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A blog and newsletter published in tandem with the Before We Were White history podcast
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Galveston
The Song, The Songwriter, and Forever Wars
Performance
Patriotism as show business - justice optional
Because the Bible Tells Me So
Why is the USA still the most religious western country?
Calling Bull-Schmitt
The Systematic Takedown of a MAGA "Thought Leader"
Resistance Carries A Cost
If it doesn't, it's probably just performance
Freedom 250: Part 3
The Original Epstein Files
We're All Crazy Now
clinging to sanity in a world run by the mad
Freedom 250: Part 2
DNA and Thomas Jefferson
Freedom 250: Part 1
False Heroes, Real Authoritarians, and George's Dentures
Where to exist online...
Doomsday prepping on Juneteenth
A Summer of Bread and Circuses
The Knicks, the World Cup, and Haitians
Passing Judgement
Why the Past Looks Different When We Study the Details
Blonde Bombshells and "Damaged Goods"
Background to an American Tragedy
1959 Ford Fairlane for sale
Why History Is Always Political, and States Aren't Always Nations
Better Call Saul, and the German in all of us...
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The Scots-Irish Did Not Single-Handedly Create America
Why do so many multi-ethnic Americans claim to be Scots-Irish?
Paint Me A Picture
The Forgotten Brown People of Colonial America
Evangelicals and Kentucky Witch Balls
Surviving a Low Information Society
Picking a Version of History
From Wounded Knee to Minab
"Plastic Hebrews"
When Fake Identity Meets Real Genocide