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Steve Kantrowitz

@skantrow.bsky.social
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Historian: Citizens of a Stolen Land; More Than Freedom; Ben Tillman and the Reconstruction of White Supremacy. Midlife dog convert. Inyalowda.

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Steve Kantrowitz @skantrow.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Thanks, brother.
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Steve Kantrowitz @skantrow.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
news.wisc.edu/history-scho...
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History scholar Kantrowitz awarded Andrew Carnegie Fellowship
Kantrowitz is one of 24 scholars the Carnegie Corporation of New York selected from among 381 nominations across the country.
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Steve Kantrowitz @skantrow.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Thrilled and excited to dive into the new book as a Carnegie Fellow! @carnegie.org #CarnegieFellows
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Steve Kantrowitz @skantrow.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Hamburgers and pizza famously of English origin.
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Steve Kantrowitz @skantrow.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Kate Masur and Greg Downs break it down. A must-read. Jan. 6 and the Long Shadow of Civil War- and Reconstruction-Era Political Violence talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/jan-6-a...
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Jan. 6 and the Long Shadow of Civil War- and Reconstruction-Era Political Violence
Two days after the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, we...
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Steve Kantrowitz @skantrow.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Thank you!
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Steve Kantrowitz @skantrow.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Being name-checked in a review of the great Eric Foner’s latest would be nicer if, you know, the reviewer didn’t wildly mischaracterize my view of Reconstruction.
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A Foremost Scholar of Slavery Wonders if America Can Ever Atone
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Steve Kantrowitz @skantrow.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
That would have been a better film.
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Steve Kantrowitz @skantrow.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
That story won’t develop because something something the DNC.
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Steve Kantrowitz @skantrow.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
It is just too absolutely freaking on the nose that the newly elected member of the Harvard Corporation is a partner at (drumroll) Paul Weiss.
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Steve Kantrowitz @skantrow.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Coulda sworn that game was against the Rootless Cosmopolitans.
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Steve Kantrowitz @skantrow.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
God fornøjelse!
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Steve Kantrowitz @skantrow.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Breaking: NYU revokes Olmert's diploma.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Whatever hype you are reading now about powerful people will almost certainly turn out to be bullshit
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Steve Kantrowitz @skantrow.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
A ray of light on the "kids these days" front: the students in my undergraduate course on slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction liked the long, scholarly readings the best - Foner's short(est) Reconstruction, Taylor's Embattled Freedom.
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Steve Kantrowitz @skantrow.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
"Science Fiction is for people who can't face reality."
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Steve Kantrowitz @skantrow.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Dept. of Joy: If you have the slightest fondness for Sharon Van Etten (or PJ Harvey or St Vincent or Patti herself) do yourself a favor and catch Sharon and her band on tour. My kid’s Xmas present to me and what a gift it was.
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Judge Luttig @judgeluttig.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
This is a shockingly mistaken understanding of due process by Stephen Miller. It is likely this misunderstanding that is informing the President’s misunderstanding.
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Steve Kantrowitz @skantrow.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Can they not even hear themselves over the "both sides"?
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Steve Kantrowitz @skantrow.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
"The Constitution, all of the sudden, out of nowhere, has words."
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Steve Kantrowitz @skantrow.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Some impressive brass cojones there, celebrating Ann Telnaes like she didn't win the Pulitzer for standing up to your own censorship of her work.
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Steve Kantrowitz @skantrow.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
See also Yarvin, Curtis.
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Steve Kantrowitz @skantrow.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
If by "holding power to account" you mean "killing the Pulitzer Prize-winner's cartoon because it criticized the paper's owner," sure.
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Steve Kantrowitz @skantrow.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Article II, Section 3: the president "shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed." Oath of office: I "will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
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Steve Kantrowitz @skantrow.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
This is exactly what my syllabus warning on LLMs says, quoting Frankfurt.
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Sara B. @saraboboltz.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Happy 80th anniversary of Hitler killing himself in his bunker to all who celebrate, which, as I now understand it, is not everybody
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Emily St. John Mandel @emilymandel.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?” - A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic
NYT headline: “Kennedy Advises New Parents to ‘Do Your Own Research’ on Vaccines” 
Subheader:
“In an interview with Dr. Phil, the health secretary offered false information about vaccine oversight and revealed a lack of basic understanding of new drug approvals.”
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Steve Kantrowitz @skantrow.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
This is how I have four copies of "Reconstruction" and three of "Impossible Subjects."
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
So just to recap, the Transportation Secretary is scared shitless of public transport. The Education Secretary is being sued for enabling child sex abuse. The Health Secretary is bringing back measles. And the Defense Secretary is texting classified war plans to the editor in chief of the Atlantic
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
UVA being number 1 on this "campus free speech" list, when you had a former board member successfully lobby to suspend campus tours that addresses UVA's history w slavery, is evidence of how idiosyncratic and right-wing-coded the cosponsoring organizations' definition of "free speech" really is.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Two Naval Academy faculty members have resigned, and 18 more have taken early retirement. One was offered a place of honor at the annual dedication parade. He declined, telling the academy’s superintendent:
He cited a line all incoming students had to memorize when he began his studies there 55 years ago: “Where principle is involved, be deaf to expediency.”

