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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 1h
Of course, why read CNN when you can get the numbers directly from the source? election.lab.ufl.edu/early-vote/2...
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UF Election Lab: 2026 General Election Early Vote Statistics
Live national and state-by-state early voting statistics for the 2026 general election.
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Readings

Seminar participants should already have a basic textbook knowledge of the period covered by History 590. If this is not the case, or if you simply need a refresher, you should review broader case, or it a narratives in addition to the assigned readings. There are many fine syntheses of aspects of the period written for advanced undergraduate or general audiences. Among the more useful:

1984.

2003.

Alan Dawlev. Struggles for Justice. 1991. Lynn Dumenil, The Modern Temper: American Culture and Society in the 1920s. 1995. William E. Leuchtenburg, Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal. 1963. David M. Kennedy, Freedom from Fear: The American People in Freedom and War, 1929-1945. 1999.

James Patterson, Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974. 1996.

John Patrick Diggins, The Proud Decades: America in War and Peace, 1941-1960. 1988. Allen J. Matusow, The Unraveling of America: A History of Liberalism in the 1960s.

Michael S. Sherry, In the Shadow of War: The United States since the 1930s. 1995. Robert D. Schulzinger, U.S. Diplomacy since 1900. 2002. Alfred E. Eckes, Jr., and Thomas W. Zeiler, Globalization and the American Century.

Harvard Sitkoff, ed., Perspectives on Modern America: Making Sense of the Twentieth Century. 2001. Michael Lesy, Bearing Witness: A Photographic Chronicle of American Life, 1860-1945.

1982.

Copies of all assigned books will be placed on reserve in the Graduate History Reading Room in Firestone Library. Paperback copies of the books marked with an * are available for purchase at

Labyrinth Books on Nassau Street.

Articles in maior historical iournals can be accessed online through the library's database. Chapters drawn from collections or larger monographs will be placed on the course's E-Reserves

readingsFebruary 6: Race and Nation

Required:

John Higham, Strangers in the Land (1955, 2002), chaps. 6-11.*

Mae M. Ngai, "The Architecture of Race in American Immigration Law: A Reexamination of the Immigration Act of 1924," JAH 86 (1999): 67-92.

Linda Gord Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition (2017) *

Gary Gerstle, "Liberty, Coercion and the Making of Americans," JAH 84 (1997): 524-558.

Peggy Pascoe, "Miscegenation Law, Court Cases, and Ideologies of 'Race' in Twentieth-Century Peggy America," JAH 83 (1996): 44-69.

Linda Gordon, "Black and White Visions of Welfare: Women's Welfare Activisms, 1890-1945," JAH 78 (1991): 559-90.

Presentation:

George F. Sánchez, Becoming Mexican-American (1995)

Depression (1990).

Recommended:

Matthew Jacobsen, Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race (1998).

James R. Grossman, Land of Hope: Chicago, Black Southerners and the Great Migration (1989). Robin D. G. Kelley, Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great

James Goodman, Stories of Scottsboro (1994). Leon F. Litwack, Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow (1998).

Vicki L. Ruiz, From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century America

Neil Foley, The White Scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture (1997). Sarah Churchwell, Behold, America: The Entangled History of "America First" and the

American Dream (2018).
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Jeff Fowler @jefffowler.bsky.social · 14h
YouAreNotSeriousPeople.gif Pete Hegseth appoints Elon Musk to US taskforce on future of warfare www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Pete Hegseth appoints Elon Musk to US taskforce on future of warfare
A year after his explosive tenure at Doge, the SpaceX CEO is back in the Trump administration’s good graces
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mike taddow @miketaddow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
i’m sorry, but i have to post this political ad
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Cameron Jones @paramystery.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I’m not sure I understand his answer-But am I crazy?? Does this look like A.I. art to you?
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Jeff Fowler @jefffowler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
In which President Trump learns about the Panama Canal for the first time. youtube.com/shorts/yj1qb...
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Former ambassador on the meeting with Trump that made him quit
YouTube video by Stateside Podcast
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Jeff Fowler @jefffowler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The show must go on!
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Jeff Fowler @jefffowler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We Taught This Chimpanzee to Understand the Median Voter's Politics and He Hanged Himself

