Greg Brooking, PhD
Award-winning author of From Empire to Revolution: Sir James Wright and the Price of Loyalty in Georgia.
Writing a biography of Henry Laurens.
revolutionary-historian.com
- Reposted by Greg Brooking, PhDBut Bezos had $75 million to spend on Melania’s vanity project.
- Reposted by Greg Brooking, PhDI'm a huge fan of Claudio Saunt's project on land claims and treaties and cessions that is so revelatory in its scope-- pic 1 is 1776, pic 2 is 1876. Blue is Indian homelands, gray is unceded territory, red is reservations. usg.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappv...
- The Utah Historical Society just produced a new, excellent map of "The Peoples of North America in 1776." Great resource for anyone teaching, writing, presenting about Native peoples as part of their 250th work. america250.utah.gov/power-of-pla...
- Reposted by Greg Brooking, PhDJeffrey Bezos is destroying the Washington Post for the same reason Musk destroyed Twitter and Ellison is destroying CBS—oligarchs oppose the free press when if it threatens their wealth and power. They don’t want normal people to see what is happening in America.
- Reposted by Greg Brooking, PhDAlabama has the worst maternal mortality in the United States at 60 deaths per 100K live births. For reference, California has 18 deaths per 100K live births. But Dr. Oz thinks it’s “cool” that American citizens do not have access to good reproductive healthcare in the wealthiest nation in history.
- Reposted by Greg Brooking, PhDAll 10 shots were fired AFTER they removed the gun from Pretti’s waist. Every single shot was fired after he was disarmed.
- Does Paul Allen represent Minnesota football fans?
- Reposted by Greg Brooking, PhDHistorians have had quite a bit to say about #VastEarlyAmerica, but for me, this was always the essence.
- Reposted by Greg Brooking, PhDBreaking MS NOW: Aides to Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche directed the U.S. Attorney's office and FBI agents in Minnesota to shut down the civil rights investigation into the fatal shooting of Renee Good and instead alter it to probe Good for possible criminal liability.
- Reposted by Greg Brooking, PhDMafia goon: Nice house you got here...it'd be a shame if something happened to it Media outlets: Mafia goon rules out use of force. Expresses regret at the mere thought of it
- Reposted by Greg Brooking, PhDHe can recover in a prison cell. Renee Good can't recover at all.
- Reposted by Greg Brooking, PhDHey, as we all watch the dementia-addled psychotic president of the United States ramble incoherently on a global stage, I'd just like to say on behalf of all Americans: Our bad.
- Reposted by Greg Brooking, PhDPew Research Institute (2023): • Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants • Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants • Blue State Minnesota has 130,000. And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration." It's *not* about immigration.
- Reposted by Greg Brooking, PhD"A protester detained, her bra removed and wedding ring cut off, and some of her clothes never returned..." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/u...
- Reposted by Greg Brooking, PhDThank you Eugene Goodman for saving Democracy during the Capitol insurrection #January6th
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- Reposted by Greg Brooking, PhDStrange takes on Mayor Zamdani swearing his oath on the Qu’ran. It has nothing to do with church & state. The point of the oath is for the person swearing in to do so upon some text that is sacred TO THEM. Some Presidents swore in w/o any book. John Quincy Adams was sworn on a law book. His choice.
- Reposted by Greg Brooking, PhDIn case you thought they just meant undocumented immigrants…
- Reposted by Greg Brooking, PhDNetanyahu announces that he's awarding the Israel Prize to President Trump. Trump says it's "surprising and very much appreciated"
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- UGA Press's 1/2 off holiday sale. www.ugapress.org/author/greg-...
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- Honored to be part of Georgia Public Broadcasting's and The Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation's GEORGIA 250 Author Talks. www.georgiatrust.org/georgia250/a...
- Reposted by Greg Brooking, PhDThis is going to be such an important book!
- Reposted by Greg Brooking, PhDWhitehouse: Not only were the founders extremely interested in checks and balances but they were desperately concerned about corruption. This Court has consistently taken the side of corruption against every device Congress has created to fight political corruption.
- So grateful for the Georgia Humanities.
- Excited to be an approved speaker for the Georgia Humanities, sharing Georgia’s colonial and revolutionary history with as many folks who’ll listen.
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- Reposted by Greg Brooking, PhDThis gangster government steals everyone’s property and doesn’t care about the laws respecting the rights of creators. Everything they see belongs to them like the greedy leeches on this country that they are.
- Reposted by Greg Brooking, PhDI agree with 2016 Pete Hegseth: “There have to be consequences for abject war crimes.”
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- My interview with Matthew Dibiase from the National Archives. youtu.be/0gxjQQf64gI
- Reposted by Greg Brooking, PhDThe news has entirely failed to grasp the unprecedented scope of the ICE and DHS budgets. Nothing like it in modern history. A galaxy of public/private surveillance and caging institutions for $100,000,000,000s unleashed on a public that will be forever changed. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
- In my latest blog about Henry Laurens, I look at slavery and the beginning days of the Revolution ... as well as his son John's proclivities. revolutionary-historian.com
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- @johnfea1.bsky.social Here’s a bit I wrote about Henry Laurens: revolutionary-historian.com?fbclid=IwZnR...
- @uscpress.bsky.social Here’s a bit I wrote about Henry Laurens: revolutionary-historian.com?fbclid=IwZnR...
- @joursouhist.bsky.social Here’s a bit I wrote about Henry Laurens: revolutionary-historian.com?fbclid=IwZnR...
- @historians.org Here’s a bit I wrote about Henry Laurens: revolutionary-historian.com?fbclid=IwZnR...
- @mcneilcenter.bsky.social Here’s a bit I wrote about Henry Laurens: revolutionary-historian.com?fbclid=IwZnR...
- Here's a little diddy I wrote about Henry Laurens, Slavery, and the American Revolution. revolutionary-historian.com
- Reposted by Greg Brooking, PhDThis should be a major scandal. The Blaze falsely reported that a former U.S. Capitol Police officer was the Jan. 6th pipe bomber. But it wasn’t just another miss by conservative media promoting conspiracies. Someone in US intel - at ODNI - was promoting it: www.cbsnews.com/news/jan-6-p...
- Reposted by Greg Brooking, PhDSo the new version of MAGA is that Marjorie Taylor Greene is a traitor, Rand Paul is a RINO, and Zohran Mamdani is great. Got it.
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- Reposted by Greg Brooking, PhDThis is how the depraved, unprincipled Trump excuses the murder of Jamal Khashoggi : blame the victim. “A lot of people didn’t like that gentleman that you’re talking about, whether you like him or didn’t like him, things happen,” he says sitting with the culpable MBS. Sickening and infuriating.
- Reposted by Greg Brooking, PhD@cbsnews.com is racist garbage under Bari Weiss. Do not watch them.
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- Reposted by Greg Brooking, PhDAOC: "It is unconscionable that what we are debating right now is legislation that will give 8 senators over $1 million a piece & we're robbing people of their food assistance & healthcare to pay for it. How can we vote to enrich ourselves by stealing from the American people?"
- Reposted by Greg Brooking, PhDThe release of thousands of documents from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate has set off a frantic political fight in Washington. In today’s daily newsletter, Jessica Winter writes about what the latest e-mails reveal. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/VJssjY
- Reposted by Greg Brooking, PhDAs more and more files come out, Ghislaine Maxwell has less and less leverage for a pardon or commutation. Things are really going to start heating up.
- Reposted by Greg Brooking, PhDThis is extremely disturbing. The new evidence raises more questions about what Trump knew and his relationship with Epstein. Release the files.
