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Writer, poet, and historian. Author of Year of Crows and Jerusalem Plank Road. American Civil War history geek. Associate editor at www.irishamericancivilwar.com https://brendanchamilton.weebly.com
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A man in a tartan holds a US Marine Corps flag aloft above the #nokings protest in Indianapolis today

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My son with his homemade sign in Indianapolis today, as a tartan-clad dude holds a US Marine Corps flag in the background @maddow.msnbc.com

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One of the three flags carried by melting pot immigrant regiment, the 39th NY (“Garibaldi Guard”) in 1861 was an Italian tricolor emblazoned with “Dio e Popolo”—“God and People.” It was copy of the Roman Republic the flag that Garibaldi placed upon the battlements of Rome in 1849.

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Trump's regime has now committed at least 16 of King George III's 27 offenses specified in the Declaration of Independence. Armed occupation of a city/state over its government's supposed ideology: "He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us."

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Please help me spread the word about this rally in support of the National Park Service, which will take place at the Eternal Light Peace Memorial at Gettysburg National Military Park on June 16 from 4-6:30PM. Thank you. #NationalParks #PublicHistory 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

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W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee: “Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”

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Zouave Wide Awake Artillery Company! Yonkers, NY, 1860. Via Yonkers Historical Society.

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"It is not the people of these nations that are a threat to the security of the US. It is the US that has long been a threat to them, robbing them of their wealth, destroying their institutions and environments, and then denying them participation in the safety built at their expense." Indeed.

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Kicking off Pride Month with this mysterious family connection to LGBT history. Murray Hamilton Hall was a famous 19th century trans man, Tammany Hall politician, and bail bondsman whose assigned sex at birth was only discovered upon his death in 1901. (thread)

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I, for one, am happy to accept an earlier death if it means that billionaires can get even richer. This is surely what Jesus wants, and it will guarantee me a fast pass to the pearly gates.

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Today I'm sharing a previous post about a Civil War soldier from Maine whose watch fob I found in a farm field, it later was determined to be a mustering location. I feel a special connection to him. I haven't been able to find any living relatives, I feel like no one would have mentioned him again.

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This is extraordinary. The Secretary of Homeland Security doesn’t know what the right of habeas corpus is (the ancient right to go to court to challenge government detention) and offers an incoherent definition which suggests she thinks it’s a presidential power to deport people?

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Pope Leo XIV's grandfather, born in Haiti, belonged to a class known as Creoles of color in New Orleans. An expert in 19th-century Haiti explains how this group occupied a unique position in the city's three-level racial order: buff.ly/bvcYMdT @chelseastieber.bsky.social, Tulane University 🗃️

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Some sad confirmation from @bcgl.bsky.social while I was at UW last week—the National Digital Newspaper Program—which builds Chronicling America—has been shut down Historical newspapers are probably the archival material most used by the general public—for genealogy, local history—it’s such a loss

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"The Soldier Boy and his Violets.—A Tribune correspondent, in his account of the battle on Friday, 6th inst., writes:—Far down the plank-road, where Hancock fought, beyond the thickest rebel dead, lay a boy severely wounded, perhaps not less a soldier that he was but a boy...."

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Happy 80th Anniversary to all

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What an image! Venezuelan men who narrowly avoided being imprisoned by Trump in El Salvador without trial (saved by the Supreme Court) spelled out an SOS to a @reuters.com camera drone observing the Bluebonnet ICE facility. 11 days ago, buses to the airport were turned around at the last second.

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"I watched the comet, wondering if that mysterious little visitor was not perhaps at the same time watched by eyes that would beam gladly into mine; and I composed quite a number of beginnings of addresses to the curious thing, whatever it may be...."

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The pope was a strong advocate for the poor and the environment and a towering figure on the world stage, addressing not just Catholics but the men and women of our time.

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Yes, the US Administration’s illegal obliteration of our Congressionally-mandated aid agency has killed countless people. Now you know the name of one.

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northend.page/old-north-pr... Silence Dogood has some more messages to deliver. Tonight their canvas was the Old North Church.

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