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Historian | Researcher of Articles of Confederation | Creator of Ben Franklin’s World: An Award-Winning Podcast About Early American History | Celtics & Red Sox Fan
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That’s awesome! Please thank them for us, they are really doing challenging and important work at the moment.
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If this is a card game, are the cards “yes” and “no,” or are they more like “shock” and “confusion” and then the strategy is how did they make it legal with a card that reminds us the Courts have no enforcement power?
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I agree. It’s hard to see what is coherent and thoughtout and what is just random—which may also be the point. But then again, we’re scholars so we tend to overthink the simplicity of randomness.
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I can see in some of the early literature I’m reading on unions that scholars thought about these connections too, but they left them as unexplored rabbit holes. I wonder if this non-exploration is a product of American exceptionalism.
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Plus, I’m already an established scholar of early America so I no longer have to worry about peers wondering if I’m an early Americanist or Early Modern Europeans, which was my advisor’s argument against pursuing this as a dissertation topic.
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I am positive the Founders of the U.S. and their progenitors knew of these governments and modeled aspects of the U.S. government on them—New Englanders who migrated from the Netherlands certainly knew about them.
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After I finish my Articles of Confederation and Union book (still years out), I am going to circle back to my original dissertation idea: A comparative study of the American Revolution and the Dutch Revolt. I think I also need to fit the Swiss Confederation in there too.
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It is about undermining the development of expertise and knowledge production. Knowledge and information undergird democracy. I think the plan is to cut the ability to create new knowledge and keep voters in the dark so authoritarian government can rise.
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And in this day and age we need the simple things to make life a bit easier.
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Thanks.
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I feel weird about recycling them, but I won’t have space to store them soon.
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Every day is a good day to acknowledge Indigenous folks and remind people that they are still here
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You could go to a trampoline gym. I also saw a lot of ropes courses in Mexico last week—I know they have them elsewhere too.
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I love how in the age of digital audio and video we still speak of “cutting tape,” “editing tape,” “recording tape.”