Tad Stoermer
Author of A RESISTANCE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES (Steerforth Press, 2026)
Johns Hopkins University / University of Southern Denmark
Literary Rep: Rachelle Gardner/Gardner Literary
- Reposted by Tad StoermerThe Trump administration's response to Renée Good's killing was more than a hint: Mess with ICE, and this could happen to you.
- "Bracing, unsentimental and deeply necessary" | Ava DuVernay on A Resistance History of the United States #resistancehistory youtube.com/shorts/VCUYl...
- Reposted by Tad StoermerHistorians! We’ve gotta stay motivated. Keep bringing your expertise to the public. It’s imperative.
- Democrats Aren't Resisting. They're Collaborating. open.substack.com/pub/tadstoer...
- Except Washington actually crossed the Delaware to boost morale for his own troops, to keep them from bailing on him. Can’t anyone here play this game?
- Like a poor marksman, liberal nationalists keep missing the target. Adam Serwer is a terrific writer, but his latest piece in @theatlantic.com is an object lesson. #resistancehistory How Liberal Nationalism Helps the Far Right youtu.be/zJ49gA2cqS0
- My publisher posted the first excerpt from the book, from Ch 1, about Nathaniel Bacon and King Philip's War—and why one of these gets remembered as a freedom fighter while the other gets erased. The resistance principle: Beware of false prophets. steerforth.com/product/a-re... #resistancehistory
- “The next ambitious sociopath watching this has already learned the lesson: the presidency is the biggest jackpot in American life and nothing stops you from cashing out.” open.substack.com/pub/tadstoer...
- The Second Strike on the Caribbean Boat: A Resistance History Lesson in Normalizing Authoritarianism youtu.be/rY-NnBst9Ik
- Reposted by Tad StoermerNo value, no villain, no vision. Sounds like the tagline for the earnings call of a collapsing appliance retailer
- History isn’t therapy. Historians exist to get the past right, not to help you feel better about it and your country’s role in it. Ken Burns Spent a Year Selling the American Revolution, Then 12 Hours Ignoring It youtu.be/1gOtiLAKtRw
- Maybe It Is 1938 Again—Just Worse #ukraine youtu.be/_PKwf6mtaMQ
- Michael is a tremendous historian who has written an essential overview of the history of the history of the American Revolution.
- Solid take.
- “If your goal is producing citizens who identify with national mythology, you need the unified story. You need the war as centerpiece. You need Washington as father. You need the army as crucible.” substack.com/@tadstoermer...
- Nice interview of Burns & Co. about the American Revolution from @whropublicmedia.bsky.social , with some tough questions that team isn’t used to. Like how Jefferson told Adams he believed that no one could ever tell the true history of the Revolution, so why does Burns think he can do better?
- Reposted by Tad StoermerOne week to go to publication day for The Course of Human Events: The Declaration of Independence and the Historical Origins of the United States! @uvapress.bsky.social. www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10151/
- My publisher has added shareable assets to support my book, and a sneak-peak of the expanded table of contents, including the resistance principles. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-resistan... #resistancehistory
- Reposted by Tad StoermerTo understand JD Vance, you need to meet the “TheoBros.” These extremely online young Christian men want to end the 19th Amendment, restore public flogging, and make America white again.
- This take by @repsummerlee.bsky.social captures where we are, and where need to go, like no other elected official I’ve heard. This is clear-eyed vision. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8UdoHyA/
- Reposted by Tad StoermerHLS Library announced the release of digitized transcripts and evidence from the Nuremberg Trials, marking the 80th anniversary of the international military tribunal for Nazi leaders. Caroline G. Hennigan reports.
- A pleasure to join Kris on his new podcast. And always happy to take apart liberal nationalists.
- Ken Burns got it wrong. In the first episode of On Offense, a discussion with historian and veteran Tad Stoermer about how patriotic myths make Americans passive—and what real resistance looked like. 📺 Watch: youtu.be/AkUyBe8DxO8 #OnOffense #TadStoermer #KenBurns #FightFascism #AmericanHistory
- Ken Burns: “The American Revolution is the most important, consequential revolution in history. We then spend the next 12 hours trying to prove it.” Conclusion drives the investigation. That’s not historical method; it’s American exceptionalism posing as inquiry. open.substack.com/pub/tadstoer...
- Book's done. Goes to copyedit now. Out of my hands. There's something in there to tick off just about anyone - at least if you rely on bad principles, bad politics, and bad history to get you through. For everyone else: American resistance has a way, and that way has a history. This book is it.
- Reposted by Tad StoermerA seeming bit of history tonight as Ghazala Hashmi becomes the first Asian American to win statewide office in Virginia - and the first Muslim woman to win statewide office *anywhere* in the United States.
- There is no greater symbol of the collapse of the post-World War II order than the prevailing narrative that the only ways to hold authoritarians accountable is with…other authoritarians.
- I’ve never liked “cover reveals.” I understand why they matter to publishers, but this one had to tell the truth: no heroes, no marble—just struggle, endurance, and the fight to make freedom real and enduring. Out next spring from @steerforthpress.bsky.social and @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social
- Reposted by Tad StoermerAlmost immediately after Charlie Kirk was shot on Wednesday, right-wing social media accounts began speculating that his killer was transgender. Politicians and news outlets fueled the rumors. The problem? There is no evidence to back up the claim.
- This is an honest takeaway: If Klein believes, as he stated, that he and Kirk were part of the same "project", then we need think deeply about what that project really is. It's a tremendously revealing piece about where the establishment left thinks it is in modern American political culture.
- Our performative approach to democracy is actually and actively killing it. tadstoermer.substack.com/p/the-absolu...
- Our performative approach to democracy is actually and actively killing it. tadstoermer.substack.com/p/the-absolu...
