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The Deadliest Tornado in U.S. History

Via: kavika • History & Sociology • 9 Comments • 5 years ago

Overturned trains. Timber found miles away from where it had been stored. Trees felled. Fires and close calls. A letter that flew almost 100 miles. On a normal day in the Midwest in 1925, any one...

Confronting racism is not about the needs and feelings of white people

Via: bob-nelson • History & Sociology • 42 Comments • 5 years ago

I was leaving a corporate office building after a full day of leading workshops on how to talk about race thoughtfully and deliberately. The audience for each session had been similar...

Legend of the Singing River

Via: ender • History & Sociology • 14 Comments • 5 years ago

Legend of the Singing River by Lorin Thompson Pascagoula, Mississippi Post Office Used with the permission of the United States Postal Service®. LORIN THOMPSON WAS...

Nobody knew who this USAF academy janitor was until the President came to see him

Via: kavika • History & Sociology • 9 Comments • 5 years ago

William Crawford poses with his statue in Pueblo, Colorado -just an hour away from the USAF Academy. Growing up, many of us were told not to judge people we didn’t know due to the fact...

How the Three Mile Island Accident Was Made Even Worse By a Chaotic Response

Via: kavika • History & Sociology • 1 Comments • 5 years ago

For tellers at a Shrewsbury, Pennsylvania bank, the final days of March 1979 should have felt like business as usual. Instead, they were sheer chaos: customers piled up, trying to withdraw money...

The reason Army helicopters are named after native tribes will make you smile - Navy to name a new class of ships after the Navajo Nation

Via: kavika • History & Sociology • 39 Comments • 5 years ago

Dec. 03, 2017 08:02PM EST The reason Army helicopters are named after native tribes will make you smile The Army's helicopters have a number of names you recognize...

How the Vietnam War Ratcheted Up Under 5 U.S. Presidents

Via: kavika • History & Sociology • 21 Comments • 5 years ago

At the end of World War II , the United States was broadly popular in Vietnam for having repelled the Japanese occupiers. Even Ho Chi Minh , the nationalist and communist revolutionary,...

WWII aircraft carrier USS Wasp found in Coral Sea

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

The wreck of another historic WWII aircraft carrier has been found by the expedition crew aboard research vessel (R/V) Petrel who discovered wreckage of USS Wasp (CV 7) on January 14. The...

The Bible and Christianity were used to justify African slavery

By: john-russell • History & Sociology • 435 Comments • 5 years ago

Shall we go to the horses mouth? George Mc Duffie was the sitting governor of South Carolina when he wrote this message to the state legislature in 1835. (excerpts) For the institution of...

The Cuban Missile Crisis Myth You Probably Believe

Via: vic-eldred • History & Sociology • 2 Comments • 5 years ago

Several months after the publication of Averting ‘The Final Failure’: John F. Kennedy and the Secret Cuban Missile Crisis Meetings (Stanford University Press, 2003), my narrative history of...

K-9 Veterans Day, March 13th...The Dogs of War.

Via: kavika • History & Sociology • 20 Comments • 5 years ago

Today is K-9 Veterans day. A day to honor the dogs of war used by the US Military. They are on the front lines facing the same dangers as our troops. They protect/guard/search and as always, they...

Stalingrad: For 59 Days 30 Soviet Soldiers Were Under Siege In Pavlov’s House, They Never Surrendered

Via: kavika • History & Sociology • 13 Comments • 5 years ago

For six months one of the bloodiest battle is history took place in Russia. Stalingrad, the name alone conjures up sacrifice, courage and the never quit of the Russian army. Millions died in this...

Night Witches: The Female Fighter Pilots of World War II

Via: kavika • History & Sociology • 36 Comments • 5 years ago

Members of the 588th Night Bomber Regiment decorated their planes with flowers ... and dropped 23,000 tons of bombs. MEGAN GARBER JUL 15, 2013 TASS / GETTY It was the spring of 1943, at...

Remembering the Alamo Scouts - Secret Warriors of World War II

Via: kavika • History & Sociology • 26 Comments • 5 years ago

By now, most of the world knows what the U.S. Navy SEAL unit can do. The recent covert operation that went down in Abbottabad, Pakistan—Team 6 swooping down on a compound in four stealth...

Katherine Johnson: The Girl Who Loved to Count

Via: jasper2529 • History & Sociology • 22 Comments • 5 years ago

“I counted everything. I counted the steps to the road, the steps up to church, the number of dishes and silverware I washed … anything that could be counted, I did.” So said Katherine Johnson,...

The Tin Can Sailors Of Taffy 3 - The Battle Of Samar - The Epic Naval Battle Of WWII

Via: kavika • History & Sociology • 36 Comments • 5 years ago

This is a repost of an article from 4 years ago. Naval experts call it the greatest mismatch in U.S. Naval history. The small fleet of Taffy 3 made up of destroyers, destroyer escorts and baby...

He took a DNA test in search of his birth father — and found a daughter instead

Via: perrie-halpern • History & Sociology • 19 Comments • 5 years ago

By Elizabeth Chuck and Shako Liu IRVINE, Calif. — Ted Wood, a Sacramento, California, attorney, signed up for Ancestry in 2013, hoping to find his father. Wood, 50, had met his birth mother...

Back in Omar's district, police deal with gangs, relations with tight-lipped Somali community

Via: vic-eldred • History & Sociology • 2 Comments • 5 years ago

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. - In the dead of the cold, late night on Tuesday, a young Somali man was shot in the hip. Someone took him to the local trauma center, left him there, and drove off. The man...

The Lawless Border With Canada Was Once America’s Main Security Concern

Via: kavika • History & Sociology • 30 Comments • 5 years ago

Near the westernmost point of the border between the United States and Canada, the Peace Arch straddles the world’s longest undefended international boundary. The inscription atop the monument...

The Great Wall of Jordan: How the US Wants to Keep the Islamic State Out

Via: krishna • History & Sociology • 1 Comments • 5 years ago

[Note: I am seeding this as background to the "border wall" discussion-- it was published in 2016] King Abdullah II of Jordan is meeting with President Barack Obama at the White House...

1919

By: johnrussell • History & Sociology • 11 Comments • 5 years ago

100 years ago is far enough in the past to represent "long ago", but not so long as to be ancient history. 100 years seems to be a time that almost within our reach, but still well before "our...

BATTLE OF HAYES POND: THE DAY LUMBEES RAN THE KLAN OUT OF NORTH CAROLINA

Via: kavika • History & Sociology • 35 Comments • 5 years ago

The Battle of Hayes Pond was an armed confrontation between the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan and the Lumbee Indians at a Klan rally near Maxton, North Carolina, on the night of January 18, 1958....

Aging isn't a curse. But ageism is a serious global problem.

Via: perrie-halpern • History & Sociology • 10 Comments • 5 years ago

Kentucky in the Civil War - Nancy's Fire, Elizabethtown, KY

Via: dowser • History & Sociology • 47 Comments • 6 years ago

My great-great grandmother, Nancy Ann Edlin Trumbo was a full-blooded Cherokee, whose family escaped The Place Where They Cried(what we call The Trail of Tears). Both of her parents, Hannah...

The Home Front During WW2

By: buzz-of-the-orient • History & Sociology • 14 Comments • 6 years ago

The Home Front During WW2 If you were living during WW2, in which case you would have to be at least 73 years old, what do you remember from those days? I was born in January of 1937,...