#Confederacy

Pieter Friedrich

FriedrichPieter

I was raised as a Christian fundamentalist and used to write - in full belief - in support of basing society on the laws of the Torah (first five books)

Civil War Humor

CivilWarHumor

Happy birthday, you ol’ Rock of Chickamauga, you. Yes, 204 years ago, my favorite major general of the Civil War, George Henry Thomas, was born in Southampton County, Virginia. Doctors

Vince Milum

ReasonedMind

(This is the first of several related tweets dealing with tonight's tearing-down of the statute of Albert Pike)As a part Native American (Cherokee) I would like to weigh-in on the

Lyman Stone 石來民

lymanstoneky

Hmmm....You might be able to hit a handful with this. But the precedent from e.g the "Crittenden Compromise" is that even flagrantly unconstitutional legislative votes deeply hostile to the union

UnKoch My Campus

UnKochCampus

The Koch network has been funding white supremacy for years. The GOP insurrection is further evidence. We've called it out and so have many others. Disrupting the Koch network is

karen - #BlackLivesMatter now more than ever

thesistakaren

As Black History Month begins, use this time to further your understanding of the century of oppression of Black Americans b/w the Civil War & the Civil Rights Movement -

Dave Lieber, CSP

DaveLieber

TULSA RACE MASSACRE & DENTON, TX1.The same year of the Tulsa slaughter in 1921, something similar happened in Denton, Texas. A hundred years ago, there was a thriving middle-class community

The Editorial Board

johnastoehr

Has the GOP lost faith in Trump? by @johnastoehr https://stoehr.substack.com/p/has-the-gop-lost-faith-in-trump?r=5msd&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=twitter 1. I disliked President George W. Bush immensely. I though

Brooke Binkowski

brooklynmarie

Now ask me again why I’m so alarmed about QAnon (a weaponized conspiracy theory about a blood-drinking baby-stealing pedophile cabal secretly controlling media/banks/politics, and whose adherents recently stopped saying “the

RayBoomhower

RayBoomhower

Civil War heroes Lew Wallace and Oliver P. Morton represent Indiana in the U.S. Capitol--Wallace in Statuary Hall and Morton in the Hall of Columns. They know insurrectionists when they

Madeley

Madeley

Shall I wade into Welsh Twitter's current discourse about Yes Cymru wanting right-wing support for independence? Oh go on then, why not. On the face of it, should independence advocates

Krishnan

cvkrishnan

Let me be as frank as possible @dhume. India and many other countries find global liberalism and certain forms of universalism as itself a form of conspiracy by developed countries

Omar Wasow

owasow

One way to make sense of the last 24 hours — the historic victories in Georgia and pro-Trump siege on the Capitol — is as a long-run contest between two

Ellie Reed

esreed

Yeah yeah I wrote a thread. SO. In 2011, I was lucky enough to get to travel to Berlin and Munich with a friend. I had never been to Germany,

molly conger

socialistdogmom

i can’t recommend this tour highly enough. drs schmidt and douglas tell the story of charlottesville’s confederate monuments properly.https://twitter.com/Jalane_Schmidt/status/1154075551029706752 i enjoyed this tour so much last time th

Pete Davis 🌱

PeteDDavis

One of my favorite twists of American history is that John Brown’s raiders took George Washington’s great-grandnephew Lewis Washington hostage. The whole episode is cinematic: Colonel Lewis Washington was a

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