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No kings! Historian. Books: Slave Country, Beyond Freedom's Reach. More: https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/00336000014RXHCAA4/adam-rothman
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The political economy of the deportation-industrial complex. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

submitted 13 hours ago • 1 comment

"An advisory committee of diverse historians helps ensure that the record of America’s history — especially classified and covert actions — remains unbiased, transparent and thorough." You-know-who just fired all of them. wapo.st/3Z37N4G [gift link]

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

The damage being done to scientific and medical research is really incalculable. It's a tragedy that will have lasting consequences for the whole world. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

Mayor Bowser’s proposed 2026 budget completely eliminates the new DC State Archives building at UDC. This last minute, irresponsible decision, which was made in secret without any input from experts or the community, erases a decade of grueling work.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

It turns out that they are running the government like one of his businesses.

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To lose one Starship may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose three looks like carelessness. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

submitted 1 day ago • 51 comments

The Confederacy was a partially successful nation-state

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The pardon power is finally being used as the founders intended

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This guy stole $10 million from the employees of his nursing home to buy himself a luxury yacht and Cartier watches. He PLED GUILTY. And because his Mom gave Trump $1 million, he just got a pardon. And this story barely makes the news today. WTF. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...

submitted 1 day ago • 674 comments

Is it too much to ask people to stop using "civil war" to describe routine political debates?

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

Narrator: they were not considering the offer

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Left model of masculinity

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Join me in Fort Reno Park at 10AM on Juneteenth to unveil the new National Park Service interpretive wayside for the site, covering everything from the Piscataway to Fugazi in 140 words. It was a pleasure to collaborate on this and other exhibits that will be unveiled at the event. 🗃️

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In U.S. v. Lovett (1946), the Supreme Court held that not even Congress, in a bill signed by POTUS, may cut off all contracts with a named individual or organization: that’d be an unconstitutional bill of attainder. Only courts can decide who deserves to be punished. SoTrump can’t do it with an EO!

submitted 2 days ago • 243 comments

Is it too much to ask people to stop using "civil war" to describe routine political debates?

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

Incredible work from everyone involved here

submitted 2 days ago • 36 comments

Academia in 2025: For weeks I’ve been working through botched copy-edits of my monograph, outsourced by the publisher to a company I’d never heard of, until it finally dawned on me the terrible job might be AI. A quick search confirmed the company recently launched new AI software, which now means..

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Make food poisoning great again! www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

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When you're not on social media

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hey did you know that Bismarck was the one who nicked Alsace Lorraine from France back in the 19th century that's why historians call him............Grand Theft Otto

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My god. They called a carry in a National Basketball Association game.

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Coming soon: Duccession

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Yes, as through this world I've wandered / I've seen lots of funny men; / Some will rob you with a six-gun, / And some with a fountain pen.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Alright. Here goes: the vampires are an allegory for colorblind dogma, seductive but homogenizing.

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Prominent right-of-center academics protesting against the Trump Administration's assault on academic freedom at Harvard: reason.com/volokh/2025/...

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May I suggest that the advocates of civility direct their efforts at the president?

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

So much this. I’m teaching two sections of a freshman seminar this fall and I’m giving them all a nice notebook and a cheap Pilot fountain pen. Except for the final paper, all their written work will be in the books, which I collect to comment on. I want to re-teach them how to think

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

New article based on data from my organization Mapping Police Violence shows police killings have surged in Red states. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/u...

submitted 5 days ago • 29 comments

“This debt …should be at the forefront of our minds this Memorial Day….We are being asked not to charge into a hail of …artillery fire but only to speak up and to stand up in the face of foundational threats.” Historian and former Harvard president Drew Faust. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/26/o...

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

Interesting to compare Sinners to O Brother Where Art Thou?, two very different movies about music and race in the Mississippi Delta in the 1930s.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Know-Nothingism but actually knowing nothing

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment