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Badass of the Week - Commander Ernest Evans U.S. Navy - Medal of Honor Receipent

Via: kavika • History & Sociology • 5 Comments • 10 years ago

This is the true story of one of the largest naval engagements in history. The USS Johnston, and her sister ships desperate fight to save the ''baby flattops'' and the Marines and Soldiers on...

The True Story of Winnie the Pooh -- SHE was amazing!

Via: community • History & Sociology • 31 Comments • 10 years ago

Original article here: LINK The story of A. A. Milne's two books about his son, Christopher Robin, and his stuffed bear, Winnie The Pooh, illustrate sweet and tender moments of the...

For Halloween -- Top 10 Worst Humans of All Time!

Via: community • History & Sociology • 16 Comments • 10 years ago

In honor of the creepy, someone developed a list of the 10 top worst humans of all time! Watch the video below to learn who they are! Can you add to this list? Thanks for coming by!

Influence of 2nd Amendment ripples across globe

Via: xxjefferson51 • History & Sociology • 1 Comments • 10 years ago

In September of 1774, Dr. Joseph Warren wrote the Suffolk Resolves. British statesman Edmund Burke cited the Suffolk Resolves as a major development in colonial animosity, which eventually led to...

Soul Wound: The Legacy of Native American Schools

Via: kavika • History & Sociology • 48 Comments • 10 years ago

Media Relations Contacts Subscribe by RSS Soul Wound: The Legacy of Native American Schools Amnesty in the News March 26, 2007 Soul Wound: The Legacy of Native American...

1491 The Last 15 Minutes

Via: community • History & Sociology • 10 Comments • 10 years ago

DALLAS -- New technology has disproved one of many conspiracy theories surrounding John F. Kennedy's assassination, CBS DFW reports.

Via: lets-get-lost • History & Sociology • 3 Comments • 10 years ago

Researchers at Dartmouth College said a famous photo of accused John F. Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald holding a Marxist newspaper and a gun is authentic. They used a new digital image...

Kentucky in the Civil War, Introduction

Via: dowser • History & Sociology • 17 Comments • 10 years ago

This series of will be told from the point of view of my different ancestors, as they told their children and grandchildren, who told me. Ive gone back, all these years, and looked up the history...

Kentucky in the Civil War, Mary's Dinner

Via: dowser • History & Sociology • 41 Comments • 10 years ago

Although written in the form of a letter, this was a story told to my husband by his grandmother, who was the grandniece of Mary. ------------------------------------------------------ My dear...

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

Via: dowser • History & Sociology • 2 Comments • 10 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 • 10 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 • 10 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 • 10 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 • 10 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 • 10 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 • 10 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 • 10 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 • 10 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 • 10 years ago

What Suffragettes Owed The Iroquois

Via: loretta-mashkawidee-kemsley • History & Sociology • 1 Comments • 10 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 • 10 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 • 10 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 • 10 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 • 10 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 • 10 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...

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