I also thought about it. I think he will have to swear her in before a vote, but I won’t be surprised if he find another excuse

@phdrachel.bsky.social is your person

Welcome to the club. It’s annoying as hell, but it subsides over time. Don’t feed the trolls and you’ll survive it

So sorry to hear, she was a great scholar, and I'm sure a great person. May her memory be a blessing.

Also, characterizing him as a “small landlord” is an interesting choice.

Just a note Kevin, scholars and Jews are now leaning to use the term antisemitism (without the hyphen), as treating semitism as something real kind of accept the nazi logic that there is something to be anti about. Loosing the hyphen is now the way to go

I would have recommended him to read Landon Storrs, the second red scare, but I’m not sure he will understand it

Yes, the same. She’s the perfect example of never meet your heroes

She came to our campus a few years ago and met with students. I will just say that the experience was very underwhelming for all, if not out right disappointlong. She is not a good teacher in the classroom.

I'm the first to admit that Cleveland is not like Pittsburgh, but to argue that a city with a world-rated art museum, orchestra, public library, and theater district did not invest in civil institutions is a joke. There were other billionaires in Cleveland, not just Rockefeller.

coming from an ashkenazi Jewish family, many of my closest “aunts” and “uncles” are distant cousins of my parents and grandparents. why people don’t understand that we don’t open a family tree every time you spend time with relatives? And that some of those are family friends who became family?

Also, having an immigrant as the poster boy of the American revolution doesn’t really adds up to the message they trying to convey

Tropy

This question was also in the old test (and was wrong also there). The test is not for historians, and there are a few questions there that most historians would recoil from the “right answer.” You just need to bite it and give the answer they want

And it should also be added that my bet it is also got to do with the presence, influence, or lack their of, of the current FLOTUS that enables this