Then a picture of a chimpanzee looking bewildered
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Jeff Fowler @jefffowler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Math doesn't Math finance.yahoo.com/technology/a...
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'Both cannot be right': AI faces a high-stakes paradox
Two new analyses question AI labs' optimism that client revenue will eventually outpace the enormous cost of the AI build-out.
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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Of course he is. Abusers convention in D.C. presiding over the health of our most vulnerable people. Rape. Culture.
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
this is the rape culture btw. the one women have been warning you about, and were told we were hysterical and over-sensitive and couldn't take a joke, and that rape allegations ruin men's lives, and now we live in a meritocracy where the only "merit" is who has hurt the most women
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 29/09/2026
you're still fw poultices? it's all about broths now dude
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Jeff Fowler @jefffowler.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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The Taxpayer-Funded Trump Ads Epitomize Government Waste, Fraud, and Abuse
The White House claims that its pro-Trump propaganda ads are "public service announcements." That is only true insofar as they demonstrate to viewers how little this administration cares about the nat...
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Jeff Fowler @jefffowler.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Just saw a fascist Trump ad on the NFL broadcast. At the end it prominently said "Paid for by US Government."
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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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The truth behind Donald Trump’s ‘biggest oil deal in world history’
The US’s oil deal with Venezuela faces multiple legal and logistical problems, including questions about whether it can be implemented
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Jeff Fowler @jefffowler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
👀 AfD, CDU ban new Holocaust 'stumbling stones' in Heidenau share.google/xvoEFg7fnUFx...
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AfD, CDU ban new Holocaust 'stumbling stones' in Heidenau
Activists, politicians and representatives of Holocaust victims reacted with anger after the center-right CDU party joined forces with the AfD to ban new Stolpersteine (stumbling stones) in the easter...
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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The meaningful divide in the Democratic party for the foreseeable future is going to be a lot less about center vs left ideology and a lot more about people who grasp this vs people who don’t.
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San Antonio Express-News @expressnews.com · 25/09/2026
Texas shoppers may want to check their spice cabinets before sprinkling this holiday baking staple into their favorite fall recipes.
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Cinnamon sold in Texas recalled over lead levels ahead of holiday baking season
Texas shoppers may want to check their spice cabinets before sprinkling this holiday baking staple into their favorite fall recipes.
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Gangly Bitch @gangly-bitch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Alt: Always Sunny - Charlie screaming "aaaaaaah! Oh my GOD I don't care!"
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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Wu on redistricting if Dems get control: "You do the exact same thing that they did to you until they say mercy" and agree to national, bipartisan reform.
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Doomer VonDoomington 🇺🇦 @doomervon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I'd be the Clinton-Dole-Gore-GWB-Obama-Romney-Clinton-Trump-Harris median voter
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dtf1947 @dtf1947.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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James Webber @ja.meswebber.com · 24/09/2026
I assume that insulting Trump to his face in a way he doesn't understand is an unofficial sport among world leaders.
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Jeff Fowler @jefffowler.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
What if instead of putting these 2 in charge of billions of people's lives, we put them in a buddy-comedy where they belong?
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Jeff Fowler @jefffowler.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Kind of gives it away here, huh?
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🦘 Dr. Wombat 🦘🔥 Horse 🔥 @batensmack.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Check out my new project Astro-Ball where we will be looking at the stars of the heavens and the stars of athletics and seeing where the storylines meet: “As above so below.”
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Jeff Fowler @jefffowler.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Can we save the clip of him saying, "It doesn't even enter my mind" ? That clip will be super useful for many things going forward.
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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I love this time of year. Even though it darkens earlier, the forest is so lush with green moss and odd fungi popping up everywhere. So I went out and snapped some photos of #mushrooms and Fall today. 🧵 📷 🍄
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John Biggs @biggsium.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Usually buildings are named for Presidents after their term by a grateful public. Trump's like a guy with no friends who has to buy his own birthday presents.
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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Hazily remembered this today and it really is incredible how many things this guy Announces and Declares that are never heard of again. In a matter of hours it disappears from our collective consciousness, and almost certainly from his own, like a fart in a hurricane.
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finrodsauronverynsfwprivatefolderdonotlook @yungdreyfusard.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The Veiled Fist: Continuity and Change in Dark-Side Ideology Between the Fall of the Sith Empire and the Rise of Palpatine
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 22/09/2026
lots of discussion on here this week about how brains work and what consciousness really is so i'll go ahead and speculate that this is probably fun as fuck for the cow
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵
Martin Kao, CEO of defense contractor Navatek, poses next to Sen. Susan Collins for a photo. Collins is holding a model of a boat in her hands. Behind them is a large sign with the Navatek logo.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The way to look at this is George bush is trying to help Donald trump retain power on the Hill
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Jeff Fowler @jefffowler.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Vikki Goodwin files police complaint on Dan Patrick ads share.google/dSld4mw1yx0e...
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Vikki Goodwin files police complaint on Dan Patrick ads
The Democrat filed a police complaint against the Republican incumbent, saying state law bans deceptive video so close to the election. Patrick’s camp said they were obvious parodies.
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👻👻👻Bram Stoker's Tars Tarkas🎃🎃🎃 @tarstarkas.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Supermaxxing
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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
hate to link to this because it's one of the most nakedly racist articles I've seen in a while but I think it's important to see every so often what passes for reporting at fox news
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Working-class Americans say their town is the next Dearborn — and they've had enough
Warren, Michigan residents say Muslim immigrants and a nearby Islamic center have created dangerous traffic and parking chaos, claiming police and Mayor Lori Stone refuse to help.
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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.゚✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
“The military has counseled me that it’s ESSENTIAL to have a 250-foot-tall watch tower hidden in a tourist attraction in the middle of an empty highway traffic circle in an unpopulated area on the edge of the District next to a military cemetery“
Simpsons meme, featuring Carl, with a nonplussed expression, speaking to Homer Simpson: "That never, uh, happened, did it, Homer?"

