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Karl Jacoby

8 years

A Tale of Racial Passing and the U.S.-Mexico Border @wwnorton via @newyorker

A Tale of Racial Passing and the U.S.-Mexico Border

The border blurred the stark dividing line between white and black in America, something that Americans like William Ellis used to their advantage.

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Karl Jacoby

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4 years

One more time--it takes over a century for a saguaro to grow "arms." This cactus that was just destroyed for the border wall may be older than the border itself.

Laiken Jordahl

@LaikenJordahl

4 years

. @DHSgov continues to topple ancient saguaro cactuses for #BorderWall construction at Organ Pipe. An arm on this giant had just started to fruit before it was bulldozed over. Saguaros are deeply sacred to the Tohono O’odham, who have fought the wall strenuously from day one.

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7 months

One more time: it takes a saguaro more than a hundred years before it develops “arms.” This cactus first came into existence before there was a US-Mexico border.

Laiken Jordahl

@LaikenJordahl

7 months

DHS bulldozed thousands of saguaros & other native cacti to build the border wall. In an effort to deflect from severe public outcry, they transplanted a few and wrote a congratulatory press release calling themselves conservationists. The fate of the transplanted saguaros:

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5 months

According to Columbia by-laws, police are not supposed to be allowed on campus without the consent of the faculty. President Shafik does *not* have our approval for this raid; she has not even asked our approval. This promises to be a horrifying dereliction of faculty governance

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Karl Jacoby

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2 years

Historian here to remind you that when the student body was predominantly white, world-class public universities like Berkeley charged no tuition. Today's student debt is a product of underfunding of education right as integration began to take place.

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7 months

"[N]ot a single one of the thousands of ex-Confederates who were disqualified under section three of the 14th amendment were disqualified under an act of Congress. They were automatically disqualified, as Jefferson Davis himself recognized in his trial."

US supreme court ‘erred badly’ with Trump ruling, leading US historian says

Allan Lichtman, who has correctly predicted outcome of every US election since 1984, disagrees with decision on Colorado ballot

www.theguardian.com

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5 months

Orcas sink yet another yacht.

Yacht sinks after latest incident involving orcas in strait of Gibraltar

Vessel measuring 15 metres in length sank after encounter with the animals, Spain’s maritime rescue service reports

www.theguardian.com

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Karl Jacoby

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2 years

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 via @politico

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3 years

I have taught at Columbia for nine years. Never once in this time have I heard a faculty member utter the words "Critical Race Theory."

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1 year

Historian here to remind you that if you are trying to live in accordance with "18th-century values" abortion was legal in every American state in 1776. New House speaker Mike Johnson praised ‘18th-century values’ in speech

New House speaker Mike Johnson praised ‘18th-century values’ in speech

Louisiana congressman told audience at 2013 anti-abortion event Americans should live by 250-year-old religious and moral values

www.theguardian.com

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Karl Jacoby

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4 years

Not even during the Civil War did forces flying the Confederate flag occupy Washington DC.

Igor Bobic

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4 years

That’s the confederate flag flying outside the Senate chamber

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Karl Jacoby

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3 years

The right has weaponized the term "Critical Race Theory" because it sounds bad: critical, fixated (supposedly) on race, a theory (not "real"). I am a historian; we call what we do history. What the right is really against is: teaching accurate history.

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Karl Jacoby

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2 months

The Border Wall-ification of academic space: Columbia has fenced off much of its green space, presumably to stop future encampments

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Proud papa moment: my son, who has non-speaking autism (and whom we were told only had an IQ of 40) just wrote his first essay--on disability rights, no less. Please read & retweet! @tomzoellner @ThePublicSquare @comm4allorg @autism @AtlasForAutism

I’m Autistic and Scared of Your Dog | Essay

Some of My Favorite Summer Places Feel Perilous When People Flout Leash Laws

www.zocalopublicsquare.org

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Karl Jacoby

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5 years

I always wondered how previous generations of historians were so productive. One secret it turns out is that their wives served as their (unpaid and unacknowledged) research assistants.

