Stan Prager
@stanprager.bsky.social
Independent historian, computer geek, hiker, dogmatic skeptic, book fanatic, film aficionado, rock music fan, entrepreneur, anti-fascist. “Nolite te bastardes carborundum”
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Stan Prager
@stanprager.bsky.social
· Sep 27
We the People: How one western Mass man honors the legacy of a Civil War soldier
As the United States moves closer to its 250th birthday next year, we continue our “We the People” series.
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My Civil War project focused on my adopted soldier Pvt. George W. Gould, who was killed at Cold Harbor, was featured in a story that was aired on Western Mass News TV this evening www.westernmassnews.com/2025/09/26/w...
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This will be one of the iconic photographs of this time in US history.
This picture says everything about the state of our nation right now, peaceful clergy being arrested and forced face-down on the pavement.
November 15, 2025 at 3:34 PM
This will be one of the iconic photographs of this time in US history.
Book goes on sale today! Review of: Let My Country Awake: Indian Revolutionaries in America and the Fight to Overthrow the British Raj, by Scott Miller regarp.com/2025/09/21/r...
Review of: Let My Country Awake: Indian Revolutionaries in America and the Fight to Overthrow the British Raj, by Scott Miller
It has been said the United States is a nation of immigrants that despises immigrants. At first glance that seems counterintuitive and smacks of hyperbole, but simmering beneath the satire lies mor…
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October 28, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Book goes on sale today! Review of: Let My Country Awake: Indian Revolutionaries in America and the Fight to Overthrow the British Raj, by Scott Miller regarp.com/2025/09/21/r...
Latest book review & podcast ... Review of: Question 7, by Richard Flanagan regarp.com/2025/10/25/r...
Review of: Question 7, by Richard Flanagan
Wednesday, June 17,1881, a train had to leave station A at 3 A.M. in order to reach station B at 11 P.M.; just as the train was about to depart, however, an order came that the train had to reach s…
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October 25, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Latest book review & podcast ... Review of: Question 7, by Richard Flanagan regarp.com/2025/10/25/r...
No, this is not the Onion ... This is the Republican Party today ... www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
www.politico.com
October 15, 2025 at 4:19 PM
No, this is not the Onion ... This is the Republican Party today ... www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
My Civil War project focused on my adopted soldier Pvt. George W. Gould, who was killed at Cold Harbor, was featured in a story that was aired on Western Mass News TV this evening www.westernmassnews.com/2025/09/26/w...
We the People: How one western Mass man honors the legacy of a Civil War soldier
As the United States moves closer to its 250th birthday next year, we continue our “We the People” series.
www.westernmassnews.com
September 27, 2025 at 12:28 AM
My Civil War project focused on my adopted soldier Pvt. George W. Gould, who was killed at Cold Harbor, was featured in a story that was aired on Western Mass News TV this evening www.westernmassnews.com/2025/09/26/w...
Latest review & podcast review ... Review of: Let My Country Awake: Indian Revolutionaries in America and the Fight to Overthrow the British Raj, by Scott Miller regarp.com/2025/09/21/r...
Review of: Let My Country Awake: Indian Revolutionaries in America and the Fight to Overthrow the British Raj, by Scott Miller
It has been said the United States is a nation of immigrants that despises immigrants. At first glance that seems counterintuitive and smacks of hyperbole, but simmering beneath the satire lies mor…
regarp.com
September 21, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Latest review & podcast review ... Review of: Let My Country Awake: Indian Revolutionaries in America and the Fight to Overthrow the British Raj, by Scott Miller regarp.com/2025/09/21/r...
It's so frustrating. Melissa Hortman. People have forgotten her name. She was murdered by rightwing extremists but there was no national mourning, no flags at half mast, no national angst about violence and condemning political violence. Zilch.
September 17, 2025 at 9:29 PM
It's so frustrating. Melissa Hortman. People have forgotten her name. She was murdered by rightwing extremists but there was no national mourning, no flags at half mast, no national angst about violence and condemning political violence. Zilch.
Fascists prevail because the other side grants them the fairness & tolerance & space they ruthlessly weaponize to destroy them. That has always been the case and it is especially the case right now.
September 17, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Fascists prevail because the other side grants them the fairness & tolerance & space they ruthlessly weaponize to destroy them. That has always been the case and it is especially the case right now.
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When I worked at UT, the campus hosted Nazi speakers (twice, I think), and a professor called for cars to "run down" protestors.
He wasn't disciplined.
He wasn't disciplined.
September 15, 2025 at 6:43 PM
When I worked at UT, the campus hosted Nazi speakers (twice, I think), and a professor called for cars to "run down" protestors.
He wasn't disciplined.
He wasn't disciplined.
Latest Book Review & Podcast ... Review of: Dismal Freedom: A History of the Maroons of the Great Dismal Swamp, by J. Brent Morris regarp.com/2025/09/05/r...
