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Catherine Schmidt<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Politics</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Immigration</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/UShistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UShistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Undocuemented" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Undocuemented</span></a> </p><p>Heather Cox Richardson 7/13/25<br>History of Modern Immigration in the U.S. and the Lie</p><p>“…The poll shows a record 79% of adults saying immigration is good for the country, with only 17% seeing it as bad. Only 30% of American adults say immigration should be reduced…”</p><p><a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/july-14-2025?r=ymxmu&amp;utm_medium=ios" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">open.substack.com/pub/heatherc</span><span class="invisible">oxrichardson/p/july-14-2025?r=ymxmu&amp;utm_medium=ios</span></a></p>
Flipboard Culture Desk<p>In March, U.S. President Donald Trump issued an executive order demanding that the negative parts of American history be excised from public monuments. A May follow-up order from Interior Secretary Doug Burgum led to QR codes being displayed in national parks that asked visitors to snitch if they came across information that was negative about past or living Americans. Now volunteer preservationists from Safeguarding Research &amp; Culture and the Data Rescue Project have launched a campaign, Save Our Signs, asking people to upload photos of signage on public lands in order to preserve them if they're removed. <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>404mediaco</span></a></span> explains more about the campaign. “To maintain a democratic society, it is essential for the electorate to be well-informed, which includes having a thorough awareness of our historical challenges,” Lynda Kellam, a founding member of the Data Rescue Project, says. “This project combines our expertise as data librarians and preservationists and our concern for telling the full story of our country.”</p><p><a href="https://flip.it/RlnS5W" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">flip.it/RlnS5W</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/USHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USHistory</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/TrumpAdministration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpAdministration</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Histodons</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>histodons</span></a></span> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/NationalParks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NationalParks</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/NationalMonuments" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NationalMonuments</span></a></p>
Jonathan Emmesedi<p>The racially mixed , smartly dressed browsers of progressive books in this 1938 photograph seem to be living out the CPUSA slogan of that time, "Communism is Twentieth Century Americanism"; note the "Harvard Communist" in the lower right hand quarter of the picture, the nearby collection box for aid for Spain, and the photograph of volunteers who were fighting for the Spanish Republican cause.</p><p>The following year's cynically concluded Hitler-Stalin pact and the anticommunism of the postwar decades dealt the US left blows from which it has never fully recovered.</p><p>I wonder about the various fates of the individuals pictured here.</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/USHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USHistory</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/PeoplesFront" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PeoplesFront</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/PopularFront" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PopularFront</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/CPUSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CPUSA</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Books</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/USLeft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USLeft</span></a></p>
Paria sans portefeuille<p>"Just as resistance against British imperialism once proved a key bond, now invented oppression at the hands of black people—whether the majority of South African citizens or the nebulous forces of American wokeness—works to unite the two nations under the banner of a whiteness supposedly under siege."</p><p><a href="https://thebaffler.com/latest/gimme-boer-dulik" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thebaffler.com/latest/gimme-bo</span><span class="invisible">er-dulik</span></a><br><a href="https://archive.ph/n2QmW" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">archive.ph/n2QmW</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> </p><p><a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/UShistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UShistory</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/whiteSupremacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>whiteSupremacism</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/settlerColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>settlerColonialism</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/Boers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Boers</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/BoerWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BoerWar</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>histodons</span></a></span></p>
Willow<p>A little history lesson: The modern U.S. immigration mass detention and deportation were started by Bill Clinton and Newt Gingrich. Clinton bragged about signing "Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibilities Act" (IIRAIRA), which was immediately criticized by the American Immigration Lawyers Association as an extremely bad bill to pass. 🧵</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/massdeportation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>massdeportation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>immigration</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/humanrights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>humanrights</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/ushistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ushistory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>uspol</span></a></p>
Jonathan Emmesedi<p>The massive Confederate Soldiers Monument was erected in 1903 and occupies a prime spot on the grounds of the Texas State Capitol, towering over visitors on their right as they walk onto the grounds of the capitol from the main entrance. The inscription exemplifies the "Lost Cause" myth making that legitimized Jim Crow, lynching, and White Anglo supremacy in general.</p><p>Monuments commemorating African American and Hispanic Texans subsequently placed nearby obscure neither the Confederate monument itself nor the historical truth that racial subjugation and the spreading of falsehoods about this violent process have been central to the making of Texas today.</p><p>Image -- By Daderot - Own work, Public Domain --Wikimedia Commons</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/Texas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Texas</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Austin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Austin</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/USHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USHistory</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/ConfederateMonuments" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ConfederateMonuments</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/LostCause" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LostCause</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Racism</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/WhiteSupremacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteSupremacy</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/TexasStateCapitol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TexasStateCapitol</span></a></p>
Jonathan Emmesedi<p>Today's Islamophobia in the USA bears a strong resemblance to the anti-Catholicism of the past.</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/12/america-history-of-hating-catholics" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/world/2015/sep</span><span class="invisible">/12/america-history-of-hating-catholics</span></a></p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/Islamophobia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Islamophobia</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/USHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USHistory</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Anticatholicism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Anticatholicism</span></a></p>
💧🌏 Greg Cocks<p>Educational Infographics – Sharing Some Of The Work Of Zachary Ammerman<br>--<br><a href="https://www.zacharyammerman.com/portfolio/infographics" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">zacharyammerman.com/portfolio/</span><span class="invisible">infographics</span></a> &lt;-- shared infographic examples, including maps…<br>--<br>[I do not know Zachry personally or professionally, but these examples of his work are TOO dang good not to share 😊 ]<br><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/GIS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GIS</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/spatial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>spatial</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/mapping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mapping</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/alldataisspatial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>alldataisspatial</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/cartography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cartography</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>education</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/infographics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>infographics</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/FirstNation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FirstNation</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/ancienthistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ancienthistory</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/StoryOfAmerica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StoryOfAmerica</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/USHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USHistory</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/K12" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>K12</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/schools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>schools</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/designer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>designer</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/NativeAmericans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NativeAmericans</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/mestizo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mestizo</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/culture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>culture</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/migration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>migration</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/geography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>geography</span></a><br>@ZacharyAmmerman</p>
Rich Stein (he/him)<p>Colorado Residents Push Back on Park Signs Urging Reporting of Negative Views (a.k.a. whitewashing) <br><a href="https://www.koaa.com/advocates-of-accountability/backlash-in-colorado-as-national-park-signs-urge-visitors-to-report-negative-views-about-america" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">koaa.com/advocates-of-accounta</span><span class="invisible">bility/backlash-in-colorado-as-national-park-signs-urge-visitors-to-report-negative-views-about-america</span></a><br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>histodons</span></a></span> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Indigenous</span></a>. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/disinformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>disinformation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/misinformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>misinformation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UShistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UShistory</span></a></p>

