U.S.. Enters World War I
A Hip Hughes History Video
Saturday, April 6, 2019
Friday, April 5, 2019
The New Yorker
The Day the Dinosaurs Died
A young paleontologist may have discovered a record of the most significant event in the history of life on Earth. p
may have discovered a record of the mostsignificant event in the history of life on Earth.
The man who presaged Trumpism.
Pat Buchanan: 2020 - Socialist America or Trump’s America?
For never-Trump conservatives, the day of reckoning may be just ahead.
Thursday, April 4, 2019
The Intergenerational Effects of a Large Wealth Shock: White Southerners After the Civil War
The nullification of slave-based wealth after the US Civil War (1861-65) was one of the largest episodes of wealth compression in history. We document that white southern households with more slave assets lost substantially more wealth by 1870 relative to households with otherwise similar pre-War wealth levels. Yet, the sons of these slaveholders recovered in income and wealth proxies by 1880, in part by shifting into white collar positions and marrying into higher status families. Their pattern of recovery is most consistent with the importance of social networks in facilitating employment opportunities and access to credit.
The nullification of slave-based wealth after the US Civil War (1861-65) was one of the largest episodes of wealth compression in history. We document that white southern households with more slave assets lost substantially more wealth by 1870 relative to households with otherwise similar pre-War wealth levels. Yet, the sons of these slaveholders recovered in income and wealth proxies by 1880, in part by shifting into white collar positions and marrying into higher status families. Their pattern of recovery is most consistent with the importance of social networks in facilitating employment opportunities and access to credit.
On this day in 1968,
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
SHOT AND KILLED
On this day in 1968, the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot in the head and killed while standing on the balcony outside his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. Just the day before King had given his last sermon saying, “We’ve got some difficult days ahead. But it really doesn’t matter with me now, because I’ve been to the mountaintop . . . And He’s allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight that we, as a people, will get to the promised land.”
Two months later Bobby Kennedy would be shot in the head and killed while campaigning for president in Los Angeles.
On this day in 1865,
LINCOLN DREAMS OF HIS ASSASSINATION
On this night in 1865, Abraham Lincoln dreamt of “the subdued sobs of mourners” and a corpse lying on a catafalque in the White House East Room. In the dream, Lincoln asked a soldier standing guard, “Who is dead in the White House?” to which the soldier replied, “the President . . . he was killed by an assassin.” Lincoln woke up at that point. On April 11, he told one of his best friends that the dream had “strangely annoyed” him ever since.
Ten days after having the dream, Lincoln was shot in the head and killed by John Wilkes Booth at the Ford Theater.
Wednesday, April 3, 2019
On this day in 1860,
Pony Express Debuts
Delivers mail from Missouri to California in "lightning fast" speed of 10 days
Put out of business in less than two years by development of the telegraph
Tuesday, April 2, 2019
On this day in 1863,
The Richmond Bread Riot
Confederate Women Loot Stores in Capital of the Confederacy
Monday, April 1, 2019
In April, 1920,
Henry Ford Begins Newspaper Series of Antisemitic Articles
Ford Becomes Only American Mentioned Favorably in "Main Kampf"
Hitler: "I regard Henry Ford as my inspiration."
Liberal Law Prof Jonathan Turley:
Trump Trumps Obama's Transparency By Waiving Executive Privilege Re Special Counsel Report
Sunday, March 31, 2019
On this day in 1965,
LBJ Tells 1st Of Many Lies About His Vietnam War Plans
On this day in 1965, Democrat President Lyndon Johnson lied to the media about his recent deployment of the first 3,500 Marines sent to Vietnam, supposedly solely for defensive purposes to secure the U.S. base at DaNang. Johnson really had plans to send more troops to Vietnam and to use them offensively rather than just defensively. By the time LBJ was hounded out of office because of the war, he had sent 500,000 Americans to Vietnam. 58,000 American boys, many of whom were drafted and forced to fight in Vietnam, never came home.
[See Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, President Trump’s former National Security Advisor, "Dereliction of Duty" subtitled “Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, The Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the lies that led to Vietnam.” Gen. McMaster says Democrat President Johnson “disregarded the advice he did not want to hear in favor of a policy based on the pursuit of his own political fortunes and his beloved domestic programs." "The administration’s lies to the American public grew in magnitude as the American military effort in Vietnam escalated,” initially without the public’s knowledge or consent.]
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