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  1. #OnThisDayInHistory: May 28, 1830, #AndrewJackson Signs #IndianRemovalAct

    by Levi Rickert May 28, 2026

    "On this day in 1830 — 196 years ago — President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act into law.

    "The Act created a process that allowed the president to exchange lands west of the Mississippi River for the homelands of Native tribes in the eastern United States. In return, tribes were promised financial assistance, supplies for relocation, and the guarantee that they could live on their new lands under the protection of the United States government “forever.”

    "In practice, however, the Indian Removal Act became a tool of #coercion and #dispossession. Under Jackson and his supporters, #NativeNations were pressured, bribed, and forced into signing #RemovalTreaties that stripped them of their ancestral territories across the Southeast.

    "By the end of his presidency, Jackson had signed nearly 70 removal treaties, leading to the forced relocation of approximately 50,000 #NativeAmericans to what was then called #IndianTerritory, in present-day #Oklahoma. Entire nations were uprooted from lands they had inhabited for generations and pushed into unfamiliar territory designated by the federal government.

    "The policy culminated in the Trail of Tears — one of the darkest chapters in American history. Thousands of Native people died from disease, #starvation, and exposure during the forced marches west, including nearly one-quarter of the #CherokeeNation.

    "Because of his central role in Native removal and the suffering it caused, many Native Americans remember Jackson as the '#IndianKiller' president and continue to oppose efforts to honor him, including his image remaining on the twenty-dollar bill."

    nativenewsonline.net/currents/

    #USHistory #USPol #Genocide #TrailOfTears #NativeAmericans #NativeAmericanHistory #ForcedRelocation #HumanRightsViolations

  2. Before Montana had a voice, it had Joe Howard. Journalist, historian, union man — he exposed corporate plunder, championed the forgotten, and wrote the book that defined a state. He died at 45, but Montana’s conscience never really went quiet.

    Web:
    bigskytreasure.org/history/peo

    #WorldHistory #USHistory #MTHistory #Montana #History #BSTS #Fourosix #MontanaToday #histodons

  3. Major John Owen built Montana's first trading post — then lost his mind, his fort, and his fortune. Now legend says he buried gold there too. But did he? The diaries, the ledger, and decades of archaeology tell a very different story.

    Web:
    bigskytreasure.org/history/mys

    #WorldHistory #USHistory #MTHistory #Montana #History #BSTS #Fourosix #MontanaToday #histodons

  4. Beartooth Highway welcomes Memorial Day travelers despite thin snowpack

    RED LODGE — The Beartooth Highway is open for the season, welcoming skiers, sightseers, and holiday travelers just in time for Memorial Day weekend, though drivers may notice the snow walls lining the road are shorter than usual after a milder winter.

    Web:
    ktvq.com/news/local-news/beart

    #WorldHistory #USHistory #MTHistory #Montana #History #BSTS #Fourosix #MontanaToday #histodons

  5. A New York gangster, a dead roommate, a Montana murder trial — and a suspicious "witness" who turned up dead. Robert Vanella's 1908 conviction unraveled in ways nobody expected.

    Web:
    bigskytreasure.org/history/eve

    #WorldHistory #USHistory #MTHistory #Montana #History #BSTS #Fourosix #MontanaToday #histodons

  6. From a 1940 county vote to a national rodeo championship — Dawson Community College in Glendive, MT has spent 85 years proving that world-class education doesn't require a big city address. Here's how it happened.

    Web:
    bigskytreasure.org/history/ins

    #WorldHistory #USHistory #MTHistory #Montana #History #BSTS #Fourosix #MontanaToday #histodons

  7. From a 1940 county vote to a national rodeo championship — Dawson Community College in Glendive, MT has spent 85 years proving that world-class education doesn't require a big city address. Here's how it happened.

    Web:
    bigskytreasure.org/history/ins

    #WorldHistory #USHistory #MTHistory #Montana #History #BSTS #Fourosix #MontanaToday #histodons

  8. From a 1940 county vote to a national rodeo championship — Dawson Community College in Glendive, MT has spent 85 years proving that world-class education doesn't require a big city address. Here's how it happened.

    Web:
    bigskytreasure.org/history/ins

    #WorldHistory #USHistory #MTHistory #Montana #History #BSTS #Fourosix #MontanaToday #histodons

  9. From a 1940 county vote to a national rodeo championship — Dawson Community College in Glendive, MT has spent 85 years proving that world-class education doesn't require a big city address. Here's how it happened.

