r/AmericanHistory • u/Dazzling-Resolve7249 • 1h ago
Deadliest battle in each country of the America (Excluding Colonial Battles)
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r/AmericanHistory • u/Aboveground_Plush • Feb 21 '20
Please submit all strictly U.S. history posts to r/USHistory
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For the second time within a year I am stressing that while this subreddit is called "American history" IT DOES NOT DEAL SOLELY WITH THE UNITED STATES as there is the already larger /r/USHistory for that. Therefore, any submission that deals ONLY OR INTERNALLY with the United States of America will be REMOVED.
This means the US presidential election of 1876 belongs in r/USHistory whereas the admiration of Rutherford B. Hayes in Paraguay, see below, is welcomed here -- including pre-Columbian America, colonial America and US expansion throughout the Western Hemisphere and Pacific. Please, please do not downvote meaningful contributions because they don't fit your perception of the word "American," thank you.
And, if you've read this far, please flair your posts!
r/AmericanHistory • u/GustavoistSoldier • 13h ago
Alfredo Stroessner (1912–2006) was the dictator of Paraguay from 1954 until 1989, when he was overthrown in a military coup.
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The second longest-serving Latin American leader of the 20th century (behind Fidel Castro), Stroessner was a Nazi sympathizer who sheltered many former Nazis, such as Josef Mengele, and once had one of his political opponents dismembered alive with a chainsaw. He was also a pedophile.
After his overthrow, Stroessner went into exile in Brazil, where he died in 2006.
r/AmericanHistory • u/_EmperorOfTheTrench_ • 2h ago
Are there any substantial known attempts for any Native American tribes to sail east?
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If there were attempts or ambition to do so, how far off were they from being able to reach Europe
r/AmericanHistory • u/elnovorealista2000 • 4h ago
On October 20, 1548, the "Ciudad de Nuestra Señora de La Paz" was founded in the province of Charcas, within the Kingdom of Peru, by Captain Don Alonso de Mendoza, acting under the orders of the President of the Royal Audiencia and Chancery of Lima, Pedro de la Gasca—known as "the Pacifier"!
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r/AmericanHistory • u/realstours2011 • 9h ago
Women who made history: statues at the U.S. Capitol
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r/AmericanHistory • u/Dazzling-Resolve7249 • 1d ago
Presence of Asian Groups in the American Continent (including Ancestry)
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r/AmericanHistory • u/GustavoistSoldier • 1d ago
From 1817 to 1828, Uruguay was a part of the Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves and then of the Empire of Brazil as the Província Cisplatina.
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In 1825, the Cisplatine War broke out, pitching Argentina and Uruguayan rebels against Brazil. Uruguay eventually became independent in 1828.
Brazil invaded Uruguay again in 1864 and considered invading it three more times – in 1830, in 1961, and in 1971 – but none of these plans were carried out.
r/AmericanHistory • u/Many_Honey4977 • 20h ago
FRONT PAGE CHALLENGE 1963 - Host Fred Davis, Pierre Berton - civil right...
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r/AmericanHistory • u/lllllllllllllllllI_I • 1d ago
Top 3 most venerated figures in Mexico
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Top 3 most venerated figures in Mexico
La Virgen de Guadalupe - Appearing to Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin at Tepeyac, people pray to her for maternal protection, comfort, guidance, miracles, and help.
La Santa Muerte - Venerated for protection, love, money, justice, miracles, and help in difficult situations.
San Judas Tadeo - Known as the patron saint of loss causes, helps in difficult problems, situations that seem impossible, work, strength, financial help, financial abundance, and luck. 🍀
r/AmericanHistory • u/elnovorealista2000 • 1d ago
A comparative chart on the population of Hispaniola, the Caribbean island divided between Saint-Domingue and Santo Domingo at the end of the 18th century.
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r/AmericanHistory • u/Noscarface • 1d ago
Stolen Land, Broken Promises: Haitian Property Confiscations in the Dominican Republic
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r/AmericanHistory • u/GustavoistSoldier • 2d ago
Edson Néris da Silva (1964–2000) was a gay Brazilian man who was murdered by the white power skinhead group Carecas do ABC on 6 February 2000.
