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Talkin’ History with Kev In-depth videos, discussions, and captions from your friendly neighborhood historian, Kevin Earley.

30/12/2024

Good morning to all of my followers on here! I plan on having a new video up this week for a relaunch of the page! We will be doing a special segment on the life and Presidency of the late Jimmy Carter, who passed away yesterday.

05/09/2024

Hello, all you happy historians! I have been off the grid for far too long, but I am nonetheless back and ready to travel back in time with all of you! Expect new content very soon!

20/03/2024



March 20th, 1854: The Republican Party is founded in the United States as the anti-slavery party that would, after almost 5 years of bloody civil war during the presidency of Abraham Lincoln, abolish the practice. It continues to be a force in not only American, but World Politics.

19/03/2024

Quick !

March 18th, 1766: After a lot of boycotting over “taxation without representation”, the British Parliament repealed the Stamp Act from its American Colonies in an attempt to ease tensions. That worked out well, oh wait, no it didn’t, because they had more taxes still in place and as people rioted, it turned into revolution and bloodshed. The American Revolutionary Period was born out of events like this, and it remains important to the country’s history even after almost 250 years.

17/03/2024

Time for a courtesy of your favorite Wannabe Leprechaun, Kev! (I try to be funny)

March 17th, 1776: After almost a year of conflict in New England, the beginning of the American Revolutionary War, the British evacuate Boston, Massachusetts after being checkmated by Washington and his Continentals at Dorchester Heights and the surrounding hills with the placement of artillery captured from Fort Ticonderoga months earlier. It was a good luck moment for a city with one of the biggest ethnic Irish populations in America.

Happy St. Patrick’s Day! ☘️

17/03/2024

Time for a very late, short and sweet .

March 16th, 1802: On the site of the Revolutionary War fort at West Point, NY, where General Benedict Arnold became America’s most famous turncoat by agreeing to surrender the fort to the British, the United States Military Academy was established. Some of the most famous military personnel in American history have graduated from this school, including commanders such as George Custer, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and George S. Patton. The Academy still stands as America’s top military school.

15/03/2024

Apologies for not posting yesterday, I was under the weather. However, it’s time for today’s

March 15th, 44 B.C.: Julius Caesar, Rome’s dictator for life, walks into the senate chamber for a normal session of the Roman Senate. Next thing he knows, he is stabbed by a faction of senators wishing to put an end to his reign that they see as tyrannical and dangerous to democracy. As legend has it, Brutus is the senator to administer the coup de grace, to which Caesar responds “Et tu, Brute?”. This creates a power vacuum and civil war in Rome and its vast empire, a vacuum that would lay the groundwork for Emperor Augustus (Octavian, Caesar’s great nephew/adoptive son) to become the first Roman Emperor. We call this day the Ides of March after the Latin word for the date, as well as the famous prediction to Julius Caesar by the fortune teller: “Beware the Ides of March.”

13/03/2024

Now for a very interesting !

March 13th, 1991: Last spring, I had the privilege of viewing a movie called “Paris is Burning”, which came out in this date in 1991 in New York City, in a course at Alfred University called S*x, Power, and Politics. The film explores the culture behind the drag ball scene in New York, and it paints a never before seen picture of how this culture has affected society and where some misconceptions about it may lie.

12/03/2024



March 12th, 1894: Coca-Cola, one of America’s biggest lines of soda pop, is sold in a bottle for the first time. It had been a fountain drink for all of its existence until that point in time when Joseph Biedenharn, a candy factory owner from Vicksburg, Mississippi, bottled it for the company after it had asked him to do so.

11/03/2024

Talkin’ History Artifacts: Constantine the Great

11/03/2024

We’re late, but it’s time for !

March 10th, 1864: Ulysses S. Grant’s commission as Commander in Chief of the United States Army is signed by Abraham Lincoln. Known as “Unconditional Surrender Grant”, the general would lead the Union to victory in the American Civil War and would serve as President of the United States later on. He is remembered as one of the greatest generals in American history.

09/03/2024

Time for a very dreary .

March 9th, 1997: Rapper Biggie Smalls, one of the brightest young artists of his time, is shot to death on the streets of Los Angeles. His death was thought to be caused by an ongoing feud between rappers from the East Coast and the West Coast. One of his rivals, Tupac Shakur, was gunned down in Las Vegas just six months before.

08/03/2024



March 8th, 1917: The February Revolution (Known as such because of Russia’s use of the Julian Calendar) begins in St. Petersburg after years of turmoil from World War I and other grievances amongst the people and military of the Russian Empire. One week later, Tsar Nicholas II abdicated his throne, creating a power vacuum and Provisional Government that would ultimately be overthrown months later by Vladimir Lenin and his Bolsheviks.

08/03/2024

Time for a very late .

March 7th, 1876: Alexander Graham Bell patented his telephone, one of the most important communication innovations of the modern era. This new technology allowed people to communicate instantaneously from practically anywhere and allowed for important information to get where it needed to go in a faster time frame. The phone has evolved over time, developing into our modern cell phones, but the concept is still very similar.

06/03/2024

Time for today’s !

March 6th, 1981: Walter Cronkite signs off his final broadcast of “CBS Nightly News” after decades of covering events at home and abroad. He is still remembered as one of the most recognizable and influential news anchors in history.

05/03/2024

Today’s is a complete winner!

March 5th, 1770: In front of the Customs House in Boston, rioters gathered and threw snowballs at a British sentry who struck a young apprentice with his musket. As more soldiers arrived, the daring by the crowd to fire at them continued, to the point where that is exactly what happened. Three men were killed instantly, including Crispus Attucks, the first African American killed in the American Revolution. A few of the soldiers were convicted of manslaughter, with the others getting off easier after they were defended by future American President John Adams. This event is known as the Boston Massacre, and was certainly not the first, but one of the opening acts of America’s long struggle for independence.

04/03/2024



March 4th, 1861: Abraham Lincoln is inaugurated as President of the United States. Hated by factions in both parties, Lincoln’s inauguration was a cause of the American Civil War, and he would lead the Union (North) to victory and abolish slavery for the 4+ years he was President. He is widely considered the greatest President of all time.

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