Seth Rockman
@sethrockman.bsky.social
Historian at Brown University: https://history.brown.edu/people/seth-e-rockman Author of _Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery_ Nov. 2024, https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo237040605.html
I am so sorry to hear this news. We are lucky to encounter such people in our lives.
November 7, 2025 at 9:22 PM
I am so sorry to hear this news. We are lucky to encounter such people in our lives.
we are all but peasants in the eyes of these self-aggrandizing a-holes. But please, let's write more stories about them, and utterly ignore the millions of Americans who have taken to the streets to denounce kings and their corrupt retainers.
November 4, 2025 at 2:25 PM
we are all but peasants in the eyes of these self-aggrandizing a-holes. But please, let's write more stories about them, and utterly ignore the millions of Americans who have taken to the streets to denounce kings and their corrupt retainers.
the archive is the gift that keeps giving. stranger than fiction almost always!
October 31, 2025 at 3:32 AM
the archive is the gift that keeps giving. stranger than fiction almost always!
I have heard mercifully little about MBvLS. May it remain so!
October 30, 2025 at 5:35 PM
I have heard mercifully little about MBvLS. May it remain so!
Reposted by Seth Rockman
“Labor is prior to capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is superior and deserves higher consideration.”
Abraham Lincoln's Message to Congress, December 1861.
Abraham Lincoln's Message to Congress, December 1861.
October 26, 2025 at 6:59 PM
“Labor is prior to capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is superior and deserves higher consideration.”
Abraham Lincoln's Message to Congress, December 1861.
Abraham Lincoln's Message to Congress, December 1861.
And November 13 at Amherst College
October 22, 2025 at 3:22 AM
And November 13 at Amherst College
And this week, Miami! The one in Florida.
October 22, 2025 at 3:17 AM
And this week, Miami! The one in Florida.
Reposted by Seth Rockman
They just do whatever the hell they want and they rely on Trump’s own complete disregard for the law, his ability to pardon them, and Congressional Republicans cult like obedience to protect them.
We are a joke as a country right now.
We are a joke as a country right now.
October 20, 2025 at 10:33 PM
They just do whatever the hell they want and they rely on Trump’s own complete disregard for the law, his ability to pardon them, and Congressional Republicans cult like obedience to protect them.
We are a joke as a country right now.
We are a joke as a country right now.
this is full of really smart and unusual things:
American Life During the Industrial Age: A Social and Cultural History in Essays and Documents
This volume explores the Industrial Age (1860–1914), bringing together published and archival primary sources with introductory essays that contextualize a period of extraordinary social, cultural, an...
www.routledge.com
October 17, 2025 at 12:11 AM
this is full of really smart and unusual things: