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1001 Histories
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1001 Histories is a personal blog at 1001histories.blogspot.com about history. Since 2017, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-14, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for posts on Indigenous history, including Native land dispossession, the Homestead Act's effects, and the Canadian murders of Indigenous women. Commenters cite the posts as sources rather than judging the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
I'm part Cherokee. I'm trying to learn about that aspect of my heritage. My father was very white passing and I believe he actively tried to convince the world to perceive him as white to sidestep the horrifying impact of racism. I imagine Natives probably don't feel so positive about the success of the homestead act. A thing I wrote previously that really opened my eyes to how insidiously Native land and wealth was…
Comment linking /2017/08/the-little-known-bear-river-massacre.html
on “Unable to Post Bail? You Will Pay for That for Many Years”Submitted The Last Days of the People Who Traveled on Foot as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIt's extremely one-sided. Europeans showed up and assumed the land was unoccupied because the people already here related to it differently. This is the most even-handed, compassionate for both sides approach I can think of for explaining how things went so very wrong without assuming the settlers were being intentionally malicious(and I happened to write it): https://1001histories.blogspot.com/2017/08/the-little-kn…
Comment linking /2017/08/the-little-known-bear-river-massacre.html
on “Murders and disappearances of Indigenous women called a 'Canadian genocide'”- Mz · 2017-08-17
Submitted The Birth of the Cartoon as a story · 2 points
HN discussion I can see a few problems. I'm not an expert in SEO, so take this all with a grain of salt. First, you have a number of websites hosted by blogger (*.blogspot.com). It is my impression that blogs with their own domain name get more traffic than those with blogspot as the domain name. If I am serious about my blog, I buy a domain name (a .com) and use it. You can still have blogger host the blog fwiw. Here's advice fr…
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on “Ask HN: Self promotion?”- Mz · 2017-08-10
Submitted The Little Known Bear River Massacre as a story · 1 points
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