Cal Schoonover
@acwhistorian.bsky.social
Author|Independent Historian|Civil War|American Rev era|Current project: The Hornets’ Nest at Shiloh.|Member of: AHA|OAH|SCWH| No DM.
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"When General Grant became President Grant, he put false elaborate timbers across the ceiling and furnished the [East] Room in a style crossing ancient Greece with what someone call Mississippi Riverboat."
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October 31, 2025 at 12:16 PM
"When General Grant became President Grant, he put false elaborate timbers across the ceiling and furnished the [East] Room in a style crossing ancient Greece with what someone call Mississippi Riverboat."
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"Gettysburg Magazine," which is published by the University of Nebraska Press is looking for an associate editor. Attached are the details.
October 21, 2025 at 8:53 PM
"Gettysburg Magazine," which is published by the University of Nebraska Press is looking for an associate editor. Attached are the details.
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Instead of lashing out in response to people, who clearly don't understand history, model the kind of critical thinking and intellectual engagement that you want to see.
October 17, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Instead of lashing out in response to people, who clearly don't understand history, model the kind of critical thinking and intellectual engagement that you want to see.
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The emperor has no clothes and he is spreading hatred, ignorance, and corruption all around. We have to convert despair into a fighting spirit! Save the American republic!
September 27, 2025 at 7:03 PM
The emperor has no clothes and he is spreading hatred, ignorance, and corruption all around. We have to convert despair into a fighting spirit! Save the American republic!
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It’s Halloween month and I’m getting in the mood with this spooky new book inspired by stories from the palaces. I had so much fun writing the afterword 👻 @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
October 1, 2025 at 5:45 PM
It’s Halloween month and I’m getting in the mood with this spooky new book inspired by stories from the palaces. I had so much fun writing the afterword 👻 @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
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LAST day to submit your comments! Read our statement and find out why taking action is important: https://ow.ly/60m850XaEvF
October 17, 2025 at 8:30 PM
LAST day to submit your comments! Read our statement and find out why taking action is important: https://ow.ly/60m850XaEvF
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Oh, sure, let's have Qatar set up its military bases on American soil--because we're all about America First, amirite?
October 10, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Oh, sure, let's have Qatar set up its military bases on American soil--because we're all about America First, amirite?
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Sanders: I am not a great fan of the affordable care act. I believe in medicare for all. I think that health care is a human right, but I will be damned if I'm going to see people in Vermont and around this country see a doubling in their premiums.
October 3, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Sanders: I am not a great fan of the affordable care act. I believe in medicare for all. I think that health care is a human right, but I will be damned if I'm going to see people in Vermont and around this country see a doubling in their premiums.
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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
Trump’s proposed “compact” with nine major universities “is extortion, plain and simple,” Erwin Chemerinsky writes in a guest essay. “It is not hyperbole to say that the future of higher education in America requires that every university reject it.”
Trump’s proposed “compact” with nine major universities “is extortion, plain and simple,” Erwin Chemerinsky writes in a guest essay. “It is not hyperbole to say that the future of higher education in America requires that every university reject it.”
Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion
There seems to be no limit to the president’s odious attempts to control higher education.
nyti.ms
October 3, 2025 at 1:50 PM
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
Trump’s proposed “compact” with nine major universities “is extortion, plain and simple,” Erwin Chemerinsky writes in a guest essay. “It is not hyperbole to say that the future of higher education in America requires that every university reject it.”
Trump’s proposed “compact” with nine major universities “is extortion, plain and simple,” Erwin Chemerinsky writes in a guest essay. “It is not hyperbole to say that the future of higher education in America requires that every university reject it.”
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Missed our FOIA training? Good news—the FOIA for Historians Workshop is now available to stream online, anytime.
Learn how to navigate FOIA, strengthen your research with government records, and gain practical strategies from experts in the field.
Watch now: ow.ly/gWZp50X2jiH
Learn how to navigate FOIA, strengthen your research with government records, and gain practical strategies from experts in the field.
Watch now: ow.ly/gWZp50X2jiH
FOIA 101: Using Public Records to Strengthen Historical Research
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
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September 25, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Missed our FOIA training? Good news—the FOIA for Historians Workshop is now available to stream online, anytime.
Learn how to navigate FOIA, strengthen your research with government records, and gain practical strategies from experts in the field.
Watch now: ow.ly/gWZp50X2jiH
Learn how to navigate FOIA, strengthen your research with government records, and gain practical strategies from experts in the field.
Watch now: ow.ly/gWZp50X2jiH
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😩 Monday again? Coffee’s not strong enough? Wondering if it’s time for a change?
