Jason Herbert
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It’s our 100th episode and we have something big for you.
We got Julia Troche and Stargate’s own historical consultant Stuart Tyson Smith on to talk about Egypt, James Spader, Kurt Russell, language, and yes aliens. This one is fun.
STARGATE drops NOW
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Life goals: live in a state where neither the governor nor senators are trending because they want to kill me.
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You guys. YOU. GUYS. My autistic seven year old just got an invitation to a birthday party and this daddy is damn near in tears.
#LittleVictories
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My son’s teacher discussed the
#Holocaust
in class today. His response? He asked to read the Diary of Anne Frank. His mom ordered a copy for him; it’ll be here tomorrow. He’s NINE. They can handle this stuff. Just let them learn.
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If you’re running low on toilet paper remember that Hillbilly Elegy is available online for just $9.24
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Every now and then a take it so bad that makes you literally shake your head in disbelief. Such seems to be the case among those who would tell you Andrew Jackson is getting a bad rap and is, in this case, been "unfairly smeared."
Pull up a chair. 1/
Unpopular and correct opinion: Andrew Jackson should stay on the $20 bill.
The Harriet Tubman $20 bill would be fine too, but revisionists have unfairly smeared Jackson.
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Anyone else feel weird citing something early in a book? Citing page 152 feels better than page 2. It’s like, “no I swear I read all of this. Trust me.”
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The rest of the world is laughing at us.
New Zealand:
Winston Peters — deputy PM of New Zealand addresses an American COVID-19 denier at a press conference.
“Sit down. Sorry sunshine, wrong place.”
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The nice lady at the register in publix didn't get the response she expected when she asked me "if I could believe what they're teaching to these kids on history classes these days."
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Ok, let’s make this official. I’ll write more on this later but I’ve accepted a position with the US Forest Service to help manage our natural resources. This means leaving FL and everyone there dear to me. But I believe in this mission & will work as hard as I can for all of us.
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Cool. Can y’all beam Flint some water?
Air Force leaders applaud Space Force’s formal creation.
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Just sent the dissertation out to the committee. 294 pages. 86,510 words. I'm going to bed. For a month.
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Just got the green light to schedule the defense. Had a good hard cry. Your boy is gonna be a doctor, y'all. I'll have a date soon.
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Covid cost me everything. And this piece of shit is laughing about it. I’m trying to stay here but goddammit I’m ready to bolt.
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Here’s my other thought: learning about the complicated history of the United States, with all the ugly parts as well as the shiny ones, is about as patriotic as it gets. Coming to terms with America’s past is the only way to ensure a better future.
Trump says he will sign an executive order on patriotic education in schools
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I think we’re capable about both cooking and not supporting rebellion at the same time,
@MarshaBlackburn
, you insurrectionist pinhead.
Don’t forget that if the Left had their way, they’d take away your grill.
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@melnickjeffrey1
I had a professor when I was a TA tell me only 10% of students should receive an A in class in each section of 20 students. TWO STUDENTS? And such an arbitrary number. It was bullshit. And the professor an absolute two-faced jackass.
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Thank you, Ridley Scott. My divorce is no longer the most difficult experience of my life.
#Napoleon
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Woke up this morning to find I’ve been nominated for the Gilder Lehrman National History Teacher of the Year Award. Totally unexpected and I’m flattered by those who thought of me like this. Beyond honored to be considered.
#sschat
#twitterstorians
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Apparently Vivek Ramaswamy’s campaign is pulling back, which means he’s accomplished his mission. He was never interested in serving; his grift was solely about saying outlandish things and getting on Trump’s radar. That’s it. He’s a profiteer. A charlatan. And soon, a memory.
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Now
@DineshDSouza
is just getting OWNED by the museum. Someone throw in the towel for this guy.
@DineshDSouza
The devil is in the detail. Complexity of history demands honest & careful approach to details, not misinterpreting them.
Your tweet seems to confirm
@torstenkathke
opinion, that you 'attack the fundaments of what it means to research, interpret, write, and understand history'.
