Dan Howlett
@dhowlett1692.bsky.social
Adjunct at George Mason University and University of Richmond; GMU History PhD researching early American disability and religion; Formerly doing DH at RRCHMN; GWU Fencing coach; Ask Me Anything coordinator at r/AskHistorians
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Spoke to @melodyschreiber.com about the only story that matters re Olivia Nuzzi--her role in elevating RFK Jr, a man who is doing and will do so much harm to global health, even for decades after he leaves this position.
I don't care about her hikes in the desert, her exile or her terrible prose.
I don't care about her hikes in the desert, her exile or her terrible prose.
Olivia Nuzzi wrote an entire story based on unnamed sources about Biden's decline, reinvigorating calls for him to leave the race -- and the whole time, she was working on RFK Jr.'s behalf, according to her ex-fiance. newrepublic.com/article/2035...
Olivia Nuzzi’s Real Victims
More than her fiancé, or fellow female journalists, the public will pay the price for these misdeeds. RFK Jr. will see to that.
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November 25, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Spoke to @melodyschreiber.com about the only story that matters re Olivia Nuzzi--her role in elevating RFK Jr, a man who is doing and will do so much harm to global health, even for decades after he leaves this position.
I don't care about her hikes in the desert, her exile or her terrible prose.
I don't care about her hikes in the desert, her exile or her terrible prose.
We have an AMA with @eikeexner.com today over on @askhistorians.bsky.social! Come check it out and learn some history of manga!
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From the AskHistorians community on Reddit: Hi, I’m Eike Exner, I research the history of Japanese comics, ask me anything about MANGA マンガ 漫画!
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November 17, 2025 at 6:33 PM
We have an AMA with @eikeexner.com today over on @askhistorians.bsky.social! Come check it out and learn some history of manga!
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Just in case you'd rather listen to the American Revolution then scramble to find the login for your PBS app, may I offer you something that will leave your Worlds Turned Upside Down?
Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/5OfU87p...
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Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/5OfU87p...
Website: www.r2studios.org
Worlds Turned Upside Down
History Podcast · Monthly Series · Worlds Turned Upside Down tells the story of the American Revolution as a transatlantic crisis and imperial civil war through the lives of people who experienced it....
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November 16, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Just in case you'd rather listen to the American Revolution then scramble to find the login for your PBS app, may I offer you something that will leave your Worlds Turned Upside Down?
Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/5OfU87p...
Website: www.r2studios.org
Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/5OfU87p...
Website: www.r2studios.org
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Message to all faculty: your expertise is no longer trusted or valued at this so-called “university.”
November 14, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Message to all faculty: your expertise is no longer trusted or valued at this so-called “university.”
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Check out Revolutions in Retrospect! Our new podcast that explores the revolutions that remade the Atlantic world, from the civil wars of 17th century Britain, the Jacobite Uprisings, & American Independence, to Revolutionary Haiti, the French Revolution, the Enlightenment, & everything in between.
Surprise! @jeanettepatrick.bsky.social and I have teamed up with @lynnprobbins.bsky.social and @patricklong.bsky.social at Primary Source Media to bring you Revolutions in Retrospect, a podcast that explores the histories of the revolutions that remade the Atlantic world.
November 12, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Check out Revolutions in Retrospect! Our new podcast that explores the revolutions that remade the Atlantic world, from the civil wars of 17th century Britain, the Jacobite Uprisings, & American Independence, to Revolutionary Haiti, the French Revolution, the Enlightenment, & everything in between.
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New #AMA is live #Skystorian! Dr. Kristin Roebuck, author of "Japan Reborn: Race and Eugenics from Empire to Cold War", has come to AskHistorians to answer all your questions on this fascinating subject!
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I'm Dr. Kristin Roebuck and I teach history at Cornell University. My new book, Japan Reborn: Race and Eugenics from Empire to Cold War, explains racial politics in Japan and its foreign relations dur...
At the peak of imperial expansion in World War II, Japan touted itself as a multiracial paradise. Imperial Japan's government, eugenicists,...
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November 7, 2025 at 5:05 PM
New #AMA is live #Skystorian! Dr. Kristin Roebuck, author of "Japan Reborn: Race and Eugenics from Empire to Cold War", has come to AskHistorians to answer all your questions on this fascinating subject!
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HAPPY FOUR SEASONS TOTAL LANDSCAPING DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE
November 7, 2025 at 6:44 PM
HAPPY FOUR SEASONS TOTAL LANDSCAPING DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE
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Five yrs ago today in my role as head of Voter Protection for Biden-Harris in Phila, at right about this moment, I was reaching out to our team to figure out who could sneak into a hastily-called press conference by Rudy Giuliani at the Four Seasons Hotel ... and then, what, it's going to be where??
