#48 Sidebar: Announcements and Some News From History Twitter
The History of the Americans
Jack Henneman
4.9 • 632 Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2021
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
This episode is off the timeline. We look at the various crimes against humanity to be found on “History Twitter,” the idea of pursuing a “useable” history and the perils therein, whether we should reduce the Constitution to Twitter-friendly labels such as “pro-slavery” or “anti-slavery,” and the disrespect many younger professors and graduate students show for the greatest historian of the American Revolution and the founding period, Brown University’s Gordon Wood, who is still pumping out sharply written books in his late eighties and standing up for history as a discipline. I also talk about some other podcasts that I like.
Oh, and it sounds slightly different because I have a new microphone in Austin and forgot to buy a foam cover for it. That will be fixed next time.
Enjoy!
References for this episode
Gordon Wood, Power and Liberty: Constitutionalism in the American Revolution
Podcasts mentioned
[Abridged] Presidential Histories
The Dishcast with Andrew Sullivan
Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget Phetasy
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the History of the Americans podcast, episode 48. |
| 0:11.4 | I'm your host, Jack Heneman, and I'm recording this on November 18, 2021, in Austin, Texas. |
| 0:20.4 | This episode is a sidebar, announcements and some news from history Twitter. |
| 0:26.6 | As long-standing listeners know a sidebar as an episode off the timeline, the main announcement |
| 0:32.6 | is that I am basically taking a week off. |
| 0:36.6 | Much as I wish to move along the timeline this week, I had several setbacks, including |
| 0:41.8 | my first bad cold and not just two years, but three years, plus a larger than normal dose |
| 0:48.7 | of paying work. |
| 0:51.5 | The cold, which is definitely not the COVID, has handicapped the podcasting in several respects, |
| 0:57.4 | not least of which is that a stuffy nose makes it a lot harder to smoke cigars. |
| 1:04.0 | It turns out that I write about three times faster, chomping on a cigar than chain-drinking |
| 1:09.7 | Diet Cokes. So the cold is a big hit to productivity. chomping on a cigar than chain drinking diet coax. |
| 1:13.6 | So the coal is a big hit to productivity. |
| 1:17.9 | I do have a few things to report and even get off my chest, however. |
| 1:23.7 | So I hope you stick around for this somewhat less scripted and not very historical digression. |
| 1:34.7 | If you are new to the podcast, we are telling the history of the lands now encompassed by the United States from the beginning without presentism. |
| 1:51.4 | We believe there's dignity in our national story, along with tragedy, triumph, brilliance, hypocrisy, magnificence, magnificence, depravity, corruption, venality, inspiration, oppression, oppression, oppression, genius, defeat, and glory. |
| 1:56.2 | Mostly, we hope you enjoy listening to the History of the Americans podcast as much as we enjoy making it, |
| 2:02.6 | and that you tell all your friends, spread the word on your social propaganda website of choice, |
| 2:08.6 | write us a nice review on Apple or wherever you like writing reviews, and subscribe in your |
| 2:14.3 | favorite podcast app. This is, as oft reported, a labor of love, |
| 2:20.1 | and your support is all the motivation I need. We'll start with a little victory lap. We've crossed |
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