Thomas Lecaque

@tlecaque.bsky.social

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Scholar of religious violence and apocalypticism from the Crusades to contemporary America, living and teaching on occupied Baxoje, Meskwaki and Sauk land.

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'We'll kill you if you try to stop us' is terrorism.

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court presidential immunity ruling: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be" www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court immunity decision: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution"www.mediamatters.org

Hey @brettrushforth.bsky.social , are you going to be at the WHA/SHA in Kansas City in October?

So excited that @profgabriele.com 's new book arrived!

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I want better reporting on the motivation and pressure behind Columbia and NYU’s shitshow reactions. Which donors or politicians are making threatening phone calls? What/who are administrators afraid of and why? Coverage so far offers basically no insight.

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Next up from Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, 1750-1850's Selected Papers is @tlecaque.bsky.social 's "Praying The Holy War: The Bishop of Quebec, the Mandements, and the Seven Years’ War in New France." ageofrevolutions.com/2024/04/22/p...

Praying the Holy War: The Bishop of Quebec, the Mandements, and the Seven Years’ War in New Franceageofrevolutions.com This post is a part of the 2023 Selected Papers of the Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, which were edited and compiled by members of the CRE’s board alongside editors at Age of Revolutions. By Tho...

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adding this article on the to read list - funny that “rural white rage” gets all the blame for challenging the constitutional order and not say “middle class white rage” - the judiciary that constrained reconstruction, the second klan, maga, etc were all middle class/upper middle class in origin

This piece about how Democrats have alienated rural America because they don't understand what rural Americans want contains not one word describing what Republicans have done that's more attractive

What Liberals Get Wrong About ‘White Rural Rage’ — Almost Everythingwww.politico.com The 'White Rural Rage' narrative gets the research wrong. I know, because some of it is mine.

My book pile is now a Jesuit text of Marian miracles (and scholarly articles around it), the Codex Canadensis of Louis Nicolas, and van Baerle's History of Brazil, about the Dutch occupation of Brazil. This is fun. I like this.

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Heath Ledger. Shannyn Sossamon. Jousting. Chaucer. Nude Paul Bettany. Queen. Bowie. Poetry. A lance, hello. You, me, @tlecaque.bsky.social @greenleejw.bsky.social @waymack.bsky.social & the greatest medieval film ever made. A KNIGHT'S TALE on #HATM Podcast. NOW. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

‎Historians At The Movies: Episode 71: A Knight's Tale with Thomas Lecaque, John Wyatt Greenlee, and Anna Waymack on Apple Podcastspodcasts.apple.com ‎Show Historians At The Movies, Ep Episode 71: A Knight's Tale with Thomas Lecaque, John Wyatt Greenlee, and Anna Waymack - Apr 3, 2024

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Coming to the #HATM Podcast with @tlecaque.bsky.social @greenleejw.bsky.social and Anna Waymack tomorrow

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This is extremely extremely true and the premise of all the work me & @lollardfish.bsky.social are doing

All of which is just to say history is messy and fascinating and full of *people*, and their stories are messy and fascinating and a product of their own time, and it sort of defies the simple narratives that create the great national mythos, but those myths are *also* important, even if simplified

Hey academic and journalist and other interested parties! I'm hoping to put together a roundtable for the US-IH conference in Boston in November on Christian nationalist reactions to the 2024 election--kind of a rapid turn around conversation about it, with hopes of publishing remarks.

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I'll talking about my essay "Deferred but not Avoided: Great Britain and Latin American Independence".... hope to see you there! Happy to send a copy to anyone who wants to read it.

The John Carter Brown Library is pleased to be hosting an event to celebrate the publication of The Cambridge History of the Age of Atlantic Revolutions. This hybrid event will take place at the Library on Friday, April 5, 2024. Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Here it is. 18 academics from across a wide array of disciplines weigh in: is a hot dog a sandwich? Plus @davidswanson.bsky.social made the most delightful illustration I've ever seen. buttondown.email/theswordandt...

Notable Sandwiches #89: Hot Dogbuttondown.email Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where I, alongside my charming and long-suffering editor David Swanson, trip merrily through the befuddling...

Having a genuinely relaxing Spring Break, which is great, because the back half of the semester is going to be a metric fuck ton of work.

...thinking about putting together a panel for the US-IH conference in Boston, because all the people attached to it are cool and I have a paper idea in mind I'm excited about and mostly I fucking love going to Boston...