Review of: Dismal Freedom: A History of the Maroons of the Great Dismal Swamp, by J. Brent Morris
Imagine a vast, deep, dense, forbidding swamp of tea-colored water and mud and patches of dry ground, blisteringly hot, thick with populations of alligators and panthers and poisonous snakes and le…
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September 5, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Latest Book Review & Podcast ... Review of: Dismal Freedom: A History of the Maroons of the Great Dismal Swamp, by J. Brent Morris regarp.com/2025/09/05/r...
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From Russia Today's Telegram channel, this morning
August 18, 2025 at 11:12 AM
From Russia Today's Telegram channel, this morning
Latest review & podcast review ... Review of: Habsburgs on the Rio Grande: The Rise and Fall of the Second Mexican Empire, by Raymond Jonas regarp.com/2025/08/03/r...
Review of: Habsburgs on the Rio Grande: The Rise and Fall of the Second Mexican Empire, by Raymond Jonas
Every serious student of the American Civil War knows that its central cause was human chattel slavery. Southern slave economies, deeply destructive to their own natural environments, lusted after …
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August 3, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Latest review & podcast review ... Review of: Habsburgs on the Rio Grande: The Rise and Fall of the Second Mexican Empire, by Raymond Jonas regarp.com/2025/08/03/r...
An outstanding piece by my brilliant friend Ashley Whitehead Luskey that should be republished and mandated as required reading for every American ... Ashley is Asst. Director at CWI Gettysburg www.historians.org/perspectives...
The Future of Our Nation’s Past – AHA
Eight years as an interpretive park ranger at Richmond National Battlefield Park put Ashley Whitehead Luskey on the frontlines of public history.
www.historians.org
August 3, 2025 at 4:11 PM
An outstanding piece by my brilliant friend Ashley Whitehead Luskey that should be republished and mandated as required reading for every American ... Ashley is Asst. Director at CWI Gettysburg www.historians.org/perspectives...
Bogie will always be my favorite actor of all time. Casablanca my favorite film. And this is a great bio of the man and his art, on and off screen. regarp.com/2022/08/31/r...
Review of: Bogart, by A.M. Sperber & Eric Lax
Early in 2022, I saw Casablanca on the big screen for the first time, the 80th anniversary of its premiere. Although over the years I have watched it in excess of two dozen times, this was a stunni…
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August 1, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Bogie will always be my favorite actor of all time. Casablanca my favorite film. And this is a great bio of the man and his art, on and off screen. regarp.com/2022/08/31/r...
Another outstanding book by Angela Saini regarp.com/2021/11/13/r...
Review of: Superior: The Return of Race Science, by Angela Saini
In what has to be the most shameful decision rendered in the long and otherwise distinguished career of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, in 1927 the Supreme Court ruled in Buck v. Bell to uphold a co…
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July 29, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Another outstanding book by Angela Saini regarp.com/2021/11/13/r...
From the start,I have brought up the chilling similarity between the thuggery of masked,heavily-armed ICE agents without IDs or warrants rousting helpless refugees off the streets with the slavecatchers dispatched north to kidnap the escaped enslaved in the 1850s. www.politico.com/news/magazin...
ICE Risks Overplaying Its Hand. We’ve Seen It Happen Before.
Militarized federal encroachments on public life provoke strong, even violent responses — even among those who agree with their aims.
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July 26, 2025 at 5:45 PM
From the start,I have brought up the chilling similarity between the thuggery of masked,heavily-armed ICE agents without IDs or warrants rousting helpless refugees off the streets with the slavecatchers dispatched north to kidnap the escaped enslaved in the 1850s. www.politico.com/news/magazin...
OTD in 1814 near Niagara Falls, British troops commanded by General Phineas Riall thwarted an invasion of Canada by a U.S. force under General Jacob Brown in the Battle of Lundy's Lane. Learn much more about the War of 1812 in this fine history regarp.com/2015/10/01/r...
Review of: The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, & Indian Allies by Alan Taylor
Some years back, I set out to rediscover American history through the best single books I could find to cover each era. I was stymied when I reached the “War of 1812,” where the historiography was …
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July 25, 2025 at 6:11 PM
OTD in 1814 near Niagara Falls, British troops commanded by General Phineas Riall thwarted an invasion of Canada by a U.S. force under General Jacob Brown in the Battle of Lundy's Lane. Learn much more about the War of 1812 in this fine history regarp.com/2015/10/01/r...
Excellent book review by a buddy of mine open.substack.com/pub/williame...
Timothy Snyder’s Bloodlands: A Review
How Hitler and Stalin's fight to control Ukrainian agricultural resources turned Eastern Europe into ground zero for mass killing in the 20th century.
open.substack.com
July 20, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Excellent book review by a buddy of mine open.substack.com/pub/williame...
