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My friends in the Civil War community have spoken out about the recent firings in the NPS, but have not said nearly enough about what is taking place at Stonewall National Monument. Their fight is our fight.

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Hundreds of asylum seekers from around the globe are being trapped by the US in a Panama hotel where they'll eventually be sent to a camp in the jungle. One Chinese man said “I thought: America is a free country with respect for human rights. I had no idea it was like a dictatorship.”

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The story of Frances Thompson (a black trans woman who testified to Congress in 1866 about white men who sexually assaulted during the Memphis Massacre) is so incredibly telling to me because the southern media used her status as a trans woman as proof all testimony against them was a lie

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The stewards who protect and interpret our National Park Service sites across the country are under fire. In the wake of 1,000 employees being unceremoniously let go from the agency, the very preservation of our national treasures are at stake. emergingcivilwar.com/2025/02/15/a...

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Saw a familiar face today in an 1864 camp photo posted to FB by Spared & Shared. This is John H. Brown of the U.S. Engineer Battalion (and Andrew's Sharpshooters), who appears in drag in another remarkable image! I wrote about him for Irish in the ACW: irishamericancivilwar.com/2023/04/23/d...

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US aid freeze claims first victims as oxygen supplies cut off Seventy-one-year-old woman dies after being sent home from USAID funded hospital. Others die after hospitals close in refugee camps www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

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Meet Tobey Doherty, an Irish-Traveller-turned-Union-soldier, and one of the narrators of my novel, Year of Crows. brendanchamilton.weebly.com

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"Taken together, these individuals’ collective experiences force us to expand our understanding of the accomplishments and costs of the Civil War, and to weigh anew the pangs that accompanied the new birth of freedom." @rkdcolby86.bsky.social 🗃️ www.smithsonianmag.com/history/afte...

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We are likely about to see a mass purging of archival documents and restricted access to researchers. This will be part of the regime’s effort to rewrite history itself.

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"No matter who is president, everyone living in the U.S. has certain basic rights under the U.S. Constitution. Undocumented immigrants have these rights, too. It is important that we all assert and protect our basic rights.” Access the free article here: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

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Longer-term perspective on the rise of US oligarchy

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It comes down to this: a larger, deeper fight between authoritarianism and democracy than people may realize. Authoritarianism affects how we treat our children. Our spouses. The culture we consume. The people we join in community with. What we see as the purpose of education. And how we think.

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God bless

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“I do not shake hands with white slave owners. I shake the hands of libertarian whites, heirs of Lincoln, and of the Black and white rural boys from the U.S., in front of whose graves I cried and prayed on a battlefield….They are the US, and before them, I kneel, before no one else.” -Gustavo Petro

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Poetry Foundation not fucking around with today's poem of the day www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/89897/...

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Franconi's Hippodrome on 23rd Street and Broadway, c. 1855. Elaborate acts were put on, such as athletic contests, chariot races, steeplechases, and a menagerie with ostrich races. The signature event was "The Field of the Cloth of Gold," a mock Medieval tournament with knight fights. #history

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The best sketch I have encountered during my time looking at enlisted Irish American letters of the Civil War. A depiction of a Union sailor drawn by an Irish soldier in the 16th Michigan Infantry at Petersburg. He was writing to his brother, a Union Navy sailor. #IrishDiaspora

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An image of 19-year-old Irish emigrant Robert Jenkins, taken shortly after his wounding in battle at Petersburg in 1865. He had only arrived in America on 14th January that year, and was enlisted into the army (along with many other men from his vessel) on the very same day.

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The dying wish of Union soldier James Flanagan from #Galway was his body be returned to family in Philadelphia. He put his last $8 towards it, but the cost of shipping his body was $28. His family couldn't afford it; his remains were laid to rest in Alexandria National Cemetery. #IrishDiaspora

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The #AndersonvilleIrish grave of sailor Michael Tobin. In life, Michael, a seasoned mariner, carried a tattoo of a dancing woman and the initials "F.E." and "M.T." [Michael Tobin] on his left arm, a crucifix on his right. His back and belly were marked with scars. #IrishDiaspora

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This is, or should be, a big deal -- Ann Telnaes, an absolute legend, quitting WaPo due to censorship of a cartoon criticizing billionaires anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...

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a short thread of Nicolas Cage resembling various philosophers 1. Spinoza

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An image of survivors of the Irish Brigade's charge at Marye's Heights, Fredericksburg on 13th December 1862 taken at the 50th anniversary commemorations of their action. #IrishDiaspora

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It’s the 162nd anniversary of the Battle of Fredericksburg #OTD - a battle that features heavily in Irish American Civil War songs because it was devastating to the Union’s Irish Brigade. Read about it in my @lsupress.bsky.social book lsupress.org/978080717793... - on holiday discount sale atm! 🗃️

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"Our brigade went into the fight about 12 at noon Saturday. The Irish Brigade was fighting all the forenoon. When we went in it was on a charge: the Irish brigade gave us three cheers." -Anon. soldier of the 25th NY Infantry after the Battle of Fredericksburg, December 1862.

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Historian here a government of the billionaires by the billionaires and for the billionaires. Lincoln is rolling in his grave.

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"Class war is only recognized as violence when waged by labor against capital; the everyday slow murder by prior authorization and wage theft waged by the latter against the former is viewed as the natural and civil order of things." buttondown.com/theswordandt...

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At 6pm Finnish Time (4pm UK/Irish, 11am Easter) time today I'll be giving a Civil War Bluejackets talk on Finnish Sailors in the American Civil War. It will be live-streamed on Facebook at the link below for anyone interested in Finns in the American Civil War content! fb.me/e/3POB49jwo

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"Kerrigan's Rangers," or the 25th NY, may have been the most "Gangs of New York" regiment of them all. Their sutler was at one point Lew Baker, the gang leader, crooked cop, and Tammany "slugger" whose biggest claim to fame was murdering the real Bill the Butcher. #civilwar #gangsofnewyork

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For anyone interested in learning about the huge potential of U.S. Pension Files for the study of Irish women, you can check out the material we've highlighted in our Complete Article Index, where readers will find c. 100 "Women's History" tagged articles: irishamericancivilwar.com/complete-art...

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USS Oklahoma, USS Nevada & USS Utah were all struck in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on this day in 1941, with the loss of over 500 lives. All 3 had previously served in Ireland during #WW1– here are images of them in Bantry Bay, #Cork.

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How the spire of the Chrysler Building was put into place, 1930. The spire had been constructed in secret in a shaft in the middle of the building. In the span of only 90 minutes, the spindly steel spire was lifted up and attached, making the Chrysler Building the tallest building in the world.

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