Nathaniel C. Green
@nathanielcgreen.bsky.social
History professor at Northern Virginia Community College. Author, THE MAN OF THE PEOPLE, by Kansas Press.
https://kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700629961/
Currently writing a book on the history of the three-fifths clause. Opinions solely my own.
https://kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700629961/
Currently writing a book on the history of the three-fifths clause. Opinions solely my own.
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Not “Three-Fifths of a Person”: What the Three-Fifths Clause Meant at Ratification - Commonplace
Denials of Black humanity, free and enslaved, coexisted with explicit acknowledgment that enslaved Black people, though legally deemed “property,” were people.
commonplace.online
My piece is up on Commonplace!
If you are still teaching students that the 3/5 clause counted the enslaved as "three-fifths of a person," time to update those lecture notes!
commonplace.online/article/not-...
If you are still teaching students that the 3/5 clause counted the enslaved as "three-fifths of a person," time to update those lecture notes!
commonplace.online/article/not-...
By this, Adam means you should ask him how his book is coming along every single day until it comes out, then ask him "So what's your next book?"
I suggest you all treat me with the appropriate level of respect.
January 2, 2026 at 3:29 PM
By this, Adam means you should ask him how his book is coming along every single day until it comes out, then ask him "So what's your next book?"
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Cover reveal. It's about how & why colonies/states controlled international & domestic migration until 1888, why in the late 19th c the feds took over, & what it was like for politically disfavored groups to live under that arrangement of power. You can't understand voluntary migration history 1/
January 2, 2026 at 1:01 PM
Cover reveal. It's about how & why colonies/states controlled international & domestic migration until 1888, why in the late 19th c the feds took over, & what it was like for politically disfavored groups to live under that arrangement of power. You can't understand voluntary migration history 1/
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Whatever you think of the politics of this it is not “history-heavy,” but alas history gestural. Pls do read the report (weirdly not linked in the CNN piece?) www.supremecourt.gov/publicinfo/y...
January 1, 2026 at 12:51 PM
Whatever you think of the politics of this it is not “history-heavy,” but alas history gestural. Pls do read the report (weirdly not linked in the CNN piece?) www.supremecourt.gov/publicinfo/y...
Always read @jamellebouie.net
Come for the incisive analysis of Trump's political failings, stay for the banana bread recipe.
Come for the incisive analysis of Trump's political failings, stay for the banana bread recipe.
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“When Americans put Trump back in office, they expected him to turn the page back to the prepandemic status quo, not make the country his personal fief,” our columnist Jamelle Bouie writes.
“When Americans put Trump back in office, they expected him to turn the page back to the prepandemic status quo, not make the country his personal fief,” our columnist Jamelle Bouie writes.
Opinion | Donald Trump Is Very Unhappy With You
It’s all over but the shouting.
nyti.ms
December 21, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Always read @jamellebouie.net
Come for the incisive analysis of Trump's political failings, stay for the banana bread recipe.
Come for the incisive analysis of Trump's political failings, stay for the banana bread recipe.
PHYSICIAN: Which animal is this, sir?
TRUMP: You know Sleepy Joe Biden would never get this one, right? So easy. He'd be like 'I want the hippo'!"
PHYSICIAN: Actually, it's a Hungry Hungry Hippo.
TRUMP: You know Sleepy Joe Biden would never get this one, right? So easy. He'd be like 'I want the hippo'!"
PHYSICIAN: Actually, it's a Hungry Hungry Hippo.
Omg. “”The first question is like, ‘What is this?’ And they show a lion, a giraffe, a fish, and a hippopotamus. And they say, ‘Which is the giraffe?’” he recalled.”
Trump reveals which animals he was required to identify in mental tests
President provides insight into the mental fitness test: ‘The first question is like, ‘What is this?’ And they show a lion, a giraffe, a fish, and a hippopotamus’
www.independent.co.uk
December 21, 2025 at 1:43 AM
PHYSICIAN: Which animal is this, sir?