While we're on the subject of women's rights, this book by Angela Saini should be required reading regarp.com/2023/02/28/r...
Review of: The Patriarchs: The Origins of Inequality, by Angela Saini
“Down With the Patriarchy” is a both a powerful rallying cry and a fashionable emblem broadcast in memes, coffee mugs, tee shirts—and even, paired with an expletive, sung aloud in a popular Taylor …
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July 20, 2025 at 5:01 PM
While we're on the subject of women's rights, this book by Angela Saini should be required reading regarp.com/2023/02/28/r...
OTD in 1848, the women's suffrage movement in the US was launched with the opening of the Seneca Falls Convention. Learn how women's rights became allied with (and later at odds with) Civil Rights during Reconstruction in this fine book by @profmsinha.bsky.social ... regarp.com/2024/12/15/r...
Review of: The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920, by Manisha Sinha
Prior to Civil War, the southern slave power fundamentally directed the destiny of the American Republic, facilitated at least in part by an unfair advantage in representation baked into the Consti…
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July 19, 2025 at 1:21 PM
OTD in 1848, the women's suffrage movement in the US was launched with the opening of the Seneca Falls Convention. Learn how women's rights became allied with (and later at odds with) Civil Rights during Reconstruction in this fine book by @profmsinha.bsky.social ... regarp.com/2024/12/15/r...
OTD in 1940, FDR--usually judged our third greatest president--was nominated for an unprecedented third term. Quite the contrast to the current occupant of the White House. This outstanding bio of FDR is well worth the read regarp.com/2021/10/17/r...
Review of: Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life, by Robert Dallek
When identifying the “greatest presidents,” historians consistently rank Washington and Lincoln in the top two slots; the third spot almost always goes to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who served as c…
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July 18, 2025 at 9:48 PM
OTD in 1940, FDR--usually judged our third greatest president--was nominated for an unprecedented third term. Quite the contrast to the current occupant of the White House. This outstanding bio of FDR is well worth the read regarp.com/2021/10/17/r...
OTD in 1945 The US tested the first atomic bomb near Alamogordo, New Mexico, and the following month dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. It could still mean the end of civilization as we know it. Read this book to find out how close we are regarp.com/2024/10/06/r...
Review of: Nuclear War: A Scenario, by Annie Jacobsen
Try to imagine a one-megaton thermonuclear bomb striking Washington, D.C. You can’t. It’s way beyond your comprehension. It begins with a flash of light that generates heat of one hundred eighty mi…
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July 16, 2025 at 11:09 PM
OTD in 1945 The US tested the first atomic bomb near Alamogordo, New Mexico, and the following month dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. It could still mean the end of civilization as we know it. Read this book to find out how close we are regarp.com/2024/10/06/r...
OTD in 1964, Barry Goldwater was nominated as the Republican candidate for president. The best book about Goldwater and the rise of extremism in the Republican Party is this one by @rickperlstein.bsky.social ... regarp.com/2025/06/25/r...
Review of: Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus, by Rick Perlstein
“We are proud of and shall continue our far-reaching and sound advances in matters of basic human needs—expansion of social security—broadened coverage in unemployment insurance —improved housing—a…
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July 15, 2025 at 1:22 PM
OTD in 1964, Barry Goldwater was nominated as the Republican candidate for president. The best book about Goldwater and the rise of extremism in the Republican Party is this one by @rickperlstein.bsky.social ... regarp.com/2025/06/25/r...
HAPPY BASTILLE DAY! An unintended consequence of the French Revolution was the rise of Napoleon, whose life is chronicled in this outstanding bio regarp.com/2019/11/14/r...
Review of: Napoleon: A Life, by Adam Zamoyski
The most consequential figure of what historians dub Europe’s “long nineteenth century” (1789-1914)—from the start of the French Revolution to the outbreak of World War I—came to virtually define t…
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July 14, 2025 at 6:46 PM
HAPPY BASTILLE DAY! An unintended consequence of the French Revolution was the rise of Napoleon, whose life is chronicled in this outstanding bio regarp.com/2019/11/14/r...
OTD in 1990 Boris Yeltsin resigned from Communist Party. This book details all the missed opportunities by the West in bringing a reborn Russia into the family of nations regarp.com/2017/04/30/w...
Review of: Who Lost Russia?: How the World Entered a New Cold War, by Peter Conradi
There perhaps could not be a more timely and relevant book to see publication than Who Lost Russia: How the World Entered a New Cold War, by Peter Conradi. As this review is written, friction betw…
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July 12, 2025 at 2:57 PM
OTD in 1990 Boris Yeltsin resigned from Communist Party. This book details all the missed opportunities by the West in bringing a reborn Russia into the family of nations regarp.com/2017/04/30/w...