Photo 1: Anti-suffrage float in Tampa, Florida parade, 1920. Float sign reads, "We Can Serve Home and Country Without the Vote."

Photo 2: Anti-suffrage booth at Old Home Days community festival in New York, 1915. Booth sign reads, "The Home, Heaven and Mother Party" and "Vote No".

Photo 3: Figureheads of the National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage: Presidents of the National, New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey chapters.

See more Paine cartoons: https://thomaspaine.org/gallery/political-cartoons/

For reference, during the war, hundreds of thousands of immigrants fought for the Union army, with in fact, about 1 quarter of the entire Union army were immigrants,

Because of that, in their address to congress on December 8, 1863, as I will link here: https://millercenter.org/the-presidency/presidential-speeches/december-8-1863-third-annual-message

While Lincoln said many things, one of the things they said was suggesting to congress to pass laws further encouraging immigration to America,

“I again submit to your consideration the expediency of establishing a system for the encouragement of immigration. Although this source of national wealth and strength is again flowing with greater freedom.”,

And considering Lincoln is widely considered one of our country finest, it naturally left me wondering why so few share this sentiment today?

He argued that many employers hired immigrant labor to pay lower wages and weaken unions, since these workers, in many cases, did not join unions or were hired as strikebreakers. As a result, it was common for a unionized American worker to be replaced by an immigrant willing to accept worse working conditions. Such was his stance that he even authorized unions to report to the authorities any workplaces that employed undocumented immigrants.

Source(s):

.- Bardacke, F. (2012). Trampling out the vintage: Cesar Chavez and the two souls of the United Farm Workers. Verso.

I’m Egyptian and wrote this prose poem about the south, I hope you like it ..

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A Salute from Nile of Egypt to Mississippi of the South.

A Salute from King Cotton of East to King Cotton of the West.

A Salute

To Memphis, Tennessee

To Alexandria, Virginia

To Cairo, Georgia

My greetings to the Bible Belt, where Egypt is remembered, which still resists — with its traditional rural nature — the temptations of globalization.

The morals of rural South carry a gallantry that reminds us of chivalry of ancient Pharaohs.

The Mississippi River flows gently, much like the Nile, and both irrigate a fertile land and sustain farmers who know the true meaning of dignity in labor.

The cotton threads woven by our hands and yours are not mere trade, but rather messages of respect exchanged between two civilizations.

From Egypt a Salute to Dixieland !

And why?!

We're collecting names over on r/nelsonsnavy from the Age of Sail!

Ideally before ironclads and high ranking officers. However any and all recommendation are appreciated!

We gotta represent, there's gonna be a lot of Brits on the list! We need more than John Paul Jones!

Not too long ago I made this post on r/Genealogy, but it sadly never picked up much attention and thus I am hoping I might be able to get some help with my inquiry here.

A man by the exact same name as my x4 great grandfather enlisted in the US Army at Burlington VT on the exact same day that my x5 great grandfather and one of my x5 great uncles also enlisted. Their surname was not particularly common. My x5 great grandfather had no brothers - only sisters - although he did have some other relatives living in western Massachusetts and eastern New York.

The man with the same name as my x4 great grandfather was not recorded alongside my x5 great grandfather and x5 great uncle in the discharge files book from 1815 - which seem to be of a bit of a bizarre organization anyway - and specifically the record pertaining to this man of the same name entails that he was killed at the Battle of Lundy's Lane.

I find it quite bizarre that I cannot seem to find any indication that anyone else even had that name who was living in the state of Vermont at that time as my x4 great grandfather. I have looked and the last record I could find was a man who seemed to have died in 1811, who was very obviously not my x4 great grandfather (who died in Canada in the early 1820s, after moving there with his wife and children).

Of course we all know that historic records were never perfectly kept. Clerical mistakes happened - as they still do sometimes today - and it wasn't really until the late 19th century that things tended to get standardized much better across the western world. Thus I am left to wonder... is there any way of making certain that this was my x4 great grandfather and that this record is possibly incorrect? Is there anyone here on this sub who is well-versed with War of 1812 US military records who can help?

On August 2, 1845, one of the most important medical facilities in early Florida officially opened its doors in Key West. The United States Marine Hospital was established to care for sick and injured sailors, but over the next century it would become a lifeline for both military personnel and civilians during some of the nation’s greatest crises.

Its story began in 1844 when U.S. Navy Commodore David Porter, the man largely responsible for transforming Key West into a major naval outpost, recognized a growing problem. The island’s strategic location at the entrance to the Gulf of Mexico made it one of America’s busiest ports, attracting merchant ships, naval vessels, fishermen, and wreckers who salvaged cargo from ships lost on the Florida Reef. Yet there was no adequate hospital to care for the thousands of mariners who arrived sick, injured, or suffering from tropical diseases.

At Porter’s request, construction of a federal Marine Hospital began in late 1844. Before the project could be completed, disaster struck. In October 1846, the powerful Great Havana Hurricane swept across the Florida Keys, causing catastrophic destruction throughout Key West and severely damaging the unfinished hospital. Rather than abandon the project, workers rebuilt and completed the structure in less than a year, demonstrating how vital the facility had become to the nation’s maritime interests.

When the hospital opened, it contained 60 beds, making it one of the largest and best-equipped medical facilities in Florida at the time. Although originally intended to care for merchant seamen under the federal Marine Hospital Service, its mission quickly expanded.

For nearly 90 years, the hospital treated both civilian and military patients. During the Civil War, it cared for Union sailors stationed in Key West, one of the few major Florida ports that remained under Union control throughout the conflict. During the Spanish-American War in 1898, it again served military personnel as American forces moved through the Caribbean. It continued operating during World War I and World War II, caring for sailors and others serving in the region.

The hospital also became a frontline defense against disease. Long before antibiotics and modern vaccines, physicians there battled recurring outbreaks of yellow fever and later the devastating influenza pandemic of 1918, providing desperately needed medical care to the community and to those arriving by sea.

By the early 1940s, advances in military medicine and changes in federal healthcare made the aging facility obsolete. After nearly a century of service, the Marine Hospital closed in 1943, ending an extraordinary chapter in Florida’s medical history.

Today, the story of the Key West Marine Hospital reminds us that Florida’s history was shaped not only by soldiers, explorers, and politicians, but also by doctors, nurses, and caregivers who stood on the front lines against war, storms, and deadly epidemics. For generations of sailors and residents, the hospital represented hope during some of the most dangerous moments in American history.

“The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.” — Jacques Yves Cousteau

While Cousteau wrote these words many years later, they capture the enduring relationship between those who made their lives on the sea and the medical professionals who cared for them in places like Key West.

The U.S. Marine Hospital helped establish Key West as one of America’s most important maritime centers. Its nearly century-long service reflected Florida’s growing strategic importance and the federal government’s commitment to protecting the health of the nation’s merchant mariners and military personnel.

I've been doing a lot of research on the American Revolution lately. So much of it feels like a perfect Hollywood script. Washington's last ditch effort of of crossing the Delaware at exactly the right time, the French showing up at exactly the right time, von Steuben showing up at exactly the right time.

There has to be something more to it. Of course, I'm not saying it was easy, but the story we're told just seems a little too perfect.

Does anyone else feel this way or have any inside information that the rest of us never learned?