Or the United States occupation of Haiti - Wikipedia for 19 years, during which forced draft labor was employed, overseen by Marines from the southern United States picked specifically because they “knew how to handle n******”.
My family didn’t forget. My grandmother lost schoolmates to it, and it influenced her decision to become a nurse. We heard stories.
FWIW, the Spanish Flu pandemic figures prominently in the backstories of two of the major characters of the vampire series Twilight (both novels and films).
The Whites were not the “legit government” of Russia at that time, but just one faction among the counterrevolutionary forces.
Nor were the Red. The Whites were the government most of the Allies recognized as the legit government.
Someone on another site mentioned “Operation Red Rock” which allegedly happened during the Vietnam War, and the only sources I could find were some self-published books.
One of the earliest history-holes I became aware of:
Hey kids, we won the War of Independence! Beat the British! So then George Washington was our first President…
Umm, waitaminnit, Articles of Confederation?
Well, yes, but that didn’t work out so well so we replaced it with the Constitution…
Umm, sure, but who was Prez? Or other political leader if the Prez wasn’t the focus? What bad laws or political failures happened? They must not have done too awfully or someone would have invaded or things would have fallen apart…? Or did the states mostly do their own thing, but in that case how about some history of what Georgia and New York and Pennsylvania did during that period?
- crickets chirping *
Just earlier today I heard about the Laconia Incident for the first time. In short, during World War II, a German submarine sank the British ship Laconia, a converted passenger vessel which was carrying soldiers, civilians, and POWs. The submarine’s captain began rescuing the survivors, and summoned other subs to help. They were carrying rescued passengers on deck to safety and flying a Red Cross flag when spotted by an American bomber, which was ordered to attack. The subs had to submerge to avoid destruction. This led German Admiral Dönitz to issue an order that German subs not attempt to rescue anyone and conduct unrestricted warfare for the remainder of the War.
For those interested in largely forgotten historical events, there was a great podcast called Futility Closet which covered a different event every week. They stopped making new episodes about a year ago, but the backlog is still available.
Determining latitude at sea is pretty easy. Longitude? Up until recently, there was not a simply way to determine it when at sea. The methods that were used were inaccurate. The seriousness of the situation came to the attention of governments when 1700 sailors died because they didn’t know their longitude.
The problem was finally solved when John Harrison built an accurate clock. But no one wanted to give him credit for it because he was not a member of the scientific elite.
As well as in Downton Abbey. And probably any other period piece set in that time. I hardly think that’s something that’s “been forgotten.”
That’s a particularly inflammatory way of describing it. It wasn’t an “invasion”, it was more of a shambolic attempt to help the Whites in the Russian Civil War, which was going on concurrently with WWI.
The Entrada and El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro
Before the keel was laid for the Mayflower, there were European settlements in Socorro, Albuquerque and Santa Fe New Mexico. A regional government was established with a system of laws and taxation. When the east coast of the US was a dumping ground for the British prison system, massive cathedrals, in association with large native populations, were being constructed at Salinas, Abo and Quari,.
In 1609 the local scientists participated in a project that accurately established the longitude of the New Mexico communities. In 1611 the Socorro mission was completed and consecrated and the mission in Isleta was consecrated in 1613.
I believe these events form a more interesting foundation myth for the US than the endless repetition of the trials and tribulations of a few Puritans who considered freedom of religion being the right to hang Quakers.
We remember it in my family. My grandmother died in 1919 from Spanish Flu, and my Sister died in 2020 of COVID; two plagues, a century apart.
It’s an interesting hypothesis, but I’m skeptical. It was an extremely dry summer and there were existing wildfires already burning in the region.
It’s the ultimate conspiracy theory: the Universe is conspiring against us.
My father’s mother died of it, the third wave if timing is to be believed. In July, 2018 Extra History had a six-part series on the 1918 pandemic. It was my introduction to the term cytokine storm.
It also covered the Tulsa race riot.
That actually makes more sense; if it hadn’t been dry, they might not have had multiple fires start simultaneously.
Juminda took place during Operation Barbarossa, the greatest military debacle in history, in which nearly 5 MILLION Soviet troops were killed. By itself, it may have been a horrendous event, but in context it was literally just a drop in the ocean.
A lot of Americans are surprised to hear that Santa Fe was founded twenty years earlier than Boston.
There was a best-selling book in 1995 and a miniseries in 2000. So not exactly forgotten.