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Related: a house near work has recently started to fly a "Don't tread on me" flag. Which is odd, because this is in Canada. Naturally, the homeowners are white.
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Dear Satan.....
They do. Serious traitor flag wavers make no pretense over why they love that flag.
basically the most charitable you can be to that argument is "the south left the union to preserve slavery, and Lincoln went to war to preserve the union and didn't go into it with the intent of ending slavery"
which, yes, it's worth remembering that the north as a whole didn't have the interests of black folk at heart, but it's disingenuous to say, "...and therefore, STATES' RIGHTS" because of that
The Wars of Reconstruction by Douglas R. Egerton is a good one. It focuses on the extremely rapid strides African American politicians made at every level of government in the years immediately following the Civil War, and the powerful backlash that led to the end of Reconstruction and the origins of what would become Jim Crow America.
After Lincoln by A.J. Langguth covers the same period, but focuses more on the Presidents and the top levels of government in explaining how and why Reconstruction failed. Basically reads like an unauthorized sequel to Team of Rivals.
History of Byzantium is good if you want to pick up the rest of the Roman story. You've already got all of my other ones :P
So my boy Kaleb was sitting behind me in my history class. Directly behind him is FUCKIN BILLY. We're on to the 1960's now, and began talking about Vietnam and that whole shitty situation. Teacher shows us that real famous picture of the Buddhist monk self-immolating, and says "What does it take to make someone make that decision?" as a rhetorical device.
FUCKIN' BILLY mumbles "Bad genetics." under his breath.
AND I AM OVER HERE LIKE "WOW HOLY SHIT THAT IS WAAAAY LESS SUBTLE THAN YOU'VE BEEN IN THE PAST, JFC."
American Lion by Jon Meachum
Couple highlights from my current search:
Contemplate these, and the fact that most of the well-produced, well-researched big works of history tend to be built on several poor, headachey bastards doing years and years of that with far less standardized material...
Oops, some idiot junked the 1921 Census records. And there wasn't a 1931 Census. And the 1941 Census isn't public domain yet.
Ffffffffffff
I've got a bunch of small gaps in mine that access to Canada's 1931 census would be wonderful for, but I'm trapped by that 92-year restriction. Blargh!
Yo, so this is a bit late, but if you liked this book, then you should absolutely check out Dancing in the Glory of Monsters by Jason Stearns. It's an incredibly detailed history of the region since the DRC got its independence. It's incredibly well written, and is largely based around interviews and the human personalities that drove and were affected by all the various different regimes and conflicts. It's utterly fantastic.
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18th century letters are the bomb, yo.
(I knew I had reached a certain point in my career as a historian when I didn't have to pause for even a nanosecond with the long 's'. It feels like forever ago that would trip me up.)
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I cant read handwritten script like at all.
Being able to read period handwriting is an acquired skill
It's something you have to train
No see I mean, I can't even read contemporary handwritten script.
I'm sorry what?
Also I know a lot of people I generally agree with think requiring cursive in school is classist, and I think it certainly can be, but I do think it's very important for people to continue to learn it for historical research.
And here's where my dilemma is. On the one hand, I don't think it should be required, but should certainly be offered. But... okay so, a friend of mine who also works in history and I normally respect his historical opinions recently said that "almost everything is already transcribed anyway", but like, that's not even remotely true. I myself have, even outside of work, transcribed a fair bit of stuff that people have never bothered to before. And furthermore, most of the stuff that has been transcribed is.. well, related to the most privileged people. A lot of common people, minorities, etc., haven't been given the same historical research as the "important" (read: white, usually male) historical figures.
So I think it's extra important that the communities that are already underserved by historical research have the tools to find things that are unfortunately far too often ignored by the history establishment.
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I feel that there are far more valuable things to teach in the already overloaded curriculums of k-12 education though.
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but then I broke my hand and apparently also gave it amnesia because it barely remembers how to scrawl out regular letters now
I'm pretty sure I was supposed to be left-handed, though, so that might have something to do with it. I used to just switch hands when I was coloring when one hand got tired, but my kindergarten teacher would take the crayon out of my left hand and put it in my right every time I did.
I can still shoot pool and rifles equally well with either hand, so I definitely suspect there's some dominance v. practice shenanigans going on here.
I'm just too used to typing.
it's on netflix
but yes buy it, it is possibly the most well done documentary series there is
Saskatchewan.
my condolences
I should get Netflix at some point. But thanks! I'll be grabbing it and watch an episode tonight.
Edit: I can apparently get a free month of Netflix!!!
Screwing Up Censuses, Hard Mode: Record three different birth countries for the same person in three successive censuses.
(argh)