    Web:
    bigskytreasure.org/history/ins

    #WorldHistory #USHistory #MTHistory #Montana #History #BSTS #Fourosix #MontanaToday #histodons

  10. From a 1940 county vote to a national rodeo championship — Dawson Community College in Glendive, MT has spent 85 years proving that world-class education doesn't require a big city address. Here's how it happened.

    Web:
    bigskytreasure.org/history/ins

    #WorldHistory #USHistory #MTHistory #Montana #History #BSTS #Fourosix #MontanaToday #histodons

  11. @inthesetimes

    The article mentions Robert La Follette Jr., US Senator from Wisconsin from1925 until his seat was taken in 1947 by his victorious opponent in the Republican primary, Joe McCarthy.

    "Young Bob", one of the famed progressive Robert M. "Fighting Bob" La Follette's children, played an important part in labor history during the second half of the thirties through his chairing of the Committee on Education and Labor, Subcommittee Investigating Violations of Free Speech and the Rights of Labor , commonly known as La Follette Civil Liberties Committe. This subcommittee's reports on employer antiunion violence and subterfuge provided significant assistance to the CIO's organizing efforts.

    In common with some other midwestern progressives, he was an isolationist, being a founding member of the America First Committee.

    His life after his defeat by McCarthy was darkened by arguments, allegations, and counterallegations concerning Communists. Ironically, in the light of his work as a prolabor senator, he ended his career as a corporate lobbyist in DC, representing amongst other businesses the United Fruit Company.

    In early 1953, he committed suicide in his Washington DC home.

    Young Bob's life interests me, both as one man's tragedy and as exemplifying that now almost forgotten breed, the progressive Republican.

    Image: Robert La Follette Jr. at his desk -- Harris & Ewing, photographer -- 1/1/1936 -- Library of Congress -- Public domain

    #USHistory #RobertLafOlletteJr #Wisconsin #Progressive #Republican #LaborHistory

  12. @inthesetimes

    The article mentions Robert La Follette Jr., US Senator from Wisconsin from1925 until his seat was taken in 1947 by his victorious opponent in the Republican primary, Joe McCarthy.

    "Young Bob", one of the famed progressive Robert M. "Fighting Bob" La Follette's children, played an important part in labor history during the second half of the thirties through his chairing of the Committee on Education and Labor, Subcommittee Investigating Violations of Free Speech and the Rights of Labor , commonly known as La Follette Civil Liberties Committe. This subcommittee's reports on employer antiunion violence and subterfuge provided significant assistance to the CIO's organizing efforts.

    In common with some other midwestern progressives, he was an isolationist, being a founding member of the America First Committee.

    His life after his defeat by McCarthy was darkened by arguments, allegations, and counterallegations concerning Communists. Ironically, in the light of his work as a prolabor senator, he ended his career as a corporate lobbyist in DC, representing amongst other businesses the United Fruit Company.

    In early 1953, he committed suicide in his Washington DC home.

    Young Bob's life interests me, both as one man's tragedy and as exemplifying that now almost forgotten breed, the progressive Republican.

    Image: Robert La Follette Jr. at his desk -- Harris & Ewing, photographer -- 1/1/1936 -- Library of Congress -- Public domain

    #USHistory #RobertLafOlletteJr #Wisconsin #Progressive #Republican #LaborHistory

  13. @inthesetimes

    The article mentions Robert La Follette Jr., US Senator from Wisconsin from1925 until his seat was taken in 1947 by his victorious opponent in the Republican primary, Joe McCarthy.

    "Young Bob", one of the famed progressive Robert M. "Fighting Bob" La Follette's children, played an important part in labor history during the second half of the thirties through his chairing of the Committee on Education and Labor, Subcommittee Investigating Violations of Free Speech and the Rights of Labor , commonly known as La Follette Civil Liberties Committe. This subcommittee's reports on employer antiunion violence and subterfuge provided significant assistance to the CIO's organizing efforts.

    In common with some other midwestern progressives, he was an isolationist, being a founding member of the America First Committee.

    His life after his defeat by McCarthy was darkened by arguments, allegations, and counterallegations concerning Communists. Ironically, in the light of his work as a prolabor senator, he ended his career as a corporate lobbyist in DC, representing amongst other businesses the United Fruit Company.

    In early 1953, he committed suicide in his Washington DC home.

    Young Bob's life interests me, both as one man's tragedy and as exemplifying that now almost forgotten breed, the progressive Republican.

