BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: Five months ago, we learned that ICE seized drawings and letters from children in the Dilley ICE concentration camp. I sued under the Freedom of Information Act. Today, I got responsive documents. www.muellershewrote.com/p/breaking-e...

BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: ICE Seized Drawings from Children in Detention. I Sued, and Today I Got Them.

Five months ago, I filed a Freedom of Information Act Request for papers seized from children at the Dilley ICE Detention Center. Today, I got a heartbreaking response.

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Friends familiar with material culture in the late eighteenth century: what kinds of irons is she requesting? "Large handsome ___ irons, Mama thinks she could dispose of them here when she leave the place." THANKS!

This is utterly insane. Some conservative talking head, who clearly knows nothing about colonial history or the events of 1792/3, giving a kid a lecture full of nonsense. Trump's America250 is totally deranged. newrepublic.com/post/212559/...

Far-Right Host at Trump State Fair Lectures Kid on Salem Witch Trials

A crowd of dozens of people watched the bizarre exchange.

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Shout out to @drhardesty.bsky.social for bringing Ezekiel Price’s Notarial Records to my attention. Here’s Lancaster Hill, a free man of color in Boston, purchasing his own infant child from his wife Margaret’s enslaver, physician Sylvester Gardiner, in 1761. These are painful documents to read 🗃️

I always use the "A Society of Patriotic Ladies, at Edenton" mezzotint in my Revolution course. But I never appreciated the ways the image distorts the historical moment, nor its complicated afterlife through the Jim Crow Era! Read Nancy Parode's new essay here: journals.h-net.org/America250/a...

May 19, 1776: Plagued by desertion from his force stationed at Halifax, British Gen. William Howe makes an offer to pardon all those who ran away if they surrender before June 24 and enlist in the newly organized Loyal Nova Scotia Volunteers.

Loyalist Jonathan Sewall never forgave his former friends and neighbors for this. Writing to his cousin, Mehitable (Robie) Higginson, in September 1783, he noted, "I assure you, if my Estate was now to be offered me, upon Condition my returning to take possession of it, I would not accept it."

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May 4, 1776: The Massachusetts Provincial Congress creates a committee to take control of the property of loyalists who left Boston and to lease the land, provided "there will be allowed to the wives and children of such obnoxious persons” some value of their holdings needed for their support.

Buffalo plays the Canadian anthem even when Canadian teams aren't present. And when the microphone cut out the people did the job admirably. That's what neighbours do. Buffalo proud. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdFv...

Buffalo fans finish CANADIAN national anthem after mic issues

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I'm in this new volume from Cornell Press, full of really interesting essays about New York and the Revolution: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

Fire and Freedom by edited by Thomas S. Wermuth, Devin Lander, Jennifer Lemak, and Robert Chiles. foreword by Russell Shorto | Hardcover | Cornell University Press

More than two hundred and fifty years after the revolution began, Fire and Freedom invites readers to rediscover America's journey to independence. Showcasing New York's central role in the revolution...

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We're extremely grateful to have hosted the brilliant Mi'kmaw historian Mercedes Peters last Friday. It was a full house at the NB Sports Hall of Fame, where - in a lovely coincidence - Mercedes' dad Jason Peters is honoured for his contributions to Indigenous sports!

In Springsteen’s words: everybody has a Hungary heart

Hi (again) early America crew: I'm a little stuck on an idea and would love some suggestions. I want to read more about extended kinship networks in the colonies. How did relatives provide for orphaned and fatherless the children of brothers/sisters/cousins/etc.? As always, thanks!!

I'd appreciate a boost from all my Early America friends: The 2nd volume of "Remembering the Revolution at 250" has published! 🥳 It features a great article by Chris Minty and Nadine Delia exploring the near absence of the Loyalists from British public memory. journals.h-net.org/America250/i...

Last week, the people of Boston celebrated 250 years since the British evacuated the peninsula. But what about those forced to flee with them? Thanks to Nikki and Jake at @hubhistory.com for the invitation to discuss the "other side" of Evacuation Day.. www.hubhistory.com/episodes/loy...