November 7, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Five yrs ago today in my role as head of Voter Protection for Biden-Harris in Phila, at right about this moment, I was reaching out to our team to figure out who could sneak into a hastily-called press conference by Rudy Giuliani at the Four Seasons Hotel ... and then, what, it's going to be where??
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EXPEDITIOUSLY AT LOUD VOLUME
i hope this election cycle empowers everyone the next time a centrist liberal says to drop pro-trans and pro-immigrant rhetoric to enthusiastically tell them to shut the fuck up
November 5, 2025 at 4:54 AM
EXPEDITIOUSLY AT LOUD VOLUME
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AOC: We have a future to fight for, and we're either going to do that together or you're going to be left behind. It's not about Progressive. It's not moderate, it's not liberal. This is about do you understand the assignment of fighting fascism right now? And the assignment is you come together…
November 5, 2025 at 3:24 AM
AOC: We have a future to fight for, and we're either going to do that together or you're going to be left behind. It's not about Progressive. It's not moderate, it's not liberal. This is about do you understand the assignment of fighting fascism right now? And the assignment is you come together…
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Lairmore testifies that other agents gave him a plush sandwich toy, which he placed on the shelf in his office, and a patch that said "Felony Footlong," which he put on his lunch box.
Lairmore has chuckled with the rest of us at times. Defense really trying to underscore the unseriousness of it all
Lairmore has chuckled with the rest of us at times. Defense really trying to underscore the unseriousness of it all
November 4, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Lairmore testifies that other agents gave him a plush sandwich toy, which he placed on the shelf in his office, and a patch that said "Felony Footlong," which he put on his lunch box.
Lairmore has chuckled with the rest of us at times. Defense really trying to underscore the unseriousness of it all
Lairmore has chuckled with the rest of us at times. Defense really trying to underscore the unseriousness of it all
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If Democrats have to answer for their most fringe members then Republicans should have to answer for theirs. The most out-there Democrat is 1/50th as psychotic and harmful as the most out-there Republican.
I don't think it helps the debate about what Democrats should do to pick an obscure thing that some Democrat somewhere may have said -- like on teaching eighth grade algebra -- and then attribute it to Democrats generally.
November 4, 2025 at 1:56 PM
If Democrats have to answer for their most fringe members then Republicans should have to answer for theirs. The most out-there Democrat is 1/50th as psychotic and harmful as the most out-there Republican.
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Guy who names his kids Zqufowkejfowu81748291*{€]!|[ has a problem with a guy named Mamdani being weird
Elon Musk endorses Cuomo for mayor of New York and makes sure to add some racism in there: “…Mumdumi or whatever his name is.”
November 3, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Guy who names his kids Zqufowkejfowu81748291*{€]!|[ has a problem with a guy named Mamdani being weird
We have an AMA today with Christopher Jones for his new book from @uchicagopress.bsky.social The Invention of Infinite Growth
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From the AskHistorians community on Reddit: AMA: The Invention of Infinite Growth
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November 3, 2025 at 7:55 PM
We have an AMA today with Christopher Jones for his new book from @uchicagopress.bsky.social The Invention of Infinite Growth
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Come check out today's AMA!
We have an artful #AMA for #Skystorians today! @horbinski.bsky.social has joined us to talk about and answer all your questions on the history of manga, media history, and her new book "Manga's First Century: How Creators and Fans Made Japanese Comics, 1905-1989"!
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From the AskHistorians community on Reddit: I'm Andrea Horbinski, author of Manga's First Century: How Creators and Fans Made Japanese Comics, 1905-1989. AMA!
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October 29, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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I know it’s too much to expect them to know their history, but if the American Revolution had a motto, it definitely would not have been “immigrants go home.”
It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”
It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”
October 28, 2025 at 1:48 PM
I know it’s too much to expect them to know their history, but if the American Revolution had a motto, it definitely would not have been “immigrants go home.”
It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”
It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”
Several students pasted blocks of text into their Canvas quizzes and only made edits to replace em-dashes with commas 🤔
I repeatedly told them that the class on digital tech (including AI) is not the class to cheat with digital tech (like AI)
I repeatedly told them that the class on digital tech (including AI) is not the class to cheat with digital tech (like AI)
a man is laying his head on a desk with his hands on the desk .
Alt: a man is banging his head on a desk
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October 27, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Several students pasted blocks of text into their Canvas quizzes and only made edits to replace em-dashes with commas 🤔
I repeatedly told them that the class on digital tech (including AI) is not the class to cheat with digital tech (like AI)
I repeatedly told them that the class on digital tech (including AI) is not the class to cheat with digital tech (like AI)
Idk how to study the solar system's environmental history but I'm ready to learn in today's AMA with @dagomardegroot.bsky.social on @askhistorians.bsky.social (with r/AskScience too!)