Maybe it’s not the coffee...maybe it’s the job. ☕➡️💼
Check out the OAH Job Board—where historians, researchers, and educators find their next great opportunity.
👉 Your future self will thank you: careers.oah.org
Maybe it’s not the coffee...maybe it’s the job. ☕➡️💼
Check out the OAH Job Board—where historians, researchers, and educators find their next great opportunity.
👉 Your future self will thank you: careers.oah.org
September 29, 2025 at 2:07 PM
😩 Monday again? Coffee’s not strong enough? Wondering if it’s time for a change?
Maybe it’s not the coffee...maybe it’s the job. ☕➡️💼
Check out the OAH Job Board—where historians, researchers, and educators find their next great opportunity.
👉 Your future self will thank you: careers.oah.org
Maybe it’s not the coffee...maybe it’s the job. ☕➡️💼
Check out the OAH Job Board—where historians, researchers, and educators find their next great opportunity.
👉 Your future self will thank you: careers.oah.org
Shutdown will happen. Thousands will lose jobs, economy tanks. Great times we live in.🤦🏻
All signs point to a government shutdown at midnight tonight.
Here's where things stand👇
Here's where things stand👇
Capitol agenda: Careening into a shutdown
It's the last day before government funding runs out. Lawmakers are nowhere near a compromise.
www.politico.com
September 30, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Shutdown will happen. Thousands will lose jobs, economy tanks. Great times we live in.🤦🏻
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See also Dr. Ostler's book on the subject, Surviving Genocide: Native Nations and the United States from the American Revolution to Bleeding Kansas (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2019).
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
Surviving Genocide
The first part of a sweeping two-volume history of the devastation brought to bear on Indian nations by U.S. expansion “An elegant, organized narrative o...
yalebooks.yale.edu
September 30, 2025 at 1:22 PM
See also Dr. Ostler's book on the subject, Surviving Genocide: Native Nations and the United States from the American Revolution to Bleeding Kansas (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2019).
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
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From the @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social archive, Dr. Jeff Ostler examines "an Indigenous consciousness of genocide” in this 2019 piece, "The Great Fear of 1776."
ageofrevolutions.com/2019/09/23/t...
ageofrevolutions.com/2019/09/23/t...
The Great Fear of 1776
By Jeffrey Ostler Sometime in mid-1776, just as colonists were declaring their independence from Great Britain, an unnamed Shawnee addressed an assembly of representatives from multiple Indigenous …
ageofrevolutions.com
September 30, 2025 at 1:22 PM
From the @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social archive, Dr. Jeff Ostler examines "an Indigenous consciousness of genocide” in this 2019 piece, "The Great Fear of 1776."
ageofrevolutions.com/2019/09/23/t...
ageofrevolutions.com/2019/09/23/t...
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New from me: a *free* short version of my Political Quarterly piece on universities... The issue is settled now: the massified and accessible Higher Education system we have spent tens of billions building since the 1970s is coming to an end. (1/2)
politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/where-n...
politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/where-n...
Where now for Britain’s Universities?
UK higher education now faces a very bleak future, retreating in the face of little public sympathy and limited political interest.
politicalquarterly.org.uk
September 30, 2025 at 7:28 AM
New from me: a *free* short version of my Political Quarterly piece on universities... The issue is settled now: the massified and accessible Higher Education system we have spent tens of billions building since the 1970s is coming to an end. (1/2)
politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/where-n...
politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/where-n...
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The National Park Service before dawn on Wednesday removed a statue titled “Best Friends Forever” of President Donald Trump and Jeffery Epstein holding hands – only a day after it was erected on the National Mall.
National Park Service removes Trump-Epstein statue, raising free speech concerns | CNN Politics
The National Park Service before dawn on Wednesday removed a statue titled “Best Friends Forever” of President Donald Trump and Jeffery Epstein holding hands – only a day after it was erected on the N...
www.cnn.com
September 25, 2025 at 3:01 AM
The National Park Service before dawn on Wednesday removed a statue titled “Best Friends Forever” of President Donald Trump and Jeffery Epstein holding hands – only a day after it was erected on the National Mall.
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It's been reported NPS staff at Ft Pulaski Natl Mon have been directed by Trump admin to remove a photo of "The Scourged Back," a searing image of the brutality of slavery. For more history behind the headlines, see OAH’s NPS History Study on African Americans at Ft Pulaski.