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Karl Jacoby

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3 months

Devastated to learn that the political scientist James C. Scott recently passed away. Such a generous, brilliant, and original thinker, from "Weapons of the Weak" to "Moral Economy of the Peasant" to "Seeing Like a State" to "Against the Grain."

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4 years

It drives me nuts when conservative "originalists" know so little history. Quarantines for health reasons were a standard feature of life when the constitution was written in 1787.

Elizabeth Joh

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is crazypants nonsense:

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5 months

I find it humorous that folks who have spent 12 seconds Googling think they know more than someone who has taught at Columbia for 12 years.

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Karl Jacoby

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4 years

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).

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3 years

Sorry but have to say it: for me wilderness is a settler colonial concept that erases Indigenous sovereignty.

National Park Service

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3 years

What does wilderness mean to you? On this day 57 years ago, the #WildernessAct was signed into law. Explore different wilderness areas & learn about ways people connect to these special places. 📸: Tuolumne Meadows, @YosemiteNPS /Sean Goebel ()

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5 years

The Native past is not remote at all; most of us just don’t know how to see it.

This 1946 map shows how Native American trails became the streets of Brooklyn | 6sqft

You can see Brooklyn's familiar roads that began as Native American trails on a 1946 map titled "Indian Villages, Paths, Ponds and Places in Kings County."

www.6sqft.com

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Karl Jacoby

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2 years

Conclusion: when Alito writes that "a right to abortion is not deeply rooted in the Nation’s history and traditions" he is either ignorant or lying.

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Karl Jacoby

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5 months

The protesters at #ColumbiaUniversity govern themselves according to a principled set of community guidelines—they are far from the violent mob that the GOP and others make them out to be. This is the list of rules posted at the encampment.

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2 years

Alito, a self-described "practical originalist," is trying to present legal abortion as anomalous in American life but in fact it is the outlawing of abortion in the latter half of the 19th century that is the deviation from the norm

The Distinctive Role of Justice Samuel Alito: From a Politics of Restoration to a Politics of...

Justice Samuel Alito is regarded by both his champions and his critics as the most consistently conservative member of the current Supreme Court. Both groups seem to agree that he has become the most...

www.yalelawjournal.org

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Karl Jacoby

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3 years

Columbia has over 3,000 faculty. There may be a few who specialize in Critical Race Theory, but it is a tiny number and CRT is in no way the dominant discourse on campus. The point here is that the GOP labels any research it doesn't like CRT as a way of dismissing it.

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Karl Jacoby

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2 years

Our son is non-verbal & autistic but he has learned to skateboard and it has changed his life. He writes that skateboarding helps him to feel "free" even though he also realizes he is skating on stolen Indigenous land. Please send him good vibes! @apachesk8boards @ApacheAgency

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Karl Jacoby

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6 years

This is the dangerous corollary to "Fake News": the dismissal of inconvenient, empirical findings from the past as "Fake History." All historians should fight against this and support @KevinMKruse

Dinesh D'Souza

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6 years

What is my message about #FakeHistory propagated by fake historians like Kevin Kruse? ➡️ Don't be an idiot.

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3 years

Oklahoma literally used to be called "Indian Territory." How can one teach its history without mentioning race or oppression, as the OK's new law requires? CRT, gender discussions to be limited inside Oklahoma classrooms under new guidance

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Karl Jacoby

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10 months

Wanted to thank ex-speaker McCarthy for reassuring me that Americans needs my forthcoming book on the U.S.-México War

Kevin McCarthy

@SpeakerMcCarthy

11 months

Think for one moment. In every single war that America has fought, we have never asked for land afterward—except for enough to bury the Americans who gave the ultimate sacrifice for freedom.

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6 years

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.

The Hill

@thehill

6 years

Covington teenager sues Washington Post for $250 million over coverage of viral incident

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Columbia faculty statement on imminent raid on student sit-in: "We hold University leadership responsible for the disastrous lapses of judgment that have gotten us to this point." 1/

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2 years

Reason this all matters? As the leaked draft of the Supreme Court's decision shows, Alito is distorting history when he claims there was "an unbroken tradition of prohibiting abortion on pain of criminal punishment…from the earliest days of the common law until 1973."

