The Cynical Historian

If i were to subject myself to that 1940s film of Woodrow Wilson, what would be the drinking game?

Made significant progress editing my episode about why the American Revolution was so successful, yet much more remains. Follow me on twitch.tv/cynicalhisto... to watch me work

Let's be frank: MAGAts denying this are complicit in killing Iranian children. These are the same bigots who claim that abortion is killing and Dems do child predation rings. They're not only apathetic about human life; all of their accusations are admonitions of intent

We were saying the same about Wikipedia in 2007. Eventually that complaint became outdated. Same will occur with AI

"could" is unnecessary hedging

Oh great, can't even blame Israelis for our atrocities now

The historical method isn't predicated on AI whatsoever

Seeing conversations about "AI can research, so why teach through memorization?" This is the same as when the Web made info readily accessible. Facts themselves are useless without narrative and analysis that accompanies a deeper understanding. Only the proper methodology can provide that

Much of American post-WWII white supremacy can be explained as Klan versus civil rights ⏩ Birchers ⏩ Neonazis ⏩ Vietnam stab in the back ⏩ Christian identity ⏩ Islamophobia ⏩ Great Replacement conspiracism. Understand those and that historical undercurrent becomes apparent

This and a ton of additional material from our NEH case is available on our website historians.org/lawsuit-to-restore-the-neh

Whoops, that last one was supposed to include and center on this

Finally, there's some bloodthirsty psychopaths who actually want regime change and forever wars. How well has that worked in past? I fought one myself and that ended poorly. History doesn't repeat itself, historians repeat ourselves b/c the public won't fucking listen 🧵end

Some of these are inevitably antisemitic, because when you start going down the conspiracist rabbit hole, the bottom is always that "da joos" did it. They start with the misconception that some big bad controls events and only become worse 🧵3

of Social Revolutionaries and Mensheviks too, because they're ultimately tankies who think that anything other than Lenin and Stalin is a capitalist conspiracy. That's the only way they can prevent realizing the horrors they support: "Look over there, not here!" 🧵2

Funny thing about this imbecilic idea that the Russian Intervention was on behalf of protecting private property is that the munitions they were "protecting" was inherently COLLECTIVE ownership by the Allies. And of course they deny the fact that the coalition comprised… 🧵1

Baptists, Presbyterian, and Methodists - or really just mainline white Protestants altogether

was a novel theological interpretation from black Methodists and Unitarians using that as gospel, becoming so vociferous that mainline denominations split over slavery and "Beecher Bibles" were used in Bleeding Kansas. But remember: The Society of Friends was the origin 🧵end

They successfully persuaded the North to abolish slavery, created the first American lobbying effort, and began manumission societies. Yet their greatest detriment was an inability to hide behind figureheads like Ben Franklin. What ultimately kickstarted abolition 🧵2

The likely reason why American abolitionism failed to gain popularity in the 1790s, despite successfully transporting itself to Britain, was because it was so intensely Quaker (British orgs hid this well). After their pacifism during the revolution, Quakers were distrusted 🧵1

I'm thinking my revue of it should be the next release, but I'll leave that to patrons

I'm looking longingly at Nuremberg

POTUS veterans

I randomly decided to make a chart of the veteran status for every American president. Dunno who needs this, but here's the link: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Radicalize a reactionary, find a fascist

"That was a mispoke"

My cousin?

My new episode youtu.be/ucatGpBGKKo , using my 2012 BA capstone about the confusion that led the Allied intervention into Russia's Civil War, is accidentally topical. My patrons voted for its release after 4 months, so it correlating to Iran is purely accidental, but wow

Agreed

The first Gilded Age ended with an American presidential assassination. The second one will end with ___?

Despite Promises, Veterans Affairs Department Cut Thousands of Roles for Doctors and Nurses

Got it. There's plenty of funding to send troops into harm’s way, but not to take care of their health afterwards. This is shameful.

The most important thing I've learned from all the hatred historical videos recieve on the Web: Much of the public may disdain how historians have improved our understanding of the past, and virtually all of their whining verifies that we are revising exactly what's needed