/r/AmericanHistory
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.
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NO INTERNAL U.S. HISTORY! Please submit any posts relating to internal US history/politics to /r/USHistory
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'Trapped in Time' by Mark Hallett, 1988, depicting the La Brea area of Los Angeles during the Pleistocene.
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The British invasions of the River Plate were two unsuccessful British attempts to seize control of the Spanish colony of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata, located around the Río de la Plata in South America – in present-day Argentina and Uruguay. The invasions took place between 1806 and 1807
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"El regreso" of Augusto Ferrer-Dalmau. During the war of independence of the United States(1775-1783), the spanish-french fleet of admiral Luis de Córdoba comes back from the capture of the double english convoy of 55 ships which were directed towards America and India.
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book recommendations
I have read empire of the summer moon am working on geronimo as well as last stand and my confessions as well as two of the prominent books about the comanche but am yearning for even more books as well as hopefully going to major in history and anthropology in college and want to find every book i can find especially those that are told from native points of views and less of the white point of view. @
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1/7th Gurkha Rifles advancing on Mount William. Falkland Islands. 13-14th June 1982. Oil on canvas by Michael Alford.
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