r/AmericanHistory • • 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!

https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2014/10/30/360126710/the-place-where-rutherford-b-hayes-is-a-really-big-deal


r/AmericanHistory • • 22h ago

Latin American countries with the largest number of descendants in each European country(excluding Brazil and Argentina)

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r/AmericanHistory • • 10h 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 • • 1h 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 • • 2h ago

Can you help me find information about US newspapers and articles from 1967?

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Hello reddit! I need your help!

  1. Please tell me how newspaper journalists in the U.S. were hired in 1967 to write simple articles about nature, movies, and so on. 2. Please tell me—this is very important! Was there a person—perhaps an agent—who could come to a restaurant with someone looking for work, listen to them, and then either hire them or turn them down? 3. Could such meetings have taken place?

I need this for my story


r/AmericanHistory • • 1d 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.


r/AmericanHistory • • 10h ago

We the Hispanos - Documentary (2026)

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r/AmericanHistory • • 14h ago

The first historical meeting between a sitting US & Mexican President, William Howard Taft & Porfirio Diaz, 1909.

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r/AmericanHistory • • 11h 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 • • 22h ago

This photograph shows one of the triumphal arches erected in Cuba to welcome Captain General Valeriano Weyler y Nicolau, who was sent by the Crown to pacify the island during the Cuban War of Independence (1895–1898)

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r/AmericanHistory • • 16h ago

OTD | October 17, 1945: The Día de la lealtad commemorates the day when a large group of workers in Buenos Aires demanded the liberation of Juan Domingo Perón Toledo who was jailed on Isla San Martín.

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r/AmericanHistory • • 18h ago

'The Big Stick in the Caribbean' — An American cartoon by William Allen Rogers, 1904. It depicts Theodore Roosevelt patrolling the Caribbean Sea and surrounding land, described as Venezuela, Panama, Mexico, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic, with his "Big Stick."

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r/AmericanHistory • • 18h ago

The French Revolution and the Peruvian Reaction to the Death of Louis XVI of France

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r/AmericanHistory • • 1d ago

What if the wars/armed conflicts in South America had the opposite outcome?

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r/AmericanHistory • • 1d ago

[The Details - Companion Video to Episide 8]

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r/AmericanHistory • • 1d ago

[The Details - Companion Video to Episide 8]

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r/AmericanHistory • • 2d ago

On 7 October 1934, Brazilian antifascists disrupted a rally held by the fascist Brazilian Integralist Action at the Praça da Sé in São Paulo, killing 3 Integralists versus 1 antifascist casualty.

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The headline reads "An Integralist doesn't run: he flies".


r/AmericanHistory • • 1d ago

A large, late 18th-century silver tray from the Kingdom of Guatemala, New Spain, bearing three tax stamps topped with a crown.

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r/AmericanHistory • • 1d ago

'The Cross of May' or 'The Holy Christ of Limache' — In his "Histórica relación del Reino de Chile" (Historical Account of the Kingdom of Chile), published in Rome in 1646, the Jesuit Alonso de Ovalle includes this curious illustration.

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r/AmericanHistory • • 1d ago

"British Forces Storm Argentine Forces atop Tumbledown Mountain," Battle of Mount Tumbledown (Falklands War)

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r/AmericanHistory • • 1d ago

Why Spain Actually Arrested Christopher Columbus in 1500 (Based on Royal Archives & 23 Witness Testimonies)

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r/AmericanHistory • • 1d ago

An 18th-century oil painting depicting Don Marcos Chiguantopa, the Marquis of Oropesa—governor of Paucartambo, cacique (chief) and principal leader of Guallabamba and Colquepata, and alférez real (royal standard-bearer) of the Incas in 1739.

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r/AmericanHistory • • 2d ago

The Incas Seek Help from the United States of America

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Around 1848, the canon Don Justo Apu Sahuaraura Inca sent a letter to the future President Zachary Taylor via the American writer and traveler Samuel Greene Arnold. In this letter, the Inca requested assistance from the American president and expressed his discontent regarding the treatment he and his people had received at the hands of the Republic of Peru.

Sahuaraura had been close to Marshal Santa Cruz and had sympathized with the Confederate side years earlier, during the war of 1836–1839. Following the fall of the Confederates, the victorious faction began to take reprisals against all those who had supported that project. Sahuaraura had received word of the massacre committed by Gamarra’s troops —along with Chilean forces—against the Indian Confederates.

