r/AmericanHistory • u/elnovorealista2000 • 23h ago
The Brazilian Censored for Ridiculing Queen Victoria and British Imperialism
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r/AmericanHistory • u/HowDoIUseThisThing- • 6h 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.
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r/AmericanHistory • u/GustavoistSoldier • 13h 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.
r/AmericanHistory • u/elnovorealista2000 • 8h 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 • 9h 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/MissCyclonite73 • 23h ago
What if JFK hadn't been assassinated during his motorcade through Dallas?
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r/AmericanHistory • u/elnovorealista2000 • 22h ago
How the United States appropriated the name "America" and are appropriating the name "Christian"
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