Baja Margie
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Sun Jan-02-05 12:59 AM
Response to Original message |
| 33. Italians were treated horrible, |
|
many hangings, never learned that in High School History.
|
| -Stuff you were never taught in high school American History courses |
jpgray |
Nov-29-04 12:51 PM |
#0 |
 -
Geo. Washington didn't free his slaves per law in Philadelphia. |
JohnOneillsMemory |
Nov-29-04 01:12 PM |
#1 |
 -
George Washington ALSO bought his first election. |
Spider Jerusalem |
Nov-30-04 02:31 AM |
#8 |
 -
that seems to have been a common event...... |
Historic NY |
Feb-06-05 02:43 AM |
#44 |
| -
Yup. Tis true. And there's more . . . |
TaleWgnDg |
Aug-22-05 03:38 AM |
#70 |
| -
Thanks for the recommendation. |
Sequoia |
Sep-25-07 12:20 PM |
#96 |
| -
IIRC he and Jefferson both grew marijuana! nt |
wildbilln864 |
Apr-04-09 01:58 PM |
#115 |
| -
Thank you! |
IA_Seth |
Nov-29-04 03:48 PM |
#2 |
| -
Japanese internment camps are usually skipped over. |
SemiCharmedQuark |
Nov-29-04 04:52 PM |
#3 |
| -
I taught high school history and had a great |
Yupster |
Feb-20-05 10:10 PM |
#45 |
| -
something not covered regarding japanese internment |
chena |
Dec-11-06 06:39 PM |
#87 |
| -
And here's the Supreme Court case that legitimized government internment of citizens. |
no_hypocrisy |
Nov-18-08 01:48 PM |
#102 |
| -
A good book for this kind of stuff |
deadparrot |
Nov-29-04 07:31 PM |
#4 |
| -
Problem is ... |
RoyGBiv |
Nov-29-04 10:31 PM |
#5 |
| -
I agree |
WoodrowFan |
Nov-30-04 07:51 AM |
#9 |
| -
For example? |
dwckabal |
May-04-05 12:22 AM |
#57 |
| -
For example ... |
RoyGBiv |
May-05-05 10:01 PM |
#59 |
| -
I agree |
dwckabal |
May-07-05 01:48 AM |
#62 |
| -
I didn't miss the point ... |
RoyGBiv |
May-07-05 02:22 AM |
#63 |
| -
The text my district adopted IS one of those he mentions. |
LWolf |
Sep-13-08 01:11 PM |
#101 |
| -
Howard Zinn and ... |
cannabis_flower |
Aug-27-07 03:08 PM |
#92 |
| -
Five Tribes |
RoyGBiv |
Nov-29-04 10:38 PM |
#6 |
| -
Never mentioned that citizenship was not extended to |
dflprincess |
Feb-21-05 10:34 PM |
#51 |
| -
That's HISTORY now? I remember it happening! |
DemBones DemBones |
Nov-30-04 01:24 AM |
#7 |
| -
That the Indians were massacred. One teacher said the most insulting thing |
Bertha Venation |
Nov-30-04 11:15 AM |
#10 |
| -
Ah, but see, all that bad stuff.... it happened in the territores... |
WannaJumpMyScooter |
Nov-30-04 11:38 AM |
#11 |
| -
Oh, please. Because it happened before the territories were states, |
Bertha Venation |
Nov-30-04 12:12 PM |
#12 |
| -
Yeah, and who set the policies for the territories? |
WannaJumpMyScooter |
Dec-01-04 01:31 AM |
#14 |
| -
The Sand Creek massacre |
struggle4progress |
Nov-03-05 07:52 PM |
#74 |
| -
Pretty much everything important n/t |
Mojambo |
Nov-30-04 12:25 PM |
#13 |
| -
The 1927 Columbine Massacre... |
0rganism |
Dec-05-04 01:07 AM |
#15 |
| -
Battle of Blair Mountain |
Southpaw Bookworm |
Dec-13-04 02:00 PM |
#19 |
| -
Rarely taught labor history. |
intheflow |
Jan-01-05 04:56 AM |
#28 |
| -
And the 1914 Ludlow massacre before it. |
struggle4progress |
Nov-03-05 07:55 PM |
#75 |
| -
Or the Honea Path massacre (my phrase) after it. |
raccoon |
Nov-08-06 01:33 PM |
#85 |
| -
The Mountian Meadows Massacre on September 11, 1957 |
Sequoia |
Sep-25-07 12:37 PM |
#98 |
| -
How many of you know today that women were |
DemBones DemBones |
Dec-09-04 08:33 PM |
#16 |
| -
What about the "Washer women". |
