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Army Takes Over Black Hills
November 9, 1875 - Reporting on the Indian Wars, inspector E.C. Watkins pronounces, falsely, that hundreds of Sioux and Cheyenne under Indian leaders Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse are openly hostile against the United States government, forming U.S. policy over the next year that would lead to battles such as Little Big Horn.
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Chancellorsville 160th Anniversary
Watch and listen to our coverage of the 160th Anniversary of the Battle of Chancellorsville with Ranger walks and talks, plus narration from soldiers on the field. From the boastful words of Union General Hooker at the beginning of the battle to the surprising victory by Robert E. Lee's troops despite a two to one advantage for the Union. The carnage on both sides, however, made it hard for either to bask in the victory or defeat.
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Woolworth Civil Rights Sit-In
February 1, 1960 - Four black college students from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College in Greensboro, North Carolina stage a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth lunch counter, protesting their denial of service. This action caused a national campaign, waged by seventy-thousand students, both white and black, over the next eight months, in sit-ins across the nation for Civil Rights.
Historic Site of the Month
Osaka World's Fair 1903
Today, the world is celebrating a large world's fair in Osaka again, World Expo 2025, so we thought we'd reach back to the history of Japan, finally tipping its toes into that landscape for the first time, adding a Foreign Samples Building and other international buildings into the Osaka National Exhibition of 1903. See how Japan's penchant for international events grew from this small start.
Timeline of the Month
Timeline 1870's
The decade would hold a celebration of the nation's 100th birthday barely ten years after a Civil War, but most remarkable was not the anniversary, but the intellectual and industrial progress that the USA would make. By 1876, the genius of its inventors was being noticed around the world. Previously thought as a former rube colony well beneath the nations of Europe, the United States was beginning to show not only their equality, but that soon they would surpass them. It would begin its sporting traditions; for one, the Kentucky Derby.
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Spotlight on Lesser Known History
Violet Bank, Lee's Headquarters
Violet Bank is a small museum, originally a home, with a unique blend of history from a variety of eras and types; history of the Revolutionary War as the site of two battles, including Von Stueben of Valley Forge fame, and as the position of Lafayette's guns guarding the Appomattox River in Petersburg during the second. It was the site of General Robert E. Lee's headquarters during the Siege of Petersburg in 1864 during the time of the Crater explosion, and it has the second largest Cucumber Magnolia Tree in the world. A unique place to visit while is Petersburg, Virginia.
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Kingdom of Hawaii Overthrown
January 14-17, 1893 - The United States Marines, under the direction of U.S. government minister John L. Stevens, but no authority from the U.S. Congress, intervene in the affairs of the independent Kingdom of Hawaii, which culminated in the overthrow of the government of Hawaiian Queen Liliuokalani.
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Battlefield Preservation
Even in these difficult times, work continues on preserving the battlefields of the Civil War, American Revolution, and the War of 1812. The amazing work of the Battlefields Trust is currently attempting to preserve land at Gaines Mill and Cold Harbor, what some think is the most important land to be preserved at those locations. Check them out.
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