Peter Manseau

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Historian, novelist, museum curator.

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Every year I study this image and hope one day our country will make sense.

July 4th Parade, Tule Lake Internment Camp, 1943.

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Caption for the photo is: "Patsy Yorita performing a flag salute at the Tule Lake concentration camp at the Independence Day parade." Source: ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-2... Her mother is also profiled here. It has picture of Patsy as a smiling toddler and as as girl with her imprisoned family.

July 4th Parade, Tule Lake Internment Camp, 1943.

Surviving Racism, Toxic Masculinity, and Some Gruesome Medical Ordeals - Densho: Japanese American Incarceration and Japanese Internmentdensho.org There’s a tendency during women’s history month to focus our celebrations on the women who accomplished great things as activists, artists, and thinkers. And indeed these women should be celebrated!.....

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The July 4, 1942 edition of the "Pinedale Logger," the newspaper written by inmates of the concentration camp in my hometown of Fresno, CA, describes a "Gala Fourth Festival" & features a masthead motto from Thomas Paine: "Tyranny, Like Hell, Is Not Easily Conquered."

July 4th Parade, Tule Lake Internment Camp, 1943.

Every year I study this image and hope one day our country will make sense.

July 4th Parade, Tule Lake Internment Camp, 1943.

At least we still have fireflies.

MLK quote you're unlikely to hear today.

It was obvious it would happen but I’m still glad to have put in print two years ago that the meaning of January 6 would become a battlefield. In a nation where whitewash flows like an endless sea, what the future will say about the past is infuriatingly unknowable. www.nytimes.com/2022/01/06/o...

Opinion | It’s 2086. This Is What American History Could Look Like. (Published 2022)www.nytimes.com As curators at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, we are regularly confronted by hard physical evidence of just how slippery the past can be.

Japanese American children dressed as Pilgrims and Indians Thanksgiving Harvest Festival Parade Gila River War Relocation Center, 1942

You all were radicalized by the Brady Bunch Thanksgiving episode and you don't even know it.

Learned today of the KKK's Thanksgiving history -- it was revived in its 20th century form with a Stone Mountain cross burning on the eve of the holiday in 1915 -- and then fell down a rabbit hole of its related seasonal activities. "Yours in Christianity" is a sign-off that should live in infamy.

But it's not done with us.

It is quite possible the universe is telling us to be done with social media.

Welcome to Bluesky, the Esperanto of social media.

Bluesky feels like the villa in the Decameron where we’ve all come to ride out the plague.

If you want to think, learn, or write about US history, find moments layered with complexity and contradictions. Try to make sense of how they fit together. Don’t ignore the parts that challenge your preconceptions: neither the smile you can see nor the hidden barbed wire.

July 4th Parade, Tule Lake Internment Camp, 1943.

Choice between Bluesky and Twitter is the classic moral dilemma of a few people not liking my jokes vs lots of people not liking my jokes.

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