Stephen West

It's so telling that these people are rushing to condemn "the campus left" at this moment
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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.

Today marks 15 years for me as MLB's official historian; the 16th year commences. For its Weekly Notes (and Our Game), I have in mind to write 20 stories or so about how America and MLB's traditions intersect.

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it's used, btw, as an illustration in the DC Neighborhoods Heritage Trail guide for Federal Triangle

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Washington, D.C. Canal Men seated at left. Men poling a flat-bottomed boat in middleground across the canal; bridge in background. Drawing is from sketchbook of 1850-1853.

DC history folks:

A student asked about this image, an 1850 sketch by Seth Eastman, labeled "Canal - Washington D.C."

The question, which I couldn't answer: *where* is this?

It appears to be the canal connecting to a larger body of water. It doesn't look like the Potomac. Maybe the Anacostia?

worried that i was underdressed for brunch but the menu has tater tot poutine so i think im ok

Badge for the USS Abraham Lincoln It shows the aircraft carrier and several aircraft with a portrait of Lincoln. Along the bottom edge is the phrase "shall not perish"

did not realize there was a badge

Yahoo News clipping headline USS Abraham Lincoln 'targeted with ballistic missiles' after Iran's supreme leader killed

Thanks to Donald Trump, an enemy is again taking shots at Abe Lincoln

Got a cab near the Department of Education. Hadn’t seen the Charlie Kirk banner before.

screenshot from video. Donald Trump stands at a lectern. Closed captioning reads "That was a fancy way of saying the Civil War."

"Reconstruction, what was it" challenge

"The governor called me after the last election, you won every border town and border city.... First time it's ever happened since ... you used the word reconstruction. That was a fancy way of saying the Civil War."

Donald Trump, speaking in Texas on Friday

But they are eager to avoid debates over identity that have consumed the party in recent elections. Some blamed those debates for their 2024 losses, as voters, particularly Latino voters who drifted rightward, saw the party giving short shrift to economic issues.

This "some people say" framing definitely captures how Republicans and reactionary centrists have criticized the Democratic party.

A Texas Senate race is testing Democrats’ stomach for race and gender fights Latino voters will probably decide the primary contest between Rep. Jasmine Crockett and state Rep. James Talarico -- two rising stars who are stylistic opposites.

The Democratic Senate primary in Texas is definitely worth covering!

But this framing - "stomach for race and gender fights" - stinks.

This logic played a substantial role in the US-Mexico War of 1846-8: the US imagined it was “liberating” Mexico from despotism and could not understand the opposition of the Mexican people to their invasion

1. Sumner's Civil Rights Bill signed , 1875 . 2. Missouri Compromise passed, 1820 . 3. Freedmen's Bureau established, 1865 . 4. James Forten , Negro anti -slavery worker , died , 1842 . 5. Crispus Attucks fell in the Boston Massacre , 1770 . 7. Daniel Webster's 7th of March Speech , 1850 . 8. Frederick Douglass advocated an industrial college for the education of Negroes , 1853 . 9. Massachusetts ratified the Fifteenth Amendment , 1869 . 12. Charles Sumner spoke against annexation of San Domingo , 1871 . 13. Union armies forbidden to return fugitive slaves , 1862 . 14. Menelik became Negus of Abyssinia , 1889 . 15. President Lincoln urged the ballot " for some of the colored people," 1864 .

17. The Republic of Texas prohibited African slave trade , 1836 . 20. New York legalized enlistment of Negroes , War of Revolution , 1781. 23. Slavery abolished in Porto Rico , 1873 . 24. Negro troops mustered into Confederate service , 1865. 25. British Parliament abolishes slave trade , 1807. 26. Richard Allen , first bishop of African M. E. Church , died , 1831 . 28. French National Assembly gave suffrage to free persons of color in San Domingo , 1790 . 29. Napoleon issued decree against slave trade , 1815 . 30. Thomas Clarkson , English abolitionist , born , 1760 . Special message of President Grant on the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment :

Historic Days in March

from the Crisis, March 1912

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screenshot from video. Donald Trump stands at a lectern. Closed captioning reads "That was a fancy way of saying the Civil War."

"Reconstruction, what was it" challenge

"The governor called me after the last election, you won every border town and border city.... First time it's ever happened since ... you used the word reconstruction. That was a fancy way of saying the Civil War."

Donald Trump, speaking in Texas on Friday

In Iran, air power alone will not reshape the regime. Since WWI, dozens of U.S., Israeli & allied air campaigns have tried to force political change — none installed friendly governments. None! They strengthen nationalism and intensify resistance.

the guy who wrote the literal book on this stuff is dunking on the admin:

Park Service to Revive Statue of Founding Father Who Enslaved Hundreds

Caesar Rodney's statue, removed from downtown Wilmington, Del., in 2020, will be temporarily installed in DC as part of Trump's celebration of America 250.

Important reading for the toothlessness of the War Powers Resolution and the inability of Congress to reign in the executive

Freedom Plaza, located along Pennsylvania Avenue NW between 13th and 14th Streets, is one of Washington, D.C.’s most recognizable civic spaces. Completed in 1980 and originally named Western Plaza, the site was renamed in 1988 in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr., who had outlined plans for a “Poor People’s Campaign” on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and was scheduled to lead a demonstration on the site before his assassination. from https://www.nps.gov/places/000/freedom-plaza.htm

for those unfamiliar with DC's commemorative geography:

the statue of a man who enslaved 100s of people will be erected in Freedom Plaza, dedicated in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr., in 1988

Though somewhat obscure as founding fathers go, Mr. Rodney caught President Trump’s attention during his first term. (A conservative think tank in Delaware that, like Mr. Trump, opposes offshore wind farms and advocates for cutting taxes and regulation, is named after Caesar Rodney.)

of course

Park Service to Revive Statue of Founding Father Who Enslaved Hundreds

Caesar Rodney's statue, removed from downtown Wilmington, Del., in 2020, will be temporarily installed in DC as part of Trump's celebration of America 250.