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Eric Beckman @erbeckman.historians.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2025

Today in the normalization of authoritarian rule

Photograph of a Time magazine covet featuring Mike Johnson. "The Survivor: How Mike Johnson Deals in Trump's Washington "

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Eric Beckman @erbeckman.historians.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2025

Warming up! Great night for soccer in St. Paul #mnufc

Tight shot of soccer players wearing differently colored bibs pass the ball

Photo of soccer field and stadium with players passing the ball

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Eric Beckman @erbeckman.historians.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/07/2025

Not only is this, form NYT, nonsense as @senategabe.bsky.social describes, but it is also contributing rhetorical cover for construction of the American gulag and deportations without due process. The Republican position on immigration is based on another […] [Original post on historians.social]

<Headline>Can Democrats
Find Their Way on Immigration?
<subheadline>The party's leftward shift in the Biden administration arguably laid the groundwork for President Trump's aggressive approach. Deciding the next move won't be easy.

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Eric Beckman @erbeckman.historians.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/01/2025

I especially like the ones that echo Honoré Daumier's *Gargantua* which criticized the corruption of Louis-Philippe Image and alt text from Wikipedia

Black and white image. King sits on his throne which is also a toilet. He consumes a continuous diet of tribute fed directly into his mouth by various bureaucrats, dignitaries, and bourgeoisie, while defecating a steady stream of titles, awards, and medals in return.

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Eric Beckman @erbeckman.historians.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/11/2024

I am very exciting to be presenting twice (!) at #NCSS2024 in Boston next week. On Friday morning @bramhubbell, @MrsHistoryLee , and will be discussing Reframing Revolutions in #TeachWrold History . My contribution is built from these thoughts […] [Original post on historians.social]

Visual titled Many Voices, Many Stories, One World
NCSS 1045h Annual Conference
Boston November 21-23
I'm Presenting
With an image of man in green tricorn hat and coat riding a white horse and carrying a latern

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Eric Beckman @erbeckman.historians.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2024

Not to be outdone, here's Cortés going boldly into the unknown. Despite not being a mariner, he seems quite confident, but not too confident to take off his helmet while sailing.

Color illustration of two White men on the deck of a sailing ship. One, presumably Cortes, is wearing a helmet and pointing forward while a companion looks into a telescope

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Eric Beckman @erbeckman.historians.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2024

Here's how Christopher Columbus looks in reactionary curricular materials. A cousin for Blonde Jesus. This from Hillsdale materials on Latin American independence. #TeachWorldHistory (but not like this)

Color illustration of a white man with blonde hair gazing meaningfully into this distance and holding a stereotypical ship pilot's steering wheel

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Eric Beckman @erbeckman.historians.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2024

Yeboah, on his #mnufc debut. Sitting with a different view tonight

celebratory smoke at the far end of a soccer stadium

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