TRUMP: You know Sleepy Joe Biden would never get this one, right? So easy. He'd be like 'I want the hippo'!"
PHYSICIAN: Actually, it's a Hungry Hungry Hippo.
TRUMP: You know Sleepy Joe Biden would never get this one, right? So easy. He'd be like 'I want the hippo'!"
PHYSICIAN: Actually, it's a Hungry Hungry Hippo.
Do you uses A.I. chatbots? If not, how smug and superior do you get to be about it?
You get to be as smug and superior about it as you damn well please, that's how.
You get to be as smug and superior about it as you damn well please, that's how.
Do you use AI chatbots? If so, how do you make them work better for you? Our tech columnist Kevin Roose shares how he uses them in his everyday life and reveals which tools he finds best for different purposes.
Tips for Using AI Smarter with Hard Fork's Kevin Roose
Hard Fork’s Kevin Roose shares strategies to make chatbots work better for you and reveals which tools he finds best for different purposes.
nyti.ms
December 21, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Do you uses A.I. chatbots? If not, how smug and superior do you get to be about it?
You get to be as smug and superior about it as you damn well please, that's how.
You get to be as smug and superior about it as you damn well please, that's how.
Does America Need Steven Pinker or Ross Douthat?
December 20, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Does America Need Steven Pinker or Ross Douthat?
There's actually a really simple fix for this. Don't cite shit unless you actually know it exists for real. In fact, maybe consider actually reading it, too?
Hey, I'm here! And I'm not the only one who's run into this!
December 20, 2025 at 1:55 AM
There's actually a really simple fix for this. Don't cite shit unless you actually know it exists for real. In fact, maybe consider actually reading it, too?
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Stunning new revelation: Epstein hung out almost exclusively with guys who had black boxes where their heads should be.
December 19, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Stunning new revelation: Epstein hung out almost exclusively with guys who had black boxes where their heads should be.
The tendency to validate anything stupid, awful, cruel people "think" or "feel" has a very long history. But the net result is that our society does not shame or shun malignantly ignorant, racist, misogynist people nearly enough, which is how our society normalizes their bigotry
December 19, 2025 at 6:35 PM
The tendency to validate anything stupid, awful, cruel people "think" or "feel" has a very long history. But the net result is that our society does not shame or shun malignantly ignorant, racist, misogynist people nearly enough, which is how our society normalizes their bigotry
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Most of the jobs for which I've ever been a finalist ended up going to another white man. In the few cases where someone other than a white man got the job, those scholars are spectacularly talented and absolutely deserved the position.
Get over yourselves.
Get over yourselves.
December 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Most of the jobs for which I've ever been a finalist ended up going to another white man. In the few cases where someone other than a white man got the job, those scholars are spectacularly talented and absolutely deserved the position.
Get over yourselves.
Get over yourselves.
If you are writing a book and despairing that maybe it's no good, just remember: you're not Naomi Wolf!
December 19, 2025 at 3:12 AM
If you are writing a book and despairing that maybe it's no good, just remember: you're not Naomi Wolf!
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December 18, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Really cannot be said too many times that there is overwhelming evidence that Donald Trump is a sexual predator
These are the people who are willing to go on the record.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
December 18, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Really cannot be said too many times that there is overwhelming evidence that Donald Trump is a sexual predator
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My qualms about Ken Burns' American Revolution series, which strangely fails to explain what made the Revolution revolutionary.
washingtonmonthly.com/2025/12/18/w...
washingtonmonthly.com/2025/12/18/w...
What’s Wrong with The American Revolution by Ken Burns
Ken Burns’s latest PBS series is long on muskets and bayonets, but the history of the American Revolution remains strangely understated.
washingtonmonthly.com
December 18, 2025 at 11:43 AM
My qualms about Ken Burns' American Revolution series, which strangely fails to explain what made the Revolution revolutionary.
washingtonmonthly.com/2025/12/18/w...
washingtonmonthly.com/2025/12/18/w...
