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Adam Rothman enjoys a good sandwich @adamrothman.bsky.social · Jan 22

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it, and those who can remember the past are like, what the hell, man?

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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 7h

Four cemetery workers, all U.S. citizens, arrested during a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation that crossed over onto the private Concordia Cemetery in the west suburban village of Forest Park.

Forest Park cemetery workers recount traumatic clash with ICE; mayor calls for crackdown to end

‘If this is happening to me, a U.S. citizen, what are they doing to the other individuals?’

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 7h

History faculty at Columbia & Barnard decrying the harassment of @mark-bray.bsky.social: "This is the first case in recent memory of a historian who has fled the country after receiving death threats on account of the history that they teach."

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Adam Rothman enjoys a good sandwich @adamrothman.bsky.social · 8h

He is an unlikeable protagonist, to be sure.

Adam Rothman enjoys a good sandwich @adamrothman.bsky.social · 8h

No apology needed!

Adam Rothman enjoys a good sandwich @adamrothman.bsky.social · 8h

Droll baby droll

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Adam Rothman enjoys a good sandwich @adamrothman.bsky.social · 8h

Harsh but fair

Adam Rothman enjoys a good sandwich @adamrothman.bsky.social · 8h

Name one funny book. I'll go with Confederacy of Dunces.

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Adam Rothman enjoys a good sandwich @adamrothman.bsky.social · 8h

The hardest thing for any writer to do is to write a genuinely funny book.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 22h

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Slackermom @slackermom.bsky.social · 3d

Was just at a neighborhood school at dismissal. Hundreds of people with whistles surrounding the school and stationed down every block making sure ICE doesn’t snatch anyone. The same is happening at all the schools around here. I love my neighborhood and I love Chicago.

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 9h

Du Bois basically did a version of this in his bibliography in Black Reconstruction

BIB L I OGRAPH Y
STAN DARD - A N TI-NEGRO
(These authors believe the Negro to be sub-human and congenitally un-
fitted for citizenship and the suffrage.)
Burgess, John W., Reconstruction and the Constitution, 1 866-1 876.
Coulter, E. Merton, Civil War and Reconstruction in Kentucky.
Davis, William W ., The Civil War and Reconstruction in Florida.
Dunning, William A., Reconstruction, Political and Economic .
Eckenrode, F. Hamilton, Political History of Virginia During Reconstruc·
tion.
Fertig, James Walter, The Secession and Reconstruction of Tennessee.
Ficklen, John R., History of Reconstruction in Louisiana.
Fleming, Walter F., Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama.
--, Documentary History of Reconstruction, 1 906, 1907.
Hamilton, Joseph G. de R., Reconstruction in North Carolina.
Hollis, John Porter, The Early Period of Reconstruction in South Carolina.
Lonn, Ella, Reconstruction in Louisiana after 1 868 .
Ramsdell, Charles W., Reconstruction in Texas .
Rhodes, James F., History of United States from the Compromise of 1 850.
Scott, Eben G., Reconstruction During the Civil War.
Staples, Thomas S ., Reconstruction in Arkansas .
Studies in Southern History and Politics . Inscribed to William Archibald
Dunning.
Carpet-Baggers in the United States Senate. By C. Mildred Thompson.
The Literary Movement for Secession. By Ulrich B. Phillips.
Negro Suffrage in the South. By W. Roy Smith.
Some Phases of Educational History in the South Since 1 865. By Wil-
liam K. Boyd.
Southern Legislation in Respect to Freedmen, 1 865- 1 866. By J. G. de
Roulhac Hamilton.
The Federal Enforcement Acts . By William Watson Davis.
The New South, Economic and Social . By Holland Thompson.
Grant's Southern Policy. By Edwin C. Woolley.
Taylor, Richard, Destruction and Reconstruction.
Thompson, Clara M., Reconstruction in Georgia, Economic, Social, Po-
litical, l 805-1 872.
Wooley, Edwin C., The Reconstruction of Georgia.

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Adam Rothman enjoys a good sandwich @adamrothman.bsky.social · 12h

Tom Paine, Common Sense
#nokings

Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of mankind their minds are early poisoned by importance; and the world they act in differs so materially from the world at large, that they have but little opportunity of knowing its true interests, and when they succeed to the government are frequently the most ignorant and unfit of any throughout the dominions.

