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America has always called it redemption:
Men wept for Lee but left the freedmen to starve.
They built statues to defeat but none to repair.
They praised the Union, then walked away from Reconstructionâas if justice had already spoken.
We are a nation that learns through fireâand then forgets the flame.
Not all pain is redemptive. Not all suffering is equal.
#history
Image: Flooding, Kerrville, TX, July 4, 2025. Eric Vryn/ Getty.
Image: Detention Camp, Everglades, FL. AP/R. Blackwell.
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#OnThisDay, 11 Jun 1987, Diane Abbott is elected to the British Parliament. She is the first Black woman to become an MP.
Abbott has held shadow cabinet posts in the Labour party, and is the longest serving Black MP. She currently holds the title "Mother of the House", given to the female MP with the longest uninterrupted service in the House of Commons.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory #Histodons
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I am proud to present you with an interview with an incredible @adapalmer straight from this year #Bazyliszek convention, now available as a #solarpunkPrompts special!
#solarpunk #history #scienceFiction #rome #climate #purity #writing #imagination #hopepunk #apocalypse
New today: Itâs a different camp, different year, different creek, but the same story. This storyâthe one where the Hill Country experiences devastating and unexpected flash #floods following an intense period of extended droughtâis a familiar one for those of us who grew up in the area. https://www.texasobserver.org/hill-country-flood-family-home-fourth-of-july-2002/
#Kerrville #KerrCounty #Texas #CentralTexas #flooding #history #environment #weather #politics #USpol #news #ClimateChange
#OnThisDay, 12 Jun 1948, the Womens Armed Services Integration Act is signed by US President Truman, allowing women to serve in the military outside wartime.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory
And one by one the lights came on, a reminder -- for those who needed it -- that night was approaching, and with it, the end of the day and all its busyness.
It was a time to be calm, and silent, and rested, because the life of a human being is not meant to be spent in constant, relentless activity.
Lights of Matera canvas print -- https://2-steve-henderson.pixels.com/featured/lights-of-matera-steve-henderson.html?product=canvas-print
#art #artwork #mastoart #fediart #buyintoart #italy #europe #travel #sunset #night #city #history #matera #light #ayearforart #artist
47 years ago
Wonderful young ladies at the beginning of their careers đšđ
Kate Pierson & Cindy Wilson on the night of the first B-52â˛s gig at CBGB, June 1978
Photo by Bobby Grossman
#punk #punkrock #newwave #womenofpunk #theb52s #cbgb #history #punkrockhistory #otd
#art #history: i honestly don't think that even a surrealist master of jean cocteau's calibre could've conceived of the weirdness that is our current reality.
i tip my pen to him, nonetheless, to honour his birth on 5 july, 1889.
#surrealism #illustration #jeanCocteau #artist #film #poet #cinema #polymath
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#art #history: harry 80th, debbie, you beautiful juggernaut of talent, originality & humanity.
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#debbieHarry #music #musique #illustration #newJersey #nyc
It's been a while since I first introduced myself here, so thought I'd post an up to date #Introduction.
48 year old with he/him pronouns living in #Manchester in #England. Proud father of two great kids.
A bit of a #Science geek, concerned about #ClimateChange.
Hates fascism and bigotry, and frequently screams into the void exasperated about the global lurch to the right, #NewsTooter
Keen #Cyclist. Enjoys watching #Cricket. Interested in #History.
Feel free to say hello!
#OnThisDay, 14 Jun 1939, Ethel Waters stars in The Ethel Waters Show on NBC, becoming the first black person to have their own show on US TV.
Photo is from her radio show.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BlackHistory #Histodons
How Did Van Gogh Influence Matisse?
The Van Gogh Museum has just acquired its first work by Matisse that reveals the Post-Impressionist's huge influence on Modern art.
by Jo Lawson-Tancred
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/how-did-van-gogh-influence-matisse-2654811
Van Gogh and Matisse at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/40393
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=matisse
"The air is the only place free of prejudices."
#OnThisDay, 15 Jun 1921, Bessie Coleman gained her pilot's license, becoming the first civilian African-American pilot in the world. And the first of Native American descent.
Read more about her in our NEW blogpost! https://carvehername.org.uk/bessie-coleman-and-other-early-american-aviators/
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BlackHistory #AviationHistory #Histodons
#OnThisDay, 16 June 1963, Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space, orbiting Earth 48 times in Vostok 6.
She is currently a member of the Russian State Duma (lower house), and supporter of Putin.
#WomenInSpace #SpaceHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons
Politics is a game that hides power. It purports to have "sides" -- A or B, red or blue, good or bad -- so that parasites wield control while followers on each side snipe at one another.
But if we must discuss sides, it should focus on the ridiculously, appallingly rich who grasp, wield, and use power and . . . the rest of us.
We Just Wanted to Be Free canvas print -- https://2-steve-henderson.pixels.com/featured/we-just-wanted-to-be-free-steve-henderson.html?product=canvas-print
#politics #news #USA #history #power #art #artwork #mastoart #fediart #buyintoart #ayearforart
Now online: âThe Tree that Never Grew: A Literary Journey Through Glasgowâs Historyâ â Annika Sinnerâs talk for Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainzâs READING SCOTLAND series, given on 27 May 2025
Alice Austenâs body of work is considered among the earliest and most prolific by a female photographer.
Now recognized for her significant contributions to the canon of American photography and her heretofore ignored yet influential role in LGBTQ+ history, the pioneering photographer's archive returns to her ancestral home in New York.
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/06/alice-austen-photographs-repatriated/
"You have trampled under foot every vital principle of our government. My natural rights, my civil rights, my political rights, my judicial rights, are all alike ignored."
#OnThisDay, 17 Jun 1873, Susan B Anthony is tried for illegally voting in the 1872 US Presidential election.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #VotesForWomen #AmericanHistory #Histodons
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#NationalPark gift shops directed to remove items that âdisparage Americansâ
#Trump officials have directed staff at #NationalParks to review all items in gift shops for *anti-American* content, according to an internal directive reviewed by The Washington Post. The move is part of the administrationâs wider campaign to scrub federal institutions of âcorrosive ideologyâ recognizing historical #racism & #sexism.
#revisionism #whitewashing #history #AmericanHistory
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/07/12/national-parks-shops-products-review/
Filles du roi: the Founding Mothers of New France
Sent by Louis XIV, the filles du roi were sent to North America to birth new generations of colonists and help conquer the land.
On September 22, 1663, thirty-six young women arrived in a French colony on the shores of the St. Lawrence River in a region that we now call eastern Canada.
By: Ann Foster
https://daily.jstor.org/filles-du-roi-the-founding-mothers-of-new-france/
Books about New France at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/1225
Weâre gearing up for an exciting weekend! These superb dancers from the fresco from the villa of Cicero in Pompeii capture our #FrescoFriday mood perfectly đĽł
Daily Life in the Medieval Home
https://www.medievalists.net/2025/05/daily-life-medieval-home/
Books about Medieval Civilization at PG:
Happy New Year, my friends
I wish you, your family and friends a great 2025, stay healthy and take care of yourselves đ
#punk #punks #punkrock #staypunk #punkeveryday #punk4life #history #punkrockhistory
The Teen Idles âď¸ I Drink Milk (1981)
Ian with hair is sensationelđ
#punk #punks #punkrock #hardcorepunk #hardcore #teenidles #history #punkrockhistory