Historic Thoughts

Recovering academic blogging about the topic I love | "Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave" - Frederick Douglass | Tweets by @srleccese

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Just an FYI all: I'll be doing most of my tweeting from my personal account from now on, @srleccese

Go there for more sarcastic history!

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Me every time the news says the stock market hit another record high #History

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“I defend the cause of the poor, of the manufactures, of the tradesmen, of the farmers ... but above all, I defend the cause of humanity” - Thomas Paine, 1787

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I get a lot of emails from scam journals, and sometimes spotting them is tough. Could you spot one if they contacted you? This video walks through the process I use to spot predatory journals so you don't get scammed
#AcademicChatter #phdchat #gradschool

https://t.co/Q7CutUq5kB

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Wow, extremely rare footage of the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor

[U.S. National Archives @USNatArchives]

Because the bombing of Pearl Harbor was a surprise, there is very little American footage of the attack itself. This film captures about three minutes of the attack and its aftermath. #PearlHarbor78

https://t.co/lPKPdOimBn

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Too many people seem to think if the American Founders were plopped in 2019, they’d come up with some amazing insight that would solve all our problems rather than spending all their time thinking “What the fuck are those shiny things in the sky?”

[Historic Thoughts @historythough]

Kinda wild that a crappy video I shot with a phone has over 2,300 views (and comments about me doing the workouts wrong - missing the “trying” part, but I appreciate constructive criticism)
#fitness
Trying a Historic Exercise: The Eugen Sandow Workout https://t.co/de4N9ZKi5s

[Jeremy Angstadt @NovaHistoryGrad]

Who hurt you Machiavelli?

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The answer to almost all of these attempted “gotcha” questions is that there are literally dozens, if not hundreds, of books that address the very question

Don’t blame us because you don’t read

[Jason S. Campbell @JasonSCampbell]

Daily Wire host: "If the Native Americans had had as rich a culture, why didn't they build ships that would take them to Europe?"

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Don’t be that guy, #twitterstorians

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@MKeithHarris Pecan Stevens

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I get a lot of emails from scam journals, and sometimes spotting them is tough. Could you spot one if they contacted you? This video walks through the process I use to spot predatory journals so you don't get scammed
#AcademicChatter #phdchat #gradschool

https://t.co/Q7CutUq5kB

[Historic Thoughts @historythough]

@mess_of_jess_ Oh god no, it looks horrible. I suppose I could’ve been doing worse things in college though

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I found some old college papers of mine and I had an EXTREMELY annoying habit of putting footnotes inside punctuation marks 😑😑

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@Ethan_Mawyer Lol if they do then they have my grandparents beat

[Historic Thoughts @historythough]

Too many people seem to think if the American Founders were plopped in 2019, they’d come up with some amazing insight that would solve all our problems rather than spending all their time thinking “What the fuck are those shiny things in the sky?”

[Historic Thoughts @historythough]

Decided to start a book about Iran-Contra for no particular reason whatsoever #history