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Dr. Jim Downs
Dr. Jim Downs
Dr. Jim Downs
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Dr. Jim Downs

@jimdowns1

Author of Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery and War Transformed Medicine; Gilder Lehrman NEH Prof at GC; History Studio; Editor of Civil War History.

Gettysburg, PA
Joined June 2012

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    Dr. Jim Downs‏ @jimdowns1 Jan 6

    An insult to the more than 360,000 soldiers who died to prevent this from happening. This has been brewing for years but few have listened to Civil War historians about how the radical right has resurrected the Confederacy to make their agenda visible.pic.twitter.com/9APtQBvO2I

    4:46 PM - 6 Jan 2021
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    • JPJagTracksIV Rusty Hodgkiss Frank Amari Brian De Wolfe 🇨🇦 🏳️‍🌈❄️☘️ Greg Murphy Marshall Tindall Pilar Herr Dr. Mara Keire 🕷😷 Dorothy Cocolin
    73 replies 311 retweets 1,330 likes
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      2. Schrödinger cat's toy‏ @IncogBrian Jan 6
        Replying to @jimdowns1 @madiaz2

        A "patriot" flying the flag of an enemy nation

        1 reply 1 retweet 10 likes
      3. Dwight Williams‏ @DewlineO Jan 6
        Replying to @IncogBrian @jimdowns1 @madiaz2

        Accurate description.

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      1. Maritxu‏ @dislexicon Jan 6
        Replying to @jimdowns1 @HC_Richardson

        I think of my Black friends and colleagues when I see this blasphemy in our Capitol and it enrages me.

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      1. Carol M. Wilson‏ @CarolMWilson2 Jan 6
        Replying to @jimdowns1 @HC_Richardson

        This reprehensible sight made me weep.

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      2. WanderingMollusk‏ @TheShoeLady33 Jan 6
        Replying to @jimdowns1 @HC_Richardson

        And this ......#MAGA #SeditionHasConsequencespic.twitter.com/M0yFT3eBnJ

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      3. Sapphire  💎‏ @mmobroflmfao Jan 6
        Replying to @TheShoeLady33 @jimdowns1 @HC_Richardson

        10 years minimum

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      1. Dwight Williams‏ @DewlineO Jan 6
        Replying to @jimdowns1

        Indeed, an obscenity.

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      1. Shannon Brignac‏ @thekeeneB Jan 6
        Replying to @jimdowns1 @HC_Richardson

        And to the over 300,000(and counting) people who had to die from COVID because we allowed it to happen again.

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      1. Joe M‏ @JK_Moodlifter Jan 6
        Replying to @jimdowns1 @HC_Richardson

        My mom's great-grandfather is one of the many names on this Civil War memorial in Georgetown, Massachusetts.pic.twitter.com/0ty9o6L0wh

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      1. Dr. Karen L. Cox is Taking a Summer Break  🏳️‍🌈‏ @DrKarenLCox Jan 6
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        Or CW memory historians. 😊

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