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As historians and citizens, we must make sure this does not happen.

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Karl Jacoby

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4 years

We historians don't talk about this nearly enough, but I don't see how studying genocide, colonialism, or slavery for years and years cannot have a real and damaging effect on us.

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Karl Jacoby

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4 years

Ted Cruz went to Princeton and Harvard and his wife works at Goldman Sachs, yet he is somehow "blue collar"?

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Cancún Ted is such a dick

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Quick summation of the history of abortion here:

A Brief History of Abortion Law in America

For America's first century, abortion wasn’t banned in a single US state. It's only become a hot-button issue in recent decades.

billmoyers.com

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5 months

Why would Columbia and NYPD plan to raid the student sit-in at #ColumbiaUniversity at night, when it is dark and the risk of injury to undergrads and police would seem to be much higher??

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4 years

Can we finally stop with all tired narratives about Trump supporters being the "forgotten" white working class.

New York Post

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4 years

Texas woman flew on private jet to Washington, DC to 'storm the Capitol'f

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When you were a free soil advocate, as Lincoln was, all those homesteads for white farmers had to come from somewhere--and that somewhere was Indigenous homelands.

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So I guess everything is back to normal and I can go ahead and give my Columbia students their final exam in Hamilton Hall next week?

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Faculty at #Columbia protecting students from possible arrest

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3 years

Yes, but only because Trump did what Putin wanted and weakened Ukraine by with holding aid when he was president. This is nothing to be proud of--in fact, it's what Trump's first impeachment was all about.

The Hill

@thehill

3 years

NEW POLL: 62 percent of voters say Putin wouldn't have invaded Ukraine if Trump were president

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"We, faculty members of the History Department of Columbia University, condemn the use of police force against students, as well as the ongoing presence of the NYPD on our campus. We insist upon the rights of students and scholars to engage in nonviolent protest or public speech"

pablo piccato

@ppiccato

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A letter from the faculty in History at Columbia

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Karl Jacoby

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5 years

History does not repeat but it does often rhyme: Fort Sill began as a prison for Native Americans, became a concentration camp for Japanese Americans during WWII, and now is being used to hold migrant children.

Trump Administration to Hold Migrant Children at Base That Served as WWII Japanese Internment Camp

HHS said Fort Sill will be used “as a temporary emergency influx shelter”

time.com

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Karl Jacoby

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9 months

Historian here to remind Elon et al. about the Tuskegee Airmen, one of the most highly decorated military aviation units of World War II.

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Karl Jacoby

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5 years

Historian here: just a reminder that for much of the border's existence, it was not a crime to cross without documentation.

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Karl Jacoby

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3 years

Again: what Republicans call "Critical Race Theory" is really history. The GOP is against teaching *history*

Disputing Racism’s Reach, Republicans Rattle American Schools (Published 2021)

In a culture-war brawl that has spilled into the country’s educational system, Republicans at the local, state and national levels are trying to block curriculums that emphasize systemic racism.

www.nytimes.com

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Karl Jacoby

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4 years

THE archive of US settler colonialism, online

U.S. National Archives

@USNatArchives

4 years

Hundreds of Native American treaties have been scanned and are now available online, for the first time, in our Catalog. In partnership with The Museum of Indian Arts and Culture (MIAC), you can learn more about these treaties: .

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4 years

But wouldn't a true originalist argue that the Founding Fathers didn't think that women should be Supreme Court justices?

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4 years

Amy Coney Barrett on originalism: "That means that I interpret the Constitution as a law... I understand it to have the meaning that it had at the time people ratified it. That meaning doesn't change over time and it's not up to me to update it or infuse my policy views into it."

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As of today, both Barnard and Columbia faculty have voted no confidence in the presidents leading their institutions by large margins. Statement from Columbia/Barnard @AAUP below.

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Statement of Columbia and Barnard faculty members: "We condemn... the Administration’s suspension of students engaged in peaceful protest & their arrest by the NYPD....We demand that all Barnard College and Columbia University suspensions & charges be dismissed immediately."

