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- “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” (1852) https://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/what-to-the-slave-is-the-fourth-of-july/ 32 comments
- Winston Churchill's 1931 predictions: Lab grown meat, artificial wombs, nuclear power to 'shift Ireland to the middle of the Atlantic.' http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/fifty-years-hence/ 5 comments history
- When Benjamin Franklin became fed-up with the pretentious scientific community in Europe for not answering practical questions that would improve society, he decided to write a fake research proposal calling for a way to alter the "odious" smell of farts and make them as "agreeable as perfumes." http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/to-the-royal-academy-of-farting/ 3 comments history
- South Carolina seceded on this date in 1860. Would you call December 20 the start of the Civil War, or would you use the April 12 date of the shots on Ft. Sumter the following year? http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/south-carolina-declaration-of-causes-of-secession/ 9 comments history
- "What To the Slave is the Fourth of July?" by Frederick Douglass, 1852 http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/what-to-the-slave-is-the-fourth-of-july/ 6 comments history
- The founders of the NAACP were not (all) Republican. DuBois called for Blacks to stop supporting Republicans 4 years prior to the founding of the NAACP. http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=496 3 comments politics
- What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? by Frederick Douglass, 1852 http://www.teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=162 6 comments politics
- "It is necessary that laws should be passed to prohibit the use of corporate funds directly or indirectly for political purposes; it is still more necessary that such laws should be thoroughly enforced." - Theodore Roosevelt, 1910 http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=501 52 comments politics
- On the Birthday of the Nation Let Us Celebrate One of His Fathers. Thomas Jefferson: "Even black men prefer white women over their own, just as orangutans prefer black women over those of his own species." http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=45 4 comments reddit.com
- Hey South Carolinians- The Civil War Was About Slavery. That's Called A Fact. http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=432 16 comments politics
- Republican quote: "A living wage must secure a standard high enough to make morality possible, to provide for education and recreation, to care for immature members of the family, to maintain the family during periods of sickness, and to permit of reasonable saving for old age." http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=613 136 comments politics
- The Progressive Party Platform of 1912 makes a lot of sense today.. lets modernize it reddit! http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=607 3 comments reddit.com