From my tips on giving history talks: Don't read aloud – 'doing so puts people to sleep.' jack-el-hai.medium.com/tips-on-giving…

'About which little has been written.”

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Today's book pick from the free monthly Damn History newsletter for readers and writers of #popularhistory . Congrats to author Philip "Read My Book" Eil and Steerforth Press!

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'My skin was scorched from the sun.'

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'As I pass my days
like an apparition
lying ill here,
in the night sky above me
the wild geese return.'
– Saitō Mokichi, #writerMD

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“You got to have that rhythm.”

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'The boys were too young to be executed.'

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Today's book pick from the free monthly Damn History newsletter for readers and writers of #popularhistory . Congrats to author Keith Boykin and Bold Type Books!

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'Russia is ruled by an army of executioners.'

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Contrary to social media memes, books like To Kill a Mockingbird, Catch-22, and Fahrenheit 451 have not appeared on this list for years. Titles with LGBTQ themes now dominate. Nice story by Ella Malena Feldman. smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/the…

Today's book pick from the free monthly Damn History newsletter for readers and writers of #popularhistory . Congrats to author Adam Lazarus and Kensington Books!

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'A long history of voter suppression.'

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Today's book pick from the free monthly Damn History newsletter for readers and writers of #popularhistory . Congrats to author Beth Linker and Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.s!

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'Crucial glimpse of Bow’s path to superstardom.'

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'In the story he told, he was 19.'

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'Many have attempted to create knockoff copies of this enigmatic instrument.' allthatsinteresting.com/aztec-death-wh…

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'Excruciating tedium can have intellectual value.' historytoday.com/archive/making…