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Karl Jacoby

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@KevinMKruse @DineshDSouza Argh. . . No way we can put his "work" in the same category as what professional historians do. No original research, no peer review . . .

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Karl Jacoby

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The Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Columbia University just returned a vote of no confidence in President Shafik Vote breakdown: Yes (in favor of resolution): 458 (65% of those voting) No (not in favor of resolution): 206 (29% of those voting) Abstain: 45 (6% of those voting)

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Karl Jacoby

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3 years

This bears repeating--"anti CRT" laws are really anti-history (and anti-truth).

Ida Bae Wells

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3 years

Also: Shout out to @indystar reporter @ArikaHerron for her blunt and straightforward writing about these anti-history (so-called CRT) laws, something that has been sorely lacking in national coverage that instead too often relies on euphemism.

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10 months

My son (who has non-speaking autism) just wrote his first article, on representations of #Autism in recent movies and TV. I have lots more to say, but please check it out and reshare if you feel moved to do so.

Autism Representation Is Growing on TV. Is It Any Good?

Author Marie Myung-Ok Lee and her 23-year-old son Jason, who is autistic, explore the current landscape of autism representation on screen.

www.teenvogue.com

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Karl Jacoby

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10 months

This is my son's first article. He is non-speaking autistic and just learned to communicate via writing last year, so this is a big step for him. He has lots more to say (in fact he is working on a memoir) so please send him support & good wishes.

Jason Jacoby Lee

@JasonJacobyLee

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hi everyone, this is Jason - I am #autistic + I wrote my first article about representations of #autism in the #media

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Karl Jacoby

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6 years

This has become a modern day captivity narrative: the innocent white victim imperiled by a savage Native American.

Savannah Guthrie

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6 years

Sitting down with Nicholas Sandmann - the student at the center of the protest controversy at the Lincoln Memorial. Airs tomorrow on @TODAYshow

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Stunned that @Columbia 's president would term the students engaged in a sit-in on a campus lawn "a clear and present danger to the substantial functioning of the University." I taught my classes w/ no problem despite the encampment. Letter to NYPD

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People’s Graduation at Columbia University—an alternative to university events

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5 months

I can confirm that Columbia security sells these very bike locks (at a tidy discount) to undergrads.

Christopher Robbins

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Here is @katie_honan confronting @NYPDDCPI with evidence that the chain he wielded to imply that “outside agitators” barricaded Hamilton Hall is a common bike lock that @Columbia itself sold to their students

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I have long thought we need a 1846 project. Themes would include: Manifest Destiny, War with Mexico, seizure of Mexican and Indigenous land to expand slavery, anti-immigrant rhetoric, industrialization, genocide of Native peoples. #1846Project

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The key phrase from Columbia's bylaws: "If the President, upon consultation with a majority of a panel established by the University Senate’s Executive Committee, decides that a demonstration poses a clear and present danger..." But there was *no* such consultation.

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The purpose of history is not patriotism. It is understanding how the world that we inhabit came into being. "History at its best...is the most subversive discipline...as it can tell us how things we are likely to take for granted came to be." James Scott

Trump blasts 1619 Project as DeVos praises alternative Black history curriculum

Trump railed against the 1619 Project directed by The New York Times Magazine shortly after Education Secretary Betsy DeVos praised an alternative take on Black American history, the "1776 Unites...

www.politico.com

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3 years

No argument from me Erdogan threatens to recognise US genocide of Native Americans in response to Armenia ruling

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At no point did the sit in at @Columbia "endanger" students on campus. The protestors confined themselves to a small portion of the lawn, did not block access, did not disrupt classes. There was no need for mass arrests of students.

House Committee on Education and the Workforce chair releases statement in support of student...

Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.), chairwoman of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, issued a statement on Thursday about the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” that “plunged Columbia’s campus...

www.columbiaspectator.com

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4 years

It takes over a century for a saguaro to grow big enough to have "arms." This saguaro likely dates from before the border itself existed.

Laiken Jordahl

@LaikenJordahl

4 years

Marked with red spray paint for removal, just feet away from the planned route of the #BorderWall , coated in dust from hundreds of construction trucks speeding by — this sacred saguaro still blooms. Never give up, y’all. Never give up.

