Austin J. Clements
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Austin J. Clements
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PhD candidate at Stanford University | American religious and intellectual history | Writing a dissertation on the creation of the American far right | ASU West alum
is $14.59 too high a price for meatballs made from the blend of your ancestors? Palo Alto Instacart says no
October 20, 2025 at 1:05 AM
researching what I research I constantly have moments of “eww does the Bible really say that?” and every time it does indeed say that
June 24, 2025 at 1:57 AM
as an electric bassist completing a phd in history I feel like this book was written for me
June 21, 2025 at 3:11 AM
doing historiography again
June 19, 2025 at 10:08 PM
my dad introduced me to the three stooges and I was so obsessed that in fifth grade I did an entire research project on them and drew a timeline covering their lives and careers from the birth of the horwitz brothers until curly joe died. I got this poster when I was baptized at age 8
June 16, 2025 at 3:35 AM
May 28, 2025 at 2:46 AM
a favorite document among American nativists in the 1910s and 1920s was a bogus oath supposedly taken by Knights of Columbus promising to mutilate and murder Protestants including women and infants while swearing sole allegiance to the pope and stockpiling weapons for the future crusade so lol
May 20, 2025 at 2:45 AM
me trying not to swear around my kids after I stub my toe on the bookshelf:
May 8, 2025 at 9:26 PM
whoa I just looked this up on Wikipedia and it’s true there’s this thing called Christianity and some people are getting into it
April 30, 2025 at 11:20 PM
whenever I get discouraged by the nagging “who cares?” question while writing my dissertation, I think of this quote by the late great Leo Ribuffo, here listing some items for scholars of the American right to keep in mind when accused of being just as strange as the “weird little guys” they study
April 4, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Martin Luther:
March 24, 2025 at 6:57 PM
It’s true I did say this

And this was a terrific conference put together by the great folks at the George L. Mosse Center, it was an honor to meet and learn from so many amazing scholars working on the history of fascism
February 14, 2025 at 7:00 PM
in desperation he reached out to his many group chats
February 11, 2025 at 2:02 AM
she’s been with us from the beginning
February 8, 2025 at 5:08 PM
being a historian of American religion is scrolling through bluesky thinking thoughts like “man ellen g white would be so pissed”
February 7, 2025 at 2:56 AM
it’s giving
January 21, 2025 at 12:05 AM
I’m sorry, what do you think American Christian churches have typically looked like?
January 14, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Little known fact but St Peter’s Basilica is absolutely gorgeous, I think the Vatican might have something here
January 13, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Greetings from Rome! So thrilled to be part of this conference: mosseprogram.wisc.edu/rome/
January 9, 2025 at 9:50 PM
why is George Washington burying the gold plates
December 16, 2024 at 10:58 PM
I feel like at this point I’d just report it lost
December 7, 2024 at 3:47 AM
I can’t believe this little guy is turning 16 today (the little guy on the left that is, the little guy on the right is me)
December 3, 2024 at 10:11 PM
The cat and I are both overwhelmed at the amount of bullshit and laundry in the world
December 2, 2024 at 8:07 PM
I like how it didn’t even bother to give me a second word, it was like, this is all you need to know
November 26, 2024 at 5:57 AM
That and this
November 21, 2024 at 3:27 AM