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Edward T. O'Donnell, Historian-at-Large
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Historian, author, college prof, public speaker, podcaster. Seen on @History channel + @PBS. Founder of @WeemsyAwards. All my social media is @inthepastlane. More at www.EdwardTODonnell.com
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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 1d
Historian here, late to this but @jamellebouie.net comparison between Republican authoritarianism today and the Slave Power of the 1850s is in the mark. They spout states rights and small govt but unleash the repressive powers of the federal govt when it suits them. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...
Opinion | It’s Not Government They Don’t Like
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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 2d
The idea that political dissent can only be the product of “paid protesters” or “outside agitators” has a long history. Here is the Mississippi columnist Tom Ethridge in June 1963 concerned that attendees at the upcoming March on Washington might be “whipped into a frenzy by skilled agitators.”
“Aug 28 has been set as the date for this mass invasion of the captial by upward of 100,000 negroes…”
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Edward T. O'Donnell, Historian-at-Large @inthepastlane.bsky.social · 2d
Trump proclamation hails Christopher Columbus as “the original American hero.”
#ushistory #columbusday #indigenouspeoplesday #slavery #nativeamerian #confederatemonuments #christophercolumbus
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Trump proclamation hails Christopher Columbus as “the original American hero.” #ushistory #columbusday #indigenouspeoplesday #slavery #HistoryTikTok
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 3d
This Is Fascism
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Edward T. O'Donnell, Historian-at-Large @inthepastlane.bsky.social · 4d
Pam Bondi: Trump is the greatest peace president ever.
Nobel Peace Prize committee: Nope.
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#ushistory #americanhistory#nobelpeaceprize #trumpnobel #bondi #ceasefire #insurrectionact #nationalguard #portland
Pam Bondi: Trump is the greatest peace president ever. Nobel Peace Prize committee: Nope. #ushistory #nobelpeaceprize #trumpnobel #bondi #HistoryTikTok
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Edward T. O'Donnell, Historian-at-Large @inthepastlane.bsky.social · 4d
The Supreme Court Is Being Tested on History Once Again slate.com/news-and-pol...
The Supreme Court Is Being Tested on History Once Again
The leading arguments in support of Black voting rights were race-conscious at their core.
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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 6d
The history of abolition is so important in these dark days of the republic. They succeeded when enslavers controlled the entire federal government, the Supreme Court, the Electoral College and Congress through the three fifths clause. Join me tonight! www.gilderlehrman.org/itv-registra...
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 6d
People ask what they can do in this moment: here's a crucially important election. There are 52,000 elections taking place next month, many of which will be determined by turnout.
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Alex Burness @burness.bsky.social · 7d
Dispatch from Pennsylvania on a highly unusual state Supreme Court election—one of the few most consequential matters on the ballot anywhere in the country next month. New from me in @boltsmag.org: boltsmag.org/pennsylvania...
Inside the Clunky Elections to Control Pennsylvania's Supreme Court - Bolts
The GOP is making an expensive push to end Democrats’ majority on a court at the center of election lawsuits, sparking a fledging campaign season with little precedent or template.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 6d
This remains the most important piece i’ve written about the goals and ideological principles of the second Trump administration www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 6d
Democrats should just start insisting that they saw very real videos of people rioting at Mar-a-Lago -- overturning golf carts, setting fire to the brunch buffet, stabbing busboys with carving knives, whatever -- and calling on Trump to send the Illinois National Guard there to restore order.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 6d
It really can't be said enough: the goal of the "anti-woke" movement was always to destroy social norms against bigotry. And it worked. And there's a whole lot of purportedly "left" thinkers & commentators who helped it -- indeed, it couldn't have been done without them.

They should feel bad.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 5d
Bored National Guard Goes Door To Door Asking If Chicagoans Have Any Order They Need Restored https://theonion.com/bored-national-guard-goes-door-to-door-asking-if-chicagoans-have-any-order-they-need-restored/
Bored National Guard Goes Door To Door Asking If Chicagoans Have Any Order They Need Restored
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 8d
“No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.” -Edward R. Murrow
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Edward T. O'Donnell, Historian-at-Large @inthepastlane.bsky.social · 9d
Ohio GOP introduces 'Charlie Kirk Act' to get Christianity into public school history curriculum premierchristian.news/en/news/arti... #ushistory #socialstudies #sschat #APUSH
Ohio introduces 'Charlie Kirk American Heritage Act' to get Christianity into schools - Premier Christian News | Headlines, Breaking News, Comment & Analysis
Ohio Republicans have introduced a bill that would allow history teachers to teach American Christianity in a way that would codify what critics call a “revisionist and positive” view of Christianity ...
