Mischa Honeck
@honeckmischa
Historian, United States, empire, childhood, gender. Professor, University of Kassel. Mostly nice.
Once again proof that Americans can’t come to terms with their own politics without Russia.
In case you need to know the GDR was a normal place where people grew up, fell in love & had children…
This is from the White House #Freedom250 website. Imagine having to tell your student that every word in the main clause is factually incorrect.
Ich habe übrigens meine ganze Karriere damit verbracht, dem antiamerikanischem Stereotyp, dass die USA eine gewaltverliebte, kulturlose Nation seien, etwas entgegenzusetzen.
If you’re interested in a forerunner to yesterday’s Rededicate Our Nation kitsch, I propose the 1950 National Boy Scout Jamboree at Valley Forge. A softer, child-friendly invocation of Christian nationalism at first glance, yet uncompromising in enlisting youth in a holy war against communism.
Owenites, Forty-Eighters, IWW, Eugene Debs, SDS, Angela Davis… viele Füße, wenn ihr mich fragt. Und Leute, hört bitte auf, Werner Sombarts "Warum gibt es keinen Sozialismus in den USA" Behauptung (1906) unkritisch wiederzukäuen.
Anregend, klug, wortwitzig, provokant, verstörend, kurzweilig, herausfordernd.
On my way to #ARDSoundfestival in Nuremburg, where I will be talking about the Declaration of Independence at 250. Still the best book on the subject, coupled with marvelous writing:
Ted Cruz, the man where the history of party realignment goes to die.
"The character...of popular governments depend...on the character of the people; if the people deviate from Simplicity of manners into luxury, the love of Shew, and extravagance, the governments must become corrupt and tyrannical." Richard Price to Thomas Jefferson, March 21, 1785