    Image: Robert La Follette Jr. at his desk -- Harris & Ewing, photographer -- 1/1/1936 -- Library of Congress -- Public domain

    #USHistory #RobertLafOlletteJr #Wisconsin #Progressive #Republican #LaborHistory

  14. @inthesetimes

    The article mentions Robert La Follette Jr., US Senator from Wisconsin from1925 until his seat was taken in 1947 by his victorious opponent in the Republican primary, Joe McCarthy.

    "Young Bob", one of the famed progressive Robert M. "Fighting Bob" La Follette's children, played an important part in labor history during the second half of the thirties through his chairing of the Committee on Education and Labor, Subcommittee Investigating Violations of Free Speech and the Rights of Labor , commonly known as La Follette Civil Liberties Committe. This subcommittee's reports on employer antiunion violence and subterfuge provided significant assistance to the CIO's organizing efforts.

    In common with some other midwestern progressives, he was an isolationist, being a founding member of the America First Committee.

    His life after his defeat by McCarthy was darkened by arguments, allegations, and counterallegations concerning Communists. Ironically, in the light of his work as a prolabor senator, he ended his career as a corporate lobbyist in DC, representing amongst other businesses the United Fruit Company.

    In early 1953, he committed suicide in his Washington DC home.

    Young Bob's life interests me, both as one man's tragedy and as exemplifying that now almost forgotten breed, the progressive Republican.

    Image: Robert La Follette Jr. at his desk -- Harris & Ewing, photographer -- 1/1/1936 -- Library of Congress -- Public domain

    #USHistory #RobertLafOlletteJr #Wisconsin #Progressive #Republican #LaborHistory

  15. @inthesetimes

    The article mentions Robert La Follette Jr., US Senator from Wisconsin from1925 until his seat was taken in 1947 by his victorious opponent in the Republican primary, Joe McCarthy.

    "Young Bob", one of the famed progressive Robert M. "Fighting Bob" La Follette's children, played an important part in labor history during the second half of the thirties through his chairing of the Committee on Education and Labor, Subcommittee Investigating Violations of Free Speech and the Rights of Labor , commonly known as La Follette Civil Liberties Committe. This subcommittee's reports on employer antiunion violence and subterfuge provided significant assistance to the CIO's organizing efforts.

    In common with some other midwestern progressives, he was an isolationist, being a founding member of the America First Committee.

    His life after his defeat by McCarthy was darkened by arguments, allegations, and counterallegations concerning Communists. Ironically, in the light of his work as a prolabor senator, he ended his career as a corporate lobbyist in DC, representing amongst other businesses the United Fruit Company.

    In early 1953, he committed suicide in his Washington DC home.

    Young Bob's life interests me, both as one man's tragedy and as exemplifying that now almost forgotten breed, the progressive Republican.

    Image: Robert La Follette Jr. at his desk -- Harris & Ewing, photographer -- 1/1/1936 -- Library of Congress -- Public domain

    #USHistory #RobertLafOlletteJr #Wisconsin #Progressive #Republican #LaborHistory

  16. I'm all about revolutions lately. Working on both a podcast and docuseries on The American Revolution which I've posted about quite a bit, but also working on another series by the same podcaster on the history of the French Revolution. Yeehaw for the revolutionary spirit.

    #history #revolution #ushistory #frenchhistory #france #podcast #documentary

  17. I'm all about revolutions lately. Working on both a podcast and docuseries on The American Revolution which I've posted about quite a bit, but also working on another series by the same podcaster on the history of the French Revolution. Yeehaw for the revolutionary spirit.

    #history #revolution #ushistory #frenchhistory #france #podcast #documentary

  18. I'm all about revolutions lately. Working on both a podcast and docuseries on The American Revolution which I've posted about quite a bit, but also working on another series by the same podcaster on the history of the French Revolution. Yeehaw for the revolutionary spirit.

    #history #revolution #ushistory #frenchhistory #france #podcast #documentary

  19. I'm all about revolutions lately. Working on both a podcast and docuseries on The American Revolution which I've posted about quite a bit, but also working on another series by the same podcaster on the history of the French Revolution. Yeehaw for the revolutionary spirit.

  20. I'm all about revolutions lately. Working on both a podcast and docuseries on The American Revolution which I've posted about quite a bit, but also working on another series by the same podcaster on the history of the French Revolution. Yeehaw for the revolutionary spirit.

