#Reconstruction

Tweety Foodsevelt

foodsevelt

The reason the GOP can’t win Black voters is because the one time a pol tried to figure out if they could (Jack Kemp) they yeeted him out of the

Josh Marshall

joshtpm

Very important thread. The sort of reconstruction bellingcat excels at. Multiple videos synchronized from multiple angles showing precisely what was happening when Ashli Babbitt was shot. A mob was pushing

dcmillikan

dcmillikan

Good morning all! In response to some questions I've been getting about my thesis, I'm going to post notes from a short presentation I gave to the @ArtofWarScholar program at

Gavin Schmidt

ClimateOfGavin

This is an interesting paper (and thread). I could have been expected to think it correct because it validates the models (well, one model), but there are a couple of

aderson francois 🇭🇹 14th Amendment Baby

abfrancois

1/x I suspect most people don’t care whether Princeton renames the Wilson school, especially if that gesture is meant to be it. But there is one saving grace about this

Dr. Brooks D. Simpson

BrooksDSimpson

I have often viewed the period of 1841-1880 as a period of a crisis in political legitimacy ... on many levels.Why 1841? The debate over John Tyler becoming president, followed

Rev. Jacqui Lewis, PhD

RevJacquiLewis

We can’t move on—not until there is accountability. Accountability means telling the truth; it means confession and repentance. And it means consequences for brutality and death!It means the removal of

Steven Ellis

StevenEllis74

Totally mesmerized by these latest pics of the new bar counter at Pompeii (with thanks to @MassimoOsanna and @pompeii_sites; pics by Luigi Spina). There's so much going on with this

Reagan Gomez

ReaganGomez

Watching now. This doc on the Reconstruction era on @PBS is so interesting.https://twitter.com/aewriter/status/1279107846282543105 What we don’t learn in school bout The Civil War. Many...MANY enslaved folks fled the South to

Kyle Sammin

KyleSammin

If you hate Ulysses Grant, you hate the United States of America. This iconoclasm may have started with the Confederates, but now it clearly knows no limit. The mob will

Kaitlyn Greenidge

surlybassey

Happy Haitian Independence Day! Two fascinating facts about the revolution, in addition to all the really great threads going around... Until Fredrick Douglass published his autobiography, the Haitian Constitution was

VOTE!

calvertlamon

GOOD MORNINGGGG, MISSISSIPPI! Today’s #ElectionDay , and here are a few important notes to make before you cast your vote at the polls. (If I left anything out, feel free

Erik Loomis

ErikLoomis

This Day in Labor History: December 6, 1865. Georgia ratified the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, ending slavery. Arguably, the single most important event in the history of American labor,

D.A. Bullock

BullyCreative

All these elected Republicans still covering for Trump and white supremacist insurrection IS EXACTLY white southern ex-confederates trying to infiltrate congress after the Civil War. EXACTLY. The Battle of Liberty

erin (but make it spooky)

icumwhenucry

THREAD:I am going to take some time away from my shitposting to talk about something that is very important to me: today, Halloween, marks the end of Domestic Violence Awareness

Diane Swonk

DianeSwonk

Personal news. I was diagnosed with breast cancer on December 23. I caught it early, which is a reminder of the need to keep your checkups current, despite the pandemic.

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