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Andrew Hartman

@HartmanAndrew

5 years

Look what came in the mail! #USIH #twitterstorians @UChicagoPress @ISUResearch

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Andrew Hartman

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6 years

Repeat after me: taxation is better than philanthropy.

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Andrew Hartman

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4 years

Not sure what all the fuss is about. Sanders and Biden are pretty close to each other on the issues. 😳

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Andrew Hartman

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1 year

Just hit "send" on a complete draft of my book, 7 years in the making, my white whale.

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Andrew Hartman

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7 months

Adolph Reed Jr on the Obamas-produced biopic on Bayard Rustin: "it was so banal and wrong-headed that immediately after it ended, I watched 'The Battle of Algiers' as a purgative." LOL

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Andrew Hartman

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8 years

One of my students, a huge Cubs fan, informed me that if the Cubs win tonight he will not be in class tomorrow. Class starts at 2:00 pm.

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Andrew Hartman

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7 years

Please share: 3 votes short of blocking Betsy DeVos. If you live in ME, TN, AK, GA, UT, NC, WY, LA, KS, SC, or KY, call your Sen! #DumpDevos

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Andrew Hartman

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6 years

🔥 🔥 🔥 @KeeangaYamahtta 🔥 🔥 🔥

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Andrew Hartman

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3 years

We lost our sweet boy Amos this morning. We adopted him late in his life but it always felt like he adopted us. Having him as a companion for our boys, especially this last year of hell, was the best gift. RIP to a very good boy.

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Andrew Hartman

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A student just emailed me a paper that she called her "historical theory mixtape pertaining to Big Daddy Marx and the Notorious E.P. Thompson." She signed off, "Don't let your memes be dreams!" Automatic A!

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Andrew Hartman

@HartmanAndrew

6 years

And deeply progressive taxation is best.

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Andrew Hartman

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3 years

Yes! @BernieSanders & @RepJayapal are sponsoring bill that would make college free for all households under $125k/year & require those colleges to have 75% of their faculty be tenure track, hired mostly from existing adjunct pool. Faculty sign support here

College for All Bill (Sanders/Jayapal)

Bill's sponsors are collecting names of academic supporters—add yours below

docs.google.com

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Andrew Hartman

@HartmanAndrew

3 years

Teaching a grad seminar this summer, geared for high school history teachers, that I call: "A Ruthless Critique of the American History Survey." We will take the controversy over 1619/1776 as our starting point.

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Andrew Hartman

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2 years

City of Quartz. Prisoners of the American Dream. Late Victorian Holocausts. Planet of Slums. Old Gods, New Enigmas: Marx's Lost Theory, & on. Not sure any historian has written so many different kinds of fascinating books that have taught me so much. Mike Davis is an original.

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Andrew Hartman

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4 years

“All I care about is Medicare for All and free college and a living wage and ending the wars and a Green New Deal and legalizing marijuana." SAME! Great @jacobinmag interview with @KyleKulinski .

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Andrew Hartman

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4 years

Trump’s attack on liberal indoctrination in the history classroom is consistent with right-wing anxieties that go back at least a century. I can recommend lots of books for those interested, including two of my own.

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Andrew Hartman

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4 years

Happy Labor Day!

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Andrew Hartman

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2 years

I feel this in my bones.

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Andrew Hartman

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7 years

Trump makes presidency America's Lowest Common Denominator.

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Andrew Hartman

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5 years

Just reading Any Rand's essays on philosophy in which she frequently quotes John Galt as if he's a reliable source & as if quoting your own fictional character is a totally normal thing to do.

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Andrew Hartman

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8 years

My sons attend amazing PUBLIC elementary school. Diverse both in terms of race & class. Committed, professional teachers. Joy in their days.

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Andrew Hartman

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2 years

Prepping to write my 9th and final chapter, which doubles as my conclusion. This book is getting oh so close to completion!

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Andrew Hartman

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11 months

"If you want to be a historian there must be things that matter enough for you to get angry about them; & those same things must matter enough for you to discipline your anger to the task of understanding for yourself & explaining to others."Barbara Fields

SO YOU WANT TO BE A HISTORIAN

www.washingtonpost.com

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Andrew Hartman

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5 years

“In America the quirk was that people were things.” — @colsonwhitehead capturing American history in one short, devastating sentence.

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Andrew Hartman

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2 years

LOL!

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Andrew Hartman

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4 years

The essential question in my US history survey today: Reconstruction did not fail, it was killed--in what ways are we still paying for the murder of Reconstruction?

