It's a real book! 🤩🤩🤩 umasspress.com/9781625345684/…
Of course the book is dedicated to her students, and book sales will benefit future students and scholarship.
Jun 25, 2020 • 93 tweets • 38 min read
1/ Very early in the morning of 6/25/50 near the 38th parallel in Korea, at about 10 pm 6/24 in the US, 14-year-old Kim Yeh Soon heard shelling. She thought it was training. Then she saw tanks and thought "the earth was going to fall apart." A thread. s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/awm-media/coll…2/ The Korean War began 70 years ago tonight. This thread will last its first few days, as civilians fled, soldiers advanced, and Harry Truman took the US to war without thinking seriously about whether a war declaration was required.
Feb 12, 2019 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
How, exactly, did Harry Truman decide to bypass Congress in the Korean War?
Find out today at my Philip Pro Lecture in Legal History: The War Powers Pivot: How Congress Lost its Power in Korea 1/ law.unlv.edu/event/philip-p…
I ask: what was the process for deciding to go to war w/o Congress in Korea? What were the consequences? The process should fit the consequences. 2/
Jan 15, 2019 • 14 tweets • 5 min read
I have become obsessed with the beginnings of books. I think of the first words of a book as the beginning of a relationship between writer and reader. How do we introduce ourselves to this abstraction? A thread. 1/
Here's a beginning that hooked me with the first paragraph. I was in Jean Agnew's Approaches to Cultural History seminar. Loved the way Rhys Isaac, Transformation of Virginia, analogized historians to anthropologists.
Dec 18, 2018 • 31 tweets • 10 min read
Powerful @Sifill_LDF interview on @allinwithchris@chrislhayes refs Cold War history of Soviet propaganda on US racism. Crucial difference: in ColdWar, Soviets sought to undermine US relations w/ other countries. Now: Russian efforts targeted democracy *in the USA.*Thread 1/30