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These ducks look like they're on their way to Philadelphia to amend the Articles of Confederation.
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Nothing preps you for that first time you can't access JSTOR.
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I find myself blocking a lot of family members lately. I’m so disappointed and broken by what I see in western Kentucky. But fuck ‘em. Everyone is someone’s family. Y’all are just gonna have to be mine.
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Folks we don’t need a swing state VP nominee. What we need is a hyper competent person who will appeal to a large audience because of said competence. Kentucky ain’t a swing state but Andy Beshear is beloved there as a Democrat. He’s got the goods.
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When you’d rather freeze to death than pay your fair share of taxes
It’s crazy we’ve turned Everest into a DMV line at altitude for really rich people
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So, a bit of good news this morning: I’ve been awarded a McNeil Dissertation Fellowship by McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. A real thrill for me.
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Hi
@NetflixFilm
, I'm Jason Herbert. I'm a doctoral candidate in history at the University of Minnesota and I'm the creator of Historians At The Movies. Every weekend, we (historians and the general public) tune into
@netflix
to watch and live tweet a film together.
#HATM
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You may have read recently that fewer and fewer students are majoring in HISTORY. This is a bummer for so many fields, including film. Here are a few examples in which historians have influenced the direction of a film — and, as a result, us.
*Teacher voice* NEXT SLIDE.
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You know what I buy if my student debt gets canceled? I buy a house. From a local homeowner. They get to buy a new house. Maybe they retire. Maybe I hire a contractor and add a deck. Maybe just a plumber to redo the bathroom. That's all local. 1/
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This is sickening. The federal government is using this time to steal Native lands and deny the legitimacy of Native people.
BREAKING: The Bureau of Indian Affairs today told the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe that the Secretary of the Interior has ordered that their reservation be disestablished and their land be taken out of trust.
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If y’all ain’t following
#HeAintFromHere
you are missing out on learning Kentucky culture in real-time
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Just deleted my Facebook account. If I wanted to live with the people I grew up with, I'd live with the people I grew up with.
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In light of
@history
The Men Who Built America, my students decided instead of watch films today but to create their own series—The WOMEN Who Built America. This is their brainstorm list. Ok,
#twitterstorians
, help us cast this series. Who else do you wanna see?
#HATM
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And a final word on Jackson apologists. Falling for his cult of personality doesn't make you a Jacksonian or a rogue historian. It makes you little more than a fanboy. 25/25
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Wow. Good on you, Utah.
Utah was settled by refugees fleeing religious persecution. We understand the pain caused by forced migration and appreciate the contributions of refugees in our communities.
Today we sent a letter to
@POTUS
expressing our desire in helping those who are fleeing Afghanistan.
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Folks, I’m just floored about the loss of Chadwick Boseman. I’ve gotten a lot of messages, & I think maybe the best way we can acknowledge & honor him is to change the
#HATM
schedule. Join us for an encore of BLACK PANTHER tomorrow night on
@disneyplus
@ 8:30pm EDT.
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Holy crud I’m on C-SPAN
"It's a well crafted film...but historic film, it is not."
@HistoryGonWrong
of
@jyfmuseums
&
@HerbertHistory
talking about "Gone With the Wind" and other movies from a
#history
pov. Watch more, Saturday at noon & 9pm ET on
@cspan
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Did you give yourself a gift when you finished your PhD? What was it?
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Man at restaurant, to me: “Sir, why does your shirt say ‘I Still Hate Laettner’?”
Me: “Because I do”
“You mean because of that....game? Hasn’t it been 30 years?”
“27.”
“I think it’s time you got over it.”
“You’ve never met anyone from Kentucky, have you?”
#BBN
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Secretariat is the greatest race horse of all time.
On Kentucky Derby day, here’s your reminder that Secretariat was faster than any horse you’ll see today. The year is 1973 and this is his track record run. Untouched for 48 years. GOAT.
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I’ve found it. It’s the stupidest license plate in America.
