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  1. prije 11 sati

    Another is . I met her at in 2014 and she has always been a huge encouragement and inspiration to me. (2)

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  2. 31. sij

    More debates: responds to Alex Lichtenstein, editor of AHR (). Powerful Barbara Fields quote. The questions of race, class, history, memory, historical scholarship, journalistic approaches continue.

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  3. Our guest: Kimberly Phillips-Fein, professor of history at Gallatin School of Individualized Study at NYU, author of Invisible Hands: The Making of the Conservative Movement from the New Deal to Reagan, & Fear City: New York’s Fiscal Crisis & the Rise of Austerity Politics.

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  4. 31. sij

    Fun fact: Sometimes some of us call it that anyway, or "susie." I've heard both over the years. :)

  5. 31. sij

    ⁩ talks to my ⁦⁩ students about becoming an intellectual/cultural history on the alt-academic track

  6. 30. sij

    Next installment in the debates: David Waldstreicher in , "We should view with a wary eye any accounts of the two U.S. revolutions that insist that only the emancipation, or only the hypocrisy, matters."

  7. The long-awaited Trotsky & the Wild Orchids interview with Kimberly Phillips-Fein, about her book, Fear City, is now out. thinks he sounds particularly smart in this episode. 🤔

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  8. 29. sij

    (3) Perhaps an implication of the history being so fiercely debated here is the need to develop a sense of competing forms of democracy itself rather than a simplistic version of more or less democracy.

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  9. 29. sij

    (2) The new wave of scholarship both specialized & public-oriented could continue to refine its take on democracy. Is the implication of this work the need for *more* democracy or something different from democracy American style?

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  10. 29. sij

    3 responses: (1) We need a continued accounting of truth--& complexity--of the story. Tom Paine & the Phili mechanics, even iconic figures such as Crispus Attucks, countless others alongside slaveholders. Like any upheaval, Rev War had multiple factors, people, forces.

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  11. 29. sij

    The question becomes: what does this more radical, damning critique of the American democratic project mean for how we understand (and invest in) democracy itself?

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  12. 29. sij

    Vs. radical version of history of US democracy: inequality and exploitation were built into the founding of the US. This, whether by implication or explicitly, raises questions about the nature of democracy in its American version.

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  13. 29. sij

    The debate is about whether inequality is "baked into" (to borrow 's phrase) the American democratic project or not. It's an anti-Tocqueville stance. Democracy, American-style, was exclusive & exploitative rather than inclusive & expansive.

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  14. 29. sij

    For the debates crowd, some observations: the new wave of scholarship (which sometimes elides the prior 50 years of radical history it is built upon) seems to be about race (and it is) but it is really about democracy America-style.

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  15. 29. sij

    Consider 's podcast _The Land That Never Has Been Yet_ with John Biewen, & others as an alternative/complement to the 's ,

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  16. One of my goals for the week is to read these two books (along with Army Life in a Black Regiment):

  17. 28. sij

    This thread reminds us how eugenics justified many Holocaust horrors. Eugenics science was founded and widely promoted in the United States. Vestiges of eugenics lived in our institutions until the 1970s, via forced sterilizations.

  18. Latest at : a guest post on William Seward, Greenland, and how the Secretary of State utilized intellectuals and ideas during his tenure:

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