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History teacher in Philadelphia. APUSH, AP Govt, AP Euro. Dogfather. Irish dance dad. STL Cards, Blues, and STLCity fan. Army vet (Gulf War). Notre Dame alum. Gen X. "It’s a dangerous thing to mistake speaking without thought with speaking the truth.”
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Here's the table of Contents and names of the chapters. I learned don't name chapters for time periods; names should be about the argument in each. One colonial, one Revo War era, one founding, 4 19th century chapters. Into and Epilogue.

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you malign our senators for that They are not such as you.

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SMU would like their death penalty rescinded @lyndonbajohnson.bsky.social

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1/Hannah Arendt QOTD from The Gap Between Past and Future: "The trouble, however, is that we seem to be neither equipped nor prepared for this activity of thinking, of settling down in the gap between past and future. For very long times in our history, actually throughout the thousands of years

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Aspiring actress engages eccentric group to save theater. upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en...

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A terrifying escalation:

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Remarks on the origins of presidential tariff authority, Roosevelt and the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act of 1934, at @historians.org Congressional briefing today 🗃️

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1/Hannah Arendt QOTD from The Gap Between Past and Future: "This small non-time-space in the very heart of time, unlike the world and the culture into which we are born, can only be indicated, but cannot be inherited and handed down from the past;

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laist.com/brief/news/a...

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Biden at Ft. Bragg in 2021 vs Trump today--notice the difference?

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🚨 PHILLY VS. ICE 🚨 Five of our neighbors were kidnapped by ICE today. Folks have called for an *emergency protest* at the Federal Detention Center at 700 Arch St. beginning at 4pm. Come prepared, mask up, stay safe, raise hell. Let’s give these fascist monsters a real Philly welcome 🧊

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1/Hannah Arendt QOTD from The Gap Between the Past and the Future: "Whereby it would be of some relevance to notice that the appeal to thought arose in the odd in-between period which sometimes inserts itself into historical time when not only the later historians but the actors and witnesses,

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Hannah Arendt QOTD from the Gap Between Past and Future: 1/"The loss, at any rate, perhaps inevitable in terms of political reality, was consummated by oblivion, by a failure of memory, which befell not only the heirs but, as it were, the actors, the witnesses, those who for a fleeting moment

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Good interview with Jonathan Haidt. www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...

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1/Hannah Arendt QOTD from The Gap Between Past and Future: "And yet, if we turn our eyes to the beginnings of this era, and especially to the decades preceding it, we may discover to our surprise that the eighteenth century on both sides of the Atlantic possessed a name for this treasure,

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I took this picture near Bayeux in Normandy in the early 2000s. The French teens were out scrubbing the crosses on the day I was there. A lot of unknown markers... #DDay

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Hannah Arendt QOTD from The Gap Between Past and Future: 1/"The men of the European Resistance were neither the first nor the last to lose their treasure [freedom]. The history of revolutions from the summer of 1776 in Philadelphia and the summer of 1789 in Paris to the autumn of 1956 in Budapest

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📣 IT'S THE TOM THE DANCING BUG REVIEW, DAMMIT - 🐻‍❄️ A Scarry day at the airport 🛗 SeverVance again ☎️ A call from the '90s 🤖 Robot Apocalypse 🧠 Sex and the Single Boltzmann Brain 🏀 the Harlem Globetrotters get Air Budded & MORE = open.substack.com/pub/tomtheda...

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