Loyalists in the Siege and Evacuation of Boston, with Dr. Patrick G O’Brien (episode 349) - HUB History: Boston history podcast

What does it mean to lose your home to a war you hoped would never come? In the popular imagination, the American Revolution is a black and white story of “Good Patriots” versus “Bad British,” but the...

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A powerful look at how women’s writing during the Seven Years’ War reveals the raw emotion, loss, and humanity often hidden in colonial archives. A moving reminder that behind every global conflict are intimate stories worth remembering. @tlecaque.bsky.social ageofrevolutions.com/2026/03/02/h...

Heartbreak on the Colonial Front: Women’s Writing, the Seven Years War, and Humanity in the Archive

By Thomas Lecaque This article is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Patrick Lecaque, 1/15/1949-10/11/2025, who taught his son the joy of history, of research, of discovery, and to find the individuals…

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250 years ago today, Massachusetts won its independence as the British evacuated Boston. Listen to our latest podcast to learn about the unlikely Continental successes that added up to a nearly miraculous victory. www.hubhistory.com/episodes/bos...

Boston's Independence Day: Evacuation Day at 250 (episode 348) - HUB History: Boston history podcast

2026 marks the 250th anniversary of American independence, and here in Boston Independence Day comes early, on a holiday we celebrate every year on March 17 as Evacuation Day.  In the early months of ...

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Versatile, adaptable, and ready to step into many roles. In #AHAPerspectives, AHA director of teaching and learning Brendan Gillis argues that history majors are the utility infielders of the workforce baseball team. 🗃️

Utility Infielders for Hire – AHA

History majors build successful careers across a wide range of fields.

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The Marblehead merchant John Sparhawk explaining why he did not store proscribed goods in 1769 as required by non-importation really demonstrates the humanity of it all. "Importing goods was the only means I had of supporting myself and my family;—which I tho’t was as much as my country did demand.”

Getting shown up in the arena of elite impunity by *the British monarchy* is an incredible “America at 250!” achievement

2026 Olympic Games: Mitch Marner wins it for Canada in win-or-go-home hockey quarterfinal #TeamCanada #Canada 🍁 www.cbc.ca/sports/olymp...

2026 Olympic Games: Mitch Marner wins it for Canada in win-or-go-home hockey quarterfinal | CBC

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For more than a century, Canadians have seen something of themselves in the sport of hockey. Canada's Game by Andrew C. Holman looks at hockey's ability to reflect Canadian identity. buff.ly/ZJ7iN2W

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Bad Bunny’s closing messages during his Super Bowl performance: “The only thing more powerful than hate is love” “Together, we are America”

You mean to tell me it was all a farce? 🫢 www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/kid...

Kid Rock Mocked for Lip Syncing Through MAGA Super Bowl Stunt

The country rock star headlined Turning Point USA’s MAGA-fied Super Bowl halftime show.

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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

Douglas Hildebrand of @ubcpress.bsky.social provides an overview of the UP landscape in Canada for #FeedingTheElephant. "It’s a business that makes absolutely no business sense but is crucial to national conversations on various subjects and in exporting Canadian ideas to the world," he writes.

The NYT discovers the theory behind reading historical texts: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/m...

Don’t Keep a Diary. Embrace the Fragments of Real Life Instead.

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I'm quoted in this in-depth story about how Trump uses history to support his authoritarian agenda and to go after his enemies. As I put it, the "enemies that matter [to Trump] are in the present: us, history professors, journalists." tinyurl.com/32n7948b

Trump's war on history

As America's 250th anniversary approaches, the president wants to control the country's future by bulldozing its past.

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Mother Jones@motherjones.com · 6mo ago

Trump wants to control the country’s future by rewriting its past. For the latest issue of our magazine, @dfriedman.bsky.social and @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social explain how the president is weaponizing history to wage his never-ending cultural and legal battles. Read it here: tinyurl.com/32n7948b

While living in FL, I often forget how the real world works. So, please help me out: Does anyone else regularly (like 2-3 times a week) have college-age kids (mostly young men with those silly haircuts) knock on their door trying to sell them solar panels, security systems, etc.?

"Every one with this writ may be a tyrant; if this commission be legal, a tyrant in a legal manner also may control, imprison, or murder any one within the realm."- James Otis on general warrants by the Crown (1761).

ICE Expands Power of Agents to Arrest People Without Warrants

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