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Nathaniel C. Green

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History professor at Northern Virginia Community College. Author, THE MAN OF THE PEOPLE, by Kansas Press. https://kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700629961/ Currently writing a book on the history of the three-fifths clause. Opinions solely my own.

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Nathaniel C. Green @nathanielcgreen.bsky.social · Sep 10

My piece is up on Commonplace!
If you are still teaching students that the 3/5 clause counted the enslaved as "three-fifths of a person," time to update those lecture notes!

commonplace.online/article/not-...

Not “Three-Fifths of a Person”: What the Three-Fifths Clause Meant at Ratification - Commonplace

Denials of Black humanity, free and enslaved, coexisted with explicit acknowledgment that enslaved Black people, though legally deemed “property,” were people.

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Nathaniel C. Green @nathanielcgreen.bsky.social · 9h

Nothing says "manly warfighter super Alpha dude" like "can't stand it if you make fun of his speech."

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 9h

Thanks goodness Pete Hegseth is eliminating political correctness and letting warriors be warriors*

*if you guys did not watch the mandatory video, or mocked it, expect to be punished

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 10h

NEW: Pentagon officials are forcing staff to watch Pete Hegseth's "Warrior" speech he forced generals to listen to.

Officials are even "testing" staff to see if they watched — and are threatening consequences if they lie about watching it or if they mock it, sources tell @swin24.bsky.social and I.

Nathaniel C. Green @nathanielcgreen.bsky.social · 10h

This administration actively wants you to die

Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH @rmcarpiano.medsky.social · 10h

Ugh... This study has existed for decades, providing valuable health data for all sorts of topics and publications. This is just more awful news. 🛟😷 Sociology medsky

CDC team running top survey on health and nutrition is laid off

NHANES has collected data on eating patterns, diabetes, and other common diseases for decades. The CDC team that runs it has been fired.

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Nathaniel C. Green @nathanielcgreen.bsky.social · 14h

The basic myth that a movement for rights or political equality by a marginalized group that resulted in substantial gains effectively completely and permanently eradicated the oppression the group was fighting. It's astoundingly common in the way students write, and the way many people think.

Nathaniel C. Green @nathanielcgreen.bsky.social · 14h

Someone probably already wrote this, but the one that I see a lot in student writing is that the Civil Rights Era essentially "solved" racism, or that second-wave feminism pushed for an end to sexism, leading to "the equality that persists to this day."

Nathaniel C. Green @nathanielcgreen.bsky.social · 15h

When I read something like this, I think: make sure you consider every angle when you write. Don't reject evidence if it doesn't fit your neat and tidy narrative. Because if you do, someone will write a review like this of your book!

Nathaniel C. Green @nathanielcgreen.bsky.social · 15h

Reviews like this tend to focus on something pretty large that the author simply ignored: some approach or claim or evidence that fundamentally challenges the author's point. Often, it seems clear that the author has gone out of their way not to consider that evidence. They didn't just miss it.

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Nathaniel C. Green @nathanielcgreen.bsky.social · 15h

Often I find those reviews are far more incisive. They point out genuine foundational problems with an argument or its evidence. But they're the kind of review I dread someone writing about my own work, because I want readers to like what I write, and because I don't want to miss anything.

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Nathaniel C. Green @nathanielcgreen.bsky.social · 15h

There's this trope of the cheap review, written by someone waiting in the tall grass, sniping petty grievances at an author to score cheap points. Those exist. But far more often, I've found devastating reviews are more like this one: written by someone disappointed by a book they wanted to like.

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Nathaniel C. Green @nathanielcgreen.bsky.social · 15h

Good thread that describes what I consider the most devastating type of review: one written by someone who was genuinely rooting for the book.

Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 22h

Now on @ssrn.bsky.social, forthcoming in the Harvard Law Review. “Alas,” I think Akhil Amar’s new book, “Born Equal,” is not a success and I explain why at great length. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Amar is an engaging writer and a splendid storyteller. Alas—to borrow one of Amar's favorite interjections— even at 736 pages, Born Equal omits too much of importance, even as it advertises itself as the definitive account of its subject matter. The result of Amar's attempt to fit an entire century's worth of American constitutionalism into a coherent narrative is never boring. But ultimately, it reveals more about the mapmaker than the territory. Despite Amar's professed commitments to democracy and equality, Born Equal slights the democratic work of multitudes of people who have transformed our constitutional order without sharing Amar's constitutional faith. And it obscures inequalities that will persist as long as the cult to which
Amar demands fealty.

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Nathaniel C. Green @nathanielcgreen.bsky.social · 21h

www.allrecipes.com/recipe/21356...

Grandma's Iron Skillet Apple Pie

This cast iron apple pie is a modern version of an old-time Southern favorite that uses premade pie crusts to make this three-layer apple pie.

www.allrecipes.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22h

the broad public does not like chaos and disorder and everything you can do to emphasize that it is the federal government that is responsible for chaos and disorder is a point in your favor. it’s classic nonviolent confrontation!

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Nathaniel C. Green @nathanielcgreen.bsky.social · 1d

Every Thanksgiving, I make a double-decker cast-iron skillet apple pie. Crust, filling, more crust, more filling, then top crust. Happy to share the recipe.

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Nathaniel C. Green @nathanielcgreen.bsky.social · 3d

But wait, I was told the government was working more efficiently now. There's a whole department and everything.

Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 3d

?????

Layoff notices also initially targeted the office that produces the CDC’s flagship weekly scientific report known as the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, or MMWR. But those notices were sent in error because of a miscoding, according to the health official. As of Saturday afternoon, however, the editor who oversees the MMWR and others in the office of science had not been informed that the layoff notices were a mistake, Houry said.

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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 3d

"Depends on who you ask" framing is one of the most grating tics in modern political journalism. Objective reality exists and your job is to describe it.

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 3d

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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Nathaniel C. Green @nathanielcgreen.bsky.social · 3d

What would 25 year old Kid Rock think of this crusty curmudgeon?

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 4d

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

Nathaniel C. Green @nathanielcgreen.bsky.social · 3d

"Whenever [I] hear any one arguing for slavery I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally."
-Abraham Lincoln, March 17, 1865
quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln/li...

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Maggie Blackhawk @maggieblackhawk.bsky.social · 5d

New essay in the Atlantic today: How Native Nations Shaped the Revolution by Ned Blackhawk (with many lessons on how we ended up where we are as a nation, and a gift link) www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

How Native Nations Shaped the Revolution

The Founders were inspired—and threatened—by the independence and self-governance of nations like the Iroquois Confederacy.

www.theatlantic.com

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Nathaniel C. Green @nathanielcgreen.bsky.social · 4d

No, the media will say that "experts say" it's "more complicated." On the media complicity Bingo card, "experts say" is the new FREE SPACE.

Nathaniel C. Green @nathanielcgreen.bsky.social · 4d

In a month and a half, it'll be Mister Winter Man, trudging across college campuses in the snow wearing shorts and flip-flops.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 5d

after careful study, I believe only people born between 1975 and 1995 should be allowed to use the internet

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Jonathan Bernstein @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social · 6d

Editors are great. Editors are terrific. Even the ones who drove me nuts.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 6d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 6d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Nathaniel C. Green @nathanielcgreen.bsky.social · 7d

Great thread about why immigration is awesome and cities rule because they're diverse.

Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 7d

I love living in a city full of immigrants and tons and tons of people who are not at all like me and not like each other. It makes us all better and it makes our city better. I know I’m preaching to the choir by saying this on the lib app but I sometimes just get so overwhelmed by how special it is

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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 7d

I really think this is why the subway looms so large in the conservative American mind. Because 99% of the time it is proof that the American experiment in diversity triumphs, as long as paranoid white people aren’t there

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Nathaniel C. Green @nathanielcgreen.bsky.social · 7d

The type of people for whom hell was built.