#1890s

Ren

Mandalorian_Ren

So now the VA is lying. First off no one has done enough to help with veteran or military suicide. Second Obama & GW Bush both signed Veteran suicide laws.

Thomas Frank

thomasfrank_

1. Hello twitter. I've written a new book. The subject is populism. And: the people who hate populism. The recurring conflict between these two poles of our political life. 2.

lemon boy.

mcrvirgil

me, the king of cliche tropes ANGST BREAK sibling angst part 1also,, im damn proud of this paragraph so basically it's a soulmate au but with siblings (set in 1890s

Matt Glassman

MattGlassman312

I really enjoyed the new @SuzanneMettler1 and @r_lieberman book, Four Threats. I highly recommend it, for the following reaons. 1/https://www.amazon.com/Four-Threats-Recurring-American-Democracy/dp/1250244420 First, it's not an anti-Tru

Willard Foxton Todd

WillardFoxton

Mild rant: The thing I find incredible about the "oh Rhodes was a man of his time" chat is how historically illiterate it is.Rhodes was INCREDIBLY controversial in his own

Dartmoor Trust Archive

dartmoorarchive

Hallsands VillageWhilst the fishermen are out at sea community washing lines fill the beach. Late 1890s Behind this calm scene, trouble was escalating for the village.The off-shore dredging was well

Gray Connolly

GrayConnolly

Small thread here as "But Secularism" is in the news and Australia has always been a pluralist not a secular nation. We share the British Crown & most of our

Sarita

latintaesnegra

My grandpa was part of the first generation of high school graduates in his family. Although he earned a diploma, the school stopped in the 11th grade because it was

Dr Bob Nicholson

DigiVictorian

This week I've been reading Victorian erotica — *FOR LEGITIMATE RESEARCH PURPOSES* — and I can't stop laughing at it. If you were trying to write a parody of a

Dan Jackson

northumbriana

Rowton House in Newcastle (since demolished). Lord Rowton founded a chain of these in London in the 1890s as hostels for working men (in place of the squalid lodging houses

Andy Henson

elaptics

A thread of my thoughts and notes from Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son. A book by George Horace Lorimer. It contains letters from John Graham, an American

Branden Hunter

JustCallmeBHunt

William D. Chappelle was @DaveChappelle’s great-grandfather. He was enslaved at birth in 1857 in South Carolina and went on to become educated and President of Allen University, a HBCU in

William Ottow

Ottow_da_fe

I’m currently reading Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States. In recounting the 1896 election, stop me when this sounds familiar: “Even the hint of Populism in the

Suman

steadyblogging

the Vox link about the LA bicycle highway (& more!) is an oldie (2015) but a goodie:https://twitter.com/travis_robert/status/1254455597573066752 the "more" about which I learned via the article includes: --the 1890s Hotchkiss

Nick Cohen

NickCohen4

Taking on Daniel Hannan is so easy it seems like sadism. But just because a target is easy doesn’t mean you shouldn’t hit it. The slave trade was opposed at

Eric Atcheson, champion of preaching and naps

RevEricAtcheson

"Patriot Church" is one of those religious brands that just oozes contempt for the rest of us in our Not-Patriot Churches.And in "Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead"-level news, I