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Associate Prof. of History; wrote "The Burden of White Supremacy" & "In Theory and in Practice"; historian of US foreign relations; Opinions my own.
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The draft program for #SHAFR2025 is available on the conference website! www.shafr.org/shafr2025

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“The push to make Canada part of the U.S. reached a fever pitch following passage of the highly protectionist McKinley Tariff in 1890.” For @time.com I discuss the last time the GOP tried to use tariffs to annex Canada. *spoiler: it didn’t go well time.com/7212675/tari...

submitted 33 days ago • 18 comments

If I was working in Cold War history right now, I’d be inclined to download as much as possible from the post 1960 FRUS, The Wilson Center, the CIA Reading Room, the Presidential Libraries, the DOE OpenNet, etc.

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Ok, maybe this AI thing is worth it after all: www.facebook.com/reel/6656770...

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

At least something good will come out of 2025.

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

A very blurry Jason Isbell at the Lafayette Theater, Lafayette IN, right before he blew up (July 12, 2015)

submitted 110 days ago • 1 comment

Clowngarden

submitted 114 days ago • 0 comments

The way things are going, I’m thinking Chris Rufo for education secretary, or Dinesh D’Souza….

submitted 115 days ago • 0 comments

This is the kind of politics I can get behind.

submitted 116 days ago • 1 comment