Tyler Wolanin

@michaelbd A big issue in the state elections 1924-1926 especially. I wrote a paper on the Klan-adjacent efforts to disenfranchise Franco-American voters on the Maine-New Brunswick border in that timeframe: digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/fac-original-r…

Went down a little rabbit hole. In the 1920s Maine arguably had the largest percentage population as members of the KKK in New England- 23 percent of the state. Hardly any blacks in the state. The organization was focused on keeping down French Canadians.

@VK_HM Has Burden Day masterminded everything from behind the scenes? Is Blaise Sanford the Valonquar? Bolt-on for William de la Touche Clancey?

Imagining if there was a fandom for Gore Vidal’s Narratives of Empire books that was like the ASOIAF fandom. Folks there’s a seven book cycle with lots of political intrigue that’s finished. It’s uh also literary historical fiction so probably not a lot of takers here

I don't get modern dating. It's all "hey wanna come over and watch the parliament channel?" and you're like "obviously!" and then they have THE NERVE to put on the amending stage of a bill but haven't printed copies of the bill and the amendments for you. Chivalry is dead!

Article published in Maine History in 2025.

My latest article, on a 1932 contested election in northern Maine, is now available online, courtesy of the Franco-American Collection at the University of Southern Maine! Former governor Ralph Owen Brewster blamed utility companies for "stealing" the Congressional election...

Emily Dickinson spoke with a thick Massachusetts accent that would have disgusted us

@HeerJeet @lionel_trolling Would love to read something about that that isn't one segment in a Parenti book.

@lionel_trolling The next step is looking into the plane crash that killed Walter Reuther.

I'm a Paul Wellstone assasination truther

@shreyabasu003 Yes, and you can unlock Luigi! mcsweeneys.net/articles/how-t…

Is there a video game adaptation of In Search of Lost Time

@MSzafranski413 @PokerCookieM Where he had basically done his only job on his first day by taking out David I. Walsh. He didn't even bother running for a second term.

@PokerCookieM @TylerWolanin Why he said "screw this" and became Western Mass's last US senator.

Another reading to dislike McCarthy is he stole the title of most recent speaker to need multiple votes from Western Massachusetts's own Frederick Gillet. @TylerWolanin

@MSzafranski413 Always bittersweet to see a record be broken. wmasspi.com/2023/01/some-h…

Republican dominance would not be threatened again until the New Deal, and wouldn't crack until the '50s.

In the final tally, Kennedy won the towns that had, prior to Prohibition, voted to allow liquor. He also won the larger and more diverse towns. The Republican candidate, Frederick Fleetwood, took enough rural votes to win (check out the map!) datawrapper.de/_/t7peT/?v=2

An article I wrote is now available online! It’s about a Congressional election in Vermont in 1922. vermonthistory.org/journal/92/VH9…