It's the end of the semester, and I just submitted grades, which means it's "Dear Professor Could You Please Bump Me Up a Grade Oh Please Oh Please Oh Please" Day. For all those who celebrate, I hope yours is a great one
December 18, 2025 at 3:26 PM
It's the end of the semester, and I just submitted grades, which means it's "Dear Professor Could You Please Bump Me Up a Grade Oh Please Oh Please Oh Please" Day. For all those who celebrate, I hope yours is a great one
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I keep saying this but no one is connecting the dots. The war is to satisfy legal preconditions for mass removal *domestically* of Latinos (i.e., suddenly a lot of people are going to be “Venezuelan” for purposes of removal). This is 100% Stephen Miller…oil claim is to make grandpa go along
There is no national security logic that would impel the US to want to do regime change in Venezuela. It's simply not that important. I'm not even sure wag the dog is the right metaphor for what's happening here. Seems like an insane misallocation of US national security assets and attention.
Trump: "Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest Armada ever assembled ... It will only get bigger, and the shock to them will be like nothing they have ever seen before — Until such time as they return to the USA all of the Oil, Land, and other Assets that they previously stole from us."
December 17, 2025 at 12:47 AM
I keep saying this but no one is connecting the dots. The war is to satisfy legal preconditions for mass removal *domestically* of Latinos (i.e., suddenly a lot of people are going to be “Venezuelan” for purposes of removal). This is 100% Stephen Miller…oil claim is to make grandpa go along
Trump's cadence epitomizes the essence of every cruel, dumb oaf: a fool whose ignorance is surpassed only by his self-confidence. And yet it's so unique to him that it's instantly recognizable, and there are people who have gotten very good at imitating it.
We were dead and now we're the hottest country in the world, the first country—quite frankly the only country—where a box of breakfast cereal costs $11. We're saying Merry Christmas, and also the r-slur, and we're getting back to saying "gay" so it means "stupid" again. Grown-ups are doing it now,
December 18, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Trump's cadence epitomizes the essence of every cruel, dumb oaf: a fool whose ignorance is surpassed only by his self-confidence. And yet it's so unique to him that it's instantly recognizable, and there are people who have gotten very good at imitating it.
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I wrote about the growing speculation surrounding Donald Trump’s health, and his failing body as a metaphor for his waning power. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
What’s going on with Donald Trump’s health? | Moira Donegan
The president’s appearance and schedule have sparked speculation – perhaps fueled in part by his political fortunes
www.theguardian.com
December 18, 2025 at 11:49 AM
I wrote about the growing speculation surrounding Donald Trump’s health, and his failing body as a metaphor for his waning power. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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January 6 was like a much dumber version of Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch and yet a plurality of American voters were like, Yeah, let’s give that guy the nuke codes again. An absolutely world historical debacle of societal ignorance. I’ll never understand it.
December 18, 2025 at 4:47 AM
January 6 was like a much dumber version of Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch and yet a plurality of American voters were like, Yeah, let’s give that guy the nuke codes again. An absolutely world historical debacle of societal ignorance. I’ll never understand it.
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Diversity on the bench isn't just symbolic — it shapes how justice is lived. A range of life experiences helps judges get things right.
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December 17, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Diversity on the bench isn't just symbolic — it shapes how justice is lived. A range of life experiences helps judges get things right.
Subscribe to State Court Report to learn more: go.statecourtreport.org/subscribe.
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The word for this is "coward."
State capitalism in action: Privately, many business leaders recoil from Trump’s intrusions, just as they deplore his attacks on the Federal Reserve and on law firms and media companies that cross him. Publicly, they are mostly silent, or even supportive.
CEOs Are Learning to Live With Trump’s Turn to State Capitalism
Some businesses have figured out how to take advantage of an expanded government presence in their boardrooms.
www.wsj.com
December 17, 2025 at 2:05 PM
The word for this is "coward."