trump’s war on history

More on the Literal Whitewashing of Our History

By Erik Loomis

In General

On July 29, 2025

I believe that "talking about Black people" is the definition of DEI, right? For decades, the Amistad Research Center in New Orleans has served as one of America’s largest repositories of artifacts on Black history, from 15 million rare documents dating back to the 1780s...

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Trump’s Rewriting of the Past for Evil

By Erik Loomis

On March 10, 2025

The Trump administration's basic goal on both economic and social issues is not only to return America to an imagined 1950s, but to an imagined 1890s. This Jim Crow Gilded.

MacCheerful As intended.
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,144 · May 22, 2026
Keaaukane I remember to this day The bright red Georgia clay And how it stuck to the tires When we buried Dean Rusk...
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,144 · May 22, 2026
cereal My (American) mom used to call that rusk, what’s usually sold as Melba toast. In Dutch it’s beschuit (which sounds a lot like biscuit, by sheer coincidence) and is very popular, especially with...
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,144 · May 22, 2026
Brandunaware Who knows? A lint fire even in an industrial laundry is the kind of thing that a bunch of sailors with hand held fire extinguishers should be able to get under control without a huge amount of effort....
The Triumphs and Travails of CVN-78 · May 22, 2026
MacCheerful Vietnam was the background noise of my youth. It's good to have biographies of these names that would float through the papers and Time magazines i was beginning to read thoroughly, like Rusk or...
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,144 · May 22, 2026