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Manisha Sinha
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Past President of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, author most recently of The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic, Draper Chair at UConn

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Manisha Sinha is an Indian-born American historian, and the James L. and Shirley A. Draper Chair in American History at the University of Connecticut. She is the author of The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition (2016) and The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920 (2024). .. more

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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · Apr 11
Historian here posting for no reason at all.

U.S. Constitution, Article II Section 4:

"The President, Vice President and all civil officers of the United States, shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors."

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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 1h
Yes and the art that he incorporates is pretty breathtaking too!

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 3h
BREAKING: The House Judiciary Committee has released Jack Smith's 255-page deposition transcript: judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 5h
Yeah I remember he was just this amazing dancer and then went on to have this career in Hollywood! I will have to compare and contrast!

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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 6h
REMs Losing My Religion directed by Tarsem, a guy I knew in high school in India! youtu.be/xwtdhWltSIg?...

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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 7h
😂😂 well to be fair the paperback came out in 2025!

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 7h
file under: and you thought 2025 was dire —

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ICE plans $100 million ‘wartime recruitment’ push targeting gun shows, military fans for hires
An internal ICE document shared among immigration officials details plans to use influencers and geo-targeted ads to rapidly hire thousands of deportation officers.
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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 8h
Thank you. Yes that is why looking at the long unwinding of Reconstruction after 1877 is so important. Superficial reading claims I argue that Reconstruction lasted until 1920 (conservative outlet Claremont Review) when I do no such thing!

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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 8h
Happy New Year Civics and Coffee named #theriseandfallofthesecondamericanrepublic one of the best books of 2025 “Sinha does an exquisite job of arguing that Reconstruction is a much broader period in history than we think and expertly covers its impact on various populations & regions” Pub date 2024

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 8h
"What a year for the ultra wealthy. The world’s 500 richest people added a record $2.2 trillion to their collective fortunes in 2025’s… booming markets, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. And about a quarter of this year’s gains went to just eight billionaires.” — Bloomberg Morning Brief

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 18h
One of the first things Trump did in Feb. 2017 was set up an office in DHS to *exclusively* publicize crimes committed by immigrants — just as the Nazis used Der Stürmer to publish a special section only highlighting “Jewish crimes.”
See this article from 2017:
www.thewrap.com/der-sturmer-...
& thewrap.com But mass-slander-by-anecdote has a long tradition. As The Atlantic explains: In The Nazi Conscience, Duke historian Claudia Koonz notes that the Nazi newspaper Der Sturmer ran a feature called "Letter Box," which published readers' accounts of Jewish crimes. When the Nazis took power, the German state began doing something similar. Frustrated by the failure of most Germans to participate in a boycott of Jewish businesses in April 1933, Adolf Hitler's government began publicizing Jewish crime statistics as a way of stoking anti-Semitism. Trump introduced a new government entity Tuesday that will similarly flag and highlight crimes by illegal immigrants - without, of course, providing any context about how many crimes they commit compared to U.S. citizens, or how illegal immigrants as a group might contribute positively to American society. "The office is called VOICE - Victims Of Immigration Crime Engagement," Trump explained. "We are providing a voice to those who have been ignored by our media, and silenced by special interests."

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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 19h
Not sure that would be possible once they are contracted. Certainly Palau will not let them go?

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The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com · 22h
The Elaine massacre of October 1919, writes Atul Dev, represents “a pivotal episode of American history, consigned inexplicably to the margins.” https://go.nybooks.com/4s3ui6p
‘They Killed Our People’ | Atul Dev
In the spring of 2008, at a small desk piled with papers and notebooks, Lisa Hicks-Gilbert sat spellbound in front of a laptop. After a lifetime of
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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 1d
😲😲

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 1d
As it happens, I have experience with high-level government demands to stop an explosive, accurate story from running, and I also have experience with 60 Minutes spiking a story I was involved in, so I have thoughts about the travesty at CBS. If you want some journalism anecdotes, here are a lot:
Watching Bari Weiss Murder Investigative Journalism at CBS
Notes from someone who's withstood White House demands to stop an explosive story—and who once even had a 60 Minutes piece spiked
www.forever-wars.com

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 1d
To be sure, Joe Biden had some embarrassing gaffes, and his Atlanta debate performance made clear he wasn't up for a second term

But never once did Biden blurt out the details of a CIA covert op by going on a B-list radio show

Can you imagine the uproar if he had?

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davidrlurie @davidrlurie.com · 1d
Trump's attempting to transform the US from a country that welcomes immigrants into a radically xenophobic nation that demonizes immigrants of color, and even their US born children. But Trump didn't campaign on this destructive/reactionary remaking of America and most Americans don't support it. 1/

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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 1d
Historian here so we are now back to convict lease labor, which historians call slavery by another name and worse than slavery.
Picture of Trump and nation of Palau in the Pacific.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
New in PN: The regime wants to turn artists into performing monkeys

"Freedom of speech and freedom of expression is the right to criticize the ruler. But it’s also the right to not play jazz vibraphone if you don’t want to — not even if the ruler says you must for his greater glory."
The regime wants to turn artists into performing monkeys
But freedom of speech includes freedom to not praise the king.
www.publicnotice.co

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d
There was a liberal court for a few years in the mid 20th century and the right wing response was to delegitimize for DECADES right up to the point they had a supermajority, at which point it became Wrong to do so. These people think you are stupid bsky.app/profile/chri...
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NEW: Jan Crawford's attack on SCOTUS "corruption" narrative was its own substance-free narrative.

On Face the Nation, CBS News's chief legal correspondent went after Supreme Court critics as "dangerous." And yet, her court defense was completely lacking in specifics.

Tonight, at Law Dork:
Jan Crawford's attack on SCOTUS "corruption" narrative was its own substance-free narrative
On Face the Nation, CBS News's chief legal correspondent went after Supreme Court critics as "dangerous." And yet, her court defense was completely lacking in specifics.
www.lawdork.com

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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 1d
Thanks for the shout out!

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Ashis Basu @ashis.bsky.social · 1d
In @profmsinha.bsky.social telling, Northern capitalists and Southern racists — “the lords of the loom and the lords of the lash” — joined forces to create “the New South” that resembled an economy more akin to slavery than to freedom.

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The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920 | Washington Independent Review of Books
The Independent is an important voice in the community of readers and writers dedicated to book reviews and writing about the world of books.
www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com

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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 1d
A small number of people whose extreme wealth exerts a political gravitational force that distorts the entire political system is bad, actually. It has been recognized as a threat to free liberal republican government since the first time it emerged in the Gilded Age.

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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 1d
💯

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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 1d
And supported the Civil Rights movt!

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 1d
Every Stephen Miller tweet is like, "America used to be about driving a Dodge Charger and getting a malt with your girlfriend. Now there are brown people here. Despicable."

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d
CARTOON OF THE DAY 🇺🇸

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manish vij @mvij.org · 2d
We’re murdering fishermen in handmade peñeros with $40K in motors using $300K in missiles to depose Maduro so Rubio can come 5th in the 2032 primaries 🎁 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/world/americas/trump-boat-strikes-gulf-of-venezuela-wreckage.html?unlocked_article_code=1.AVA.OLR8.KODM5zTAI3xD

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d
Pelosi: “The President incited an insurrection. We begged him to send the National Guard, they never sent them. This President is trying to re-write history… it was an assault on the constitution of 🇺🇸.”

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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 2d
Tell me more!

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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 2d
I did not know that! Never consulted it!