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itt list things that were overrated/underrated from US history class in hs
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Date: April 22nd, 2026 1:40 PM Author: Cletus Van Damme other than ww2 obviously
overrated: watergate underrated: iran contra overrated: great depression |
Date: April 22nd, 2026 1:43 PM Author: niggerstomper59 (β π) overrated: everything connected to the cult of FDR (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859430&forum_id=2...id#49834372) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2026 1:48 PM Author: .;:..;:.;.:.;.,,,..,.:,.;....;,;;;..;,..,,.,,...., Cr. We were taught in HS to revere this faggot (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859430&forum_id=2...id#49834378) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2026 2:05 PM Author: niggerstomper59 (β π) in retrospect it was pretty close to brainwashing (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859430&forum_id=2...id#49834414) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2026 7:40 PM Author: goys_of_summer (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859430&forum_id=2...id#49835471) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2026 7:41 PM Author: goys_of_summer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainwashed_(George_Harrison_album) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859430&forum_id=2...id#49835473) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 12:25 PM Author: sealclubber "on the other hand" a phrase never heard when the teacher was gushing about that faggot (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859430&forum_id=2...id#49836979) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2026 1:48 PM Author: Guy Debord Watergate is the most overrated news story of the 20th century -- of course boomers LOVE Watergate. Great Depression is correctly rated. Indirectly led to the welfare state, Hitler, etc. |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 11:13 AM Author: goys_of_summer (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859430&forum_id=2...id#49836792) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 11:54 AM Author: Richard Ames In regard to Watergate, I highly recommend the book Silent Coup. Though it's guess of who Deepthroat was wrong (real life Deepthroat is actually much more insane when you think about it), it is extremely telling as to what was going on and why Nixon's guys would even bother with the wiretapping to begin with. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859430&forum_id=2...id#49836896) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2026 1:49 PM Author: H-Value Was the Great Depression really overrated? My grandparents who lived through that made it out to be very much a Big Deal. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859430&forum_id=2...id#49834380) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2026 4:24 PM Author: fear of a faggot planet (π§) yeah but we have to deal with workshrews now our lives are so hard!! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859430&forum_id=2...id#49834822) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2026 5:24 PM Author: Cletus Van Damme it always struck me as "stock market go down send shockwaves through us economy man with coal dust on his face sad" bullshit (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859430&forum_id=2...id#49835015) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2026 6:02 PM Author: fear of a faggot planet (π§) gas all "knowledge workers" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859430&forum_id=2...id#49835195) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2026 6:07 PM Author: Cletus Van Damme cr (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859430&forum_id=2...id#49835213) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2026 1:54 PM Author: Junko Enoshima Overrated: the Declaration of Independence: the British Empire peacefully banned slavery 30 years before the US killed a million Americans to do it, and the Brits didn't even need any highfalutin rhetoric about self-evident truths to do it.
Underrated: The Industrial Revolution and its reception in the United States. |
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Date: April 22nd, 2026 7:24 PM Author: ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,.,,,,,.,,,,,,,;,,,,,,,,,,,,,,; (Uncle Ted) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859430&forum_id=2...id#49835424) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2026 7:36 PM Author: oomox (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859430&forum_id=2...id#49835456) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 11:42 AM Author: Taylor Swift is not a hobby she is a lifestyle (πΊπΈ π΅π±) put some respect on it the next time your jew mouth utters his name (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859430&forum_id=2...id#49836863) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2026 4:15 PM Author: Metal Up Your Ass Overrated: teacher playing guitar Underrated: Kate's turquoise panties |
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Date: April 22nd, 2026 5:21 PM Author: goys_of_summer (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859430&forum_id=2...id#49835002) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2026 4:19 PM Author: cowgod The class itself was questionable, I already knew everything bc I’m a Loser. Wish they made me do Scumbag car mods in auto shop or something I didn’t already know. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859430&forum_id=2...id#49834813) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2026 4:26 PM Author: Big Clique Energy There should have been intra-high school Loser-Scumbag exchange classes. Scumbags probably needed to learn more about Antietam and Appomattox whilst Losers needed to learn how to replace an air filter and change a tire. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859430&forum_id=2...id#49834827) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2026 5:22 PM Author: goys_of_summer LOL’d irl, ty (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859430&forum_id=2...id#49835005) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2026 5:34 PM Author: cowgod I like making the throttle go when I have the hood up. You have to know where to press. π (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859430&forum_id=2...id#49835070) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2026 4:24 PM Author: Big Clique Energy Early to Mid 19th century was underrated. The new weird religious movements, everyone digging canals just to abandon them after the railroads, golden age of steamboats, etc. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859430&forum_id=2...id#49834821) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2026 5:55 PM Author: goys_of_summer (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859430&forum_id=2...id#49835160) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2026 5:55 PM Author: goys_of_summer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Jackson_Downing (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859430&forum_id=2...id#49835162) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2026 6:32 PM Author: Big Clique Energy (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859430&forum_id=2...id#49835257) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2026 6:49 PM Author: goys_of_summer (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859430&forum_id=2...id#49835290) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2026 7:14 PM Author: Charles Tyrwhitt Dad Ran here to post this. The early American Republic up to Civil War is the most interesting part of American history. The molding of the national character. The tensions between the intellectual reasoning for the new Republic and the populist enaction. It's fascinating to see how it impacted and shaped national consciousnesses and beliefs. We still live with it today.
