Robert E. Lee named commander of Virginia Confederate forces Damnatio Memoriae for the 21st Century?
Category: Historical Study
Know Your White History: The Truth about the Boer War
Conscience and Courage Changes Man and History CHURCHILL AND THE BOER WAR: “There is only a means, the resistance of the Boers to break; namely the toughest oppression. In other words, we need to kill the parents, so that the children have respect for us.” ~ Winston Churchill, Journalist, Morning Post. {NOTE: Boer concentration…
Texas News: Happy Belated San Jacinto Day!
Happy San Jacinto Day, 2024: Texas Celebrates 188 Years Of Not Being Ruled By Mexico Being a Sunday I missed one of Texas’ Red Letter Dates, so I humbly apologize to my Texas ancestors (namely Sam Houston and Stephen F. Austin!) Please join me in Celebrating the Sovereign Republic of Texas! Our History is…
Know Your White Texas History: William Barret Travis
Two years before the fateful Battle of the Alamo, the storm clouds—and leaders—of a revolution gathered across Texas. Things looked up for William Barret Travis in the early months of 1834. The 24-year-old attorney had just set up his law practice in the town of San Felipe in the Mexican state of Coahuila…
Red Letter Dates in History
March 19th, 1775 American Revolution begins in Lexington, Massachusetts, with the “Shot Heard Round the World” fired later that day in Concord. March 19th, 1995 Timothy McVeigh sets a truck bomb at Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Okahoma City, killing 168. including 19 children, and injuring 500.
AK Corner: AK’s from Finland
AKs from Finland. Part 1: Development History The small European country of Finland always had a great reputation when it comes to arms production. For collectors, Finnish-made Mosin-Nagants are some of the most desirable Mosin rifles, but there is another rifle design that the Finnish took to a whole other level. It is called RK…
On This Day in History 1865: Lincoln is Shot & The South is Avenged
The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War Defending Dixie’s Land: What Every American Should Know About The South And The Civil War
On This Day in History, 1861
Battle of Fort Sumter The first battle of the war took place at Fort Sumter near Charleston, South Carolina, which had been the first state to seceded the union. After a long period of shortages in the fort due to a Confederate blockade, the first crisis of Lincoln’s administration was to resupply the fort….
History Shows Us the Way
H/T Wynn Armor of Emperor Ferdinand I 1503-1564, Nuremberg, 1549.
Know You Real WW2 History: Hitler the Artist
A Great Artist whose Name you Dare not Speak Long before his party’s election in January 1933, Adolf Hitler earned a living by using his artistic skills to produce paintings that sold to the public or were used as illustrations for postcards. The future German statesman was a gifted student of the fine arts…