Rachel Shelden

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I’m a historian at Penn State and director of the Richards Civil War Era Center. I'm the author of Washington Brotherhood: Politics, Social Life, & the Coming of the Civil War (UNC Press, 2013). I'm currently working on a book about the political lives and world of 19th c. Supreme Court justices. #histodon #histodons #historians #SCOTUS
Personal Websitehttps://rachelshelden.com/
Washington Brotherhoodhttps://uncpress.org/book/9781469626505/washington-brotherhood/
Richards Civil War Era Centerhttps://richardscenter.la.psu.edu/
Women Also Know Historyhttps://womenalsoknowhistory.com/individual-scholar-page/?pdb=455
Show threadRachel SheldenNov 27, 2022
@bencarp I do this too! And I’ve wondered if it’s silly, but I can’t bring myself to stop.
Show threadRachel SheldenNov 26, 2022
@PhilipMartin thank you for reading and sharing!!
Rachel SheldenNov 26, 2022
Robert Tsai Nov 26, 2022
Between 2020 and 2021, leading constitutional experts got together, debated the major flaws of America’s founding document, and drafted a new constitution for a modern pluralistic democracy rather than a slaveholding republic. The results, along with a set of essays, were published in a special issue of Democracy Journal. We hope the document will spark conversation about the need to modernize the US Constitution. Read what we came up with: https://bit.ly/2Sna6QF
The Democracy Constitution

This special symposium is probably the most ambitious project this journal has ever undertaken: the writing of a new constitution for our country. The symposium includes several sections. We begin with a group of introductory essays by Editor Michael Tomasky, who describes the genesis of the project

Democracy Journal
Rachel SheldenNov 26, 2022

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One of the huge advantages of twitter. I was completely unaware of this story. The myth of 1877 is everywhere. The actual story... well, if you don't know what you think is a myth why would you even look? https://twitter.com/rachelshelden/status/1596527746959769600

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/wagesofwins/status/1596541862533554176

Rachel Shelden (@[email protected]) on Twitter

“It’s that time of year! It might be easy to end the first half U.S. survey with the “Compromise of 1877,” but that compromise is a myth. @ebalexan and I wrote about why last year for the @washingtonpost @madebyhistory https://t.co/zRznxrp8tV”

Twitter
Show threadRachel SheldenNov 26, 2022
It’s that time of year! It might be easy to end the first half U.S. survey with the “Compromise of 1877,” but that compromise is a myth. @[email protected] and I wrote about why last year for the @[email protected] @[email protected] https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/10/08/electoral-count-act-is-broken-fixing-it-requires-knowing-how-it-became-law/
The Electoral Count Act is broken. Fixing it requires knowing how it became law.

Trump tried to exploit flaws that were embedded in the law from the start.

The Washington Post
Rachel SheldenNov 26, 2022

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Couple months ago someone had a thread about how the election of 1876/compromise of 1877 is usually taught wrong. At the time I thought "I'll update my Reconstruction lecture, but no rush; there's plenty of time." That time in Monday. Anyone help me find it? #twitterstorians

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/DavidHeadPhd/status/1596312660399751169

Show threadRachel SheldenNov 26, 2022
@rachelcleves @kwheaton I’ve heard that book is wonderful! Glad for the rec. I just read Claire Keegan’s Small Things Like These and loved it (short enough you could read it in about 90 minutes).
Show threadRachel SheldenNov 26, 2022
@kwheaton @rachelcleves I don’t mind nonlinear story telling, I just didn’t like the story or the characters. It all felt very forced to me. But I do seem to be in the minority!
I married into the Shelden fam—how funny there is a zoom.
Show threadRachel SheldenNov 26, 2022
@rachelcleves @kwheaton Amor Towles, The Lincoln Highway. I know several people who really liked it but I thought it was awful!
Show threadRachel SheldenNov 25, 2022
@rachelcleves @kwheaton it really is wild that it’s on so many best of lists. I felt that way about another book last year that I also did not like. (And perhaps that feeling registered strongly because I am pathologically incapable of putting a book down once I start it.)