Adam Rothman

Analysis | The Republican convention kicks off with a focus on identity politicswww.washingtonpost.com The party and its candidate tried to show that it was okay for union members and Black, Hispanic and young Americans to vote Republican. Policy details were light.

This made me laugh

The theme of the first night of the Republican convention? Identity politics. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Well now, they often call me Greedo 🇺🇲🇺🇦🏛️🦉🦉

He extracted himself.

I wrote a book in which this dentist is a central character. He fled to Cuba during the Civil War, and his wife followed him with three enslaved children in tow. When the war ended, the children's mother went to court to get them back. Her name was Rose Herera. www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

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Michael Bazemore

Can't believe you would Van Gogh there.

Megan Kate Nelson 📚

What? I can't hear you for some reason.

This made me laugh

The theme of the first night of the Republican convention? Identity politics. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

The first truly lobal conflict.

Grasping for a War of Jenkin's Ear joke...

Stephen West

Waving the bloody ear

Jacqueline Antonovich

Posh

Miranda Yaver

There are children present.

Miranda Yaver

That's a lot of words to say that he's one lucky dude.

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Daniel Craig playing an entire geology department himself:

I look askance at J.D. Vance

Death of Col. Ellsworth After hauling down the rebel flag, at the taking of Alexandria, Va., May 24th 1861 / / Brownell ; Jackson.www.loc.gov 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored. | Colonel Ellsworth shot as he descends a stairway carrying a flag by a Rebel sympathizer who is confronted by a Zouave carrying a rifle fixed with bayonet.

Angry Staff Officer

A latter-day Elmer Ellsworth! www.loc.gov/item/2001696...

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Robert Hemmings's Signaturewww.monticello.org Videos, podcasts, and livestreams about Thomas Jefferson and his world, Monticello and its enslaved community, and the work of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation.

Check out "Robert Hemmings's Signature," a new Monticello podcast episode I'm featured in. My colleagues and I discuss a recently recovered document confirming Hemmings's literacy. Learn more at the link and thread below. www.monticello.org/exhibits-eve...

Every now and then, a document stops me in my tracks. That happened today, with a document that bears the signature of Robert Hemmings, an enslaved valet to Jefferson who was in Philadelphia during the writing of the Declaration of Independence. 1/5

I thought you got paid in Litcoin.

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I have an idea. Stop calling contentious politics "warfare".

Sometimes metaphors jump the rails into the literal.

Police Kill a Boy, and a Refugee Group’s Young Lead the Call for Answerswww.nytimes.com A Utica, N.Y., officer’s fatal shooting of a 13-year-old provokes anger among the city’s Karen residents, members of an ethnic group from Myanmar.

PastelWitch

Does this link work? www.nytimes.com/2024/07/13/n...

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Daniel Anderson (August 1783)freedom-seekers.org

I wrote this short essay about Daniel Anderson for a new digital history project, Freedom Seekers. Anderson escaped from bondage in Pennsylvania, was jailed in Maryland and returned to his enslaver, and then escaped *again* on his way back north. A remarkable man. freedom-seekers.org/story/daniel...

He was only thirteen years old. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/13/n...

Watching closely for signs of bird-orca alliance www.nytimes.com/2024/07/13/n...

Angry Birds Take on Drones at New York City Beachwww.nytimes.com American Oystercatchers are attacking drones that have been deployed to scan for sharks and swimmers in distress.

See - that's how we create jobs!

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