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Kevin M. Kruse
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Just had a great chat with @staceyabrams & an all-star squad of historians: @jimdowns1 @ProfCAnderson @HC_Richardson @hthompsn @RedheadProf
This one feels like a promo photo for an NBC drama about a crusading DA and her assistants.

Let’s make this happen, @warrenleightTV.
Here’s a nice @nytimes piece by the great @jennyschuessler on our conversation last Friday: nytimes.com/2019/04/08/art…
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Last year, Trump considered making Hesgeth his administration’s Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
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Kevin M. Kruse
@KevinMKruse
No, historian understands that when an angry person says only 4% of southern white families held slaves when 32% did, that person is wrong.

But historian also understands that historians would agree that the American economy was built on slave labor.
I mean, there's a pretty significant literature on the connections between slavery and the origins of American capitalism.

These blurbs from Eric Foner and Ed Ayers, two of the most prominent 19th-century US historians, captures the prevailing view well.
Those blurbs are for a recent edited collection that captures some of the best new work in the field: SLAVERY'S CAPITALISM, edited by Brown's @sethrockman and Harvard's @Sven_Beckert, two other leading historians in the field. upenn.edu/pennpress/book…
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Kevin M. Kruse
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This is my favorite kind of these tweets, where a completely made-up statistic is wedded to a fact everyone learned in grade school, and both are presented as a huge discovery.
If you’ve ever taken a course on the Civil War or slavery, or read an actual book on it, or ... I don’t know ... read a Highlights magazine, you know that the percentage claim is laughably wrong.
But here, take a look at this piece by @jbouie and @rebeccaonion, which breaks down this idiotic claim and some others too: slate.com/news-and-polit…
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