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jostler.bsky.social
Semi-retired history professor, University of Oregon. Thinking about genocide.
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www.oah.org/2025/06/18/s...

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Major Erica Vandal served 14 years, deployed to Afghanistan, and earned a Bronze Star. She led with honor—and was forced out because she’s transgender. “I do not have a single derogatory mark on my record.” Trump didn’t care. Bigotry mattered more than battlefield service.

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Remember the lie machine that cranked up before the 2003 Iraq War.

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I had a wonderful time teaching a course on the Constitution, using Reacting to the Past Constitutional Convention game. Highlights: brilliant drunk speeches by Luther Martin, Alexander Hamilton duel (he lost), great speeches and debate throughout.

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

The turning point that wasn't: the way the world talks about Israel's war has changed. Nothing else has | Nesrine Malik

submitted 25 days ago • 14 comments

Just published roundtable in H-Environment on Robert Morrissey's excellent book PEOPLE OF THE ECOTONE. networks.h-net.org/group/19397/...

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Yes, and reminder that ethnic cleansing is almost always genocidal.

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Good read. Her name was Sophie Mousseau, and her story is worth remembering and contemplating.

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www.opb.org/article/2025...

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"This is wrong. People need to know that this is happening and this is wrong." www.oregonlive.com/education/20...

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

When economics get dicey, I always wonder what @nelsonhist.bsky.social thinks. So I asked him to write for #AHAPerspectives about tariffs and financial panics. 🗃️

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www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 81 days ago • 7 comments

The relative pain of cancellation and deportation

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theonion.com/star-byu-pla...

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Argument that Columbia would be on strong ground to sue instead of caving. www.chronicle.com/article/why-...

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Navajo Code Talkers were instrumental in the United States and our allies winning World War II. Erasing their stories from military websites is a dishonor to their memories, our veterans, and beyond appalling. Indigenous history is American history and we must remember the heroes who served.

submitted 93 days ago • 18 comments

Exclusive: Navajo Code Talkers disappear from military websites after Trump DEI order

submitted 94 days ago • 407 comments

All the Trump people have is bigotry and all their supporters want is more bigotry.

submitted 99 days ago • 31 comments

Musk has now poured $8.3 million into buying the tie-breaking Wisconsin Supreme Court seat for Brad Schimel. That is vastly more than any other single donor—to eliminate a state-level check on his and Trump's power. Help us fight back and elect Susan Crawford: PeopleVMusk.com

submitted 101 days ago • 188 comments

Informative article by Van Gosse about petition signed by over 1,900 historians requesting AHA council to allow members to vote on scholasticide resolution. archive.ph/FR65F

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Even historians who oppose the AHA resolution on Scholasticide should sign the petition to have a vote of the full AHA membership. The AHA Council did not provide a reason for vetoing rather than having a vote. The Council just declared the resolution violates the AHA mission without explaining why.

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Excellent review of Adam Kirsch's On Settler Colonialism by @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social . www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

submitted 120 days ago • 1 comment

Watched Sugarcane over the weekend. Absolutely brilliant and worthy of all the acclaim.

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Please read and sign this petition to the AHA Council, demanding a recision of their veto of the Resolution to Oppose Scholasticide and to put the resolution to AHA's membership! www.historiansforpeace.org/2025/02/08/p...

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Does the Times regret its contributions to those attacks?

submitted 130 days ago • 124 comments

Remember that ethnic cleansing is a euphemism for genocide.

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Now that Trump has reestablished the 1776 Commission, here's a link to a piece @karl-jacoby.bsky.social and I wrote a few years back when we dared to hope the Commission had found its rightful place in history's dustbin. www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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Trump’s latest executive order on teaching history is more of the same right-wing, Project 2025 blather, but it calls for resistance. michaelleroyoberg.com/teaching-nat...

submitted 139 days ago • 0 comments

I live in Oregon. I guess this explains why there is no water coming out of my tap today.

submitted 142 days ago • 0 comments

Good to hear a Senator saying something useful. Happy to say he's one of my two Senators.

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325 years ago tonight (9 p.m. Jan. 26, 1700) a M~9 Cascadia subduction earthquake rocked the west coast from #VancouverIsland to northern California. The Juan de Fuca Plate slipped up to 20 m, causing a large tsunami, strong shaking and landslides www.earthquakescanada.nrcan.gc.ca/historic-his... ⚒️🧪

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