Before We Were White
Brian HalpinA blog and newsletter published in tandem with the Before We Were White history podcast
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 178 | Founded | 2 years ago | Last Issue | 7 days ago |
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The Scots-Irish Did Not Single-Handedly Create America
Within 48 hours of Mark Zuckerberg's pathetic, cringe-inducing curtsy before the gold-plated iron throne of MAGA authoritarianism back in January of 2025, my feed on Facebook underwent a metamorphosis.
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Paint Me A Picture
Painters, just like musicians or actors, need patrons or a paying audience.
This might seem obvious, but it has a direct bearing on how we view history.
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Evangelicals and Kentucky Witch Balls
Knowledge is a funny thing.
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Knowledge rips down curtains and opens up broad, hitherto unimagine...
Picking a Version of History
Attempting to understand and decipher history - real history - is hard.
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"Plastic Hebrews"
Many people watching the news coming out of Western Asia would presume that Hebrew has been the language spoken by Jewish people throughout history.
But for nearly 2,000 years, Hebrew was as dead as Latin - and much like Latin, was read, u...
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