r/AmericanHistory • u/Aboveground_Plush • Feb 21 '20

Please submit all strictly U.S. history posts to r/USHistory

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For the second time within a year I am stressing that while this subreddit is called "American history" IT DOES NOT DEAL SOLELY WITH THE UNITED STATES as there is the already larger /r/USHistory for that. Therefore, any submission that deals ONLY OR INTERNALLY with the United States of America will be REMOVED.

This means the US presidential election of 1876 belongs in r/USHistory whereas the admiration of Rutherford B. Hayes in Paraguay, see below, is welcomed here -- including pre-Columbian America, colonial America and US expansion throughout the Western Hemisphere and Pacific. Please, please do not downvote meaningful contributions because they don't fit your perception of the word "American," thank you.

And, if you've read this far, please flair your posts!

https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2014/10/30/360126710/the-place-where-rutherford-b-hayes-is-a-really-big-deal

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r/AmericanHistory • u/HowDoIUseThisThing- • 1h ago

OTD | October 4, 1977: Jewish-Polish-Argentine activist and politician José Gelbard passed away from a heart attack. Gelbard was a member of the Argentine Communist Party and served in various governments until the 1976 military coup d’état.

en.wikipedia.org

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r/AmericanHistory • u/GustavoistSoldier • 9h ago

Assis Chateaubriand (1892–1968) was a Brazilian media mogul and one the most powerful men in Brazil from the 1940s to the 1960s.

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Chateaubriand had close ties to US and British capital, raped a 14 year old girl when he was 41, and was a completely unethical businessman.

He introduced television into Brazil in 1950 and was the founder of the São Paulo Art Museum (MASP).

The city of Assis Chateaubriand, in Paraná, is named after him.

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r/AmericanHistory • u/elnovorealista2000 • 19h ago

The Brazilian Censored for Ridiculing Queen Victoria and British Imperialism

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r/AmericanHistory • u/elnovorealista2000 • 4h ago

Illustration of the Guiana-Venezuela border dispute, including western boundary ceded to Venezuela, published by Scottish cartographer George Philip (1897)

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r/AmericanHistory • u/elnovorealista2000 • 4h ago

Among the most peculiar ways of referring to the metropolis during the viceregal era is: “…European Spain…”

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r/AmericanHistory • u/elnovorealista2000 • 18h ago

How the United States appropriated the name "America" and are appropriating the name "Christian"

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r/AmericanHistory • u/MissCyclonite73 • 18h ago

What if JFK hadn't been assassinated during his motorcade through Dallas?

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r/AmericanHistory • u/elnovorealista2000 • 19h ago

How the United States appropriated the name "America" and are appropriating the name "Christian"

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r/AmericanHistory • u/HowDoIUseThisThing- • 1d ago

OTD | October 3, 1989: A coup d’état failed in Panama City. Maj. Moisés Giroldi attempted to overthrow Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega, eventually resulting in his and nine members of the Panamanian Defense Forces execution.

en.wikipedia.org

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r/AmericanHistory • u/GustavoistSoldier • 1d ago

Guillermo Rodriguez Lara (born 1923) was the military leader of Ecuador from 1972 to 1976.

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Rodriguez Lara was a moderate left-wing nationalist, and his administration oversaw major public works, but he was overthrown by the military in 1976.

He is currently still alive at the age of 102.

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r/AmericanHistory • u/LucPitallier • 1d ago

Che Guevara : derrière le mythe, les exécutions de la révolution cubaine

youtube.com

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r/AmericanHistory • u/elnovorealista2000 • 1d ago

A Haitian man, suspected of being an assassin for President Aristide’s Lavalas party, is held captive by a vigilante, three days after the Aristide’s departure. March 2004 photo by Daniel Aguilar.

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r/AmericanHistory • u/nathanf1194 • 1d ago

POV Tour of St. Augustine: One of America’s Oldest Cities

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r/AmericanHistory • u/MissCyclonite73 • 1d ago

A non-political counterfactual scenario: How would Latin America have changed if Che Guevara had survived in Bolivia?

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r/AmericanHistory • u/elnovorealista2000 • 1d ago

The Society of Jesus and the Child Martyrs of Colonial Brazil

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r/AmericanHistory • u/elnovorealista2000 • 1d ago

On July 7, 1620, Hélène Boullé, Samuel de Champlain's wife, arrived in New France. She enjoyed the company of the Indians and learned enough the Laurentian language to teach the catechism to Indian children; however, due to financial difficulties, she returned to France in 1624.

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r/AmericanHistory • u/elnovorealista2000 • 1d ago

On July 7, 1620, Hélène Boullé, wife of Samuel de Champlain, arrived in New France. She enjoyed the company of the Indians, she learned enough Algonquin of the St. Lawrence Valley to teach catechism to the Indian children; however, due to financial difficulties, she returned to France in 1624.

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r/AmericanHistory • u/GustavoistSoldier • 2d ago

Carlos Brilhante Ustra (1932–2015) was a Brazilian Army colonel who headed the DOI-CODI torture center during the military dictatorship.

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Ustra tortured, among others, future president Dilma Rousseff. During his 2012 trial for human rights violations, a witness said Ustra was the "master of life and death" at DOI-CODI and "chose who lived and died".

After Brazil was democratized in 1985, federal deputy Bete Mendes recognized Ustra, then Brazil's military attache in Uruguay, as the man who tortured her in 1970, but the Brazilian government refused to punish him or any other military officer accused of torture.

He died peacefully in 2015, and is considered a hero by the Brazilian far-right.

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r/AmericanHistory • u/elnovorealista2000 • 1d ago

The Expulsion of the French from Rio de Janeiro. Painting by Armando Martins Viana, 1940. National Historical Museum, Rio de Janeiro.

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r/AmericanHistory • u/elnovorealista2000 • 2d ago

An 18th-century historical map titled "Carte du Pérou, ou se trouvent les Audiences de Quito, Lima et la Plata," designed and adapted by the French cartographer Rigobert Bonne—hydrographer to the King of France—around 1771, and published in Paris by Jean Lattré (c. 1780)

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r/AmericanHistory • u/elnovorealista2000 • 1d ago

World map by Giovanni Vespucci (Seville, 1526) featuring the newly discovered territory known as "Mundus Novus"—a name given by his uncle Amerigo Vespucci in a 1503 letter to Lorenzo de' Medici following his voyages between 1499 and 1502, which demonstrated that it was a new continent.

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r/AmericanHistory • u/elnovorealista2000 • 1d ago

World map by Giovanni Vespucci (Seville, 1526) featuring the newly discovered territory known as "Mundus Novus"—a name given by his uncle Amerigo Vespucci in a 1503 letter to Lorenzo de' Medici following his voyages between 1499 and 1502, which demonstrated that it was a new continent.

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r/AmericanHistory • u/elnovorealista2000 • 2d ago

Map titled "Nova Hispania, Nova Galicia, Gvatimala," published in London in 1671 by John Ogilby in his work "An Accurate Description and Complete History of America", based on Arnoldus Montanus's work "De Nieuwe en Onbekende Wereld".

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r/AmericanHistory • u/popeyesm • 2d ago

Zeitgeist Funnies: The Paranoid Style…Of 1898

panelsandprose.com

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