happyslug |
Dec-10-04 06:37 PM |
#18 |
| -
Women surrounded the White House 24/7 for the right to vote. |
intheflow |
Jan-01-05 04:39 AM |
#26 |
| -
Hellen Keller: Communist Sympathizer. |
PittPoliSci |
Dec-10-04 01:34 AM |
#17 |
| -
How Catholics were treated |
JohnKleeb |
Dec-13-04 04:57 PM |
#20 |
| -
And then later on |
Southpaw Bookworm |
Dec-15-04 10:27 AM |
#21 |
| -
right |
JohnKleeb |
Dec-15-04 09:56 PM |
#22 |
| -
Wasn't Maryland a Catholic refuge at one point? |
Lefty48197 |
Dec-21-04 09:46 PM |
#24 |
| -
Yeah I believe so |
JohnKleeb |
Dec-23-04 02:59 AM |
#25 |
| -
It was... |
HawkerHurricane |
Jan-26-05 09:41 PM |
#40 |
| -
The Carolinas were named after King Charles II! Not George II's wife. |
nealmhughes |
Nov-08-06 04:39 AM |
#84 |
| -
And Jews (nt) |
ih8thegop |
Mar-07-05 02:43 PM |
#55 |
| -
Interesting note on smallpox in America and use as a weapon |
Jose Diablo |
Dec-18-04 12:44 PM |
#23 |
| -
Smallpox is an extremely fragile virus that lives only a short time |
Warpy |
Apr-03-09 10:46 PM |
#104 |
| -
More on smallpox and Native Americans...& about smallpox |
uppityperson |
Apr-04-09 01:59 AM |
#107 |
| -
I'm not saying they didn't try it |
Warpy |
Apr-04-09 12:24 PM |
#112 |
| -
I know. I was interested since I've heard this forever also. So looked for more info |
uppityperson |
Apr-04-09 01:14 PM |
#113 |
| -
Right, old myths die hard |
Warpy |
Apr-04-09 01:36 PM |
#114 |
| -
Glad you looked those up ... |
RoyGBiv |
Apr-05-09 09:09 PM |
#117 |
| -
Never taught anything about gay rights. |
intheflow |
Jan-01-05 04:50 AM |
#27 |
| -
US Army Attacks Veterans--1932 |
onager |
Jan-01-05 02:21 PM |
#29 |
| -
MacArthur was the real culprit but it contributed to Hoover's downfall |
BrotherBuzz |
Jan-02-05 12:54 AM |
#32 |
| -
Which explains how MacAurther... |
HawkerHurricane |
Jan-26-05 09:45 PM |
#41 |
| -
The much smarter and more moderate Eisenhower also... |
BrotherBuzz |
Jan-29-05 02:19 AM |
#42 |
| -
Yeh, Furley's a real hero. Too bad he ended up... |
Bucky |
May-22-05 12:09 PM |
#65 |
| -
LOL, you bad!! |
BrotherBuzz |
May-22-05 05:12 PM |
#66 |
| -
The Bonus March? |
Yupster |
Feb-20-05 10:14 PM |
#46 |
| -
House Un-American Activity Commission |
BigMcLargehuge |
Jan-01-05 09:27 PM |
#30 |
| -
HUAC... |
onager |
Jan-01-05 11:33 PM |
#31 |
| -
Italians were treated horrible, |
Baja Margie |
Jan-02-05 12:59 AM |
#33 |
| -
The biggest strike I never heard of... |
onager |
Jan-02-05 10:41 PM |
#34 |
| -
So many things: |
skippysmom |
Jan-12-05 07:24 PM |
#35 |
| -
I don't think even most history teachers know |
Yupster |
Feb-20-05 10:17 PM |
#47 |
| -
Black soldiers from the US Army fought under French command during WWI |
BrotherBuzz |
Jan-13-05 01:37 AM |
#36 |
| -
Yeah that generation has been gone, btw I didnt know about this, thanks |
JohnKleeb |
Jan-13-05 02:39 PM |
#37 |
| -
John Fremont was a murderer and a coward (Kit Carson, too) |
BrotherBuzz |
Jan-13-05 06:46 PM |
#38 |
| -
I can remember my reader written in the 1950's for use in Catholic schools |
hedgehog |
Sep-01-06 07:53 PM |
#81 |
| -
We were never taught about lynch mobs. |
hedgehog |
Sep-01-06 07:54 PM |
#82 |
| -
A good book for you: Bear Flag Rising |
Sequoia |
Sep-25-07 12:39 PM |
#99 |
| -
None of my high school teachers had an answer when |
jmm |
Jan-13-05 07:41 PM |
#39 |
| -
Columbus was so innocent is finding the Americas..........n/t |
Historic NY |
Feb-06-05 02:40 AM |
#43 |
| -
