🇺🇸 **The Slave Who Hijacked a Confederate Warship & Became the First Black Captain in the US Navy**
**Captain Cook’s missing ship found after sinking 250 years ago**
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**History: Nova Albion**
On this day in 1579 English explorer Francis Drake landed in what is modern day California claiming the territory for England.
**Coin hoard spans Roman republic to first emperor**
"_The denarii date from the late 2nd Century BC, in the last tumultuous decades of the Roman republic, to the first Roman emperors and could have been a purse loss._"
**The Month In History**
"_Momentous historical events that occurred during the month of June._"
#Video length: twenty eight minutes and seven seconds.
🗺️ **How Long Each Territory Was Part of The Roman Empire (Western and/or Eastern)**
🇬🇧 **Imperfect Memories of British Slavery**
“_British abolition in 1833 was accompanied by £20 million paid in compensation to slaveholders, many of whom subsequently “forgot” slavery ever existed._”
🔗 https://daily.jstor.org/imperfect-memories-of-british-slavery/.
#History #Histodons #UK #UnitedKingdom #Britain #Slavery @histodons
**7 Fun Facts About New England’s Colonial Rangers**
🔗 https://newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/7-fun-facts-about-new-englands-colonial-rangers/.
**Born On This Day: Sarah Rapelje**
Sarah Rapelje was born on this day in Albany on 9th June 1625. She was the first child of European descent to be born in the Dutch colony of New Netherland.
📖 **Fascism: The History of a Word**
_Exploring the writings and deeds of political leaders, activists, artists, authors, and philosophers, Federico Marcon traces the history of the term’s use (and usefulness) in relation to Mussolini’s political regime, antifascist resistance, and the quest of postwar historians to develop a definition of a “fascist minimum.”_
🔗 https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/F/bo247752701.html.
#Nonfiction #Book #Bookstodon #Fascism #Fascist #History #Histodons @histodons @bookstodon
📸 🇳🇴 **King Harald Hardrada**
#Image attribution: Lerwick Town Hall, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Haraldhardrada.jpg. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Haraldhardrada.jpg.
**Gold Solidus of Theodosius II, Constantinople, 425–429 AD.**
#Gold #Coin #Numismatics #History #Byzantine #Empire
#Image attribution: ANS, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gold_Solidus_of_Theodosius_II,_425-429.jpg.
**Vikings in Cornwall?**
#Video length: one hour and eleven minutes.
🇬🇧 **Five outstanding manuscripts acquired for the nation**
“_Together, these manuscripts shed exceptional light on the study of Hebrew by Christian monks in medieval England, on the administration of a medieval English town, and on spiritual devotion in medieval England and Ireland._”
#Manuscripts #Medieval #Medievodons #History #Histodons @medievodons @histodons
🇺🇸 **When the Founding Fathers Spoke Yiddish**
🔗 https://mishpacha.com/when-the-founding-fathers-spoke-yiddish/.
🇨🇦 🇺🇸 **When Canada was the Promised Land: What Canada Taught America about Freedom and Inclusive Democracy**
#History #Histodons #Canada #USA #US #UnitedStates #America @histodons
**Alabama still celebrates Jefferson Davis' birthday. Will there be closures on June 2?**
🇸🇪 **Viking silver treasure uncovered in Täby in Stockholm**
“_Several coins are of European origin, representing countries as England, Bohemia and Bavaria. In addition, the treasure consisted of five Arabic coins, so called dirhams. One of the European coins is extremely rare and was minted in the city of Rouen, in Normandy, France. It dates to approximately the 10th Century AD._”
🔗 https://arkeologerna.com/viking-silver-treasure-uncovered-in-taby-stockholm/.
#Archaeology #Archaeodons #History #Coins #Vikings #Sweden #Europe @archaeodons
**Exclusive: 'Turk-Kagan' coin discovery reshapes early Turkic history, says Uzbek professor**
“_Perhaps most significantly, the “Turk-Kagan” coins predate the famed Orkhon inscriptions—those of Tonyukuk, Kultegin, and Bilge Kagan—by more than 150 years. This pushes back the earliest known written usage of “Turk” and “Turk-Kagan” to the late sixth or early seventh century A.D._”
#Coins #Culture #Numismatism #Turk #History #Archaeology #Archaeodons @archaeodons
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