Slavery, abolition, and emancipation. Board games and the representation of the past. Still suspect there’s a pony in there somewhere....
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16 Feb 2024
Patrick Rael: How the 14th Amendment relates to the 6th of January
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23 Jan 2024
@LudicaBlog's essay "Why did Nat Turner “confess”?" begins our forum in honor of @BlkPerspectives 10th anniversary!
“I want to suggest that in “confessing” Nat Turner sought the only victory left to him, which was to leave in the record his own narrative.aaihs.org/why-did-nat-turner…
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30 Dec 2023
What was the Crittenden Compromise? What did it entail? Was it truly a compromise settlement, or a series of concessions to southerners to prevent secession?
Why did Lincoln oppose it? What did Jefferson Davis say about it? What was it impact on the secession movement?
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27 Sep 2023
an NBC reporter pressed Rep. Jason Smith about the fact that some of his Biden allegations pertain to a period of time when Biden wasn't in office or a candidate for one. Smith had no answer, saying "I'm not an expert on the timeline," then got snappy with the reporter & moved on
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11 Aug 2023
Let’s admit that every reporter in DC knows but most won’t say for fear of falling out of favor with the bothsides rules of official DC: there is a two-tiered Justice System. One for Democrats, in which the most exacting focus on conflicts of interest are followed, often going …
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3 Aug 2023
6. I talked to @marceelias who explained it this way: "I walk into a bank, and I think they are wrongfully holding my money. I think my balance is $5,000, and they think my balance is zero... That doesn't excuse me from robbing the bank. I can't pull out a gun and take the money"
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28 Apr 2023
It’s worth reminding everyone over and over in the coming days what most establishment reporters will not or cannot. Kevin McCarthy and the House GOP are holding the federal govt and the US constitution hostage. They have issued a series of demands and said that if their …
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7 Apr 2023
We will not stop. We will not give up! We will continue working to build a nation that includes, not excludes, or unjustly expels. People power will always prevail! Join US at votejustinj.com the link is in our bio! #TennesseeThree
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20 Mar 2023
Black History Month: Education, Play, and the Legacies of Carter G. Woodson | William & Mary Libraries libraries.wm.edu/blog/post/b…
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17 Feb 2023
5/ Sen. Collins voted against Trump-appointee Judge Kacsmaryk's confirmation, saying his “extreme statements” on LGBTQ and reproductive rights issues “reflect poorly on [his] temperament and suggest an inability to respect precedent and to apply the law fairly and impartially.”
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1 Feb 2023
So I design many games for classroom use. I take a setting and try to distill it to it's simplest form.
Usually I go 4-6 players/teams, each with a menu of simple actions. 1 action per turn.
So, how do you distill multi-player interactions down to single actions...
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21 Jan 2023
My new piece for @Slate explores the history of Republicans calling their opposition the "Democrat Party." It turns out to be a more complicated and instructive history that I expected to find.
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13 Jan 2023
What counts as historical work, and what makes a person an historian?
@K_Ostrofsky attended #AHA23 last weekend, and was delighted to see these questions being taken seriously. Read her reflections on the conference:
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4 Dec 2022
Interesting, 1946 editorial in the York Daily Record on the dangers of the post-war version of the America First movement" "When fascism comes to this country it will come wrapped in the American flag and utter high-sounding phrases."/1
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18 Oct 2022
Just got home from a harrowing experience and it's haunting me.... This is a long thread...
This evening I took my mom on an errand, and when we arrived in the parking lot there were four white male police officers surrounding two Black teen girls. 1/16
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