#ushistory #politics #fdr
Heather Cox Richardson Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire 147 young people were dead,
3/25/1911
Once in office, [Francis] Perkins was a driving force behind the administration’s massive investment in public works projects to get people back to work. She urged the government to spend $3.3 billion on schools, roads, housing, & post offices. Those projects employed more than a million people in 1934.
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/march-25-2025?r=ymxmu&utm_medium=ios

: Buenos días! AutoTrick here with your daily #blog notification. Yesterday, Trick made 2 posts on trickjarrett.com. Including posts about: #chess, #ushistory & #books.

Here's the day's archive for you to read: https://trickjarrett.com/2025-03-25.html

"Historic Battlefields of the American Revolution" #stamps will be released by #USPS in a #ConcordMA ceremony three weeks from now. 15 stamps recall five battles: Lexington & Concord, Bunker / Breed's Hill, Trenton, Saratoga, Yorktown.

https://about.usps.com/newsroom/national-releases/2025/0306ma-usps-to-issue-stamps-of-historic-battlefields-of-the-american-revolution.htm

There were 250-311 slave revolts in Colonial America and the United States between c. 1663 and c. 1860 as defined by scholar Herbert Aptheker (l. 1915-2003), but, almost certainly, many more that were not reported, as news of an uprising was sometimes suppressed, or the event redefined, to prevent panic among slaveholding communities. #History #StonoRebellion #Gabriel'sRebellion #DenmarkVesey #Slavery #USHistory #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/2-2677-en/

The Seminole Wars: What Were the Causes and Outcomes?

The Seminoles were an Native American tribe that lived in Florida. The wars between them and the United States for territorial control began in the 19th century.

https://www.thecollector.com/the-seminole-wars-causes-and-outcomes/

Books about the Seminoles at PG:

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/64191

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19155

Olaudah Equiano (l. c. 1745-1797, also known as Gustavus Vassa) was an African of the Igbo village of Essaka, of the Kingdom of Benin (modern Nigeria), who was enslaved around the age of ten, bought his freedom around the age of 20, and became an influential abolitionist and writer in Britain. #History #Abolitionism #OlaudahEquiano #Slavery #USHistory #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/2-2672-en/

I just learned about “praying towns”, but I am realizing they were never disappeared.

Now we simply call them churches.

A place where they desire to strip you of your identity and force you to be like them in exchange for the promise of community, security, and eternal life.

I have lots of feelings right now but now a whole lotta words to explain it.

#Trump is going to have a hard time scrubbing all of the government websites when one of the most influential and important persons in the formation of a professional ARMY was also a homosexual.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Wilhelm_von_Steuben

#LGBTQIA #LGBTQ #USARMY #MAGA #USHistory

I would also like to note that the only person that could properly train and care for manly men would be a homosexual...

Just sayin'...

"Some students with disabilities were in school but were provided with little to no accommodations. No one was tracking how many were not getting an education at all, says Edwin Martin, the first assistant secretary of education for Special Education and Rehabilitative Services and a key player in crafting the legislation that established the federal role in special education."

https://www.nea.org/nea-today/all-news-articles/students-disabilities-before-IDEA

started a #wikipedia article on US architectural historian Agnes Addison Gilchrist (1907-1975): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes_Addison_Gilchrist @wikiwomeninred #SocietyofArchitecturalHistorians #Architecture #USHistory #MountVernonNY #WellesleyCollege #UPennsylvania #Philadelphia

#CFP

Politics, the State, and American Capitalism in the Civil War Era

Special Issue of the *Journal of the Civil War Era*

See below for the call for papers. Submission deadline for proposals: April 25.

#callforpapers #jcwe #politicaleconomy #state #capitalism #ushistory #histodons @histodons

Liberty and Crisis: The History of the American Revolution during 1776

"Did the Congress have the authority to declare independence for its 13 member colonies?"

Sale: $5.99 to $0.99

Author: Charles River Editors.
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 (14 Reviews)

#Independence #Colonialism #USHistory #1776 #books #kindle #sale

https://amzn.to/3DNy1Ay

Spent a little time refreshing my memory of the details of the Watergate Scandal. Frankly, it all seems a bit pedestrian compared to the concerted attacks on our Democracy that Trump and his cronies are carrying out on a daily basis. #uspol #ushistory

"The Trump administration is expected to invoke a sweeping wartime authority to speed up the president’s mass deportation pledge in the coming days, according to four sources familiar with the discussions."

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/13/politics/alien-enemies-act-deportation-consideration/index.html

"JACL condemns Trump erasure of 442nd and 100th Infantry Battalion" https://asamnews.com/2025/03/14/diversity-equity-and-inclusion-erasure-japanese-american-history-removed/

"There’s never been a better time to remember the revolutionary and even libertarian roots of the American founding, and there’s no better guide to what this means in the narrative of the Colonial period than Murray Rothbard." https://mises.org/library/book/conceived-liberty #rothbard #history #liberty #revolution #libertarian #ushistory