    #history #revolution #ushistory #frenchhistory #france #podcast #documentary

  21. Before it was Memorial Day, it was Decoration Day — born from the grief of a nation after the Civil War. From graves adorned with flowers to a federal holiday, the story of how America learned to honor its fallen is older and more complicated than most people know.
    Today we remember those who gave all!

    Happy Memorial Day!!

    #WorldHistory #USHistory #MTHistory #Montana #History #BSTS #Fourosix #MontanaToday #histodons

  22. Before it was Memorial Day, it was Decoration Day — born from the grief of a nation after the Civil War. From graves adorned with flowers to a federal holiday, the story of how America learned to honor its fallen is older and more complicated than most people know.
    Today we remember those who gave all!

    Happy Memorial Day!!

    #WorldHistory #USHistory #MTHistory #Montana #History #BSTS #Fourosix #MontanaToday #histodons

  23. Before it was Memorial Day, it was Decoration Day — born from the grief of a nation after the Civil War. From graves adorned with flowers to a federal holiday, the story of how America learned to honor its fallen is older and more complicated than most people know.
    Today we remember those who gave all!

    Happy Memorial Day!!

    #WorldHistory #USHistory #MTHistory #Montana #History #BSTS #Fourosix #MontanaToday #histodons

  24. Before it was Memorial Day, it was Decoration Day — born from the grief of a nation after the Civil War. From graves adorned with flowers to a federal holiday, the story of how America learned to honor its fallen is older and more complicated than most people know.
    Today we remember those who gave all!

    Happy Memorial Day!!

    #WorldHistory #USHistory #MTHistory #Montana #History #BSTS #Fourosix #MontanaToday #histodons

  25. Before it was Memorial Day, it was Decoration Day — born from the grief of a nation after the Civil War. From graves adorned with flowers to a federal holiday, the story of how America learned to honor its fallen is older and more complicated than most people know.
    Today we remember those who gave all!

    Happy Memorial Day!!

    #WorldHistory #USHistory #MTHistory #Montana #History #BSTS #Fourosix #MontanaToday #histodons

  26. Montana’s Giant Springs pumps 156 million gallons a day from a 330-million-year-old aquifer — and feeds the world’s shortest river. Lewis and Clark were speechless. A silver smelter came and went. Then fifth-graders picked a fight with Oregon. The full story is wild.

    Web:
    bigskytreasure.org/history/pla

    #WorldHistory #USHistory #MTHistory #Montana #History #BSTS #Fourosix #MontanaToday #histodons

  27. Montana’s Giant Springs pumps 156 million gallons a day from a 330-million-year-old aquifer — and feeds the world’s shortest river. Lewis and Clark were speechless. A silver smelter came and went. Then fifth-graders picked a fight with Oregon. The full story is wild.

    Web:
    bigskytreasure.org/history/pla

    #WorldHistory #USHistory #MTHistory #Montana #History #BSTS #Fourosix #MontanaToday #histodons

  28. Montana’s Giant Springs pumps 156 million gallons a day from a 330-million-year-old aquifer — and feeds the world’s shortest river. Lewis and Clark were speechless. A silver smelter came and went. Then fifth-graders picked a fight with Oregon. The full story is wild.

    Web:
    bigskytreasure.org/history/pla

    #WorldHistory #USHistory #MTHistory #Montana #History #BSTS #Fourosix #MontanaToday #histodons

  29. Montana’s Giant Springs pumps 156 million gallons a day from a 330-million-year-old aquifer — and feeds the world’s shortest river. Lewis and Clark were speechless. A silver smelter came and went. Then fifth-graders picked a fight with Oregon. The full story is wild.

    Web:
    bigskytreasure.org/history/pla

    #WorldHistory #USHistory #MTHistory #Montana #History #BSTS #Fourosix #MontanaToday #histodons

  30. Montana’s Giant Springs pumps 156 million gallons a day from a 330-million-year-old aquifer — and feeds the world’s shortest river. Lewis and Clark were speechless. A silver smelter came and went. Then fifth-graders picked a fight with Oregon. The full story is wild.

    Web:
    bigskytreasure.org/history/pla

    #WorldHistory #USHistory #MTHistory #Montana #History #BSTS #Fourosix #MontanaToday #histodons

  31. The thing that's nice about consuming stuff about the American Revolution is that in any given scenario it is SO EASY to naturally root against the British Empire even when the Americans really suck you're like "but aren't British Imperialism"

    #americanrevolution #history #ushistory

  32. From Irish poverty to Montana royalty — Marcus Daly arrived in America with nothing and built a copper empire that literally created cities, bought elections, and reshaped an entire state. His rise from dock worker to mining titan is one of the wildest true stories the American West ever produced.

