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George Mason PhD Student, 19th Century U.S. Historian of the Civil War and Reconstruction, Labor, military, and religious history.
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Next on my tour of military history a book that has been on my wishlist for a couple years now. I’m secretly using my comprehensive exams to read books that I’ve had on my list for a while. 😂🤫

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Professors please pull up a chair. I’ve been talking to my classes about what has been going on. I explained indirect costs to them. I talked to them about what a probationary employee is in the government. At the end of class they asked if we could talk about it more. (1/)

submitted 16 days ago • 91 comments

This. I once took time to discuss elections with my students -- because it was their 1st election & there was no one who would talk to them about them. And yes. The job of a college professor is to explain complicated things so that students can understand them -- AND evaluate them for themselves.

submitted 15 days ago • 4 comments

jokes on me, after years spent wondering why the political press seem never to have heard of Reconstruction or the red scare etc, some guy at Politico just learned about the New Deal from a reader tip & wikipedia and put it in a newsletter

submitted 16 days ago • 28 comments

"Excuse this very bad writing, if you had mended my pen it would have been better"--Abigail Smith to John Adams, 20 April 1764 🗃️ #amediting #AdamsPapers @mhs1791.bsky.social www.masshist.org/publications...

submitted 16 days ago • 3 comments

more of this please

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

We have two job openings in the Media Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. Non tenure-track, of interest for those who work in cultural studies or critical media, don't mind a full-time lecture schedule, and enjoy working with grad TAs. It's a three-year renewable post. Please circulate!

submitted 18 days ago • 45 comments

Trump jinxing the race…..also FOX is ridiculous. Why does FOX need to show it for two hours straight…that man ruins all my hobbies I swear….😡 #daytona500

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

My country/redneck/working class background comes out anytime I watch a NASCAR race. I’m excited for Daytona!! Get em Bubba Wallace !!! #23XI I’m Kay back to your regular scheduled academic posts. 😂🗃️

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

This Valentine’s Day give your heart to someone

submitted 20 days ago • 6 comments

What Dhube is referring here euphemistically as "population transfer" in South Asia remains one of the most historically traumatic events for us: Partition. Families ripped apart and wiped out entirely, sexual and physical violence that had generational consequences and STILL shapes our politics.

submitted 21 days ago • 16 comments

Oh good grief….

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

😂😂😂

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

An answer to the question circulating this week about whether to use US flags at protests

submitted 25 days ago • 35 comments

When they ask you who won Super Bowl LIX, you will respond, Kendrick Lamar. I just turned my tv off.

submitted 25 days ago • 21 comments

probably the most mischievous grin ever

submitted 25 days ago • 241 comments

When your ex crip walking on the biggest haterade song ever is a level of petty that is otherworldly

submitted 25 days ago • 3 comments

i think kendrick is president now?

submitted 25 days ago • 24 comments

The entire world right now

submitted 25 days ago • 21 comments

RED ALERT religion nerds. Martin Scorcese series called "The Saints." RED ALERT

submitted 25 days ago • 2 comments

And the Daytona 500 is next weekend!!!

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Right!!!

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Again! A commercial raising awareness about breast cancer when NIH funding is being destroyed is so damn disturbing.

submitted 25 days ago • 4 comments

what were the Vegas odds on TWO commercials with flying mustaches?

submitted 25 days ago • 2 comments

Same….

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Agreed!!!

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

That Seal was super creepy….

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Historian of nullification and I approve of this message #thecounterrevolutionofslavery

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

Shush Tom Brady….if these two calls affect the game then I’ve gone to bed cause the game is boring. #superbowl

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

No, the officials are totally not supporting the Chiefs #HATM

submitted 25 days ago • 5 comments

Neither one of these are my team but good lord this feels more hyped than I’ve seen in a while! That crowd is crazy loud! #SuperBowl

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

I feel like historians should also get to wear face paint. Some of those archives are bright #HATM #SuperBowl

submitted 25 days ago • 2 comments

Is it me or are there an excessive amount of Mission Impossible’s????

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

A second batch of guac has been prepared.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

I love good foreshadowing in non fiction.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 27 days ago • 5 comments

The real ones know

submitted 27 days ago • 15 comments

"We reject the premise that it is 'anti-American' or 'subversive' to learn the full history of the United States with its rich and dramatic contradictions, challenges, and conflicts alongside its achievements, innovations, and opportunities." 🗃️ www.historians.org/news/aha-oah...

submitted 28 days ago • 2 comments