David Sorkin - The Emancipationists

Nineteenth-Century Jews' Campaign for Citizenship

À paraître en septembre aux Yale UP

this reminds me, i don't think SCOTUS should be allowed to choose their own clerks. standardize the hiring schedule, put the applications in a pool, blind reads (perhaps by a panel of former clerks) and random assignments.

Antisemitism in America isn't just a conspiracy theory — it has been a political project to deny Jews equal rights. Historian Britt Tevis makes the case with 178 archival documents. Interview in the Documensch newsletter and on our website.

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Stevens to RFK Jr: "To top it off, Mr Secretary, I got a copy of HR-944. You know what it is? It's your impeachment articles, sir. You have abused your office, you have gutted America's public health! You should be ashamed."

Thank you!

Sanctioned Bigotry A first-ever documentary history of antisemitism in the United States, spanning five centuries In a 1790 letter to Rhode Island Jewish leader Moses Seixas, ...

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Grateful for the chance to discuss my forthcoming volume, SANCTIONED BIGOTRY, out next month with @yalepress.bsky.social

Why do we even bother with endnotes--this is my personal pet peeve as a historian, I need to read the spicy, sassy, whiny footnotes immediately

Every single one of the astronauts who went to the moon and back on Artemis II was educated at a public school.

Thinking of the teachers who poured into Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen tonight. You helped send a kid to the moon!

🌕 💛

Bone-chilling.

description from Huntington library: "A lithograph printed on heavy paper. Satirical "death certificate" issued for the Southern Confederacy. Mourning border, each line in different typeface, with: Died, Near the South-Side Rail Road, / on Sunday, April 9th, 1865, / The Southern Confederacy, / Aged Four Years, / Conceived in Sin, Born in iniquity, Nurtured by Tyranny, Died of / a Chronic Attack of Punch. / Abraham Lincoln, Attending Physician. / U.S. Grant, Undertaker. / Jeff Davis, Chief Mourner. Below in smaller print an epitaph that ends with: And this one line shall grace your grave-- / Your death gave freedom to the slave." https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/collection/p16003coll6/id/5033

to all who celebrate...

GENERAL LEE AND HIS ARMY HAVE SURRENDERED! SLAVERY AND TREASON BURIED IN THE SAME GRAVE! America by the grace of God free and independent Dawning of the day of peace All honor to the gallant brave

SLAVERY AND TREASON BURIED IN THE SAME GRAVE

photo of the dish towel used as a white flag at Appomattox

On this day, 1865: the last Confederate flag, a white dish towel.

We believe Jefferson Davis to be the worst man in all history.

On Confederate Surrender Day, I give you the Liberator's take on Jefferson Davis: "We believe Jefferson Davis to be the worst man in all history. He was a repudiator and slaveholder. He has been a secessionist, a traitor and rebel....He has sedulously endeavored to subvert our free institutions."

Pictures of front and in back of new book about antisemitism in USA

yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

Selected Negative Teaching Evaluations of Jesus Christ Our 4th most-read article of 2022. CALENDAR 2027 3/31/24 4/13/25 4/5/26

"By week one, I was already tired of his anti-rich, pro-Samaritan bullshit. I wanted to take a course in Christianity, not liberalism."

I canvassed in Waukesha in 2012 for the recall election of then governor Scott Walker and had many a door shut in my face. What a win!

Pictures of front and in back of new book about antisemitism in USA

yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

This seems like a good thread to share the wonderful B corp Bookshop dot org. You can order their books and have all the profits go to the local bookstore of your choice! I’m not affiliated with them at all, just a fan! e-books also available, I use a BOOX Palma as reader.
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#ICE #EndICECamps #ICEOut

Georgia Army veteran deported by ICE after 50 years in U.S. Godfrey Wade was arrested by immigration authorities following a traffic stop and was deported because of minor criminal violations from 20 years ago.

Awful

www.ajc.com/news/2026/02...

In light of the State Department's Easter post on X, I wanted to share that the first chapter of my book, out in May, discusses the blurring of church and state as a central example of antisemitism in US history.

Sanctioned Bigotry A first-ever documentary history of antisemitism in the United States, spanning five centuries In a 1790 letter to Rhode Island Jewish leader Moses Seixas, ...

yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

there is only one right answer regarding birthright citizenship. that it's even being entertained as an open question legit makes me feel physically unwell

Justice! Happy to offer free advertising (for the First Amendment): www.syracuse.com/news/2026/03...

What Pete Hegseth’s Spiritual Mentor Wants for America Pastor-theologian Douglas Wilson advocates theocracy, the restriction of the franchise from women and nonbelievers, and much else—and he is closer than ever to real power.

New reporting underscores the rise of Christian nationalism in our military.

A government steered by religion cannot serve all of us — threatening the rights and freedoms of millions of Americans and the core of our democracy.

@thebulwark.com @julieingersoll.bsky.social

Britt P. Tevis (ed.) - Sanctioned Bigotry

A Documentary History of Antisemitism in the United States

À paraître en mai aux Yale UP

Candace Owen has been spreading falsehoods about the Frank case for several years.

I don’t like it going to another city in the region means having to build in time to download whatever parking app I’m going to be forced to use.

I have a modern Jewish history joke, but it's lachrymose.