Tad Stoermer
@tadstoermer.bsky.social
Author of A RESISTANCE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES (Steerforth Press, 2026)
Johns Hopkins University / University of Southern Denmark
Literary Rep: Rachelle Gardner/Gardner Literary
Johns Hopkins University / University of Southern Denmark
Literary Rep: Rachelle Gardner/Gardner Literary
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No value, no villain, no vision. Sounds like the tagline for the earnings call of a collapsing appliance retailer
November 30, 2025 at 1:20 PM
No value, no villain, no vision. Sounds like the tagline for the earnings call of a collapsing appliance retailer
History isn’t therapy. Historians exist to get the past right, not to help you feel better about it and your country’s role in it.
Ken Burns Spent a Year Selling the American Revolution, Then 12 Hours Ignoring It
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Ken Burns Spent a Year Selling the American Revolution, Then 12 Hours Ignoring It
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Ken Burns Spent a Year Selling the American Revolution, Then 12 Hours Ignoring It
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November 27, 2025 at 10:21 AM
History isn’t therapy. Historians exist to get the past right, not to help you feel better about it and your country’s role in it.
Ken Burns Spent a Year Selling the American Revolution, Then 12 Hours Ignoring It
youtu.be/1gOtiLAKtRw
Ken Burns Spent a Year Selling the American Revolution, Then 12 Hours Ignoring It
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Maybe It Is 1938 Again—Just Worse
YouTube video by Tad Stoermer
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November 23, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Michael is a tremendous historian who has written an essential overview of the history of the history of the American Revolution.
Looking for a Christmas gift for a relative or friend currently enjoying Ken Burns' "The American Revolution" documentary?
May I shamelessly recommend "The Memory of '76," which explores how the story of the Revolution has been told over the last 250 years and is currently on sale for $15.94.
May I shamelessly recommend "The Memory of '76," which explores how the story of the Revolution has been told over the last 250 years and is currently on sale for $15.94.
The Memory of ’76: The Revolution in American History
The Memory of ’76: The Revolution in American History [Hattem, Michael D.] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Memory of ’76: The Revolution in American History
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November 21, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Michael is a tremendous historian who has written an essential overview of the history of the history of the American Revolution.
Solid take.
Is Piggy referring to his attempted coup on January 6th?
November 21, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Solid take.
“If your goal is producing citizens who identify with national mythology, you need the unified story. You need the war as centerpiece. You need Washington as father. You need the army as crucible.”
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November 21, 2025 at 3:56 PM
“If your goal is producing citizens who identify with national mythology, you need the unified story. You need the war as centerpiece. You need Washington as father. You need the army as crucible.”
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Nice interview of Burns & Co. about the American Revolution from @whropublicmedia.bsky.social , with some tough questions that team isn’t used to.
Like how Jefferson told Adams he believed that no one could ever tell the true history of the Revolution, so why does Burns think he can do better?
Like how Jefferson told Adams he believed that no one could ever tell the true history of the Revolution, so why does Burns think he can do better?
November 21, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Nice interview of Burns & Co. about the American Revolution from @whropublicmedia.bsky.social , with some tough questions that team isn’t used to.
Like how Jefferson told Adams he believed that no one could ever tell the true history of the Revolution, so why does Burns think he can do better?
Like how Jefferson told Adams he believed that no one could ever tell the true history of the Revolution, so why does Burns think he can do better?
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One week to go to publication day for The Course of Human Events: The Declaration of Independence and the Historical Origins of the United States! @uvapress.bsky.social. www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10151/
The Course of Human Events
<b>How reading the Declaration of Independence as a document of history explains its intended meaning</b><br/><br/> Thomas Jefferson chose his words c
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November 21, 2025 at 3:35 PM
One week to go to publication day for The Course of Human Events: The Declaration of Independence and the Historical Origins of the United States! @uvapress.bsky.social. www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10151/
My publisher has added shareable assets to support my book, and a sneak-peak of the expanded table of contents, including the resistance principles.
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#resistancehistory
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#resistancehistory
A Resistance History of the United States|Paperback
Revisit the Salem Witch Trials, the Underground Railroad, and other resistance movements of American history to get a bold new understanding of how resistance shaped our past—and how its principles ca...
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November 21, 2025 at 8:19 AM
My publisher has added shareable assets to support my book, and a sneak-peak of the expanded table of contents, including the resistance principles.
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-resistan...
#resistancehistory
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-resistan...
#resistancehistory
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To understand JD Vance, you need to meet the “TheoBros.”
These extremely online young Christian men want to end the 19th Amendment, restore public flogging, and make America white again.
These extremely online young Christian men want to end the 19th Amendment, restore public flogging, and make America white again.
