Una Cadegan
@ohioan49.bsky.social
Historian, Ohioan, utopian meliorist.
This one is a little hard to describe without illustrating. My first manuscript research was in the 18th-century records of the Philadelphia Court of Quarter Sessions, where I encountered three conventions I’d never seen before, all in the same entry:
I think we need a mega thread of everyone's craziest archive stories.
December 22, 2025 at 4:39 PM
This one is a little hard to describe without illustrating. My first manuscript research was in the 18th-century records of the Philadelphia Court of Quarter Sessions, where I encountered three conventions I’d never seen before, all in the same entry:
The Lord hears the cry of the poor. -- Psalm 34
Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...
Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.
apnews.com
October 8, 2025 at 2:24 PM
The Lord hears the cry of the poor. -- Psalm 34
Sometimes the metaphors create themselves. 🗃️
June 27, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Sometimes the metaphors create themselves. 🗃️
I don't disagree with this, and it's probably good advice given the LA context. But I also can imagine a flood-the-zone counter-tactic, in which there are not just US flags but the flags of every immigrant group's nation of origin.
June 9, 2025 at 3:46 PM
I don't disagree with this, and it's probably good advice given the LA context. But I also can imagine a flood-the-zone counter-tactic, in which there are not just US flags but the flags of every immigrant group's nation of origin.
That Democrats, even now, insist on focusing on and blaming the progressive wing of their party for Trump is exactly how we entered the Nadir a century ago. White Americans and those who wanted to politically ascend abandoned Black people and oppressed groups to reunite politically with each other.
The Great Un-Awokening
And the Michigan Senate primary remains up in the air.
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June 7, 2025 at 4:53 PM
For no particular reason I've been thinking about this image from a book of fairy tales from Ireland in the 1960s. A fisherman catches a flounder who is a fairy prince in disguise, and gets the fish to agree to grant his wife’s wishes. The wife asks for increasingly exalted riches and position, 1/2
May 3, 2025 at 3:23 PM
For no particular reason I've been thinking about this image from a book of fairy tales from Ireland in the 1960s. A fisherman catches a flounder who is a fairy prince in disguise, and gets the fish to agree to grant his wife’s wishes. The wife asks for increasingly exalted riches and position, 1/2
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Women can have a little fertilization, for a treat
Trump: "We're gonna have tremendous goodies in the bag for women too. The women, between the fertilization and all the other things we're talking about, it's gonna be great. Fertilization. I'm still very proud of it, I don't care. I'll be known as the fertilization president and that's okay."
March 26, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Women can have a little fertilization, for a treat
For years I have said in class that we should hold an annual habeas corpus festival in the university plaza to celebrate the most basic and most underappreciated right we have. If just a tiny handful of students have remembered this, my teaching career will have been worth it.
People need to be crystal clear about something: The requirement that the government ANSWER to a court on the legal basis for detaining someone is literally the core liberty right (habeas corpus). If the government says they don’t have to do that bc “national security,” YOU can be disappeared.
March 18, 2025 at 12:40 PM
For years I have said in class that we should hold an annual habeas corpus festival in the university plaza to celebrate the most basic and most underappreciated right we have. If just a tiny handful of students have remembered this, my teaching career will have been worth it.
On George. Washington's birthday, from his Farewell Address (1796): "It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free country should inspire caution in those entrusted with its administration, to confine themselves within their respective constitutional spheres, . . .
February 22, 2025 at 4:13 PM
On George. Washington's birthday, from his Farewell Address (1796): "It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free country should inspire caution in those entrusted with its administration, to confine themselves within their respective constitutional spheres, . . .
In 1991, I bought a house with an FHA loan, so I didn't need a deposit. I also attended an NEH Institute on US history. Today, I'm teaching my last term as a university professor, living in that same house, and using many of the things I learned that summer. A great society invests in its citizens.
Federal workers make democracy work for all of us—but their hard work often goes unnoticed. Today, let’s change that. Share your stories of how civil servants have impacted your life in the comments below and use the #FedLove hashtag to spread the message! (1/2)
February 14, 2025 at 3:09 PM
In 1991, I bought a house with an FHA loan, so I didn't need a deposit. I also attended an NEH Institute on US history. Today, I'm teaching my last term as a university professor, living in that same house, and using many of the things I learned that summer. A great society invests in its citizens.
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OPINION: "(Paul Laurence) Dunbar’s artistic legacy is often overlooked. This, despite the fact that his work influenced a number of other great African American literary giants, including Langston Hughes," Daniel-Cox writes.
Opinion | Paul Laurence Dunbar Gave Dignity to the Black Experience
Minnita Daniel-Cox writes on the life and legacy of Black poet Paul Laurence Dunbar and his work that reflected the lives of African Americans.
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February 5, 2025 at 4:59 PM
OPINION: "(Paul Laurence) Dunbar’s artistic legacy is often overlooked. This, despite the fact that his work influenced a number of other great African American literary giants, including Langston Hughes," Daniel-Cox writes.
No person shall [...] hold any office, civil or military, under the US [...] who, having previously taken an oath [...] as an officer of the US [...] to support the Constitution of the US, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof
January 6, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Wow.
South Korean citizens helped lawmakers scale the National Assembly walls so they could bypass military barricades and vote against martial law.
December 3, 2024 at 6:17 PM
Wow.
Can you believe it? And you know what? They’ve gotta get much tougher. I’m gonna go there in the next two weeks. I’m going to Springfield and . . to Aurora. You may never see me again, but that’s ok. I gotta do what I gotta do. “Whatever happened to Trump?” “Well, he never got out of Springfield.”
September 19, 2024 at 1:10 PM
Can you believe it? And you know what? They’ve gotta get much tougher. I’m gonna go there in the next two weeks. I’m going to Springfield and . . to Aurora. You may never see me again, but that’s ok. I gotta do what I gotta do. “Whatever happened to Trump?” “Well, he never got out of Springfield.”
Donald Trump said this last night (my transcription, courtesy of @Acyn on X): How about in Springfield Ohio? They had 32,000—this is a little beautiful town, no crime, no problem—32,000 illegal immigrants come into the town, 32, so they almost doubled their population in a period of a few weeks. . .
September 19, 2024 at 1:10 PM
Donald Trump said this last night (my transcription, courtesy of @Acyn on X): How about in Springfield Ohio? They had 32,000—this is a little beautiful town, no crime, no problem—32,000 illegal immigrants come into the town, 32, so they almost doubled their population in a period of a few weeks. . .
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #660,023!
September 17, 2024 at 12:37 PM
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #660,023!
@rauchway.bsky.social Please add me to "What's History?" Thank you!
September 20, 2023 at 12:36 AM
@rauchway.bsky.social Please add me to "What's History?" Thank you!