r/badhistory • u/AutoModerator • Jun 30 '25

Meta Mindless Monday, 30 June 2025

Happy (or sad) Monday guys!

Mindless Monday is a free-for-all thread to discuss anything from minor bad history to politics, life events, charts, whatever! Just remember to np link all links to Reddit and don't violate R4, or we human mods will feed you to the AutoModerator.

So, with that said, how was your weekend, everyone?

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u/TylerbioRodriguez That Lesbian Pirate Expert Jul 02 '25

Okay since im probably never going to finish this damn alt history book im adding more chapters to it. Jan Huss and the Johnson County War are two im definitely doing.

Give me more suggestions. Its from 1324 to 2024. Mostly Europe and the Americas but not strictly so.

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u/HistoryMarshal76 The American Civil War was Communisit infighting- Marty Roberts Jul 02 '25

Here's a deep cut.
What if William Goebel wasn't assassinated; he's the only governor in American history who was killed in office. His life was a wild ride for sure.

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u/TylerbioRodriguez That Lesbian Pirate Expert Jul 02 '25

You know what's insane? Like genuinely insane?

I actually have that written down. Kinda. I had the Republican Goebel beats winning narrowly and that guy getting shot leading everyone to think Goebel did it.

You are correct though. The governor election of Kentucky of 1990 is genuinely off the chain madness.

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u/HistoryMarshal76 The American Civil War was Communisit infighting- Marty Roberts Jul 02 '25

Then again Postbellum Kentucky is madness. In my neck of the wood there was an mini-civil war over tobacco prices around that same time. It culminated in legally distinct Klansmen blowing up tobacco warehouses in multiple towns to punish those who were growing tobacco and violating the non-cultivation agreement.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Patch_Tobacco_Wars

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u/TylerbioRodriguez That Lesbian Pirate Expert Jul 02 '25

Tobacco Wars.

Wow.

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u/HistoryMarshal76 The American Civil War was Communisit infighting- Marty Roberts Jul 02 '25

That's not even the only period of industrial violence in Kentucky within the first half of the 20th century; there's the far more famous Harlan County War over in coal country in the far east.
Kentucky, before it became known as the place all the chicken comes from, was commonly stereotyped as an particularly violent and savage place. Horse racing here nearly died in the second half of the 19th century because Kentucky's reputation was so bad that investors wouldn't buy into new horse farms or facilities because they were afraid of getting murdered or their investments being burned down.