Tad Stoermer
@tadstoermer.bsky.social
Author of A RESISTANCE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES (Steerforth Press, 2026)
Johns Hopkins University / University of Southern Denmark
Literary Rep: Rachelle Gardner/Gardner Literary
Johns Hopkins University / University of Southern Denmark
Literary Rep: Rachelle Gardner/Gardner Literary
I’ve never liked “cover reveals.” I understand why they matter to publishers, but this one had to tell the truth: no heroes, no marble—just struggle, endurance, and the fight to make freedom real and enduring.
Out next spring from @steerforthpress.bsky.social and @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social
Out next spring from @steerforthpress.bsky.social and @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social
October 14, 2025 at 8:39 AM
I’ve never liked “cover reveals.” I understand why they matter to publishers, but this one had to tell the truth: no heroes, no marble—just struggle, endurance, and the fight to make freedom real and enduring.
Out next spring from @steerforthpress.bsky.social and @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social
Out next spring from @steerforthpress.bsky.social and @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social
Resistance History is Substack’s #1 Rising in History.
There is a sign of the times.
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There is a sign of the times.
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September 2, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Resistance History is Substack’s #1 Rising in History.
There is a sign of the times.
substack.com/@tadstoermer...
There is a sign of the times.
substack.com/@tadstoermer...
While everyone watched the Trump/Musk bromance breakup, the @nehgov.bsky.social dropped this insanity.
Want NEH funding? Better toe the line on American Exceptionalism. No critical takes allowed. Cue a flood of garbage history projects for the next few years…at least.
Want NEH funding? Better toe the line on American Exceptionalism. No critical takes allowed. Cue a flood of garbage history projects for the next few years…at least.
June 6, 2025 at 11:23 PM
While everyone watched the Trump/Musk bromance breakup, the @nehgov.bsky.social dropped this insanity.
Want NEH funding? Better toe the line on American Exceptionalism. No critical takes allowed. Cue a flood of garbage history projects for the next few years…at least.
Want NEH funding? Better toe the line on American Exceptionalism. No critical takes allowed. Cue a flood of garbage history projects for the next few years…at least.
Do not miss Ava DuVernay's powerful speech. It is a call to arms for all of us who do this work -- and those who still need to get on board with it.
open.substack.com/pub/avaduver...
open.substack.com/pub/avaduver...
May 10, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Do not miss Ava DuVernay's powerful speech. It is a call to arms for all of us who do this work -- and those who still need to get on board with it.
open.substack.com/pub/avaduver...
open.substack.com/pub/avaduver...
Germany is treating history like a weapon against tyranny. America treats it like a costume party. One learned. The other lies.
#resistancehistory
#resistancehistory
May 3, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Germany is treating history like a weapon against tyranny. America treats it like a costume party. One learned. The other lies.
#resistancehistory
#resistancehistory
Said a lot about the Smithsonian Executive Order and this regime’s love of white enslavers yesterday, but what triggered them? A line about spray paint.
A day in the life of resistance history.
A day in the life of resistance history.
March 29, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Said a lot about the Smithsonian Executive Order and this regime’s love of white enslavers yesterday, but what triggered them? A line about spray paint.
A day in the life of resistance history.
A day in the life of resistance history.
March 26, 2025 at 11:43 PM
This is the vision set by the new head of the IMLS.
Sit with this for a minute.
Then scream loudly.
Sit with this for a minute.
Then scream loudly.
March 21, 2025 at 10:57 PM
This is the vision set by the new head of the IMLS.
Sit with this for a minute.
Then scream loudly.
Sit with this for a minute.
Then scream loudly.
All those years in New Orleans taught me one thing: Making a roux for gumbo is like doing honest public history—you either put in the time and do it right, or don’t do it at all. But no matter what, keep stirring.
And if you’re a kid from Baltimore…maybe just stick to the public history.
And if you’re a kid from Baltimore…maybe just stick to the public history.
March 6, 2025 at 4:10 PM
All those years in New Orleans taught me one thing: Making a roux for gumbo is like doing honest public history—you either put in the time and do it right, or don’t do it at all. But no matter what, keep stirring.
And if you’re a kid from Baltimore…maybe just stick to the public history.
And if you’re a kid from Baltimore…maybe just stick to the public history.
As we expected, museums are falling into line.
March 6, 2025 at 12:21 PM
As we expected, museums are falling into line.
This encapsulates where we are.
Democrats for “decorum.”
Today is the Department of Defense deadline for erasing all non-white history from digital resources, such as all websites and social media, reshaping the perception of American history.
Prompting posts like this.
Decorum.
Democrats for “decorum.”
Today is the Department of Defense deadline for erasing all non-white history from digital resources, such as all websites and social media, reshaping the perception of American history.
Prompting posts like this.
Decorum.
March 5, 2025 at 9:50 PM
This encapsulates where we are.
Democrats for “decorum.”
Today is the Department of Defense deadline for erasing all non-white history from digital resources, such as all websites and social media, reshaping the perception of American history.
Prompting posts like this.
Decorum.
Democrats for “decorum.”
Today is the Department of Defense deadline for erasing all non-white history from digital resources, such as all websites and social media, reshaping the perception of American history.
Prompting posts like this.
Decorum.
This is #publichistory leadership.
Thank you, International Federation of Public History!
And, look, it’s, like, *public* and everything.
Follow them at @ifphexplorers.bsky.social
Thank you, International Federation of Public History!
And, look, it’s, like, *public* and everything.
Follow them at @ifphexplorers.bsky.social
March 5, 2025 at 2:58 PM
This is #publichistory leadership.
Thank you, International Federation of Public History!
And, look, it’s, like, *public* and everything.
Follow them at @ifphexplorers.bsky.social
Thank you, International Federation of Public History!
