Jeff Nichols
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Chicago twitterstorian. UIC, ABD. I am also at backwardsriver over at the Bluey site. You know which one.
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At an interview conducted at the Smithsonian in 2015, Eddie van Halen answered a child’s question about his first day of school in America.
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Savoring this brutal takedown of Robert E. Lee from 1903
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This is by far the stupidest reply to any historical photo I have ever tweeted.
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@cmclymer
1990 Roger Ailes ad for Sen. McConnell. Parents “almost went broke.” when Mitch had polio, so he fights for “decent, affordable health care”
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@LPDonovan
Nifty find. Trump pressuring his future wife to pose for Playboy. Personally negotiated the fee.
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Protecting Notre-Dame Cathedral during the bombardment of Paris in the spring of 1918. BnF
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Want to give “several hundred thousand white Americans who died in the Civil War” more credit? Then take down all the monuments honoring traitors, sparing just those in cemeteries and museums.
Fox's Newt Gingrich calls The New York Times'
#1619Project
"a lie" and complains that the "several hundred thousand white Americans who died in the Civil War" don't get enough credit. Gingrich also suggests that the
#1619Project
is ultimately about impeaching Trump.
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@MaryLTrump
You may not have seen these pictures of your father from his senior year at Lehigh. I would be happy to send them to your uncle, too.
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DJs at the Cook County Jail radio station, Chicago 1958
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German reconnaissance photo of Liverpool, November 1940.
@angiesliverpool
@FromGreenhills
@Liverpool1207
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This was once Wrigleyville. Clark and Addison, Chicago 1958
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Cocarettes are made from genuine Bolivian coca leaves. Absolutely not injurious. Chicago 1883
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Showgirls from the Gaslight Club throwing snowballs, Chicago 1958
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American newsreel footage of Tottenham Hotspur beating Manchester United in an exhibition game at Yankee Stadium on June 15, 1952. National Archives.
@MemorabiliaMal
@FootballArchive
@HotspurRelated
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American soldiers playing catch put on their gas masks after a gas alarm sounded. Dravegny, France, August 1918. NARA.
@OTBaseballPhoto
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@LakotaMan1
Chief Pushnateka, who represented the Sacs and Fox at the encampment of Native Americans in Lincoln Park in Chicago in 1903. The gathering commemorated the centenary of the founding of Fort Dearborn.
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I will say it again.
Whenever someone says “I think Chicago is turning into Detroit,” what they’re really saying is “I hope Chicago turns into a wasteland so my property values will go up.” 1/
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One of the bonuses of posting historical photos of Chicago on social media is having suburbanites lecture me about how much safer Chicago was in the past.
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University of Chicago tennis team, 1927. The Black player, Richard Hudlin, went on to captain the UChicago team, desegregate St. Louis public tennis courts, and coach Althea Gibson and Arthur Ashe, along with countless students at Sumner High School in St. Louis.
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Ted Williams taking a swing in a golf tee box on Grandfather Mountain in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina in October 1974.
@OTBaseballPhoto
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Rogers Hornsby and the Chicago Daily News Free Baseball School instructing kids in Decatur, Illinois, c. 1946.
@OTBaseballPhoto
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1.4 zillion train stops between Chicago and Boston, 1859
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The Aragon Ballroom during its Cheetah Go-Go phase, Chicago 1967
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Thanksgiving at the Conscientious Objector War Prison Camp, Fort Douglas, Utah, 1919.
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Hank Gowdy and men from the 116th Infantry playing ball behind the front lines in France, August 1918. NARA.
@OTBaseballPhoto
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Polish-Americans burning Stalin and Hitler in effigy on the Far South Side, Chicago 1939
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Clapton Orient playing Leicester Fosse on 24 April 1915. The entire Orient team, which had enlisted in the British Army, marched in uniform after the match. Centre nationale du cinéma et de l’image animée.
@FootballArchive
@MemorabiliaMal
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And guys I have tweeted A LOT of historical photos of Chicago, some of which have yielded a decent number of really dumb responses.
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