Stephen West

"delivered"

“The Voice of the Institute announces that the Meriden, CT, Young Men’s Institute will be publishing a paper that is “entirely original, racy, and well filled,—devoted to the interests of Meriden, the welfare of the young, and “the great principles of ‘93.”

Have any #skystorians come across the phrase “principles of ‘93?” An 1854 announcement for a Connecticut Young Men’s Institute newspaper described it as devoted to those principles. Is it Jeffersonianism?

"It's a very odd kind of speech to hear from a president, of all people." @jamellebouie.net on Lincoln's Second Inaugural address

Part 1 of this @thisdaypod.com's great discussion of Lincoln's greatest speech

Lincoln's Second Inaugural w/ Jamelle Bouie (1865) [Part 1] Podcast Episode · This Day · March 3 · 41m

My sense of the discourse is that everyone on this site recognizes that @jamellebouie.net is a very smart, funny, good-natured thinker. Well, good news, he's our guest on @thisdaypod.com to talk about Lincoln's Second Inaugural. Part one is up in the feed now! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

okay, Ill bite.
What do you think the point of reading for and writing a literature review is? The process of reading and writing is crucial for THINKING. Your ideas are shaped by all of this, offloading it to gAI, no matter how "good" you think gAI is at it defeats the purpose entirely.

"Our country is winning again. In fact, we're winning so much that we really don't know what to do about it. People are asking me, please, please, please, Mr. President, we're winning too much. We can't take it anymore."

Donald Trump, Feb. 24, 2026, State of the Union Address

the context, for people who are sticklers for that kind of thing

quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln/li...

snip from the print edition of the collected works of abraham lincoln at the top is the date June 9, 1860 the main text reads: "right, but I do not wish to be 'diddled!['] Please do what you do quietly, having no fuss about it. [3] Yours very truly A. Lincoln

Abe Lincoln as you've never heard him before

Opinion | No Empire. No Kings.

Gift link to Beinart's op-ed, which is very much worth reading.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/o...

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...

"I knew jackasses could bray, but I didn't know they could preen."

William Tecumseh Sherman, perhaps

snip from video of Pete Hegseth press conference. he stands at a lectern with flags behind him. captioning reads, "War is hell and always will be."

Fox weekend host empties his reservoir of historical knowledge

This isn’t just erasure of African American history, it’s abject lies about white American history

A Civil War battlefield driving tour map was also flagged for its inclusion of direct quotes about the cause of the war from secession documents and Alexander Stephens, vice president of the Confederacy. The quotes cite slavery as the cause

Quoting secessionists about why they seceded? Outrageous!

the state of public history, 2026:

with one eye on the Trump administration, NPS staff worries that describing the murder of an abolitionist "might denigrate the murderers"

Ny Post headline "Dramatic new footage of the Clinton depositions released by the powerful House Oversight Committee shows how a frustrated Hillary Clinton nearly stormed out after firebrand Rep. Lauren Boebert snapped an unsanctioned photo of her."

"firebrand Rep. Lauren Boebert"

BREAKING: As I was first to report earlier, Trump has nominated Bradford Wilson, who does not meet the statutory requirements—which include that the nominee be nonpartisan and professionally qualified—to be the next Archivist of the United States.

lastcampaign.substack.com/p/breaking-t...

the state of public history, 2026:

with one eye on the Trump administration, NPS staff worries that describing the murder of an abolitionist "might denigrate the murderers"

operation meh fury

It's so telling that these people are rushing to condemn "the campus left" at this moment
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/o...

Researchers probe unmarked graves at Virginia site where slaves once toiled The Diocese of Arlington and Catholic University are trying to identify who is buried in the unmarked graves at a cemetery for the family of George Brent, one of Virginia’s earliest settlers.

Researchers probe unmarked graves at Virginia site where slaves once toiled

The Diocese of Arlington and Catholic University are trying to identify who is buried in the unmarked graves at a cemetery for the family of George Brent, one of Virginia’s earliest settlers.

James Talarico: Are you aware that this bill removes the writings of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.?

Republican: Yes

Talarico: Yet this bill still includes the writings of Alexis de Tocqueville, and he's not even an American. Could that be because he's a white man?

Republican: N-not exactly…

his Gettysburg address, some people are saying

Right - this student knows about the Washington City Canal. Their question was, what section of the canal does this sketch depict?

It doesn't look like the section on the north side of the mall, nor the bit in that photo you shared, in front of the Capitol.

"The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here" - words that Donald Trump could not identify, nor that it would ever occur to him to speak

his Gettysburg address, some people are saying

Thanks! It definitely didn't look to me like the northern stretch of the Washington City Canal.

I told the Times that if Trump installs the statue of Rodney at Freedom Plaza then they should rename it the Freedom For Some Plaza but they didn't run that quotation.

Maybe? I wonder if there are other contemporary images of that canal.

It's labeled "1850" - after the retrocession of the western portion of the district to VA.

Eastman was an army officer. Down at the Arsenal, this might have been his view of the southern end of the Washington City Canal.