Nathaniel C. Green
@nathanielcgreen.bsky.social
History professor at Northern Virginia Community College. Author, THE MAN OF THE PEOPLE, by Kansas Press.
https://kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700629961/
Currently writing a book on the history of the three-fifths clause. Opinions solely my own.
https://kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700629961/
Currently writing a book on the history of the three-fifths clause. Opinions solely my own.
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Not “Three-Fifths of a Person”: What the Three-Fifths Clause Meant at Ratification - Commonplace
Denials of Black humanity, free and enslaved, coexisted with explicit acknowledgment that enslaved Black people, though legally deemed “property,” were people.
commonplace.online
My piece is up on Commonplace!
If you are still teaching students that the 3/5 clause counted the enslaved as "three-fifths of a person," time to update those lecture notes!
commonplace.online/article/not-...
If you are still teaching students that the 3/5 clause counted the enslaved as "three-fifths of a person," time to update those lecture notes!
commonplace.online/article/not-...
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November 25, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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University of Northern Iowa - Assistant Professor of Instruction in US History | H-Net
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November 25, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Legend
My aunt who famously can’t cook tried to make a pumpkin pie. She didn’t know what cloves were, so she put garlic cloves in it. Whole.
November 25, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Legend
When polled, this logo came in 3rd behind Jonah Ryan and Jon⭐ H. Ryan
I’m very sorry to announce this to the rest of the country & the world, but a transitional logo has been chosen for the 2034 Salt Lake City Olympics & this is it. Why does it say Utah? We don’t know. Why is the font illegible? Yet another mystery. Did they go ugly on purpose? Again, no idea.
November 25, 2025 at 1:19 AM
When polled, this logo came in 3rd behind Jonah Ryan and Jon⭐ H. Ryan
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There has literally never been a universal basic income trial program that didn't deliver real and measurable results above and beyond any other form of social welfare, and every time another concludes with the same findings the powers that be go "interesting! Anyway," and pretend it wouldn't work.
November 22, 2025 at 6:00 AM
There has literally never been a universal basic income trial program that didn't deliver real and measurable results above and beyond any other form of social welfare, and every time another concludes with the same findings the powers that be go "interesting! Anyway," and pretend it wouldn't work.
Ava Heiden is for real
November 23, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Ava Heiden is for real
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CUT MY LIFE INTO PIECES
November 23, 2025 at 2:28 AM
CUT MY LIFE INTO PIECES
"Calling for the arrest of political opponents and fantasizing about their execution is the definition of authoritarian abuse."
The @sentinelcolorado.com is right: Trump should be impeached.
The @sentinelcolorado.com is right: Trump should be impeached.
EDITORIAL: Trump's savage call for executing Dem vets in Congress warrants impeachment
‘His behavior is not only reducing the presidency to a treacherous farce, he is rapidly dragging the Republican Party down with him’
sentinelcolorado.com/opinion/edit...
#ImpeachTrump #Sedition #Pentagon
‘His behavior is not only reducing the presidency to a treacherous farce, he is rapidly dragging the Republican Party down with him’
sentinelcolorado.com/opinion/edit...
#ImpeachTrump #Sedition #Pentagon
EDITORIAL: Trump's savage call for executing Dem vets in Congress warrants impeachment - Sentinel Colorado
'His behavior is not only reducing the presidency to a treacherous farce, he is rapidly dragging the Republican Party down with him'
sentinelcolorado.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:59 AM
"Calling for the arrest of political opponents and fantasizing about their execution is the definition of authoritarian abuse."
The @sentinelcolorado.com is right: Trump should be impeached.
The @sentinelcolorado.com is right: Trump should be impeached.
This is so goofballs and yet so on-brand with Trump. Mamdani is a confident, smart, charismatic leader: everything Trump is not but desperately wants people to believe he is. Trump is also a coward, and doesn't have anything over Mamdani, so he fawns all over him.
November 21, 2025 at 9:42 PM
This is so goofballs and yet so on-brand with Trump. Mamdani is a confident, smart, charismatic leader: everything Trump is not but desperately wants people to believe he is. Trump is also a coward, and doesn't have anything over Mamdani, so he fawns all over him.
This clip gets funnier every time you rewatch it
Q: Are you affirming that you think President Trump is a fascist?
MAMDANI: I've spoken about--
TRUMP: That's okay. You can just say yes. I don't mind.
MAMDANI: I've spoken about--
TRUMP: That's okay. You can just say yes. I don't mind.
November 21, 2025 at 9:37 PM
This clip gets funnier every time you rewatch it
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that this content is shamefully hilarious, that it has endowed its creator with more attention than he rightfully deserves
I tremble for my country when reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever: but this is tremendous content.
November 21, 2025 at 9:19 PM
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that this content is shamefully hilarious, that it has endowed its creator with more attention than he rightfully deserves
Given that Trump is on the record saying he doesn't mind being called a fascist, I expect the @nytimes.com and other media to refer to him that way from now on.
Q: Are you affirming that you think President Trump is a fascist?
MAMDANI: I've spoken about--
TRUMP: That's okay. You can just say yes. I don't mind.
MAMDANI: I've spoken about--
TRUMP: That's okay. You can just say yes. I don't mind.
November 21, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Given that Trump is on the record saying he doesn't mind being called a fascist, I expect the @nytimes.com and other media to refer to him that way from now on.
