Let's get loco! In this case, via the Smithsonian🗃️'s (exhibit on the) "Loco Foco Express" americanhistory.si.edu/collections/...

Excited to be teaching this new #America250 themed course (History 2025) with my amazing OSU History Colleague Prof. Maria Hammack in Fall 2026-if you know any Ohio State students, encourage them to join us for an adventure through the American Revolutionary Era! Unique 250th experiences too! 🗃️

End the ban! It is very clear that this was meant to circumscribe free speech #FirstAmendment

One of the best ways to stop the flu during the 1918-19 pandemic was ... cigarettes, some tobacco less, at least according to the manufacturers and their political and economic allies - you could even smoke and wear a mask!🗃️

If Ron Johnson says so then ... Time for Bonox to keep away the flu - 1918-19 pandemic quack medicine style! 🗃️

Applications now open for the 2027 #SHAFR @shafrhistorians.bsky.social Summer Institute! "The Afterlives of Empire and Decolonization" for early career scholars, convened by Jason Parker and Aileen Teague Texas A&M Bush School DC, June 20–24, 2027. Deadline: December 15, 2026.🗃️ lnkd.in/e5NgH3kn

Today's the day! On July 13, 1787, Congress passed the Northwest Ordinance—in my view of the 3 most important docs in US political history. It established the framework new states, governing the Northwest Territory, civil liberties protections, plus banned slavery in new territories.🗃️

Opening plenary for @shafrhistorians.bsky.social the U.S. in the world at 250: global perspectives introduced by SHAFR President Jay Sexton🗃️ #America250

Congratulations to Julia Irwin! 🗃️ @juliairwin.bsky.social @uncpress.bsky.social

Congratulations to OSU Prof Joe Parrott! @pennpress.bsky.social @shafrhistorians.bsky.social

Many useful historical comparisons between our era & the Gilded Age & Progressive Era, between Musk & figures like Carnegie & Rockefeller, inequality, corruption, zenophobia, racism, populism, backlash, reform, regulation...there's also a sharp contrast in philanthropy/ philanthropic philosophy 🗃️

Delighted to be joining a superb opening plenary panel Thursday June 4 at 4pm on the evergreen timely topic of Are we in a Second Gilded Age? ... but with a twist, looking at it through the lens of Gilded Age & Progressive Era US foreign relations?! 🗃️ What do you think?

Thanks Canvas, in super hectic busy season this is just exactly what all of us needed.

Lots of questions about American values and actions, and the terrible consequences of the US (and Israeli) war against Iran, all over the headlines of the @nytimes.com right now, in the afternoon of April 7, 2026, just hours from President Trump's deadline, threat "wipe out civilization" in Iran.

Wow. Sometimes, with all that is going on these days, and just the overwhelming flow of information and duties and apparent lack of time in life in general, it is worth pausing to take something in with awe. Thanks Artemis II www.nasa.gov/artemis-ii-m...

As the dust settles there's increasingly a real chance Iran's (remaining) governing regime tightens its hold on the nation, is enhanced in economic capacity, energy control, domestic support out of this conflict-not to mention might race to a nuclear weapon to prevent this is in future @semafor.com

This guy has a ... checks notes, scans Wikipedia, looks at CIA reports ... no he doesn't have a semblance of a point. Escalated bombing in Vietnam did not "win" the war, even if it took a heavy toll on North Vietnamese infrastructure, it was paused a lot, generated ill will at home & in Vietnam.🗃️

Check out how great it has worked in Oregon and in the big county of Multnomah, let's go way back to the 2000-2005 period in fact to find some rather significant voter turnout: multco.us/info/brief-h...

Once voters got more used to Vote By Mail (VBM) in the pandemic, they liked it and supported it, but there was the beginning of a more pronounced partisan slant to the preference as the GOP made it "political" @statistacharts.bsky.social

Having surveyed this literature + helped organize public events on this subject, as pioneered in states like Oregon, historically & in the present there is NO serious risk, NO serious evidence of fraud in vote-by-mail. What there is = ease of voting that often enables increased voter participation!

The US is now advising caution or against travel to SO. MUCH. OF. THE. WORLD. Most of the world is red, orange, or yellow -- do not travel, reconsider travel, or increased caution 🌐 travel.state.gov/en/internati...

This sign critiquing Admiral Ted Carter for his many compromises that harmed OSU students, faculty, staff, alumni - on SB1, closing diversity centers & programs long in advance of legislative mandates, banning chalking, sending police to crackdown student protests, lasted longer than he did at OSU.

This epitomizes strategic planning, flexible, iterative, agile management, emphasizing adaptability over rigid adherence to a, perhaps, outdated plan, and process over product.🗃️ Eisenhower, Nov. 14, 1957: www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/re...

In the absence of an immediate threat, this fits the bill entirely, and constitutes illegal aggression in international law, if that matters...

The NYT is calling the joint US-Israel attacks on Iran "Trump's ultimate war of choice." On one hand we hear demands of ending nuclear+missile programs on the other, regime change. Both are extremely hard asks diplomatically & especially militarily, likely to require troops on the ground.

I hope my students know how much I enjoyed & tried to give them the best possible overview, top insights into the diplomatic & military course of the American Revolution (+ emphasis on social dynamics, global dimensions). Challenging fun to pack it all into ~65 or so minutes🗃️ #AmericanRevolution

Insane, truly, to think fraud is the problem in US Gov't spending. Truly. Much less to assert that in a public address.

Well, that's embarrassingly off

As for murder rate. Come on! On the one, hand, yes, big decline, but on the other, not the largest and lowest in 125 years, I mean what? 🗃️ Every decline in murder rates is good but also ...

I can't take this long but as I heard it I was like "is that even a known #?" I mean, I hope so, but ... well Politifact has some help here, and yeah, NO, we don't know -->