Robert Paulett

Robert Paulett

@robertpaulett.bsky.social

Historian of early America and bits of Britain. Apostate southerner. Yells about maps, St. Louis, and higher ed.

3,975 Followers 897 Following 2,746 Posts Joined Jul 2023
5 hours ago

Life along that I-70 battle front between the Gulf and the Arctic.

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5 hours ago
Five day weather forecast showing a high of 66 Fahrenheit on Sunday dropping to a low of 13 Fahrenheit on Monday before rising back to 71 Fahrenheit on Thursday.

St. Louis is neither the hottest nor the coldest place but it for sure has the most brutal middles I’ve ever experienced.

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1 day ago

Welp, there goes the summer travel budget. Thanks Trump.

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1 day ago

Trillions of dollars handed over to business leaders who don’t even understand the basic concept of supply and demand.

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1 day ago

Bro, if I could generate water and (enough) electricity with my brain I WOULD NOT PAY FOR THOSE!!

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1 day ago

It is clear though that if we just say “nuh-uh” to their “nuh-huh” they don’t know what to do next.

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1 day ago

These people are going to bring this exact same ineptitude for long-range planning and strategy to the 2026 midterms that they brought to the Iran War.

Don’t know if that’s comforting or terrifying but we should plan for it anyway.

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2 days ago

Sure a stopped clock is right twice a day but my busted-ass Ikea clock has a whole ongoing metaphor about the progress of time.

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What does time look like in the historian’s office?

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2 days ago

This stomach-churning nightmare of a marketing initiative could have instead been a nice kinetic sculpture in the corner of a library somewhere.

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2 days ago

This is what happens to creative energy when you take away people’s ability to make a living in the arts.

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2 days ago

Ask them what video games they’re playing and you’ll see more of a common culture emerge.

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3 days ago

Your kids’ school lost its music program so this bro’s parents could buy him more cashmere quarter-zips.

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4 days ago

The stock market is a mass hallucination among 500 guys in a big room in Manhattan. It is much more susceptible to fever dream and fiction than anyone involved wants to admit. Like a Looney Tune, they just have to not look down.

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4 days ago

I dunno, dude was bros with George IV. That required an appetite.

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6 days ago

Historians centuries from now: “Oh, so the rich stoked a backlash to another era of expanding civil rights in order to amass power. And then they cratered the country again. Thank goodness we’re past that now.”

Right before they step on the damn rake in their own time.

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1 week ago

Seriously. Asking how people manage to escape them.

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1 week ago

How can anyone ever feel lonely when university alumni offices exist?

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1 week ago

If that means we suddenly own Tesla, well, bully for us.

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1 week ago

It would take too long and cost too much to prosecute this. Only sure way to get our stolen money back is 100% tax rate on all wealth above than $100million.

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1 week ago

Between producing this guy and the other guy, we should unplug St. Louis area private schools until we figure out what's going on.

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1 week ago

The course’s subtitle is “Sometimes it’s okay to just go work at the bank”

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1 week ago

Ope, 17. Careers in History

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1 week ago

Yeah I’m curious to see what that one looks like, too, once I actually put the syllabus together.

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1 week ago

You wear a lot of hats at a regional public. Best thing for my scholarship, when I can actually get around to my scholarship.

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1 week ago

11. The Invention of Race
12. Am Rev and Constitution
13. Age of Black Revolution (new)
14. Grad Theory and Methods
15. Grad Research Seminar
16. Whatever else they ask me to

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1. World History since 1500
2. African-American history to 1877
3. US to 1877
4. History of the Museum
5. History of the American Home
6. Historiography
7. Senior Research Seminar
8. Conspiracy in American History
9. Grad Seminar in Native Am
10. Grad Seminar in Atlantic Slavery

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1 week ago

Especially since it kind of hijacked the Kevin Costner genre of sweeping historical epic and sent it careening into insanity.

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1 week ago

God forgive me, but Braveheart would be fun.

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1 week ago

But, man, you should see my course offerings.

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