I haven't seen the new Ken Burns American Revolution documentary yet. Does he cover the time when Ben Franklin built a time machine, traveled to 1948, witnessed the founding of Israel, went BACK to 1787, and insisted that commitment to Israel be written into the Constitution?
Mike Pence wrote an opinion piece for Fox News. Reading the headline, I was like, "Okay, seems like a normal take."
Then I read the subheadline and... bro, what?
Then I read the subheadline and... bro, what?
November 21, 2025 at 7:26 PM
I haven't seen the new Ken Burns American Revolution documentary yet. Does he cover the time when Ben Franklin built a time machine, traveled to 1948, witnessed the founding of Israel, went BACK to 1787, and insisted that commitment to Israel be written into the Constitution?
Elon Musk is the most pathetic loser in human history.
That one's actually true.
That one's actually true.
November 21, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Elon Musk is the most pathetic loser in human history.
That one's actually true.
That one's actually true.
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If you receive an illegal order, you have a duty to disobey.
This isn’t controversial.
A President calling for the execution of anyone who reminds service members of this oath is showing us why the duty to disobey illegal orders is so important in the first place.
This isn’t controversial.
A President calling for the execution of anyone who reminds service members of this oath is showing us why the duty to disobey illegal orders is so important in the first place.
November 21, 2025 at 12:14 AM
If you receive an illegal order, you have a duty to disobey.
This isn’t controversial.
A President calling for the execution of anyone who reminds service members of this oath is showing us why the duty to disobey illegal orders is so important in the first place.
This isn’t controversial.
A President calling for the execution of anyone who reminds service members of this oath is showing us why the duty to disobey illegal orders is so important in the first place.
A truly excellent essay that echoes so many of my own sentiments.
To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.”
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking.
"Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."
www.huffpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:53 AM
A truly excellent essay that echoes so many of my own sentiments.
Just fucking fund libraries, please
November 20, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Just fucking fund libraries, please
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Update!
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#BREAKING: Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Summers Will Not Finish Semester of Teaching as Harvard Investigates Epstein Ties | News | The Harvard Crimson
Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey E. Epstein.
www.thecrimson.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Update!
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words fail me
A staffer to a New Jersey congressman allegedly paid an scarification artist $500 to wound her as she staged a scene with zip ties and “Trump Whore” written on her stomach, federal prosecutors say
Ex-Van Drew staffer staged fake attack, writing 'Trump Whore' across her stomach and alleging men held her down and cut her body - New Jersey Globe
A 26-year-old Ocean City woman who claimed she was brutally assaulted because she worked for Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-Ocean City) instead orchestrated the
newjerseyglobe.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:43 AM
words fail me
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Kind of impressive how every claimed accomplishment listed here is even more outlandishly false than the one that preceded it
“I don't care when the Senate passes the House Bill, whether tonight, or at some other time in the near future, I just don't want Republicans to take their eyes off all of the Victories that we've had…”
November 19, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Kind of impressive how every claimed accomplishment listed here is even more outlandishly false than the one that preceded it
I wish I had the space to discuss more specifically how this specific history applies to today. I did more of that in the earlier (much longer) draft, but had to cut it.
Still, I think the point is clear enough:
time.com/7326230/poli...
Still, I think the point is clear enough:
time.com/7326230/poli...
The Perils of Political Compromise
History shows that compromising on basic tenets of democracy is not the route to peace or stability.
time.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:55 AM
I wish I had the space to discuss more specifically how this specific history applies to today. I did more of that in the earlier (much longer) draft, but had to cut it.
Still, I think the point is clear enough:
time.com/7326230/poli...
Still, I think the point is clear enough:
time.com/7326230/poli...
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Of all my posts, this is the one that I wish would be shared widely. I hope people will donate to Bryan's legal defense, but even if you don't, it's important to be aware of the human rights horrors that are going on around us on a daily basis.
Please help Bryan, a decent and hardworking person who was just kidnapped off the street in DC. He has been in this country since he was a child. He has a business and a family. He does not deserve such shameful cruelty. Please share.
www.gofundme.com/f/help-bryan...
www.gofundme.com/f/help-bryan...
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November 17, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Of all my posts, this is the one that I wish would be shared widely. I hope people will donate to Bryan's legal defense, but even if you don't, it's important to be aware of the human rights horrors that are going on around us on a daily basis.
I am relieved to learn that fascism only exists in a single form defined by everyone's ability to identify it instantly, and that if any part of our lives proceeds as it did before it cannot possibly be fascism.
Now to drink this cup of tea and read this book about Germany in the early 1930s
Now to drink this cup of tea and read this book about Germany in the early 1930s
1. If America were fascist right now, I would not be posting here. Neither would you.
Instead, I - and you - would be trying to build networks of people *offline* who can support and protect each other, in the dark, rather than yelling at the president and his stooges in our own names. /2
Instead, I - and you - would be trying to build networks of people *offline* who can support and protect each other, in the dark, rather than yelling at the president and his stooges in our own names. /2
November 16, 2025 at 3:35 AM
I am relieved to learn that fascism only exists in a single form defined by everyone's ability to identify it instantly, and that if any part of our lives proceeds as it did before it cannot possibly be fascism.
Now to drink this cup of tea and read this book about Germany in the early 1930s
Now to drink this cup of tea and read this book about Germany in the early 1930s