Adam Rothman
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U.S. historian, butter-and-egg man. Author of Beyond Freedom's Reach. Writing tip: INSERT WORDS!
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I'm teaching the history of slavery in North America this semester. Anybody want to follow along here on Twitter if I post sources, readings, etc?
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Darth Vader was a Jedi.
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My wife, our 10-year-old daughter, and I all have Covid. My wife and I are breakthrough cases. We're not in the hospital, but it's no picnic either. Be careful out there, friends.
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I'm going to have to rename my Civil War class "Great Moments in Legitimate Political Discourse."
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If teachers could indoctrinate students, more people would use apostrophes correctly.
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Did a guillotine write this?
It’s a modern dilemma for the ultra-wealthy: a yacht awaits, but how to safely reach it without exposure to the germ-ridden masses?
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Don't forget that Trump made up a fake Civil War battle on one of his golf courses
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Now, I'm only a Jew. But I have read the New Testament, out of curiosity. And from what I recall, the Good Samaritan did not choke anybody to death.
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"In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread." - Anatole France (1894)
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Princeton History PhD candidate Xiyue Wang kept working on his dissertation and learned two languages while in an Iranian prison so I really don't want to hear about it from the rest of you.
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Counterpoint: the first stage of globalization was all about slavery.
The first stage of globalization was all about optimism. Coronavirus changes everything (via
@bopinion
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I am increasingly convinced that more historians should be making short, informative videos about history for the public.
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My expert analysis, as a historian, is that things are going to get worse before they get even more worse.
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Would have been easier in Alabama, where Tuscaloosa.
It took three days of toil to free this magnificent woolly mammoth tusk from the iron hard ground. Photo by Evgenia Arbugáeva
#IceAgeIvory
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I’m a historian by training. My undergraduate and graduate degrees are in history.
Let me teach you something.
Cite your sources.
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Well, you've convinced me. Thanks for the enthusiastic response, folks. I'm amazed. Here goes
#GUhist286
. This course is designed for my
@Georgetown
undergrads. I'll post relevant materials on this thread over the next few months and try to keep up as best I can.
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Even in this map Biden wins the popular vote.
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Kentucky did not ratify the 13th Amendment until 1976.
Sen. Mitch McConnell: "We've tried to deal with our original sin of slavery by fighting a civil war, by passing landmark civil rights legislation. We elected an African American president."
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Many thanks to the anonymous student who told me, on a course evaluation, "Your classroom charisma has all the captivating qualities of a house plant, which, I am certain, would teach this course in a more engaging manner if given the opportunity."
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In the late 19th century, the Supreme Court eviscerated the right to equal protection and the right to vote that had been explicitly written into the 14th and 15th Amendments. The Court nullified these rights for 50 years and only a massive political movement revived them.
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I'm really impressed by Brazil's presidential election system where the candidate with the most votes is the winner.
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I'm overwhelmed by the well-wishes. Thank you to all. For the many who asked, I got Moderna & my wife got Pfizer, and so far our experience has been almost identical.
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I'm happy to announce that Georgetown now has a Center for the Study of Slavery and Its Legacies. Plus, I'm the Director!
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I got the most extraordinary email today from a former student telling me how much a reading that I had assigned had shaped her thinking about the world. What an act of kindness it is to tell a teacher something like that.
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U.S. politics and society becomes easier to understand when you recognize that the military, prisons, and policing are massive jobs programs with huge economic impacts.
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Bank runs, child labor, company towns... What century is this?
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One of the arguments against impeachment last year was that the decision to remove the president should be left to the voters. Well, we voted him out. What is the argument now?
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It is unconscionable to me that our schoolchildren are being taught the "LAW" OF GRAVITY! Who passed this law anyway? What about my right to float high and away like a BALLOON even unto the HEAVENS?
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If you want to know what historians in the future will say about 2021, you'd better provide funding for history departments today.
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Imagine if the person who got fewer votes became president.
@BernieSanders
Red & orange areas have the same population. Imagine if orange elected our president every election & red was completely ignored. Exactly why we need to keep the Electoral College.
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I guess he wanted to frame Obama himself.
Trump will not be unveiling Barack Obama's official White House portrait, according to people familiar with the matter. The tradition will likely be skipped for the first time in decades.
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It is tragic that the only language our society seems to have for the collective effort to survive is "war."
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Historians would rather tweet a 47-tweet thread than finish their grading 1/47
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Just because you don't know something doesn't mean there's been a conspiracy to hide it. Maybe you don't read enough.
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Who reads the 3/5ths clause and thinks, "God did this"?
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Just heard a respected journalist on NPR say that the United States has had a "peaceful, stable democracy for nearly 250 years" and I'm like
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I think "racist" is the correct word here. "Racial" is vague and euphemistic. What exactly is included or meant by a "racial past"?
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If you go to the archives, you're a researcher. If the archives come to you, you're in trouble.
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People who know American history do not say that.
The people that know me and know the history of our Country say that I am the hardest working President in history. I don’t know about that, but I am a hard worker and have probably gotten more done in the first 3 1/2 years than any President in history. The Fake News hates it!
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So I have gained 20k new followers since yesterday. Hello there! I'm a historian of 19th century America. I teach at Georgetown. Hoya Saxa! I've written a couple of books. I'm the curator of the Georgetown Slavery Archive website. Beware, I like puns.
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"The President of the United States is impeachable at any time during his continuance in office." - Federalist 39 (Madison)
Our founding documents provide for duly elected presidents who serve with “the consent of the governed,” not at the pleasure of the United States Congress.
Let the people decide.
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I am a historian.
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Perhaps, in retrospect, we have spent too much on wars and not enough on public health.
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My daughter turns 10 today. Give her a few likes for her birthday, ok? Thanks.
