Sorry, but Jill Lepore's THESE TRUTHS is one of the most vapid and superficial volumes of American history I've read in some time. It reads like an 800 page PEOPLE Magazine profile and completely glosses over racism and slavery. There's practically nothing in this goddamned book I didn't already know. This isn't history. It's Stuff White People Like.
#JillLepore
"Future historians will be AI, so they'll write some very boring history."
The [14th} amendment’s authors, they argue, “hoped not only to prevent a resurgence of secessionism but also to protect future generations against insurrectionism.” It was intended “to bar anyone who has betrayed an oath to uphold the Constitution from becoming President of the United States.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/02/04/trump-ballot-disqualified-14th-amendment/ (gifted)
#Historians
#JillLepore
#DrewGilpinFaust
#SherilynnIfill
#DavidBlight
"I don't think the presidency has the public trust that it had when FDR proposed presidential libraries." - JILL LEPORE, Yankee Pyramids, 99% Invisible #99PercentInvisible #99pi #FranklinDelanoRoosevelt #HappyBirthdayFranklinDelanoRoosevelt #FDR #JillLepore
"A lot of George Washington's papers were eaten by rats, a lot of other people's papers burned in fires." - JILL LEPORE, Yankee Pyramids, 99% Invisible #99PercentInvisible #99pi #PresidentsDay #JillLepore
Good pod with noted historian & Harvard prof #JillLepore this week on Preet's show
She talks about Jefferson Davis and how not prosecuting him & others set the stage for today.
And how the 14th Amendment Section 3 - the disqualification after insurrection stuff - was written by people explicitly worried that Jefferson Davis would "run for president again", so yes it quite clearly IS ABOUT THIS EXACT THING
https://cafe.com/stay-tuned/amending-history-with-jill-lepore/
Why I love Jill Lepore:
“Twitter never has and never will be a vehicle for democratic expression. It is a privately held corporation that monetizes human expression and algorithmically maximizes its distribution for profit, and what turns out to be most profitable is sowing social, cultural, and political division. It’s participants are a very tiny, skewed slice of humanity that has American journalism in a choke hold.”
#JillLepore #Twitter #Musk #SocialMedia
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/09/18/elon-musk-walter-isaacson-book-review
Eat dirt, users of #facebook and #twitter. Historian Jill Lepore of Harvard fame is not on Facebook or Twitter and says: “I think the social networks will be looked on as having been fairly catastrophic.” #histodons #JillLepore #FutureMediaHistory #MediaHistory #Historiography #FutureHistory
#Krononauts from 1982 in Baltimore MD US (our group) mentioned 4 decades later in season 4 of leading podcast "The Last Archive" by Ben Naddaff-Hafrey and #JillLepore. The podcast examines modern history and truth, and in this episode, a landing party for #TimeTravelers (aka, a #KrononautMoon #celebration).
This is a 2-minute audio teaser for the podcast coming out any day now.
🔗 https://open.spotify.com/episode/7trRUXTptZr7zhJH0vdIEF
🔗 https://theLastArchive.com/season-4
🔗 https://theLastArchive.com
#TimeTravel #Time & #Timelessness ◯ ∘ ⋅
If we can't amend the Constitution, do we even have one? No paywall on this excellent article from #JillLepore.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/01/opinion/constitutional-amendments-american-history.html?unlocked_article_code=gh3qm73PSGsglTRNqZ11ouBQ66j2OngiTnVMcpvYufgmQwXRWaOPRTRAEGG_zgUmCijdyeH50WziYX_IA3UbMmB5V8I24n5rZ40XfDecKe1s3g1YQfd7ou8Wi8NX9ui-uYEvILG3fs6tpiY9nM_e0OBqRPKGhoGlTVa3WGBCJv_qzeHAhykeuZRW6EviakpJHboXw2fc8SzbM9zWsleT9OJ9LKIYT9byNwzItKVdI77TAj1elpxG78tzM62q_vk1BGMeswJ2lR5DDuX1pIbujG8F5z2ZGd-G3Sl9od-crjuwlXeCTLVKkg72_PyLK9fTkfpTEBla9NMZRffLqkiHpbhdr-CHX1EkCXG3c7LJ6Z93yJG0&smid=url-share
When Lepore chooses to let men be the voice of a nation and the prism through which history is projected, she chooses to silence 50% of that nation’s people and their stories. General history needs to move beyond men’s history. #FeministFriday #USHistory #history #TheseTruths #JillLepore #BookChat #bookstodon
Lepore makes an ambitious attempt at summarizing a nation’s history, but in trying to capture everything, nothing is really left with more than a paranthetical mentioning. #TheseTruths #JillLepore #USHistory #BookChat #bookstodon
Halfway through the book, I’m still waiting for a glimpse of the women who shaped US history. #USHistory #TheseTruths #JillLepore #BookChat #bookstodon
Vanaf vandaag in onze boekhandels: Jill Lepores New York in brand. Vrijheid, slavernij en samenzwering in achttiende-eeuws Manhattan (vertaling Frank Lekens en Rob Kuitenbrouwer). 20 april komt ze naar De Duif (John Adams Institute). Kom ook, en lees nu vast een fragment! https://www.athenaeum.nl/leesfragmenten/2023/new-york-in-brand
It's hard to merge the thought of #JohnLocke as one of the most influentia #Enlightenment thinkers and the father of #liberalism, with the fact that he used his intellect and knowledge to justify slavery in #America. #slavery #TheseTruths #JillLepore #BookChat #bookstodon
The way Lepore lets the reader form their own opinion about #ChristopherColumbus through facts, I’m going to guess that#TheseTruths is banned in at least 25 states? #JillLepore #BookChat #bookstodon
This is really worth a listen.
How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future
https://www.cityarts.net/event/jill-lepore-2/
#JillLepore #Simulmatics #PsychologicalWarfare #Privacy #Surveillance #Manipulation
via @dredmorbius
Jill Lepore on the link between WWII Psychological Warfare and Mass Communications
A lot of [psychologists] worked both in the study of voting behaviour in the US and in the study of propaganda in third-world countries trying to prevent them from becomming Communist.
Those things are closely related. They’re both the study of how you get inside someone’s head and change their mind? You have to know what they’re thinking, what you want them to think, and then you have to figure out what message will move them from what they’re thinking now to what you want them to think. This used to be called “psychological warfare”, and after the 2nd World War people were like, we shouldn’t call it that any more, we’ll call it “the study of mass communications”.
-- Jill Lepore, 2020
https://www.cityarts.net/event/jill-lepore-2/
Transcription by me, edited lightly for clarity / continuity.
#JillLepore #Simulmatics #SimulmaticsCorporation #Psywar #PsychologicalWarfare #MassCommunications #MassMedia #AdTech #Facebook #Google #SiliconValley #Privacy #Surveillance #Propaganda #Manipulation #Monopoly
Es gibt ja Bücher, an denen kann ich unmöglich vorbeigehen. Ganz unmöglich! Und klar, dass der Verlag hier kräftig im Text mit dem Buch angibt. Also mal schauen, ob es mich ordentlich umhaut. 🤓
Mehr: https://bit.ly/3FBIVGe
(Übersetzung: Werner Roller)
#lesefrühling #sachbuch #jilllepore #chbeck #comic #wonderwoman #feminismus #popkultur #frauenbewegung #emanzipation #gesellschaft #lesen #leselust #leseratte #bücher
Client Info
Server: https://mastodon.social
Version: 2025.04
Repository: https://github.com/cyevgeniy/lmst