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One 1950 article, “Your Child’s Camp and Polio,” describes panicked parents receiving telegrams that campers had come down with the virus. The author narrates how his own 11-year-old suddenly returned home from camp after two of the boy’s teenaged counselors died. www.hnn.us/article/good...

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A Black enlisted soldier in the 29th Connecticut regiment gave birth to a baby #OTD in 1865. This was not as uncommon as one might expect. @sarahkaybierle.bsky.social profiles some of the women who served in the Civil War, and whose covers were blown when they went into labor. loom.ly/lEFuO3c

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What was the initial response to Roe v Wade among evangelicals? In most cases, silence. Jerry Falwell didn't even preach about it until 5 years later, #OTD in 1978. @religiondispatches.bsky.social, Randall Balmer debunked the story that abortion catalyzed the Religious Right's rise: loom.ly/EaX8l-M

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If the president and his wife needed new curtains, Stevens and the rest of the House could put the question up for debate. Only the people’s house could decide whether to cut the Lincoln family a check. www.hnn.us/article/thad...

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Vivian Gordon was murdered #OTD in 1931 to keep her from testifying about an NYPD ring that extracted bribes by framing innocent women for prostitution. As @erinblakemore.bsky.social explains, the resulting investigation took down the corrupt NYC mayor and his Tammany Hall cronies: loom.ly/lR8K_GY

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Black students at Ole Miss were sent to the notorious Parchman Farm Penitentiary #OTD in 1970 for protesting the use of the Confederate flag at official university events. In 2020, @wralpheubanks.bsky.social @newyorker.com asked them how that day shaped their commitment to activism. loom.ly/FRj-fqg

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#OTD in 1864, Andrew Johnson sacked Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, a legal violation that prompted Congress to impeach him. Back in 2019, @timothypmurphy.bsky.social wrote for @motherjones.com on parallels between Trump and Johnson: loom.ly/WnQ7HBQ

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When the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of mandatory smallpox vaccination #OTD in 1905, it asserted that individual liberty does not trump "real liberty for all." Joel Lau & Peter Canellos wrote about Jacobson v. Massachusetts a few years ago @politico.com: loom.ly/kR3IDpA

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In its US v. Thind ruling #OTD in 1923, the Supreme Court revoked the citizenship of naturalized South Asian immigrants. Here, Erika Lee reflects on a letter Vaishno Das Bagai left when he took his own life in protest: loom.ly/fHD-5sY

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For the historians in our midst 🗃️, here's an excerpt from @gabrielwinant.bsky.social's conclusion of sorts that considers what was lost and gained in the handoff from social to institutional political historical analysis - and the promise of uniting them. www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/the-...

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Abraham Lincoln was born in a Kentucky log cabin #OTD in 1809. Sometime between then and now, he became the fifth most-mentioned person in our archive of historical writing. Check out a few of the highlights here: www.bunkhistory.org/tags/persons...

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Now up on @myhnn.bsky.social - a past president of the American Historical Association weighs in on that organization's recent veto of a resolution condemning #scholasticide in Gaza. 🗃️ www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/what...

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“For me, the historian should be, above all, a disrupter, by which I mean a scholar who contests conventional ways of viewing the past and the past’s relationship to the present.” www.hnn.us/article/what...

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Are you looking forward to spring? So was Francis C. Sebring of Hoboken #OTD in 1868 when he was awarded a patent for his game, "Base Ball." @mlb.com official historian @johnthorn.bsky.social recounts his quest for the origins of America's pastime here: loom.ly/K-Asx-A

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In anticipation of tonight's #GrammyAwards, check out these highlights from the vast collection of #musichistory writing we've gathered at Bunk: www.bunkhistory.org/exhibits/mus...

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Emma Tenayuca was a "working-class Mexican kid who took a look around and decided that things needed to change." Read @kimkelly.bsky.social @thenation.com on the strike of 12,000 pecan shellers led by the 21-year-old Tenayuca in San Antonio #OTD in 1938: loom.ly/T0hRqPk

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Declassified CIA guide to sabotaging fascism is suddenly viral 🔗 www.404media.co/declassified...

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I've been writing about the Right's "Patriotic Education" for years. In 2020 & '21, I argued that even as Trump lost he was laying the foundation for its broader implementation. Now, today, here we are. Here's a brief history of the erasure of history. slowcivilwar.substack.com/p/patriotic-...

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When "Dr. Strangelove" debuted #OTD in 1964, many dismissed it as absurd or denounced it as propaganda. But as Eric Schlosser explained 11 years ago @newyorker.com, a scenario in which a subordinate officer can singlehandedly start a nuclear war is still alarmingly realistic: loom.ly/wBX-NkU

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In 1880, the daughter of a Welsh politician turned to fiction to expose perspectives missing from the official records, smashing boundaries and upending histories for generations of readers. www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/at-a...

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#OTD in 1972, Japanese WW2 vet Shoichi Yokoi was spotted by a pair of fisherman in a Guam jungle. He had been hiding out on the island for 27 years, since evading capture by Allies in the Battle of Guam. @meilansolly.bsky.social tells his wild story @smithsonianmag.bsky.social: loom.ly/mgw5L4c

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On using British Mandate objects and documents — the Palestine pound, the Visit Palestine poster, the Balfour Declaration, San Remo — to construct a past. www.hnn.us/article/the-...

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Here's an excerpt from my book Box 25: Archival Secrets, Caribbean Workers, and the Panama Canal, at History News Network. www.hnn.us/article/who-... @uncpress.bsky.social

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up now on HNN, check out the write-up on the KNIGHTS OF THE GOLDEN CIRCLE — Booth, Bickley, opium, and buried (racist) treasure www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/knig... @myhnn.bsky.social

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Another year, another abundance of probing & insightful writing that invites us to think about our world through the lens of the past. It wasn’t easy for us to narrow down, but we've managed to come up with this list of our top 40 favorites.🗃️ www.bunkhistory.org/resources/be...

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Each year, we sift through thousands of online articles, essays, blogs, and newsletters that deal, in one way or another, with the American past. Here is our annual roundup of 40 standouts from 2024. www.bunkhistory.org/resources/be...

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Are you signed up for the weekly @myhnn.bsky.social newsletter? I strongly recommend it. It's really good! (And very different from the HNN you may remember from 15-20 years) us1.campaign-archive.com/home/?u=191c...

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The latest in @emmagarman.bsky.social’s series on found documents and fiction, on Pale Fire as a dynamic historical organism: “We, too, must apply almost Kinbote-levels of literary divination if we’re to appreciate the historical framework of Pale Fire.” www.hnn.us/article/secr...

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2024 was a big year for History News Network. In our first full year in operation as a University of Richmond project, we brought on a new editor, @jaimefuller.bsky.social, and published 43 new pieces of original history writing. www.hnn.us/article/cate...

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Our latest Bunk Exhibit is your one-stop shop for historical reappraisals of Jimmy Carter's four years in office. Click through to learn more about his impact on economic policy, foreign relations, the environment, and electoral politics. 🗃️ www.bunkhistory.org/exhibits/jim...

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Wrote an essay about a curious episode from the 1970's that includes data the Christmas Bird Count, the fight to ban DDT, and a defamation lawsuit. For: @myhnn.bsky.social

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Ross Perot dreamed of replacing representative democracy with electronic plebiscites. Elon Musk sure seems like he's making the dream come true. www.unpopularfront.news/p/elon-musk-...

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