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Monarchy and racism are cut from the same cloth: a hereditary right to rule.
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If you have to google which party Lincoln belonged to then you have already failed.
Want to see for yourself how
@Google
lies? Or how progressives have faked the history of the civil war era? Google “Abraham Lincoln which party” and see what comes up. This!
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The Republican National Committee is tweeting a fake Lincoln quotation.
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I don't know about you, but a billionaire tax would strongly disincentivize me from becoming a billionaire.
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The worst atrocities of human history have been committed by its most "civilized" powers.
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This was actually the Republican platform in 1864.
The modern Left: they cancel Gone With the Wind...and then burn Atlanta.
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If Jews did control everything, there would be less anti-semitism.
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Going to write my next book about highways so I can call myself a roads scholar.
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"In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread." - Anatole France (1894)
You can now be arrested in Glendale for asking someone in a vehicle for money, standing on a traffic median, and more after a recent city council vote.
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Who's still with me?
#GUhist286
I'm teaching the history of slavery in North America this semester. Anybody want to follow along here on Twitter if I post sources, readings, etc?
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Wow, him too?
POTUS talks about how much better his life was before he became president in this interview.
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Really one of the greatest stories in American history
#OnThisDay
in 1862, enslaved man Robert Smalls commandeered a Confederate ship, piloted it out of Charleston’s harbor to US Navy’s blockade—and to freedom. He later served as a Republican in SC State House & Senate & represented SC in US House of Representatives.
#twitterstorians
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Life expectancy in the US has declined by nearly two years.
The United States is the only major economy in the world where the economy as a whole is stronger now than before the pandemic.
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Mississippi's anti-CRT bill bans the teaching of specified "tenants."
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Many people use the word "race" when they mean "racism." It may seem purely semantic, but it's quite pernicious. For example, I got an email this morning from the NY Times with the subject line, "The N.F.L.'s race problem." I trust you see the issue.
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"The only way to make the Fugitive Slave Law a dead letter is to make half a dozen or more dead kidnappers." - Frederick Douglass, 1852
Of all the PragerU propaganda you've seen, this might be the worst.
Frederick Douglass takes a dig at BLM while praising the founding fathers as abolitionists and calling the Constitution a "glorious liberty document."
Florida is letting schools play this stuff.
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Students, make sure you turn in the final version of your paper, and not the next-to-last one.
#grading
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K is the Kidnapper, from the Anti-Slavery Alphabet (1846)
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Over the years quite a few students have told me that if they could do college over again, they'd major in History. There is something to that. We only recognize the value of history when it's a little too late. The good news is they can read history for the rest of their lives.
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In 1850, a proposal to identify slaves by name in the census was rejected by the Senate. One southern senator objected that the names of slaves was "no useful information." Another contended that owners of large numbers of slaves did not know the children's names...
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We literally had slavery in this country
today's SCOTUS decisions weren't too bad, but Gorsuch's statement that COVID regulations were "the greatest intrusions on civil liberties in the peacetime history of this country" is an immediate contender for the dumbest thing ever placed into the Supreme Court reporter
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Shout out to everyone who is curious about the things that happened between the American Revolution and Civil War.
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The president who staked his legacy on protecting monuments incited a riot that ransacked the Capitol.
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The Bidens picking up bagels after church is the Catholic-Jewish alliance I've been waiting for.
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Academic Summer
Day 1: Freedom! Joy!
Day 2: Oh no, the summer is slipping away.
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It's true that many slaves learned valuable skills, but this statement has some factual errors, like describing Paul Cuffe and James Forten as shoemakers to prove the point. Both men were free-born, and neither was a shoemaker.
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I definitely overprepared to teach my 9-year old daughter's Girl Scout troop about the history of women's suffrage
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Guys I'm donating money for a college dorm of my own design
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This is a key point. Granger did not bring news of emancipation to Texas. The news had already arrived. He brought the firepower to put it into effect.
#Juneteenth
"Very often Juneteenth is presented as a story of 'news' of the Emancipation Proclamation 'traveling slowly' to the Deep South and Texas, but it was really a story of POWER traveling slowly, and of freedom being SEIZED." --
@wolverinewilson
Read ⬇️
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My god. They better stop teaching Kant in elementary schools.
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A far greater number, 24,000 black soldiers from Louisiana fought for the Union. One freedman told a Union officer, "We not only knows how to shoot, but who to shoot."
"...free blacks in New Orleans pledged their support of the Confederacy, declaring: 'The free colored population of Louisiana… own slaves, and they are dearly attached to their native land… and they are ready to shed their blood for her defense.'"
--Roger McGrath, historian
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Teachers! Here's a wonderfully teachable online collection of Frederick Douglass's writings, curated by one of Georgetown's outstanding undergrads. It was her summer research project. I hope you find it useful.
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This is priceless.
D'Souza: Not a single Republican owned slaves.
Everyone else: Here are some Republicans who owned slaves.
D'Souza:
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Rosa Parks's grandfather kept a shotgun at hand to defend against the Klan. She recalled, "I stayed awake many nights, keeping vigil with Grandpa. I wanted to see him kill a Ku Kluxer. He declared the first to invade our home would surely die."
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"President" Trump
Fake News
@CNN
& MSDNC keep talking about “Lt. Col.” Vindman as though I should think only how wonderful he was. Actually, I don’t know him, never spoke to him, or met him (I don’t believe!) but, he was very insubordinate, reported contents of my “perfect” calls incorrectly, &...
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Someday historians will read this tweet as the "Cornerstone" speech of our time
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I appreciate students who speak up in class. I really do. But I get that sometimes quieter students are very engaged in the class too. It's less apparent, but they may be thinking rather than talking.
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Don't think of it as the first day of class. Think of it as a syllabus reveal party!
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