Kevin Gooding
@kevinlgooding.bsky.social
Honors College @ WVU. Purdue, '09. Historian of Childhood/the Family. Father. Researching the dead of Monongah, 12/6/1907, & their families. #MortoAMonongah
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It’s the start of Stepping on Crunchy Things That Fall From Trees season and it’s giving me a little bit of life.
October 3, 2025 at 12:14 PM
It’s the start of Stepping on Crunchy Things That Fall From Trees season and it’s giving me a little bit of life.
Oh, my...
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Ohio
Jon Batiste, Leon Bridges, Gary Clark Jr. · Ohio · Song · 2017
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August 11, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Oh, my...
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On August 1st, 1921, Sid Hatfield and Ed Chambers were assassinated on the McDowell County, WV courthouse steps by Baldwin-Felts detectives in apparent retaliation for their role in the "Matewan Massacre" 439 days earlier.
August 1, 2025 at 5:58 PM
On August 1st, 1921, Sid Hatfield and Ed Chambers were assassinated on the McDowell County, WV courthouse steps by Baldwin-Felts detectives in apparent retaliation for their role in the "Matewan Massacre" 439 days earlier.
Happy WV Day to all who celebrate!
June 20, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Happy WV Day to all who celebrate!
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met a neuroscientist who trained an LLM on thousands of parables and was stunned by its capacity to interpret. no human could have done it, they said. a lot of ai amazement is people brushing against the humanities, being unable to imagine the scope of our work, the time it takes, the skills we have
June 17, 2025 at 10:23 AM
met a neuroscientist who trained an LLM on thousands of parables and was stunned by its capacity to interpret. no human could have done it, they said. a lot of ai amazement is people brushing against the humanities, being unable to imagine the scope of our work, the time it takes, the skills we have
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This is exactly it.
met a neuroscientist who trained an LLM on thousands of parables and was stunned by its capacity to interpret. no human could have done it, they said. a lot of ai amazement is people brushing against the humanities, being unable to imagine the scope of our work, the time it takes, the skills we have
June 17, 2025 at 11:17 AM
This is exactly it.
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June 10, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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It’s still my birthday month, so why not do a giveaway of one of my books? 📚 🏴☠️
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Winner will be randomly selected and announced at 9:00 am (ET) on Friday, May 23rd!
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a close up of a man 's face with the words `` the opportune moment '' written on the bottom .
Alt: a close up of a pirate Captain Jack Sparrow’s face while he speaks with the words “the opportune moment” written on the bottom.
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May 15, 2025 at 1:42 AM
It’s still my birthday month, so why not do a giveaway of one of my books? 📚 🏴☠️
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10 years ago today we lost an American music great. I had the pleasure of seeing BB King perform 3 times, for which I am so grateful. He was sparked my love of the Blues and it was THIS version of THIS song that did it for me. Rest in Peace, Mr. Riley B. King.
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The Thrill Is Gone
B.B. King · Live In Cook County Jail · Song · 1971
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May 14, 2025 at 1:11 PM
10 years ago today we lost an American music great. I had the pleasure of seeing BB King perform 3 times, for which I am so grateful. He was sparked my love of the Blues and it was THIS version of THIS song that did it for me. Rest in Peace, Mr. Riley B. King.
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Tonight's end-of-the-academic-year cocktail...La Louisiane
May 12, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Tonight's end-of-the-academic-year cocktail...La Louisiane
Damn!
As a scholar, as a teacher, and now as a museum educator, Chronicling America has been invaluable.
Beyond that, though, it's OURS. We paid for it. It's a public good.
Beyond that, though, it's OURS. We paid for it. It's a public good.
Some sad confirmation from @bcgl.bsky.social while I was at UW last week—the National Digital Newspaper Program—which builds Chronicling America—has been shut down
Historical newspapers are probably the archival material most used by the general public—for genealogy, local history—it’s such a loss
Historical newspapers are probably the archival material most used by the general public—for genealogy, local history—it’s such a loss
May 12, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Damn!
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we have a secretary of
-transportation making it more dangerous to travel
-education making kids stupider
-defense making us more vulnerable to attacks
-homeland security making us feel less secure than ever
-health and human services trying to spread illness
everything’s fine.
-transportation making it more dangerous to travel
-education making kids stupider
-defense making us more vulnerable to attacks
-homeland security making us feel less secure than ever
-health and human services trying to spread illness
everything’s fine.
May 12, 2025 at 12:24 AM
we have a secretary of
-transportation making it more dangerous to travel
-education making kids stupider
-defense making us more vulnerable to attacks
-homeland security making us feel less secure than ever
-health and human services trying to spread illness
everything’s fine.
-transportation making it more dangerous to travel
-education making kids stupider
-defense making us more vulnerable to attacks
-homeland security making us feel less secure than ever
-health and human services trying to spread illness
everything’s fine.
