The main thing is to make history, not to write it

This blog is dedicated to history. I will mostly blog history articles on tumblr, sometimes write about something I find interesting or maybe even a this day in history once and a while. My ask box is open if you have any questions on history and I will do my best to answer you.

ziggurating:

Cahokia Mounds – Largest Archaeological Site in North America

Preserving the remains of an ancient Native American city near Collinsville, Illinois, the Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site is across the Mississippi River from St. Louis, Missouri. Covering more than 2,000 acres, Cahokia is the most sophisticated prehistoric Nativecivilization north of Mexico.

Best known for large, man-made earthen structures, the city of Cahokia was inhabited from about A.D. 700 to 1400. Built by ancient peoples known as the Mound Builders, Cahokia’s original population was thought to have been only about 1,000 until about the 11th century when it expanded to tens of thousands.

At its peak from 1,100 to 1,200 A.D., the city covered nearly six square miles and boasted a population of as many as 100,000 people. Houses were arranged in rows around open plazas. Agricultural fields and a number of smaller villages surrounded and supplied the city. The Cahokians were known to have traded with other tribes as far away as Minnesota.

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life:

When Robert Kennedy was assassinated on June 5, 1968, LIFE’s Bill Eppridge was there — and managed to capture the one haunting image that helped define the era.

Here, on the anniversary of his murder, we present photos made just moments before, and moments after the horrific event. Many of which were never published in the magazine.

The original caption that ran in LIFE: “Rigid, semiconscious, his face an ashen mask, Senator Kennedy lies in a pool of his own blood on the concrete floor, a bullet deep in his brain and another in his neck. Juan Romero, a busboy whose hand Kennedy had shaken before the shots, tried to comfort him.”

cosmonautofthree: cannibals-at-christmas: inebriatedpony: mewstew: jimsgayunderwear: Lt Colonel Fighting Jack Churchill, aka Mad Jack fought throughout WW2 with a longbow and a broadsword was also known to bring bagpipes he volunteered for the Commandos, not because he knew what they did but “because it sounds dangerous” he crawled out of a concentration camp about the end of WW2, he commented “If it wasn’t for those damn Yanks, we could have kept the war going another 10 years.” atta boy dear god Fucking awesome. lad ANGRY AS FUCK

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Lt Colonel Fighting Jack Churchill, aka Mad Jack

  • fought throughout WW2 with a longbow and a broadsword
  • was also known to bring bagpipes
  • he volunteered for the Commandos, not because he knew what they did but “because it sounds dangerous”
  • he crawled out of a concentration camp
  • about the end of WW2, he commented “If it wasn’t for those damn Yanks, we could have kept the war going another 10 years.”
  • atta boy

dear god

Fucking awesome.

lad

ANGRY AS FUCK

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historyofeurope: The Vatican Library (formally established 1475) is home to an amazing wealth of historical documents and objects.

historyofeurope:

The Vatican Library (formally established 1475) is home to an amazing wealth of historical documents and objects.

historyofeurope: April 19, 1943 marked the beginning of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. The Jewish Combat Organization (or ZOB), a resistance group made up of Warsaw residents, fought against Nazis with the limited arms they were able to collect and homemade bombs. The Uprising lasted for just a little under a month. The ZOB killed around 300 Nazi soldiers and the retaliation was extremely harsh: virtually none of the residents of the ghetto during the time of the Uprising survived to the end of the war. A recommended documentary to learn more about the Warsaw ghetto - available to stream via Netflix - is A Film Unfinished (warning: it is a very graphic film, as are most about this horrific period of history).

historyofeurope:

April 19, 1943 marked the beginning of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

The Jewish Combat Organization (or ZOB), a resistance group made up of Warsaw residents, fought against Nazis with the limited arms they were able to collect and homemade bombs. The Uprising lasted for just a little under a month. The ZOB killed around 300 Nazi soldiers and the retaliation was extremely harsh: virtually none of the residents of the ghetto during the time of the Uprising survived to the end of the war.

A recommended documentary to learn more about the Warsaw ghetto - available to stream via Netflix - is A Film Unfinished (warning: it is a very graphic film, as are most about this horrific period of history).

coolchicksfromhistory: College Girls is a light cultural history of women’s higher education in the US.  Organized by topic rather than chronologically, the book focuses on how dating, fashion, and wifely expectations impacted the lives of college girls from the 1830s through the 1960s.  A good mix of colleges are represented, from land grant colleges to historically black universities, but particular attention is paid to the seven sisters as both models for later programs and havens of wacky traditions.    Tumblr loves vintage images of women from the 1920s-1960s, but there isn’t a lot of information about what life was like for those women.  I think this weighty tome (over 400 pages) would be particularly enjoyed by those who have daydreamed about being a stylish co-ed back in the day.  Partly for the fashion information and cute traditions, but also to better understand the downsides of life as a Victorian lady, flapper, or bobbysoxer.  College Girls: Bluestockings, Sex Kittens, and Coeds, Then and Now on Amazon

coolchicksfromhistory:

College Girls is a light cultural history of women’s higher education in the US.  Organized by topic rather than chronologically, the book focuses on how dating, fashion, and wifely expectations impacted the lives of college girls from the 1830s through the 1960s.  A good mix of colleges are represented, from land grant colleges to historically black universities, but particular attention is paid to the seven sisters as both models for later programs and havens of wacky traditions.   

Tumblr loves vintage images of women from the 1920s-1960s, but there isn’t a lot of information about what life was like for those women.  I think this weighty tome (over 400 pages) would be particularly enjoyed by those who have daydreamed about being a stylish co-ed back in the day.  Partly for the fashion information and cute traditions, but also to better understand the downsides of life as a Victorian lady, flapper, or bobbysoxer. 

College Girls: Bluestockings, Sex Kittens, and Coeds, Then and Now on Amazon

frauleinfuehrer: German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop returns from negotiations in Moscow, where he and Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov signed an agreement on August 23, 1939 to equally divide Poland between the two totalitarian powers. Peace in Europe would last just 10 more days..

frauleinfuehrer:

German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop returns from negotiations in Moscow, where he and Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov signed an agreement on August 23, 1939 to equally divide Poland between the two totalitarian powers. Peace in Europe would last just 10 more days..

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