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Independent historian, computer geek, hiker, dogmatic skeptic, book fanatic, film aficionado, rock music fan, entrepreneur, anti-fascist. “Nolite te bastardes carborundum”
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When will the Civil War community wake up? open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

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Historian here this is exactly how unAmerican Trump is, My God an American President who does not know the Declaration of Independence on the 250th year of the start of the American Revolution!

The latest book review & podcast review ... Review of: The City and Its Uncertain Walls, by Haruki Murakami regarp.com/2025/05/01/r...

“Trump has played right into Putin’s hands,” said Ivo Daalder, “It’s hard to see how Trump would have acted any differently if he were a Russian asset than how he has acted in the first 100 days of his second term.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/26/u...

Larry David roasts Bill Maher for his dinner with Trump, which apparently angered Bill Maher which subsequently made me smile because I detest Bill Maher! ... Larry David: My Dinner With Adolf www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/o...

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Me on TV last night talking about how you can protect your children from online predators www.westernmassnews.com/2025/04/17/t...

One of the reasons why it is so important to highlight this historic site is because the MAAH still exists in the shadows of the Freedom Trail, which was developed after WWII to highlight a history that was intended to rally white Americans at the height of the Cold War. Please visit the MAAH.

“America First.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/o...

As Trump mayhem spreads, MAGA unity cracks

Whatever your politics, if you are a historian you must stand against this Orwellian assault on American history www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...

I don’t endorse his entire message, but he is on the right track The beginning of the end of the Trump era

I was honored to be invited to present Resurrecting Lost Voices: The George W. Gould Story via zoom to the Cape Cod Civil War Roundtable. A video version of the presentation is now available on the webpage honoring Pvt. Gould here ... resurrectinglostvoices.com/2025/03/27/c...

The Massachusetts governor, the city, and the university needs to drop everything to locate and free this girl and make sure this doesn't happen again. This is DEFCON-1. If they do this to someone who wrote an op-ed in a college newspaper, they will do this to anyone they don't like.

23andMe Goes Bankrupt! What Happens to Your DNA data? Feat. Stan Prager of GoGeeks on WMN TV youtu.be/07qpblLyjCk

Me on Western Mass News TV tonight talking about the 23ANDME bankruptcy and what you should do with your data ... www.westernmassnews.com/2025/03/25/g...

Last night, I presented to a Civil War Roundtable chapter. This is the "slideshare" version of my PowerPoint www.slideshare.net/slideshow/re...

"Yes, there’s danger in opening our gates to this statue. But there’s also danger in keeping it out… the danger of eroding the sanctity of the gift-giving process."

It's come to my attention that some people believe you can't buy a new book until you've read the books you already have. Let me assure you, as both a lawyer and a writer, that this idea is legally and morally WRONG and BAD. Buy more books.

The History of Arlington National Cemetery is the Story of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusiveness 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

Canada and the United States are each sovereign nations. We figured that out more than two centuries ago ... regarp.com/2015/10/01/r...

OTD in 1933 President Franklin D. Roosevelt--the polar opposite of the snake oil salesman currently in the White House--gave his first fireside chat;the radio addresses became a source of hope & security for Americans during the Depression & World War II. More on FDR here regarp.com/2021/10/17/r...

Perhaps there are conversations taking place behind the scenes, but for now it is nothing less than gross negligence for the American Battlefield Trust to pretend that what is happening right now is normal. 🗃️ kevinmlevin.substack.com/p/civil-war-...

Musk and Trump got together today to illustrate all the meanings of "backfire."

NOTE: For those who were expecting to see me at CWI at Gettysburg in June, I decided, for personal reasons, that I won't be attending. I do wish those of you who do attend a great conference! I do intend to continue to promote CWI regarp.com/civil-war-in...

Musk's AI chatbot Grok was asked if Trump might be a Russian asset:"I estimate a 75-85% likelihood that Trump is a Putin-compromised asset,leaning toward the higher end due to the cumulative weight of historical patterns,financial incentives & his unwavering refusal to challenge Putin," Grok stated

I have spent decades studying the Civil War, only to discover that I really knew nothing about the conflict until I began to view it through the eyes of the enslaved who experienced it. If you want to begin that journey, this book is a great place to start regarp.com/2019/06/25/r...

OTD in 1850 Senator Daniel Webster spoke out in favor of the "Compromise of 1850," which rather than resolving the looming crisis instead exacerbated it. This book attempts to analyze, but largely misunderstands, the subsequent decade. regarp.com/2025/02/26/r...

OTD in 1857 Chief Justice Roger B. Taney announced the Dred Scott decision,making slavery legal in all U.S. territories, intensifying the crisis that would lead to the Civil War in the US which also have an outsize impact on Canada & Mexico. A great resource on this era is regarp.com/2024/08/18/r...

Putin was counting on Trump. He was Russia’s only hope. And Trump is now delivering for Putin.

Historian here the north won the war but the south won the peace after violently overthrowing Reconstruction. The U.S. may have won the Cold War with the collapse of the Soviet Union but Putin is winning now that Trump and the GOP are his lapdogs.

"Your enemy is not surrounding your country, your enemy is ruling your country."

This is nauseating ...

You can count me out ... in ... youtu.be/BGLGzRXY5Bw?...

He fuckin called it …https://www.newsweek.com/russian-scientist-calls-trump-manchurian-candidate-putin-1866547

OTD in 1978, grave robbers kidnapped Charlie Chaplin's corpse and held it for ransom ... the celebrated actor & director had died at 88 in exile in Switzerland, driven out of the US by paranoid right-wing anticommunist forces regarp.com/2023/12/19/c...

American statements in the Oval Office indistinguishable from Russian propaganda and celebrated by Russian propagandists.