Sept. 30, 1775: South Carolina royal Gov. Lord William Campbell, who was invited by the Provincial Committee to return to Charleston, responds dismissively from the ship Tamar. “I never will return to Charlestown till I can support the king’s authority, and protect his faithful and loyal subjects.”

As a historian..... no As a trying-to-be-a-good-follower-of-Jesus... double extra no [blasphemous expletives deleted].

If you are a Richmond pet you either get famous for going missing or you are famous... and then go missing.

Experts warn censoring museums risks diminishing American standing. "I don't think we can be a nation that leads amongst other nations, if we bury our own truths," says John Chrastka, executive director of EveryLibrary.

We all know the truth about what happened to Amelia Earhart and now they’re finally gonna admit it.

So glad my senator is on top of this /s

My old stomping ground…

Sept. 25, 1775: South Carolina patriot leader William Drayton addresses the headmen of the Cherokees to explain America's controversy with Britain. He warns them that the king, once having stripped the colonists of their liberties, will dole out even worse treatment to the Indians.

Chotiner interviews Janeway

Gonna hold on to this quote

Historian Grant Wacker on the defining moments of religion in America In a recent interview with theologian Tripp Fuller, the Duke University American religious historian listed "four great underlying forces" behind religion in America and eleven "defining moments." Here are the underlying forces:…

Half of this number was this old white man trying to find the got-dang football game and clicking on this nonsense instead.

RICHMOND STAND UP

working from home in windows-open weather sometimes pays off because this dude several houses over is blasting some jazz-funk and it couldn't be more awesome.

Hi y'all! Would anyone be interested in collaborating on a panel reconsidering religion in the South in the Revolutionary Era (broadly defined) for the Southern? Definitely want to do something on Quakerism and Southern religious pluralism. www.thesha.org/submit-a-pro...

I came here today to avow that Terry McLaurin got criminally robbed of a touchdown yesterday ... and for this content *specifically*

I would read an annotated version of today's proceedings with annotations done by all of the scholars of religion who couldn't get jobs in the past few decades because it wasn't relevant.

Is @fox5dc.com.web.brid.gy really broadcasting the funeral of a racist instead of the Commanders game?

Moses Kirkland is getting a big profile in my exhibit. Here's his signature on an unidentified document from the SCHS, alongside that of Thomas Fletchall, the primary backcountry loyalist in the early years of the war.

At a time when the Trump administration is actively suppressing the work of public historians and the history of American slavery, the decision to highlight one of the most harmful historical myths in American history should be roundly condemned by all of us. 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

@mcclellan.house.gov voted "present" and I'm wondering why. Can you explain, please, Congresswoman?

My church once compared St. Paul to Jefferson Davis and Moses to Robert E. Lee and memorialized that comparison in stained glass windows. Nothing good can come from these kinds of comparisons. Read about it here

Left: new study of the effects of AI Right: Adam Smith in the Wealth of Nations

S.E. Bates was the uncle of the troubled Herbert Bolton Bates, who I wrote about here...

The political violence in SC during the Revolution ranged from straight up coercion to downright murder.

Herblock on the Nixon administration's political pressure on the news media, November 1969.

I have never deleted a podcast as fast as this one when it showed up this morning

Sept. 16, 1775: Leaders of patriot and loyalist factions sign a peace agreement in South Carolina’s backcountry. William Drayton, representing the Provincial Congress, and Col. Thomas Fletchall, the head of a Tory militia, reach the understanding after meeting in the town of Ninety-Six. 1/3

Sept. 15, 1775: The first distinctly American flag of the South is unfurled. The Liberty flag, which includes that word inside a crescent moon against a dark blue field, is designed by Col. William Moultrie for the South Carolina patriot force that occupies Fort Johnson in Charleston harbor. 1/3

Sept. 15, 1775: The last royal governor of South Carolina flees his home in Charleston for a British warship. Lord William Campbell takes his refuge on the Tamar after getting word that the city’s Safety Committee plans to order his arrest. 1/5

Bill Chafe called it in 1980

Oh my, this is fun.

Yo I read that book two weeks ago and it couldn’t be more relevant jfc

Was that Sierra Ferrell's American Dreaming leading into the commercial break? (The only thing worth commenting on in this disaster.)

Stared at this for five minutes wondering how that's the guy from Platoon and/or Scrubs and how did I not know this, before figuring out that it's not him at all.

I'd like to know if @abigailspanberger.com will follow Govs Ferguson, Pritzker, and Moore in telling this administration to stuff it, or if she'll be like Bowser and say she welcomes it's help on crime? Honestly can't tell from her current campaign language and that makes me nervous.

Listening to Billy Strings on Fresh Air talking up Doc & Merle Watson and hearing the host mention Tony & Wyatt Rice 🔥🔥🔥 Listening to Billy Strings on Fresh Air talking about his late mother 😭😭😭 (BS has a heartbreaking authenticity w/interviewers the same as Dale, Jr.)

This is a tricky interpretive object: *Everyone* talks @ the object of "liberty" being independence from GB. It infuses the popular discourse @ events 1763 to 1776. This is a perfect quote because it demonstrates that for many of these people (SC included) political independence was the last resort

If I understand @johnfea1.bsky.social correctly, virtue was a political quality in the founding era, and not a Christian one, as this post claims.

Managed to get a Covid shot here in Virginia and whooo boy forgot about the side effects.

fun thread

the real glory of world war two was that it involved a warrior cult being ground down and beaten to a pulp by people who would rather have been doing something else.

FSA photographs. The gift that never stops giving. Because they're good, often damn good, & sometimes iconic. And because they're in the public domain. 😄 This exhibition isn't ground-breaking. FSA photos of Black people have gotten much attention over the last 40-50 years. But it sounds worthwhile.

Any other lyrics— don’t even try chronic town murmur or reckoning btw— just form vowels and syllables, and mean it

Since Republican Senator Eric Schmitt brought up "Continental Army soldiers dying of frostbite at Valley Forge" in his speech arguing that America's heritage is white and Eurocentric, I have to say one thing about the whiteness of Continental units at Valley Forge. 🧵

my two current interests: the washington football team and fighting fascism, all in one place...