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Richmond, VA
Joined April 2009
RT @devintoshea: up now on HNN, check out the write-up on the KNIGHTS OF THE GOLDEN CIRCLE — Booth, Bickley, opium, and buried (racist) tre…
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RT @bunkhistory: Each year, we sift through thousands of online articles, essays, blogs, and newsletters that deal, in one way or another,…
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RT @emmagarman: The 3rd in my series on found documents in fiction, @myHNN, looks at arguably the genre's GOAT: Vladimir Nabokov's PALE FIR…
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RT @rflorezsantiago: Wrote an essay about a curious episode from the 1970's that include data the Christmas Bird Count, the fight to ban DD…
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In 1973, the Christmas Bird Count formed the basis for a press freedom case that centered on the impacts of DDT.
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Read Bronwen Everill on Richard Francis Burton, questionable economic consultant.
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“When I came back from the Jan. 6 rally, I felt like I had participated in the Boston Tea Party 2.0.” That was a GOP political candidate quoted by @bencarp in this piece on the uses & abuses of the #BostonTeaParty, which took place 251 years ago #OTD:
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The Northeast’s fire future will likely return to a facsimile of its past, writes Stephen Pyne, though which of its several fire pasts prevails will depend on what people decide.
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Gladiator II is not the first, and is unlikely to be the last, Hollywood film to use ancient Rome to play out American ideals of liberty. Read @DrJessicaClarke on the new film.
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RT @bunkhistory: #OTD in 1955, a Black woman in Alabama announced a boycott of her city's bus system. Her name was not Rosa Parks. Read @…
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Read an excerpt from “Instrument of War: Music and the Making of America’s Soldiers” by David Suisman. @UChicagoPress
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