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I know we all want to shout about how wrong that penn trustee motherfucker is. and he is. but the story is: get stupid motherfuckers out of the way.

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university trustees should be people who understand universities and love them

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stop appointing stupid motherfuckers as university trustees.

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I know we throw around "Orwellian" a lot, but this bill is absolutely that. Might as well call it the Thoughtcrimes Act

They’re looking to build state capacity for their professor harassment infrastructure. azmirror.com/2024/03/05/g...

GOP bill would let college students challenge grades based on 'political bias' of professorsazmirror.com A Republican state senator wants to give students at Arizona’s public universities a new way to challenge grades that they believe were handed down due to a professor’s political bias.

There really aren't words for how much I hate this.

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Big thanks & congrats to @tlecaque.bsky.social & @greenleejw.bsky.social for joining the 1,000 download club on the #HATM podcast yesterday. They're the first people to do it twice. I hope y'all are ready for their take on A Knight's Tale, coming soon. Here ya go: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

‎Historians At The Movies: Episode 48: Robin Hood Prince of Thieves with Thomas Lecaque and John Wyatt Greenlee on Apple Podcastspodcasts.apple.com ‎Show Historians At The Movies, Ep Episode 48: Robin Hood Prince of Thieves with Thomas Lecaque and John Wyatt Greenlee - Oct 25, 2023

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NEHA is excited for our Spring conference. Please plan to join us at Saint Anselm College on April 13, 2024! www.newenglandhistorians.org/conferences/

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Sitting here watching the Kingdom of Heaven episode close in on 1,000 downloads. Will it be today? Will Legolas find teach people about water? Who knows? @profgabriele.com @lollardfish.bsky.social @tlecaque.bsky.social @greenleejw.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...

‎Historians At The Movies: Episode 32: Kingdom of Heaven with David Perry, Matt Gabriele, Thomas Lecaque, & John Wyatt Greenlee on Apple Podcastspodcasts.apple.com ‎Show Historians At The Movies, Ep Episode 32: Kingdom of Heaven with David Perry, Matt Gabriele, Thomas Lecaque, & John Wyatt Greenlee - Jul 5, 2023

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If you're even slightly interested in early modern Japan (or debates on what scholars should call it), I can't recommend this discussion between David Howell and Karen Wigen enough: www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9R8...

12 Questions with David Howell: The New Cambridge History of Japan, Vol. IIwww.youtube.com The publication of the highly-anticipated _New Cambridge History of Japan Volume II: Early Modern Japan in Asia and the World, c. 1580–1877_ provided us the ...

God I am stoked for this AHA panel. Hope it gets accepted, the other papers in it are so damn good and I'm actually excited for mine.

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So apparently I was also on @goingmedieval.bsky.social’s podcast talking about out THE APOCALYPSE Listen here Medievalsky shows.acast.com/gone-medieva...

Medieval Apocalypse | Gone Medievalshows.acast.com From long-lost Viking ships to kings buried in unexpected places; from murders and power politics, to myths, religion, the lives of ordinary people: Gone Medieval is History Hit’s podcast dedicated to...

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My book is coming out in three months and I am grateful and humbled by the early reviews from a number of amazing scholars whose work has been a huge source of inspiration for me. You can pre-order the book here: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/kim-a...

This conference paper is shaping up to be a classic "why haven't we poked at this thing more" deal, which is not what I wanted, but hoo boy have I gone down a deep rabbit hole of Dutch history and it's... great? It's really great.

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🗃️ So excited to post the call for papers for a special issue of French Historical Studies on incarceration (broadly defined—eg prisons, asylums, penal colonies, detention camps etc) in French & francophone histories. Co-edited by Sophie Fuggle and me. Papers are due 15 Aug 2024. Please share!!

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Don’t forget to check out more by @tlecaque.bsky.social with @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social such as this 2023 piece, “Against the Grain? Native Farming Practices and Settler-Colonial Imaginations in Empire: Total War ageofrevolutions.com/2023/03/27/a...

Against the Grain? Native Farming Practices and Settler-Colonial Imaginations in Empire: Total Warageofrevolutions.com By Thomas Lecaque Creative Assembly’s 2009 game, Empire: Total War is a 4X strategy game—Explore, Expand, Exploit, Exterminate—that allows players to take over one of the “Old World” empir...