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One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America | Kevin M Kruse

This is quite literally the only time you‘re going to hear me chant this... say it with me now... BUILD THAT WALL!!! BUILD THAT WALL!!! BUILD THAT WALL!!!
#KevinKruse #OneNationUnderGod #history #whyhistorymatters #factsmatter #buildthatwall #whyconservativesdontlikehistorians

TheBookHippie https://www.pbs.org/show/rise-nazis/ If you can watch this and shutter. Hitler having not succeeded at getting democracy destroyed from the outside does it from the inside. FYI he did this in under four years -brought democracy down. Also this is our problem now your quote up there RELIGION SHOULD NOT MAKE LAW. Ever. Period. The government should not control women's bodies.
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TheBookHippie FYI Hitlers slogan was Make Germany Great Again. 3y

GingerAntics @TheBookHippie 🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️ I always suspected it was. Simultaneously, I suspected Make America Great Again wasn‘t original. Nothing that comes out of his mouth is original. He hasn‘t had an original thought in his life. 🙄 3y

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GingerAntics @TheBookHippie that‘s what made me so terrified when he took office. It took Hitler less than 4 years. So far (knock on wood) we‘ve managed with democracy still in fact. The sooner 20 January gets here, the better. 3y

TheBookHippie @GingerAntics tell women to give up their careers and become housewives make it illegal for the news to talk bad about the government make protesting and free speech illegal ... sound familiar ? 3y

GingerAntics @TheBookHippie I think you and I have had this conversation before. I completely agree with you on religion never making law. The founding fathers agreed that religion should never make law. This “wall of separation” thing was in this book and the book before this. My thought was “that‘s the only constitutional wall, and we need to build it back up.” It‘s been torn down brick by brick since the 1930s. 3y

GingerAntics @TheBookHippie yup!!! It‘s truly terrifying. 3y

TheBookHippie @GingerAntics I totally agree. And all these Trump supporters that love books about WW2 and feel moved by the Holocaust ...really do you? Because you‘re siding on the side with the oppressor aka Hitler aka Fascism aka trump and alt right 🤯 3y

TheBookHippie It‘s a long time until January 20 3y

GingerAntics @TheBookHippie I literally have a book in the wings right now called “American Facists.” It‘s all about this very topic. It‘s logical to read it next, but I think I‘m going to wait until 20 January. My anxiety and fear can‘t take it right now. 20 January is frighteningly far away.

American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America

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One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America | Kevin M Kruse

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This is a terrifying book that, as a modern American who is not Christian, is a window into the conservative so-called Christian movement that has now become “the right” and more frighteningly the “alt-right.” For a movement that likes to tell everyone else to “learn your history,” they clearly have no idea about their own. This is such an important book for all Americans. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

GingerAntics I was honestly familiar with most of this history, but hadn‘t linked all of it together in this way before (probably because this faction has taken over the education system and certainly would never allow these provable facts to be taught - just look at the prayer in school nonsense). If I hadn‘t already disliked Billy Graham, this book would certainly have made me dislike him. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 3y

GingerAntics If you are an American that is not Christian, or are the type of Christian that believes people are free to believe what they want, this book will terrify the living daylights out of you, as it should. There is a reason this group doesn‘t want the constitution read or taught beyond the preamble: their argument falls apart when you do. I will now be reading the entire document (all seven articles) that was signed in 1789. 3y

GingerAntics #KevinKruse #OneNationUnderGod #history #whyhistorymatters #factsmatter 3y

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TheBookHippie The entire reason they have their own schools and work tirelessly to destroy public education. It is why they underfund libraries. They are way more evil than you ever dreamed. I've been fighting it for over 30 years.
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TheBookHippie FYI this is why I preach to use the library and demand they have certain books in print. Even if I purchase books myself I make sure to take books out of the library so they will keep them on the shelves. It is why I keep books in kids hands and promote literacy with everything in me. Especially in title one schools. IF everyone were educated at the same level we wouldn't be having this conversation. 3y

GingerAntics @TheBookHippie PREACH!!! To absolutely all of that!!! Yes!!! The sad thing is, they are under educating their own children. I really don‘t get it. It‘s why they don‘t like historians, scholars, separation of church and state (build that wall), science. So many things they despise because they will reveal the monsters these people are. 3y

TheBookHippie @GingerAntics can‘t rule by fear if there‘s knowledge ignorance = fear 3y

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One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America | Kevin M Kruse

This seems like the most logical follow up to Ed Asner‘s “The Grumpy Historian.” It probably won‘t be as funny, but it‘s been on my TBR for ages and this seems to dovetail with part of Asner‘s book quite well.
#KevinKruse #OneNationUnderGod #history #whyhistorymatters #factsmatter

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Libertarians on the Prairie: Laura Ingalls Wilder, Rose Wilder Lane, and the Making of the Little House Books | Christine Woodside

Again, wrong on the historical points. This was not the case for black or brown people in America. Then again, they seemed fine with taking Indian land and outraged when they were told land wasn‘t theirs so they had to leave. 🙄 White privilege on display again, here. #factsmatter #historymatters #whyhistorymatters #ChristineWoodside #LibertariansOnThePrairie #WomenAlsoKnowHistory #LauraRoseReadathon

