Benjamin H Johnson
@BenjaminHJohns1
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I've left this platform for same handle where the skies are blue and Nazis aren't in charge.
Joined January 2019
mucho ojo
🚨Check out this CFP! 🚨 Excited to be co-editing a special issue of The Public Historian with Delia Fernández-Jones and @DrChantelRdz on Public History in the Latinx Midwest. Proposals due May 31, articles due early next year. Send us your pitch! https://t.co/5JZ13EM7N9
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My latest interview about the Humanities and my scholarship and political activities. @AHAhistorians @HumanitiesAll
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Yeah, I Got a F#%*ing Job With a Liberal Arts Degree · Episode
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Ahead of the final night of the DNC in Chicago, every story on the front page of https://t.co/7IinbkptET right now has to do with Palestinians
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There will be no Palestinian-American voices on stage at the United Center here in Cook County — home to the largest Palestinian population in America.
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nice to see this new book get some of the attention that it deserves
"In 1919 legislative investigation, prompted by the Lege’s only Latino lawmaker, Hanson was accused of using his role to cover up Ranger misdeeds." Read more about Hanson's role in the Porvenir massacre and a shoutout to @MonicaMnzMtz' s work:
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RIP James Scott. A decent, lovely, committed man as well as an amazing scholar.
Devastated to learn that the political scientist James C. Scott recently passed away. Such a generous, brilliant, and original thinker, from "Weapons of the Weak" to "Moral Economy of the Peasant" to "Seeing Like a State" to "Against the Grain."
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On this day in 1868 the 14th Amendment, validating citizenship rights for all persons born or naturalized in the U.S. is ratified.
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big congrats to @loganjaffe for being selected as one of @NewAmerica's US@250 fellows. Recognition for her important work on NAGPRA and the repatriation of remains of Native people, and investment in work on return of land to Prairie Band Potawatomi.
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Glad to see this exhibit running in my old hometown
“It’s a tough history, but history has tough parts and if you don’t address them head on then you don’t learn from them...that’s why we thought it was important to showcase this exhibit.” - Gustavo Hinojosa, @TMAMTDallas
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Total respect to Reggie Jackson (and the cast and crew for shutting up and getting out of his way). Worth a watch.
Alex Rodriguez asked a question. Reggie Jackson answered it. (Shouts to the producer and rest of the desk for staying out of Reggie’s way and just letting him talk. I doubt they expected this answer. But it’s a great few minutes of television.) https://t.co/7WqjlppvF8
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To clarify point four, open the full photo of the recent plaque. Graffiti reads “Free Gaza from German guilt.”
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Fourth, the recent graffiti pointing to what the authors consider the mis-use of this third tradition in complicity with a contemporary murderous regime. /5
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Third, the later German disavowal of fascism with the plaque contextualizing and explaining the Nazi use of Silcher as a “memorial against the capture of the arts by racist and nationalist forces" with ceremonies in which his songs were sung in modified version to enact this. /4
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Second, the Nazi ham-handed appropriation of earlier Romantic nationalism to bolster a pathologically murderous and racist scientific/industrial nationalism (on the side of the bust of Silcher is, among other things, a German soldier from the Third Reich). /3
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According to Atlas Oscura, it is one of very monuments erected by the Nazis that still stand. There are in my reckoning four levels of historical memory/appropriation at work here. First, Silcher's typically Romantic use of folk traditions. /2
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In Tübingen to teach a course on race, violence, and memory in US history. On a shady trail on an island in the Neckar river I came upon this monument to the 19th century composer and folk musician Frederich Silcher, erected during the Nazi regime. Thread on historical memory./1
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