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"Skinheads' beat and kill in São Paulo
A dog trainer attacked in gay enclave.
SÃO PAULO. A group of 30 skinheads (young people with shaved heads who sympathize with neo-Nazism and preach hatred towards homosexuals, blacks, Jews, and immigrants) beat dog trainer Edson Neris da Silva, 35, to death in the early hours of yesterday morning. The crime occurred around 1 a.m. in Praça da República, in the center of São Paulo and a known area for male prostitution. Police arrested 18 members of a group identified as Carecas do ABC."
r/AmericanHistory • u/TheHouseOfHPReed • 2d ago
Florida's history seems especially suited to Southern Gothic fiction
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r/AmericanHistory • u/Ill_Hand_3315 • 2d ago
Intentions of the founding fathers
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From my understanding the founding fathers were revolutionaries and created a system that was meant to be rewritten every so often. On the other hand they also created a system that is slow to change, with multiple layers of redundancy. Which seems more like an Edmund Burke conservative value which I thought was the opposite of a revolutionary.
My question: If the FF were revolutionaries and understood the need for revolution, why make the system so hard to change. Why not just make it easier to change instead of expecting a bloody revolution?
r/AmericanHistory • u/Competitive-Fun-2892 • 3d ago
Americans Paid With Spanish Money Until 1857 — So Where Was the U.S. Dollar?
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r/AmericanHistory • u/GustavoistSoldier • 3d ago
Porfirio Rubirosa (1909–1965) was a Dominican diplomat and playboy who served under the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo and was known for his womanizing and jet set lifestyle.
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Rubirosa was married five times, including to some of the richest women in the world, but never had any children. He also had affairs with many famous women, including actress Zsa Zsa Gabor.
In 1965, Rubirosa died when his Ferrari crashed into a tree.
r/AmericanHistory • u/HowDoIUseThisThing- • 3d ago
OTD | October 18, 1945: Venezuelan President Isaías Medina Angarita is overthrown in a coup d'état. The coup led to a three-year period of government known as El Trienio Adeco, which saw the first participant presidential elections in Venezuelan history.
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r/AmericanHistory • u/elnovorealista2000 • 3d ago
“Manuel da Nóbrega and His Companions Rescuing the Body of an Indian man Killed During an Anthropophagic Ritual,” painting by Manuel Joaquim de Melo Corte Real, 1843. Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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r/AmericanHistory • u/elnovorealista2000 • 3d ago
Map of the Argentine Republic from 1887, reissued in 1888—from the "Atlas Geográfico de la República Argentina" by Mariano Felipe Paz Soldán—held at the Felix Lajouane bookstore in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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r/AmericanHistory • u/Dazzling-Resolve7249 • 4d ago
Latin American countries with the largest number of descendants in each European country(excluding Brazil and Argentina)
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r/AmericanHistory • u/elnovorealista2000 • 3d ago
Some of the first scientifically conducted archaeological excavations in history were those at Herculaneum, Pompeii, and Palenque—the latter located in Chiapas (within the Kingdom of Guatemala, New Spain)—all of which were sponsored by King Charles III of Spain.
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r/AmericanHistory • u/elnovorealista2000 • 4d ago
'The Big Stick in the Caribbean Sea' — A 1904 political cartoon by William Allen Rogers for the American magazine Harper's Weekly, in which Theodore Roosevelt is shown patrolling the Caribbean Sea and the surrounding lands—identified as Venezuela, Panama, Mexico, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic.
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r/AmericanHistory • u/GustavoistSoldier • 4d ago
Juan Carlos Onganía (1914–1995) was the dictator of Argentina from 1966 to 1970.
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His military junta was known as the "Argentine Revolution", and its goal was to establish a permanent dictatorship opposed to both liberalism and communism and giving the Argentine Armed Forces a key role in the economic and political management of Argentina.
Onganía revoked university autonomy, and his policies caused a brain drain that affects Argentine academia to this day.
In 1970, Onganía was overthrown in a military coup led by Alejandro Lanusse. He died in 1995.