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From the AskHistorians community on Reddit: What does history tell us about humanity’s future? I’m Dagomar Degroot, the NASA Chair of Astrobiology at the Library of Congress and author of RIPPLES ON T...
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October 24, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Idk how to study the solar system's environmental history but I'm ready to learn in today's AMA with @dagomardegroot.bsky.social on @askhistorians.bsky.social (with r/AskScience too!)
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I recently sat down with The Wheelchair Activist Podcast to discuss disability and the Salem Witch Trials! Check out the episode of our conversation here! www.thewheelchairactivist.com/podcast/dan-...
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Disability in Salem Witch Trials with Dan Howlett — The Wheelchair Activist
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October 22, 2025 at 3:49 PM
I recently sat down with The Wheelchair Activist Podcast to discuss disability and the Salem Witch Trials! Check out the episode of our conversation here! www.thewheelchairactivist.com/podcast/dan-...
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Saw the Try Guys do a ghost hunt at a historic asylum & Zac’s comments about ghost stories & ableism had me thinking about a fav @nursingclio.bsky.social article, “ghosts are scary, disabled people are not”
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Let’s talk #disability #history and #haunted asylums this spooky season #historytok #disabilitytiktok @The Try Guys @Zach Kornfeld @Project Fear @Sam and Colby
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October 21, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Saw the Try Guys do a ghost hunt at a historic asylum & Zac’s comments about ghost stories & ableism had me thinking about a fav @nursingclio.bsky.social article, “ghosts are scary, disabled people are not”
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Looking for another fantastic #AMA to spend time with today #Skystorians? Askhistorians is hosting a group of experts in early American clothing from Colonial Williamsburg, and you can ask them anything about clothing in early America! Come join the fun!
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We are experts on historical clothing at Colonial Williamsburg. Ask Us Anything about clothing in early America!
Hello all, We are a group of experts in early American clothing at [Colonial Williamsburg](https://www.colonialwilliamsburg.org/), a...
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October 20, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Looking for another fantastic #AMA to spend time with today #Skystorians? Askhistorians is hosting a group of experts in early American clothing from Colonial Williamsburg, and you can ask them anything about clothing in early America! Come join the fun!
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Q: What does it say that president released a video of him pooping on the American people?
MIKE JOHNSON: You can argue he's probably the most effective person who has ever used social media. He's using satire to make a point. He's not calling for the murder of his political opponents.
MIKE JOHNSON: You can argue he's probably the most effective person who has ever used social media. He's using satire to make a point. He's not calling for the murder of his political opponents.
October 20, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Q: What does it say that president released a video of him pooping on the American people?
MIKE JOHNSON: You can argue he's probably the most effective person who has ever used social media. He's using satire to make a point. He's not calling for the murder of his political opponents.
MIKE JOHNSON: You can argue he's probably the most effective person who has ever used social media. He's using satire to make a point. He's not calling for the murder of his political opponents.
Good. Massachusetts deserves better than a Rep from Salem willing to jump aboard Trump's anti-trans witch hunt
"[Moulton] was greeted by boos and expletives from some rally goers..."
“You sold out trans kids! "Fuck you!” Knowles, yelled from the crowd. “You don’t belong here, Seth Moulton, you traitor! Trans kids matter.”
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“You sold out trans kids! "Fuck you!” Knowles, yelled from the crowd. “You don’t belong here, Seth Moulton, you traitor! Trans kids matter.”
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‘No kings. Not here. Not ever’: At Boston ‘No Kings’ rally, Mass. pols warn Trump
"They will keep on coming and we will keep on fighting," Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea J. Campbell said.
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October 19, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Good. Massachusetts deserves better than a Rep from Salem willing to jump aboard Trump's anti-trans witch hunt
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Proud papa moment: my son J published a letter in the @nytimes.com today (in print tomorrow) on the need to think our definitions of autism.
October 18, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Proud papa moment: my son J published a letter in the @nytimes.com today (in print tomorrow) on the need to think our definitions of autism.
Over on @askhistorians.bsky.social we've seen a lot of historical inquires this year related to protests, rights, and fascism in the spirit of #NoKings
Here are some of the AMAs we've hosted to help people understand this moment in time!
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Here are some of the AMAs we've hosted to help people understand this moment in time!
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From the AskHistorians community on Reddit: AMA: Craig Johnson, researcher of the right-wing, author of How to Talk to Your Son about Fascism
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October 18, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Over on @askhistorians.bsky.social we've seen a lot of historical inquires this year related to protests, rights, and fascism in the spirit of #NoKings
Here are some of the AMAs we've hosted to help people understand this moment in time!
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Here are some of the AMAs we've hosted to help people understand this moment in time!
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