.org: Early in the United States’ history, the Capitol Building, or United States Capitol, was authorized and built in the US’s newly formed capital in Washington D.C. It was to serve as the seat of the US government’s legislative… Read More ›
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Courts order Trump White House to Preserve Records
From National Security Archive and edited by Tom Blanton: The National Security Archive et. al. v. Donald J. Trump et. al. lawsuit, filed December 1, 2020 to prevent a possible bonfire of records in the Rose Garden, achieved a formal litigation hold… Read More ›
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How did Medieval Kiev Develop?
The city of Kiev, which is now the capital of the modern nation-state of Ukraine, was the most important of all the Rus’/Russ cities in the Middle Ages. Located on the Dnieper River about halfway between Constantinople and Scandinavia, Kiev… Read More ›
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Opening Japanese Trade
From Dailyhistory.org: On July 8, 1853, American Commodore Matthew Perry led his four ships into the harbor at Tokyo Bay, seeking to re-establish for the first time in over 200 years regular trade and discourse between Japan and the western… Read More ›
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Why did they build the Berlin Wall?
From Dailyhistory.org: On November 10, 1958, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev delivered a speech in which he demanded that the Western powers of the United States, Great Britain, and France pull their forces out of West Berlin within six months. This… Read More ›
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Rethinking the Western
By Anna North from The Atlantic: The gentleman comes from the East Coast to make his fortune. When the train lets him off in a dusty Wyoming town, he encounters an array of cowpunchers, cardsharks, and ne’er-do-wells, whose coarse manners… Read More ›
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Who were the Know Nothings?
From Dailyhistory.org: The second American political party system is generally considered to have begun with Andrew Jackson’s election to the presidency in 1828 and ended in 1860 when Abraham Lincoln was elected to the highest office in the land. The… Read More ›
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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 ›