Elizabeth Duquette

I’m surprised to be writing this—but thank you for sharing Fitzhugh’s thought. It’s crucial to shed light on this tradition of US thinking and that you use your platform to do so, to share the nuances of the nation’s history when efforts to simplify it are legion, is incredibly valuable to us all.

I would have to go train

Mellowing is overrated

My most sincere condolences for your loss. Sending love, light, and thanks.

Because someone invites you in person, you’re required to accept?

Happy to volunteer! Great grandfather, Louis Duquette, moved to VT at some point around the turn of the 20c. Haven’t found birth certificate yet in Canada bc I haven’t looked much and there were so many Louis Duquettes

So much joy on that intergenerational stage

Started a class on US literature this quarter with the D of I, not the Puritans. Entirely different course and they ate that list of grievances.

HA! I am one of those unhinged people.

This is what I call the tyrannical style in American Tyrannies in the Long Age of Napoleon (Oxford 2023)—shameless plug

I would like this over and over if I could. Grateful for both of you!

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Realism in the news.

a man in a leather jacket is holding a glass and says " and the only prescription " Alt: Christopher Walken “more cowbell” SNL sketch

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A collage of 6 colorful medieval demons tormenting a saint.

We're celebrating 12 Days of Medieval Illuminations. Today, 6 tormenting demons. Which color is your favorite?

I had that phone for ten years!

This was an unforced error. An obvious trap. And, as a college prof of two decades, not great teaching. Of course the essay sucked—that doesn’t mean you take the bait

Similar experience, different book: red badge of courage

Yes

Sheesh, that bag though

Please send it to her!!

No sour cabbage in “the meal” for us—but that was on regular rotation at other times

Cope’s is the best!!

A lot of PA Dutch ancestors here. Potato bread filling (not stuffing) is a treasure (and a pain in the neck since it’s hard to get the bread stale enough in the PNW)

Death by flag—missed that headline.

Perfection

Many, many Americans have a very hard time understanding words. By which I mean actual words disappear or become unimportant so that various fantasies can persist unchallenged. Where race is involved, the tendency becomes overwhelming.

All of which is a long way of saying, yup. That surely happens.

"Politics is not just about power and money games, politics can be about the improvement of peoples lives, about lessening human suffering in our world and bringing about more peace and more justice."
U.S. Senator Paul Wellstone, who died on this day in 2002

Elizabeth Duquette, American Tyrannies in the Long Age of Napoleon Elizabeth Duquette’s American Tyrannies in the Long Age of Napoleon starts with a striking fact: the “magical ubiquity” (4) of the figure of Napoleon Bonaparte in the 19th-century culture of the U...

First review for American Tyrannies!

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I include myself in the bait-taking