@bethaneeb.bsky.social
Public historian, Disney nerd. Opinions are my own; history is sourced.
That’s amazing!
08.08.2025 15:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Et tu, Microsoft Word?
11.04.2025 19:55 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#DisneyandtheAmericanNarrative #disthreads
From Morten Baker, "Bakers Dozen: Rebuttal from Disneyland," The Baltimore Afro-American, September 20, 1978, pg. 7.
This has the advantage of removing Disney from the political cycle every 4–8 years and possibly giving America its best civics education in years.
26.03.2025 23:32 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This can include presidents, the defining characteristic of whom is that they are drawn “from the people.” Use IP if you want. Bring in the Muppets. Sing some Hamilton. Show America at its best, when working together to achieve the ideals of life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness for all.
26.03.2025 23:32 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0IMHO, as both a political and Disney historian, WDW has one chance to completely reimagine Hall of Presidents without angering any political side: 2026/America 250. Hear me out-HOP -> WTP, We The People. #dissky #publichistory #america250 #waltdisneyworld
26.03.2025 23:32 — 👍 18 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 1
Disney has always been the bellwether of where the heart of the country is, culturally.
Just saying.
#dissky #disneyhistory #publichistory www.usatoday.com/story/money/...
I won’t say it wasn’t that great, because it was, especially if you like Mayan history!
03.03.2025 02:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“You can’t get from the primary source to the interpretation with a straight line.” - Joe Rohde speaking right to my public historian heart
02.03.2025 18:33 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Apropos of nothing. #dissky
www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7vb...
This is how it’s done.
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It’s a great time to be writing about the 1780s.
13.02.2025 16:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thank you!
07.02.2025 21:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“Do not be stilled by anger or grief. Burn them both and use that fuel to keep moving.”
-Maggie Smith
Ooooh yeah just generally no holograms or audio animatronics of historic figures please and thank you.
04.02.2025 22:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thank you! We need you to stand for us all.
04.02.2025 22:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thank you! We need you to stand for us all.
04.02.2025 22:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thank you! Thank you for standing up and calling people to account! On behalf of those of us who can’t.
04.02.2025 00:12 — 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Thankful to see Disney Parks still celebrating Black History Month.
03.02.2025 00:01 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thank you for doing something!
02.02.2025 23:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The Staple Singers became legendary for their songs about black life and struggle during the Civil Rights era. This song in particular is in reference to the Poor People’s Campaign.
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“America we believe (we believe)
Oh that you love us still (love us still)
So people I'm gonna be under (yeah)
To wipe away my tears
I'll tell ya, ooh yeah
It's a long walk to D.C. but I'm on, ooh, yes, I am
Ooh yeah, but I know I'll make it some day”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DgW...
That’s my Senator!!
30.01.2025 20:47 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The song famous.
Some of Hill’s last words were “Don’t mourn. Organize.”
The activist known as Joe Hill fought for workers rights in the early 1900s. He was executed for a murder that many believed he had been framed for by anti-union bosses.
His story has been used for decades as a rallying cry. Paul Robeson, a singer famous for supporting the marginalized, made
“The Copper Bosses killed you Joe,
they shot you Joe” says I.
“Takes more than guns to kill a man”
Says Joe “I didn’t die”
And standing there as big as life
and smiling with his eyes.
Says Joe “What they can never kill
went on to organize,
went on to organize”
m.youtube.com/watch?v=omke...
In 1776 Benjamin Franklin proposed the motto
“Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God”
For the seal of the new United States.
Just saying.
#publichistory
Bragg wrote this song in Britain after the Conservative Party under Margaret Thatcher won its third consecutive election. He believed a new day was coming, but good grief how long would it take?!
I think a lot of us can relate.
#publichistory
Well, one leap forward, two leaps back
Will politics get me the sack?
Well, here comes the future and you can't run from it
If you've got a blacklist I want to be on it
Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards”
Billy Bragg, “Waiting For The Great Leap Forward www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHd2...