(In the scene, Carl is seen seated adjacent to Lenny in the workplace cafeteria, with each of them with a lunch tray on a table.)
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Jeff Fowler @jefffowler.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
When I thought the Arch was going to be a fascist monunument I opposed it. But now that I know it will be a high tech, super command post the military strongly requested to defend the capital against Martian invaders I am all for it.
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Empire Magazine @empiremagazine.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
EXCLUSIVE 🪩 Greta Gerwig’s Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew is a rock inspired fantasy nodding to David Bowie and The Who. “Narnia is literally a world made out of music,” she tells Empire. “And rock ’n’ roll to me felt like a world made out of music.” Read more: www.empireonline.com/movies/news/...
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Liberals say that Trump and his band of drunks, sex abusers, and white nationalists have put our democracy at risk. They're wrong—Trump and his band of drunks, sex abusers, and white nationalists have put our republic at risk.
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Jeff Fowler @jefffowler.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Navarro is trying to pretend he's a member of the Van Buren Boys.
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Jeff Fowler @jefffowler.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Mr President, the leopards are devouring our faces. Please ask them to be less hungry.
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 17/09/2026
New: Trump called crypto "thin air." Last year, he reported $1.4 billion in income from it. Buyers of his crypto? They're an estimated $4.7 billion underwater. I made an 8-bit game out of it— 📈 Play as Trump: you cannot lose money. 📉 Play as an investor: you cannot win.
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‘THIN AIR,’ REAL MONEY — The Trump Crypto Game
An 8-bit game about real money. Play as Trump: you only make money. Play as an investor: you only lose. Every figure is drawn from Public Citizen's report and the sources it cites.
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Rich Burroughs @somewhattolerable.com · 17/09/2026
Mr. President, as your attorney I advise you to spend all of your time between now and the midterms out on the road, giving vulnerable candidates the benefit of your immense popularity. Only you can save us, Sir 🫡🇺🇸
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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I’ve been arguing for years that he doesn’t know what a tariff is, but I’ve got to be honest, I thought the basic concept of trade was obvious enough that he would grasp it
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
promise kept
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Republicans don’t have a Nazi problem—they are the Nazi problem
A spate of recent revelations have shown the ideologies and their adherents are one and the same.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
It was never their intent to “restore trust”. Every time they say “restore trust”, they are artificially inflating any lack of trust that existed. Over and over again they tell us that nobody trusts anyone anymore and that they, and only they—the most untrustworthy people on earth—can fix it.
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Yael @elle91.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Watch my solo orphan babe settle when I pretend I'm cleaning him like his mom would 🥹
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