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"Gettysburg Magazine," which is published by the University of Nebraska Press is looking for an associate editor. Attached are the details.

Medical costs are ridiculous. Hospitals overcharge for services which drives up insurance premiums. Why not investigate hospitals for preforming unnecessary tests and price gauging. Just a thought. My opinion of course.

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Instead of lashing out in response to people, who clearly don't understand history, model the kind of critical thinking and intellectual engagement that you want to see.

Exactly!

The emperor has no clothes and he is spreading hatred, ignorance, and corruption all around. We have to convert despair into a fighting spirit! Save the American republic!

It’s Halloween month and I’m getting in the mood with this spooky new book inspired by stories from the palaces. I had so much fun writing the afterword 👻 @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social

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Oh, sure, let's have Qatar set up its military bases on American soil--because we're all about America First, amirite?

Sanders: I am not a great fan of the affordable care act. I believe in medicare for all. I think that health care is a human right, but I will be damned if I'm going to see people in Vermont and around this country see a doubling in their premiums.

Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion There seems to be no limit to the president’s odious attempts to control higher education.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

Trump’s proposed “compact” with nine major universities “is extortion, plain and simple,” Erwin Chemerinsky writes in a guest essay. “It is not hyperbole to say that the future of higher education in America requires that every university reject it.”

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Shutdown will happen. Thousands will lose jobs, economy tanks. Great times we live in.🤦🏻

Surviving Genocide The first part of a sweeping two-volume history of the devastation brought to bear on Indian nations by U.S. expansion  “An elegant, organized narrative o...

See also Dr. Ostler's book on the subject, Surviving Genocide: Native Nations and the United States from the American Revolution to Bleeding Kansas (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2019).
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

The Great Fear of 1776 By Jeffrey Ostler Sometime in mid-1776, just as colonists were declaring their independence from Great Britain, an unnamed Shawnee addressed an assembly of representatives from multiple Indigenous …

From the @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social archive, Dr. Jeff Ostler examines "an Indigenous consciousness of genocide” in this 2019 piece, "The Great Fear of 1776."

ageofrevolutions.com/2019/09/23/t...

Where now for Britain’s Universities? UK higher education now faces a very bleak future, retreating in the face of little public sympathy and limited political interest.

New from me: a *free* short version of my Political Quarterly piece on universities... The issue is settled now: the massified and accessible Higher Education system we have spent tens of billions building since the 1970s is coming to an end. (1/2)
politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/where-n...

National Park Service removes Trump-Epstein statue, raising free speech concerns | CNN Politics The National Park Service before dawn on Wednesday removed a statue titled “Best Friends Forever” of President Donald Trump and Jeffery Epstein holding hands – only a day after it was erected on the N...

The National Park Service before dawn on Wednesday removed a statue titled “Best Friends Forever” of President Donald Trump and Jeffery Epstein holding hands – only a day after it was erected on the National Mall.

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It's been reported NPS staff at Ft Pulaski Natl Mon have been directed by Trump admin to remove a photo of "The Scourged Back," a searing image of the brutality of slavery. For more history behind the headlines, see OAH’s NPS History Study on African Americans at Ft Pulaski.
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Current (August 2025) and forthcoming (November 2025) in the Journal of Southern History

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So You Want a Civil War? Let’s Pause to Remember What One Looks Like. Today marks the 163rd anniversary of Antietam. Those who say they’re ready for civil war should stop and think about what happened there.

New op ed in this morning's New Republic about the rhetoric of "civil war" on this anniversary of battle of Antietam, single bloodiest day in American history. David Blight
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This coming Thursday is my last lecture in my America at 250 course with David Blight & Beverly Gage.

Can't quite believe that I've already given 7 lectures!

I'll have more to say Thursday.

For now: teaching in front of a huge, engaged, excited audience like this? It's been a joy & a privilege.

Elon Musk’s father accused of sexually abusing his children and stepchildren Errol Musk, rarely mentioned by his tech billionaire son, dismissed New York Times report as ‘nonsense’ and ‘false’ Errol Musk, the 79-year-old father of tech billionaire Elon Musk, has been accused of sexually abusing five of his children and stepchildren since 1993, the New York Times reported on Tuesday. The outlet said those allegations could be why the entrepreneur, who temporarily served as an adviser to the second Trump administration, rarely mentions his father – and that family members of Elon Musk have reached out for help, prompting him to sometimes take action to intercede. Continue reading...

Elon Musk’s father accused of sexually abusing his children and stepchildren

Man who fired a gun into ABC affiliate office had note to ‘do the next scary thing,’ prosecutors say

A man suspected of firing a gun into the ABC-affiliated television station in California’s capital had written notes in his car critical of Donald Trump’s administration and a calendar reminder on his fridge to “do the next scary thing,” prosecutors said.

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Hands Off Our History At Harpers Ferry and beyond, the public is pushing back against historical erasure.

📰 New on HARPPing on History:
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Looking forward to reading both!

The feature I wrote on my new book is in the October issue of BBC History Magazine, out now! @historyextra.bsky.social @hodderbooks.bsky.social #thestolencrown #elizabethi #tudors #stuarts

Looking forward to seeing that.

Good news. Kevin Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation, has graciously accepted my invitation to two debates with his fellow historians about American history on the eve of the US 250th. Details of time and sites are being worked out. One likely in a red state, and one is a blue state.