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The American Revolution was a good thing.

America at its best: The Velvet Underground

Feeding the Atlantic Market: Enslaved Somatic Energy in Illinois Country Agriculture Enslaved bodies were exploitable natural resources.

"Sugar profits were augmented through coerced somatic energy from enslaved labour in Caribbean and Lower Louisianian colonies." - Emma Bock

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#envhist #aghist #blackhistory #labour

The Importance of St. Clair’s Defeat In the fall of 1791, Gen. Arthur St. Clair pushed an unready, ill-trained, and poorly supplied American army of militia and regulars into the woods of

Hey all, I did this thing which came out today
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Column | What separates a lake from a pond? What about creeks and rivers? In parts of America, even the smallest ponds are “lakes” and tiny streams are “rivers.” What gives?

Do you call your local waterway a stream, kill, run, lick, or arroyo?

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maybe because he wasn't a very good quarterback 🤷

Also universities.

Nullification Crisis of 1832 vibes

Hi friends, does anyone have digital access to "The adorable ways of God in his sovereign government, particular over the powers of this” by Petrus van Driessen? 1726 publication, I know the Gilder Lehrman has a digital copy, not sure if other places do. Thank you in advance!

I'm quite excited for @earlymodjustice.bsky.social/Holly Brewer's forthcoming book The King's Slaves. How African slavery arrived to North America is misunderstood and often clouded by contemporary political issues. Brewer's argument is both shocking and convincing.

“In an average year, some two hundred million tons of sediment are in transport in the river. This is where the foreland Rockies go, the western Appalachians. Southern Louisiana is a very large lump of mountain butter…”

-John McPhee, The Control of Nature

To fight loss, Passamaquoddy speakers are talking new life into their language Elders say it's not too late to save their mother tongue, and a younger generation is stepping up to help.

Good article from on language revitalization efforts among the Passamaquoddy Indians in eastern Maine.
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Contested Currents provides a new explanation for the social and environmental changes that transformed America into the industrial capitalist society that would sweep across the continent.

Rivers were the primary energy source in early America; like the pipelines and coal plants of our time, controversy and conflict surrounded them. By uncovering the violent story behind the first dams to cross American rivers...

Contested Currents – Penn Press

My book has a (preliminary) page @pennpress.bsky.social ! Contested Currents: Rivers and the Remaking of New England will be published in October 2026. www.pennpress.org/978151283015...

It was an opportunity for historians to interact with the public and bring their work out of the ivory tower. But their exodus to this highly censored echo chamber site reveals that historians prefer the protection of the ivory tower, and that they would rather talk AT the public than with them.

Proud to say, my former PhD student Jack Bouchard, now at Rutgers University, has published an outstanding new work in Atlantic history: *Terra Nova: Food, Water, and Work in an Early Atlantic World*, with Yale University Press. Congratulations, Jack!

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assistant professor, associate professor, grad student

‘Nickname’ is not ‘nick’ + ‘name.’

It was originally ‘ekename.’

‘Eke’ was the Middle English word for “also” or “in addition.”

Since ‘ekename’ began with a vowel, people used ‘an’ before it.

Over time, 'an ekename' became 'a nickname.'

Restoring Balance to the Kennebec River An innovative agreement sets the stage for TNC and partners to restore the river’s ecological health while strengthening the region’s economic vitality.

Big conservation news on Maine's Kennebec River! The Nature Conservancy has reached an agreement with Brookfield Renewable to purchase 4 dams on prime sea-run fish spawning habitat. #envhst

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Penobscot Nation to reclaim 1,700 acres in rural Maine as tribe grows land holdings The Appalachian Mountain Club is repatriating the parcel to its former Indigenous stewards as part of a larger acquisition finalized Tuesday.

This new land will be used to forward the Penobscot Tribe of Maine's first priority: restoring Atlantic Salmon runs.
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I thought Corey Booker had claim to the Mr. PH throne. We seem to have a challenger.

French fashion and the devil go hand in hand.

#OTD September 11, 1692, in Salem Village Reverend Samuel Parris preaches on Revelation 17:14 "These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them."

would gun laws have prevented this tragedy?

Congratulations to Kid!

Atlantic sunset: “as everyone knows, meditation and water are wedded for ever” saith Herman Melville.