Rick Herrera

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“What is most exceptional about the Americans is not the voluminous record of their violence but their extraordinary ability in the face of that record to persuade themselves that they are among the best behaved and best regulated of peoples.” - Richard Hofstadter, American Violence, 1970 🗃️

Of course it's revisionist, it's always been such. www.neh.gov/article/all-...

All History is Revisionist Historywww.neh.gov What we call “the past” is just that: It’s what happened at some point before now. Once it occurs, “the past” is gone forever—beyond repeating, beyond reliving, beyond replicating.

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Wow it’s so weird how Macron knew what he was doing better than American op/ed writers and cable talking heads.

*MACRON'S GROUP PROJECTED TO WIN MORE SEATS THAN FAR RIGHT *LEFT ALLIANCE SET FOR 170-215 SEATS IN FRENCH VOTE: ESTIMATES *LE PEN'S GROUP SET FOR 110-158 SEATS IN FRENCH VOTE: ESTIMATES *FRENCH LEFT SET FOR SHOCK ELECTION VICTORY, PROJECTIONS SHOW

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If I could repost this a million times I would.

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I fear that Lincoln’s maxim is coming to pass. I’d love to be proven wrong, and I’m fighting to remain optimistic, but the system has failed every step of the way to prevent an unstable demagogue from returning to power.

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The ruling "cannot be the rule for any functioning democracy." Granting a president immunity for trying to overthrow an election "removes the principal check on presidential abuses of authority in our democratic system: the vote...It is in this sense that the Court’s opinion is truly lawless."

<p>Supreme Court’s Radical Immunity Ruling Shields Lawbreaking Presidents and Undermines Democracy</p>www.brennancenter.org The Court’s opinion in Trump v. United States is a dangerous attack on the rule of law.

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A Fork in the Road: Saving the International Journal of Naval History | Center for International Maritime Securitycimsec.org

Assistant Professor of History, USAFA www.usajobs.gov/job/797827800

ASSITANT PROFESSOR (HISTORY)www.usajobs.gov This is a tenure track position.

Opening, GS14 Historian, CMH www.usajobs.gov/job/797225700

Supervisory Historianwww.usajobs.gov <strong>About the Position:</strong> Works under the supervision of Director, Historical Studies Directorate. Supervises historians assigned to research and write the Army's official histories and spe...

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One advantage of being a historian in a fairly crappy news week is consolation and reassurance: people have got through bad times before, nothing last forever (good or bad), and truth has a habit of overcoming lies in the end because reality provides the occasional short sharp audit.

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And ... there's also this. I saw "Horizon" so you don't have to, friends. slate.com/culture/2024...

Kevin Costner Is Back on His Dances With Wolves BS. It’s Even Weirder This Time.slate.com Another Costner Western, another noble Union Army officer standing up for the Native side.

Solid piece by Greg Daddis. responsiblestatecraft.org/petraeus-isr...

Stop Listening to David Petraeusresponsiblestatecraft.org The self-promoting ex-general continues to rewrite history, suggesting that Israel deploy an Iraq-style 'surge' in Gaza

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Omg lol

Always good to take down VDH's simplistic nonsense.

I wrote this takedown of Victor Davis Hanson's Carnage and Culture (2004) at the Other Platform, but why not bring it over: Here is a not-even-close-to-exhaustive list of serious defects w/ VDH's famous(ly damaging) book, which you shouldn't read (both this thread and the book). 1/

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A reminder, on this Juneteenth, that the events leading to the end of slavery in the South involved a complex process that included federal policies, armies in the field, and the actions of enslaved men and women. 🗃️ dsl.richmond.edu/emancipation/

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Women are five times more likely to be killed by an abusive partner when their abuser has access to a gun But according to originalism, the state didn’t try to stop people from hurting women in the past, so it can’t try to stop people from hurting women in the present lithub.com/historical-f...

“Historical Fanfiction.” The Deceptive, Dangerous Simplicity of Originalism in American Politicslithub.com Lawyers don’t often admit this in mixed company, but I’ll let you in on a secret about interpreting the Constitution: there is no one objective way to interpret the Constitution. If there were, wha…

I need to read Bloch again. It’s been over thirty years since I first read his Historian’s Craft.

