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Joined April 2009
RT @DysonCollege: 📚 #PaceU American Studies Adjunct Professor Philip Kadish examines how government records were distorted to support racis….
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Two stories from the 19th century about government records being falsified to foment distrust of nonwhite Americans.
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RT @UVA_History: Professor Elizabeth R. Varon wrote a column for the History News Network about what Vice President JD Vance excludes from….
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What JDÂ Vance excludes from the history of the Civil War and immigration.
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RT @rhapsodybooks: Fascinating research on the cookbook’s central role in fashioning and circulating domestic ideologies in the 19th centur….
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For every moment of historical significance, there is a figure — often hidden — who fed the figures we do remember.
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RT @emmagarman: With Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein out soon, I consider the immortality of Goth Mother Mary Shelley's book, via Franken….
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RT @devintoshea: up now on @myHNN — Henry Boernstein — friend of Marx, one of the first St. Louis novelists, socialist scourge of Missouri….
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RT @EranZelnik: My piece about the dangerous memory of Lexington and Concord came out with @myHNN today. It will be 250 years to the famou….
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How a myth about farmers taking on the British has fueled more than two centuries of exclusionary nationalism.
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RT @ProfligateGrace: “We need to get the bastards out of here.”. History matters.
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Jimmy Carter is known for his defense of human rights worldwide. But in 1979, he threatened to deport thousands of Iranian student protesters.
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RT @CNZander: I wrote about Thaddeus Stevens and the power of the purse for @myHNN. Check it out, if you're so inclined. .
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The Radical Republican oversaw federal spending at the dawn of Reconstruction. How did his support for Black equality affect his leadership in the House?
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The group that authored the #AHA25 #scholasticide resolution, @Histpeace, has a new petition drive underway to convince the AHA Council to reverse its veto of the resolution and allow all AHA members to vote on it:
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RT @devintoshea: up now on HNN, check out the write-up on the KNIGHTS OF THE GOLDEN CIRCLE — Booth, Bickley, opium, and buried (racist) tre….
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RT @bunkhistory: Each year, we sift through thousands of online articles, essays, blogs, and newsletters that deal, in one way or another,….
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Bunk's editors share their favorite history writing from the year just concluded.
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Read an excerpt from Marlene L. Daut’s “The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe.” @AAKnopf
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Queen Marie-Louise outlived most of her family, yet her story about the revolution and its aftermath was rarely consulted by those writing the era’s history.
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Queen Marie-Louise outlived most of her family, yet her story about the revolution and its aftermath was rarely consulted by those writing the era’s history.
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Queen Marie-Louise outlived most of her family, yet her story about the revolution and its aftermath was rarely consulted by those writing the era’s history.
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RT @emmagarman: The 3rd in my series on found documents in fiction, @myHNN, looks at arguably the genre's GOAT: Vladimir Nabokov's PALE FIR….
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The curious tale of when the Christmas Bird Count sparked a protracted court battle in the 1970s.
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RT @rflorezsantiago: Wrote an essay about a curious episode from the 1970's that include data the Christmas Bird Count, the fight to ban DD….
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In 1973, the Christmas Bird Count formed the basis for a press freedom case that centered on the impacts of DDT.
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In 1973, the Christmas Bird Count formed the basis for a press freedom case that centered on the impacts of DDT.
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Read our last newsletter feature of the year, from Santiago FlĂłrez.
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In 1973, the Christmas Bird Count formed the basis for a press freedom case that centered on the impacts of DDT.
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