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It's #4thOfJuly - #IndependenceDay
Find critical analyses of #AmericanHistory & politics by renowned #AmericanStudies scholars, as well as #poetry & articles on #AmericanCulture & #Literature & more, in the New American Studies Journal, free & #openaccess in our repository!
Most of the books I’ve read about the Barbary Wars. I’ve since read more but there’s so much to learn that I would have to re read these books. Multiple times. #books #history #usnavy #barbarywars #warof1812 #bookworm #americanhistory
"There are records of people being whipped for celebrating and being threatened for celebrating. And even outside the context of celebrations, there was retaliation against the Freedmen [..] There was a lot of hope in the middle of a lot of hostility."
Historian #AnnetteGordonReed, author of #OnJuneteenth
https://kpfa.org/episode/letters-and-politics-june-19-2024/
#Juneteenth #OTD #EmancipationDay #Emancipation #BlackHistory #UShistory #AmericanHistory #TexasHistory #BlackTexas #books #LettersAndPolitics @bookstodon @histodons
"You have trampled under foot every vital principle of our government. My natural rights, my civil rights, my political rights, my judicial rights, are all alike ignored."
#OnThisDay, 17 Jun 1873, Susan B Anthony is tried for illegally voting in the 1872 US Presidential election.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #VotesForWomen #AmericanHistory #Histodons
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“The simple act of walking through a schoolhouse door that had been barred to me, and all people of my color, by the governor of this state - that simple act represented an end to legal segregation in the American South.”
#OnThisDay, 11 June 1963, Vivian Malone defies the Governor of Alabama to become the first Black female student at the University of Alabama.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons
#OnThisDay, 8 Jun 1953, Mary Terrell wins her Supreme Court case and desegregates Washington DC's restaurants.
She's 93, and celebrates with lunch in the very restaurant that she'd taken to court.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BlackHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons
#OnThisDay, 5 Jun 1973, Doris A Davis is sworn in as mayor of Compton, becoming the first black woman elected mayor of a US city of more than 50,000 residents.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons
#LettersAndPolitics welcomes #MaryAnnettePember, national correspondent for ICT News, and author of #MedicineRiver: A Story of Survival and the Legacy of #IndianBoardingSchools
https://kpfa.org/episode/letters-and-politics-june-3-2025/
#Indigenous #NativeAmericans #NativeBoardingSchools #NativeAmericanBoardingSchools #NativeResidentialSchools #NativeAmericanHistory #UShistory #AmericanHistory #colonialViolence #memoirs #books @histodons @bookstodon
"I've never worked so hard in my life than when I was US Treasurer. I knew I had to make good on behalf of American women."
#OnThisDay, 3 Jun 1949, Georgia Neese Clark Gray becomes the first woman to be Treasurer of the USA.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons
Content warning 104 years ago, CW for those who don't need reminding.
"The Tulsa race massacre was a two-day-long white supremacist terrorist[12][13] massacre[14] that took place in the Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma between May 31 and June 1, 1921, when mobs of white residents, some of whom had been appointed as deputies and armed by city government officials,[15] attacked black residents and destroyed homes and businesses."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_race_massacre
#AmericanHistory
![Partial screenshot of the summary section of the Wikipedia article for the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre:
Location: Greenwood District, Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S.
Coordinates: 36°9′35″N 95°59′9″W
Date: May 31 - June 1, 1921
Target: Black residents, their homes, businesses, churches, schools, and municipal buildings over a 40 square block area
Attack type: White supremacist terrorism, race riots, lynching, pogrom, arson, mass murder, Ethnic cleansing
Weapons: Guns, explosives, fire[1]
Deaths: Total dead and displaced unknown: [cropped out]](https://bookwyrm-social.sfo3.digitaloceanspaces.com/images/status/119ff189-b784-45e9-9b62-bc1da5ed8ef8.png "Partial screenshot of the summary section of the Wikipedia article for the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre:
Location: Greenwood District, Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S.
Coordinates: 36°9′35″N 95°59′9″W
Date: May 31 - June 1, 1921
Target: Black residents, their homes, businesses, churches, schools, and municipal buildings over a 40 square block area
Attack type: White supremacist terrorism, race riots, lynching, pogrom, arson, mass murder, Ethnic cleansing
Weapons: Guns, explosives, fire[1]
Deaths: Total dead and displaced unknown: [cropped out]")
Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
A conversation with #GregGrandin about his new book, #AméricaAmerica, "a sweeping revision of #UShistory that argues we can’t understand the history of the #UnitedStates without understanding its long engagement with its neighbors to the south, in #LatinAmerica."
https://thebaffler.com/latest/wont-you-be-my-neighbor-thornton
#historyOfTheAmericas #LatinAmericanHistory #AmericanHistory #ModernHistory #colonialism #colonialViolence #revolutions #books @histodons @bookstodon
#OnThisDay, 30 May 1899, Pearl Hart (and Joe Boot) hold up a stagecoach in Arizona: it's one of just two recorded instances of a woman holding up a coach in the US.
#AmericanHistory #ArizonaHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons
"You need not be afraid to give us our rights for fear we will take too much, for we won't take more than our pint'll hold."
#OnThisDay, 29 May 1851, Sojourner Truth addresses the Woman's Rights Convention in Ohio.
Her speech is commonly known as 'ain't I a woman' although that comes from a dubious transcript that uses racial tropes.
Read more about that at https://www.thesojournertruthproject.com/compare-the-speeches/
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons
"The story of how the #UnitesStates identity was formed is almost invariably told by looking east to Europe. In #AmericaAmérica #GregGrandin vividly demonstrates that the nation’s unique sense of itself was in fact forged facing south toward #LatinAmerica"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAko46HvZSQ
#historyOfTheAmericas #LatinAmericanHistory #AmericanHistory #UShistory #ModernHistory #colonialism #colonialViolence #revolutions #books @bookstodon @histodons