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Libertarians on the Prairie: Laura Ingalls Wilder, Rose Wilder Lane, and the Making of the Little House Books | Christine Woodside

It‘s quite clear she has never considered the mistreatment of black Americans. Here‘s some historical fact for her, though: racism in America is a hold over from race based slavery in America, which is based on race based slavery from England and other parts of Europe. Feudalism was abolished in England in 1660 with the Tenures Abolition Act of 1660, more than a hundred years before America became a country. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

GingerAntics People moved to the colonies to get away from the remnants of Feudalism, but they brought slavery with them. Rose, honey, you‘re ignorance goes far beyond the poor treatment of black people in America. #whyhistorymatters #historyforthewin #ChristineWoodside #LibertariansOnThePrairie #WomenAlsoKnowHistory #LauraRoseReadathon 4y

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Britain B.C.: Life in Britain and Ireland Before the Romans | Francis Pryor

This needs to be shouted from the bloody roof tops right now on both sides of the pond!!!
#BritainBC #FrancisPryor #LifeBeforeTheRomans #reality #history #archaeology #whyhistorymatters

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Science: A Discovery in Comics | Margreet De Heer

Just for my peace of mind I looked up when the Middle Ages were. I knew, but the reference to "medieval" clothes in the Little Shop of Found Things made me wonder. But, nope, 1605 definitely isn't Middle Ages - it's Tudor or Stuart or Renaissance, but not MA.

Here's a time line for the MA in 3.5 minutes by the author of the tagged book: https://youtu.be/6EAMqKUimr8

Pic shows clothing late 16th and early 17th century

julesG #HistoricalFictionInaccuracyAnnoyanceSupportGroup @CoverToCoverGirl @GingerAntics @JazzFeathers @Weaponxgirl @RavenLovelyReads @Birdsong28 @KCorter 5y

Velvetfur Love this! I love the medieval look, I'll have a look at the link too, thanks for posting 😁 5y

Birdsong28 1605 is the Stuart Era. 📚📖 5y

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julesG @Birdsong28 oh, yes, you are right. It was James I on the throne. Anyway, the style of clothes definitely wasn't medieval. 5y

Birdsong28 @julesG Definitely! Some authors just think medieval is just a quick cover all description for anything around that time. 😁📚📖 5y

julesG @Birdsong28 It's just so disjointed, the main character is an antiques dealer, she knows about clocks, furniture, chatelains,... Can distinguish between different periods, but describes the clothing as medieval? Brackston, the author, put a lot of effort into so many aspects, but falls short in this department. And we all know, it's the little things that can destroy the rapport between novel and reader. 5y

TrishB Can‘t watch you tube as in work, I generally take 1485 and the start of the Tudors as the end of the MA. 5y

julesG @TrishB That's about the date. Lots of historians say Renaissance started with Da Vinci and that puts it at the end of the 1400s. 5y

Emilymdxn My degree in (broadly) Medieval English ended in 1550 and I thought of that as a ‘latest possible‘ date for the end of the Middle Ages tho obvs defining time periods strictly is hard. There‘s an argument to be made for including early Tudor in medieval as the long fifteenth century but I definitely wouldn‘t include the later Tudors or Stuarts by any means! The reformation is my personal cut off for England, earlier in other countries (edited) 5y

julesG @Emilymdxn Sums up what I've learned. I studied medieval history, too. Though from a German perspective. 5y

Emilymdxn @julesG that sounds really cool! I‘d love to have got to do more on the Middle Ages in other countries, I didn‘t get to do Germany at all really 5y

julesG @Emilymdxn I was lucky, I guess. We had a great Prof of medieval history who did a lot on European history of the MA, Christianisation etc. And I learned a lot about British history through my English cultural studies. 5y

GingerAntics Oh my god this is not that had. Get away from that book as quickly as possible. Middle Ages were over by 1400 seriously people!!! #whyhistorymatters 🙄 I swear I will hurt someone. (Not really, but you know me.) 5y

JazzFeathers I agree with @GingerAntics l'd considered 1400 already Renaissance, although l understand that today historians tend to consider the ME as a 1000 year long periode, and so some of them include nearly the entirty of the 1400. But the 1500s? Definitely Renaissance for me. And the 1600s is most certainly beyond that. 5y

JazzFeathers @julesG Yes, details are devilish. Sometimes we authors take things for granted and so we make an historical situation the same as our own time's situation. Some other we think that a detail in a line of dialogue is not so important to look deeper into it. Very easy to fall into this trap. But this way we betray both the story and our readers. 5y

julesG @JazzFeathers Just one of the reasons I don't want to publish my writing, I'm too afraid of mistakes that I made and letting someone down. 😉 - - - ah well, I'm going to write to the publishers once I've finished. Not to mention an honest review on Goodreads 5y

julesG @JazzFeathers It's very interesting to see where everyone here draws the line between MA, Renaissance and Modern History. I learned that the MA were definitely over with the fall of Constantinople in 1453, Renaissance lasted (depending on the POV) from 1400 to 1600. And early modern history ended with the age of revolutions, latest with the French Revolution. But it's all intermingled and the lines are blurry with lots of different influences. 5y

julesG @JazzFeathers Since part of my university training was on linguistics, especially the etymology and history of the English language, so it always bugs me when time travellers to say "Shakespearean" times can talk to people of that time with no problems, just a bit of tweaking to the vocabulary. ??? 5y

