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Karl Jacoby
@karl_jacoby
Professor of History at Columbia / Author of The Strange Career of William Ellis, Shadows at Dawn, and Crimes Against Nature / Bacanora enthusiast
May 3, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Historian here to remind you that abortion was legal in the US when the Constitution was written in 1787.

Exclusive: Supreme Court has voted to overturn abortion rights, draft opinion shows politi.co/3kBd26K via @politico Quick summation of the history of abortion here:

billmoyers.com/story/history-…
Jun 4, 2020 • 22 tweets • 10 min read
For years, Borderlands scholars have warned about the border becoming a "zone of exception" where normal constitutional protections do not apply. We are now witnessing some of the consequences of this policy (a short thread). One obvious current indicator of this trend is the posting of forces of CBP (Customs and Border Patrol) to Washington DC on June 1.

thehill.com/policy/nationa…
Feb 20, 2019 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Again: the Covington story bears the imprint of America's centuries-long tradition of captivity narratives, in which white children are imagined as innocent victims and Natives as savage aggressors. As in the past, Native "aggression" provides a pre-text to seize resources.
Jan 31, 2019 • 14 tweets • 4 min read
Just flabbergasted that @MaxBoot would use "our" #IndianWars as a model for US foreign policy

Why winning and losing are irrelevant in Syria and Afghanistan wapo.st/2G0a4qi?tid=ss… To start with, the phrase "our Indian Wars, which lasted roughly 300 years (circa 1600-1890)" contains numerous misguided assumptions.
Jan 23, 2019 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
This has become a modern day captivity narrative: the innocent white victim imperiled by a savage Native American. And, as with the captivity narrative, we hear the voice of the white "victim" not that of the Native "perpetrator."