Reposted by Stephen WestStephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 20hPity poor Hannibal Hamlin - and the course of the nation's history www.loc.gov/resource/lpr... 2144
Reposted by Stephen WestChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 10h“Stunningly, the Court acquiesces.” 1223164
Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 20hPity poor Hannibal Hamlin - and the course of the nation's history www.loc.gov/resource/lpr... 2144
Reposted by Stephen WestKeri Leigh Merritt @kerileighmerritt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Today is book release day!!! So thrilled that An Inconvenient Woman is finally out after years of research & writing. Thanks to everyone who has ordered or told their library to order - I truly appreciate you!♥️♥️♥️ @stmartinspress.bsky.social us.macmillan.com/books/978125...us.macmillan.comAn Inconvenient WomanA revelatory and immersive biography of a white Southern woman who was a key figure in the early civil rights movement, devoting her life to ending segregati... 412039
Reposted by Stephen WestDaniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 22hAs a Williams College alum I’m… less than thrilled that I need to push back on this Williams professor. 9647
Reposted by Stephen WestKai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahaha. Puh-leez 1748052
Reposted by Stephen WestPam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026America.gov launched today--a DOGE initiative to use AI to deliver public services. Child lying facedown on a frozen lake as the image accompanying the question: "How can I invest in my child's future" is just incredible. Way to go AI 952512666
Reposted by Stephen WestElizabeth Joh @elizabethjoh.bsky.social · 26/09/2026A new episode is out! @romanmars.bsky.social & I talk about free pianos, ripe cases, and how we nearly had a midterms mail disaster—listen here! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...podcasts.apple.comNonmailable MatterPodcast Episode · What Trump Can Teach Us About Con Law · September 26 · 48m 0105
Reposted by Stephen WestKathryn Brightbill ✒️ @kebrightbill.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops' gubernatorial candidate comparison sheet is interesting, because the way it describes policies uses the least inflammatory language possible for issues where David Jolly's policies disagree with Catholic Church stances. files.ecatholic.com/11291/docume... 4234
Reposted by Stephen WestDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This is where having a Secretary of Education who cares and is knowledgeable about education would be an advantage 731458157
Reposted by Stephen WestJake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Whenever you see a pollster or consultant give a take like this, it’s always worth following the money. In this case, Emanuel has paid Anzalone’s firm nearly $300k (maybe more but that’s what I found so far). A consultant class is devouring the Dem Party www.elections.il.gov/CampaignDisc... 2253389830
Reposted by Stephen WestDan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Russell Brand, who's awaiting trial in London next month on rape and sexual assault charges, will moderate a panel at DC's MAHA summit tomorrow on reforming a U.S. health agency 22425931060
Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Happy Monday morning, especially to those who woke up and immediately googled themselves - hope you weren't canceled! 070
Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Since some folks claim to have never heard ‘Cigarettes and Coffee Blues'youtu.beLefty Frizzell "Cigarettes and Coffee Blues"YouTube video by Huesos Pegajosos 0110
Reposted by Stephen WestNeil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Not only should engineers study history, more historians should study engineering. Concrete is the second most used material on earth, a huge part of every economy, but there are about 10 english language academic histories of it. Is it really less important than another take on Lincoln? 🗃️ 2622331
Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 27/09/2026“It’s unprecedented and, frankly, a disaster,” said former NPS director Jonathan Jarvis of changes to national monuments. “Signs can come down and be put back up, but what it does is it undermines the credibility of the National Park Service, of the Smithsonian, of other historical organizations."bostonglobe.comTrump is using the government to wage an unprecedented American history culture war - The Boston GlobeThe White House’s campaign to reorient history around the president’s desired narrative is far reaching in scope and relentless in its pursuit. 1111
Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 27/09/2026JD Vance, notably, has been a less reliable henchman in Trump's war on the Smithsonian. Vance is an ex officio Regent. Trump's March 2025 EO vs the Smithsonian singled him out, directing that he "work to effectuate" Trump's policies. Trump's July 2026 EO, by contrast, makes no mention of the veep. 1101
Reposted by Stephen WestDrew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026We know that the best way to draw someone into a history major is in a class of 12. That's why you don't get classes of 12 as a service dept. You get 180 students, in two-hour chunks, with no breakout sessions or teaching assistants. You are set up to fail, at least in terms of attracting majors 663162
Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 27/09/2026“The notion that somehow this museum or any part of the Smithsonian is done by people who don’t love America, don’t care about America, is unbelievably wrong,” Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch said. “You cannot understand the greatness of a country without understanding the totality of a country."theguardian.com‘Let’s tell the truth’: Smithsonian head given standing ovation as he hits back at Trump attacksOutgoing secretary Lonnie Bunch rejects claims the institution is unpatriotic, telling audience ‘You cannot understand all without illuminating the dark corners’ 0448
Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Would I bring an iced coffee to my lecture class? Yes - but not from Dunkin. 030
Reposted by Stephen WestSeth Masket @smotus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Interviewing the inventor of napalm about his hats 33672911087
Reposted by Stephen WestNeil Turkewitz @neilturkewitz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026“Novel technologies do not actually require novel political solutions, especially when those technologies either evoke, replicate or recapitulate age-old problems of political & economic life.” Important insights from @jamellebouie.net about what we can learn from the past.nytimes.comOpinion | The Railroads Were Once the Octopus That A.I. Is Now (Gift Article)New matrix, meet the old matrix. 12211
Reposted by Stephen WestPema Levy @pemalevy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026In destroying the Voting Rights Act and gutting the 14th and 15th amendments, the Roberts court is recycling legal arguments once advanced by Confederates and white supremacists to destroy Reconstruction. From me and @ariberman.bsky.socialmotherjones.comJim Crow was on the ash heap of history. Then came the Roberts court.The disaster the justices have unleashed has its roots in one of the darkest periods of our past. 14803353