By that time, however, he had become completely disillusioned with republican promises; the only hope for his people—or perhaps for himself—lay in the Anglo-Saxon world.

“In a letter addressed to Zachary Taylor, President of the United States of America, the elderly Sahuaraura recalled an ancient prophecy, which foretold that the Inca Empire would be restored ‘with the help of a people from a country called England.’ Since the prophecy did not specify whether this referred to ‘Anglo-Europeans’ or ‘Anglo-Americans,’ he reasoned that the ‘Children of the Sun’ could follow ‘their own inclinations.’ Consequently, he placed himself ‘under the protection and shelter of that republic—and of yours—which, I trust, will not disdain to receive an unfortunate prince such as myself.’” (J. Flores Espinoza, 2001)

Letter from Justo Apu Sahuaraura Inca to the President of the USA in 1848:

“Gen. Z. Taylor, President of United States.”

[TRANSLATION.]

“To the most Excellent President of the United States of North America: From the Capital of the Sovereign Incas of Cuzco, the 18th of August, 1848:

“The possessor of my profoundest Respect and Veneration:

“A Peruvian prince, the seventh in descent from the Emperor Huaynacapac, the most immediate branch of the sovereign Incas, places himself under the protection and auspices of your excellency, entreating that you will have the goodness to receive his homage.

“When the Spaniards entered the Peruvian Empire, giving the name of conquest to a sanguinary devastation, they found in the principal temple of Cuzco various prophecies, and among them one that foretold the destruction of the empire, together with its rites and ceremonies; and that this was to take place in the reign of the twelfth emperor.

“When the Emperor Huaynacapac was told by his vassals in Tampis that there had appeared on the coast certain canoes like houses, the crews of which were composed of bearded men very different from themselves, he said that a tradition existed among the members of the royal family to the effect that there should come from beyond the sea an unknown people who would destroy the empire, its religion, rites, and ceremonies. This, he said furthermore, was to take place during the reign of the twelfth emperor; and, as he was the twelfth in succession, the prediction was, doubtless, about to be fulfilled, even as it is said in the prophecy, ‘Inter alia vaticinia, quae de amissione Regni loquuntur.’

“Moreover, the prediction inspired the Children of the Sun with the hope that the day would arrive in which they should be a people from a country called England; and, so that Your Excellency may be fully apprised of the entire prophecy, I transcribe it here as follows:

“Et Deum ego testor, mihi a Dn. Antonio de Berreo afirmatum, quemadmodum etiam ab alijis cognovi, quod in præcipuo ipsorum Templo inter alia vaticinia, quae de amissione Regni loquuntur, hoc enim sit, quo dicitur fore, ut Incae, sive Imperatores et Reges Peruviae, ab aliquo Populo, qui ex Regione quadam, quo [quae] Inglaterra vocetur, in Regnum suum rursus introducantur.”

Since the prophecy does not explicitly state whether they will be Anglo-Europeans or Anglo-Americans, it seems to me that the Children of the Sun should follow their own inclinations. I, like others, am convinced—and hear constantly—of the great kindness with which all those who lean toward the Great Republic of North America have been received. For these reasons, and because of my own personal preference, I place myself under the protection of the Republic and of Your Excellency—who, I trust, will not disdain to receive an unfortunate prince such as myself.

I pray that the Almighty may preserve Your Excellency’s health for as many years as America may require it, and I remain, as ever, the humble priest who kisses Your Excellency’s hands.

I am, Most Excellent Sir, Dr. Dn. Justo Sahuaraura Inca.”

References:
.- The World We Live in, Robert Turnbull (1851).
.- The Taylor Anecdote Book: Anecdotes and Letters of Zachary Taylor (2015).


r/AmericanHistory • • 3d ago

The Brazilian Integralist Action (AIB) was a fascist movement active in Brazil from 1932 to 1938, when it was repressed by the government of Getúlio Vargas after an unsuccessful coup attempt.

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Led by writer Plínio Salgado, the AIB claimed to oppose racism, but many members held antisemitic and racist views.

Integralists wore green shirts; their opponents called them "galinhas verdes" (green chickens) as a result.

After Vargas's overthrow in 1945, Plínio established the Party of Popular Representation (PRP), which was dissolved by the military dictatorship twenty years later. Despite no longer being relevant, Brazilian Integralism still has a limited following.


r/AmericanHistory • • 2d ago

Proclamation of Our Lady of Aparecida as Queen and Patroness of Brazil

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