The Louisianans get amidst the guns on the hill, gunners wield handspikes & rammers - one Louisiana Tiger places his hand on the muzzle of a gun in Wiedrich’s battery: “I take command of this gun!” The German gunner says “Du solst sie haben” (you shall have it) & pulls the lanyard -

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this rules

ya' ever seen a stand up bluegrass bass player do his thing sitting down?

Nothing reveals newspapers dot com's search engine's weaknesses more than searching for someone named "John S. James"

"higher law"

I worked at a big Civil War museum & for the most part found that typical visitors (older, white, middle class) were open 2 new, difficult, & revisionist ways of understanding standing this era. Those who weren’t on board just didn’t come. Apparently, they were busy finding jobs in the djt admin.

OMG made the mistake of looking at a certain state AG's comments about Birthright Citizenship on FB and from his supporter's comments you'd think that innumerable vicious, gigantic, hopped-up, and desperate pregnant women are spiking babies over our border and right into our living rooms.

"Americans, consistent with their settler ethos, believe that citizens were the people who called a place home"

My grandmother told me that her dad discouraged her joining genealogy based orgs like this and she didn’t, but regrets it because she would have liked to tear up her membership card over the Marian Anderson situation. Were she still with us, she would applaud this.

Whew

June 29, 1776: Edward Rutledge, a South Carolina delegate to Congress who is one of the last holdouts against independence, writes to New York member John Jay with an urgent plea for him to return to Philadelphia in two days to assist him in the debate on the issue. 1/3

28 JUNE 1776, SULLIVAN’S ISLAND, CHARLESTON HARBOR: An American cannon scores a hit on the man-of-war Bristol’s quarterdeck, slightly wounding Admiral Sir Peter Parker in the knee and thigh, and tearing away a strip of his breeches, leaving his backside entirely exposed.

June 28, 1776: The palmetto tree is one of the heroes of today's battle in Charleston Harbor in which the Americans repelled British attackers. The ability of the spongy, fibrous wood to deflect and render harmless enemy cannonballs is why South Carolina is now called the Palmetto State. 1/4

Can't believe Mel Brooks was born exactly 150 years after the Battle of Sullivan's Island.

"The labor of enslaved women helped sustain the households, farms, and local economies that made the American Revolution possible, even as those women were denied the liberty the revolution promised," the lecture 'Bearing the Nation' explains riverheadlocal.com/2026/06/24/e... #americaat250

LOL at the public opening for my exhibit and overheard a guest critiquing an artifact label and I’m like… you know, that guy is exactly right. (It wasn’t content or interp, but what the label does and doesn’t do)

South Carolina is fixing to get hyped abt the Battle of Sullivan's Island (as it probably should and I'm helping) but let's also remember that at the same time, things were unfolding in the backcountry that would be disastrous for the Cherokee. (Dragging Canoe is a featured player in our exhibit).

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What I've been up to lately ... (well, obviously not brushing up on pithy talking points, that's for sure)

Hey! That’s the old RevWar gallery in my museum. School groups LOVE to run by it and git the buttons that make the cannons go BOOM. Anyhow, the new gallery is opening on Saturday. Come on down to the South Carolina State Museum and say hi.

Richmond metal band GWAR says the Secret Service contacted the group following a recent performance at the Vans Warped Tour in Washington, D.C., that featured the mock execution of a Donald Trump effigy.

Richmond's Confederate statues remain in storage six years after removal, as a VCU exhibit explores their legacy.

That pool's so swampy I think I saw Francis Marion lurking around in there.

June 23, 1776: After being unable to move his ships across the bar of Charleston Harbor for two weeks, Britain's Commodore Peter Parker determines be will be ready tomorrow to enter on the flood tide if the wind is from the south. But conditions won't be favorable for an attack until June 28. 1/2

me logging in and seeing your comments

MY HERITAGE IS NOT YOUR QUACKERY

Willie Nelson: when the idea for The Highwaymen came up I brought it to Johnny, he & I had always gotten on, and I asked, how about doing this album, a supergroup they called it, and he looks at me and says in that voice “cheugy”. And I had never heard that word but Johnny kept saying it was cheugy

My pup's hobby has long been to eat my hands, even if I'm still alive.

Advertise your bluesky account with a Simpsons gif

Two Episcopal churches whose histories were shaped by Richmond’s role as a slave-trading center and the capital of the Confederacy have designed a “Walking with the Enslaved” pilgrimage.

This both Revelatory and makes a lot of Common Sense and is my favorite episode of this series… so far

This takes an unexpected history-nerd turn near the end and that little flourish is what convinced ME that this is the greatest thing ever

Bobby Hebb What a wonderful wormhole to fall through this evening.

June 18, 1776: A few days after landing troops on an island of Charleston Harbor, Gen. Henry Clinton is impatient to end his South Carolina campaign. He tells Commodore Peter Parker it would be extremely difficult to transfer the men to Sullivan's Island to assist in an assault on Fort Moultrie. 1/2

I just learned that Carlo Ginzburg, one of the great historians of our time, has passed away at age 87 in Bologna. I had the good fortune to work with Carlo several times. He was driven by a fierce curiosity. I will write about him in my forthcoming book on the history of “history from below."

I'm old enough to remember ten years ago when American evangelicals took up Bonhoeffer as a saint because it allegedly proved their own self-described anti-Nazi beliefs*... But that's when the Nazis were the bad guys to these people. *anti-Nazi beliefs because they fell for the Nazi=Socialist bs.

Incredible thread. This is the earliest one I remember that I had.

Cesária!

Study: Majority Of Middle-Aged Men Lack Support Network They’ll Need To Handle Neil Young’s Death https://theonion.com/study-majority-of-middle-aged-men-lack-support-network-theyll-need-to-handle-neil-youngs-death/

Somehow I read this as The Assassination of Jesse Jewess By The Coward Busty Ford

All the joy and community we’re seeing and THIS is my hometown newspaper reports on the celebrations? I’m f’ing jealous of NY. Richmond dot com is absolute trash

same

Did she use the verb "bequick"? Awesome. Wether she did nor not, I'm adding that to my vocabulary.

Look, DC primary voters. This could be you. You changed the name. You got rid of the evil owner. There's only one thing left to do: Vote Janeese! PG County, we gotta shift the vibe, too. After all the stadium is still in our backyard. Vote Jakeya!