JazzFeathers @julesG don't let that hinder you. We all do our best, and when someone calls us out on something, that's an opportunity to learn. I learned a lot by sharing my writing and even more by publishing it 😊 5y

JazzFeathers @julesG What l've learn in the last years - and has actually surprised me - is that contrary to what one may think, history is not set in stone. Our understanding of it is alway changing. New discoveries are made, new ways to connect different times are developed. History IS a living thing. This said, inaccuracy IS a real thing and we're better learn to recognise it. 5y

julesG @JazzFeathers Thanks! Wise words, in both your last comments. 5y

GingerAntics I agree with @JazzFeathers, eras do tend to overlap by 100 years or so because it‘s not like everyone wakes up one day and says “alright, we‘re in a new era now, we‘re doing this now.” So there is over lap, but the overlap between Renaissance and Medieval was the 1300s. The next overlap is the 1600s which is why Shakespeare can be considered late Renaissance or early Early Modern. He‘s really straddling the line. 5y

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Taking Back Childhood: A Proven Roadmap for Raising Confident, Creative, Compassionate Kids | Nancy Carlsson-Paige

And demanding they do so isn‘t going to change that fact.

It‘s sad that this has to be said, but it‘s amazing how many people (including parents and teachers) who genuinely don‘t get this. Apparently they‘re still living in the early modern period when children were seen as tiny adults. 🙄
#NancyCarlssonPaige #TakingBackChildhood #childhood #ChildDevelopment #whyhistorymatters #whychildrenmatter

GingerAntics Then again, I‘m not sure a lot of adults think like adults at the moment. Just look at the Victim-in-Chief. 5y

jessinikkip I've never seen a more true sentence, I don't think. 5y

Weaponxgirl Yes! One of my fave things about my job is trying to work out sometimes how a young person got to a certain thought. What connections were made in their brain as it can be so out there sometimes. 5y

GingerAntics @Weaponxgirl don‘t you just love that? It‘s totally logical to them, and when they explain it to you, you completely understand how they got there and why they think it makes sense. Their little minds are just so awesome. 5y

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A Brief History of the Celts | Peter Ellis

WHY NOT TO MANSPLAIN: BCE Edition
Apparently, women have been dealing with mansplainers for THOUSANDS of years. Too bad (or luckily for the mansplainers) we can‘t take the same actions as our ancient ancestors.
#peterberresfordellis #thecelts #whynottomansplain #bceedition #nomansplainingzone #celtichistory #whyhistorymatters

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Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World | Catherine Nixey

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Just imagine what western society sacrificed - physical and mental health, healthy relationships, healthy sexuality - all for the sake of a philosophy.
After reading this book, I now understand why so many Christians fear history, and how so many Christians actively choose ignorance to their own religious heritage. The history, the facts, the truth is not pretty. It is reminiscent of other regions‘ extremists we now refer to terrorists.

GingerAntics It is amazingly reminiscent of what life is like for non-Christians in America today. Nixey does a wonderful job of bringing this moment in time into stark relief. Her personal antidotes at the beginning really help to paint the picture of her own process of learning these misunderstood, misrepresented, and downright lied about facts. 5y

GingerAntics If you‘re into the Medieval period, religious history in the West, or the Classical World, this book is a must read. Lovely. Readable. Approachable. Worth the time. At first I didn‘t really like this book. It felt like The Swerve and seemed to only rehash what I recently read in that book. 5y

GingerAntics After the initial introductory portion of the book, it took its own turn and focused entirely on Christianity‘s violent rise and it‘s persecution of anyone who was not, or would not become, Christian. If you‘ve ever read Stephen Greenblatt‘s The Swerve you know the structure of this book. It is very similar and yet completely different. The two books are almost like historical bookends that mirror each other. 5y

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GingerAntics The Darkening Age sets out to explain the rise of Christianity and the loss of everything linked to the Classical World. The Swerve talks about the rediscovery of the Classical World. Read both. You get the whole picture that way, and you come away with a strong sense of all that was lost and a great appreciation for the little bits we have left.

The Swerve: How the World Became Modern

GingerAntics I read them backwards in the chronological order of the periods they cover. I would recommend Nixey‘s book first, then Greenblatt‘s. 5y

GingerAntics #catherinenixey #thedarkeningage #theclassicalworld #classicalhumanism #religioushistory #philosophy #whyhistorymatters 5y

LA1 Went looking for this immediately 👍🏽👍🏽 5y

blank Do I really wanna read another book that will make me hate religion even more? Yes. 5y

GingerAntics @laurenslibrary 🤣😂🤣 it‘s like a train wreck. You just can‘t look away. 5y

GingerAntics @LA1 I hope you enjoy it. 5y

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