To understand JD Vance, you need to meet the “TheoBros”
These extremely online young Christian men want to end the 19th Amendment, restore public flogging, and make America white again.
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November 20, 2025 at 7:51 PM
To understand JD Vance, you need to meet the “TheoBros.”
These extremely online young Christian men want to end the 19th Amendment, restore public flogging, and make America white again.
These extremely online young Christian men want to end the 19th Amendment, restore public flogging, and make America white again.
This take by @repsummerlee.bsky.social captures where we are, and where need to go, like no other elected official I’ve heard. This is clear-eyed vision.
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www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8UdoHyA/
@RepSummerLee says there’s no going back to a politics that never worked in the first place. “Next is coming,” she says…the real question is who is going to build it. #politics #future #change #buildi...
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November 20, 2025 at 7:46 PM
This take by @repsummerlee.bsky.social captures where we are, and where need to go, like no other elected official I’ve heard. This is clear-eyed vision.
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8UdoHyA/
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8UdoHyA/
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HLS Library announced the release of digitized transcripts and evidence from the Nuremberg Trials, marking the 80th anniversary of the international military tribunal for Nazi leaders.
Caroline G. Hennigan reports.
Caroline G. Hennigan reports.
Harvard Law School Library Releases Digitized Evidence From Nuremberg Trials | News | The Harvard Crimson
Researchers at the Library’s Nuremberg Trials Project digitized more than 750,000 pages of archival materials, including evidence and transcripts, previously only accessible in physical form in HLS’…
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November 20, 2025 at 5:00 PM
HLS Library announced the release of digitized transcripts and evidence from the Nuremberg Trials, marking the 80th anniversary of the international military tribunal for Nazi leaders.
Caroline G. Hennigan reports.
Caroline G. Hennigan reports.
A pleasure to join Kris on his new podcast.
And always happy to take apart liberal nationalists.
And always happy to take apart liberal nationalists.
Ken Burns got it wrong.
In the first episode of On Offense, a discussion with historian and veteran Tad Stoermer about how patriotic myths make Americans passive—and what real resistance looked like.
📺 Watch: youtu.be/AkUyBe8DxO8
#OnOffense #TadStoermer #KenBurns #FightFascism #AmericanHistory
In the first episode of On Offense, a discussion with historian and veteran Tad Stoermer about how patriotic myths make Americans passive—and what real resistance looked like.
📺 Watch: youtu.be/AkUyBe8DxO8
#OnOffense #TadStoermer #KenBurns #FightFascism #AmericanHistory
Ken Burns Got It Wrong: Tad Stoermer on the Real History of American Resistance | On Offense Ep. 1
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November 20, 2025 at 5:16 PM
A pleasure to join Kris on his new podcast.
And always happy to take apart liberal nationalists.
And always happy to take apart liberal nationalists.
Ken Burns: “The American Revolution is the most important, consequential revolution in history. We then spend the next 12 hours trying to prove it.”
Conclusion drives the investigation. That’s not historical method; it’s American exceptionalism posing as inquiry.
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Conclusion drives the investigation. That’s not historical method; it’s American exceptionalism posing as inquiry.
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Ken Burns’ American Revolution: 1950s History for a 2026 Audience
Ken Burns’ The American Revolution might seem new and refreshing to audiences, especially on the left, because it acknowledges slavery’s brutality, includes women and Indigenous people, and presents t...
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November 18, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Ken Burns: “The American Revolution is the most important, consequential revolution in history. We then spend the next 12 hours trying to prove it.”
Conclusion drives the investigation. That’s not historical method; it’s American exceptionalism posing as inquiry.
open.substack.com/pub/tadstoer...
Conclusion drives the investigation. That’s not historical method; it’s American exceptionalism posing as inquiry.
open.substack.com/pub/tadstoer...
Book's done. Goes to copyedit now. Out of my hands.
There's something in there to tick off just about anyone - at least if you rely on bad principles, bad politics, and bad history to get you through.
For everyone else: American resistance has a way, and that way has a history. This book is it.
There's something in there to tick off just about anyone - at least if you rely on bad principles, bad politics, and bad history to get you through.
For everyone else: American resistance has a way, and that way has a history. This book is it.
November 11, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Book's done. Goes to copyedit now. Out of my hands.
There's something in there to tick off just about anyone - at least if you rely on bad principles, bad politics, and bad history to get you through.
For everyone else: American resistance has a way, and that way has a history. This book is it.
There's something in there to tick off just about anyone - at least if you rely on bad principles, bad politics, and bad history to get you through.
For everyone else: American resistance has a way, and that way has a history. This book is it.
