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4 days ago · The Insular Cases were suffused with racist language, with one justice referring to territories as places “inhabited by alien races” who might not abide by “Anglo-Saxon principles.”
2 days ago · The Insular Cases are a series of early 1900s Supreme Court decisions that denied the overseas U.S. territories democracy and self-determination based on the Supreme Court’s judgment that their residents were “alien races” and “savage tribes.”
1 day ago · However, the Celts couldn’t rest for long. After Caesar’s death, Rome invaded Britain again, forcing the Celtic people further North. In the 2nd Century, Emperor Hadrian built a wall, blocking off the new Roman settlements from attacks by the so-called “Barbarians,” who were, in fact, the last remnants of the Celtic people.
2 days ago · State of Baden-Württemberg archaeologist Dirk Krausse and his colleagues identified two men buried in neighboring mounds who were likely an uncle and a nephew through shared maternal ancestry ...
1 day ago · As a result, signers of three key documents are generally considered to be Founding Fathers of the United States: Declaration of Independence (DI), Articles of Confederation (AC), and U.S. Constitution (USC). The following table provides a list of these signers, some of whom signed more than one document.
4 days ago · The American Revolution was an insurrection carried out by 13 of Great Britain’s North American colonies that began in 1775 and ended with a peace treaty in 1783. The colonies won political independence and went on to form the United States of America.
1 day ago · The Confederate States of America (CSA), commonly referred to as the Confederate States (C.S.), the Confederacy, or the South, was an unrecognized breakaway republic in the Southern United States that existed from February 8, 1861, to May 9, 1865.
