- Sarah Palin, stalling for time, says she admires "diversity" of Founding Fathers. Something else she doesn't know: meaning of "diversity." #
- RT @lucyinglis: Most hanged in 18thC London? Butchers (handy weapons?), weavers (poverty?), and cobblers (no bloody idea). #georgianlondon #
- RT @kwnewton: Satan sets Pat Robertson straight in a Letter to the Editor of MINN STAR-TRIB tinyurl.com/ybhdl9e #
- RT @LooknBackward: The Boston Newsboys' Republic in 1909 bit.ly/5UfyN1 #
- RT @2palaver: Somerville MA slave history highlighted in new book "Ten Hills Farm" by C S Manegold- bit.ly/73pObr #
- Nathaniel Philbrick to write account of Bunker Hill battle: bit.ly/4HMlUH #
- RT @rarenewspapers: Insight on newspaper circulations in the 1700s -- bit.ly/4nb2Rv // grain of salt #
- RT @rarenewspapers: Time lag in news w/analysis of Declaration of Independence printing in 1776 -- blog.rarenewspapers.com/?p=1650 #
- COMMON-PLACE: trying to parse inside jokes in an 1802 Newport caricature - bit.ly/7u0rYs #
- COMMON-PLACE: how a scholar approaches a history of emotion in 1700s Pennsylvania - bit.ly/6V9x4J #
- COMMON-PLACE: Pvt. Joseph P. Martin and a soldier's hunt for food: bit.ly/525ZPj With bonus Israel Putnam! #
- RT @history_book: Ireland and Medicine in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (The History of Medicine in Context). j.mp/77qmlT #
- COMMON-PLACE: overlooked list of books offers glimpse of George Wythe's and Thos. Jefferson's libraries: bit.ly/5jcmBe #
- RT @TJMonticello: Special Architecture Tour of Monticello, now thru end of Feb. (including a trip to the Dome Room) bit.ly/4yazUy #
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Better check that escape valve of yours. There's some left-wing stink starting to build up in here.
ReplyDeleteThat “stink” might be the cowardice that accompanies anonymous comments. I prefer the honor of expressing my views under my own name.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Anonymous. The reason I like to read about history is to excape the silly politcs of today. But even that is hard to do as authors always seem to have to slide some barb in there.
ReplyDeleteAnd being anonymous doesn't mean that you are a coward. It might mean that they don't want to remember yet another login name and password.
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It's not like this is the first time J.L. Bells has expressed politics on this blog before.
ReplyDeleteI really hate that no one in this country can just peacefully disagree anymore. But then, knowing what I know of Adams and Jefferson, I guess they couldn't before, either.
People who are proud of their beliefs and willing to stand behind them don’t need “yet another login name and password.” They just need the courage to type their names (or even 1700s-style pseudonyms) at the end of their comments.
ReplyDeleteWhen public figures express themselves on eighteenth-century history and the founding of the U.S. of A., that’s completely within the scope of this website. It’s not like I’m responding to statements about the Federal Reserve or nuclear power.
I think the first anonymous comment is actually a sign of how thin-skinned fans of Sarah Palin and/or Pat Robertson are. I wrote “tweets” of fewer than 140 characters on how those politicians had embarrassed themselves, but even that was too much of a reminder for some.