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Must read on NE #wildfires:

“When I came back from the Jan. 6 rally, I felt like I had participated in the Boston Tea Party 2.0.” That was a GOP political candidate quoted by Benjamin L. Carp 🎏 in this piece on the uses & abuses of the #BostonTeaParty, which took place 251 years ago #OTD: loom.ly/Ah3A7-c

Wrote an essay about a curious episode from the 1970's that include data the Christmas Bird Count, the fight to ban DDT, and a defamation lawsuit. For: History News Network

The 3rd in my series on found documents in fiction, History News Network, looks at arguably the genre's GOAT: Vladimir Nabokov's PALE FIRE, which in his words "is supposed to be the production, without any editorial interference" of a madman who purloins a dead poet's final work (🔗in reply).

Each year, we sift through thousands of online articles, essays, blogs, and newsletters that deal, in one way or another, with the American past. Here is our annual roundup of 40 standouts from 2024. bunkhistory.org/resources/best…

up now on HNN, check out the write-up on the KNIGHTS OF THE GOLDEN CIRCLE — Booth, Bickley, opium, and buried (racist) treasure historynewsnetwork.org/article/knight… History News Network

The group that authored the #AHA25 #scholasticide resolution, Historians for Peace and Democracy, has a new petition drive underway to convince the AHA Council to reverse its veto of the resolution and allow all AHA members to vote on it: historiansforpeace.org/2025/01/17/his…

I wrote about Thaddeus Stevens and the power of the purse for History News Network. Check it out, if you're so inclined. historynewsnetwork.org/article/thadde…

“We need to get the bastards out of here.” History matters. historynewsnetwork.org/article/indiff…

My piece about the dangerous memory of Lexington and Concord came out with History News Network today. It will be 250 years to the famous "shot heard round the world" on April 19 hnn.us/article/the-da…

up now on History News Network — Henry Boernstein — friend of Marx, one of the first St. Louis novelists, socialist scourge of Missouri Confederates while also being the founder of the Missouri Republican Party