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Joshua R Greenberg @joshrgreenberg.bsky.social · 5h

They also need to be more clinical in front of goal. In both games this window there were too many missed opportunities that should have been put away.

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Joshua R Greenberg @joshrgreenberg.bsky.social · 18h

We know Eli Whitney's story, right? He invented the cotton gin, interchangeable parts, and set the South and North on course for War -- except that didn't actually happen writes Ariel Ron @arielron.bsky.social in an important new Commonplace piece. Check it out:🗃️
commonplace.online/article/how-...

How Eli Whitney Single-handedly Started the Civil War . . . and Why That’s Not True - Commonplace

The real Whitney story is less grand than the legend, but more interesting and, ultimately, more edifying.

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Joshua R Greenberg @joshrgreenberg.bsky.social · 17h

On Commonplace (commonplace.online), we are running a great new article by Ariel Ron on the overblown Eli Whitney legend and the myth of individual inventors in the early republic. So, today we see a portrait of Whitney on this 1820s bank note. Mechanics Bank, New Haven, CT, $5, 182-.🗃️

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Joshua R Greenberg @joshrgreenberg.bsky.social · 17h

I think Ariel will be pleased that you liked that.

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Joshua R Greenberg @joshrgreenberg.bsky.social · 17h

On Commonplace (commonplace.online), we are running a great new article by Ariel Ron on the overblown Eli Whitney legend and the myth of individual inventors in the early republic. So, today we see a portrait of Whitney on this 1820s bank note. Mechanics Bank, New Haven, CT, $5, 182-.🗃️

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Joshua R Greenberg @joshrgreenberg.bsky.social · 18h

We know Eli Whitney's story, right? He invented the cotton gin, interchangeable parts, and set the South and North on course for War -- except that didn't actually happen writes Ariel Ron @arielron.bsky.social in an important new Commonplace piece. Check it out:🗃️
commonplace.online/article/how-...

How Eli Whitney Single-handedly Started the Civil War . . . and Why That’s Not True - Commonplace

The real Whitney story is less grand than the legend, but more interesting and, ultimately, more edifying.

commonplace.online

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Joshua R Greenberg @joshrgreenberg.bsky.social · 1d

There are numerous Native American vignettes on bank notes, but on Indigenous Peoples' Day, here are some specific portraits: Joseph Brant (Thayendanegea) on Southern Bank, Beloit, MN, $5, Red Jacket on Winona County Bank, MN, $2, Nov 1, 1858, & Metacomet on Bank of Bristol, RI, $10, Sept 21, 1864.🗃️

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Joshua R Greenberg @joshrgreenberg.bsky.social · 1d

There are numerous Native American vignettes on bank notes, but on Indigenous Peoples' Day, here are some specific portraits: Joseph Brant (Thayendanegea) on Southern Bank, Beloit, MN, $5, Red Jacket on Winona County Bank, MN, $2, Nov 1, 1858, & Metacomet on Bank of Bristol, RI, $10, Sept 21, 1864.🗃️

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Joshua R Greenberg @joshrgreenberg.bsky.social · 2d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

More statement, less question.

Adam Rothman enjoys a good sandwich @adamrothman.bsky.social · 2d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

We use parenthetical citations.

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 5d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Joshua R Greenberg @joshrgreenberg.bsky.social · 3d

That joke is over the loin.

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Joshua R Greenberg @joshrgreenberg.bsky.social · 4d

Pinch hitter Tony Meola.

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Joshua R Greenberg @joshrgreenberg.bsky.social · 4d

It is painter Benjamin West's birthday, so today we have a note from a Pennsylvania Bridge company featuring a vignette based on John Hall's engraving of West's "Penn's Treaty with the Indians" (1771-2). It is useful to view next to the original painting. Columbia Bridge Company, PA, $100, 18--. 🗃️

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Joshua R Greenberg @joshrgreenberg.bsky.social · 4d

We were having a discussion about who wew thought they would kill off and while I am ok with serveral possibilities, I would be pissed about Steve.

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Joshua R Greenberg @joshrgreenberg.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks so much, Dang. I really appreciate that you see so much in the notes, even when I don’t have the space to fully describe why I think they are interesting.

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Joshua R Greenberg @joshrgreenberg.bsky.social · 4d

It is painter Benjamin West's birthday, so today we have a note from a Pennsylvania Bridge company featuring a vignette based on John Hall's engraving of West's "Penn's Treaty with the Indians" (1771-2). It is useful to view next to the original painting. Columbia Bridge Company, PA, $100, 18--. 🗃️

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Joshua R Greenberg @joshrgreenberg.bsky.social · 5d

Nostalgia for the Tron video game?

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Joshua R Greenberg @joshrgreenberg.bsky.social · 6d

Today would have been Frank Herbert's birthday, so I am celebrating with this merchant shinplaster from the Panic of 1837 era (actually the 1839 downturn). It features an amazing and unique vignette of a goliath worm, aka tobacco hornworm. W. Morris, Eatonton, GA, $1, Dec 17, 1839. 🗃️

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Joshua R Greenberg @joshrgreenberg.bsky.social · 6d

Today would have been Frank Herbert's birthday, so I am celebrating with this merchant shinplaster from the Panic of 1837 era (actually the 1839 downturn). It features an amazing and unique vignette of a goliath worm, aka tobacco hornworm. W. Morris, Eatonton, GA, $1, Dec 17, 1839. 🗃️

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Joshua R Greenberg @joshrgreenberg.bsky.social · 7d

At what point do senators just stop asking these bad faith witnesses questions and just use their time to get important information out to public? What is benefit of letting Pam Bondi talk in this setting?

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Joshua R Greenberg @joshrgreenberg.bsky.social · 7d

Thinking about living people putting themselves on currency, here is a note featuring two images of bank president Samuel Veazie. The bank's loss in Veazie Bank v. Fenno (1869) upheld the taxes that functionally ended the state bank note system. Veazie Bank, Bangor, ME, $2, Oct 2, 1848.

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Joshua R Greenberg @joshrgreenberg.bsky.social · 7d

I am very jealous of her classes.

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Joshua R Greenberg @joshrgreenberg.bsky.social · 7d

They are also reading Handmaid's Tale, Fun Home, Sula, and A Tale for the Time Being.

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Joshua R Greenberg @joshrgreenberg.bsky.social · 7d

My daughter is reading the whole thing this year as a junior.

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Joshua R Greenberg @joshrgreenberg.bsky.social · 7d

Thinking about living people putting themselves on currency, here is a note featuring two images of bank president Samuel Veazie. The bank's loss in Veazie Bank v. Fenno (1869) upheld the taxes that functionally ended the state bank note system. Veazie Bank, Bangor, ME, $2, Oct 2, 1848.

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Joshua R Greenberg @joshrgreenberg.bsky.social · 8d

Germantown, PA was founded on this day in 1683, so here is a bank note from an institution in town. It has a lovely vignette of corn harvesting and some portraits of unidentified men, although I think the one on the left lived in the Shire. Bank of Germantown, PA, $5, 18--.🗃️

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