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I submit a proposition: Fox News is the greatest threat to our society and national security, amplifying falsehoods, eliding truths, and distorting reality.

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I submit a proposition: Fox News is the greatest threat to our society and national security, amplifying falsehoods, eliding truths, and distorting reality.!!

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In honor of #BlackHistoryMonth, the National Park Service and historians pay tribute to the Black cowboys and cowgirls who made their mark on the wild west. buckrail.com/celebrating-... #tellemwhatwedid ✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿

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There was a purge yesterday at the National Parks Service and we need to be screaming about it. Historians, these are our public history colleagues!

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Minute Man Park & local organizations planned a March 22 event called “‘Spies Among Us’: Intelligence gathering by the British Army & Provincial Congress” ahead of the 250th anniversary of the Revolutionary War's start. Due to personnel cuts in the NPS, it’s cancelled. www.nps.gov/planyourvisi...

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We can’t say this enough: When people in Trump‘s orbit deliberately lie about how our constitutional democracy works, they violate the oaths they take to uphold the law. & they violate the trust the American people place in them.

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Outrageous

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Yea @amyoddo.bsky.social 💥💙🦋🎉🌊✈️💪🏼

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Scanning the Fox News headlines—“Musk rips 'fraudulent' Treasury handouts as reports mount DOGE has access to federal payment systems”—it seems clear that Americans live in different realities

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Salem's Tercentenary in 1926 was epic! A huge dress-up & two-parade affair at the height of the pageant era. Not too sure about next year, but I do have a book coming out from Temple (with my Salem State colleagues) called Salem's Centuries: New Perspectives on the History of an Old American City.

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28 December 1784, Empress of China departed Pearl River for New York, marking US entry in the China Trade

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Dec 26, 1818, Providence merchants contract Samuel Russell of Middletown, CT to set up a Canton resident branch. Russell establishes Samuel Russell & Co. on his arrival in 1819.

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2/2 “I desired to do this for my own satisfaction, and I had little hope that other people would be interested in this work, especially since it was primarily linguistic in interpretation and was begun in order to provide the necessary background of history for elvish tongues.”

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1/2 In an age when techbros and college managers are razing humanities programs to promote efficiency and profits, we would do well to consider Tolkien’s thoughts on Fellowship of the Rings, a work which has created thousands of jobs, millions in revenues, & countless amounts joy and inspiration:

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Recalling the birthday of Jane Austen today, here is a piece I wrote on the influence of her borthers' naval careers: “PERFECTLY POLITE AND AGREEABLE”: ANGLO-AMERICAN ENCOUNTERS ON THE FAR SIDE OF JANE AUSTEN’S WORLD. www.press.jhu.edu/newsroom/per...

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Belatedly, a Proclamation of Thanksgiving from Massachusetts Gov. William Dummer, Boston News-Letter, October 16, 1729

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Hey historians! Any recommendations for readings on passes being issued to foreign sailors by English governors in the 17th century Caribbean? Not privateering licenses but passes to allow a foreign (in this case Spanish) sailor to leave an island (in this case Nevis). Please and thank you! 🗃️

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Call for Papers! The British Commission for #MaritimeHistory will hold their 30th annual New Researchers conference at Hull in April 2025. It has THE BEST supportive environment for new scholars (also including independent) I've ever been to. www.maritimehistory.org.uk/news/items/c...

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OTD 1784 Lady Hughes Affair. Off Whampoa (Huang-Po) Island, British ship Lady Hughes fires salute, killing or wounding 3 Chinese, raising tensions that contribute to First Opium War. (Wampoa by Tinqua)

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The war on universities worldwide proceeds by means of mandating what can be taught, and which degrees have value. Here it proceeds by banning subjects, there by reducing education to ‘job readiness’, elsewhere by funding cuts and casualisation. The effect is the same - to kill the #university.

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Pete is correct, as he usually is.

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Reading today about Lincoln, Massachusetts on April 19, 1775 for an upcoming talk, and utterly dismayed at the easy acquiescence we are seeing today that greets the looming threat to our democracy.

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22 Feb 1784, NYC's East River thaws enough to allow the ship Empress of China to depart for Canton (Guangzhou), the first US-flagged vessel to do so.

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Looking forward to talking about Eastward of Good Hope at the Pickering House in Salem on Sunday, January 21 pickeringhouse.org/events/sunda...

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Thoroughly enjoyed the terrific exhibit "Objects of Addiction" (free!) at Harvard Art Museums @harvartmuseums Michael Verney James Fichter

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Dec 31, 1784. Having set sail from Whampoa on Dec 28, the Empress of China departs Guangzhou's Peal River estuary, bound for New York, opening the China Trade. (Image by Raymond Massey)

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Hope you can join me this Wednesday, December 6 at 5:30 at the Portsmouth Athenaeum for a book talk and signing. RSVP 603-431-2538.

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Delighted to see H-Diplo's publication of its roundtable discussion of Michael Verney's terrific A Great and Rising Nation. issforum.org/ISSF/PDF/RJI...

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OTD 1803, USS Philadelphia in pursuit of Barbary corsairs ran aground on an uncharted reef and was captured in Tripoli harbor.

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Looking forward to this with our roundtable, "Crosscurrents in the World's Oceans," with Bob Allison, Dan Finamore, Michael Verney, and Jason Smith

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11 October 1784, Moroccan pirates seized the Philadelphia brigantine Betsey, holding the ship, cargo, and crew for ransom. After months of negotiation, they were freed, but the capture commenced the conflict known as the Barbary Wars. Image: Thomas Luncy, A Felucca off the North African Coast, 1825

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