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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 16h

How W. E. B. Du Bois responded to government policing of "anti-American" sentiment during the 1910s:

"I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, 'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.' ”

Federal agents invaded even the offices of The Crisis and the National Association for the advancement of colored people and asked searching questions: " just what, after all, were our objects and activities?” I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, “We are seeking to have the constitution of the United states thoroughly and completely enforced.” It took some ingenuity, even for Southerners, to make treason out of that.

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Adam Rothman enjoys a good sandwich @adamrothman.bsky.social · 13h

On October 21, 1850, the Chicago City Council passed a resolution condemning the new Fugitive Slave Law as “cruel and unjust” and directing the city's police “not to render any assistance for the arrest of fugitive slaves.”
www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/1430.h...

Fugitive Slave Law of 1850

www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org

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Adam Rothman enjoys a good sandwich @adamrothman.bsky.social · 15h

Me to my "AI assistant":

a man in a suit and hat is standing with his hands in his pockets in a black and white photo .

Alt: A man in a hat and suit points and says "Get out."

media.tenor.com

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Adam Rothman enjoys a good sandwich @adamrothman.bsky.social · 15h

Q: What radicalized you?
A: The incessant intrusion of AI "tools" into my everyday life.

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Adam Rothman enjoys a good sandwich @adamrothman.bsky.social · 16h

Joseph Trammell’s Freedom Papers (1852-1865)
#slaveryarchive
nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stor...

"In 1852, Joseph Trammell registered as a free person in Loudon County, Virginia and continued to do so every two years until 1865. During slavery, legally free African Americans were required to register with county courts and secure Certificates of Freedom, also known as freedom papers. Trammell used this handmade tin to protect and carry his precious documents. For Trammell and other free African Americans, carrying their papers was necessary in order to avoid being mistaken as a fugitive and risk being enslaved." - NMAAHC

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Adam Rothman enjoys a good sandwich @adamrothman.bsky.social · 17h

Taíno zemí of Deminán Caracaracol (AD 1200–1500), NMAI
americanindian.si.edu/exhibitions/...

Taíno zemí of Deminán Caracaracol
AD 1200–1500
Andrés, Dominican Republic
Clay
22 x 22 x 41 cm
Collected by Theodoor de Booy
5/3753
National Museum of the American Indian

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Adam Rothman enjoys a good sandwich @adamrothman.bsky.social · 21h

Not to worry - the nazgûl will block him.

Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 21h

“Sauron’s plan to exercise tyrannical Dominion over all middle earth, wipe out elves, dwarves, and men, and cover all the lands in shadow represents expansive conception of executive authority.”

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Adam Rothman enjoys a good sandwich @adamrothman.bsky.social · 21h

I'm sure the nazgül will step in to block him.

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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 1d

Very excited to have this launched.

historianpub @historianpub.bsky.social · 1d

Jefferson on Race by @agordonreed.bsky.social | Princeton University Press press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Jefferson on Race

From The New York Times–bestselling and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Hemingses of Monticello, a groundbreaking collection of Thomas Jefferson’s writings on race that every American should read

press.princeton.edu

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Adam Rothman enjoys a good sandwich @adamrothman.bsky.social · 1d

Frog Here To Eternity

Adam Rothman enjoys a good sandwich @adamrothman.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 4d

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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Adam Rothman enjoys a good sandwich @adamrothman.bsky.social · 1d

Well you know, a lot of people don't see color anymore.

Adam Rothman enjoys a good sandwich @adamrothman.bsky.social · 1d

Just leaving this here if you don't mind
www.masshist.org/database/1668

MHS Collections Online: Diagram to show the drill the Anti-Man-Hunting League had for the running off of a slave or man-hunter

Massachusetts Historical Society, Collections Online: Diagram to show the drill the Anti-Man-Hunting League had for the running off of a slave or man-hunter

www.masshist.org

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Adam Rothman enjoys a good sandwich @adamrothman.bsky.social · 1d

True. My second book won prizes but only sold a few hundred copies and Harvard never published a paperback edition. I'm still proud of it!

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