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No doubt, many will take issue with it!
TheHistoryOfTheAmericans
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TheHistoryOfTheAmericans
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Jack Henneman. Telling the history of the lands making up the United States from the beginning, without (intentional) presentism. Michigan Law '86 @TheFireorg
- Replying to @varifrankYeah, Austin, where I live, is at the same latitude as Cairo.
- Replying to @ill_ScholarWhen I was in the 6th grade, my teacher tried to tell the class that 1/7=0.7 I'm like "no, it doesn't." Teacher: Then what does 1/7 equal? Me: Goes up to blackboard and divides it out to several places. Fortunately for me, the teacher wasn't retributive.
- In the middle of Ken Burns’ “Baseball,” George Will explains American democracy in terms largely forgotten by partisans and journalists today. Please watch and spread around!
00:00 - It’s possible we need to do a better job of teaching geography. And cartography.Can someone explain why Putin and Trump met all the way in Alaska when Washington DC is literally right on the way?
- Replying to @CBHeresyGreat exercise. Also impressed you can get away with a Gadsden flag on the wall…
- 1/Drake is actually a redemption story. Yes, as a very young man on board his cousin's ship, he was along on a slave trading mission. But that changed in 1573, when he was only 25, and allied himself with escaped formerly enslaved Blacks in Panama.
- He got close to 100 without going over. Good for him.
- Replying to @walterkirnStill a lotta football, as they say in Texas.
- Replying to @peterrhagueThis line of thinking is incredibly tedious. Since every country can *always* spend more on healthcare or free housing or whatever, there were never be a dime spent on anything interesting, or advancing, or artistic, if such people were in charge.
- Replying to @TheHistoryOfTh25/ The "cancellation" of Drake is a great example of the problem with the whole idea -- how much better off would the students have been if they had learned the story of his redemption? Isn't the possibility and *reality* of personal change in the 16th C. inspiring for us all?
- Replying to @LeeHepnerMost of those things are much easier to do than in days of yore because, you know, the web. To book a flight easily you had to visit a travel agent. Finding a doctor was word of mouth. Comparing insurance was impossible. No Zillow to find a house. Now it is a comparative snap.