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Beaten by the Mouse
BREAKING: Ron DeSantis Says He Has ‘Moved On’ and Urges Disney to Drop Lawsuit Against Him
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Why is the governor of Florida in Japan?
"I'm not a candidate, so we'll see if and when that changes," Gov. DeSantis, who is in Japan right now, says when asked about polls that show him falling behind Trump.
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Just finished. My immediate reaction is that this is not just my favorite environmental history, or favorite history. Dan Flores wrote the best book I’ve ever read. Period.
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Just walked into a department store and left immediately. The smell of all the colognes and perfumes was just nauseating. Anyone else have this problem?
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Today is National First Gen Student day. Neither of my parents finished high school. As a young man I flunked out of college. Twice.
@GoToTCC
gave me a shot when I was 31. (Love y’all)
I’ll finish my PhD at
@UMNHistory
in August. No such thing as a traditional student, folks.
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Them: What do you do?
Me: I study Native American history
Don’t say it
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Please God don’t say it
Them: my great grandmother was a Cherokee Indian princess
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Alex Jones tortured parents whose children were murdered. He did this for years and profited from it. There is no punishment too severe for this piece of excrement.
I don't like Alex Jones. He should not have said what he said about Sandy Hook. But did he actually do something worth $1.5 billion in damages? This seems absurd to me, and very much like a punishment given due to dislike, not an assessment of the facts.
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It's my I have a completed draft of the entire dissertation bourbon.
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Make no mistake: this dude helped save what’s left of Florida
Let's hear it for whistleblower James Gaddis, a former FDEP cartographer who told the
@TB_Times
he leaked information about the state's plan to build golf courses, 350-room hotels, pickleball courts and more at nine state parks.
Read more:
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Grad students, listen to me (a fellow grad student at 42): you are not waiting to start a new career. You are *in* your career. Right. Now.
Your location will change. Your pay will change. But you are already doing the work.
You are doing this. And you’re doing it well.
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I don't think the news about Herschel Walker hurts him much, if any at all. His supporters were never voting on issues. They were voting for him because he's their guy and in their party. We've seen this time and time again with Conservatives... 1/2
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I think university job ads should definitively state whether the institution is Coke school or Pepsi school. This would eliminate a lot of confusion.
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Four words that give me hope: Chief Justice Barack Obama
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When you have impostor syndrome about your work remember that this guy is out there publishing wherever this is supposed to be
The Hill is out with my column in a recent discovery of the criminal history of the great-great-grandfather of Joe Biden. It turns out that the evasion of accountability may be something of a family trait acquired through generations of natural selection.
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Hey everyone. It’s time for things to end. Historians At The Movies will conclude its weekly run on July 17 with a final viewing of National Treasure. We’ll continue special events, maybe monthly.
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My family tells a story of a mythical flathead catfish named Ekenhammer. According to lore, it was first seen by my great grandfather and was four feet long. It has since been seen by multiple family members & is now a half-mile long.
What’s a cool bit of family history you know? Can be family of origin of family of choosing.
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From two-time college flunk out to a Ph.D. in history to creating one of the largest historical communities in the world. All because
@GoToTCC
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Historians At The Movies made the New York Times. I’m dead.
#HATM
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BREAKING:
@TheEconomist
has never actually *read* twitter.
Historians are isolated in professional cocoons, fiddling with footnotes rather than bringing the past to light for a broader audience
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If we are as a country to heal wounds manufactured by our past and picked at by our present, we must understand symbolism matters. Andrew Jackson does not represent the world in which I want my children to grow up in. We can do better. We can choose to do better. 24/
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I'm just a boy, sitting in a chair, wondering why footnotes and bibliographies are formatted differently.
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Fascinating that this is where we are now. We can’t get folks to agree that we should have clean water.
Biden wants to replace lead pipes. He failed to mention that the unfunded mandate sets an almost impossible timeline, will cost billions, infringe on the rights of the States and their residents – all for benefits that may be entirely speculative.
#sotu
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Everyone, meet Edward Thatch, aka Edward Teach, aka Blackbeard. Scourge of the High Seas, Sealer of Fates. 13/10 would adopt. Did adopt.
