Join me next Friday as I spend an hour talking about a guy who was only president for a month! www.potuspages.com/apl-series
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Anybody want to watch me talk about King Andrew Jackson for about an hour? ▶️ www.potuspages.com/blog/andrew-...
If you’re not subscribed to Broad History, you’re missing out! (And not just because the latest email includes my doodles… but yeah, I’m nerding out this morning 🤓) Abigail Adams, capitalist www.broadhistory.com/abigail-adam...
Abigail Adams, capitalist
She made a killing in war bonds (and possibly insider trading). None of the money was technically hers
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Flashback to my 12 Days of Presidents: www.potuspages.com/blog/12-days
I had way too much fun writing about Peter Stuyvesant, Gouverneur Morris, Dan Sickles, and William Astor Chanler. Check it out here: open.substack.com/pub/potuspag...
It's Matty Van's bday. See how he stacks up to the other December babies: potuspages.com/blog/december-birthdays
Just finished New York's Secret Subway by @malgeo.bsky.social. Check out the doodles endless tangents it inspired: potuspages.com/blog/subway
Just finished reading "The Loves of Theodore Roosevelt: The Women Who Created a President" by Edward O'Keefe. Flip through my sketchbook: www.potuspages.com/blog/loves
Gift ideas for the history buff in your life. 🎁 www.potuspages.com/blog/gift-25
Hey, after you vote ... check out this list of 8 incredible Revolutionary Women, gathered by @beccagrawl.bsky.social potuspages.com/blog/women
Election Day 🤝 New Book Tuesday Few things beat treating yourself to a new book after voting to save democracy ✊
Waiting for polls to close? Check out my most recent collaboration with @potus-pages.bsky.social - an introduction to eight Revolutionary women: www.potuspages.com/blog/women?s...
Were there no mothers of the Revolution?
Of course there were
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One really deserving family is being surprised with a total home makeover! Perhaps this old White House could use more gold, or concrete slabs over the garden—anything to make Donald Trump's forever home perfect, @petridishes.bsky.social writes:
Extreme Home Makeover: White House Edition
This old, fly-infested building needs some work.
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I just finished reading Killers of the Flower Moon by @davidgrann.bsky.social . which I read mostly like this 😲 It gave me an opportunity to learn more about that "slender bundle of high-charged electric wire," J. Edgar Hoover. Yikes. More doodles (no spoilers!): www.potuspages.com/blog/flower-...
I just finished reading Everything is Tuberculosis by @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social and gathered some doodles: www.potuspages.com/blog/tubercu... Have you read it yet? 🤠
Don't just say it's unconstitutional, remind people that the constitution is full of very good ideas designed to prevent authoritarianism, and most people who want to ignore it want that specifically because they are authoritarian.
They keep talking about punishing protestors as if this country wasn’t FOUNDED BY PROTESTERS WHO ENSHRINED THE RIGHT TO PROTEST, I AM SO TIRED OF HOW STUPID THINGS HAVE BECOME
Now reading: The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America’s Banana King by Rich Cohen
Flip through my doodles from Upstairs at the White House... and find out which First Couple broke their bed. 😉 potuspages.substack.com/p/just-finis...
Just finished reading: Upstairs at the White House
Flip through my sketchbooks!
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Currently reading: Upstairs at the White House: My Life with the First Ladies by J. B. West and Mary Lynn Kotz Mamie Eisenhower longed to be “In the pink” always.
Currently reading: Upstairs at the White House: My Life with the First Ladies by J. B. West with Mary Lynn Kotz
I gathered up a selection of Richards -- my Dick picks, if you will. Check 'em out: potuspages.substack.com/p/dick-picks
Dick Picks
[Richards, wrangled]
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Flip through my sketchbook! I just finished reading "Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight" by Julia Sweig. The more I learn about Lady Bird, the more fascinating I find her. 🐞 www.potuspages.com/blog/hiding
Just finished reading: Hiding in Plain Sight
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