Read about a guy who busted up a famous scam, made pioneering geographic discoveries, became a leading nature writer, and led a secret life as a black man. 🗃️ worldhistory.substack.com/p/the-making...

In the milieux of religious orthodoxy, mystics are often frowned upon. Such was the case in the early fourteenth century when Eckhart von Hochheim, better known to us today as Meister Eckhart, fell afoul of religious shifts within the Catholic Church. Eckhart, of the Dominican order... 1/ 🗃️

Looks as if Santa’s sleigh (UPS, FedX) will struggle this holiday season, best to buy local, not on the Amazon site. UPS and FedEx grounding MD-11 planes www.npr.org/2025/11/08/g...

You mean . . . like socialism?

No other president has ever done less, longer. Chart by @pbump.com

As Dylan once sang: 🎵The times they are a changin’🎶

I’m getting the feeling the GOP isn’t a serious party

When I first saw this photograph I thought, “Everything he touches dies.” of course, I would never post such a thing.

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OK. Got it. Use sandwiches and inflatable frogs. In my notes. apnews.com/article/sand...

IDK. I kinda like having women in the workplace

Man of the people … Nope. You *have* to pay to file now.

From the NO SHIT SHERLOCK files

It’s like he thinks saying “It’s a regulatory tariff not a tax” is a get out of jail free card, and the justices ain’t having it.

Woke up to America reaffirming their commitment to democracy, to Constitutional norms, decency, and diversity

Holy pill-buster, Batman!

According to the associated press, voters in California have passed proposition 50

Ouch.

The people have spoken this Midterm election and… “We Are Winning” youtu.be/M9gc6iQYQJ8?...

Cowardice? Dereliction of duty? Whatever it was, it was self inflicted

How did this become a norm #RNC?

Professor Plum with a candlestick in the library? Oh, more nefarious than that?

Check out the handout from the AHA’s Congressional Briefing offering historical perspectives on tariffs. Panelists @douglasirwin.bsky.social, @sharonannmurphy.bsky.social, & @rauchway.bsky.social discussed how the government has implemented tariffs in the past, & how they have impacted the economy.🗃️

There is American blood on battlefields to protect the right to a free and fair vote. Intimidation like this spits on their sacrifice. It's about as anti-American as you can get.

So… not capitalism?

On this day in 1918 the Kiel Mutiny begins. Followed a sailor's strike on October 30-31, which incapacitated the High Seas Fleet. Within six days the German Empire will be proclaimed a republic, the Kaiser would abdicate and an armistice would be signed on November 11th. #NavalHistory

Carbon emitting power plants are so ossified. Way to go, Illinois!

Fucking. psychopaths. I hope you're donating cash to the food banks and volunteering to bag/box/sort, if you can. Please.

Packed House yesterday at the Audrey Denney Congressional kickoff. She’s running for California’s district one seat currently held by LaMalfa (R) who’s polls have been sinking

See? Not so hard

This week marks my 20th year of blogging at Civil War Memory. In this post I share a bit about my new book project. 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

McBurgers for all…

Quote of the day: "...the measure of an unwasted life is not what outlives it but how it was lived." Maria Popova

One way to rid yourself of your Halloween Pumpkin is to give it to your chickens.

NOT TRUE. Karen Kupperman's "Settling With the Indians" (1980) richly details how English manuscripts, pamphlets, and letters discussed the Indigenous with reverence. Indians to English settlers were modest, upright, of good deportment and "carriage," and "borne white" but darkened by the sun. 🗃️

Way to go, Netherlands!

Um…

Happy Historical Halloween 💀

Yes! Always ballyhoo your local library 7 surprising ways the library can help you save money : Life Kit www.npr.org/2023/10/16/1...

Wanna hear a scary story? The first American vampire was Black. Seriously. 78 years before Dracula appeared in American literature, there was "The Black Vampyre" by Uriah D'Arcy. It was written in 1819 as an antislavery critique and the effect the Haitian Revolution had on the States

FYI, below’s use of the Dutch phrase “vrolijk nationalisme” translates to … … “cheerful nationalism” As a historian, I’m having a hard time imagining such a thing

Congress remains a shell, but at least the upper house is moving the needle in the right direction and morphing itself to become a check on the president- as the Constitution was designed www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Nederlanders have ousted Wilders

Horrible treatment of our veterans

So, I am officially leaving the classroom at the end of this semester. I have feelings about it. My blog is fairly succinct about it. www.joehistorian.com/blog/2025/10...

I will forever root for Jamaica football in FIFA. Hold strong, Jamaica!!!

It IS the story I’m stunned

In honor of the anniversary of the day 63 years ago when Khrushchev decided to remove Soviet missiles from Cuba, I have a piece in Time magazine reflecting on the importance of alliances: time.com/7327385/less... #History🗃️ Huge thanks to @carlygoodman.bsky.social and @cmcknichols.bsky.social

The Statue of Liberty was dedicated on this day, October 28th, in 1886 in New York Harbor. 🗽 In 1987, President Reagan signed a proclamation designating October 28th as National Immigrants Day. 🗃️