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Last night, public historian Tad Stoermer joined us on Zoom to talk about his forthcoming book, A Resistance History of the United States. The book explores the ways that Americans have resisted abusive authority throughout our history. Due to overwhelming demand, we are releasing the full video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aT4CkACf2Y0 | Old North Church & Historic Site

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A Resistance History of the United States with Tad Stoermer

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A Resistance History of the United States Explained

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Tad Stoermer on Public History, Political Myths, and the Undemocratic Constitution

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Tad Stoermer | A Resistance History of the United States

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The 3.5% figure was a retrospective correlation—not a strategy. But it’s been turned into a shortcut. A way to avoid risk, discipline, and structure. Resistance history tells us that resistance isn’t effective when it achieves a certain size. It succeeds when power starts to break under pressure—when it can no longer function. That takes time, structure, and risk. #publichistory #resistancehistory #howrevolutionary #resistance #arhotus | Tad Stoermer

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The REAL Resistance with Historian Tad Stoermer

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1776. 1861. Jan. 6. It’s the same story. White rebellion is glorified in American, not condemned, like Black rebellion is. Through our constructed myths we turned white treason into a form of patriotism. From the First Republic to the Lost Cause to January 6th, it’s the same thing: White Americans have the right to rule—and the right to rise up if they don’t. That comes from not punishing the Confederacy. Instead, we reintegrated it and then promoted it as our own. As @allyfromnola said: That’s

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How Liberal Nationalism Helps the Far Right: A Resistance History Object Lesson

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Let’s talk about how to think about resistance as coherent thing, with a history, a vocabulary, and a philosophy. Thoreau started us down this road — but we can’t end with what he wrote in Civil Disobedience. Keep in mind that his original, and preferred, title was “Resistance to Civil Government: On the Duty of Civil Disobedience.” When you combine that work with his Plea for Captain John Brown, you get a clearer picture of the foundation of American resistance thought. But we need to put that

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Want a clear, honest intro to the real American Revolution?

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Why U.S. Historians Keep Reinforcing American Nationalism (Even When They Think They Aren’t)

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Molly Secours on Instagram: "Food for thought: Tad Stoermer is a public historian and author of “A Resistance History of The United States”. who trained at the University of Virginia, Johns Hopkins, and Harvard, with a particular focus on Colonial and Revolutionary America. He is also a former congressional staffer and speechwriter, and he served in the US Army and Reserves as a reconnaissance scout. He lives in Denmark.🇩🇰 Via @youknownothing45"

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#95 - Tad Stoermer: The Founding Fathers Were Not Your Heroes

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As a resistance historian, I get asked this all the time: How do we apply what we know from past resistance movements to the crisis we’re living through now? Here’s one application. Project 2025 is a clear example of what coordinated, ideological resistance to democracy looks like—from the authoritarian side. It’s organized, detailed, unapologetic, and operational. Project 2029, the Democratic Party response, is not resistance. It’s not even opposition. It’s a rhetorical gesture. It lacks infras

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Resistance history is a long record of political realism. Abusive authority doesn’t usually face strong opposition from within the system—because the system, more often than not, has already been compromised. Or it’s governed by inertia. Or fear. Or careerism. That’s how power works. It captures institutions before anyone’s willing to admit they’re lost. Change only starts when that fact is recognized. When opposition movements stop pretending the old tools will work. When they stop waiting for

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This isn’t Jefferson’s Independence Day. It belongs to the tens of thousands of Black people who took their freedom during the American Revolution. They used the cracks in empire—the Somerset case, Dunmore’s limited offer, Clinton’s Philipsburg Proclamation—and forced the British to deliver what they never truly meant: liberty. They made the British live up to promises, while the Patriots doubled down on enslavement. And they didn’t disappear. They built communities across the Black Atlantic—fro

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Tad Stoermer on Instagram: "Most U.S. history today is still built on the same nationalist myth — the idea that America is exceptional, that it’s on a special path, that its institutions can’t fail. Even the historians who think they’re offering a corrective are still trapped inside that civic religion. #publichistory #honesthistory #howrevolutionary #resistancehistory #america250 #americanrevolution #gwmountvernon #americanhistory #ushistory"

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Digital Public History, with Dr Tad Stoermer

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Don’t Take the Far Right’s Bait: Exposing the Founders’ Anti-Democracy Playbook

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Tad Stoermer on Instagram: "Called 'anti-American' for questioning US history? Let's talk. As a historian, and Army veteran, I believe true patriotism isn't blind loyalty—it's clear-eyed engagement. It’s our civic duty to know our past, warts and all. Sweeping the ugly parts under the rug (slavery, genocide, white supremacy foundation of our First Republic) doesn't make us stronger. It makes us vulnerable. #resistancehistory #publichistory #honesthistory #jhupublichistory #americanhistory #ushis

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Tad Stoermer on Instagram: "2.3 million views—and counting—after Colonial Williamsburg took down OurAmericanRevolution.org. But it’s bigger than one site for a struggling nonprofit. Erasing stories of Juneteenth, Japanese American internment, the Tuskegee Airmen, and more is how fascists rewrite the past to control our future. Keep resisting. Keep telling truth that includes everyone. You’re not alone. Allons-y. #publichistory #honesthistory #publichistorypractice #howrevolutionary #americanrevo

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Replying to @TheCivilWarDoc #civilwar #kenburns #documentary #publichistory #filmmaking #americanhistory #slavery

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Part II: Mount Vernon @Tad Stoermer

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Tad Stoermer on Instagram: "The phrase 'due process of law' first entered American constitutional history on July 10, 1788 — thanks to critics of the Constitution like John Lansing, not Hamilton or Madison. If you’ve -- or anyone -- ever needs the Fifth Amendment (and that category is expanding rapidly), you have the resistors of 1788 to thank. #constitution #americanrevolution #resistancehistory #billofrights #howrevolutionary #america250 #dueprocess #amwriting #creativenonfiction"

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Most Americans have no idea what the end of CPB means. But the right does—and they’re celebrating. Because this was about destroying the national infrastructure that allowed PBS and NPR to serve every community—not just wealthy urban hubs. Elite stations like GBH (Boston), WNET (New York), and KQED (San Francisco) will survive. But over 1,400 local stations—especially in rural, tribal, and low-income areas—probably won’t. And the center-left’s smug dismissal of this collapse is making it worse.

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The Constitution was not designed to evolve. It was designed to resist change. Of the 27 amendments, nearly half were proposed in the first Congress. Since then, meaningful change has been almost impossible. Madison had to be politically blackmailed into supporting the Bill of Rights because even he knew the amendment process was a dead end. Civil War. Progressive movements. The Vietnam War. That’s what it’s taken to get anything substantive passed. So no—the Constitution is not a “living docume

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Tad Stoermer on Instagram: "Frederick Douglass opened his speech on the Fourth of July in 1852 with language that celebrated the Founders because that was the only framework white Americans accepted. His actual argument dismantled the legitimacy of that framework. But we need to track how he shifted away from patriotic myth as a vehicle for change. The same myth has now been reactivated by the current regime to suppress critique and impose an exclusionary version of national identity. #publichis

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Tad Stoermer | This isn’t “patriotic education.” It’s a giant wave of pseudohistory, set to bulldoze archives, defund museums, muzzle the Smithsonian, and... | Instagram

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