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Sam Marks

@sammarks11.bsky.social

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Washington, D.C. History buff. Metro rider linktr.ee/smarks11

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Sam Marks @sammarks11.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Finally graduated!

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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 · 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

"Lunch Atop a Skyscraper" (September 20, 1932)

Taken on the construction site of the Rockefeller Center, it was staged as part of a publicity campaign to promote the skyscraper. The men were real construction workers who immigrated to the United States and were accustomed to walking on girders. It is widely considered one of the most emblematic photos of New York City and internationally known as a piece of American history.

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Sam Marks @sammarks11.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

My Emotional Support Dead Guy does in fact say a lot about me —

Thaddeus Stevens (April 4, 1792 – August 11, 1868)

- Member of U.S. Congress from Pennsylvania during the Civil War and Reconstruction.
- Consistent advocate for abolition of slavery and promoted equal rights for African Americans throughout his entire career.
- Chaired the Ways and Means Committee to effectively fund the Union War effort and Freedman's Bureau.
- Believed land in former successionist states should be confiscated and redistributed to African Americans.
- Leader of the Radical Republicans and deeply critical of Moderate Republicans' slow-going on Reconstruction and racial equality.
- Buried in Lancaster, PA's Shreiner Cemetery, the first cemetery in the city that had no restrictions on race for internment.
- His headstone inscription reads: "I repose in this quiet and secluded spot, not from any natural preference for solitude, but finding other cemeteries limited as to race, by charter rules, I have chosen this that I might illustrate in my death the principles which I advocated through a long life, equality of man before his Creator."

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Sam Marks @sammarks11.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Loving @wmata.com's Metro wrapped! Find out yours if you're in the DMV! metrorewind.com/rewind/

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Sam Marks @sammarks11.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Bin there, done that Read my interview with @countbinface.bsky.social here: thestudentnews.co.uk/2024/09/25/t...

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Sam Marks @sammarks11.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

A man I'd be happy to call myself a bootlicker for

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