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A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
May 8, 2025 at 5:36 PM
A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
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There's a list in here of the kinds of topics that people might cry "revisionist history!" about and they've nearly all been the subject of an EO at this point. I'm not claiming to be some visionary, just that this was all pretty clearly where these folks wanted to go, even in 2019.
"It’s not that historians are distorting the past to make a point about the present. The discomfort comes from the fact that historians are often disrupting or destroying connections people have already made between the past and the present, connections that may be based on no evidence at all."
What Is Revisionist History?
What is revisionist history--and is it dangerous?
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March 28, 2025 at 12:35 AM
There's a list in here of the kinds of topics that people might cry "revisionist history!" about and they've nearly all been the subject of an EO at this point. I'm not claiming to be some visionary, just that this was all pretty clearly where these folks wanted to go, even in 2019.
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As predicted, they’re coming for NMAAHC www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...
March 27, 2025 at 10:47 PM
As predicted, they’re coming for NMAAHC www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...
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Sending a Russian dissent back to Russia to be tortured and/or killed perfectly encapsulates this loathsome administration’s lack of American values.
Kseniia Petrova, a Russian scientist at Harvard Medical School, was detained at Logan Airport after returning from France and sent to an ICE detention in Louisiana, The Insider reports.
A big critic of Putin and the war in Ukraine, she may now be deported to Russia.
A big critic of Putin and the war in Ukraine, she may now be deported to Russia.
March 27, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Sending a Russian dissent back to Russia to be tortured and/or killed perfectly encapsulates this loathsome administration’s lack of American values.
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Every year, I create an In Memoriam video to remember the figures in baseball we have lost since the last opening day.
Today I dropped the latest edition, saying goodbye to Rickey Henderson, Willie Mays, Luis Tiant, Fernando Valenzuela and many more
youtu.be/ISl3VGJmjrc?...
Today I dropped the latest edition, saying goodbye to Rickey Henderson, Willie Mays, Luis Tiant, Fernando Valenzuela and many more
youtu.be/ISl3VGJmjrc?...
In Memoriam 2025 MLB
YouTube video by Sully Baseball
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March 27, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Every year, I create an In Memoriam video to remember the figures in baseball we have lost since the last opening day.
Today I dropped the latest edition, saying goodbye to Rickey Henderson, Willie Mays, Luis Tiant, Fernando Valenzuela and many more
youtu.be/ISl3VGJmjrc?...
Today I dropped the latest edition, saying goodbye to Rickey Henderson, Willie Mays, Luis Tiant, Fernando Valenzuela and many more
youtu.be/ISl3VGJmjrc?...
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Historian of Reconstruction and I approve of this message!
The Department of Justice was created in 1870 with an explicit mission to protect civil rights and enforce the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments.
The DOJ went after the Klan hard, securing thousands of indictments and 600+ convictions within the first year alone.
How about restoring *that* focus?
The DOJ went after the Klan hard, securing thousands of indictments and 600+ convictions within the first year alone.
How about restoring *that* focus?
Leavitt: "We want to restore the Department of Justice to an institution that focuses on fighting law and order."
March 17, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Historian of Reconstruction and I approve of this message!
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re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens
March 9, 2025 at 10:25 PM
re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens
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He was defending Medicaid and Social Security.
March 5, 2025 at 12:57 PM
He was defending Medicaid and Social Security.
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This feels like a sort of carnival-week funeral for the US republic. Beneath deep anger at Trump's orgy of vandalism and self-worship, I feel deep sadness. What a train wreck of a superpower.
March 5, 2025 at 3:04 AM
This feels like a sort of carnival-week funeral for the US republic. Beneath deep anger at Trump's orgy of vandalism and self-worship, I feel deep sadness. What a train wreck of a superpower.
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The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has threatened to annihilate 60 years of advancements in equal opportunity by eliminating all federal funding for schools that support and celebrate students from diverse backgrounds.
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February 19, 2025 at 7:44 PM
The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has threatened to annihilate 60 years of advancements in equal opportunity by eliminating all federal funding for schools that support and celebrate students from diverse backgrounds.
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I'm seeing reactions that "this is all a distraction!" but no, this is a pretty good illustration of Trump's authoritarian turn and a nice way to break through to normal folks who think he's doing normal things.
“Obama thinks he’s king!” was a pretty powerful rallying cry in the Tea Party revolts of 2009-2010 and that was, you know, WITHOUT HIS WHITE HOUSE LITERALLY DEPICTING HIM AS A KING
Actual post from a White House account
February 19, 2025 at 9:30 PM
I'm seeing reactions that "this is all a distraction!" but no, this is a pretty good illustration of Trump's authoritarian turn and a nice way to break through to normal folks who think he's doing normal things.