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Associate Professor of History, Penn State Enslavement, Emancipation, and Empire in North America, 1750 - 1820 https://www.pennpress.org/9781512828429/the-centrality-of-slavery/ https://sites.psu.edu/jch24/

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Slavery, Freedom, and Expansion in the Early American West <div><p>Most treatments of slavery, politics, and expansion in the early American republic focus narrowly on congressional debates and the inaction of

Slavery, Freedom, and Expansion in the Early American West and Contesting Slavery: The Politics of Bondage and Freedom in the New American Nationn (with Matt Mason), 30% off with the code 10VABOOKS at upress.virginia.edu
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08.10.2025 13:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Nixon, belting out "Sound System gonna bring me back up, yeah!"

08.10.2025 11:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

... or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

08.10.2025 10:54 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Excellent. Long live "Dick Hell!"

07.10.2025 23:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

John Candy was thin before he went to Chicago.

07.10.2025 23:30 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It will be hilarious when the government asks for more time to make their case.

06.10.2025 21:13 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's my "time to storm the Bastille" bottom line.

04.10.2025 05:02 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

And men have to wear hair shirts, and they are flogged daily on the quad while women and LGBTQ people mock them.

03.10.2025 11:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

WHich already lose money on undergrad education

03.10.2025 11:39 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Like Trump, the dude couldn't fight his way out of a wet paper bag.

03.10.2025 11:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Those two things are likely related

03.10.2025 00:31 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Suicide

02.10.2025 22:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Go Ned!

02.10.2025 22:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

@bencarp.bsky.social

02.10.2025 14:43 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Week 6 is almost complete!

02.10.2025 14:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Literally everyone has a "gender ideology." E V E R Y O N E

01.10.2025 23:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Wendy (Live)
YouTube video by Descendents - Topic Wendy (Live)

Descendents, "Wendy"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNZ5...

30.09.2025 22:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Excited to introduce Vibes from Meta. Eat your slop, piggies!

30.09.2025 17:59 β€” πŸ‘ 7386    πŸ” 2673    πŸ’¬ 115    πŸ“Œ 202
Take Our Test
YouTube video by Minutemen - Topic Take Our Test

"when reality appears digital
and the big hankering cometh
i'll vote yes for life in the big choice poll
i'll be glad I did"
-Minutemen, "Take our Test," 1985
www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5Hj...

30.09.2025 10:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

30 students
Head down
Buried in phones

30.09.2025 10:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

while wearing Athleta and sipping a macchiato, doging the Range Rovers and G-Wagons cruising the mean streets.

29.09.2025 15:28 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Ahhh, that year when I taught at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky, and students told me the campus was "in the 'hood."

29.09.2025 15:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"Remember when is the lowest form of conversation." = Anthony Soprano, 2007

29.09.2025 14:59 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Trump understands that their committment to civic life and constitutional demcoracy is as thin as is hair.

29.09.2025 14:19 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

In all seriousness, do you know anything about history as an academic discipline?

29.09.2025 13:55 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Students can "study history better" by completing the readings; by analyzing primary sources; by testing their hypothoses in discussions and writing with their peers and their professors; by writing arguments which demonstrate that a particular claim is true. Where does AI come into this?

29.09.2025 13:54 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

He broke the promise by being Black. The audacity of Obama.

28.09.2025 16:40 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Pol Pot would like a word.

27.09.2025 13:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

On his PJ

27.09.2025 13:30 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Is this your dean?

26.09.2025 17:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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