Patrick O'Neil

Dead people & old people, from a History Prof (mainly 19thC American culture) at Methodist University in Fayetteville NC. Views my own, blah blah blah.

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What Would the Founders Do About Immigration? Here’s my answer for the Fayetteville Observer. Spoiler alert: They generally approved; it’s complicated; and it might not matter. You can subscribe for a month for only a buck.

https://t.co/bje2ZeC4Rf

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@StubHub @JasminaAlstonTV Which is good! Hoping at least a few people get the awesome experience of a World Cup match in person. Wishing it were accessible to more people. Love to all.

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Not my usual mode of being in the world or on this thing, but @StubHub *completely* fucked us on World Cup tickets. When the seller failed to transfer the tix, they actually promised us replacement tickets in our email and then reneged. Cool to travel to Atlanta and get nothing.

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@StubHub Update: two news services took up this story, spurring StubHub to take notice. The first was @JasminaAlstonTV Atlanta News First; that report is here (with apologies for my face and self):

https://t.co/IWqwmUqty8

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@StubHub @JasminaAlstonTV I’m not confident that StubHub would have taken this up if not for mentions on Twitter and (probably more important) calls from reporters for comment. But they have told my wife that they’ll be giving tickets to @soccerstreets to make the World Cup more accessible.

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@StubHub @JasminaAlstonTV The second was @RJRico62 with the AP. His story is here:

https://t.co/SoRjJ3kr9s

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Here’s a piece I wrote for the @fayobserver about how the founders might think of America today: the first of four surrounding the 250th. Obviously there’s a more value in local journalism than my nattering, but you *can* subscribe for just a dollar.

https://t.co/BMbVUyDDwN

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Historians of this era will eventually have to think really hard about America’s president believing both in what Putin told him about the Russian Army’s ability to overpower Ukrainian drones, and in his own military’s ability to overpower Iranian ones.

https://t.co/28MFGl5qRG

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@whosheba 😅 Like Nelson Rockefeller, got them moderating skills!

Anyway, I’m glad to take all the credit. For it all. All of it.

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. @whosheba killing it at @methodistuniversity ‘s #ResearchandCreativitySymposium today

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So proud of History Student Benjamin Santiago presenting at @methodistuniversity ‘s #ResearchandCreativitySymposium

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Not everyone supported the fourteenth amendment. But the people who voted for it knew that it was meant to give birthright citizenship: they had discussed the consequences, including for then-unloved and unpopular people.

Receipts:
https://t.co/icGnjkJm98

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Over and over again: America without Lincoln’s idea of America isn’t America. This was what the Civil War was about. @jbouie laying it down.

https://t.co/dakzMziwiF

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Useful perspective from my old college classmate Gabe Rosenberg on ultraprocessed food. This former cancer patient remembers being told that certain surgeries “just looked wrong.” Which is to say, sure! But it’s nice to be alive enough to say it.

https://t.co/GWirJJFgcl

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For context: the NBA bafflingly used a map of France that is well over 1000 years out of date

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Happy Presidents’ Day! Here’s a marvelous piece by @kawulf that thinks through George Washington’s use of genealogy. Genealogy has always struck me as in some ways un-democratic, but it doesn’t have to be. In this case, it helped secure his slave property.
https://t.co/qJtYyt90Ne

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Teaching Honors is a hoot. From a comment I just wrote on a paper about the Iliad: “how does this illuminate all the entrail-spilling and torso-rolling that surrounds it?” American history has its share of entrail-spilling. But torso-rolling is part of Homer’s special sauce.

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Among other virtues, this punches a nice big hole in the idea that the lack of divorce in the past equaled stable home or family lives.

https://t.co/7TaJQFv1Df

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Leaving Phoenix after a massive soccer tournament, Kathleen DuVal’s Native Nations reminds me that weirdness on this scale has all sorts of precedence—including travel teams in this very region!