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Extra proud papa moment: my son @JasonJacobyLee , who has non-verbal #Autism and writes to communicate, just had his essay on leash laws and disability rights picked up by the @sfchronicle . Please share and retweet! @Inkwellmgmt @MarieMyungOkLee

I am autistic and profoundly afraid of your dog off its leash

It does not matter how small or large the dog is or whether it is well-behaved or not....

www.sfchronicle.com

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Any teacher will understand where this difference comes from.

Eriq Gardner ✍️

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Tim Walz is younger than Brad Pitt

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If history is not disturbing, if it doesn't cause you to think about what it would mean to create a more just society, you're not doing it right. You Just Can’t Tell the Truth About America Anymore

Opinion | You Just Can’t Tell the Truth About America Anymore (Published 2022)

The teaching of history is under siege.

www.nytimes.com

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Columbia University faculty protest

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The lesson? Everything is linked: by tolerating diminished rights for some at the border, we have in fact undermined all our rights.

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Oh, the irony: the same climate change that Trump denies is happening might undermine his border wall.

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And what if US historians learned Cherokee or Ojibwe?

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Historian here: we have been programmed for over a century to see the border as in "crisis" -- and therefore in need of extreme solutions. The current situation is just the most recent iteration of a long-standing pattern.

The New Republic

@newrepublic

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Has there ever been a "crisis" at the border? Or did the Trump administration create one by releasing migrants in the most chaotic way possible? @aaron_con_choco writes:

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Holding officials of the Trump administration accountable will mean ensuring that all their records are preserved: emails, letters, documents, memos, etc.

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Many universities (including @Columbia ) have begun to explore their historic ties to slavery. But few have thought about their ties to Native dispossession.

High Country News

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Land-Grab universities: How the U.S. built its #highereducation system on nearly 11 million acres expropriated from tribal nations. #landgrabu

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Going to be a long, long semester. . . . and classes haven't even started yet.

Deep Vakil

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As the first-year undergraduate students' convocation was taking place on Low Plaza at Columbia University, around 100 student protestors gathered on short notice outside the university's main gate with pots, pans, and a megaphone to call for the University to divest from Israel.

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This would be funny except these people make decisions that affect the rest of us. At Columbia, police first found a bike lock, then a book! (Indeed, a book by a distinguished British historian & published by Oxford University Press.)

Matt Katz

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Dep. Commissioner Daughtry says he found "a book on terrorism" at Columbia. (The book is not a how-to book, but a history written by a renowned British historian.)

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The fact that this election is even remotely close depresses me intensely.

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"Teachers may ... introduce Malcolm X but not read his speeches, mention soul singer Marvin Gaye but not discuss his 'What's Going On' lyrics, or point out...Tulsa, Oklahoma, on maps but not talk about the racial atrocities that occurred there."

New rules are limiting how teachers can teach Black History Month

Black History Month is here. So are critical race theory bans. Educators have to navigate this new world.

www.axios.com

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So proud of my students at @Columbia who created iPhone app that offers a tour on the history of #slavery and its legacies on campus. Please download and share widely. It's free!

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The on-going silencing and censoring of accurate history. It is an empirical fact that Jefferson enslaved people (some his own children).

The Root

@TheRoot

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What? University of Virginia Suspends Campus Tour For Acknowledging Founder Thomas Jefferson...Owned Slaves

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Karl Jacoby

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This 100-mile zone incorporates the US's land and maritime boundaries, meaning that the majority of Americans today (some 200 million) live in a zone of diminished constitutional protections.

The Constitution in the 100-Mile Border Zone | American Civil Liberties Union

The Problem The Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution protects Americans from random and arbitrary stops and searches. According to the government, however, these basic constitutional principles...

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Karl Jacoby

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I would be the first to say that one does not need a fancy graduate degree to be a historian. But the poor quality of the 1776 Report shows that historians do in fact possess some expertise and that it is not as easy to do rigorous, thoughtful history as many people believe.