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Edward T. O'Donnell, Historian-at-Large @inthepastlane.bsky.social · 9d
Once condemned for demolition, Civil War-era home at Gettysburg to become new museum for Black history www.pennlive.com/life/2025/10... #ushistory #civilwar
Once condemned for demolition, Civil War-era home to become new museum for Black history
"Remember, the Union was born in Philadelphia, but it was preserved right here in Gettysburg."
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Edward T. O'Donnell, Historian-at-Large @inthepastlane.bsky.social · 9d
“Can we call this a free country, when I am afraid to go to sleep in my own home in Mississippi?” – civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer born #OTD in 1917 #civilrights #equality
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Edward T. O'Donnell, Historian-at-Large @inthepastlane.bsky.social · 9d
A federal judge accurately compares masked ICE agents to the KKK
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A federal judge accurately compares masked ICE agents to the 3K #ushistory #reconstruction #trump #ICE #HistoryTikTok
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RetiredBPDmurdercop @chiefmlt.bsky.social · 10d
If you allow a government to break the law because of an “emergency”, it will create an emergency to break the law.
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Edward T. O'Donnell, Historian-at-Large @inthepastlane.bsky.social · 10d
Trump falsely compares his use of the military against the American people to actions by other US presidents
#ushistory #americanhistory #nationalguard #memphis #hegseth #trump #constitution
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Edward T. O'Donnell, Historian-at-Large @inthepastlane.bsky.social · 13d
Pennsylvania approves historical marker for 1894 lynching victim in Poconos www.pennlive.com/news/2025/09... #ushistory #blackhistory #lynching
Pa. approves historical marker for 1894 lynching victim in Poconos
The marker will commemorate a Black man who was lynched in Stroudsburg in 1894.
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Edward T. O'Donnell, Historian-at-Large @inthepastlane.bsky.social · 13d
New monument commemorates violent anti-immigrant chapter in Wyoming history - the Rock Springs Massacre of Chinese miners www.npr.org/2025/09/28/n... #ushistory #asianamerican #laborhistory
New monument commemorates tragic anti-immigrant chapter in Wyoming history
At a time when President Trump is going after foreign laborers in the U.S, and saying unflattering accounts of U.S. history should be removed, Rock Springs, Wyoming has put up a new monument to ethnic...
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Edward T. O'Donnell, Historian-at-Large @inthepastlane.bsky.social · 13d
What Trump’s new civics education program means for women’s history www.politico.com/newsletters/... #ushistory #patriotichistory #wmnhist
What Trump’s new civics education program means for women’s history
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Edward T. O'Donnell, Historian-at-Large @inthepastlane.bsky.social · 13d
New York Faces Painful History as It Marks the Erie Canal’s Bicentennial. Organizers will acknowledge the waterway’s displacement of Native American communities. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/n... #ushistory #eriecanal #nativeamerican
New York Faces Painful History as It Marks the Erie Canal’s Bicentennial
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Edward T. O'Donnell, Historian-at-Large @inthepastlane.bsky.social · 13d
NYT Review - GOTHAM AT WAR: A History of New York City From 1933 to 1945, by Mike Wallace shows how the American fight against the Nazis started years before World War II, in the Big Apple www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/b... #ushistory #WW2
These New Yorkers Hated Fascists Before It Was Cool
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Edward T. O'Donnell, Historian-at-Large @inthepastlane.bsky.social · 13d
St. Louis' last Native American mound finally comes under Osage Nation control www.ksdk.com/article/news... #ushistory #archaeology #nativeamerican
St. Louis' last Native American mound finally comes under Osage Nation control
The groundbreaking and historic moment marks the end of a nearly 20-year preservation effort to transfer the site to the Osage Nation.
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