Morning Ed: History {2016.07.17.Su}
From Tod Kelly: Apparently, women were initially included in the Civil Rights Act as a strategy to sink the Civil Rights Act.
In 1948, George H Bush moved to Texas and received an education.
Oh, man, the legacy of Tuskegee.
The story of The Unknown Man who was found at Somerton Beach (CA) on December 1, 1948.
A look at the life of dinosaurs.
History Today has an interesting article on the last battle in Europe (for now), the forgotten Battle of Texel.
Christopher Dickey writes about the complicated relationship between Britain and the American Civil War.
These historical maps are really cool.
The “Tuskegee” link goes to a story about the importance of gay bars to the gay community. Is that intentional?Report
Ugh, it is not. I will tack down the link and correct when I’m next at a computer.
UPDATE: FixedReport
Thanks for fixing it. That’s awful.Report
Last battle of Dubya Dubya Two in Europe. One of the Clintons fought an entire war in Europe.Report
That war started in 1991 or 1992, so it’s not possible for any Clinton to have fought all of it.Report
The Yugoslav Breakup wars (original flavor) started in 1991 with the secession of Slovenia, and lasted through 1995 and the Dayton Accords.
The Kosovo War was all within Clinton the First’s presidency: 1998-99,
After, that you still have the Presevo Valley Insurgency (1999-2001) and the 2001 Albanian-Macedonian insurgency (the latter, for once, not involving Serbia)
The very forgotten War in Ukraine is still going, so I guess whatever was the last battle there is the last battle in European soil. It’s a feather in NPR’s cap that it is the only mainline news source I see that remembers that there is a war going in there, once in a blue moon.Report
Dead cops in Baton Rouge and I am so full of rage and emptiness. We have kinfolk within blocks of the barricades. Anger, anger everywhere and not a brain in sight. I am starting to think that this year might end up being worse than 68. I will now quit ranting and spend time hoping for the best.Report
There seem to be almost no facts available; at least one witness reports that the shooting started before the police arrived. But of course it’s being reported as a cop-killing like the one in Dallas.Report
What do you “of course?”Report
The media being the lazy, irresponsible, sensationalist waste of space that it is.Report
“I believe no one can read the history of our country without realizing that the Good Book and the spirit of the Savior have from the beginning been our guiding geniuses,” she said.Report
RE: Civil Rights Act. What’s also fun is to look at the history of Prohibition and realize that A: women’s suffrage was supported by Prohibitionists because the women who wanted to vote made it absolutely clear that they wanted to vote to make alcohol illegal, and B: the biggest organised political group to support suffrage was the KKK, because they thought that strong drink encouraged black people to become violent.
So, by modern reasoning, if you think that women’s suffrage was a good thing, then you also support the War On Drugs and the KKK.Report
Strange bedfellows…Report