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Eric Gonzaba
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Historian of LGBTQ culture & nightlife. Assistant Professor of American Studies @CSUF. Probably listening to Motown or disco right now. He/him. @GayGuides
Fullerton, CA Katılım Ağustos 2014
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Lowell, MA itself had more cotton spindles than the entire Confederacy.
If the Confederacy had convinced its fellow slave states of Delaware and Maryland in secession, the South’s manufacturing capacity would’ve practically doubled.
Miles Smith IV@IVMiles
The Confederacy’s entire manufacturing output in 1861 was 1/4 that of New York State’s. Just an insane statistic to me.
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Race, sexuality, and nightlife historian to speak at Lycoming College dlvr.it/TRGd1M
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lol I totally feel this, but personally think it’s one of those random little things that builds American civic nationalism.
ashley ray@theashleyray
gettysburg address, why did my school make us learn that
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The Gonzabas have been IU football fans for a long time, even when they barely won a few games a season. So proud tonight. #CFBPlayoff
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Incredible obituary in NYT for Betty Reid Soskin, who served as a National Park Service ranger until age 100 and witnessed so much in her life.
Her great grandma was born into slavery. Then she stood with America’s first black president.
“What could be more American than that?”
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Jim Beam, the largest American bourbon distiller, is closings it flagship facility next year. This follows a string of distillery closures after more than two decades of rapid economic growth in the industry. Analysts say it's linked to trade wars and tariffs.
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The criteria of “can you tell the story of America without <insert person>??” would lead to a bust of Osama Bin Laden being installed in Statuary Hall.
John Daniel Davidson@johnddavidson
You can absolutely tell the story of Virginia without telling the story of Barbara Rose Johns, whom no one had heard of before today. But you cannot tell the story of Virginia—or America—without telling the story of Robert E. Lee.
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The number of future public history / public memory MA theses / PhD dissertations that are gonna be written about these idiotic plaques is astronomical
Saagar Enjeti@esaagar
Here's an image of Trump's plaque on Andrew Jackson that I have obtained in which he somehow inserted himself into Truly incredible stuff
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These are the places where American students learn about the world. These cuts are one sign — I know there are others — of a country that is shrinking away.
dailytarheel.com/article/a4ee07…
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Genuinely curious how Trump frames the presidency of Franklin Pierce
Andrew Leyden@PenguinSix
The White House has added text to the Wall of Fame next to the Rose Garden.
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After decades of pulling apart, the parties now present almost exactly inverse images of each other in the House, demographically & economically., That divergence explains much of how the House does-and doesn't -function today. My take. bloomberg.com/opinion/featur…
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“Because this is not really a strategy document. It is a suicide note. If the ideas within it are used to shape policy, then U.S. influence in the world will rapidly disappear, and America’s ability to defend itself and its allies will diminish” theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/12/…
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How this vile, disgusting, and immoral behavior has become normalized in the United States is something our descendants will study in school, to the shame of our generation.
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It’s widely accepted among American historians that the colonies before the American Revolution largely hated each other. It makes their alliance within a decade of British victory in the French and Indian War even more remarkable
Xi Van Fleet@XVanFleet
I just started watching Ken Burns’s documentary The American Revolution. Knowing his political leanings, I paid close attention to the details. One moment immediately stood out in episode 1. In discussing the First Continental Congress and the delegates from the thirteen colonies, historian Stacy Schiff described them as people essentially from “different countries” and “different religions.” That framing is factually wrong. Distinct Christian denominations are not different religions, and the thirteen colonies were not foreign nations to one another. Presenting them this way subtly reframes the American founding as a product of multiculturalism. This is a soft Marxist reinterpretation of history—one that distorts the reality of the founding era.
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Ask AI GW his thoughts on the US’s standing army lol
Future Adam Curtis B-Roll@adamcurtisbroll
Glenn Beck previews an AI George Washington on his show, December 2025.
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The only live news report of the attack on the US Naval base at Pearl Harbor, in Oahu, Hawaii, on this day, 1941, more than 2,400 Americans killed. (Courtesy Smithsonian Channel.)
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