@jermainedfowler

NYT Bestselling Author, Public Historian

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Joined November 2017
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Excited to announce that my debut history book is now available for pre-order. It's due out February 28, 2023, but how great would it be to order now, forget about it and then get it as a suprise later. Check it out. amazon.com/Humanity-Archive-…

The Humanity Archive: Recovering the Soul of Black History from a Whitewashed American Myth

— Using history as a foundation, uses storytelling techniques to make history come alive and uncover the truth behind America's whitewashed history. Challenging dominant perspectives, author Jermaine...

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Toni Morrison, Nobel Prize Lecture
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Random thought: the authors of Project 2025 should go to prison for conspiring to commit treason.
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In the 1780s, France’s royal household consumed roughly nine percent of the state’s annual revenue while people in the provinces starved.
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We are pleased to announce that after a very long wait (over 125 years!), we are preparing to start, over the next two-week period, the excavation work necessary for the Great Triumphal Arch and Military Observation Deck, at Memorial Circle on Columbia Island between the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery. This will be one of the Great Pieces of American Architecture, honoring the history and significance of Arlington Cemetery and befitting the most powerful Capital in the World.
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Democrats are still answering 2026 with 2016.
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There are the stories that made America, and the stories that America made up.
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“We’re not outnumbered. We’re out organized.”
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A third atomic bomb was scheduled to be detonated over an undisclosed location in Japan.
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But after learning about the number of casualties in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, president Truman delayed the attack. Japan surrendered weeks later.
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But US government documents admitted that Japan was already on the verge of surrender before the nuclear strikes in 1945. And it wasn't necessary to use the atomic bomb.
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"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex." - Eisenhower, 1961 I wonder if he knew just how prophetic those words would be... A thread
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5/ While we're dumping nearly a trillion dollars into defense: - 1 in 6 American children live in poverty - Our infrastructure is crumbling - Teachers are buying school supplies out of pocket
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5/ But, at least we've got lots of tanks the Army didn't ask for.
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I’m not naive to the depths of human cruelty—but the embrace of inhumanity and justification for callousness is astonishing right now.
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Without the Haitian revolution, the French might still own much of the American South. The rebellion made France sell off its American land. It reshaped world history, and most of us learned nothing of it in school.
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Whitney Plantation in Louisiana was the first U.S. museum and memorial to slavery. Shouldn't all plantations highlight their brutal past instead of hosting weddings?
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A couple of the many books I ordered to research for my next podcast episode. We are going to Hawaii. Join me as I dive into the rich and fascinating story of King Kamehameha I and bring his extraordinary journey to life. Subscribe for free: buzzsprout.com/1458226
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