@CharlesPostel

Historian. Can find me @cpostel@mstdn.social

history.sfsu.edu/people/faculty/charles-postel
Joined December 2017
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1/The NYT letter vs #1619 Project objects to the words “for the most part” black people “fought alone,” w/ some critics focusing on post-Civil War history of interracial class solidarity against corporate power. But history is more complicated than critics allow. Some thoughts.
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Richard R. John@RrjohnR29 Jul 2023
Was populism post-woke? “In the 1880s, populists—multi-racial movement … —wanted to tackle…creeping corporate power….They saw as a distraction the elevation of 19th century culture war issues, mostly anchored in the post-Civil War political campaign tactics…”@CharlesPostel
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@matthewstoller29 Jul 2023
There's a new generation on the right and they think very differently about corporate power. When that right and the left come together, we will break up our big and slothful monopolies like Disney. DeSantis isn't there yet, but it's coming. politico.com/news/magazine/2…

Opinion | How to Break Up Disney

Ron DeSantis and the Hollywood strikers need to unite.

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@jbouie24 Jun 2023
Here is Charles Postel in “The Populist Vision”
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19/The full story, of course, cannot be told in tweets. But these notes suggest that the claims made by the critics of Project 1619 about post-CW interracial class solidarity are based more on ideology (the way we may wish things had been) than verifiable fact.
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My review of Kidada Williams’ powerful new book. It hits you hard. ⁦⁦⁦@KidadaEWilliams⁩ . During Reconstruction, a brutal ‘war on freedom’ washingtonpost.com/books/202…

Review | During Reconstruction, a brutal ‘war on freedom’

In “I Saw Death Coming,” Kidada E. Williams presents first-person accounts of those scarred in many ways by the era’s violence.

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Replying to @TimInHonolulu
On Point monopoly week @CharlesPostel, Equality: An American Dilemma, 1866-1896... @JackBeattynpr, Age of Betrayal: The Triumph of Money...; ed., Colossus: How the Corporation Changed... wbur.org/onpoint/2022/12/28/… Stephanie Gorton, Citizen Reporters [esp Ida Tarbell, @sdgortonwords

More than money: Antitrust lessons of the Gilded Age

The nineteenth century saw the rise of great monopolies. Americans pushed back. What changed? We discuss lessons learned from antitrust action in the Gilded Age.

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Scholars Ask Congress to Scrap Winner-Take-All Political System nytimes.com/2022/09/19/us/po…

Scholars Ask Congress to Scrap Winner-Take-All Political System (Published 2022)

More than 200 political scientists wrote an open letter to lawmakers proposing sweeping changes to federal elections. The overhaul would be a heavy lift.

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Just an FYI that plenty of historians and other signed this letter (not just political scientists as NYT put it).
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In the face of our anti-majoritarian crisis: Letter to Congress on Ending Single Member Congressional Districts and Adopting Proportional… by Scholars for Redistricting Reform link.medium.com/C1ivKKCIstb

Letter to Congress on Ending Single Member Congressional Districts and Adopting Proportional…

AN OPEN LETTER TO CONGRESS:

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CWHLevanston@CWHLevanston5 Sep 2022
To mark #LaborDay, we highlight Frances Willard’s connection with the Knights of Labor. She joined in 1887 & spoke at meetings. Terence Powderly, head of the Knights, sent her this lovely greeting—it’s for Christmas/New Year, not Labor Day, but a holiday is a holiday!
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Call for Papers open now until Nov 15 for the HCA Spring Academy, our interdisciplinary 5-day PhD conference on American Culture, Economics, Geography, History, Literature, Politics, and Religion, happening March 20-24, 2023! APPLY NOW! hca.uni-heidelberg.de/spring…
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BREAKING: In an important victory for labor, workers at a Chipotle store in Lansing, Michigan, vote 11 to 3 to make their store the first unionized Chipotle in the U.S.
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3) Lasch doesn't clearly define "working class," but @CharlesPostel argues persuasively that the populists proposed "alternative visions of what the modern world should be," rather than a rejection of that world.
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Wonderful informative article written by @m_hild. #LaborHistory
Zócalo Public Square@ThePublicSquare25 Apr 2022
#FromTheArchives Historian Matthew Hild writes about how, in 1888, small farmers, sharecroppers, and industrial workers formed a labor movement to fight inequality. Read: zocalopublicsquare.org/2019/…
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Joe DeFilippo@defilippo_joe1 May 2022
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May 1, 1944, Jacob Coxey read the following words from the steps of the U.S. Capitol: “We ask…the National Legislature to consider the conditions of the starving unemployed of our land, and enact such laws as will give them employment…” soundcloud.com/hillipsand/co…

Coxey's Army

"Coxey's Army" is written by Joe DeFilippo and performed by the R.J. Phillips Band, a group of Baltimore musicians. Joe DeFilippo: vocals, bass and acoustic guitar; Bill Phelan: lap steel, 6 string e

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Great interchange with the colleagues @RIAS and @UniLeiden students.
RIAS@RIASMiddelburg29 Apr 2022
It was great to have students from @UniLeiden over at the RIAS today to attend the lecture from Professor @CharlesPostel on Critical Race Theory Panic and the Politics of History.
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Many thanks @HEPPsinki for the excellent discussion.
Now-Time, Us-Space@nowtimeusspace26 Apr 2022
Practicing for #HEPP3: @HEPPsinki goes hybrid! Yesterday with guest @CharlesPostel who shared with us insights from his #historical work on #populism in the US
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