Kevin M. Levin

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Civil War historian, educator, and public speaker. Author: _Searching For Black Confederates_ https://amzn.to/4c2KSuT. Biography of Robert Gould Shaw forthcoming with UNC Press.

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Given the trajectory of the Republican Party since 2015, I am convinced that not only would Nikki Haley not have removed the Confederate flag on the State House grounds in Columbia SC, following the murders committed by Dylann Roof, she would have replaced it with an even larger one.

That moment when a neoconservative offers up a textbook example of appeasement. www.politico.com/news/2024/07...

Trump didn’t invite Haley to the RNC. She’s encouraging her delegates to back him anyway.www.politico.com Haley’s decision to release all of her delegates was the final detente between her and Trump.

John Ganz’s con men and conspiracists are more fascinating and horrifying than I could have anticipated.

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It cannot be stressed enough that adjusting the size of the Supreme Court in the 19th c. was a serious solution to serious concerns about how the Court functioned. As @earlymodjustice.bsky.social points out, reform often addressed imbalances. And these imbalances were often about REPRESENTATION. 1/

Seven times between 1801 and 1869 Congress changed the size of the court, going from a low of five justices in 1801 to a high of ten in 1863. In most of those cases, as in 1801 and 1863, the size went up and down in order to fix an imbalance or overreach by the Supreme Court. My latest

The Case for Expanding the Supreme Court Has Never Been Strongernewrepublic.com Biden has repeatedly refused to endorse “court-packing.” The right-wing justices’ ruling on presidential immunity ought to change his mind.

The view from our hotel room in St. Andrews, Canada. 🇨🇦

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Alright, so Gettysburg has quickly emerged as our most played pod on Youtube by about double and it's been up for all of three days. I'll take it. @richcondon.bsky.social @civilwarmemory.bsky.social @waitmanwbeorn.com youtu.be/9TeWkaqGDNQ?...

Gettysburg I Historians At The Movies I History Podcastyoutu.be This week Kevin Levine, Waitman Beorn, and Rich Condon drop in to talk about the most famous battle of the Civil War. We jump into Ted Turner's 1993 producti...

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Finished reading David Austin Walsh’s fabulous new book. It filled in a number of gaps in my understanding of the modern conservative movement and introduced me to a number of new and disturbing characters. The chapter on McCarthy alone was worth the price of the book. 🗃️

"In the days that followed, some 20 educators — about one quarter of the school’s faculty — discovered they were victims of fake teacher accounts rife with pedophilia innuendo, racist memes, homophobia and made-up sexual hookups among teachers." www.nytimes.com/2024/07/06/t...

Students Target Teachers in Group TikTok Attack, Shaking Their Schoolwww.nytimes.com Seventh and eighth graders in Malvern, Pa., impersonating their teachers posted disparaging, lewd, racist and homophobic videos in the first known mass attack of its kind in the U.S.

The tendency to compare everything we disapprove of to the Confederacy doesn't do much more than move us further away from understanding the history of the Confederacy. 🗃️

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"Does Gettysburg Have a 'Lost Cause Problem'? 🗃️ kevinmlevin.substack.com/p/does-getty...

Does Gettysburg Have a 'Lost Cause Problem'?kevinmlevin.substack.com I didn’t anticipate hitting the computer first thing in the morning to write another post about Gettysburg. Two is enough on any given week, including the week of the anniversary of the battle, but an...

"Talking Gettysburg, The Movie" 🗃️ kevinmlevin.substack.com/p/talking-ge...

Talking Gettysburg, The Moviekevinmlevin.substack.com Thanks to Jason Herbert for the invitation to appear on his wonderful podcast Historians at the Movies. Many of you are familiar with Jason’s work in which he brings historians together to provide com...

"New archaeological work shows that despite more than a century of desecration by construction and road-building, one of the nation’s most endangered major burying grnds for free and enslaved Africans still contains a significant number of intact gravesites." 🗃️ www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Richmond makes surprising find at desecrated Black cemetery: intact graveswww.washingtonpost.com Richmond’s long-forgotten Shockoe Hill African Burying Ground, which dates to 1816, was thought to have been largely destroyed by development.

The New York Times is on a roll with publishing a number of really bad editorials, including this one about Gettysburg. 🗃️ kevinmlevin.substack.com/p/does-getty...

