The Forgotten History Blog

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• Category: 1800s
  • 23 African Americans Were Elected to Congress Before the Civil Rights Movement
  • At One Point in Time, up to 50% of US Dollar Bills Were Estimated to be Counterfeit
  • The "States' Rights" Term Conservatives Frequently Use Has a Dark, Racist Origin
  • The 9th US President Died of a Cold... Which he May Have Caught at His Own Inauguration Ceremony
  • White Supremacists Once Overthrew a US City Government
• Category: 1910s
  • Disobeying Direct Orders, British & German Soldiers Forged Their Own Christmas Truce
  • Tug of War Used to be an Olympic Sport
• Category: 1920s
  • Lysol Used to be Advertised as a Feminine Hygiene Product and Birth Control
• Category: 1940s
  • Before Rebranding, The US Dept. of Defense Was Called The "Department of War"
• Category: 1960s
  • FBI Agents Once Secretly Tried to Convince Rev Martin Luther King to Kill Himself
• Category: 1970s
  • Nixon was caught on tape saying of his dying troops in Vietnam: "Screw em"
• Category: 1980s
  • The White House Sported Solar Panels Until Reagan Removed Them in 1986
• Category: 1990s
  • During the 1990s, the Clintons Were a Constant Target of Conservative Hoaxes
  • Republican Leader Dick Armey Was Caught Referring to a Congressman as a "Fag"
  • The Publisher of a "Hitman Manual" Was Once Sued for Aiding & Abetting Murder
• Category: Advertising
  • Coca-Cola's Secret Ingredient Used to be Cocaine
  • Lysol Used to be Advertised as a Feminine Hygiene Product and Birth Control
  • Use of the US Flag in Advertising is Illegal
• Category: Civil Rights
  • 23 African Americans Were Elected to Congress Before the Civil Rights Movement
  • FBI Agents Once Secretly Tried to Convince Rev Martin Luther King to Kill Himself
  • Republican Leader Dick Armey Was Caught Referring to a Congressman as a "Fag"
  • The "States' Rights" Term Conservatives Frequently Use Has a Dark, Racist Origin
  • The White House Sported Solar Panels Until Reagan Removed Them in 1986
• Category: Congress
  • 23 African Americans Were Elected to Congress Before the Civil Rights Movement
  • Republican Leader Dick Armey Was Caught Referring to a Congressman as a "Fag"
  • The 9th US President Died of a Cold... Which he May Have Caught at His Own Inauguration Ceremony
• Category: Crime
  • The Publisher of a "Hitman Manual" Was Once Sued for Aiding & Abetting Murder
• Category: Entertainment
  • Movie Trailers Weren't Always Shown Before Films
• Category: Fashion
  • Pink Wasn't Always Considered a Feminine Color and Blue Wasn't Always Masculine
• Category: Food
  • The United States Used to Have More Laws Concerning Margarine than Hate Crimes
• Category: Holidays
  • Christopher Columbus Was a Slave Trader
  • Disobeying Direct Orders, British & German Soldiers Forged Their Own Christmas Truce
• Category: Money
  • At One Point in Time, up to 50% of US Dollar Bills Were Estimated to be Counterfeit
• Category: Presidents
  • During the 1990s, the Clintons Were a Constant Target of Conservative Hoaxes
  • Nixon was caught on tape saying of his dying troops in Vietnam: "Screw em"
  • President Harry S Truman Didn't Actually Have a Middle Name
  • President Roosevelt Used to Ride Around in Al Capone's Limousine
  • The 9th US President Died of a Cold... Which he May Have Caught at His Own Inauguration Ceremony
  • The White House Sported Solar Panels Until Reagan Removed Them in 1986
  • Category: Carter
    • The White House Sported Solar Panels Until Reagan Removed Them in 1986
  • Category: Clinton
    • During the 1990s, the Clintons Were a Constant Target of Conservative Hoaxes
  • Category: Nixon
    • Nixon was caught on tape saying of his dying troops in Vietnam: "Screw em"
  • Category: Reagan
    • Before Becoming President, Ronald Reagan Was a Paid Cigarette Model
    • The 9th US President Died of a Cold... Which he May Have Caught at His Own Inauguration Ceremony
    • The White House Sported Solar Panels Until Reagan Removed Them in 1986
  • Category: Roosevelt
    • President Roosevelt Used to Ride Around in Al Capone's Limousine
  • Category: Truman
    • President Harry S Truman Didn't Actually Have a Middle Name
• Category: Racism
  • The "States' Rights" Term Conservatives Frequently Use Has a Dark, Racist Origin
  • White Supremacists Once Overthrew a US City Government
• Category: Sports
  • Tug of War Used to be an Olympic Sport
• Category: Technology
  • Color Photography Technology Has Existed For About 150 Years
  • The White House Sported Solar Panels Until Reagan Removed Them in 1986
• Category: War
  • Before Rebranding, The US Dept. of Defense Was Called The "Department of War"
  • Disobeying Direct Orders, British & German Soldiers Forged Their Own Christmas Truce
  • Category: US Civil War
    • At One Point in Time, up to 50% of US Dollar Bills Were Estimated to be Counterfeit
  • Category: World War I
    • Disobeying Direct Orders, British & German Soldiers Forged Their Own Christmas Truce