Describing a general ethos of treating people with kindness as ‘wooly’ and ‘kumbaya’ lol. He’s either a generational rage baiter or 30 times the cynic I thought he was
This will probably come off as absurdly earnest to the non-Americans, but I really do hope they go into Jefferson’s particular theory/ethos for America. His concept of the country has become the one adopted by us all, and what we have strived for since the ratification. “The Hindoo and the Musselman”. A planter, a slaver, a manipulator, a radical. I don’t think any other founder was quoted by Ho Chi Minh. There are no slaves teeth in his dentures.
Understanding his concept of the country is the key to understanding many of the past political debates in the nation, both the for and against sides. Civil War, Ellis island, civil rights, turn of the century populism, modern immigration debate. It’s very different from Washington or Adams or even Jackson’s concept of the nation. He is complete Sandbrook anathema tho, everything about the man seems designed to grind Doms gears (hypocrite, rebel against the king, ideologue, idealist, fan of the French Revolution, enlightenment intellectual)
A few familiar names from the show, a very warm and heartfelt tribute to his wife, mother, and father. A delightful satire of Tom Holland. Academics should take notes to be honest
They used this term to describe Margo Asquith in the second Gallipoli episode. This must be some crosspond slang which I’m unaware of. I would assume it means something very similar to “a burden”, used to describe a Mrs Lincoln type, but Tom and Dom didn’t seem to be mean it quite that way.
American here, trying to find the full clip of Healey at the 76 Labor conference, the only one I can find is the minute-long version from the archive on YouTube. It only shows the ending. I saw one video showing him jogging up to the podium, which was delightful and completely in character, but have not found it since. Really I’m trying to find “I come from the battlefront”
I mean this in the manner that Tom’s Rubicon is considered popular/public history, but obviously Dom’s Eugene McCarthy treatise would not be. The modern Britain series is quite in depth, extensive, and written in the manner of a survey, but they are also obviously written and marketed for public consumption. I suppose if I were to answer my own question, I’d say they are public history and not popular history, but what do y’all think?