
Wolfgang Hutter
@WolfgangHutter2
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Ex grad student in German history. Teacher. History/historiography/book poster. Germanophile. Rightist and Modernist.
Joined September 2020
RT @Rustyshere: Discovered another gem in the archive. States Rights Gist: A SC General of the Civil War by Walter Brian Cisco (1991). Ge….
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RT @sonnysehra: 16th-century dutch linguist johannes goropius becanus argued that dutch was the original language of creation spoken in par….
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I am so unabashedly pro-PBS, it's not even funny. Ideally, I would quadruple their budget and hand it over to @herandrews and @amconmag . It is unfortunate that it has become so ideologically toxic compared to what it was as recently as the 90's (that era of "American Experience".
John Dickerson: “Make the case for PBS.” BS from @KenBurns on @FaceTheNation: “It is the Declaration of Independence applied to the communications world. It mainly serves rural areas in which the PBS signal may be the only signal they get. They have. homeland security, crop
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"The personal is political" and it's consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
The integral connection between the formation of (objective) worldviews and (subjective) identities explains why so many defend their worldview even when reality falsifies it. Rejection of the premises of the worldview constitutes a wound to one's identity.
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RT @nfseverin1: The Democratic Sublime by Jason Frank is a great source for a summary of scholarship on Rousseau's politics (in chapter 2).….
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WJ Cash on Broadus Mitchell's "The Rise of the Cotton Mills in the South" and southern cotton textile mills as a "social enterprise" (this thesis is really fascinating to me. Even having a lot of experience with southern history, I hadn't really encountered this argument before,
Broadus Mitchell was a native Kentuckian who became a history professor at John Hopkins and ran for governor of Maryland in 1934 on a socialist ticket. Mitchell was one of the first major southern historians to adopt modern "social scientific" methods in his pioneering history of
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RT @feuilletonopfer: I once sat in on an art history seminar given by this old mitteleuropean catholic whose every word — without him even….
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