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September 19, 2025 at 4:30 PM
It's been reported NPS staff at Ft Pulaski Natl Mon have been directed by Trump admin to remove a photo of "The Scourged Back," a searing image of the brutality of slavery. For more history behind the headlines, see OAH’s NPS History Study on African Americans at Ft Pulaski.
ow.ly/WGmJ50WZwEt
ow.ly/WGmJ50WZwEt
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Current (August 2025) and forthcoming (November 2025) in the Journal of Southern History
thesha.org/contents
thesha.org/contents
September 19, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Current (August 2025) and forthcoming (November 2025) in the Journal of Southern History
thesha.org/contents
thesha.org/contents
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New op ed in this morning's New Republic about the rhetoric of "civil war" on this anniversary of battle of Antietam, single bloodiest day in American history. David Blight
newrepublic.com/article/2005...
newrepublic.com/article/2005...
So You Want a Civil War? Let’s Pause to Remember
What One Looks Like.
Today marks the 163rd anniversary of Antietam. Those who say they’re ready for civil war should stop and think about what happened there.
newrepublic.com
September 17, 2025 at 12:59 PM
New op ed in this morning's New Republic about the rhetoric of "civil war" on this anniversary of battle of Antietam, single bloodiest day in American history. David Blight
newrepublic.com/article/2005...
newrepublic.com/article/2005...
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This coming Thursday is my last lecture in my America at 250 course with David Blight & Beverly Gage.
Can't quite believe that I've already given 7 lectures!
I'll have more to say Thursday.
For now: teaching in front of a huge, engaged, excited audience like this? It's been a joy & a privilege.
Can't quite believe that I've already given 7 lectures!
I'll have more to say Thursday.
For now: teaching in front of a huge, engaged, excited audience like this? It's been a joy & a privilege.
September 23, 2025 at 9:28 PM
This coming Thursday is my last lecture in my America at 250 course with David Blight & Beverly Gage.
Can't quite believe that I've already given 7 lectures!
I'll have more to say Thursday.
For now: teaching in front of a huge, engaged, excited audience like this? It's been a joy & a privilege.
Can't quite believe that I've already given 7 lectures!
I'll have more to say Thursday.
For now: teaching in front of a huge, engaged, excited audience like this? It's been a joy & a privilege.
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Elon Musk’s father accused of sexually abusing his children and stepchildren
Elon Musk’s father accused of sexually abusing his children and stepchildren
Errol Musk, rarely mentioned by his tech billionaire son, dismissed New York Times report as ‘nonsense’ and ‘false’
Errol Musk, the 79-year-old father of tech billionaire Elon Musk, has been accused of sexually abusing five of his children and stepchildren since 1993, the New York Times reported on Tuesday.
The outlet said those allegations could be why the entrepreneur, who temporarily served as an adviser to the second Trump administration, rarely mentions his father – and that family members of Elon Musk have reached out for help, prompting him to sometimes take action to intercede. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
September 23, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Elon Musk’s father accused of sexually abusing his children and stepchildren
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A man suspected of firing a gun into the ABC-affiliated television station in California’s capital had written notes in his car critical of Donald Trump’s administration and a calendar reminder on his fridge to “do the next scary thing,” prosecutors said.
Man who fired a gun into ABC affiliate office had note to ‘do the next scary thing,’ prosecutors say
www.cnn.com
September 22, 2025 at 10:33 PM
A man suspected of firing a gun into the ABC-affiliated television station in California’s capital had written notes in his car critical of Donald Trump’s administration and a calendar reminder on his fridge to “do the next scary thing,” prosecutors said.
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Coming up tomorrow: training on FOIA! FOIA is a powerful tool for uncovering primary sources, strengthening archival research, and holding government accountable. Don’t miss this opportunity to expand your research toolkit.
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September 18, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Coming up tomorrow: training on FOIA! FOIA is a powerful tool for uncovering primary sources, strengthening archival research, and holding government accountable. Don’t miss this opportunity to expand your research toolkit.
👉 Register now: ow.ly/IlxU50WX6F4
👉 Register now: ow.ly/IlxU50WX6F4
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📰 New on HARPPing on History:
Catch up on the latest piece Hands Off Our History: shorturl.at/D8EKN
Catch up on the latest piece Hands Off Our History: shorturl.at/D8EKN
Hands Off Our History
At Harpers Ferry and beyond, the public is pushing back against historical erasure.
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September 22, 2025 at 2:18 PM
📰 New on HARPPing on History:
Catch up on the latest piece Hands Off Our History: shorturl.at/D8EKN
Catch up on the latest piece Hands Off Our History: shorturl.at/D8EKN