This was an absolute blast. Thanks again @herberthistory.bsky.social. 🗃️

This movie is a hot mess and we are here for all of it. This week @civilwarmemory.bsky.social @waitmanwbeorn.com @richcondon.bsky.social drop in to talk 🗽the Civil War 🗽the Lost Cause 🗽bayonets 🗽Sam freaking Elliott GETTYSBURG drops NOW open.spotify.com/episode/0aRo...

Episode 84: Gettysburg with Kevin Levin, Waitman Beorn, and Rich Condonopen.spotify.com Listen to this episode from Historians At The Movies on Spotify. This week Kevin Levine, Waitman Beorn, and Rich Condon drop in to talk about the most famous battle of the Civil War. We jump into Ted ...

"Does Gettysburg Have a 'Lost Cause Problem'? 🗃️ kevinmlevin.substack.com/p/does-getty...

I am a huge fan of Blight's scholarship, but his commentary here falls flat. It leaves out way too much of the historical context surrounding Lincoln's speech and moves much too easily between Lincoln in 1858 and Biden in 2024. Historians should tread carefully. 🗃️ newrepublic.com/article/1833...

Here’s How Joe Biden Channels Lincoln to Secure His Legacynewrepublic.com Making Kamala Harris the president right now would send a powerful message of unity to defeat the poison of MAGA.

I've been asked to be in a history documentary. The producers want to know my fee. I have no idea. I can't even ballpark it. If you have any idea I would love to hear it based on your own experiences. Feel free to connect through the private chat feature. Thanks for your help.

"A Brief Reflection on This 161st Anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg" 🗃️ kevinmlevin.substack.com/p/a-brief-re...

A Brief Reflection on This 161st Anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburgkevinmlevin.substack.com No one ever just walks the Gettysburg battlefield. Whether they are aware of it or not, visitors bring a good deal of cultural baggage with them that shapes where they visit and spend the most time, w...

I am now deleting just as many bots on Bluesky as I did before leaving Twitter/X. Sad.

I didn't see this one coming. 🗃️ www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Biden to honor Civil War soldiers for wild Georgia train hijackingwww.washingtonpost.com President Biden will present posthumous Medals of Honor to Civil War troops Philip Shadrach and George Wilson for a mission known as the Great Locomotive Chase.

In an 11-6 decision, the Tennessee Historical Commission has, once again, voted down a request from Middle Tennessee State University to rename a campus building that honors Nathan Bedford Forrest.--a slave trader, Confederate general and first Grand Wizard of the KKK. 🗃️ wpln.org/post/for-a-s...

For a second time, Tennessee Historical Commission denies request to remove KKK leader's name from MTSU buildingwpln.org A building at Middle Tennessee State University will continue bearing the name of Nathan Bedford Forrest, the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.

Confederate general Robert E. Lee's attempt to break Union lines along Cemetery Ridge at Gettysburg, #OTD in 1863, resulted in... 🗃️

Another reminder that regardless of whether you publish with an academic or popular press, you are your most important advocate in bringing your book to the attention of the public.

Wanna know why getting your book reviewed is so hard? I tell you in the latest thing. You can read and sign up here: open.substack.com/pub/gabinoig...

Why getting your book reviewed is so hardopen.substack.com Let's break it down...

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Going on vacation next week and I would like to read a book about the history of the Supreme Court. Not too scholarly, but it needs to be a page turner. Any suggestions? @jbouie.bsky.social, @rachelshelden.bsky.social, @earlymodjustice.bsky.social, @kevinmkruse.bsky.social ...anyone else. Thnx. 🗃️

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"When the president does it, that means it is not illegal.”--Turns out Richard Nixon was ahead of his time. 🗃️

Most Gettysburg anniversary posts emphasize that the 3-day battle culminated in a decisive United States victory, but the first day of fighting, #OTD in 1863, proved to be a decisive victory for Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. Contingency matters. 🗃️

"If the Republican leaders of OK and LA were sincere in their desire to teach students about the 'foundational documents' of America and the proper role of religion in public life, they would post the Constitution on our classroom walls." -- @kevinmkruse.bsky.social 🗃️ www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Opinion | Red states’ religious mandates for schools ignore basic historywww.msnbc.com The founders wanted religion kept at arm’s length from the government, and vice versa.

Today wasn't a total bust. www.bostonglobe.com/2024/07/01/s...

Celtics, Derrick White agree to contract extension, securing championship core for the long term - The Boston Globewww.bostonglobe.com White was named to a second consecutive All-Defensive team last season.