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The history of the United States is a tale of constant oppression— a story of a checkered past where political leaders and economic moguls continually acted in their own self-interest… or so many left-leaning history authors would prefer modern Americans to believe. American history has been hijacked by the left wing, where the mistakes of America’s past such as slavery, disenfranchisement, and class warfare are overemphasized, while Franklin D. Roosevelt is simultaneously glorified as the savior of the twentieth century with his New Deal policies. While most textbooks of that nature may cast American history in a bad light and...

The Black Confederate By: Tom Darby · Section: Diaries Contrary to popular historical education and Southern revisionists, there is much evidence that African-American's served their country not only in the Union army but also in the Confederate army and navy. This evidence is found in the diaries, journals, newspaper articles and documents written by soldiers, officers and politicians. Many institutions have set about to dismantle these findings by declaring them as `revisionist,' however the proof that these written accounts exist at all shows that slaves were present in the service of their state and country. It was the commanders in...

  20th Century U.S. History Final: 1) The Dixiecrat party was made up of Southern a) Democrats b) Republicans 2) Jim Crow laws were passed by legislatures controlled by: a) Democrats b) Republicans 3) When the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led the civil rights efforts in the South, the governing powers that opposed him were of which party? a) Democrat b) Republican 4) In Arkansas, the governor who stood in the door of a schoolhouse to block integration was a: a) Democrat b) Republican 5) The president who ordered in the National Guard to dislodge the above-mentioned governor from...

While created by the same company, DC Comics' two most famous superheroes differed in political alignment. Clark Kent, also known as Superman, was raised by two Kansas farmers. He was born, however, on the planet Krypton. Superman's race was a group with great powers: incredible strength, X-ray vision, heat vision, ice vision, the ability to fly, super-sensitive hearing and super speed. When grown, Kent moved to the city, where he landed a job as a writer for the large newspaper, the Daily Planet. Bruce Wayne--also known as Batman--was an industry-owning millionaire. He inherited much of his wealth from the parents...