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Andrew Hartman

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6 years

@bailey8169 @jathomas551 @ProudResister @Robevans813 @NRA @MetLife @symantec @LifeLock @BestWestern @Wyndham @Alamo @NationalPro @Enterprise @FNBOmaha @Hertz @Budget @Avis @NortonOnline @northAmericanVL @alliedvl @SimpliSafe @ChubbNA @united @Delta @TrueCar @amazon @FedEx @Apple @Google Only 36 percent of Americans own guns and many of them support gun control that the NRA opposes. In other words, these companies did not lose half the country.

American gun ownership drops to lowest in nearly 40 years

And yet, gun sales are skyrocketing. What gives?

www.washingtonpost.com

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Andrew Hartman

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1 year

AP has always been a negative force in public education. The College Board’s persistent caving to reactionaries over its history curricula is only the latest, albeit stark example of this.

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Andrew Hartman

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3 years

Surplus Value for Dummies.

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Andrew Hartman

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6 years

Reading list for my grad seminar on the philosophy of history. #USIH #twitterstorians

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Andrew Hartman

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6 years

Fact that matters above all others, but which @DineshDSouza bots will deny at all costs, is that party identification & ideology was transformed in 20th century such that the party of Lincoln became party of white backlash against civil rights. Full stop.

Kevin M. Kruse

@KevinMKruse

6 years

So, this @RealCandaceO thread really brought out some amazing replies. Let's take a look.

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Andrew Hartman

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4 years

The classic account of what is in fact the opposite--that US history textbooks are full of distortions that point in the direction of American exceptionalism--is James Loewen's "Lies My Teacher Told Me." It's sold millions of copies, for good reason.

'Lies My Teacher Told Me,' And How American History Can Be Used As A Weapon

James Loewen's 1995 book explained how history textbooks got the story of America wrong. Now, in a new edition, Loewen champions critical thinking in the age of fake news.

www.npr.org

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Andrew Hartman

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4 years

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Andrew Hartman

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5 years

I go back & forth on merits of dragging right-wing charlatans like @DineshDSouza . But fact that Michigan right-winger trying to revise state social studies standards cited D'Souza as major influence makes me think @KevinMKruse is right to do what he does.

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Andrew Hartman

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4 years

What They Didn't Teach You About the Civil War--great new @GravelInstitute video featuring @karpmj , about how the US Civil War was a left-wing revolution. This was Marx's well-considered opinion as well.

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Andrew Hartman

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6 years

@RepThomasMassie Yes! Is this your new platform? All for it.

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4 years

An American Story: Olympic gold medalist in swimming --> Homeless, living in his car --> Arrested for storming the Capitol as part of a right-wing, conspiracy-theory driven mob.

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Andrew Hartman

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7 years

Well the good news about the GOP tax reform that will massively redistribute wealth upwards is that all the brilliant Robber Baron political cartoons from the Gilded Age will come back into fashion.

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Andrew Hartman

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4 years

The reason young people are turning to socialism has little to do with radical teachers and professors.

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Andrew Hartman

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5 years

Starting my 20th year of teaching today, 13th at @IllinoisStateU . I love teaching history. Guess I'm lucky.

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Andrew Hartman

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7 years

This @ShaunKing essay on why the Democratic Party is so unpopular is a must read.

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Andrew Hartman

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5 years

Sees Marxism is trending. Sees it has something to do with David Frum.

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Andrew Hartman

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4 months

After an arduous, humbling, but necessary peer review process, I submitted what I hope to be the final version of my book manuscript to my editor today. Fingers crossed that KARL MARX IN AMERICA will be available in Spring 2025.

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Andrew Hartman

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5 years

Saddest thing about Mayor Pete is his Dad is a Gramsci scholar. Unless his lame centrism is a bait and switch long march through the institutions, this is an example of steep familial decline.

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Andrew Hartman

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2 years

FDR saw the Supreme Court as the enemy of the people and treated it as such. We need that kind of energy right now.

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Andrew Hartman

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8 years

"our visible, tangible opposition to Donald Trump simply does not have unified fierceness he deserves."-- @ShaunKing

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Andrew Hartman

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7 years

A left curious student joined @DemSocialists . Told me that @jacobinmag & @CHAPOTRAPHOUSE put him over the top. Left wing media works.

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Andrew Hartman

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3 years

@jbouie It turns out it’s never been ok to be enslaved or killed in the eyes of those being enslaved or killed.

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Andrew Hartman

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3 years

Only about 10 percent of the students in my US history survey course, mostly 19 and 20 year olds, had ever heard of the LA riots of 1992.