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“We’ll anyway,” she said, “now they’re teaching all that gay stuff in kindergarten.”
“No, ma’am, they’re not.” I told her. “But is there something wrong with gay people?”
CRICKETS
I walked off in the rain.
I hate that these feelings exist.
Anyway, I love all y’all. 2/2
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Oh hell let’s do it. This week Historians At The Movies talks about racism, the West, the 70s, and the legacy of Mel Brooks’ film. Join in on
@PrimeVideo
at 8pm eastern this Sunday June 18 to live tweet BLAZING SADDLES.
Keep
#HATM
growing by retweeting & we’ll see you soon!
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In one week, HATM will have outlasted the confederacy. Let’s get them statues going.
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Waiting for the rain to dissipate outside the theater. Woman says she almost walked out of Planet of the Apes because “all the Pride stuff.” She said she didn’t know if I was into all of that but she didn’t like them making up “gay apes.” I said “but there ARE gay apes.” 1/
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Dissertation defense scheduled for January 5. If you need me, assume I'm pacing nervously.
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The odd thing about packing is that you come to terms with the value of what you have. At some point you look at decide what is most important to you and think on how to best protect. For me, it’s this guy right here. 43 years we’ve been rolling together.
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A lot of emotions as I moved in today. Would love to say they’re all excitement but that wouldn’t be keeping it real. I’m filled with doubt, terrified I made a bad decision, and missing my home and all I love in Florida. I am scared. Let’s do this anyway.
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Terrific thread on mass market “patriotism” and the ownership of Americanness.
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My mom made me a bear from the shirt my grandfather wore to my bachelor’s degree graduation
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My guess is that this sort of collusion extends far beyond the supermarket to things like automobiles, televisions, appliances, and beyond
BREAKING: America's largest egg producers and industry groups illegally rigged the market to drive up the price of eggs, a jury has found.
Their price-fixing scheme included exporting millions of eggs overseas to drive up U.S. prices around Thanksgiving and Easter.
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All yall asking for details know me long enough that I can crush a fastball down the middle.
#Upperdeck
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My final assignment to my 8th graders is to conduct an oral history of the 1980s...from their parents. I'm hoping to not only get them to engage with the material but offer a cool bonding them for them with their folks. 1/
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Me, in class today, using twitter: “so if you follow this thread, it’ll give you an understanding of political party realignm—-“
Class: “OMG THOSE DOGS”
Me: “Yes, that’s Yoshi”
“BUT THE LITTLE ONE”
“Lulu.”
“ARE THERE CATS TOO”
Sigh.
@TheTattooedProf
just owned me from Iowa.
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Y'all I've been in Colonial Williamsburg for ten minutes and someone needs to go get my cat. I'm staying.
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Just received some great news- I have been offered and accepted the Marvin and Sybil Weiner Fellowship to do research at
@FloridaAtlantic
this fall and
@TheHuntington
next June. I'm beyond excited and really thankful to my letter writers & the institutions.
#Pumped
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Really, I’m thinking the best way to answer the university hiring freeze is for historians to learn to coach football.
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It is not revisionist to say that Jackson was a particularly cruel man who hated Indians. His force torched Creek towns, destroying crops and livestock along the way. He waged total war against his enemies with utter annihilation his aim. 5/
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Ok friends, I’ve gotten too many requests to turn you down. We’re gonna do a special edition of Historians At The Movies Saturday night. Join us for INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE at 8:30pm EST on March 14. See you soon!
#HATM
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This is Violet. She’s coming home soon. NOBODY TELL MY TEN YEAR OLD
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So here’s some exciting news that I can make official: I’m taking Historians At The Movies on the road next semester and will be doing live sessions with students at the University of Minnesota & University of Wyoming! Let me know if you’d like to bring
#HATM
to your campus!
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Forgot that getting the 13 year old vaccinated meant being trapped in a CVS for another 15 minutes. Friends, his little brother just found the contraceptives and I'm answering questions.
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