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A seeming bit of history tonight as Ghazala Hashmi becomes the first Asian American to win statewide office in Virginia - and the first Muslim woman to win statewide office *anywhere* in the United States.
November 5, 2025 at 12:46 AM
A seeming bit of history tonight as Ghazala Hashmi becomes the first Asian American to win statewide office in Virginia - and the first Muslim woman to win statewide office *anywhere* in the United States.
There is no greater symbol of the collapse of the post-World War II order than the prevailing narrative that the only ways to hold authoritarians accountable is with…other authoritarians.
October 17, 2025 at 12:06 PM
There is no greater symbol of the collapse of the post-World War II order than the prevailing narrative that the only ways to hold authoritarians accountable is with…other authoritarians.
I’ve never liked “cover reveals.” I understand why they matter to publishers, but this one had to tell the truth: no heroes, no marble—just struggle, endurance, and the fight to make freedom real and enduring.
Out next spring from @steerforthpress.bsky.social and @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social
Out next spring from @steerforthpress.bsky.social and @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social
October 14, 2025 at 8:39 AM
I’ve never liked “cover reveals.” I understand why they matter to publishers, but this one had to tell the truth: no heroes, no marble—just struggle, endurance, and the fight to make freedom real and enduring.
Out next spring from @steerforthpress.bsky.social and @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social
Out next spring from @steerforthpress.bsky.social and @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social
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Almost immediately after Charlie Kirk was shot on Wednesday, right-wing social media accounts began speculating that his killer was transgender. Politicians and news outlets fueled the rumors.
The problem? There is no evidence to back up the claim.
The problem? There is no evidence to back up the claim.
It's never too soon for the right to blame trans people
A timeline of false "gender ideology" claims about the Charlie Kirk shooting.
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September 13, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Almost immediately after Charlie Kirk was shot on Wednesday, right-wing social media accounts began speculating that his killer was transgender. Politicians and news outlets fueled the rumors.
The problem? There is no evidence to back up the claim.
The problem? There is no evidence to back up the claim.
This is an honest takeaway:
If Klein believes, as he stated, that he and Kirk were part of the same "project", then we need think deeply about what that project really is.
It's a tremendously revealing piece about where the establishment left thinks it is in modern American political culture.
If Klein believes, as he stated, that he and Kirk were part of the same "project", then we need think deeply about what that project really is.
It's a tremendously revealing piece about where the establishment left thinks it is in modern American political culture.
Our performative approach to democracy is actually and actively killing it.
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The Absolutist Trap: How "Free Speech" Became Anti-Democratic
Charlie Kirk's assassination reveals how we've abandoned democratic thinking about discourse—and why that might be as dangerous as the violence itself
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September 13, 2025 at 12:38 PM
This is an honest takeaway:
If Klein believes, as he stated, that he and Kirk were part of the same "project", then we need think deeply about what that project really is.
It's a tremendously revealing piece about where the establishment left thinks it is in modern American political culture.
If Klein believes, as he stated, that he and Kirk were part of the same "project", then we need think deeply about what that project really is.
It's a tremendously revealing piece about where the establishment left thinks it is in modern American political culture.
Our performative approach to democracy is actually and actively killing it.
tadstoermer.substack.com/p/the-absolu...
tadstoermer.substack.com/p/the-absolu...
The Absolutist Trap: How "Free Speech" Became Anti-Democratic
Charlie Kirk's assassination reveals how we've abandoned democratic thinking about discourse—and why that might be as dangerous as the violence itself
tadstoermer.substack.com
September 13, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Our performative approach to democracy is actually and actively killing it.
tadstoermer.substack.com/p/the-absolu...
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just watched the first episode of Girls and got so viscerally angry at the 2012 innocence of it all, I had to turn the TV off. like they have no idea who Pete Hegseth is.
September 8, 2025 at 4:40 AM
just watched the first episode of Girls and got so viscerally angry at the 2012 innocence of it all, I had to turn the TV off. like they have no idea who Pete Hegseth is.
The salt trucks and snow plows aren’t coming, folks. But that doesn’t mean the viral video doesn’t matter. Just not in the way that you might think.
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The Snow Plows Aren't Coming
How fake resistance videos might reveal sophisticated counter-resistance in action
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September 8, 2025 at 4:42 AM
The salt trucks and snow plows aren’t coming, folks. But that doesn’t mean the viral video doesn’t matter. Just not in the way that you might think.
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We’re not just seeing the end of history, but the end of history’s ends.
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The End of History’s Ends
When “Defense” is stripped for “War,” democracy loses its shield.
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September 5, 2025 at 12:25 PM
We’re not just seeing the end of history, but the end of history’s ends.
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