Tomorrow morning (9:30am PST), I will premier the first episode in my history of fascism series, which you can watch live here: youtu.be/oGB82qU5eZA The second episode is already up for preview on Patreon

nice try cowards

On YouTube when talking about history, you can uphold professional ethics and barely scrape by; or you can bemoan "wokeness" and make bank. Grift your soul away or become a historian

not a single denomination for any world religion other than Christianity. "evangelical" is not a denomination. Unitarian Universalists shunned. All Mormons are LDS now. Denies "belief coding" for atheist and inter-faith groups. Sectarianism is military policy now

Matt Walsh and the Daily Wire are iniquitous reprobates. You'll have to sue me and even then, I'll win and rub your faces in your own wrongdoing

Wait, the analogy goes: Allied forces defeating fascism = Muslim refugees defeating European capitals? Abd al-Rahman I and Dwight D Eisenhower are unlikely comrades, but alright. To quote Trump: "Praise be to Allah"

Political ideologies are defined by their goals. Whether they achieve that doesn't preclude them from that. Trump failing to totalize his tyranny doesn't mean he isn't a neofascist. The only reason he hasn't is because he still pretends adherence to the US Constitution

Sometimes I'll read a book and think, why am I bothering to work so diligently on my monograph when this junk can go to a prestigious press?

King Richard I (b.2018) turns eight years old this week (unclear which day). Can't believe it has been that long. He's a good boy

When Hollywood began to take advantage of the western genre, they were closer to the "Wild" West than we are to Star Wars. The dominance of westerns was basically nostalgia that lasted for 7 decades. Superheroes & SciFi have dominated for only 5 🤔

Ever notice that media typically depicts California as the destination, but normally not the departure point? There's a reason for that. The myth of American exceptionalism rests upon the frontier myth, which always faced westward

I hadn't updated my "good history movies" playlist in awhile, which was missing several. Fixed that: youtube.com/playlist?lis... Currently that's 66 of 115 reviews, meaning I'm positive more than not, yet people pretend I'm a naysayer (b/c they're ignoramuses)

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Israel now occupies a fifth of Lebanon, more %-wise than Russia does of Ukraine. They're also demolishing towns, evacuating sections, and killing thousands of civilians. Israelis have simply extended their genocide from one front to another and the USA supports that 🤮

Tomorrow at 2:30pm PST, join @atunshei.bsky.social and I while we watch through the third of Matt Walsh's terrible attempts at doing history live on twitch.tv/cynicalhisto...

This wiki list of world's fairs is so easy to spend hours exploring: share.google/Oe2MQGgOgFJu... These were the most awesome events in history. Maybe i should do a livestream just yapping about all the cool stuff you can learn about?

The level of chicanery and sophistry this Supreme Court has engaged in to destroy voting rights, bodily autonomy, and limits on executive power is the equivalent of sueing anyone who quotes you for copyright theft

For the US bicentennial, commemoration was everywhere, states sponsored 200 page histories, and expositions crossed the nation. For #America250 we have tacky slapdash construction projects and POTUS preening over himself. MAGA despises history. The rest of us won't celebrate that

Conspiracy theorists about the Garfield assassination do exist. The gold standard had nothing to do with it, duh. There is no delusion too obscure or too obviously false that conspiracists won't engage in. Bigotry always spreads if unchallenged

Stop saying, "Are you a REAL doctor?" Professors predate physicians as doctors. Chronology: Doctor of the Church, 2nd century Licentia docendi (licensed professor) 10th-c. PhD (philosophy) ~1150 DD (divinity) 1179 MD (medicine) 1231 JD (law) 1292 Specializations in the 19th/20th-c.

Given #America250 is only a month away, I released my lecture on the American Revolution today: youtu.be/h84-Sf-B-jc

A 2025 episode passed 100k views (Reagan BoaTS). Too bad it's NOT one I read 20+ books for. No, it's a movie review based on stuff I've done before. Scholarly rigor ≠ popularity. Acrimony > inquiry. Viewers don't want history. All hail repetitive and scandalous slop instead

This administration has denied and destroyed more history than the Lost Causer & Chief, Woodrow Wilson. I don't say this lightly: Anyone who supports this is evil

Why do this much research into me just to sell a platform?

She made history for decades. Now she has a degree in it. Congratulations to Billie Jean King on earning her BA in history from from Cal State LA, 65 years after first enrolling.

