Yeah, Lahren, because THAT'S how we all remember freakin' Andrew Jackson - "great."

Especially because Sarah Beckstrom was working on Trump's orders! Had she been off-duty, she'd be alive. And I get that's a risk that all our service members face, but this is not the same as THAT.

The same people who i used to fight with in the GOP, who wanted to withdraw American troops from everywhere, are now the ones justifying the murder of two survivors. It’s almost like…. It was never about that

This World AIDS Day, we mourn the hundreds of thousands of Americans lost to HIV/AIDS and stand with those living with the diagnosis today. While the Trump Administration refuses to mark this day, California will never abandon our neighbors, friends, and loved ones affected.

In Holocaust studies, the phrase is "Let them die." I don't see a difference.

“I don’t recognize America anymore.” Nine years ago, Donald J. Trump had just been elected president. I remember waking up to the results the next morning utterly stunned. substack.com/@elizaraewri...

The president is a political cartoon of corruption come to life, a gaudy grifter who is selling off pardons and lining his pockets, building a golden ballroom and protecting his fellow sex predator elites, all the while regular Americans are suffering and struggling to make ends meet. Run on *that*

I try to start every Sunday morning with good news, but it's very hard to do when four people are killed and ten injured at a mass shooting at a kid's birthday party in California. This is America.

Our grandfathers didn't land at Normandy for us to welcome this on American soil.

Release the MRI results. I want to see what the "best MRI ever" looks like. Let's put it in textbooks.

Lets explain how escalating/manufacturing a military confrontation with Venezuela gives the administration a legal “hook” to invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, one of the oldest national-security laws still on the books. This statute allows a president to detain, restrict, or deport non-citizens

I'm 100% certain the protesters in Manhattan today are setting a new standard for "make good trouble."

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I believe public history is at its best when it’s accessible, honest, and unafraid of challenging narratives we take for granted. That’s the energy I’m bringing into my upcoming writing. Also wondering if I can parody “Need a Little Christmas” to be “Need Some Honest History” this holiday season.

Working on a project about the Constitution that refuses nostalgia and digs into what the founders actually said, not what modern politicians/dictators pretend they said. Keep up to date here, soft-launching Monday: elizaraewrites.substack.com

I woke up this morning to headlines about the air space over Venezuela being closed. Studying early America reminds me how often we forget the human cost of power. I’m firmly anti-war. Every single day of this regime, history keeps affirming the way I feel.

Hi, I’m Eliza Rae — a historian-in-training writing about the early American Republic and how the past still shapes our present. I start my MA program in January - stay tuned for more on that journey here! Excited to connect, share research, and learn from this community.