Popular Memorial Pages by bgill

• Slave Rebellion

  Slave owners lived in fear of slave revolts, a fear which was far from unfounded: from the Amistad mutiny to the Underground Railroad, American slaves led…

  by bgill

  Updated 25 Dec 2010 - 3,527 views this week (133,394 total)

  Contributions 12 images, 3 comments, 25 stories

• Underground Railroad

  You are a slave. Your body, your time, your very breath belong to a farmer in 1850s Maryland. Six long days a week you tend his fields and make him rich.…

  by bgill

  Updated 21 Jan 2010 - 3,512 views this week (121,143 total)

  Contributions 44 images, 4 comments, 46 stories

• African American Patriots of the Revolutionary War

  In 1775, the citizens of the Massachusetts colony were setting course for a war that would decide the fate of a nation. ~Page One

  by bgill

  Updated 11 Oct 2011 - 2,678 views this week (96,488 total)

  Contributions 8 images, 37 stories

• FEMALE CIVIL WAR SOLDIERS & SPIES

  Like most historic battles, the U.S. Civil War had its spies--men and women--on both sides. It was a hazardous occupation with few rewards.

  by bgill

  Updated 24 Jan 2012 - 2,616 views this week (111,122 total)

  Contributions 36 images, 7 comments, 28 stories

• Female hangings 1632 to 1900

  It is thought that altogether around 505 women were put to death in the U. S. between 1608 and 1900. At least eight teenage girls were hanged. Hannah…

  by bgill

  Updated 13 Oct 2011 - 998 views this week (46,468 total)

  Contributions 2 images, 9 stories

• Female Guards in Nazi Concentration Camps

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  Updated 24 Nov 2011 - 790 views this week (5,630 total)

  Contributions 1 image, 64 stories

• The Haitian Revolution of 1791-1803

  The shortest account which one typically hears of the Haitian Revolution is that the slaves rose up In 1791 and by 1803 had driven the whites out of…

  by bgill

  Updated 08 May 2011 - 699 views this week (30,918 total)

  Contributions 3 images, 5 comments, 15 stories

• The Battle of Little Big Horn

  It is hard to say how many years ago the Dakota Indians of the Northern Mississippi River began to spill over the Missouri in search of game, and became…

  by bgill

  Updated 18 Jun 2007 - 452 views this week (87,808 total)

  Contributions 41 images, 2 comments, 26 stories

• Emmett Louis "Bobo" Till

  "Have you ever sent a loved son on vacation and had him returned to you in a pine box, so horribly battered and water-logged that someone needs to tell…

  by bgill

  Updated 20 Jul 2007 - 445 views this week (24,287 total)

  Contributions 17 images, 22 stories

• Female Nazi War Criminals

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  Updated 13 Oct 2011 - 434 views this week (3,747 total)

  Contributions 10 images, 2 stories

• Tecumseh (Tecumtha) ( Tribe : Shawnee )

  c.1768-1813. Tecumseh ("Crounching Tiger" or "Shooting Star") was a major military leader and alliance builder who sought to stop Euro-American expansion…

  by bgill

  Updated 09 Feb 2012 - 408 views this week (20,063 total)

  Contributions 2 images, 3 comments, 10 stories

• CONFEDERATE AFRICAN AMERICANS~CIVIL WAR

  Military history of African Americans is that of African Americans in the United States since the arrival of the first black slaves in 1619 to the present…

  by bgill

  Updated 09 Oct 2011 - 382 views this week (28,666 total)

  Contributions 24 images, 1 comment, 39 stories

• Blechhammer

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  Updated 11 Nov 2011 - 379 views this week (3,137 total)

  Contributions 1 image, 17 stories

• A Slave Ship Speaks

  The wreck of the Henrietta Marie

  by bgill

  Updated 10 Jul 2007 - 377 views this week (25,407 total)

  Contributions 13 images, 16 stories

• Battles & Patriots of the Revolutionary War

  "Who shall write the history of the American Revolution?

  by bgill

  Updated 10 Jul 2007 - 346 views this week (19,141 total)

  Contributions 19 images, 24 stories

• CIVIL WAR HANGINGS & OTHER EXECUTIONS

  THE FAMOUS & INFAMOUS

  by bgill

  Updated 08 Jun 2007 - 338 views this week (28,321 total)

  Contributions 15 images, 3 comments, 16 stories

• Bergen-Belsen

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  Updated 21 Nov 2011 - 322 views this week (1,975 total)

  Contributions 1 image, 74 stories

• "The Fall of the Alamo."

  We publish the following account of the "Fall of the Alamo" from the Texas Almanac for 1860. It is beyond a doubt the most authentic account extant.

  by bgill

  Updated 26 Feb 2010 - 295 views this week (30,864 total)

  Contributions 14 images, 2 comments, 26 stories

• Quanah Parker & The Comanche Nation

  From Wikipedia~Quanah Parker (c. late 1840s - February 23, 1911) was a Native American leader, the son of Comanche chief Peta Nocona and "Anglo-Texan"…

  by bgill

  Updated 26 Nov 2007 - 288 views this week (18,600 total)

  Contributions 11 images, 1 comment, 12 stories

• "Gypsies" Victims of the Holocaust -

  Victims of the Holocaust --the Porrajmos

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  Updated 10 Nov 2011 - 275 views this week (1,448 total)

  Contributions 1 image, 29 stories