After the Civil War it became all about making money, then spending money. |
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Date: April 22nd, 2026 7:17 PM Author: goys_of_summer (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859430&forum_id=2...id#49835402) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 12:33 PM Author: Big Clique Energy I would argue the Mexican War was the beginning of the end. All that new land and here come the imperialists, speculators, profiteers, etc. Not that that didn’t occur before but it was more incremental. Also now they couldn’t kick the can on North/South tensions since they kind of had to pick one side’s way to conquer the West. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859430&forum_id=2...id#49837000) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2026 5:35 PM Author: ,.,..,.,..,.,.,.,..,.,.,,..,..,.,,..,.,,. history education in the US is generally extremely bad and the kids remember almost nothing, so in some sense, it's all underrated. but objectively 'overrated' content would be regime narratives which calcified into 'history' for political purposes. something like 'the underground railroad' didn't really exist as advertised. it's a function of regime narratives from the WWII era designed to suppress racial unrest in the US.
one category which is absent from a lot of US history teaching is the indian wars. not 'custer's last stand,' which has also become a regime narrative over time. but the actual battles and campaigns which defined the borders over time. even battles the US lost, like st. clair's defeat.
i suspect this is because it 'frames' US-native relations in the 'wrong' sort of schema, as one of mutual combat, rather than one of unilateral victimization.
demographic shifts in american cities in the 1960's are hugely important to the modern nation (whites fleeing crime and supercharging the suburbs, etc.), but stuff like that is way too politically-charged for the system to touch. |
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Date: April 22nd, 2026 5:56 PM Author: goys_of_summer (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859430&forum_id=2...id#49835167) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 11:48 AM Author: Taylor Swift is not a hobby she is a lifestyle (πΊπΈ π΅π±) I don't remember ever learning about the battle of the wabash in history class, but holy fuck we got absolutely wrecked. President George sent some of his best men to deal with the savages (which King George equipped with muskets & rifles), but nearly all of them got got. Everyone in the fort was scalped. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859430&forum_id=2...id#49836874) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 12:13 PM Author: Nyolent Vigor Massively cr on the "underground railroad". I remember it being taught in elementary school. It was introduced at such a young age that I remember thinking it was a literal underground railroad. That sounded cool as fuck.
In retrospect it's really fucking shitlibby to be teaching it to ~8 year olds |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 12:44 PM Author: Richard Ames It is totally insane. Are you familiar with The Alternative Hypothesis on YouTube? Guy's real name is Ryan Faulk, prolific data-driven right wing guy who stopped making content.
But he had a video a while back showing that the stuff you tell kids at this age basically fully brainwashes most of them for life. He gave some example where kids were told about the Northwest Tree Octopus. An Octopus that lives in trees in the northwest part of the country. All of the kids just fully believed it. Obviously it's BS, but they just took it in completely.
