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On this day in 1935, Franklin Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act after the Great Depression had exposed how vulnerable millions of Americans were to unemployment and poverty in old age.

Another tough week (sniff) for fans of the Confederacy

He drew Yellowstone before it was a park. Walter W. De Lacy, a Virginia-born engineer, mapped Montana’s counties, chased gold to the Snake River’s headwaters, and sketched the geysers years before the famous 1870 expedition. Discover the surveyor whose maps […] [Original post on mastodon.world]

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Archaeologists and community historians on the trail of Chinese cowboys in Eastern Oregon (ijpr.org)

Chinese cowboys? Archaeologists and community historians are on the trail in Eastern Oregon www.ijpr.org/podcast/unde...

🇺🇸 Esther USA S1 E23 - Parliament: Sovereignty of the People? 👥‘ (youtube.com)

www.youtube.com/shorts/IyFIW... 🇺🇸 Esther USA S1 E23 - Parliament: Sovereignty of the People? 👥

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#Trump asks #SCOTUS to let White House resume work on its $400 million #ballroom while the admin appeals a lower court’s order to halt the work. The 2-1 decision by a three-judge panel from the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit sided with #historic preservationists who sued to stop […]

6.3 (AD) Cradle Will Rock (youtu.be)

Art is resistance. Joy is resistance. #resist #film #historicmovie #ushistory youtu.be/tVfQKvyycgA

North Carolina, 1950 📷: Elliott Erwitt

Ken Paxton runs an AI slop anti-trans version of LBJ’s famous 1964 Daisy Ad

Untitled photo, possibly related to: Family between Dallas and Austin, Texas. The people have left their home and connections in South Texas, and hope to reach the Arkansas Delta for work in the cotton fields. Penniless people. No food and three gallons of gas in the […] [Original post on c.im]