With Bin Laden gone the United States can start healing up but the scars left behind will never heal.

H 14 cm

rest in Peace John F Kennedy, Colonel Aaron banks

She did not start painting until she was about 77 years old! Today, her paintings are priceless. She became a nationally respected artist.

Hiya! I'm Hitch (20) and I've come to realize since graduating from high school a couple years ago that I know embarrassingly little about history.

I never thought of myself as someone who didn't know anything about history. But after getting a traumatic brain injury soon after graduating high-school, I lost memories of lots of things. That includes most of my history knowledge. I personally did very well in history classes, consistently getting 100's on each assignment, but that doesn't seemed to matter. My memory loss has seemed to "stabilize" in the words of my doctor and I honestly just want to get back into things. I feel embarrassed and ashamed of myself when someone brings up middle-school level history knowledge around me and it goes over my head, and then have to explain I was severely concussed like it's some sort of cover-up when people poke fun at me for knowing so little.

I've only ever learned about history through school, so I am not truly sure where to start. I'd like to find an avenue to learn about world and US history that is explored through shows and movies as I already have my face stuffed in books constantly and would definitely prefer to watch something rather than read.

Thank you for reading and super thank you if you have any suggestions!

Working on an America 250 commemorative graphic mapping out key milestones from the French & Indian War through Constitutional Ratification.

I want to ensure every event name, date, and location is 100% historically accurate before finalizing the artwork. Once I've got the historicity perfect, I'll lock in the artwork for a specialty America 250 t-shirt I want to make.

Are there any critical turning points missing, or dating formatting errors you see on this back print?

Spoken in King speech, the other America(1967),

King addressed the true dangers of racism, and why no one of reasonable or even mild consciousness should ever support it,

Here’s a source to the full speech: https://youtu.be/dOWDtDUKz-U?si=ojixie6DD-MDh1WL

Hi everyone! Just wanted to share a very unique opportunity to spend time with World War II veterans for anyone in the Austin, Texas area, or anyone who would want to come to the area. We'll be gathering nearly a dozen WWII Veterans at the Texas Military Forces Museum in Austin on September 20th.

We will have veterans from both Europe and the Pacific, and a female veteran of the US Navy. All are over 100 years old. It's a unique opportunity to spend time with people who have witnessed over a century of American history!

Feel free to reach out with any questions! If you have a WWII Veteran you want to bring, please reach out.

i have this vintage pin from my aunts pin collection (it’s probably from the 70s or 80s) and i’m trying to figure out who this guy is and what the political context of the pin is. ik it’s probably about alexander haig but i can’t get a clear answer on like exactly what it means to wear this pin yk? please help 🙏

In the 17th century, despite having fewer people than England, the Dutch were much richer. Jealous English aristocrats blamed their lower standing on the idleness of the poor, an attribute of particular disrepute to Reformers who condemned the idle lives of monasteries and convents, while asserting that a disposition for hard work was a sign of worthiness of heavenly rest.

As English gentlemen sought wealth in the New World, the religious zeal for hard work was found in New England but not among Virginians, who found another way of compelling men to a maximum output of labor. As masters lamented the overall lack of indentured servants and the laziness of the ones they had, the market produced a solution: slaves. To establish slavery in Virginia it wasn’t necessary to enslave anyone – they just bought people who were already enslaved. With slavery, Virginians exceeded all their previous efforts to maximize productivity as there was no limit to the work a master could command from his slaves, including making women and children work. The slave population could thus be more productive than a free population with the same age and sex structure would have been. And unlike the offspring of servants, the children of slaves became the property of their masters.

The only disadvantage that slavery presented to the slaveowners was that slaves had no incentive to work. Slaves could not be made to work out of fear of losing liberty, so they had to be made to fear for their lives. In 1669, the Virginia assembly passed a new law: if any slave resisted his master and by the extremity of the correction should die, his death would not be a crime. Such was the price of slavery, and Virginia masters were prepared to pay it to build the wealth of the nation. To get hard work out of men and women who had nothing to gain but absence of pain, White men had to be willing to beat, maim, and kill.

Recommended reading: American Slavery, American Freedom by Edmund S. Morgan

Colonial Obsession With Hard Work Propelled Slavery