Zach K. Cho
@zachlaus.bsky.social
History PhD Candidate @ Michigan State University | Coercive Labor Regimes in Spanish FL
Meats: Early American/Early Modern Iberian/Colonial LatAm/Southern History
Sides: Global Food, Philly Sports, Calcio, and Music (Heavy Metal & Outlaw Country)
Meats: Early American/Early Modern Iberian/Colonial LatAm/Southern History
Sides: Global Food, Philly Sports, Calcio, and Music (Heavy Metal & Outlaw Country)
Pairing books & music à la a wine pairing: Ulcerate's Cutting the Throat of God (2024) and Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian (1985)
One sentence summary: the only thing more violent than the Glanton gang may well be Jamie Saint Merat's drumming
#CormacMcCarthy #deathmetal
One sentence summary: the only thing more violent than the Glanton gang may well be Jamie Saint Merat's drumming
#CormacMcCarthy #deathmetal
July 13, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Pairing books & music à la a wine pairing: Ulcerate's Cutting the Throat of God (2024) and Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian (1985)
One sentence summary: the only thing more violent than the Glanton gang may well be Jamie Saint Merat's drumming
#CormacMcCarthy #deathmetal
One sentence summary: the only thing more violent than the Glanton gang may well be Jamie Saint Merat's drumming
#CormacMcCarthy #deathmetal
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Nearly 250 years of a republic struggling to live up to the ideals of its founding documents only to arrive here.
“For 30 or 40 miles…I staggered on, fearing every instant I should be …crushed within the jaws of some disturbed alligator. The dread of them now almost equalled the fear of the pursuing hounds.” -Solomon Northrup, Twelve Years a Slave
June 28, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Nearly 250 years of a republic struggling to live up to the ideals of its founding documents only to arrive here.
Visited the Harvey B. Gantt Center in Charlotte, NC and found this gem in one of the exhibits. Happy #Juneteenth - feel like it's especially important to honor the day this year.
June 19, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Visited the Harvey B. Gantt Center in Charlotte, NC and found this gem in one of the exhibits. Happy #Juneteenth - feel like it's especially important to honor the day this year.
www.ucf.edu/news/ucf-res....
Great read on the history of Castillo de San Marcos, the oldest masonry fort in the continental US, which reveals much about the plight of indigenous Americans: from the repartimientos exacted on the Apalachee, Guale, and Timucua peoples for its construction to this.
Great read on the history of Castillo de San Marcos, the oldest masonry fort in the continental US, which reveals much about the plight of indigenous Americans: from the repartimientos exacted on the Apalachee, Guale, and Timucua peoples for its construction to this.
UCF Researchers Help Restore the Lost History of Indigenous Prisoners in St. Augustine
UCF researchers collaborated with the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes of Oklahoma and Florida and national agencies to restore 10 indigenous prisoners’ experiences for their descendants and the public.
www.ucf.edu
March 20, 2025 at 6:37 PM
www.ucf.edu/news/ucf-res....
Great read on the history of Castillo de San Marcos, the oldest masonry fort in the continental US, which reveals much about the plight of indigenous Americans: from the repartimientos exacted on the Apalachee, Guale, and Timucua peoples for its construction to this.
Great read on the history of Castillo de San Marcos, the oldest masonry fort in the continental US, which reveals much about the plight of indigenous Americans: from the repartimientos exacted on the Apalachee, Guale, and Timucua peoples for its construction to this.
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And also, I will absolutely read those dense footnotes.
And also, I will absolutely read those dense footnotes.
Is writing dense footnotes that no one will ever read tedious? Yes. But is documenting primary source trails an essential act of responsible scholarship in the age of AI? Also yes.
March 18, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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And also, I will absolutely read those dense footnotes.
And also, I will absolutely read those dense footnotes.
Fiorentina v. Juventus - Curva Fiesole paying homage to their Florentine heritage with such eloquence. Dante and Petrarca would be proud.
March 17, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Fiorentina v. Juventus - Curva Fiesole paying homage to their Florentine heritage with such eloquence. Dante and Petrarca would be proud.
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Every now and then a college friend and I (both Virginians) used to talk about the Great Dismal Swamp. Great read about how the area was used as a place of refuge and resistance for both indigenous and black folks alike:
www.smithsonianmag.com/history/deep...
www.smithsonianmag.com/history/deep...
Deep in the Swamps, Archaeologists Are Finding How Fugitive Slaves Kept Their Freedom
The Great Dismal Swamp was once a thriving refuge for runaways
www.smithsonianmag.com
March 14, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Every now and then a college friend and I (both Virginians) used to talk about the Great Dismal Swamp. Great read about how the area was used as a place of refuge and resistance for both indigenous and black folks alike:
www.smithsonianmag.com/history/deep...
www.smithsonianmag.com/history/deep...