Today's the anniversary of the Nazis executing Marc Bloch. Or, someone who could sit with uncertainty, champion inquiry & trying to understand, and recognise plurality & perplexity. And, in that knowledge, made the choice not to remain passive. Bloch, Historian’s Craft (MUP, 1992), pp. 64, 119, 160.

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'The problem here isn’t that large language models hallucinate, lie, or misrepresent the world in some way. It’s that they are not designed to represent the world at all; instead, they are designed to convey convincing lines of text.' link.springer.com/article/10.1...

ChatGPT is bullshit - Ethics and Information Technologylink.springer.com Recently, there has been considerable interest in large language models: machine learning systems which produce human-like text and dialogue. Applications of these systems have been plagued by persist...

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I will scream it until I die - public universities and immigration are our super powers

When I started at UNC in 1990, the university was ranked in the top twenty of *all* colleges nationally. And if I’m remembering correctly the in-state tuition was just $500 a semester. It was just an incalculably valuable public good, which is why the NC GOP made it their mission to destroy it.

@markcalhoun.bsky.social & John Curatola had no idea I was with them on their Normandy gig. Reunited! We tripped, stumbled, and fell upstairs!

Graduation day at the U.S. Army War College. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCmW...

U.S. Army War College class of 2024 Graduation, HON Kathleen H. Hicks as guest speakerwww.youtube.com The graduation ceremony of the Army War College Resident Class of 2024 is scheduled for Friday, June 7, at 9 a.m. at the Wheelock Bandstand on Carlisle Barra...

I’m touched. A student who’ll take command of a field artillery brigade on Tuesday asked me to direct his research on George Washington.

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"It’s an embarrassment that we honor this racist traitor a week after remembering all the Americans who died in this nation’s wars. Davis helped dig many of those graves."-- @brianlyman.bsky.social 🗃️ #CivilWarMemory alabamareflector.com/2024/06/03/t...

The hollow malevolence of Jefferson Davis • Alabama Reflectoralabamareflector.com Honoring a man willing to kill Americans in the name of white supremacy is a terrible reminder of what Alabama government values.

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UPenn a mile up the street, meanwhile, is sitting on $21 billion and could have bailed out its sister school and thus hugely contributed to the overall health of HE in Philadelphia with the equivalent of pocket change.

Wow: “Multiple academic buildings are mortgaged beyond their appraised value to secure $40 million in debt, and we have learned that the one that isn’t, Terra Hall, has a multimillion-dollar structural issue,” the union said. “State and city elected leaders are investigating the closure”

Anger and questions swirl as University of the Arts abruptly shuts downbillypenn.com College administration says UArts finances went from bad to worse. Poor communication leaves students scrambling to transfer schools.

Historian, GS9-11, USMC History Division www.usajobs.gov/job/793902800

HISTORIANwww.usajobs.gov You will serve as an Historian in the Histories Branch, Marine Corps History Division of TRAINING AND EDUCATION COMMAND.

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Achievement unlocked. I am now quoted deep in the bowels of the History Channel’s website. But teachers, it’s a fun little piece to talk about the Vietnam War draft. 🗺️🗃️ www.history.com/news/vietnam...

7 Ways Americans Avoided the Draft During the Vietnam War | HISTORYwww.history.com From tying the knot to claiming a medical condition, here are some of the ways men tried to dodge the Vietnam War draft.

Junior, Junior, Junior, whatever are we to do with you? wapo.st/4bAQrQD

RFK Jr. had a ‘visceral’ reaction to tear-downs of Confederate statueswapo.st Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said on a podcast that he doesn’t think “it’s a good, healthy thing for any culture to erase history.”

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unfortunately had to slap my youngest child, hyperion dipshit, in the target parking lot today after he failed to show proper respect to a cybertruck. before you call that abuse, just ask my other children, aryan chlamydia and maximus trifecta what they think

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The Cold War Channel's latest video is a long format look at China's Century of Humiliation and how it shaped the People's Republic of China both during the Cold War and into the present day. Please give it a watch! youtu.be/Ko6UMAjf6hM

Fall and Rise of China - Cold War DOCUMENTARYyoutu.be Our historical documentary series on the history of the Cold War continues with a video in on the history of China, as we talk about the so-called Century of...