    Web:
    bigskytreasure.org/history/peo

    #WorldHistory #USHistory #MTHistory #Montana #History #BSTS #Fourosix #MontanaToday #histodons

  33. From Irish poverty to Montana royalty — Marcus Daly arrived in America with nothing and built a copper empire that literally created cities, bought elections, and reshaped an entire state. His rise from dock worker to mining titan is one of the wildest true stories the American West ever produced.

    Web:
    bigskytreasure.org/history/peo

    #WorldHistory #USHistory #MTHistory #Montana #History #BSTS #Fourosix #MontanaToday #histodons

  34. From Irish poverty to Montana royalty — Marcus Daly arrived in America with nothing and built a copper empire that literally created cities, bought elections, and reshaped an entire state. His rise from dock worker to mining titan is one of the wildest true stories the American West ever produced.

    Web:
    bigskytreasure.org/history/peo

    #WorldHistory #USHistory #MTHistory #Montana #History #BSTS #Fourosix #MontanaToday #histodons

  35. From Irish poverty to Montana royalty — Marcus Daly arrived in America with nothing and built a copper empire that literally created cities, bought elections, and reshaped an entire state. His rise from dock worker to mining titan is one of the wildest true stories the American West ever produced.

    Web:
    bigskytreasure.org/history/peo

    #WorldHistory #USHistory #MTHistory #Montana #History #BSTS #Fourosix #MontanaToday #histodons

  36. From Irish poverty to Montana royalty — Marcus Daly arrived in America with nothing and built a copper empire that literally created cities, bought elections, and reshaped an entire state. His rise from dock worker to mining titan is one of the wildest true stories the American West ever produced.

    Web:
    bigskytreasure.org/history/peo

    #WorldHistory #USHistory #MTHistory #Montana #History #BSTS #Fourosix #MontanaToday #histodons

  37. She also misgendered me and then continued to double down about patriarchy.

    I really encourage people to understand the history of Turtle Island.

    Our problems today are tied to our problems then. Our @roots deep dive on being two spirit (native & trans) offers an entryway to start leaning.

    rootschangemedia.com/two-spiri

    #twospirit #indigenous #native #ushistory

  38. Before GPS, before gold rush outlaws, before Lewis & Clark — one ancient rock ruled southwestern Montana. Sacagawea knew it. Road agents robbed near it. Prospectors may have buried gold beside it. But is the treasure legend real history or frontier folklore? The answer is more fascinating than any buried cache.

    Web:
    bigskytreasure.org/history/mys

    #WorldHistory #USHistory #MTHistory #Montana #History #BSTS #Fourosix #MontanaToday #histodons

  39. In March 1944, Miles City, Montana faced a catastrophic flood — so the mayor called in a B-17 bomber to blow up the frozen Yellowstone River. Meanwhile, Japanese balloon bombs were silently drifting over Montana’s skies. Two forgotten WWII stories, one remarkable town. Click to read the full history.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

    Web:
    bigskytreasure.org/history/eve

    #WorldHistory #USHistory #MTHistory #Montana #History #BSTS #Fourosix #MontanaToday #histodons

  40. Just finished "This Nonviolent Stuff′ll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible" www.dukeupress.edu/this-nonviol... by Charles E. Cobb. Useful but uneven. Short review in Mastodon thread: social.coop/@brainwane/1... #books #USHistory #UShist #CivilRights

    This Nonviolent Stuff′ll Get Y...

  41. Just finished "This Nonviolent Stuff′ll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible" www.dukeupress.edu/this-nonviol... by Charles E. Cobb. Useful but uneven. Short review in Mastodon thread: social.coop/@brainwane/1... #books #USHistory #UShist #CivilRights

    This Nonviolent Stuff′ll Get Y...

  42. Just finished "This Nonviolent Stuff′ll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible" www.dukeupress.edu/this-nonviol... by Charles E. Cobb. Useful but uneven. Short review in Mastodon thread: social.coop/@brainwane/1... #books #USHistory #UShist #CivilRights

    This Nonviolent Stuff′ll Get Y...

  43. Just finished "This Nonviolent Stuff′ll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible" www.dukeupress.edu/this-nonviol... by Charles E. Cobb. Useful but uneven. Short review in Mastodon thread: social.coop/@brainwane/1... #books #USHistory #UShist #CivilRights

    This Nonviolent Stuff′ll Get Y...