It's the very least of the things I'm furious about but the fact that I have to rearrange my whole damn syllabus to MAKE SURE I COVER the McKINLEY ADMINISTRATION IN DEPTH is so very irritating
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Though it will give me the opportunity to mention - as Delaware once again sacrifices sovereignty to service oligarchs - that Wilmington has one of the most embarrassing monuments honoring the quickly-murdered moron
It’s a university course on American Capitalism, origins to present. The current U.S. president is obsessed with tariffs and imperial aggrandizement, and is particularly enthralled with McKinley as a model, and the 1890s as a golden age.
So to help students understand the moment, … more McKinley.
The McKinley Monument and Museum in Ohio is a good resource. I grew up spending weekends there and can close my eyes and see it clearly after 30 years away.
Nice! Too bad he doesn’t understand it was gilded on the outside and rotten inside. The man’s fixation on gold is as bizarre as anything else about him
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So to help students understand the moment, … more McKinley.