Historian of LGBTQ culture & nightlife. Assistant Professor of American Studies @CSUF. Probably listening to Motown or disco right now. He/him. @GayGuides
Former President Obama in July 2020:
“For too long, gerrymandering has contributed to stalled progress and warped our representative government.”
👉🏻 https://t.co/bCnMNxWBJy
Lowell, MA itself had more cotton spindles than the entire Confederacy.
If the Confederacy had convinced its fellow slave states of Delaware and Maryland in secession, the South’s manufacturing capacity would’ve practically doubled.
Incredible obituary in NYT for Betty Reid Soskin, who served as a National Park Service ranger until age 100 and witnessed so much in her life.
Her great grandma was born into slavery. Then she stood with America’s first black president.
“What could be more American than that?”
Jim Beam, the largest American bourbon distiller, is closings it flagship facility next year. This follows a string of distillery closures after more than two decades of rapid economic growth in the industry. Analysts say it's linked to trade wars and tariffs.
The criteria of “can you tell the story of America without <insert person>??” would lead to a bust of Osama Bin Laden being installed in Statuary Hall.
You can absolutely tell the story of Virginia without telling the story of Barbara Rose Johns, whom no one had heard of before today.
But you cannot tell the story of Virginia—or America—without telling the story of Robert E. Lee.
The number of future public history / public memory MA theses / PhD dissertations that are gonna be written about these idiotic plaques is astronomical
These are the places where American students learn about the world. These cuts are one sign — I know there are others — of a country that is shrinking away.
https://t.co/KbhRo6fEcB
After decades of pulling apart, the parties now present almost exactly inverse images of each other in the House, demographically & economically., That divergence explains much of how the House does-and doesn't -function today. My take. https://t.co/AMogQ4BttY