Jeremy Angstadt
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Jeremy Angstadt
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Historian, museum educator, librarian, and all around lover of history!
Does that make John Brown's Body a Thanksgiving song?
November 26, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Reposted by Jeremy Angstadt
Because yes, Thanksgiving as a national holiday has to do with the Civil War and not the Puritans or previously proclaimed days of Thanksgiving (of which there were hundreds) - so be sure, as you gather about the table, to give thanks for the victories brought by Union arms at Vicksburg & Gettysburg
November 26, 2025 at 2:21 PM
You didn't have to write this article. Maybe you just want Trump to love you. You know Trump is going to give you the BJ like he gave bubba, right?
November 21, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Or just the right high cholesterol burger
November 18, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Landlord special. Sex people would be a bit more original in their decorating choices
November 15, 2025 at 12:40 PM
There's a reason the coming of age age was 21 for a long time!
November 13, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Then they were doomed. Like a cop saying they have one week till retirement in a movie.
November 11, 2025 at 4:35 AM
As someone who works in Ohio Libraries, I can say you are write on both counts! It would be even worse, but the Governor is a big supporter of libraries. He killed a censorship provision in the budget bill.
November 6, 2025 at 2:09 PM
how does the saying go, "If you're at a rally and there's one Nazi, and no one is kicking the Nazi out, you're at a Nazi rally."
November 6, 2025 at 2:01 PM