Yes, I know that history is not the history of "Great Men", the triviality of anecdote, the importance of structure and social forces over time....but I do wish that officer had beaten the young Andrew Jackson into an insensible pulp.

Trump has had Jackson's portrait hung in the Oval Office.

John Wesley Cromwell (l. 1846-1927) was an African American civil rights activist, educator, historian, journalist, and lawyer who wrote extensively on slave revolts, especially Nat Turner's Rebellion of 1831. #History #Abolitionism #Slavery #USHistory #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/2-2664-en/

The Confessions of Nat Turner (1831) is the first-person account given by the rebel slave leader Nat Turner (l. 1800-1831) to the attorney T. R. Gray (l. c. 1800-1843) following Nat Turner's Rebellion in Virginia (also known as the Southampton Insurrection) of 1831 after Turner had been caught and imprisoned and was awaiting trial. #History #Abolitionism #Slavery #USHistory #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/2-2663-en/

I started watching this documentary series about Cold War turncoats and it is interesting history but man could I do without people decades into the 21st century who act like the United States was the clear "good guys" during the Cold War instead of two blatant evils forcing each other and themselves deeper in to barbarism

Put it this way.
#democracy #notdemocracy #ushistory #usatoday #apartheid #enslavement #Indigenous #colonialism #freedom #notfreedom #oligarchy #BernieSanders #plutocracy #kleptocracy #hegemony #dictatorship #authoritariancapitalism #JasonHickel
https://jasonhickel.substack.com/p/no-the-united-states-is-not-a-beacon

Nat Turner's Rebellion (also known as the Southampton Insurrection) was a slave revolt in Southampton County, Virginia, between 21 and 23 August 1831. #History #Abolitionism #Slavery #USHistory #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/1-24183-en/

The Webster-Hayne debate was a series of back-and-forth speeches between Senator Daniel Webster of Massachusetts and Senator Robert Y. Hayne of South Carolina in January 1830. #History #AmericanCivilWar #AndrewJackson #DanielWebster #JohnCCalhoun #RobertYHayne #StatesRights #USHistory #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/1-24196-en/

We cannot negotiate with those who say "What's mine is mine and what's yours is negotiable."
– John F. Kennedy

#JohnFKennedy #TheColdWar #Quotes #quotations #Russia #USSR #USA #СоюзПостсоветскихКлептократическихВатников #ДобейПутина #ДональдТрамп #InvasionOfUkraine #ТрампПутинскийПудель #USHistory #USPolitics

https://gnatswatting.tumblr.com/post/751833378963308544

On this day in 1782, #Pennsylvania militiamen killed 96 unarmed Indigenous people and burned their village in Gnadenhutten, #ohio It has been called the greatest atrocity of the Revolutionary War.

#History #OTD #Politics #USpol #UShistory

https://calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/mar/8

David Walker (l. c. 1796-1830) was an African American abolitionist writer best known for his 1829 work An Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World (also known The Appeal or Walker's Appeal) advocating for a united front in the abolition of slavery and noting the hypocrisy of White Americans holding slaves in the "land of the free. #History #Abolitionism #USHistory #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/2-2659-en/

X might be a cesspool, but it's a cesspool with excellent community notes!

‘US is #1 supporter of dictatorships around be world’