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Dedicated to the history of the Western Hemisphere through the year 2004. We encourage friendly discourse, debates, questions, articles, discoveries, or anything else relevant to the Americas within the given time period.

Welcome, this subreddit is dedicated to the history of the Western Hemisphere (from Atlantic to Pacific) through the year 2004. We encourage friendly discourse, debates, questions, articles, discoveries, or anything else relevant to the Americas within the given time period.

Rules:

  • NO INTERNAL U.S. HISTORY! Please submit any posts relating to internal US history/politics to /r/USHistory

  • Flair your submissions.

  • Use respect at all times.

  • We have a zero tolerance policy for racism, sexism, homophobia, using "retard" as an insult and other derogatory remarks.

  • This reddit is for history of the Americas up until 2004.

  • We have a zero tolerance policy for memes, screencaps, or other "meme-like" content. Such content will be deleted.

  • Blogspam and self promotion is against the rules. It's fine if you want to link back to your website once in awhile, but if that's all you do without engaging in the community you will be banned.

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/r/AmericanEmpire

/r/PanAmerica

/r/USHistory

/r/Askhistorians

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Maps

Any idea where I can find a historic civil war map for Maryland on the Mason Dixon line?

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2024/11/10
18:34 UTC

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The Battle of 4 May was fought in open sea near Salvador, Bahia, on 4 May 1823, between the Imperial Brazilian Navy, under the command of British admiral Thomas Cochrane, and the Portuguese Navy during the Brazilian War of Independence.

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2024/11/09
15:18 UTC

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Happy National Indigenous Veterans Day! 🇨🇦

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2024/11/09
01:12 UTC

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Why weren’t Native Americans of Mississippi and American South integrated into labor system of United States, similarly to Guarani people of Paraguay, considering their similar climate, agricultural development etc?

I read both about Guarani people and their lifestyle before Spaniards and Cahokia and Mississippi culture of Deep South. Cahokia itself was a big city-complex, bigger than London. Also it was much more centralized than Guarani communities. Even though when British arrived, it was already abandoned and the nomadic influences were bigger. However, i never understood, why Native Americans weren’t integrated into labor system, like Spaniards did, especially in this case.

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2024/11/08
19:38 UTC

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the United states only official Prince consort, John owen dominis, born in new york, died in the Kingdom of Hawai'i. husband of queen liliu'okalani

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2024/11/08
04:10 UTC

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213 years ago, Salvadoran priest Dr. José M. Delgado y de León and a group of independence leaders issued the first “Cry for Independence” in San Salvador, El Salvador.

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2024/11/06
02:14 UTC

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244 years ago, Túpac Amaru II’s uprising against Spanish rule began.

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2024/11/05
04:01 UTC

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121 years ago, Panamá separated and declared independence from Colombia.

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2024/11/03
16:31 UTC

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Folklore of New England and Virginia in the 17th century.

As you could probably guess, I watched the Witch recently. Great film, very spooky. Anyway this reignited my interest in early colonial America. This time though, with folklore and myths at the forefront. Can you please share anything you know regarding this topic? Please and thank you.

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2024/11/02
23:09 UTC

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58 years ago, the Cuban Adjustment Act passed. It allowed thousands of Cubans to apply for U.S. permanent residency.

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2024/11/02
18:24 UTC

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Spanish American War veteran died in 1845?

Found this FindAGrave entry for my ancestor, who died in 1845 but appears to be marked as a vet of the Spanish American war, which was obvoisly some time later. Is this just a completely false entry, or is there some way to make sense of this? Any insight appreciated!

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2024/11/02
02:57 UTC

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Does anyone know of a group of Cuban assassins called the s team?

Supposedly the s team/s force were a group of assassins that was put together by Richard Dick Nixon, Howard Hughs, trained bye the head of the CIA, and funded bye the American mob in the 1960’s in order to kill Castro.

The s team also had the tendency of butting (HEAD)s with John F. Kennedy before he died.

UPDATE: I found more information. https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1479&context=noticen

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2024/11/01
22:40 UTC

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80 years ago, President Manuel Prado y Ugarteche of Peru established el Día de la Canción Criolla (the Day of the Criollo Song). [Video in Spanish]

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2024/11/01
04:03 UTC

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What did the Spanish do in the lands in the west of modern day USA?

I have seen many maps that claim that the modern US states of California, Arizona, Texas, Idaho, Washington, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, Oregon, Alabama and Florida were all colonised by the Spanish empire. I was curious to know what did the Spanish do in these states?

In school my class was taught that the US and Canada were colonised by the French and the British and that the Spanish and Portuguese were mostly in South America, which is why I was wondering about this.

I have heard these modern US states, except for Alabama and Florida were part of Mexico at that time and were later annexed in the 1800s.

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2024/10/31
22:04 UTC

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Mexican revolution soldadera (Female soldier) before being ship to battle in train, stares down the camera, Mexico, 1914 [850x1202]

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2024/10/31
15:47 UTC

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57 years ago, the 1967 International and Universal Exposition closed with over 50 million visitors.

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2024/10/30
01:52 UTC

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Pre-America: Huron/Iroquois Feud Origins?

Hello, Does anyone here know how the Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) and Huron (Wendat) became such fiercely violent enemies? Was this primarily a colonial/trade thing, or was there preexisting vitriol. Specifically, the abductions and kidnappings in the 1600s — were those because of the French/English allegiances and trade competition, or was it like that before colonists and European traders? Any help would be great! Thanks!

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2024/10/29
04:20 UTC

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