Welcome to this week’s History Thread! Today’s the anniversary of Louis XVI’s execution, so feel free to celebrate by toppling your own tyrannical monarch! Continue reading The History Thread Gets a Head

Welcome to this week’s History Thread! Today is the anniversary of everyone’s favorite irascible Yugoslavian dictator, Josip Broz Tito, becoming the President of Yugoslavia in 1953. As ever, he has no time for your bourgeois bullshit, but he is willing … Continue reading The Tito-Tastic History Thread

Welcome to the first History Thread of 2020! Since we haven’t had one of these for awhile, holidays and whatnot, you can use this week’s thread to catch up on what you accomplished in 2019 and what you’re looking forward … Continue reading The History Thread Looks Forward

Today’s Weekly History Thread commemorates the blackest mark on Ulysses Grant’s ledger: General Order No. 11. On December 17, 1862, Grant, frustrated by the exploitation of wartime cotton trade by civilian merchants, issued the following proclamation: The Jews, as a … Continue reading The Weekly History Thread

This week’s History Thread looks back at one of the odder events in English history: a series of protests and riots over a statue of a dog in Battersea. The Brown Dog of Battersea stood at the center of a … Continue reading The Brown Dog History Thread

Today’s History Thread remembers the Battle of Eureka Stockade, a seminal event in pre-independence Australia. A series of protests among the miners of Ballarat, Victoria culminated in a full-fledged rebellion against in November 1854. The protests had been triggered by … Continue reading The Eureka History Thread

Welcome to this week’s History Thread! It’s the anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s proclaiming the “first” real Thanksgiving in 1863, with scarcely a Pilgrim in sight! Discuss what you will today. Continue reading A Turkey of a History Thread

Welcome to this week’s History Thread! Thanks to Sheltie for subbing last week. It’s the anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, a short but powerful dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery, about which many myths have grown up over the … Continue reading The History Thread Will Little Note Nor Long Remember

Welcome to this week’s History Thread! Remember, remember how today is the 414th anniversary of Guy Fawkes’ arrest for his involvement in the Gunpowder Plot to destroy Parliament and restore England to a Catholic theocracy. Try to remember that before … Continue reading The Treasonous History Thread

Welcome to this week’s History Thread! Today’s picture: On October 28-29, 1922 Benito Mussolini and his fascist Blackshirts carried out their March on Rome, consolidating fascist power in Italy. The culmination of three years of political ferment, it was a … Continue reading The Weekly History Thread Marches

Welcome to this week’s History Thread! Today’s picture: On October 22, 1844, the world ended. Or so predicted William Miller, a Baptist lay priest from New York who interpreted a passage from Daniel 8:14 (“Unto two thousand and three hundred … Continue reading The History Thread is a Great Disappointment

Welcome to this week’s History Thread! Today marks the 50th anniversary of the Days of Rage protest in Chicago. While other antiwar organizers prepared for the National Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam, a radical splinter of the Students … Continue reading The History Thread is All the Rage

Welcome to the History Thread! I didn’t have time to prepare a header today, but that doesn’t mean we can’t discuss history in the thread below. Continue reading The Weekly History Thread

This week’s History Thread falls on two seminal days in American history: the signing of the Constitution in 1787, and the Battle of Antietam seventy-five years later. The former created the document which remains, with a number of amendments, the … Continue reading A History Thread, if You Can Keep It