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Andrew Hartman

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3 years

I would like to thank you all.

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Andrew Hartman

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4 years

VP Richard Nixon went to Accra to represent the US as Ghana celebrated independence in 1957. Nixon to a black man at a dinner: “How does it feel to be free?” Man: “I don’t know. I’m from Alabama.”

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Andrew Hartman

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6 months

To say I’m excited about this is a massive understatement.

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Andrew Hartman

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7 years

The millennial left's war against liberalism

Analysis | The millennial left’s war against liberalism

Chapo Trap House and the return to the Old Left of the 1930s.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Andrew Hartman

@HartmanAndrew

6 months

I would love to include this image in my book--of a CPUSA meeting in Chicago in 1939. But I can't seem to find who owns the rights in order to obtain permission. Long shot here--any ideas?

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Andrew Hartman

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2 years

That Marx guy.

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Andrew Hartman

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4 years

@admcgregor85 FDR not even close

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Andrew Hartman

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2 years

"The time during which the worker works is the time during which the capitalist consumes the labour-power he has bought from him. If the worker consumes his disposable time for himself, he robs the capitalist." --some guy

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Jim Cramer melting down over Amazon union victory: “The unions will be in charge of time that you need to work, and that would be dreadful”

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Andrew Hartman

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11 months

Based on tons of archival research, including interviews w/ former right-wing campus activists, RESISTANCE FROM THE RIGHT shows that our current campus wars are rooted in 60 years of right-wing organizing against real & perceived progressivism on the nation’s campuses. Must read!

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It’s pub day!!!… and I just got a message that RESISTANCE FROM THE RIGHT is already SOLD OUT ON AMAZON! You can still order from UNC Press, B&N, Target, Bookshop, and a few other places online This is just.. 😭🫶

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Andrew Hartman

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7 months

Now that I've completed this excellent book by Nick Witham (published by @UChicagoPress ), a thread about the content, argument, & merits of this book is in order. (Warning: This is kind of long, more like a book review.)

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Enjoyable morning reading.

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Andrew Hartman

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4 years

Happy Halloween!

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Andrew Hartman

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4 years

Jeez 2020 I take it back.

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5 years

2020 bring it.

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Andrew Hartman

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3 years

RIP Gary Nash. Such a generous scholar. He read my culture wars manuscript far more carefully than I had a right to ask of him, patiently walking me through his experience with the controversy over the National History Standards. Red, White, & Black is a social history classic.

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Andrew Hartman

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6 years

On this beautiful #twittertuesday morning thought I'd share some of my favorite #twitterstorians who are all worth a follow. I'd recommend first & foremost @KevinMKruse but seeing as how he is the Grand Puba of History Twitter, everyone already follows him. Some others though....

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Andrew Hartman

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11 months

Suggestions for a very short essay introducing new history majors to the concept of historiography? Thank you! #USIH #twitterstorians

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Andrew Hartman

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5 years

Don't miss @briebriejoy speaking at @IllinoisStateU on the topic: “The Identity Politics Wars: 2020 Edition”

Briahna Joy Gray to speak for Black History Month, February 19

Columnist Briahna Joy Gray, esq., will be the speaker for the annual Black History Month celebration at Illinois State University.

news.illinoisstate.edu

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Andrew Hartman

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@DaveDunndee @BernieSanders Good thing cows don't vote.

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Andrew Hartman

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Reading a solid book by Matthew Downey and Kelly Long, "Teaching for Historical Literacy,” and came across this great little table that connects essential historical questions to a particular way of historical thinking.

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Andrew Hartman

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7 years

My students are incredibly energized but they have zero thought that the Democratic Party is the place to invest that energy. @ShaunKing

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Andrew Hartman

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3 years

I couldn’t help myself. Beer might be the only thing to help me through the regret and self-loathing.

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"If Soleimani deserves condemnation for arming Iraqi insurgents, then George W. Bush and Dick Cheney deserve 10 times as much for starting the war in the first place." -- Truth by @ryanlcooper

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Andrew Hartman

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W.E.B. Du Bois joining the Communist Party in 1961, at the age of 93, is one of the more bad ass moves in American political & intellectual history.

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Andrew Hartman

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4 years

The McDonald’s workers in Denmark (who earns $22/hour) get six weeks of paid vacation a year, life insurance, a year’s paid maternity leave & a pension plan. Like all Danes, they enjoy universal medical insurance & paid sick leave."

