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Eric Rauchway
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Historian. Florida man. Keep Bluesky weird.
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an Obama '08 bumper sticker with the slogan, "get disappointed by someone new"
November 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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A tall glass with an amber-reddish liquid, pebble ice, and a cherry skewered by a pick adorned with a skull, sitting on a counter. Next to the drink is a recipe card saying Singapore Sling: shake 1oz each lime juice and cherry Heering; 0.5pz each Benedictine and brandy; 2oz gin (in this case Old Tom) and pour over ice
November 6, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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Fiorello La Guardia, from the Saturday Evening Post, September 6, 1941
November 5, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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A turntable with a red Fantasy LP (Cal Tjader playing the music of Harold Arlen)
November 3, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Bart and Lisa Simpson on their living room floor watching TV.
November 1, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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a man in leather helmet and pilot goggles standing in front of the Ford Flivver, a single-seat airplane bearing the Ford motor company script logo, probably in around 1927. The Flivver was, historian wits like to say, easy to fly; more difficult, alas, to land.
October 31, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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Social Security Board expenditures, first ten years.

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Chart broken down into four small multiples showing social security board expenditures ramping up over 1936--1945, in old-age assistance, aid to dependent children, aid to the blind, and unemployment compensation administration.
October 24, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Notes from recent @thetls.bsky.social essays on interwar fascism, including Fintan O'Toole on "the IRA’s collaboration with the Nazis during the Second World War (on the time-honoured but idiotic grounds that ‘England’s difficulty is Ireland’s opportunity’)." 🗃️

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Black and white photograph of a line of mostly women (Blue Blouses) and some men (Blueshirts) giving a stiff-armed salute on a street in interwar Ireland.
September 12, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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Plattism is back; so is the Gibraltar of Puerto Rico 🗃️

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The fortress of San Felipe del Morro, Puerto Rico, in 1943; the fortified rocky outcrop might recall Gibraltar.
September 5, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Duke Kahanamoku, Franklin Roosevelt, and the American family 🗃️

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a sepia photo of outrigger canoes, one carrying a standing man dressed in the feathered cape and headdress of traditional aliʻi, and the caption, "The last of the royalty of Hawaii salutes the president, 26 July 1934"
August 25, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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The Allied demand for the unconditional surrender of the fascist powers, issued at Casablanca, January 1943 🗃️

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text of Roosevelt's press conference, referring to "Unconditional Surrender" Grant of the US army in the Civil War, and the need for unconditional surrender of the fascist powers to ensure peace
August 24, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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"We cannot win by letting the folks think the Republican party is 51% bad and we are only 49% bad"—Josephus Daniels on Democratic Party strategy in 1932 🗃️

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Franklin D. Roosevelt and Josephus Daniels seating in an open car among a crowd of people in 1940.
August 9, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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New Deal relief in the territories, 1933 🗃️

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Chart showing per capita relief in states and territories, with territories highlighted in orange, over the course of 1933. As explained in the linked post, federal emergency relief included (certain) territories from the beginning.
August 1, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Historians and the isolationists, part 3: national security

noting Axis attacks on US citizens in US territory during World War II 🗃️

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A photograph of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill sitting on a riverbank, or perhaps the shore of a pond, holding fishing poles.
July 18, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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If you already read about the history of tariffs and thought, you know, this would work better with lots of rapid hand gestures 🗃️

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A C-SPAN2 television still showing Eric Rauchway, University of California, Davis, History Professor, talking and making hand gestures so rapidly the camera cannot accurately record them.
June 30, 2025 at 9:35 PM