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Kentucky's Civil War Battlefields Today -- Pictures -- Western KY

Via: dowser • History & Sociology • 2 Comments • 11 years ago

A couple of years ago, we vacationed in far western Kentucky, in what is called the Jackson Purchase Area. We visited as many places as possible, in Trevor, our station wagon! Needless to say, we...

Kentucky in the Civil War, Luisa und Wilhelm, Hawesville, KY

Via: dowser • History & Sociology • 8 Comments • 11 years ago

Hawesville is a small town on the Ohio River, bordering Indiana. About ten miles west of Hawesville was the real Uncle Toms Cabin written about by Harriet Breecher Stowe. The river that the...

The Civil War in Kentucky -- Emma's Affidavit

Via: dowser • History & Sociology • 10 Comments • 11 years ago

Yet another set of great-great-grandparents lived in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, the site of Old Fort Harrod and the old Shakertown, and located about ten miles northeast of Perryville, KY....

A Cathedral or a Mosque?

Via: neetu2 • History & Sociology • 21 Comments • 11 years ago

I am not Muslim. I am not Christian. I belong to no religion, yet standing in front of Mezquita, the Cordoba Cathedral in Spain, I was enraptured by its beauty and its grandeur. One...

Moyers: The Amazing Power of Music to Create Social Change

Via: storyartist • History & Sociology • 3 Comments • 11 years ago

~LINK~ BILL MOYERS : You said without fighting them. What do you mean without fighting who? FRANCINE WHEELER : Well, when you have 26 victims, you have 26 different families. When you have...

Last Indian Standing - Ishi, The Last Of His People

Via: kavika • History & Sociology • 35 Comments • 11 years ago

There he stood...tearfully straddling two worlds, bridging two cultures. For him there were three realities...yesterday, today, tomorrow. Looking back he saw life; his yourth, family home, ....his...

World War II's Strangest Battle: When Americans and Germans Fought Together - The Daily Beast May 12, 2013

Via: jsbach • History & Sociology • 15 Comments • 11 years ago

World War II's Strangest Battle: When Americans and Germans Fought Together The Daily Best May 12, 2013 4:45 AM EDT Days after Hitlers suicide a group of American soldiers, French...

Declaration of Independence

Via: shub-orinuj • History & Sociology • 1 Comments • 11 years ago

IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the...

Best TV Commercials from the Past: "I'd like to teach the world to sing..."

Via: the-irascible-harry-krishner • History & Sociology • 11 Comments • 11 years ago

Raise your hand everybody who instantly knew what product that commercial advertised.

How to Raise our Sons and Daughters

Via: ambivalent • History & Sociology • 43 Comments • 11 years ago

What Suffragettes Owed The Iroquois

Via: loretta-mashkawidee-kemsley • History & Sociology • 1 Comments • 11 years ago

American Indian women were quick to notice that women's rights were curtailed under Christianity and civilization. Alice Fletcher, an ethnographer, told delegates to the 1888 International Council...

"Those Who Do Not Learn History Are Doomed To Repeat It." Really?

Via: chloe • History & Sociology • 17 Comments • 11 years ago

By Nicholas Clairmont "Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it." The quote is most likely due to George Santayana, and in its original form it read, Those who cannot remember...

William Gladstone's Foreign Policy

Via: cletus-wilbury • History & Sociology • 2 Comments • 11 years ago

William Gladstone's policies have attracted much attention over the years. I decided to investigate Gladstone's foreign policy, specifically regarding the occupation of Egypt in 1882. In order to...

Fanon or Gandhi?

Via: cletus-wilbury • History & Sociology • 3 Comments • 11 years ago

Frantz Fanon and Mahatma Gandhi shared the same primary goals of national independence and decolonization. The methods they proposed to meet those objective were however far different. In Fanon's...

Finally, The George Washington Presidential Library

Via: perrie-halpern • History & Sociology • 8 Comments • 11 years ago

A must watch, for those of you who love the history and George Washington. Amazing that it took this long to do it, and even more amazing that it didn't cost a dime of...

Military.com Badass of the Week - Joe Medicine Crow

Via: kavika • History & Sociology • 31 Comments • 11 years ago

The story of Joe Medicine Crow. Last War Chief of the Crow Nation. An amazing story that should be required reading for military personel. Please view the video at the end of the article. Taken...

A fraud! A murderer! And we gave him a national holiday!

Via: ambivalent • History & Sociology • 13 Comments • 11 years ago

We are soooo dumb.

Cher Ami (dear friend) The Little Bird That Saved 200 American Lives in WWI

Via: kavika • History & Sociology • 25 Comments • 11 years ago

We think of our war hero's to be humans, showing incredible courage. Over the years our animal friends, have show great courage, suffering serious wounds, dying in action to help their human...

"Let's Talk Native...with John Kane"

Via: 1stwarrior • History & Sociology • 1 Comments • 11 years ago

"The only Native radio talk show in Western New York. The show has one function a nd that is to provide a forum for Native issues. LTN airs Sunday nights on WWKB 1520AM. Replays of the shows can...

12 Unspoken Rules For Being A Liberal by John Hawkins | Aug 31, 2013

Via: krakkin • History & Sociology • 17 Comments • 11 years ago

There may be no official rule book for being a liberal, but that doesn't mean there aren't rules. There are actually quite a few rules liberals go by and the more politically active liberals...

Online and Offline Violence Towards Women, Women and the Internet: Part One

Via: mountainfirefall • History & Sociology • 39 Comments • 11 years ago

https://medium.com/ladybits-on-medium/4c854eb591a5 and a response (below): you won't understand the response if you don't read the above linked article The Harry Potter final movie had a...

How many of these do you remember?

Via: the-irascible-harry-krishner • History & Sociology • 17 Comments • 11 years ago

There are lots more HERE.

The Forgotten Slaves

Via: spikegary • History & Sociology • 19 Comments • 11 years ago

Found this article today. An interesting read: The history of the African slave trade into the Americas is one that is well-documented as well as largely taught in American schools today....

10 Incredible Real-Life Mad Scientists

Via: hal-a-lujah • History & Sociology • 2 Comments • 11 years ago

6. Sergei Brukhonenko (1890-1960) Soviet scientist Sergei Brukhonenko has been credited with helping bring about important advances in Russian open-heart surgery, but his grisly...

Irena Sendler - Savior of 2,500 Jewish Children

Via: kavika • History & Sociology • 40 Comments • 11 years ago

Irena Sendler (1910 - 2008) When Hitler and his Nazis built the Warsaw Ghetto and herded 500,000 Polish Jews behind its walls to await liquidation, many...

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