Christian McWhirter

Happy Nova Scotia Natal Day Weekend, people!

Rocketeer

Superman

Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Spider-Man

I miss the days when people got their news from reliable newspapers.

22. Not bad for a Canadian

Writing about Lincoln means constantly finding a book written in the last 160 years that you should have been citing all along.

this is also how I react to one (1) setback

The Loyalists were all bad people.

A career in public history has taught me one of the trickiest aspects of running a historic site is managing its giftshop. NPS has been the gold standard in this area for a long time and it would be a great loss if forces out of their control disrupted these efforts

NPS has been so effective in this work that visiting a site store is an easy way to get a snapshot of the state of the field. Want to know the newest trends in Lincoln studies? Check out the Lincoln Home visitors center. How about the Civil War? Stroll through Gettysburg's excellent NPS store

This seems like a good day to boost the wonderful work being done at NPS sites promoting and selling the best and latest work of historians and other scholars. Much of the non-academic sale of my own work came through NPS sites and I know that's true for many of my friends and colleagues

Ozzy is one of like 3 people in Decline of Western Civilization Part 2 that comes off as a decent human being and I always love the scene where Penelope Spheeris interviews him making breakfast while he explains the ups and downs of the business.

St. Vincent performing in Halifax.

St. Vincent at Halifax Jazzfest, people!

Hot July Take: Mario Kart is pretty fun, guys.

Yes! And this was totally the plot to every time I played with my Joes.

Weird Al tonight people!

Ooooo, I like it, but looks like I have an anti-recency bias and apologies for at least two of these artists being problematic:

Stankonia
Kid A
Elephant
Funeral
Franz Ferdinand
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
Run the Jewels 2
St. Vincent
Lemonade

“Conceived in Liberty” Historian Christian McWhirter on how Abraham Lincoln's thinking on the Declaration of Independence fundamentally shaped how he defined freedom.

A lot of people will be thinking about the meaning of American Independence today and the legacy of the Declaration of Independence. It might help to know Lincoln grappled with the same thing his whole life and he too changed his mind over time.

www.civilwarmonitor.com/conceived-in...

I mean, Brown Sugar is pretty tough to beat on this, right?

I am quite old...

And I'll be seeing him in Toronto next week!

And now for the traditional eating of the mass produced donuts.

World War 2 poster of a Canadian soldier.

In Nova Scotia for Canada Day and am truly delighted to be here.

IYKYK

Genius

Yeah, it's mostly remembered now for birthing The Simpsons. That's significant but it's overshadowed how great everything else was too.

YouTube video by TraceyUllmanVEVO Tracey Ullman - They Don't Know

And while we're on the subject, "They Don't Know" still slaps:

youtu.be/SNchTKdRs2A?...

When people talk about the greatest album cover art, they always sleep on Tracey Ullman's debut "You Broke My Heart in 17 Places" which goes harder than anything else:

The new spicy all dressed ruffles are next level.

Reposting for the evening crowd.

“Conceived in Liberty” Historian Christian McWhirter on how Abraham Lincoln's thinking on the Declaration of Independence fundamentally shaped how he defined freedom.

With Independence Day approaching fast, I wrote my latest @cwmonitor.bsky.social Lincoln Log on his deep, and sometimes complicated, connection to the Declaration of Independence:

www.civilwarmonitor.com/conceived-in...

If you see this, post an image you saved because it made you laugh.