Historian: White Flight; The New Suburban History; Spaces of the Modern City; Fog of War; One Nation Under God; Fault Lines; Voter Suppression in US Elections.

Princeton, NJ
Joined February 2015
Kevin M. Kruse retweeted
The more people talk about my pinned thread of threads as a "mini-course" on modern American political history, the more it bugs me that it's not arranged in chronological order. So, here it is, with threads sorted together by era.
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*Colin Kaepernick has entered the chat*
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” #MLKDay
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White supremacists justifying white supremacy on MLK day is a little on the nose, but then, these assholes were never exactly subtle. They won't be missed. m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_6…
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Remembering that @HMDatMI Heather Mac Donald's worst case scenario last March was 41,000 deaths in a year newcriterion.com/blogs/dispa…
“A colossal failure at every level of government” Nearly one year after the U.S. found its first known coronavirus case, the country is hurtling toward 400,000 total deaths, and cases, hospitalizations and deaths have reached record highs. nyti.ms/3iouCJb
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FACA guarantees that the 1776 committee had to be "fairly balanced in terms of the points of view represented and the functions to be performed...." Do you *really* expect me to believe that the Trump administration ignored the law to promote its own reactionary agenda? 🤔
The 1776 Report — which makes sweeping claims about American history — has no actual American historians among its authors. Thread:
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We have not had a prominent national moment to mourn what is now 400,000 Americans who have died from covid. Tomorrow night, in his first event in DC and on the eve of his inauguration, President-elect Joe Biden aims to hold such a moment.
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NEW — 107 of the 147 Republicans who voted to overturn the election results — and disenfranchise Black voters — put out statements praising MLK today. bit.ly/2LDx4zU w/ @nvisser
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The tone of the 1776 Project is hilarious. It's like a Lost Cause history textbook from a 1950s Charleston boys school, the Phyllis Schlafly Report, and your all-caps Qanon Uncle have ABSOLUTELY HAD IT and got together to tell us WHAT's WHAT -- and how!
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I finished reading the 1776 Commission Report. It claims America is “the most just and glorious country in all of human history”--the nation's great founding truth. But anti-Americans are disregarding this great patriotic truth, the report argues. 1/11 nytimes.com/2021/01/18/us/tr…
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