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Lynn Price Robbins, PhD

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Historian, 18th and 19th centuries, early U.S., slavery, manumission, George and Martha Washington; Documentary Editor; co-host 2 Complicated 4 History podcast; Associate Producer, Primary Source Media; Vegan for the animals; Childless Cat Lady; Rockhound

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Sickening racism from a sitting senator. The Ogles hate is contagious.

You’re either calling this out or normalizing it. There’s no third option.

12.03.2026 17:51 👍 10642 🔁 3155 💬 1412 📌 472
When Charlie Met Joan: The Tragedy of the Chaplin Trials and the Failings of American Law
When Charlie Met Joan: The Tragedy of the Chaplin Trials and the Failings of American Law YouTube video by Primary Source Media

One of the books that I had the pleasure to read for the PROSE Awards was Diane Kiesel's riveting, strange, and tragic tale of Charlie Chaplin and Joan Barry. Check out this great conversation featuring Kiesel with @lynnprobbins.bsky.social and @isaacsloftus.bsky.social.
youtu.be/9eYxvWrDU6E?...

10.03.2026 21:56 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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A DOGE staffer assigned to the National Endowment for the Humanities to flag grants for "DEI" tries to explain what "DEI" is. This deposition is part of a lawsuit by the @acls1919.bsky.social, @historians.org and @modernlanguage.bsky.social.

10.03.2026 14:19 👍 6488 🔁 2846 💬 838 📌 1217
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Few historians know the Constitution’s history better than
@jrakove.bsky.social, and fewer still are able to offer such a warning.

Read Rakove’s take on James Madison’s constitutional maneuvering in the latest essay for
@inpursuitusa.bsky.social

open.substack.com/pub/inpursui...

10.03.2026 10:57 👍 12 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0

I think this is about the temperature but honestly it works for decades as well

09.03.2026 04:09 👍 5392 🔁 957 💬 11 📌 13
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'One year of failure.' The Lancet slams RFK Jr.'s first year as health chief In a scathing review, the top US medical journal's editorial board warned that the "destruction that Kennedy has wrought in 1 in office might take generations to repair."

In a scathing review, the top US medical journal's editorial board warned that the "destruction that Kennedy has wrought in 1 in office might take generations to repair."
#ProudBlue www.npr.org/2026/02/28/n...

09.03.2026 04:32 👍 119 🔁 64 💬 5 📌 1

SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26

NO - 41%
YES - 38%
UNSURE - 21%

06.03.2026 19:09 👍 13697 🔁 2978 💬 325 📌 186
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Episode 13: The Massacre Podcast Episode · Worlds Turned Upside Down · S1 E13 · 1h 27m

On March 5, 1770, British Redcoats fired on British civilians in Boston. Learn what happened and why on Worlds Turned Upside Down.

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

05.03.2026 22:21 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs

06.03.2026 19:47 👍 30371 🔁 7531 💬 223 📌 238

Waiting for the administration to say the spike in gas prices isn't actually a big deal because so many Americans are losing their jobs and won't have to drive to work anymore.

06.03.2026 19:20 👍 4145 🔁 688 💬 123 📌 27

If you took $1 billion and gave it to the endowment of a different small college each day, they could each provide a free college education to several hundred students per year in perpetuity. Instead we are using that money to bomb schools and kill students in Iran, for no clearly stated purpose.

06.03.2026 01:19 👍 1955 🔁 628 💬 23 📌 13
The Legal Erasure of Women Explained #shorts
The Legal Erasure of Women Explained #shorts YouTube video by Primary Source Media

Coverture and Patriarchy with @kawulf.bsky.social. Brought to you by 2 Complicated 4 History!

05.03.2026 17:30 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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‘Nazi heaven’: Inside Miami campus Republicans’ racist group chat The chat is the subject of a Florida International University police investigation.

The secretary of Miami-Dade County’s GOP started a group chat for conservative students — and within 3 weeks, it was filled with over 400 instances of the N-word, Nazi rhetoric and writings of "dozens of ways of violently killing Black people"

05.03.2026 03:14 👍 5576 🔁 2685 💬 284 📌 589
One British Archive: “Burning Archive”: The Barbados Department of Archives | Journal of British Studies | Cambridge Core One British Archive: “Burning Archive”: The Barbados Department of Archives - Volume 65

1/ Important new article by Dr. Tara Inniss that discusses the "chronic underfunding, aging infrastructure, and climatic threats" of Caribbean archives, compounded by vulnerabilities and policy gaps.

