Tad Stoermer

Michael is a tremendous historian who has written an essential overview of the history of the history of the American Revolution.

Solid take.

“If your goal is producing citizens who identify with national mythology, you need the unified story. You need the war as centerpiece. You need Washington as father. You need the army as crucible.”

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Nice interview of Burns & Co. about the American Revolution from @whropublicmedia.bsky.social , with some tough questions that team isn’t used to.

Like how Jefferson told Adams he believed that no one could ever tell the true history of the Revolution, so why does Burns think he can do better?

The Course of Human Events <b>How reading the Declaration of Independence as a document of history explains its intended meaning</b><br/><br/> Thomas Jefferson chose his words c

One week to go to publication day for The Course of Human Events: The Declaration of Independence and the Historical Origins of the United States! @uvapress.bsky.social. www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10151/

A Resistance History of the United States|Paperback Revisit the Salem Witch Trials, the Underground Railroad, and other resistance movements of American history to get a bold new understanding of how resistance shaped our past—and how its principles ca...

My publisher has added shareable assets to support my book, and a sneak-peak of the expanded table of contents, including the resistance principles.

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To understand JD Vance, you need to meet the “TheoBros” These extremely online young Christian men want to end the 19th Amendment, restore public flogging, and make America white again.

To understand JD Vance, you need to meet the “TheoBros.”

These extremely online young Christian men want to end the 19th Amendment, restore public flogging, and make America white again.

@RepSummerLee says there’s no going back to a politics that never worked in the first place. “Next is coming,” she says…the real question is who is going to build it. #politics #future #change #buildi... TikTok video by Building the Bench

This take by @repsummerlee.bsky.social captures where we are, and where need to go, like no other elected official I’ve heard. This is clear-eyed vision.

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We have the one job as historians. Just the one.

Harvard Law School Library Releases Digitized Evidence From Nuremberg Trials | News | The Harvard Crimson Researchers at the Library’s Nuremberg Trials Project digitized more than 750,000 pages of archival materials, including evidence and transcripts, previously only accessible in physical form in HLS’…

HLS Library announced the release of digitized transcripts and evidence from the Nuremberg Trials, marking the 80th anniversary of the international military tribunal for Nazi leaders.

Caroline G. Hennigan reports.

A pleasure to join Kris on his new podcast.

And always happy to take apart liberal nationalists.

Ken Burns’ American Revolution: 1950s History for a 2026 Audience Ken Burns’ The American Revolution might seem new and refreshing to audiences, especially on the left, because it acknowledges slavery’s brutality, includes women and Indigenous people, and presents t...

Ken Burns: “The American Revolution is the most important, consequential revolution in history. We then spend the next 12 hours trying to prove it.”

Conclusion drives the investigation. That’s not historical method; it’s American exceptionalism posing as inquiry.

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Book's done. Goes to copyedit now. Out of my hands.

There's something in there to tick off just about anyone - at least if you rely on bad principles, bad politics, and bad history to get you through.

For everyone else: American resistance has a way, and that way has a history. This book is it.

A seeming bit of history tonight as Ghazala Hashmi becomes the first Asian American to win statewide office in Virginia - and the first Muslim woman to win statewide office *anywhere* in the United States.

There is no greater symbol of the collapse of the post-World War II order than the prevailing narrative that the only ways to hold authoritarians accountable is with…other authoritarians.

I’ve never liked “cover reveals.” I understand why they matter to publishers, but this one had to tell the truth: no heroes, no marble—just struggle, endurance, and the fight to make freedom real and enduring.

Out next spring from @steerforthpress.bsky.social and @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social

Strap In: What I Told Danish Students About America’s Collapse On institutional failure, generational fights, and building from the ruins

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It's never too soon for the right to blame trans people A timeline of false "gender ideology" claims about the Charlie Kirk shooting.

Almost immediately after Charlie Kirk was shot on Wednesday, right-wing social media accounts began speculating that his killer was transgender. Politicians and news outlets fueled the rumors.

The problem? There is no evidence to back up the claim.

This is an honest takeaway:

If Klein believes, as he stated, that he and Kirk were part of the same "project", then we need think deeply about what that project really is.

It's a tremendously revealing piece about where the establishment left thinks it is in modern American political culture.

The Absolutist Trap: How "Free Speech" Became Anti-Democratic Charlie Kirk's assassination reveals how we've abandoned democratic thinking about discourse—and why that might be as dangerous as the violence itself

Our performative approach to democracy is actually and actively killing it.

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just watched the first episode of Girls and got so viscerally angry at the 2012 innocence of it all, I had to turn the TV off. like they have no idea who Pete Hegseth is.

The Snow Plows Aren't Coming How fake resistance videos might reveal sophisticated counter-resistance in action

The salt trucks and snow plows aren’t coming, folks. But that doesn’t mean the viral video doesn’t matter. Just not in the way that you might think.

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The End of History’s Ends When “Defense” is stripped for “War,” democracy loses its shield.

We’re not just seeing the end of history, but the end of history’s ends.

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Breaking down the White House's lies and distortions about crime in DC How to manufacture a crisis.

Donald Trump’s “takeover” of Washington, DC, is authoritarian thuggery. It’s a projection of power, driven by retrograde racism.

Resistance History is Substack’s #1 Rising in History.

There is a sign of the times.

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Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson's Resistance and the American Tradition of Saying No From the Fugitive Slave Act to sanctuary laws today, resistance begins with denying abusive authority. The Personal Liberty Laws show us how.

Brandon Johnson vs Donald Trump: It’s the best American resistance tradition.

“Resistance is never about winning the war in a day. It’s about making the exercise of abusive power difficult, expensive, and a logistical nightmare.”

Stripping (More) Myths off Thomas Jefferson He never proposed to end slavery — he lied about it, and the lie stuck.

We should be glad that “Heaven was silent” when his 1784 proposal to ban slavery in the Northwest Territory was defeated.

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So hoist a pint to Aaron Burr. 😀

Victory.