So now you just think about how kids are told about slaves being constantly beaten and whipped, how they're escaping via an "underground railroad," and they're constantly being raped. And then these kids grow up and see movies like "Lincoln" (fucking unbelievably bad garbage) and endless movies and TV shows about racism and they just believe it and then increasingly lose their minds when nothing changes in the condition of black people despite no real visible racism. Big problems!! |
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Date: April 22nd, 2026 5:57 PM Author: The Soo CR SPRING BREAK JUGGERNAUT It's absolutely criminal how little time is spent on WW1 in US middle school/HS history. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859430&forum_id=2...id#49835170) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2026 6:03 PM Author: goys_of_summer (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859430&forum_id=2...id#49835196) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2026 6:10 PM Author: Cletus Van Damme this is true i got more of an education on ww1 from the kirk douglas episode of tales from the crypt than i did from hs. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859430&forum_id=2...id#49835220) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2026 6:49 PM Author: goys_of_summer (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859430&forum_id=2...id#49835289) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2026 6:09 PM Author: ( `-`) underrated: who really built the pyramids overrated: fur trade in early americas |
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Date: April 22nd, 2026 6:50 PM Author: goys_of_summer (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859430&forum_id=2...id#49835291) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 12:28 PM Author: sealclubber (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859430&forum_id=2...id#49836990) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2026 7:21 PM Author: fear of a faggot planet (π§) the fact that we just said "oops lets redo the government lol" after the articles of confederation is really glossed over. the country could've easily completely collapsed at that point (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859430&forum_id=2...id#49835417) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2026 7:40 PM Author: goys_of_summer (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859430&forum_id=2...id#49835469) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 11:15 AM Author: taxcattle goyserf (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859430&forum_id=2...id#49836794) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2026 7:31 PM Author: Ass Sunstein Overrated: Civil Rights
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Date: April 22nd, 2026 7:33 PM Author: ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,.,,,,,.,,,,,,,;,,,,,,,,,,,,,,; the bigger issue is it's misrepresented (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859430&forum_id=2...id#49835450) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2026 7:40 PM Author: goys_of_summer (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859430&forum_id=2...id#49835470) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 11:49 AM Author: Taylor Swift is not a hobby she is a lifestyle (πΊπΈ π΅π±) Griswold v. Connecticut was a disaster for the human race (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859430&forum_id=2...id#49836878) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 11:15 AM Author: taxcattle goyserf The Battle of Bunker Hill was actually fought on Breed's Hill. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859430&forum_id=2...id#49836799) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 11:21 AM Author: the red rooster my HS spent way too much time on medieval/renaissance era euro shit for world history and too much on colonial/revolution/civil war era rote memorization stuff for American. 20th century US history wasn't even a required class and our math dept required you to take multiple math classes if you wanted to take AP level stuff, so you had to pick a lane.
college/grad programs should have history 100% be a larger component in a perfect world, though it would likely just wind up being lib garbage. |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 11:25 AM Author: Guy Debord Unpopular opinion, but I think rote memorization is the way to go with high schoolers. Get the skeleton of what happened first before you explore why it happened, why it is important, etc. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859430&forum_id=2...id#49836823) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 12:29 PM Author: the red rooster probably true especially then but it seems like a less valuable skillset to have these days (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859430&forum_id=2...id#49836995) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 12:47 PM Author: Nyolent Vigor You're not wrong about rote memorization but at the same time I think there's too much jerking off about individual war battles (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859430&forum_id=2...id#49837039) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 11:57 AM Author: Taylor Swift is not a hobby she is a lifestyle (πΊπΈ π΅π±) You had to fight for course placement back then. They wanted to fuck my math trajectory over because I got a C in 8th grade math (my teacher was a CUNT), and I was like nah so I took calculus at a community college in 11th grade so I could get into AP calc in 12th grade. Got a 5 on that exam as well as AP physics and coasted my first year or two in college. Now, I have more math education than many who have PhDs in the subject (if you count statistics as math, which I do)
Even worse was my AP music theory teacher & band teacher--an absolute nightmare of a woman who wouldn't let me take AP music theory "2" (for some reason, she wanted AP music theory to have a second part for a full year). I was furious, my guidance counselor even called her a bitch, etc. I wound up getting a 5 on the AP exam anyway.
The "pick a lane and stay in it" approach didn't work for me when I was in my teens and it sure as fuck doesn't work for me now. |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 11:23 AM Author: Penis Six Nine Small classy As on the girl sitting next to me - underrated (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859430&forum_id=2...id#49836816) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 11:38 AM Author: ataraxic everything except post-fdr america is basically treated as fairy tale. but at least some of the political minutia of 19th century america is actually covered even if only under the pall of howard zinn's resentments, if not simply without any serious attempt to make sense of it.
everything before rome and between rome and the "enlightenment" is basically treated as lotr with fake characters and storylines. in a normie educational setting dominated by women the specter of serious civilizational turmoil and decline, or alien peoples existing under radically different ideas and moral systems, really cannot be dealt with seriously as a tangible matter experienced by real people. |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 11:42 AM Author: Guy Debord This is exactly right, which is why history in high school should focus on boring shit like dates and great men, etc. Memorization. The more high school teachers try to analyze history as "serious" historians the worse off the student will be because, inevitably, these teachers are birdbrains and football coaches. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859430&forum_id=2...id#49836864) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 12:15 PM Author: ataraxic this "dilemma" would ideally be addressed by getting more serious about elite education from the start and being unapologetic about creating separate educational spaces for kids of genuine intellectual potential, which hopefully the homeschool movement is achieving. all the nation's superfluous biomass can get the lotr version as long as intelligent kids have access to something better.
