Arguing with Confederates on this hellscape of a site had me digging back into the Slave state's articles of secession to find the juicy nuggets. Let's go state by state in order of secession and read them. December 1860, a month after Lincoln wins the Presidential election, South Carolina becomes the first to vote to secede from the Union. They mention the inauguration, the Republican party, and a "war on slavery." Nothing about tariffs.

Battlehawks defense comes up big for their first stop. Now let's see what AJ and the offense can do. #KaKaw It wasn't pretty but we'll take the field goal.

100% of historians think it can and should do both

https://twitter.com/JohnFea1/status/1388115983961841667

We can and should celebrate the good things, like going to the moon and the 19th Amendment.

We can and should question the bad things, like slavery and the Indian Removal Act.

Advice from East Coast doctors to West Coast doctors before the 1918 Spanish Flu spread across the United States is shocking Also the spread of the Spanish Flu in many major metropolitan US areas can be directly tied to war rallies supporting the troops in Europe in 1918. Large gatherings, parades, sing alongs, and such exponentially spread the flu.

OMG this White House conference on American History is insane. This may be a thread. Hold on to your butts. Speaking right now is Dr. Larry Arnn. He's from Hillsdale College. So.....yeah.

#OTD 157 years ago the 54th Massachusetts Infantry, the first sanctioned all Black regiment in the US Army, made its famous attack on Battery Wagner. We'll do a day long celebration of the unit, the men, and the assault. 🇺🇸

#54thMass #BatteryWagner #GiveEmHell54th While not the first attempt at creating an all Black regiment, the 54th Mass was the first one sanctioned by the War Department after the passage of the Emancipation Proclamation, and began the enlistment of almost 200,000 Black Americans into the US Army.

“I would never have drawn my sword in the cause of America if I could have conceived that thereby I was founding a land of slavery.”

~ Marquis de Lafayette, in a letter to John Adams By contrast, the Continental Army, as Henry Wenwck notes, was “more integrated [racially] than any American military force until the Vietnam war.” In fact, one of the wounded on Lexington Green in 1775 was Prince Easterbrooks, “a Negro man.”

When uppity women who don’t know their biblical place ask for birth control When that last episode of The Handmaid’s Tale hits a bit too close to the mark