The Trump administration has removed a large Rainbow Flag from the Stonewall National Monument at Christopher Park, New York. A spokesperson for the National Park Service told Gay City News that this change was made because government guidance dictates that "only the U.S. flag and other congressionally or departmentally authorized flags are flown on NPS-managed flagpoles, with limited exceptions." Community members are planning to hold a demonstration protesting the removal of the flag today (Feb. 10) at the Stonewall National Monument at 5 p.m. ET.
👻 #Exclusive 👹 #ColinBrowen gets exclusive & first time ever access to the whole #MagnoliaHotel famous for photos of ghosts, entities & wondering spirits but also ppl being pushed & touched. besides the massacres of #Comanche by #TexasRangers & other horrific deaths.
Montana tribe fights federal government effort to change narrative at Little Bighorn National Monument
Trump administration 'sowing division and conflict'
LAME DEER - The Northern Cheyenne Tribe announced it will fight the Trump administration's effort to alter or remove displays honoring tribal involvement at the Little Bighorn National Monument.
In the 1850s, Canadian chemist Thomas Sterry Hunt developed a green ink resistant to chemical erasure—ideal for printing secure banknotes. The formula was adopted by U.S. printers during the Civil War when greenbacks were introduced in 1862. Canada's use of chemically stable inks predated this. 🇨🇦 #Canada#USHistory#Currency#Greenback#Banknotes
The first $1 greenback featured an engraving of the US Secretary of the Treasury, Salmon Portland Chase. 1 dollar, United States, 1862, NCC 1966.98.2424
A meme created around the "small boulder the size of a large boulder" social post by the San Miguel Sheriff's department, but shows their squad car observing the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion instead of a boulder on the road.
Lest we forget, it was Bill Clinton who signed the bill that repealed the Glass Steagall Act in
1999; much to the joy of applauding bankers. We, the people, have been paying the price
ever since.
I got to read about a dozen nonfiction #books in 2025, and here are the best few (if anyone is looking for ideas):
Big Hair and Plastic Grass: a funky ride through baseball and America in the swinging '70s
by Dan Epstein
Seriously, this book made me prouder to be American. And it's ridiculously entertaining! (1970s culture is so near to us; yet so far.) You don't have to love baseball to enjoy this.
America, América: A New History of the New World
by Greg Grandin
Compares North & Latin America over 600 years, first their social philosophers and then their diplomats. An innovative argument for social democracy.
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
by Isabel Wilkerson
This author opted for journalism-style readability, rather than analysis. But that was the right choice. The result is a sort of oral history for several million people?
Lower Than the Angels: A History of Sex and Christianity
by Diarmaid MacCulloch
Big points for ambition (3000 years!), depth, and wit. But it has too much Anglican minutiae, while completely ignoring the Catholic conquest of the Americas.
Data visualization from the American Civil War, featuring ...
Illiterate White Adults!
Miles of Canals!
Postage Collected!
Enrolled Militia!
and of course, Bushel-Measure Products.
"Comparison of Products, Population, and Resources of the Free and Slave States" 1861, printed in Cambridge, Mass.
70 years ago today, Rosa Parks refused to surrender her seat on a Montgomery bus. But her contribution as an organizer and activist is much more extensive than that. @19thnews looks at the full story and how she continues to make a difference through the Rosa Parks Scholarship Foundation.
Viola Ford Fletcher, one of the last known survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre, died today at age 111. After decades of silence for fear of reprisals, she wrote a book about her experiences, "Don't Let Them Bury My Story," which was published in 2023. “I could never forget the charred remains of our once-thriving community, the smoke billowing in the air, and the terror-stricken faces of my neighbors,” she wrote. Here's more from @AssociatedPress.
Black and white photo of Ruby Bridges as a young schoolgirl, circa 1960. She is a beautiful, bright-eyed Black child. She stands with her back against an open door, her eyes turned up, smiling.
Dimitry Anastakis - my friend and colleague and, more importantly, historian of Canadian business - on Canada’s long history of trade wars with the US and what this means for our particular moment.
I was going to say that appointing David Barton as a history adviser to the Texas State Board of Education would be as crazy as appointing an anti-vaccine crank to a public health position...
Earlier this week, agents from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security surrounded and raided an apartment building in Chicago, pulling men, women and children from their beds in the middle of the night. They then posted a "highlight reel" on social media. For his Doomsday Scenario newsletter, Garrett Graff writes about these "Kavanaugh Raids" and their connection to the Palmer Raids, a century ago.
Inspire civic engagement in your classroom and community with Resisterhood! Today we're highlighting Dr. Jean Gearon, one of the subjects of our new documentary Resisterhood.
Jean is the great-granddaughter of one of the original Suffragists in the United States. Jean founded a grassroots political group that's involved in local and state politics, as well as the fight to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) — the same battle Jean’s great-grandmother fought more than 100 years ago.
Teach about grassroots organizing and activism, the Equal Rights Amendment, gender equity and civic engagement with Resisterhood! For grades 10-12, higher ed and adult learning. It's great for campus screenings and community education!
Over a silver background, dark blue letters on the left say: "Meet the Organizer: Dr. Jean Gearon. Resisterhood." On the right is a gold-framed portrait of Jean Gearon, a smiling white woman with sholder-length brown hair. She wears a purple scarf that sports two ERA pins.
In the 1960s, London Bridge was really falling down — or, to be more accurate, sinking into the mud under the weight of cars and buses it wasn't built to carry. So the city of London sold it at auction to a man named Robert McCulloch. @AtlasObscura explain who he was, how he dismantled the bridge and put it back together, where it is now, and why a voodoo doll was buried underneath it.
In March, U.S. President Donald Trump issued an executive order demanding that the negative parts of American history be excised from public monuments. A May follow-up order from Interior Secretary Doug Burgum led to QR codes being displayed in national parks that asked visitors to snitch if they came across information that was negative about past or living Americans. Now volunteer preservationists from Safeguarding Research & Culture and the Data Rescue Project have launched a campaign, Save Our Signs, asking people to upload photos of signage on public lands in order to preserve them if they're removed.
@404mediaco explains more about the campaign. “To maintain a democratic society, it is essential for the electorate to be well-informed, which includes having a thorough awareness of our historical challenges,” Lynda Kellam, a founding member of the Data Rescue Project, says. “This project combines our expertise as data librarians and preservationists and our concern for telling the full story of our country.”
"Just as resistance against British imperialism once proved a key bond, now invented oppression at the hands of black people—whether the majority of South African citizens or the nebulous forces of American wokeness—works to unite the two nations under the banner of a whiteness supposedly under siege."
"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."
Text says: "Black History Lessons." A the bottom there are Journeys in Film Lesson Plans for Hidden Figures and Chevalier. The Journeys in Film logo is in the top right corner.
As a grad student at the College of Charleston, Lauren Davila found an ad for the auction of 600 enslaved people — the largest known slave auction in the U.S.
The discovery prompted a small group to spearhead the creation of a historical marker in downtown Charleston.