but this is of course a nonstarter in 2026, a kid just has to get lucky enough to be born into a family that's aware and motivated enough to offer different avenues of intellectual enrichment from the home, or to be curious enough to pursue it on his own, which at least the internet still makes possible for the sufficiently precocious kid. |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 11:41 AM Author: Taylor Swift is not a hobby she is a lifestyle (πΊπΈ π΅π±) My high school history class was taught by a colonel in the Army National Guard. He would wheel in the TV from the resource room and we'd watch The History Channel at least three times per week for the entire class period. That was back when The History Channel only played Hitler documentaries.
Come to think of it, we really didn't learn anything in history class besides the plight of the 6 million. |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 12:23 PM Author: Creepy Chan Nationalism (πΎπ£) he was one good goy (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859430&forum_id=2...id#49836973) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 12:28 PM Author: goys_of_summer (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859430&forum_id=2...id#49836992) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 11:46 AM Author: Brussels Sprout: Brussels,Helsinki,Stockholm,Kyiv underrated: how the Yankees beat the Johnny Rebs in the Civil War is in many ways incomprehensible-- it's like Bowdoin College vs Alabama Crimson Tide in the national championship game or Oberlin College vs University of Texas in the Cotton Bowl (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859430&forum_id=2...id#49836871) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 12:20 PM Author: Guy Debord ? It is totally comprehensible. It is like Oberlin vs. Texas (probably more like Harvard vs. Texas, but whatever). The North had more people, an industrial base, and no fifth column. The surprise is actually how well the South did given its disadvantage. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859430&forum_id=2...id#49836952) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 12:21 PM Author: Brussels Sprout: Brussels,Helsinki,Stockholm,Kyiv a Southern man was born and bred to fight and dominate-- in the battle of Antietam, the Union fought hand to hand combat against the most experienced and ferocious warriors from the state of Texas, in Gettysburg a college professor from Maine charged an onslaught of Alabama regulars (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859430&forum_id=2...id#49836961) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 12:23 PM Author: Creepy Chan Nationalism (πΎπ£) Pony Express was incredibly short lived and you could argue overrated in the 90's but in this era it's underrated again (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859430&forum_id=2...id#49836969) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 12:26 PM Author: goys_of_summer (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859430&forum_id=2...id#49836985) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 12:30 PM Author: unseen phenotypes (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859430&forum_id=2...id#49836998) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 12:31 PM Author: goys_of_summer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_August_Lindbergh (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859430&forum_id=2...id#49836999) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 12:34 PM Author: OldHLSDude Underrated: Woodrow Wilson's role in fathering progressivism. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859430&forum_id=2...id#49837004) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 12:45 PM Author: Buses the train was an understudied aspect of american history.
it marked the creation of all these new cities and towns. it left racial issues completely unresolved (do black sit in the back of the train or the back of each car? can they use this water fountain or is that a white fountain? it hasnt been marked yet).
we spent way too much time on the underground railroad and none on the actual railroad |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 12:48 PM Author: Guy Debord (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859430&forum_id=2...id#49837042) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 12:50 PM Author: goys_of_summer (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859430&forum_id=2...id#49837049) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 12:51 PM Author: Creepy Chan Nationalism (πΎπ£) public school makes it all about slavery and black voices now (all subjects actually not just history) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859430&forum_id=2...id#49837050) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 12:51 PM Author: goys_of_summer (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859430&forum_id=2...id#49837051) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 12:56 PM Author: Buses harriett tubperson was at least a bad ass. i went to nephew showcase when he was in 4th grade or whatever and the people being highlighted by these kids were complete nobodies. betsy ross was hero compared to these people. insane. it was like the first Black woman to fart into a jar or say bless you (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859430&forum_id=2...id#49837058) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 1:12 PM Author: Creepy Chan Nationalism (πΎπ£) "Tubman" was a collection of completely unverified second hand stories written by some old jew and no one heard of her until maybe the Ike admin (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859430&forum_id=2...id#49837086) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 1:04 PM Author: ..,.,.,,,,.,.,..,.,,,.,..,,.,.,,, Well, I received essentially no education in PostWar America. The late 40s through the 70s - all sorts of the most important shit happened here, such as Atom Bomb, Cold War, Bretton Woods, PetroDollar, Creation of National Security State, Founding of US Empire. But we barely talked about it.
We talked a lot about the Iriqois confederacy though. |