Damon Linker

@DamonLinker

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The 1776 Report is bad in all kinds of ways, but a lot of the commentary from professional historians boils down to, "These people don't have the right credentials to be pronouncing on this subject, and people like me should be the ones with the power to tell the national story."

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Karl Jacoby

@karl_jacoby

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Students report that police are using tear gas on Columbia students

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Karl Jacoby

@karl_jacoby

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All informal accounts I've heard at Columbia indicate that all the people arrested at Hamilton Hall were students. Columbia students have taken over Hamilton Hall four times previously; they don't need to be told by "outside agitators" about this tactic.

Dana Rubinstein

@danarubinstein

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On NY1 this morning, the mayor is again refusing to say precisely how many protestors he believed to be "outside agitators." Is it half the protestors? It is a quarter? @patkiernan asks. "Pat, I don't think that matters," @nycmayor says.

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Karl Jacoby

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Thomas Friedman accomplished in a few paragraphs what I spend a whole semester teaching in my Environmental History class: the dangerous ways people manipulate their interpretations of nature to justify the domination and exploitation of other human beings.

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Karl Jacoby

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Historian here: Comparing "Pearl Harbor" to Covid-19 is a terrible historical analogy; it panders to anti-Asian racism; obscures why working-class communities are more vulnerable to the virus; and erases the Trump administration's stunning incompetence

US surgeon general warns of 'Pearl Harbor moment' as Americans face 'hardest week'

Trump echoes Adams’ words in a White House briefing Sunday night, but said there’s ‘a light at the end of the tunnel’

www.theguardian.com

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Karl Jacoby

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If you follow their Twitter debates, you'd find that @KevinMKruse consistently bests @DineshDSouza , which is why his only response now is "Fake History."

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Karl Jacoby

@karl_jacoby

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Historian tip: what is *not* in the archive (in this Kavanaugh's calendars) is often more revealing than what is included.

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Karl Jacoby

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A weird but telling illustration of how the US-Mexico border has come to symbolize the dividing line between (Christian) civilization and savagery in the minds of certain right-wingers.

Oliya Scootercaster 🛴

@ScooterCasterNY

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"Christ is king!" shouts a man after getting baptised at "God's Army" #borderconvoy he US Mexico border rally in Quemado Texas

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Karl Jacoby

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So much that is awful about this "history" report, but in honor of MLK Day let me just single out one: the assertion that John C. Calhoun was somehow the intellectual grandfather of affirmative action. (see p.15-16)

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Karl Jacoby

@karl_jacoby

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New York’s largest university will divest from fossil fuels in win for student activists

New York University will divest from fossil fuels in win for student activists

One of largest private universities in US, with endowment of over $5bn, takes steps to address climate crisis after years of student protest

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Karl Jacoby

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4 years

In most countries, this is called an attempted coup.

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Karl Jacoby

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@jackiantonovich My "favorite" part is that it lavishes praise upon the Declaration of Independence without ever once touching upon the fact that the declaration calls Indigenous peoples "merciless Indian savages."

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Karl Jacoby

@karl_jacoby

1 year

New school year, new school shootings. When will we ever take steps to stop this madness?

ABC11 EyewitnessNews

@ABC11_WTVD

1 year

Video from inside UNC classrooms shows students huddled in the floor and texting their loved ones. Updates>>

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Karl Jacoby

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When future historians date the decline of the Supreme Court, they'll select Dec. 9, 2000 as the turning point, the date when SCOTUS intervened in the Bush/Gore election. Three current justice--Roberts, Kavanaugh & Barrett--all worked to prevent the recount as GOP lawyers.

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Karl Jacoby

@karl_jacoby

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According to @TheAtlantic 's database, *two* of my books have been used--without my permission and without paying me--to train new AI programs. Turns out that high tech is just another name for old-fashioned theft.

Damon Beres

@dlberes

1 year

NEW: This summer, we reported on the contents of a controversial database used to train generative AI products from Meta, Bloomberg, and others. Many people requested an ability to search it. Today, @_alexreisner delivers.

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Karl Jacoby

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We are now witnessing the consequences of militarizing our borders and allowing the borderlands to become a space where the constitution does not apply.

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