Guy who isn’t using his masters degree in history. Paleontology, archaeology, film scores, hockey, cryptozoology and supernatural nonsense, and politics. I know a little about a lot because my brain is constantly scattered.
The William and Mary Quarterly forum on the recently discovered John Dickinson documents, revealing his previously unknown secret attempt to prevent the American Revolution, is now available online! The WMQ has generously made the issue open access for the next month. muse.jhu.edu/issue/57168
*Trojan historian watching as the Achaeans break down the gates* Wow, my civilization is undergoing a complex transformation from a heavily centralized and stratified administrative society to a more socially-fragmented modality of living in which material culture is dispersed amidst smaller sites.
Apparently not part of Western Civilization (incomplete list): Homer, Socrates, Plato, democracy, Aquinas, Shakespeare, liberty, Locke, Montesquieu, Superman, NATO, vaccines Western Civilization that Must Be Defended: Carl Schmitt, the Confederacy, Green M&Ms in heels, the movie 300, domestic abuse
It’s one of the true pleasures of the job - historians get to skip the whole “this isn’t the time” commentary and have at it. Graham was a plague on the Senate, a chickenhawk, and one of the most accomplished hypocrites in this country’s recent history.
Thomas LecaqueTo be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us.
To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us.
Most of all, Lindsey Graham should be remembered as a passionate defender of rapists.
Why is Chuck Schumer fabricating quotes by the Founders? Why is he carrying water for the White Christian Nationalist movement's attempts to paint America as a Christian nation? We call on him to retract these fabricated statements, correct the record, and apologize. Sign the petition NOW!
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pickett's charge is one of the stupidest military maneuvers ever ordered and I do not have to die on that hill because so many confederates did it for me
Ken ChildsEvery year around this time I watch Gettysburg, and every year I'm so impressed as to how both Ronald Maxwell and Martin Sheen do a great job making Lee look like an absolute dumbass for four straight hours without being obvious about it.
I keep thinking about this line from Mamdani's victory speech: “We won because we insisted that no longer would politics be something that is done to us. Now it is something that we do.”
Help Me Buy the Enemy's Archives #CivilWarMemory 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
Help Me Buy the Enemy's ArchivesThe Southern Historical Society Papers were written to glorify the Confederacy. I need them to recover the people it enslaved.open.substack.com
An Orlando green card applicant was given permission to travel to Egypt after his father’s death. When he returned, ICE sent him to a PA concentration camp for six months. During which he suffered vision loss and lost 45 pounds. He wasn’t informed of kidney disease diagnosis for 2 months.
‘I lost everything’: Orlando resident returns home after months in ICE custody in Pa.The green card applicant was allowed to leave the U.S. temporarily to settle his father’s affairs — only to be turned over to ICE on his return.www.orlandosentinel.com