- Reposted by Tad Stoermerjust watched the first episode of Girls and got so viscerally angry at the 2012 innocence of it all, I had to turn the TV off. like they have no idea who Pete Hegseth is.
- The salt trucks and snow plows aren’t coming, folks. But that doesn’t mean the viral video doesn’t matter. Just not in the way that you might think. tadstoermer.substack.com/p/the-snow-p...
- We’re not just seeing the end of history, but the end of history’s ends. open.substack.com/pub/tadstoer...
- So many of you have been asking about A RESISTANCE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES that Barnes & Noble put it up months early. Preorder now through tomorrow for 25% off (paperback, audiobook, or e-book) with code PREORDER25. #BNPreorder #resistancehistory @steerforthpress.bsky.social
- Reposted by Tad StoermerDonald Trump’s “takeover” of Washington, DC, is authoritarian thuggery. It’s a projection of power, driven by retrograde racism.
- Resistance History is Substack’s #1 Rising in History. There is a sign of the times. substack.com/@tadstoermer...
- Brandon Johnson vs Donald Trump: It’s the best American resistance tradition. “Resistance is never about winning the war in a day. It’s about making the exercise of abusive power difficult, expensive, and a logistical nightmare.”
- We should be glad that “Heaven was silent” when his 1784 proposal to ban slavery in the Northwest Territory was defeated. open.substack.com/pub/tadstoer...
- So hoist a pint to Aaron Burr. 😀
- Victory.
- When we say, "Democrats won't save us", this is what we mean. #termlimits #corporatedemocratsarecomplicit #Demleadershipispathetic
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- Reposted by Tad StoermerMiami just canceled its November election & pushed it to 2026. No public vote, just canceled. Mayor Suarez & Joe Carollo get to stick around an extra year. This feels like a power grab. If one city can delay elections for “participation,” what’s to stop others from doing it to silence opposition?
- Reposted by Tad StoermerThe Trump Admin has shown it will exploit any opening given it by this SCOTUS. Lifting the nationwide injunction on enforcing the birthright citizenship EO will be no exception. That’s why SCOTUS majority’s failure to address the unconstitutional EO is so cowardly. @andersoncooper360.bsky.social
- Reposted by Tad StoermerBlack Dandy Exhibit at the Met. Second photo is of Frederick Douglass’s clothing. Wow. Was surprised at how affecting it was to just see them and know he wore these things. Du Bois’s photo powerful, but in a different way.
- The reaction to Mamdani shows how broken America’s political culture is. In any sane democracy, child care, public transit, and housing are center-left policy. For most of his policies, Mamdani is not far left. But because both parties are on the right, he gets framed that way. It’s insane.
- Reposted by Tad StoermerIf you want to know why every single person who went to public school is ready to run riot, this is the “surrender of the judiciary” shit topping over the DISAPPEARANCE OF FUCKING CONGRESS DICTATOR CAKE
- Today’s unsigned, unexplained #SCOTUS ruling clearing the way for removals of migrants to third countries without any additional process is a disaster—not just on the merits, but because of the government misbehavior that it not only refuses to punish, but effectively rewards. Me, via “One First”:
- This is a legit and unfortunate point. He did it. It can’t be taken back. There will be no consequences for it. Bombs will drop. People will die. This regime continues to plow through. So what does it mean if something *is* unconstitutional and that doesn’t matter?
- 🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️
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- Reposted by Tad Stoermer"'It’s not knowledge we lack,' Peck concludes at end of 'Exterminate All the Brutes.' Rather, it's the moral courage to match emotion with action, lest we rationalize away what's left of our shared humanity & submit to a darkness we may fail, in our lifetimes, to escape." @sorayanadiamcdonald.com
- Within the context of Juneteenth and Black Writers Week at @ebertvoices.bsky.social, I wanted to speak to a long tradition of knowing that none of us are free til we're all free:
- Denmark is doing “No Tyrants!” today (Danes rather like their monarchy), but the bigger point is the widespread global solidarity for American opposition. 🤛🏻🤛🏻🤛🏻
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[This post could not be retrieved] - Reposted by Tad StoermerAn advance look at “On Parade,” David Plunkert’s cover for next week's issue. #NewYorkerCovers
- Golden since 1787.
- Reposted by Tad StoermerToday is the last day at the NEH for me and many of my amazingly dedicated colleagues. We did our best to represent & serve the American people. To champion humanities research, teaching, public engagement, cultural heritage, infrastructure, and innovation.
- “ABC News has the number at 700 Marines from Twentynine Palms ordered to ‘assist’ in Los Angeles, citing a US official. Per ABC: ‘The Marines are expected to arrive over the next 24 hours according to the official. They will be tasked with a support role, helping law enforcement only.’”
- Reposted by Tad StoermerThanks to @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social! "The proposed brief represents the largest-scale show of alumni support since Harvard filed suit against the White House in April, adding to a growing chorus of outside groups rallying behind the University." www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
- “…yet arresting and physically assaulting demonstrators was as far as the Germans would go in Western Europe (during World War II).” — Halik Kochsanski, Resistance: The Underground War Against Hitler, 1939-1945.
- Reposted by Tad StoermerLAPD when they think nobody is watching
- A BBC World Service interviewer, in Newsday, just said that Trump “won a massive victory” in 2024. Was there something else going on aside from the presidential election?
- For all of you liberal *and* conservative nationalists out there: one thing the Founders were clear on was the utter impossibility that a president would ever — and should ever — choose to nationalize the state militia, especially for use against the people. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
- While everyone watched the Trump/Musk bromance breakup, the @nehgov.bsky.social dropped this insanity. Want NEH funding? Better toe the line on American Exceptionalism. No critical takes allowed. Cue a flood of garbage history projects for the next few years…at least.
