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Sam Marks @sammarks11.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

My most recent on Substack: The Democratic Party is looking much closer to the one helmed by William Jennings Bryan than FDR. open.substack.com/pub/currentt...

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Silveritis: The Return of Western and Southern Democrats

Progressive primary hopefuls are a callback to a different era of Democratic politics

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Sam Marks @sammarks11.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

You know that new sound you've been looking for?

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Dr Tim Galsworthy 🗃️ @timgalsworthy.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Sweden. Absolutely no notes. #Eurovision

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Sam Marks @sammarks11.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

10,000 or so words later, and my History dissertation is done! "The Labours of Liberalism: Comparing the Electoral Success of Social Democratic Political Parties in the 1924 UK and US National Elections". Full text here: acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:...

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Sam Marks @sammarks11.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

What a beauty! Amazing to be part of this publication!

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Sam Marks @sammarks11.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Favorite Historical Pictures: Night fishing in Hawaii (1948)

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Sam Marks @sammarks11.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Favorite Historical Pictures: Eartha Kitt confronts President Lyndon B. Johnson about the Vietnam War at a White House luncheon (Jan 18, 1968) Read more about the incident here: retrospectjournal.com/redacted-pri... [p. 32-34]

Superstar singer and actress Eartha Kitt (Jan 17, 1927 – Dec 25, 2008) was invited to a White House luncheon by First Lady Lady Bird Johnson on (Jan 18, 1968). At the luncheon, the topic of youth "delinquency" came up with other attendants questioning why younger Americans were rebelling so much. Kitt was much more understanding of their plight:

"We raise our children and send them to war," Kitt said.

For her public opposition to the Vietnam War (which was shared privately by many who attended the luncheon) President Johnson blacklisted her from venues in the US and set up a CIA smear campaign against her.

Kitt left the U.S. to tour Europe and Asia, where she found tremendous success. She returned to the U.S. following the Vietnam War, and even to the White House in 1978 after accepting an invitation from President Jimmy Carter.

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Sam Marks @sammarks11.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Favorite Historical Pictures: Allied soldiers in Vienna enjoying a cigarette break during the allied occupation of Austria (1950). Photo taken by Yoichi Okamoto

Photo by Yoichi Okamoto (July 5, 1915 – April 24, 1985).

Okamoto was a Japanese-American photographer who was the head of the American Information Service in Austria (USIS) from 1948 to 1954. He later served as the first presidential photographer to Lyndon B. Johnson.

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Sam Marks @sammarks11.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Favorite Historical Photos: Gerald Ford meets Pele (June 28, 1975) See more here: youtu.be/jXwId4HWJo0?...

US President Gerald Ford hosts soccer (football) superstar Pele at the White House.

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Sam Marks @sammarks11.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Favorite Historical Pictures - Charles C. Ebbets (August 18, 1905 – July 14, 1978), American photographer famous for taking "Lunch Atop a Skyscraper" (1932). Now all we need is the person who took his photo