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24 votes
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The American civil-military relationship
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Juneteenth: A visual history
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Wernher von Braun’s record on civil rights
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Did the United States almost support Nazi Germany in World War II? (No)
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US President John F. Kennedy files expose family secrets: Their relatives were CIA assets
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How a stuffed animal named Billy Possum tried—and failed—to replace the teddy bear as America’s national toy
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Andrew Jackson ‘paralyzed’ Washington with cuts
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The president and the psychoanalyst: what Sigmund Freud saw in Woodrow Wilson
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Looking for a visualization of North American political boundaries over time
Lately I've been taking an interest in American westward expansion and trying to get a better understanding of how the lines were drawn on maps in the past. Can anyone recommend a good video or...
Lately I've been taking an interest in American westward expansion and trying to get a better understanding of how the lines were drawn on maps in the past. Can anyone recommend a good video or interactive visualization that I can scroll back and forward through time to see the changes in detail?
Things I'm particularly interested in tracking:
- Indigenous lands (specifically how the boundaries of traditional/ancestral lands evolved into modern-day reservations)
- European claims like those of Britain, France, and Spain
- What was considered US/Canada/Mexico territory vs. no man's land or frontier at different points in time, from the governance standpoint of each of those nations
- Large and rapid settling movements like the Mormons into Utah, Oklahoma land rush, California gold rush, etc.
- Other factors like homesteading programs (I don't know much about this) and the transcontinental railroad, confederacy borders, trail of tears, etc.
- Notable battles/massacres marking bloody land disputes
I mean I guess that's a lot, this is basically "tell me about all of American history." 😂
I feel like I have a pretty decent grasp of the general political timeline and important events, I'm just realizing lately that I don't have a cohesive mental model of how it all fits on a map and changed over the years. I did find the Wikipedia page on Territorial Evolution of the United States to be interesting but it's a bit overwhelming and not very digestible. It contains this animated gif, which is awesome but I can't scroll through it at my own pace, and it's USA only.
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How long? Not long! - Martin Luther King
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The price America paid for its first big immigration crackdown
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A history of US cabinet appointments ...and why they matter
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Robert Caro on the art of biography
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A new archive of modern American political history
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Book review - A Fabulous Failure: The Clinton Presidency and the Transformation of American Capitalism by Nelson Lichtenstein and Judith Stein
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The first US Army Christmas: George Washington and the Hessians
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The rise and fall (and rise and fall) of Venezuela (2019)
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The Republican Revolution and how the party switch actually happened
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Added context to Benjamin Franklin's famous quote about trading liberty for safety
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‘We put in air conditionin’, stayed year-round, and ruined America’
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How disappearance became a global weapon of psychological control, fifty years on from Chile’s US-backed coup
21 votes -
The status quo coalition
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Black conservatism isn’t what you think
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In the oppression olympics, don’t go for the gold
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Hail to the Chief: One great article about every US President
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Much of what you've heard about Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan is wrong
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Where Roe went wrong: A sweeping new abortion right built on a shaky legal foundation
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Little-known Black history comes to light in new documentary series
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How many people have Q Clearance?
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Much of what you've heard about Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan is wrong
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American unreality - In breaking the link between politics and objective truth, the United States seeks to fashion a new world – but it is one built on shifting sands
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George Washington and the first mass US military inoculation
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George W Bush approval rating polled at 90% by Gallup, the highest presidential approval rating ever recorded in US history (September 24th, 2001)
8 votes -
The racist history of austerity politics in America
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History as end: 1619, 1776, and the politics of the past
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Why did the Democratic and Republican parties switch platforms?
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The plan to kill Osama bin Laden—from the spycraft to the assault to its bizarre political backdrop—as told by the people in the room
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How did the USSR react to JFK's assassination?
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How Rome destroyed its own republic
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When Americans committed insurrection: Until 2021, Americans had confronted federal authority with armed aggression just four times
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The Mexican American border: A tale of two colonies (Part 1/2)
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AskHistorians write-up on January 2021 sedition at the US Capitol
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Who named the United States and what alternatives gained the most traction?
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Why didn't the Virginias reunite?
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On Marx, Lincoln, slavery and socialism in the years following the Civil War
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History of US political parties (part 1)
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Thomas Frank on the podcast "Useful Idiots"
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When fascism was American; Using religion, anticommunism and xenophobia, "Father" Charles Coughlin popularized fascism in 1930s America, not too unlike Donald Trump today
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Women won the right to vote 100 years ago. Why did they start voting differently from men in 1980?
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