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Andrew Hartman

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3 years

After telling my students about my current research, one of them excitedly told me about the fact that Karl Marx once wrote a letter to Abe Lincoln! So hilariously endearing that he thought I needed to know that. I love teaching history.

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Andrew Hartman

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4 years

I have grave concerns about how higher education will survive this pandemic if it's too dangerous to reopen campuses this fall. I haven't voiced these concerns in detail here because discourse is understandably so fraught. A true Catch-22. But we need to think seriously now.

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Andrew Hartman

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5 years

My 8 year-old Eli, after several dozen questions about the history of the political parties: “It’s pretty useful having a historian for a parent.”

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Andrew Hartman

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4 years

I see originalism is in the news again.

Originalism Is Dumb | Andrew Hartman

Originalism is so attractive because it is so dumb, even as it sounds like a smart way to rationalize conservative jurisprudence.

thebaffler.com

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Andrew Hartman

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4 years

3rd grader in Texas.

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Andrew Hartman

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My 10-year old son is obsessed with WW2 history & is dismayed to learn that a person can become a professional historian without knowing much about the B-29.

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Andrew Hartman

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7 years

Syllabus for grad seminar on history of US capitalism finalized. Includes a fun, eclectic, rigorous reading list. @IllinoisStateU #USIH

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Andrew Hartman

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3 years

Working on chapter two.

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Andrew Hartman

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3 years

My friend & teacher Marty Sherwin has passed. An amazing historian. A World Destroyed about the secret diplomacy of the Manhattan Project broke important ground. The Oppenheimer biography he spent 20 years researching, & wrote with @Kaibird123 , is simply an astounding book. RIP.

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Andrew Hartman

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4 years

Things are about to get much worse for millions of Americans, as the pandemic rages on.

Brian Graham

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4 years

I just want to thank Congress & all of America’s other hallowed institutions for a abandoning me and my family for doing our part during this crisis. $600 doesn’t seem like a lot, but it is for us.

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Andrew Hartman

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3 years

We in the History Department at @IllinoisStateU are hiring a historian of science at the assistant prof level on the tenure track. I am chairing the search so feel free to direct questions to me.

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Andrew Hartman

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5 years

In interests of fairness, perhaps @newtgingrich supports the historical takes of @DineshDSouza ? Dr. Newt did write a dissertation arguing that Belgium's educational policies in the Congo were largely noble. Seems like a Dinesh-type historical argument.

Kevin M. Kruse

@KevinMKruse

5 years

This runs 55 entries deep now. Let me know if there's a historian I've missed out on.

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Andrew Hartman

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@FlyingWithSara @merlinc2 This argument against universal healthcare is so disingenuous. Imagine if unions could spend their time organizing and bargaining for something other than healthcare?

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Andrew Hartman

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7 years

TFW you read paper from a student who has been very quiet all semester and realize she's a genius and a beautiful writer.

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Andrew Hartman

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7 years

I'm very pleased to announce that I have signed a contract with @UChicagoPress to publish my next book, KARL MARX IN AMERICA. #USIH

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Andrew Hartman

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3 years

Only if they read the syllabus.

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Andrew Hartman

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7 years

After we #DumpDevos let's dump DeVos Democrats:

The DeVos Democrats

Corporate Democrats have enabled Betsy DeVos's privatization agenda for years. It's time for them to choose which side they're on.

jacobin.com

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Andrew Hartman

@HartmanAndrew

2 years

Here goes year 17 teaching history at Illinois State University.

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Andrew Hartman

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5 years

Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz complained “for us to have to close our stores during the peak season, the holiday Christmas season just beginning, really is an injustice.” LOLed at this tidbit in great @jacobinmag essay on Seattle 1999 by @DanielDenvir .

Today’s Socialist Revival Began on the Streets of Seattle 20 Years Ago

The global justice movement exploded onto the scene in protests against the Seattle WTO meetings twenty years ago today. The movement was far from perfect, but its anarchist, direct action-oriented...

jacobin.com

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Andrew Hartman

@HartmanAndrew

4 years

@ezraklein Because Medicare for All & other universal programs will be very difficult to get through Congress, we should just capitulate & allow the fascists & neoliberals to duke it out for control of the oligarchy.

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Andrew Hartman

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New chapter, new pile of books.

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"Teaching history is not for the weak." (First sentence of a student's teaching philosophy statement. 🔥)

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Andrew Hartman

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At the hospital with my mom right now and I can't say enough how much I appreciate nurses. They are working-class heroes if there ever was such a thing.

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Capitalism cannot kill Marx because its horrors call Marx into existence as the keeper of its history.

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