One of the last people born into (legal) Slavery in the USA died after being hit by a car in the 1970s.
The last ship to (illegally) bring Africans as slaves to the United States landed in Mobile Bay in 1860. There are photographs of it.
110 human cargo on an 86 foot boat.
The last known survivor from that trip died in 1940.
Earlier in his Army career, Custer attended the Confederate surrender at Appomattox (as a Union officer). He decided to keep the white dish towel that Lee used as a flag of truce (aka the true last and final Confederate flag), as a souvenir. Custer’s wife bequeathed that dish towel to the Smithsonian quite a bit later.
Back then, the point of the coins was to represent that they contained a certain weight of metal, without forcing people to weigh them out all the time.
In this vein,
In July 1938, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt gave a speech at Gettysburg to mark the 75th anniversary of the battle. 25 veterans from the original battle attended. They were filmed, on movie film, walking in the parade.
(This vignette opens the Ken Burns documentary)
And just to be clear, Polaris is not actually the “North Star” all the time. North Stardom rotates around on a 26,000 year period, as the earth precesses. That’s crazy lightning fast spinning on the time scales we’re taking about.