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Puritans we're in their own churches, and democracy in congregational church government led logically to democracy and political government. The town meeting, in which adult males met together and each man voted, was a showcase and a classroom for democracy. New England villagers from the outset gathered regularly in their meetinghouses to elect their officials, appoint school masters, and discuss such mundane matters as road repairs. The town meeting, observed Thomas Jefferson, was “the best school of political liberty the world ever saw.”

in the eventual US in the 1970s women would struggle just to be given a job in the mines

Instead, we argue
about what sources are most
authoritative

/r/badhistory does not like A People’s History lol

i would like to draw the public’s attention to the fact that @compufox is extraordinarily predictable

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for the love of god please somebody make an emo cover of this so i don’t have to be the one(s) to do it

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apparently it’s disability pride month. type i diabetes, hidradenitis suppurativa, and sciatica. i have no point but i am here and alive and somehow have grown more independent than i’ve ever been

redrafted, again 

:so_cool::yuki_scritches::baron::lune:​​ :lucinya: :mae_borowski::nyacola::bartolomeow:

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A small, community‐oriented Mastodon‐compatible Fediverse (GlitchSoc) instance managed as a joint venture between the cat and KIBI families.