Adam H Domby, PhD
@adamhdomby.bsky.social
Associate Professor of History, Auburn University. Huntington Fellow. All opinions are my own.
Big protest crowd in New Orleans.
October 18, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Big protest crowd in New Orleans.
It’s sad I’m having to hope for option one. But I think @timothysnyder.bsky.social is right. And I fear it’s option 3 and/or 4.
September 26, 2025 at 3:08 PM
It’s sad I’m having to hope for option one. But I think @timothysnyder.bsky.social is right. And I fear it’s option 3 and/or 4.
At no point did Hodges say this was what was occurring or even mention current events. Hegseth and others who started yelling “this is different” assumed he was making a parallel because they also see the parallels between Nazis and themselves.
September 26, 2025 at 3:02 PM
At no point did Hodges say this was what was occurring or even mention current events. Hegseth and others who started yelling “this is different” assumed he was making a parallel because they also see the parallels between Nazis and themselves.
I too find it hard to believe “the men and women enforcing the law are the bad guys”* but Tom Homan and his friend at ICE have worked hard to get us there I guess.
*I’m not actually surprised cause I’m a historian. And I don’t think ICE is really doing a great job at being lawful…
*I’m not actually surprised cause I’m a historian. And I don’t think ICE is really doing a great job at being lawful…
July 1, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I too find it hard to believe “the men and women enforcing the law are the bad guys”* but Tom Homan and his friend at ICE have worked hard to get us there I guess.
*I’m not actually surprised cause I’m a historian. And I don’t think ICE is really doing a great job at being lawful…
*I’m not actually surprised cause I’m a historian. And I don’t think ICE is really doing a great job at being lawful…
It was first time I met him. Met him again a year later.
June 13, 2025 at 3:12 PM
It was first time I met him. Met him again a year later.
So maybe AI isn’t a good idea. It’s almost like Terminator, War Games, 2001, ex machina, Blade Runner, the Matrix, Robocop, and every other film about AI were warning us of something…
May 24, 2025 at 3:47 PM
So maybe AI isn’t a good idea. It’s almost like Terminator, War Games, 2001, ex machina, Blade Runner, the Matrix, Robocop, and every other film about AI were warning us of something…
Protests continue across the United States today
April 19, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Protests continue across the United States today
An assortment of signs from Pasadena
April 5, 2025 at 11:25 PM
An assortment of signs from Pasadena
You were wondering why they wanted to cancel all those research projects aimed at curing cancer? Well cause Musk has other priorities…
April 2, 2025 at 6:42 AM
You were wondering why they wanted to cancel all those research projects aimed at curing cancer? Well cause Musk has other priorities…
“But the price of eggs…”
March 12, 2025 at 1:33 AM
“But the price of eggs…”
FoxNews calling Michael Steele (former Chair of the RNC) liberal might be peak rewriting of history.
March 9, 2025 at 3:07 PM
FoxNews calling Michael Steele (former Chair of the RNC) liberal might be peak rewriting of history.
So today is publication day for @hngreen.bsky.social! So go buy “unforgettable sacrifice” as you won’t regret it!
February 25, 2025 at 3:24 PM
So today is publication day for @hngreen.bsky.social! So go buy “unforgettable sacrifice” as you won’t regret it!
The use of the term “Manifest Destiny” by Trump was not an accident. It is a harkening back to racist expanisonist ideologies of the 19th century. www.space.com/space-explor...
January 20, 2025 at 7:22 PM
The use of the term “Manifest Destiny” by Trump was not an accident. It is a harkening back to racist expanisonist ideologies of the 19th century. www.space.com/space-explor...
I just watched 8 airplanes drop fire retardant along my favorite mountain biking trail in the San Gabriel Mountains. Those pilots got some serious guts.
Note: that is the west side of the fire where they are most concerned about spread tonight.
Note: that is the west side of the fire where they are most concerned about spread tonight.
January 14, 2025 at 3:04 AM
I just watched 8 airplanes drop fire retardant along my favorite mountain biking trail in the San Gabriel Mountains. Those pilots got some serious guts.
Note: that is the west side of the fire where they are most concerned about spread tonight.
Note: that is the west side of the fire where they are most concerned about spread tonight.
We left town entirely. With the smoke as it was and no work to be at we figured we might as well pay for a hotel somewhere we wanted to go. So off to the Sierras we went. This was the sign we saw on arrival:
January 9, 2025 at 3:43 PM
We left town entirely. With the smoke as it was and no work to be at we figured we might as well pay for a hotel somewhere we wanted to go. So off to the Sierras we went. This was the sign we saw on arrival:
Post your favorite Star Trek character, wrong answers only.
December 24, 2024 at 2:42 PM
Post your favorite Star Trek character, wrong answers only.
Random finds from research: in 1862 off Beaufort, SC: “Mr. Wagener in the dingy harpooned a large diamond-fish who started off at a brisk trot, towing the dingy for a quarter mile faster than she ever went before. Another boat went to the rescue with pikes and soon finished the monster.”
November 16, 2024 at 5:47 PM
Random finds from research: in 1862 off Beaufort, SC: “Mr. Wagener in the dingy harpooned a large diamond-fish who started off at a brisk trot, towing the dingy for a quarter mile faster than she ever went before. Another boat went to the rescue with pikes and soon finished the monster.”
Random finds from historical research that are just cool: In 1862 the USS South Carolina had added some pets to their crew: “Now have aboard a raccoon and four mocking birds, young ones, procured at Port Royal”
November 16, 2024 at 5:42 PM
Random finds from historical research that are just cool: In 1862 the USS South Carolina had added some pets to their crew: “Now have aboard a raccoon and four mocking birds, young ones, procured at Port Royal”
If you like history (Civil War and Reconstruction era) and dogs you should follow me.
November 10, 2024 at 6:23 AM
If you like history (Civil War and Reconstruction era) and dogs you should follow me.
Congratulations to Dr. Ian Pettus on succesfully defending his dissertation “Memory's Redoubt: Ex-Confederates in New York City, 1865-1910.”
April 8, 2024 at 8:24 PM
Congratulations to Dr. Ian Pettus on succesfully defending his dissertation “Memory's Redoubt: Ex-Confederates in New York City, 1865-1910.”
Lexi is unimpressed but I’m really excited to get my hands on this new edited volume that Hilary Green and Andrew Slap put together. It was a different sort of writing to do but I greatly enjoyed it. It also let me write a bit about College of Charleston’s history.
March 3, 2024 at 2:23 AM
Lexi is unimpressed but I’m really excited to get my hands on this new edited volume that Hilary Green and Andrew Slap put together. It was a different sort of writing to do but I greatly enjoyed it. It also let me write a bit about College of Charleston’s history.
This may be the single greatest census page of all time. A Clairvoyant Physician, an insane Emperor, and Capitalists all on one page.
November 2, 2023 at 1:04 PM
This may be the single greatest census page of all time. A Clairvoyant Physician, an insane Emperor, and Capitalists all on one page.