/lit/ - Literature

Imperialism.

Unironically and objectively, the end of the 18th century.

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>>11174906
Salem witch trials seem pretty based

>>11174914
The end better start at 1760.

Anyone else take AP U.S. History in high school like a chump

>>11174906
The wild fucking west
the roaring 20's
the great depression
the post WW2 era where the american dream came from
the hippie movement

>>11174906
>american
>history
lole

>>11174924
yeah
everyone complained it was hard but it wasnt at all if you have literally competence as a writer

>>11174921
That's where it begins, monarchlet

>>11174928
>going from an angry mob to owning the entire world isn't interesting

Huh. . .

>>11174932
>tfw got higher on APUSH than AP lit

>>11174949
>tfw got higher on ap language than ap lit

Honestly?
Rumrunners during prohibition is massively underrated. Taking fucking rowboats to Cuba to get shitty liquor nobody even wanted at risk of any kind of criminal or lawful intervention, their relationship with Southern illegal distilleries. Fuck its great.

This fatso is worth a read. My favorite period of American history.

The 1800s see some good settings for quintessentually American stories involving snake oil, blood feuds, frontier, old money, big business, backwater folktales, conquest great and not, figureheads, industry, and society.
The 19th century was America's formitive years compared to the other three

>>11174906
this bugs the shit out of me, so just to educate you anons:

when displaying a flag vertically, the top left corner goes to the flag's own right. in the US flag's case, that means the blue field of stars should appear to the viewer on the LEFT (the flag's own "right shoulder").

pic related is how the flag should appear to the intended viewer. eg. hanging on an office wall or facing out a window as seen from outside.

>>11174906
and to answer your question: TEXAS. motherfucking texas man. we crazy. read Fehrenbach's Lone Star, he's a military historian of quality and a master prose stylist.

>>11174906
You can’t go wrong with WW2 era. Especially with The American advance in the Pacific. A lot of good books with extreme detail, showing just how brutal the japs really were.

Also, books on John Wilkes Booth and how impactful assassinating President Lincoln really was. My history professor at university showed me the door to this topic. I forget the book, but it showed how the majority of race issues, post civil war, could be traced back to Booth putting a bullet through Lincoln’s head.

Race and Reunion by David W. Blight is one of the most scrupulous accounts of the reconstruction and the federal programs designed to make sure blacks couldn't get housing for like an 80 year period. You don't have to be a SJW to find it fascinating.