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Sam Spurgin
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PhD student at the University of Missouri studying 19th C British Empire in Asia. Posting hot takes on history, linguistics, sexuality, and religion.
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Many historians "have come to see colonizers as oppressors and colonized peoples as oppressed," Sarah Bilston writes. But Victorian orchid hunters are not easy to place in this dichotomy:
How Orchid Hunters Complicate Colonial Narratives
They were sent to exploit foreign lands, but they were victims of exploitation themselves.
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May 26, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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Thrilled to share that my new book “Queer & Christian” is in the "Top 10" of Publishers Weekly's Spring 2025 Preview of books on religion & spirituality!

Read more here: www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
January 13, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Check out the Early American Tracker!

The #JERPano invites academic historians, public historians, federal workers, teachers, and concerned citizens to submit evidence of changes made to the Early American historical record.

Visit The Panorama at: thepanorama.shear.org/2025/04/09/t...
April 16, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article
April 16, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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Glad to see we’re addressing the root cause of all of this: Luther’s heresy
April 11, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Well… I guess on the bright side I could be trying to retire right now…RIP to the ones who had almost made it to their 401k goals.
April 7, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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Cory Booker: "I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America."

Historians, crawling back into daylight from the depths of despair: "Did somebody somewhere ask for some wretched truth?"
a polar bear cub is laying in a pile of hay
ALT: a polar bear cub is laying in a pile of hay
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April 1, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Pancakes this morning at the Kinder Institute! #pancakesforrodger
February 28, 2025 at 2:53 PM