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31 May, 5 tweets, 2 min read
I just found my dad's notebook from an Introduction to American Government course he took at Kansas State in the summer of 1965, and it is phenomenal.
There's a lot going on here, but the John Birch Society's take on Earl Warren deserves special attention.
I'm wondering if this, in July 1965, was the first time he'd heard about this new "Medi Care"
I've been told this was some radically new argument and not something they were teaching at K-State in the 1960s.
This takes on some new resonance in light of recent events.

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21 May
I'm thrilled to announce that @julianzelizer and I have put together a terrific crew of historians for a forthcoming collection on myths about American history, to be published by the good people at @BasicBooks .
For a while, we've been looking for a way to take what historians do on Twitter -- challenging the myths and misrepresentations that partisans make about American history -- and fleshing them out into a full volume aimed at a broad readership.

We hope this collection does that.
We've assembled an all-star collection of contributors:

@ProfCAnderson @elizabhinton @rauchway @prof_erikalee @dimmerwahr @DavidAvromBell @gerry_cadava @kathleen_belew @GilmoreGlenda @JoshuaMZeitz @DrKarenLCox @NaomiOreskes @LarryGlickman @nataliapetrzela & hopefully a few more
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10 May
There's bipartisan opposition when the questions are presented in Republicans' odd framing by a Republican polling outfit, a detail which is finally revealed in the tenth paragraph here.
Should we teach students that race is THE most important thing about them?

Who's actually proposing that?
Should we teach students that racism is the cause of ALL differences in outcomes and achievement? Every single one? Every time?

Again, who's actually arguing that?
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28 Apr
Ray Charles' cover of Johnny Cash's Ring of Fire is an all-timer.

Especially the live version he did on Cash's TV show:

Honorable mention to this cover, which I love:

Oh, and this rockabilly take on T. Rex is amazing:

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26 Apr
The promotion of these far-right gun proposals as “constitutional carry” is really bizarre, given how earlier generations of conservatives had a *very* different understanding of the 2nd Amendment.
Here’s Chief Justice Warren Burger, a Nixon appointee, talking about how the NRA had committed the greatest “fraud” by spinning the 2A into much more than it was.

Here's Ronald Reagan in 1991, that same year:
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15 Apr
The brilliant @AriBerman made a guest appearance in my seminar on the political history of civil rights, and I'm delighted to report that he *nailed* the dress code.
We look like the waitstaff at a restaurant that uses the phrase "farm-to-table" waaaaaaay too much.
We look like the backup singers to a Conway Twitty performance on "Hee Haw."
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14 Apr
“I can see why Quebec wants to be separate from all this.”
Showed this to my (Canadian) wife and she was disgusted.

Because a true Canadian Tuxedo pairs the denim jacket with jeans.
White jeans don’t count! They have to match the jacket.

Jesus, it’s like none of you have ever spent a week in Saskatchewan.
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