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Kevin McPartland @kpmcp.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

"I have another Bridgerton question" was not a phrase I thought I would hear in my US 1 class today.

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Kevin McPartland @kpmcp.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Sorry CFP, I couldn't see the star spangled banner wave. Too much tear gas in the way.

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Kevin McPartland @kpmcp.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

I wish the Supreme Court would use AI as much as my students do because at least then their decisions might have a better basis in actual law.

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Kevin McPartland @kpmcp.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

My job may not be standard academia anymore, but I've spent the past week writing a tour for a local Black Jazz site, including some music theory, which is a very cool way to spend some time.

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Kevin McPartland @kpmcp.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Worth saying out loud. For the pilots who fly these flights, for the officers making the "arrests," it's not just following orders. It's a choice. An active decision not just to be complicit, but to participate. apnews.com/article/supr...

apnews.com

Supreme Court clears way for deportation to South Sudan of several immigrants with no ties there

The Supreme Court is clearing the way for the deportation of several immigrants who were put on a flight in May bound for South Sudan, a war-ravaged country where they have no ties.

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Kevin McPartland @kpmcp.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

For those celebrating Gettysburg these three days, it's important to remember that just because an army fought well doesn't mean it fought for a good cause. Just because men did brave things in combat doesn't mean they were righteous. The South fought for slavery. They kidnapped black people in PA.

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Kevin McPartland @kpmcp.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

I want to call my senators, but given my choices are to call from Kansas or Missouri, what am I supposed to say? "Take off your brown shirt for a second and stop being a fascist?"

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Kevin McPartland @kpmcp.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Keith Tkachuk is about to storm the ice and demand they stop the count.

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Kevin McPartland @kpmcp.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

One of my students is a Capitals fan. I made sure to wait for the middle of the final to come up and tell him "RIP Caps" to test his mental fortitude.

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Kevin McPartland @kpmcp.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

He earned his Catholic guilt from the Black Sox scandal

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Kevin McPartland @kpmcp.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

I taught my last US history honors section Civil War infantry tactics in a park on campus today. I don't know how much they'll remember from the whole class, but I bet they'll remember how to refuse a line.

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Kevin McPartland @kpmcp.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

"John Wilkes Booth violated a sacred norm, held since Washington's first term, of not assassinating the president. But that says more about middle America than it does about government." By Maggie Haberman

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Kevin McPartland @kpmcp.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

I'm begging for journalists to stop saying "violated norms" when they mean "broke the law." Weaponizing the Justice Department isn't "violating norms." It's just breaking the law.

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Kevin McPartland @kpmcp.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

This feels a lot like the Embargo Act in 1807. Americans suffered plenty, but Britain went, "Oh, damn. Well, moving on," and kept trading with the bulk of the world. We thought we had a lot more economic power than we did back then too.

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Kevin McPartland @kpmcp.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Is it time for some personal liberty laws and Boston Vigilance Committee activities to start up again? We have seen government kidnappings before. What's 1850 is new again.

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Kevin McPartland @kpmcp.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Beyond the sheer human tragedy of the deportation themselves is the realization that there are plenty of officers who will simply follow orders, whatever they may be.

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Kevin McPartland @kpmcp.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

"Lol we are trying to buy a house," sums up my feelings about the epic self-destruction we are being forced to live through.

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Kevin McPartland @kpmcp.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

My phone was dying on my flight so I just played arm chair general for the guy playing his jewel-drop game in the row across from me. Terrible use of power ups the whole time. What a shame.

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Kevin McPartland @kpmcp.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

I picked quite the time to read For Whom the Bell Tolls for the first time but a quote hit pretty hard today: "But are there not many fascists in your country?" "There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the time comes."

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Brenden W. Rensink 📚🏃‍♂️⛰ @brendenwrensink.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

A partial list of the current attempted erasure of diverse historical voices and stories from government websites and facilities. Senseless. Indefensible. Maddening. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whitewashi...

donmoynihan.substack.com

Whitewashing American history

The Trump Presidency as a project of erasure

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Kevin McPartland @kpmcp.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

I know I'm not alone in feeling adrift, looking for some way to resist but coming up empty. Because we are watching Trump dismantle lives, research, and structures within the government, it feels like there is not place for me to step in to hold the line like there was in 2020. 1/

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Kevin McPartland @kpmcp.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Tony Romo: oh no, looks like there's a flag at the blue line

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Kevin McPartland @kpmcp.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Graded and made pain au chocolat today. Thanksgiving break was needed

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Kevin McPartland @kpmcp.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

The Grammarly ad I get on YouTube starts with a redundant "grammarly is a must have and an essential" and I think that about sums up AI writing.

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Kevin McPartland @kpmcp.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

I am thrilled for Bluesky to be a new online academic space. But I also desperately need this to be a place for college football content and chaos. Today is a crucial test run.

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Kevin McPartland @kpmcp.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

1. Have a book under peer review looking at Confederate nationalism through the press, working on a few ideas for project #2. 2. Sabermetrics in baseball and workforce cuts come from the same tech utopianism that ignores reality for the sake of data that developed with the dot com boom

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Kevin McPartland @kpmcp.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

The Onion remains democracy's only true defender

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Kevin McPartland @kpmcp.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

The best part about volunteering for faculty brown bags is that it forces me to actually write and not just read forever.

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Kevin McPartland @kpmcp.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Officially making a shameless call. Would Southern or Civil War historians be interested in putting together a panel on the Civil War home front for the SHA? My work revolves around the press and Confederate nationalism, and I am open to all ideas, though I have some in mind for a topic!

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Kevin McPartland @kpmcp.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Going to try and make a go of this spot, so follow me if you remember me from a conference or elsewhere, and tell me who else to follow. It would be great to rebuild my historian connections here.

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Kevin McPartland @kpmcp.bsky.social · 22/03/2024

A very merry "Is it Covid or Allergies Season?" to all who celebrate.

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Kevin McPartland @kpmcp.bsky.social · 22/12/2023

I hope my Early Republic students next semester are ready for a lecture on tribal politics in the Northwest going back to the Beaver Wars because they are getting it.

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Kevin McPartland @kpmcp.bsky.social · 03/12/2023

It took 7 essays, but I have finally gotten one telling me about the succession of the South.

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Kevin McPartland @kpmcp.bsky.social · 29/11/2023

Always embarrassing when there are two weeks to read a short book and people still scramble to read it before class. (It's me) (I assigned the book) (it is my own class)

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Kevin McPartland @kpmcp.bsky.social · 09/11/2023

I'm listening to the Throughline episode with Steve Inskeep and his Lincoln book. It's so frustratingly close to being good, but the whole time he is just trying to explain how Lincoln, who must be altruistic beyond his age, could have said and done bad things without believing them.

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Kevin McPartland @kpmcp.bsky.social · 08/11/2023

Currently working on three course preps for the spring and folks, I am tired.

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Kevin McPartland @kpmcp.bsky.social · 04/11/2023

Finished an article draft yesterday. It is....very bad. But it's done! And my brain sort of remembered how to write by the end.

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