“Capital has now the same control over us that the aristocracy of England had at the time of the Revolution,” -National Labor Tribune 12December1874 on upcoming centennial (1876) plans. During #America250 we endure the Second Gilded Age, including all its attendant corruption and oligarchy

"Both sides" people are among the most unserious people I've come across. Don't waste your time interacting with them. Most of them are bots anyway.

The line before I make this face is, "Yet [my students] could all hold a civil conversation with each other; something that I wish I could expect of YouTube commenters." 🫩 🫠

Illinois lynched Elijah P Lovejoy for his abolitionist newspaper and within a decade lynched the Smith brothers for destroying a newspaper that opposed their polygamy. Freedom of the press was not the mob's motivation, but both Lovejoy and Smith were religious leaders 🤔

-Poverty = higher crime. That's obvious and easy to explain. Only bigots claim "culture" did it. -Frontier population influx = higher homicide rates than anything outside warfare/genocide. Explanation leads to endless historiographical arguments, b/c more destruction is inherently more difficult

If American taxpayers must financially reward insurrection, then Republicans not only condone political violence but actively encourage it. When do Trump's attempted assassins receive their paycheck? Oh right, that's superficially different. The GOP supports this flag nowadays

Don't pretend America can overcome our shift into fascism. Even if the most deplorable ppl repent/become ostracized, the rot originates with compounding a rightward shift from a reaction to 70s stagflation, integration, distrust,& deindustrialization. We cannot simply reverse 1/2 century of decline

Finished editing my twelfth lecture for the first half of my American history survey out of 19. That's 63%, but if you count it by number of days for each lecture, it comes out to 68% (19/28 days). Yellow checks = unreleased but currently up for patrons to preview

When boneheads blithely reject my bona-fide combat experience, I blissfully ban these blithering buffoons for the bigots they've become

Considering what's going on currently, it is strange to discover that Albuquerque once controlled the Strait of Hormuz!... Afonso de Albuquerque that is, the conquistador who made the Indian Ocean a Portuguese lake for a bit. Not related to Albuquerque NM, but funny nonetheless

I brought on Vlogging Through History to review Death By Lightning, the show about President Garfield's assassination. We both adored it and had plenty to say about that. So check it out: youtu.be/zFPpQbQ9xGg

YouTube recommendations sometimes contradicts itself

Many profs tell me I make more of difference than them, since my videos receive more viewership than students they'll ever have ⚠️incorrect⚠️ Viewers absorb far less than students. You simply cannot learn as much from passively watching than taking a properly scaffolded class

While reading up on Shaker history, I was reminded of a hymn we sang when I attended Unitarian Universalist services as a kid. Finally searched it and we sang a Shaker song (Tis A Gift To Be Simple)! Can't get the earworm outta my head, but a profound coincidence

Why can't we DM images on here!?

Editing the audio for my lecture about the early republic and there is so much of the bit about checks & balances that has simply disappeared since I wrote this in 2020, stuff I thought was ironclad at the time. The Republic Party has rejected republicanism altogether 😔

Because the US Army consolidated units during the drawdown following the War of 1812, the original regiment is called the 3rd and the second oldest is the 1st (originally second) 😵‍💫 At least that's better than the oldest units, derived from Massachusetts militias from 1636

Some wikipedian knew what they were doing putting these names next to each other on the "inventors killed by their own invention" list (much hilarity to found there: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of... )

Random question that's important to what I wanna record tonight: Do we have a word like "lost causer" for 2020-election/Jan6-insurrection denialists, besides violent sore losers? Or do we just call them "MAGA-hats" (the h is silent)

Friend of the channel @ladytyler.bsky.social worked on this documentary for years about the SS Eastland capsizing on the Chicago River in 1915, killing 800+ people. I voiced some parts. She finally got the audio complete: youtu.be/N6y4ybjgKf0?... , please support her incredible work

How are party switch deniers attempting to spin the GOP so happily embracing Jim Crow gerrymandering? BTW, here's a great book (by Tim Galsworthy) on how lost causers infected Party of Lincoln through Republicans' southern strategy

I'm back from substitute teaching, so in just a bit, I'll begin a playthrough of Red Dead Redemption 1 on twitch.tv/cynicalhisto... Had a blast with 2 and finally have this one

Reminder: The 2022 oil price spike happened because of COVID supply-chain issues and Putin's invasion. Today's is because of the Straight of Hormuz closing due to Trump's war. Both crimes against humanity. President's don't control the economy, but their malice can hurt it

Trump rivals Nero in colossal (pun intended) narcissism and systemic disintegration