Amusing to see someone claim I'm insufficiently Las Vegan and cannot even get the correct endonym. Nitwit, I've forgotten more about the valley than you are capable of knowing about anything

The magic of VidCon is truly lost when you cannot get more than a dozen random EduTubers singing about how everybody's a little bit racist accompanied by a backpack ukulele from an offhanded comment

25 years ago, I was in the 8th grade helplessly watching the attacks happen. A decade later, I fought the war 9/11 caused. Another decade later, we lost that war and I earned my PhD studying American violence. Here is my episode explaining why all that happened:

What Caused the War on Terror? (feat. Hikma History)

It’s been a decade since I fought in Afghanistan, and a decade before that began. Yet somehow, we’re still fighting there. Perhaps we’re finally the end of it, but the beginning is so far away that…

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Sinclair Lewis becomes more relevant every day, because it (fascism) has happened here

This is obviously a glitch in YouTube Studio, but it was very disconcerting to see a different user's profile-pic for my own comment on my own channel

Seen a ton of stuff about "why Las Vegas is dying," most of which suck. So here's a quick explanation with the necessary perspective: youtube.com/shorts/IyZ_g...

Why Las Vegas is Dying

If you wanna know why Las Vegas has seen a recent and sudden drop in visitors, you need to look at the history of the industry and how it reacts to systemic changes - from the 1940s creation of the…

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Seems that the anniversary of Charlie Kirk's assassination has prompted a lot of re-appraisals of what happened, including tons of nonsense about the state of political violence. Here is my video answering that as a historian of American violence: youtu.be/8eVwx7BmeJw

We need to discuss assassinations and American violence

This video explores the history of political violence in the USA, specifically focusing on events that constitute a political assassination. Understanding the roots of these incidents requires an…

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Trump cannot unilaterally rename international bodies of water nor states, but he can for streets in DC. Rechristening New Mexico Avenue as "New America" with a big ceremony would be as hilarious as his sad #Freedom250 farce.

Weird reading about the Bundy standoff as a significant historical event. I had only recently moved to California and personally knew some people involved, let alone local political figures I'm familiar with. Like reading about fights in Afghanistan I'm related to

Why is it typically more expensive to fly to a cruise than the cruise itself (if it's far away)? You'd think traveling the Mediterranean, all expenses paid for two weeks, would cost more than getting there

Bought a $450 drone for this project. Further proof that the new viewcount is BS. Please watch if you haven't yet youtu.be/gZnrkzYM9SI

When a debate becomes interlocutors interrupting or absorbing opponent's timing, moderators have failed and the procedure is illegitimate. Whether fact-checking should be necessary is open to debate 😜 Either way, most internet users has no clue what a debate is

Something a lotta outsiders don't realize about Las Vegas is that it's a union town and has been since the 1960s. Reason it grows so quickly (though not as much as 1989-08); laborers at resorts make a good living. That's thanks to unions. The famous mob influence was … 1/3

This senile ingrate has truly lost the plot. New Mexico (1598) is older that Mexico (1821). It's named after the Mexica Valley, where Mexico City is today. You ain't getting one over on our southern neighbor. Trump yet again proves he hates history

Been awhile since I announced one of my normal editing streams, but I'm working on the cut of our reaction to Walsh's atrocious "real history" on twitch.tv/cynicalhisto... right now

There are only a few ethical uses of AI for HistoryTubers, such as colorizing images, finding the original source of something, and quality checking wording. These are simply glorified tools that long predate generative AI. Pretty much any other usage is contemptible

I acquired a drone to assemble an ambitious episode about attending all Albuquerque museums. Check it out: youtu.be/gZnrkzYM9SI

I Went to Every Museum in Albuquerque

I went to every museum in Albuquerque and wanna talk about it. For a medium sized city, there’s a bunch of museums in Albuquerque with a huge variety. I’ll tell y’all what to know ahead of going to…

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I created an Amazon storefront that has lists of books used (in selected bibliographies) for 2 years of episodes. I'll add more years later, but you can check it out here: a.co/d/04fCDUNB

I've heard of junk dollars, but this is ridiculous

Is it weird that I've been listening to this mostly while I eat, walk to lunch, make dinner, or take a shower? Could you stomach that?

I turned 38 yesterday and to celebrate… my Jeep broke down. Had a battery terminal deteriorate internally. Easy fix but costly to diagnose. At least I've got a fun episode on visiting local museums releasing Thursday

Been researching the next chapter of my book and I've taken to abbreviating the event I'm studying in my notes as LA71. Any guess what I'm gonna write about? Give you a clue: 71 - 22 = The Forty-Niners

Notice when TeamYouTube implemented this new view counting nonsense. They destroyed one of the few reliable measurements we had for videos. Watch time doesn't work, because the amount depends on the length of the video itself. How am I to measure success now?

Many LeftyTubers use PragerU's puppeteered John Adams spewing Ben Shapiro quotes. Genuine question: Was I the first to highlight that? I was flabbergasted by their desperate depravity in that moment. Here's me discovering it live on July 17th, 2025 www.youtube.com/live/5IHPKYF...

An incredibly insipid part of the culture war is how chuds always boil historical media down to whether it's "woke" or not. There's better discussions to have about such depictions and their significance to our understanding of the past. Chuds invalidate their own opinions

Maybe because it's the Huron word for "great lake," so it's not "your own history." Leave it to Matt Walsh to turn this into another way to erase indigenous people from history. After his abhorrent "real history of American Indians," his racism holds no bounds

I've had several comments already - so let me explicit: Chief of War is NOT comparable to Woman King whatsoever. They make completely different mistakes and one is significantly worse than the other altogether. Please acquire better correlations

There's some funny choices that demonstrate his tyrannical impulses. The use of AI pics reveals lacking creativity. And it excludes WHHarrison, Garfield, Truman, Ike, LBJ, Nixon, Ford, Reagan, & both Bushes - proving his historical illiteracy

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this is so incredible I can’t stop laughing because he forgot to include Reagan

Dude couldn't come up with a better name to troll with? Lake INFERIOR was so obvious, but this dimwitted doddering dictator doesn't discern dictionary definitions. At least have fun while trampling every principle and alliance America once cherished

Star and Stripes was a genuinely great newspaper, but Hegseth ruined it. MAGA has ruined WaPo, CBS, PBS, NPR, Pentagon press access, and so much more. Coinciding with their destruction of education, America is well into a fascist takeover of public perception