HeyJaredTad Stoermer
Taylor ("Tad") Stoermer teaches public history as a lecturer in the Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies program at Johns Hopkins. He is also the Film and Digital Media Editor of The Public Historian.
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Does Dana Bash Want You to Think Hitler Was a Product of Too Much Democracy? (opens the original)
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An excerpt from a new book by Dana Bash and David Fisher, published weeks before the midterms, points to Weimar Germany's multiparty, proportional democracy as the weakness that let extremists in and produced Hitler.The Germans themselves concluded the opposite. After the catastrophe, they didn't reject multiparty democracy and proportional representation. They leaned into them — and so did most of Europe. What they rejected was what actually produced the catastrophe: enabling too few people to
Farewell, the Enlightenment. We hardly knew you. (opens the original)
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For those of you puzzling over what Talarico just said about rights for trans people, think about this: Universal rights are a fundamental belief. It’s total. The minute you start carving it up with “but” or “except for,” something else, something you hold more important, is doing the work. For many of the American founders it was pretty simple. You can draw a quite uncomplicated straight line from the value they placed on those beliefs in 1776 to their pocketbooks. All men are created equal. Ex
Isaac Jefferson vs. Monticello: A Fight Over Freedom (opens the original)
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In A Resistance History of the United States, I wrote that Isaac Jefferson, enslaved by Thomas Jefferson, was freed by the British in 1781, returned to slavery by George Washington’s army after Yorktown, and remained enslaved for the rest of his life. Monticello’s website says he later gained his freedom and was a free man in Petersburg by 1847. It also admits it doesn’t know how.This video is about how historians answer a question like this one. In Virginia, Black freedom was a legal status mad
Hasan Piker and the 100-Year-Old Campaign to Make the Left Anti-American (opens the original)
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What does Hasan Piker have to do with fights between the American right and left exactly one hundred years ago — and the U.S. Constitution? Quite a lot, as I see it.Today, the American right — and establishment Democrats — are laying into Piker. Why? The topline answer is something he said on a livestream. Warning that conflating American Jews with Israel makes Jews less safe, Piker said that if American Jews continue to present the idea that they are “singularly invested in Israel,” someone wil
Resistance History Notes and Sources Project: Call for “Beware of False Prophets” (opens the original)
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The notes and sources for A Resistance History of the United States are going online — the sourcing, the corrections, the explanations that didn’t make it into the book. Read more
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