Reposted by Stephen WestEric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026This idiotic suit was never going to prevail in court. But it had a decent shot at deterring other reporting, and we may never know if, in that sense, Trump won. 215242
Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Abraham Lincoln - who was *not* radicalized by the FSA - expressed some thoughts that definitely resonated when I taught them earlier this week. From the Peoria speech, which Lincoln quotes in his 1858 debates with Stephen Douglas www.nps.gov/liho/learn/h... 1224
Reposted by Stephen WestJacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Taught the Fugitive Slave Act for the first time in a few years. Man, my head was spinning as I uttered my familiar refrain about how the FSA radicalized Northerners who maybe never thought much about slavery until they saw people being snatched off the street right in front of them...static.klipy.comEuphoria Wait Is This Fucking Play About UsAlt: Euphoria Wait Is This Fucking Play About Us 202160536
Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 23/09/2026If I can't put my name on the performing arts center that memorializes one assassinated president, maybe I'll put it on the theater where another president actually was assassinated 3175
Reposted by Stephen WestJohn Garrison Marks @johngmarks.com · 23/09/2026I hear the heads on all the statues in the Garden of American Heroes are going to tilt back and machine guns are going to pop out of them. Headless James Fenimore Cooper and Kobe Bryant just mowing people down. 5297
Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 23/09/2026so many hours of labor spent trying to make sense of transparently nutty things www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/u... 2183
Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 23/09/2026"I am the code"wapo.st‘I am the code’: Trump clashed with ballroom architect over safety issuesJames McCrery II resigned in October after warning that the president was insisting on designs that violated fire and safety codes. 1203
Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Abe Lincoln, posting up postalmuseum.si.edu/exhibition/l... 190
Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 22/09/2026"upends everything you thought you knew about batting orders" - if you stopped paying attention twenty years ago, maybe Hell, the *Nats* were batting Schwarber leadoff in 2021.wsj.comThe MLB Team Upending Everything You Thought You Knew About Batting OrdersThe Philadelphia Phillies are challenging more than a century of baseball orthodoxy around how to construct a lineup—and it’s helping them charge into the playoffs. 040
Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Watch out - a sledgehammer that slashes AND boomerangs! 290
Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 22/09/2026a 🧵on the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation. Stick around for the bit from William Lloyd Garrison, in which I learn the meaning of "Ithuriel spear." 010
Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 22/09/2026"a mischievous youth stands behind Van Buren thumbing his nose" loc.harpweek.com/LCPoliticalC... 241
Reposted by Stephen West◥◤Kriston Capps 250 @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 22/09/2026The only architects on the team planning the Kennedy Center renovation are a Minneapolis firm whose portfolio includes local K-12 schools — no performance halls, historic renovations or federal projects www.bloomberg.com/news/article...bloomberg.comInside Trump’s Kennedy Center Renovation PlanPlans approved by the Kennedy Center Board include hiring an architecture firm that designs K-12 schools in Minneapolis, according to documents outlining the $250 million project. 77525
Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 22/09/2026"One Nation Under God. And Snipers. And Drones." 0111
Reposted by Stephen WestErin Dwyer aka Ginger Is A Construct @erindwyer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Man this is why everyone needs to study their history cause the first rule of underground railroads in use is don’t talk about underground railroads in use. There’s a reason why Frederick Douglass didn’t discuss exactly how he escaped North in his memoirs until AFTER Emancipation. 15564145
Reposted by Stephen WestRachel Shelden @rachelshelden.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Terrific review of SUPREMACY by @nikobowie.bsky.social and @daphnarenan.bsky.social alongside my book, THE POLITICAL SUPREME COURT:  212450
Reposted by Stephen WestStephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 22/09/20241/ Five days after the Battle of Antietam, #otd in 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation. In areas in rebellion against the US as of Jan. 1, 1863, Lincoln announced, "all persons held as slaves ... shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free." 🗃️ 15418
Reposted by Stephen WestStephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I love this: Trump: "Snipers! Ammo!! Drones!!!" Historic preservationists: "Wow, sounds like there may be some more 'adverse effects' to consider. Guess we need to pump the brakes." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202... 0172
Reposted by Stephen WestBryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 21/09/2026A student informed me recently that they use ChatGPT to summarize books to save time reading them. I responded that I do the same with video games. So much faster than playing them. 1243757
Reposted by Stephen WestErin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 22/09/2026One goal for 2029? Let’s see if we can get the Oval Office back to 126820
Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 21/09/2026DC statehood is an excellent idea that I strongly support, but to be clear - it wouldn't stop the Archthehill.comRaskin attacks Trump’s proposed arch, calls for DC statehoodRep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) on Sunday went after President Trump for his triumphal arch and pressed for statehood for Washington, D.C. The president in a Truth Social post on Sunday said that the pla… 040
Reposted by Stephen Westjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/09/2026plenty of 20th century examples by my 19th century-pilled mind goes immediately to the railroads, which were HUGELY DISRUPTIVE and deeply enmeshed in politics in ways quite analogous to silicon valley and AI 47153591
Reposted by Stephen WestAparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I swear to god this is almost every single historian I know 16812
Reposted by Stephen Westthe Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 21/09/2026other things found in an old photo folder: this remarkable headline about the time the Mets went all-out for one special fan 833745515
Reposted by Stephen WestNeil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Trump's Triumphal Arch will be a traffic nightmare for Memorial Bridge—which crosses the Potomac in a very strange location. In fact, almost every plan to remake Washington before 1902 placed the crossing at the end of New York Avenue. www.thebirthofacapital.info/who-came-up-... 3193