civil war

I just watched A24's Civil War last night (great movie that you should watch, btw) and I thought it would be an interesting thought exercise. For the US, I think it probably over gun rights or a certain president having a third term. I doubt Texas and California would enter into an alliance...

Synopsis: Nineteen States secede including the Western Forces (The States of California and Texas) and the Florida Alliance who are at war with Washington.

@8:00 The entire video is dope however. Their view on security guards, Christianity, and simps:deadmanny:

Just got done watching a documentary on the Nigerian Civil War and I was wondering about the amount of animosity the Southwestern states had against the North, it would have made sense that Ojukwu ask them to join Biafra. Any thoughts? By the way, let's have civility in this thread please:whoa...

I genuinely believe this dude would try to kick off Civil War II if he loses in November. He's openly admired dictators. He's openly talked about wanting more than two terms and even mentioned wanting to be president for life ala Xi in China. He knows that so much of his potentially violent...

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Black Woman Reformer: Ida B. Wells, Lynching, and Transatlantic Activism Sarah Silkey University of Georgia Press Blind No More: African American Resistance, Free-Soil Politics, and the Coming of the Civil War Jonathan Daniel Wells and Sarah Gardner University of Georgia Press Celia, a...

Why the far-right pushes the lie that black Americans fought as Confederate soldiers By SCOTT W. STERN October 24, 2019 Illustration by Bill Sanderson On April 19, 2019, a man—who, in his profile picture, wears a hat emblazoned with the Confederate battle flag—posted in a Facebook group called...

New York Times Op-Ed writer, Charles Blow, posted a short video about the First Louisiana Native Guard on his twitter page. His interest in the subject appears to be connected to a current book project. Unfortunately, Blow offers a rather misleading interpretation of the men who volunteered and...

Just got down reading American Civil War - Wikipedia and it just :mindblown: that the Union leaders just decided to either completely pardon them or imprisoned them for a few years except the manager who ran Andersonville Prison. That's insane that you went against the government and be...

Calinda Lee was initially ambivalent about the Atlanta History Center’s taking stewardship of the Cyclorama depicting the Civil War’s Battle of Atlanta. (Dustin Chambers/For The Washington Post) By Max Blau March 26 The first time Calinda Lee saw the “Battle of Atlanta” Cyclorama, she rolled...

Here ya go. Robert Smalls was born to Lydia Polite, an enslaved woman, in 1839. He started working in outside labor from the age of 12 but could only keep a dollar a week and had to give the rest to the damn master. He sought out work on the docks cause he loved the sea, and eventually worked...

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OG History is a Teen Vogue series where we unearth history not told through a white, cisheteropatriarchal lens. In this explainer, Adam Sanchez explains myths of the Civil War, including the truth about President Abraham Lincoln's motivations for ending the practice of slavery in the United...

“Uncivil,” an excellent new podcast about the Civil War hosted by Jack Hitt and Chenjerai Kumanyika, begins with a visit this summer to a controversial statue. It doesn’t involve Robert E. Lee or the Confederate flag, they tell us: it’s the Emancipation Memorial in Washington, D.C., which was...

Catalan leader declares independence but puts it on The leader of Catalonia postponed a formal declaration of independence from Spain on Tuesday, stepping back from the brink of a constitutional crisis that has engulfed one of Europe's richest nations. Catalonia's independence standoff: How...

Never Forget: The Devil's Punchbowl - 20,000 Freed Slaves Died After Being Forced Into Post Slavery Concentration Camp "As the slaves made their way to freedom, the town of Natchez went from a population of 10,000 to 120,000 people almost overnight. In order to deal with the population influx...

For those of you who don't know I organized a few coli civil wars with R6 being our next game of choice in which coli members get to go against other coli members lead by a captain. What captains night is or what i envision is us setting up a time and date each month or every two weeks that we...

The War Nerd: The Confederates who should've been hanged A list of three Confederate villains that should've been hung after the American Civil War: Nathan Bedford Forrest Confederate general and enslaver of Africans.Responsible for the Fort Pillow Massacre which killed murdered dozens of...