Dean Grodzins

@Grodzins

Historian, biographer, editor, teacher, public speaker, cartoonist, husband, dad. Writing about the history of Democracy.

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    25 Feb 2017

    I am first author of five chapters of this book, coauthor of two others.

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  2. Retweeted
    Feb 11

    If total insect populations are now declining 2.5% a year--well, you don't need to be a mathematician to figure out the future.

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  3. 18 Oct 2018

    I was excited to find out that the title of 's terrific book, "Field of Blood," comes from a letter by my "old friend" Rev. John Sargent. He's featured in Chapter 9 of my book, American Heretic.

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  4. 26 Jul 2018

    I think of Trump and Putin’s soccer ball like Saruman and the palintir.

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  5. 17 Jul 2018

    Great Barrington, Massachusetts. In these parts, Edith Wharton and Norman Rockwell get big museums, while DuBois gets a short trail in the woods. The opening ceremony for the site was monitored by the FBI. Worth a pilgrimage.

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  6. 26 May 2018

    Everything Trump accuses the FBI of having done against him in 2016, he will order it to do against his opponents in 2020.

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    20 May 2018

    I did not know: the preacher who so enlivened the royal wedding had also made the trip to Standing Rock. h/t

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  8. 9 May 2018

    I knew nothing about till I heard them on , but they won me over in the middle of their first song, "Prawns," when the deadpan lead vocalist, , broke out a copy of Emerson's Essays and read an excerpt from "History."

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  9. 16 Mar 2018

    I just discovered that in Outlook, I can “Enable verbose diagnostic logging.” This is good to know, because if I were ever to log diagnostically, I might become laconic.

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  10. 7 Jan 2018

    A replica of the sandwich is preserved in a museum.

    Why am I learning that Congress "outlawed corned-beef sandwiches in space forever afterward" from the and not from ?!
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  11. 24 Aug 2017

    I see that L.L. Bean is running a raffle for a yurt--what they call a "dream yurt giveaway." Because who doesn't dream of owning a yurt?

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  12. 21 Aug 2017

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  13. 13 Aug 2017

    My humble suggestion to : Replace the statue of Robert E. Lee with a monument to Heather Heyer.

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  14. 13 Jul 2017

    Here's the cake for Henry Thoreau's 200th birthday yesterday, at his birthplace in Concord, Massachusetts.

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  15. 13 Jun 2017

    A 15 minute super thunderstorm. We lost power. Outside was steamy. I found downed trees and lines, and an electrocuted squirrel.

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  16. 2 May 2017

    If you want to understand the historical debate over the origins of the civil war, see this picture.

    A+ screen grab of May 1, 2017.
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  17. 4 Mar 2017

    If 3/14 can be Pi Day, and May the Fourth can be Star Wars Day, maybe March Fourth can be Resistance Day.

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  18. 25 Feb 2017

    I was believe I was the only historian at this morning with bowtie and hat. Wish I could have stayed longer!

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  19. 1 Feb 2017

    This is America.

    Powerful image...if you know who took it, please credit.
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  20. 23 Jan 2017

    I wrote on Theodore Parker, whose handwriting could be like code.

    Oh -- I'll bet lots of will have something to say about this! My opening bid(s) will be James Monroe and Henry Knox.
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