“No matter what you have done before,” he wrote, “your legacy will be that of a careerist who banned Maya Angelou but retained Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf.’”
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Steve Kantrowitz @skantrow.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Wayne, can you clarify the audience for the letter ("Haislip Board")?
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Steve Kantrowitz @skantrow.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
"I am hereby reinstating" but it's Michael Scott yelling "bankruptcy!"
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Steve Kantrowitz @skantrow.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Before this fraud is through, we're all going to miss Joe Manchin.
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'Waste That S—t': In Interview With Free Beacon, Fetterman Tells Trump To Dump Iran Talks and Destroy Tehran's Nuclear Facilities
Sen. John Fetterman (D., Pa.) says the Trump administration should drop nuclear negotiations with Iran and finish off the country's nuclear facilities with a military strike.
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Steve Kantrowitz @skantrow.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
"They don't know how the economy works, and they won't obey the law."
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Steve Kantrowitz @skantrow.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Ezra's opening started in on illiberalism and I thought "yeah fine, but maybe he should have Steve Hahn on to talk about this" so apologies to the dogwalkers terrified by my sudden cackle when he introduced his guest.
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Steve Kantrowitz @skantrow.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Courage is contagious. Markey's not running for president, and he's not going to face a primary. This is because Van Hollen, Frost, et al. set a good example.
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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
passive voice, no less
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Steve Kantrowitz @skantrow.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Honest to god I would make a special trip.
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Steve Kantrowitz @skantrow.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
We are in a dire place when this tiniest truth feels profound.
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Steve Kantrowitz @skantrow.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Administration blather and the wishful thinking of right-wing scholars cannot disguise what Bethany Berger and Greg Ablavsky eloquently demonstrate here: "subject to the jurisdiction" means just what we think it does, and the history of Indian Law supports rather than undermines that meaning.
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Steve Kantrowitz @skantrow.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
In retrospect this was far too generous.
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Steve Kantrowitz @skantrow.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Apparently the DOGE ate their homework.
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Trump Officials Blame Mistake for Setting Off Confrontation With Harvard
An official on the administration’s antisemitism task force told the university that a letter of demands had been sent without authorization.
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Steve Kantrowitz @skantrow.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
"...abandon all the concerns—rankings, donors, campus amenities—that preoccupy and distract them, and focus on their core mission: the production and dissemination of knowledge. Intellectuals have adopted this strategy to fight against autocrats in other countries. It works." tinyurl.com/yc54ptwt
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Opinion | This Is How Universities Can Escape Trump’s Trap, If They Dare
It’s been tried in other countries facing authoritarian crackdowns. It works.
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Steve Kantrowitz @skantrow.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
"The [gov't] has no legal authority to snatch a person who is lawfully present in the United States off the street and remove him from the country without due process. The Government’s contention otherwise, and its argument that the federal courts are powerless to intervene, are unconscionable."
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Steve Kantrowitz @skantrow.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
We'll get a crack at Rebecca Bradley next year.
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Steve Kantrowitz @skantrow.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Two of three conservatives on the court are just pure partisan hacks. Hagedorn appears to have a working judicial mind.
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