99-year-old Edith Edmunds said she would be spending her Juneteenth sewing as she celebrates the role quilts played in Black people’s path to freedom. These quilts often shared encoded messages for runaway enslaved people as they sought to make their way north along the Underground Railroad.

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As a grad student at the College of Charleston, Lauren Davila found an ad for the auction of 600 enslaved people — the largest known slave auction in the U.S.

The discovery prompted a small group to spearhead the creation of a historical marker in downtown Charleston.

(Published Oct. 2024)
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ProPublicaCharleston Unveils Historical Marker at the Site of Firm That Held the Largest Known U.S. Slave Trade
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The USA's history is littered with shameful moments and dark chapters — and in recent years, historical sites have begun to acknowledge this in their communications with visitors. That may be about to change. The Trump administration is now posting signs asking visitors to report historical information “negative about either past or living Americans," the Colorado Sun reports. Last Friday, signs went up at the Amache site where Japanese Americans were incarcerated during World War II, and at the Sand Creek Massacre site where U.S. troops killed peaceful Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho people in 1865. “I interpret it as a direct threat to why we have national parks,” said Tracy Coppola, Colorado senior program manager for the southwest regional office of the nonprofit National Parks Conservation Association. “Definitely a chilling effect on our park rangers, whose job is to tell the story of these places. The Park Service is not partisan, and they represent all of us.”

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#Culture #History #USHistory @histodons #NationalParks #JapaneseAmerican #NativeAmerican #Indigenous #TrumpAdministration

The Colorado Sun · Visitors to Colorado historic sites urged to report “negative” information about America, per orderBy Kevin Simpson

"26,000 people died before (Reagan) even bothered to utter the word 'AIDS,'" Tim Sweeney, former executive director of Gay Men's Health Crisis (GMHC) said in an interview for the GMHC Stories Oral History Project. @TheConversationUS takes a look at how organizations like GMHC advocated for and cared for each other when institutions failed them — and what we should learn from them now.

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#USHistory #USNews #AIDSCrisis #AIDS #HIV #History #LGBTQ @histodons #Advocacy #Activism

The ConversationGay Men’s Health Crisis showed how everyday people stepped up when institutions failed during the height of the AIDS epidemic – providing a model for todayDespite funding cuts, political scapegoating and internal tensions, thousands of volunteers came together in the 1980s to provide care to a stigmatized community.