Thread w recent examples of destruction of collections by fire:

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

11.02.2026 16:43 👍 35 🔁 19 💬 1 📌 3
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Pigs are much smarter than many people think! 🐷

👉 Learn more about pigs and find out how you can help them: https://veganfta.com/resource-hub/pigs/ 🐽

#facts #pigs #cleveranimals

03.03.2026 13:02 👍 20 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1

I will never, ever forgive GOP and GOP voters for all the hell they continually put American and the world thru. Never, ever.

02.03.2026 05:59 👍 5024 🔁 688 💬 194 📌 57
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“Remember what I said…” Yeah. About that. It’s almost impressive how confidently wrong that prediction aged.

28.02.2026 13:51 👍 4139 🔁 1044 💬 146 📌 60
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26.02.2026 21:39 👍 14508 🔁 3979 💬 212 📌 146
Aide Wearily Begins 5th Explanation Of Why Trump Can’t Pardon Prince Andrew

Aide Wearily Begins 5th Explanation Of Why Trump Can’t Pardon Prince Andrew

Aide Wearily Begins 5th Explanation Of Why Trump Can’t Pardon Prince Andrew https://theonion.com/aide-wearily-begins-5th-explanation-of-why-trump-cant-pardon-prince-andrew/

20.02.2026 20:00 👍 6671 🔁 1425 💬 83 📌 49
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Check out this lovely conversation between @lynnprobbins.bsky.social and Professor Mary Eyring on the history of grief in Early America. @uncpress.bsky.social @oieahc.bsky.social

youtu.be/g499aa99rEk?...

19.02.2026 15:26 👍 12 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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Cartoon by Mike Luckovich.

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Haha 🤣

16.02.2026 15:17 👍 5456 🔁 1048 💬 42 📌 48

If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, gun reform, universal child care, and a living wage.

The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.”

It’s about control.

15.02.2026 23:00 👍 27437 🔁 7367 💬 784 📌 348
A painting of George Washington surrendering his commission to the Continental Congress.

A painting of George Washington surrendering his commission to the Continental Congress.

Today's the day!

@inpursuitusa.bsky.social is now live. We kick off the series with former president George W. Bush on George Washington's willingness to surrender power:

inpursuit.substack.com/p/george-was...

We've also included an audio version of the essay read by Mr. Bush himself.

16.02.2026 11:25 👍 10 🔁 5 💬 3 📌 2
An image of Martha Washington

An image of Martha Washington

@inpursuitusa.bsky.social is now live!

Check out @kawulf.bsky.social's essay on Martha Washington, the first First Lady, and a plantation mistress shaped by lineages of power, revolutionary politics, and slavery.

inpursuit.substack.com/p/martha-was...

Hear Karin read her essay as well.

16.02.2026 11:31 👍 28 🔁 20 💬 1 📌 2

I reread a lot for this 1250 word assignment --the 2 most important have been important for years. Elite women remain elusive still and this volume --fewer than 85 letters from MW during the presidency--is essential. Erica Dunbar on Ona Judge one of most impt books on Washington in the last decades.

16.02.2026 14:21 👍 32 🔁 7 💬 3 📌 0
I became Senior VP at a multi-million dollar company at age 26. My salary was $600k. This was in 2018.
How did I do it?

Blacked out lines

CEO (my dad) promoted me to SVP.
There are no gimmicks. There are no shortcuts.

I became Senior VP at a multi-million dollar company at age 26. My salary was $600k. This was in 2018. How did I do it? Blacked out lines CEO (my dad) promoted me to SVP. There are no gimmicks. There are no shortcuts.

This is blackout poetry to me

14.02.2026 14:26 👍 23255 🔁 4794 💬 221 📌 169

Not sure who needs to hear this but the voter fraud rate is a mere 0.000003%. Anyone telling you otherwise is making shit up so they can take away your right to vote.

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13.02.2026 12:25 👍 22439 🔁 9489 💬 937 📌 562