And, look, it’s, like, *public* and everything.
Follow them at @ifphexplorers.bsky.social
The first Black female officer in U.S. military history to die in combat.
2LT Emily Perez was killed in Iraq in 2006, for a country that now refuses to claim her.
The Army has erased her story. As if she never existed.
But history isn’t theirs to erase.
We will not let them disappear her.
2LT Emily Perez was killed in Iraq in 2006, for a country that now refuses to claim her.
The Army has erased her story. As if she never existed.
But history isn’t theirs to erase.
We will not let them disappear her.
March 4, 2025 at 1:44 AM
The first Black female officer in U.S. military history to die in combat.
2LT Emily Perez was killed in Iraq in 2006, for a country that now refuses to claim her.
The Army has erased her story. As if she never existed.
But history isn’t theirs to erase.
We will not let them disappear her.
2LT Emily Perez was killed in Iraq in 2006, for a country that now refuses to claim her.
The Army has erased her story. As if she never existed.
But history isn’t theirs to erase.
We will not let them disappear her.
This isn’t resistance. It’s not even opposition.
It’s Vichy.
It’s Vichy.
March 3, 2025 at 12:41 PM
This isn’t resistance. It’s not even opposition.
It’s Vichy.
It’s Vichy.
Thank you for sharing this.
Check out what the Army is flagging to be pulled. Even words like “respect.”
Check out what the Army is flagging to be pulled. Even words like “respect.”
March 2, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Thank you for sharing this.
Check out what the Army is flagging to be pulled. Even words like “respect.”
Check out what the Army is flagging to be pulled. Even words like “respect.”
Chilling. The Post enters the Post-Truth era.
Go after honest history. Go after ethical journalism. Go after difference in opinion.
Go after honest history. Go after ethical journalism. Go after difference in opinion.
February 26, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Chilling. The Post enters the Post-Truth era.
Go after honest history. Go after ethical journalism. Go after difference in opinion.
Go after honest history. Go after ethical journalism. Go after difference in opinion.
Now “Queer” and “Q+” are gone, too.
The National Park Service has reduced LGBTQ+ to LGB.
The National Park Service has reduced LGBTQ+ to LGB.
February 14, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Now “Queer” and “Q+” are gone, too.
The National Park Service has reduced LGBTQ+ to LGB.
The National Park Service has reduced LGBTQ+ to LGB.
More to the point, Marc Bloch died for that. But not before giving us a great gift in the mechanics and harsh realities of weak opposition and effective resistance.
February 12, 2025 at 3:35 PM
More to the point, Marc Bloch died for that. But not before giving us a great gift in the mechanics and harsh realities of weak opposition and effective resistance.
We’re in a fight for democracy and these people….
February 4, 2025 at 9:08 PM
We’re in a fight for democracy and these people….
Starting today, this regime takes aim on your history, promoting a nationalist fantasy in our military.
No one can say that “founding documents” were racist and sexist.
And everyone must be taught that
“America and its founding documents remain the most powerful force for good in human history.”
No one can say that “founding documents” were racist and sexist.
And everyone must be taught that
“America and its founding documents remain the most powerful force for good in human history.”
January 28, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Starting today, this regime takes aim on your history, promoting a nationalist fantasy in our military.
No one can say that “founding documents” were racist and sexist.
And everyone must be taught that
“America and its founding documents remain the most powerful force for good in human history.”
No one can say that “founding documents” were racist and sexist.
And everyone must be taught that
“America and its founding documents remain the most powerful force for good in human history.”
Yes, “confusion” is the key word. 4 months later, CW is, indeed, deeply confused about many things.
Such as honest history.
Such as honest history.
January 27, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Yes, “confusion” is the key word. 4 months later, CW is, indeed, deeply confused about many things.
Such as honest history.
Such as honest history.
Just how bad is this book?
Franklin’s enslaved people are “servants”.
Deborah doesn’t accompany Franklin to Europe because “he could never persuade her to leave Philadelphia”
William Temple Franklin was named after William Franklin’s….law school. (No, he was named for the Earl of Temple)
🤦🏼♂️
Franklin’s enslaved people are “servants”.
Deborah doesn’t accompany Franklin to Europe because “he could never persuade her to leave Philadelphia”
William Temple Franklin was named after William Franklin’s….law school. (No, he was named for the Earl of Temple)
🤦🏼♂️
January 26, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Just how bad is this book?
Franklin’s enslaved people are “servants”.
Deborah doesn’t accompany Franklin to Europe because “he could never persuade her to leave Philadelphia”
William Temple Franklin was named after William Franklin’s….law school. (No, he was named for the Earl of Temple)
🤦🏼♂️
Franklin’s enslaved people are “servants”.
Deborah doesn’t accompany Franklin to Europe because “he could never persuade her to leave Philadelphia”
William Temple Franklin was named after William Franklin’s….law school. (No, he was named for the Earl of Temple)
🤦🏼♂️
A sign of the times from today’s @theguardian.com
This is a stark warning: memory alone isn’t enough. Without accountability, vigilance, and honest reckoning with the past, the patterns repeat. Public historians must confront the uncomfortable truths of both past and present.
This is a stark warning: memory alone isn’t enough. Without accountability, vigilance, and honest reckoning with the past, the patterns repeat. Public historians must confront the uncomfortable truths of both past and present.
January 26, 2025 at 2:46 PM
A sign of the times from today’s @theguardian.com
This is a stark warning: memory alone isn’t enough. Without accountability, vigilance, and honest reckoning with the past, the patterns repeat. Public historians must confront the uncomfortable truths of both past and present.
This is a stark warning: memory alone isn’t enough. Without accountability, vigilance, and honest reckoning with the past, the patterns repeat. Public historians must confront the uncomfortable truths of both past and present.