I always had a student tell me that |
Yupster |
Feb-20-05 10:18 PM |
#48 |
| -
One of the first times I ever got detention was |
jmm |
Feb-20-05 10:30 PM |
#49 |
| -
The US Army's Notorious Incest Trial... |
onager |
Feb-21-05 10:10 PM |
#50 |
| -
The enslavement of and murder of American Indians by Christopher Columbus |
Stop_the_War |
Mar-05-05 08:43 PM |
#52 |
| -
Conversely, The Indians gave them the clap.... |
BrotherBuzz |
Mar-06-05 04:26 PM |
#53 |
| -
The good news is that many schools do teach this now! |
leyton |
May-06-05 03:26 PM |
#60 |
| -
Infected Blankets |
RoyGBiv |
May-06-05 03:53 PM |
#61 |
| -
The orignal 9/11 |
edwardlindy |
Apr-06-06 04:42 PM |
#78 |
| -
The banana war |
edwardlindy |
Apr-06-06 04:49 PM |
#79 |
| -
that's wrong on two counts |
Warpy |
Apr-03-09 10:58 PM |
#105 |
| -
Almost anything about unions that made sense |
Radical Activist |
Mar-06-05 11:40 PM |
#54 |
| -
I read a lot about American history when I was a young, but |
Lydia Leftcoast |
May-02-05 10:22 PM |
#56 |
| -
The US "interventions" in Latin America |
dwckabal |
May-04-05 12:41 AM |
#58 |
| -
*whew* where to begin? |
libnnc |
May-21-05 11:57 PM |
#64 |
| -
The "Southern Kent State" |
MountainLaurel |
May-23-05 04:28 PM |
#67 |
| -
Philippine Insurrection |
lenidog |
May-25-05 08:48 PM |
#68 |
| -
The business plot to overthrow FDR |
raccoon |
Jul-26-05 10:11 AM |
#69 |
| -
amazing! |
Rich Hunt |
Aug-22-05 04:50 PM |
#71 |
| -
Absolutely |
gordianot |
Oct-15-05 10:32 PM |
#72 |
| -
The book: "The Plot to Seize the White House" is being republished. |
Sequoia |
Apr-11-07 04:28 PM |
#90 |
| -
It is? - Do you happen to know who's publishing it?. . . .n/t |
annabanana |
Apr-04-09 06:54 AM |
#110 |
| -
Too many to list |
DrGonzoLives |
Nov-03-05 09:21 AM |
#73 |
| -
Tulsa Race Riot---possibly the worst in American history |
bobbieinok |
Feb-19-06 08:13 PM |
#76 |
| -
The Seattle General Strike |
ribofunk |
Apr-05-06 01:00 AM |
#77 |
| -
Combined ops. |
edwardlindy |
Apr-06-06 04:54 PM |
#80 |
| -
All the bad stuff we did to Haiti and The Philippines. |
TroubleMan |
Oct-20-06 09:40 PM |
#83 |
| -
that link has changed ;-) |
Donnachaidh |
Dec-03-06 03:29 PM |
#86 |
| -
Women's role in history |
Bjornsdotter |
Dec-15-06 08:14 PM |
#88 |
| -
The fact that the vikings were the first Europeans to find the New world, not Columbus. |
Odin2005 |
Mar-03-07 11:17 AM |
#89 |
| -
The United States record of |
adsosletter |
May-11-07 03:12 PM |
#91 |
| -
How about ... |
cannabis_flower |
Aug-27-07 03:12 PM |
#93 |
| -
I never heard of Emma Goldman ... |
cannabis_flower |
Aug-28-07 02:29 PM |
#94 |
| -
The failed "business plot" coup against FDR. |
Odin2005 |
Aug-30-07 10:06 PM |
#95 |
| -
The ousting of Chinese Americans from towns on the west coast. |
Sequoia |
Sep-25-07 12:25 PM |
#97 |
| -
Me either ... |
ashling |
Feb-12-08 01:40 AM |
#100 |
| -
Tuskegee syphilis experiments. |
tismyself |
Nov-26-08 09:57 AM |
#103 |
| -
Great thread, Dude! |
Raster |
Apr-04-09 01:30 AM |
#106 |
| -
Prescott Bush's bankrolling of Adolf Hitler. |
byronius |
Apr-04-09 03:49 AM |
#108 |
| -
The Ludlow Massacre |
Political Heretic |
Apr-04-09 06:43 AM |
#109 |
| -
East German Blacklisting and HUAC |
anansi133 |
Apr-04-09 12:06 PM |
#111 |
| -
Economic history; in the sense of *real* economic history, linking factions together to understand |
Hannah Bell |
Apr-04-09 06:33 PM |
#116 |
Printer-friendly format
Email this thread to a friend
Bookmark this thread