Chris Dougherty

History Will Remember You For What You Did Here The signs; bright red, with bold white block lettering, masquerading as a sign of hope.

History Will Remember You For What You Did Here.

#politics #trump #news

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One of my most anticipated reads for 2025:

Ghengis Khan and The Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford.

Weatherford highlights how Khan was both a ruthless, but also a visionary.

Have you read this one? What were your thoughts?

#booktok #booksky #bookrecs #history

Viking History is one of my favorite historical periods.

The Wolf Age by Tore Skeie is a book I think anyone who loves Viking/Nordic history will love.

What Viking history books would you recommend?

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One of my top reads of 2024, and one I’d highly recommend you check out!

Midnight in Chernobyl by Adam Higginbotham

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One of my most anticipated reads in 2025!

The Faithful Executioner by Joel F. Harrington
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Today’s Inauguration will be designed to fuel anger, resentment, and fuel rage among those who are either directly impacted or opposed to particular rhetoric or policies of Trump’s.

Do not fuel the fire, be vigilant in how and what you consume, and choose to fight back with actual change.

TikTok is back up after the ban, but it is 100% not the same.

Content/creators I followed, mainly for history and history books, are all but gone from search and my FYP.

I can’t say what’s happened to the algorithm, but there’s a lot of empty hallways in the building if you know what I mean…

CR:

The Poppy War
The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine
The Shadow of The Gods

Agreed wholeheartedly, and welcome!

My introduction to #booksky I guess?

📚 Reading is political
🎧 Audiobooks count as reading
📖 Reading is not a competition
🤔 Reading critically & reading for fun are not mutually exclusive
👉 If you support problematic authors, you deserve to be called out on it
🚫 Toxic positivity can eff off

History and history book lovers, where you at?!

I recently came across Martyr! in an article and it really caught my eye.

I might have to add that to the tbr.

Birthday haul

#Booksky

Alright #BookSky

If you’re looking for book reviews, book recs, and community that discusses history and the books that have shaped our world, I might be your guy!

I want to help build a community of history and book lovers to thrive on this app!

Drop a follow and let’s build!

Feels timely to have purchased this book🧐

#BookSky is thriving, and I plan on being vocal about history, and the critical and vital importance books like this have.

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Currently building out my Substack where I’ll be discussing books and history!

Would appreciate if you subscribed - it’s free 🙂

#substack #books #booksky #history

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Seven Days A week from today, President-elect Donald Trump will have his inauguration and formally begin his second and final term as President of the United States.

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I published my first post on Substack!

#politics #news

#HistBookChat

Any solid recs for books on the Ottoman Empire?

Looking to add some reads from that period to my list this year.

I’ve started posting book content on IG.

Here’s my most recent post discussing some of the books I’m prioritizing in 2025.

I hope you’ll check it out!

#books #history #historybooks #booksky

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The books I’m currently reading:

The Poppy War started off pretty slow, but took off about 50 pages in, and I’ve been glued to it ever since.

Hundred Years’ War is quite dense out of the gates, but extremely informative.

Not too far into Shadow yet.

What are you reading in Jan?

#books #booksky

Just finished up with ‘How The Word Is Passed’ by @clintsmithiii.bsky.social as my first read in my 25 in 2025 challenge.

A no-doubt ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ read - highly recommend adding it to your tbr.

I’m now on to The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine by Rashid Khalid.

What are you currently reading?

#books

It will never be acceptable to allow January 6th to be forgotten, rewritten, misinterpreted, or accepted as normal.

A day of destruction and desecration to the very freedoms and liberties our country stands on were threatened.

Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society.

It will never be acceptable to allow January 6th to be forgotten, rewritten, misinterpreted, or accepted as normal.

A day of destruction and desecration to the very freedoms and liberties our country stands on were threatened.

Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society.

#histbookchat
#history
#amreading
#historybooks

#BookSky Christmas Day check-in!

I’ve added what most consider “must reads” that I’ve been putting off in favor of other reads to my collection.

Already started on “How The Word Is Passed” by Clint Smith, and am loving it. Will likely restart Valiant Ambition.

Have you read any of these titles?

Same energy.

That's what you get when corporations would rather profit
off our pain than improve the country. They use our suffering as a way to get seize control, all while oppressing through constant dependency so that their wealth can continue to grow.

#musk
#politics
#gop
#democrats

Lindsey M Burke, of The Heritage Foundation, recently co-wrote an article about declining birth rates in the US.

Burke, who holds a Masters AND PhD, and recently became a mother in 2022, at 39, advocates for government incentives for continuing education to help with birth rates.

Hypocrisy reigns

Demon of Unrest will be an early 2025 read for me!

Happy to see it on so many people’s top reads.

#BookSky

What are your top reads of 2024?

I’m finishing up a few books now, and think I’ve come up with a solid top five.

•Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe
•Chernobyl by Adam Higginbotham
•On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder
•The Plantaganets by Dan Jones
•24 Hours in Ancient Rome by Philip Matyszak