OMG Disgruntled Haradrim s novels my UConn History Dept colleague was just a clue in Jeopardy! !!

Historian here no Democratic presidential nominee or President was the winningest President in the late 19th century not Samuel Tilden and not Grover Cleveland. This is what happens when you simply erase the history of black disfranchisement in the south. nytimes.com/2024/04/11/opi…

It kills me when people write that Tilden and Cleveland won “the popular vote.”

This. A thousand times this. Black voters made the difference in electing President Grant twice. Growing Black disfranchisement means you can’t talk about how Tilden or Cleveland “won the popular vote.” And they fought hard to vote. Ask Robert Smalls.

The LARGEST number of enslaved Africans were transported to BRAZIL, nearly 6 MILLION. My book Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery (UChicagoPress October 2024) draws on this fact to tell the history of slavery in the Americas #slaveryarchive press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book…

Working for Big Business, Ron DeSantis signed a law gutting local “living wage” laws and undoing workers’ safety protections against heat exhaustion.

Publix & AT&T & U.S. Sugar & Florida Chamber are behind this total disdain of Floridians.

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Coming up on May 28: Manisha Sinha talks about her excellent new book on the long arc of Reconstruction with Black Mommy Activist, PhD🎙 withfriends.co/event/17792566…

Mike Johnson says he and Donald Trump are introducing a bill to ban non-citizens from voting. Non-citizens are already banned from voting in federal elections. And private citizens cannot introduce bills.

What a joke!

1. Federal law (18 U.S.C. §611) already makes it a felony for noncitizens to vote in federal elections.

2. House Republicans introduced this same law as a stunt last Congress.
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This is huge. Mind you not one appliance has been 'seized', banned, or even regulated by the Biden Administration. They are literally spending a week working on legislation based on made up online hysteria. Good job House Republicans. We will see you in November. Don't get comfortable.

A few notes on Ulysses S. Grant's personal involvement with the institution of slavery prior to the American Civil War for those who might be interested ...

John Sella Martin fled enslavement in Alabama in 1856. He became a minister & abolitionist who spoke out for equal rights & his wife, Sarah, founded Boston’s Fugitive Aid Society. After the Civil War, they worked as educators in the South.

On April 12, 1861 Confederates fired on the US garrison at Fort Sumter in Charleston, sparking a bloody Civil War. The third anniversary of the attack saw Black US Army soldiers massacred by Confederates at Fort Pillow, violently demonstrating the root cause of the war itself.

Former Sec. of Defense William Cohen tells Jim Acosta about House Republicans trying to block FISA protections, 'The Russians are here and I think that anyone in the House that says, we don't need this protection they are aiding and abetting the Russians.'

To be sure, there were many, many abolitionists. Many were Black, and they made a difference. See Manisha Sinha definitive work. But much of the antebellum debate was about halting proslavery expansionism. Republicans drew a line on slavery's growth.
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When you hear about abortion bans, about brutal intrusions into women’s personal lives by right-wing politicians, about wrenching tragedies forced by state laws that would’ve been unconstitutional two years ago, remember: Trump did this. nytimes.com/2024/04/11/us/…

Excited to share that my new book Minority Rule is out 4/23 from Farrar,Straus&Giroux. Tells story of decades-long effort by reactionary white conservatives to undermine democracy & entrench their power but also movements to resist it amazon.com/Minority-Rule-…

CNN plays montage of Trump bragging about ending Roe and extreme abortion bans nationwide