Kevin M. Levin

What the National Park Service Has Flagged Thus Far. It's Much Worse Than I Thought. Note: This is a long post.

I spent hours looking through hundreds of files of materials that have been flagged for review by National Park Service sites around the country. Here is just a small sample of what I found. #NationalParks 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

It's a no-win situation.

Just checked. They didn't report anything.

Did you not read the post?

No, but I may go in and take another look.

What the National Park Service Has Flagged Thus Far. It's Much Worse Than I Thought. Note: This is a long post.

I spent hours looking through hundreds of files of materials that have been flagged for review by National Park Service sites around the country. Here is just a small sample of what I found. #NationalParks 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

LIVE SOON: What the National Park Service Has Already Flagged Starting Mar 2 at 8:00 PM EST

I spent this afternoon going through hundreds of folders of exhibits, books and other resources flagged by the National Park Service as potentially violating the Trump administration's executive order re: public history. Join me tonight at 8PM EST for a live chat. open.substack.com/live-stream/...

Confidential database reveals which items NPS thinks may ‘disparage’ America An internal government database reviewed by The Washington Post demonstrates the vast scope of the Trump administration’s ongoing effort to revise or remove information on African American history, cl...

I know there are more important things to worry about right now, but I am working my way through the files. It is so much worse than I thought. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

I am downloading the files right now. Thanks.

When That Other "Sons" of Civil War Veterans Group Visited the Shaw Memorial in Boston in 1950 You've heard of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, but what about the Sons of Union Veterans?

When That Other "Sons" of Civil War Veterans Group Visited the Shaw Memorial in Boston in 1950 #CivilWarMemory open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

I'm sorry, Kevin, but if I'm here and you are here, doesn't that make this our time?

I agree. I don't get the sense that they have any understanding of how a Civil War army was organized and functioned at any level of operation.

Recent scholarship suggests that factors shaping desertion were incredibly complex.

YouTube video by Netflix Harrison Ford: Life Achievement Award Acceptance Speech | 32nd Annual Actor Awards

When you have the chance, please take the time to watch Harrison Ford's remarkable, beautiful Life Achievement Award acceptance speech. #ActorAwards

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dV_2...

Column | Frontline leaders are disappearing. The Civil War shows why that’s a problem. Would an army with excellent captains and mediocre generals be better than one with a brilliant general and crummy captains? The Department of Data looks to the Civil War for answers.

This is so utterly stupid. I don't even know where to begin. "That is to say that an army with excellent captains and a mediocre corps of generals would be several times more effective than one with a brilliant general and crummy captains." www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

When That Other "Sons" of Civil War Veterans Group Visited the Shaw Memorial in Boston in 1950 You've heard of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, but what about the Sons of Union Veterans?

When That Other "Sons" of Civil War Veterans Group Visited the Shaw Memorial in Boston in 1950 #CivilWarMemory open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

Thanks for the interest, Nico. It won't be available for preorder until April.

"The Executive Branch is the branch most prone to war, therefore, the Constitution, with studied care, delegated the war power to the legislature." — James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 1798

"That's just the way it is. Some things will never change."

Right. Or they assume that our publisher will handle travel expenses.

I will do whatever I can to work with groups, who are interested in inviting me do a book talk about Robert Gould Shaw, but please don't tell me that the opportunity to sell my book is a sufficient honorarium. I am not independently wealthy.

Just recently finished it. Fantastic book.

Transpose this 1970 campaign speech by antisemitic white supremacist Asa Carter into the voice of JD Vance or Elon Musk or Matt Walsh and tell me if you could tell the difference.

Park Service to revive statue of Founding Father who enslaved hundreds A statue removed in 2020 will be temporarily placed in Washington’s Freedom Plaza by the Trump administration as part of celebrations of the nation’s 250th birthday.

"Now the Interior Department plans to take Rodney’s statue from a Delaware storage facility and temporarily place it in Washington’s Freedom Plaza..." What do they mean by "take"? Did the state or the city of Wilmington give permission? www.seattletimes.com/nation-world...

Today marks the first day of Women's History Month; yesterday was the last day of Black History Month.

Every day is for women's history and Black history and Black women's history.

Because these are not histories that are separate from histories of war and economy.

Silhouette of a woman with an enormous updo hairdo, long 18th century gown, and an absurd hat perched atop.

How can you be talking about HISTORY with everything that's going on. 18th century history? Women's history? Waves hands.

Friends, it is precisely because of everything that's going on that we need to talk about history much, much more.

"You break it. You bought it."

Americans joined POTUS at the White House to celebrate Black History Month.

These people have no shame. No president has worked so hard to censor the stories of African Americans. #BlackHistoryMonth www.whitehouse.gov/videos/ameri...

I will give it another chance soon.

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