I don't have any prophetic insight here. I'm just sitting with it. This is where I am.

If you know me IRL, please redeem for one free hug.

Exactly! He didn't fight for slavery... he fought for Ole Virginny, just like Ted Turner taught me!!!

/s (of course)

It's been really challenging curating a meaningful feed here. I'm siloing my socials with gaming on X, fam/friends on FB, and trying to carve out something professional here. It's... still a mess.

Hee Haw

If having reputable books from UNC and UK presses makes you "faux," what (I dare wonder) makes someone a "real" historian to this critic?

Just be glad I didn't say Benjamin Martin

Francis Marion approves, is what you're saying.

Be still my middlebrow heart. I love this. Iconic, breathtaking art as a PUZZLE!?!?! This is just... *chef's kiss*

I will try to check out this podcast. Seems like it could be historically interesting and uh... presently prescient.

I just listened to the section about this in Nash's *Unknown American Revolution* book. I read Marjoleine Kars book back in grad school, but putting it all together shows just how stifling the monarchy's oppression really was. It was not just fussy New England provincials...

Oh wow! Nick Wolterstorff spoke at the very first academic conference I ever attended (at UVA, in the Rotunda, no less). It was a life-altering moment for me. It was a colloquium on the "Fate of the Arts."

He was always a generous spirit to be around at CFH gatherings. Rest in peace.