Every so often I think I should put together a paper or something on how to run a modestly successful public-facing history blog...and then I remember I don't even really know what I'm doing and go back to writing about, I don't know ::checks notes:: forts, I think?
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I tried to capture what makes the blog so effective in this post: buttondown.email/hillelwayne/ar. And I just realized I typo'd your name in that paragraph, srry
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i like this! bret, for my money, i love your blog and the way you write because it's so obviously suffused with the conviction that history *matters*, that people's understanding of history shapes their understanding of everything else; it's captivating stuff
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your continual use of pop culture like game of thrones etc. to examine how people conceive of the past speaks to this really strongly i think; it doesn't feel academic in an ivory tower sense to me, instead relentlessly focused on what narratives are live "on the ground"