Author of "The Hamilton Scheme" and other works. Blog at HOGELAND'S BAD HISTORY: william.hogeland@substack.com. Liberal--so I mostly criticize liberal discourse. Also, "roots" music.https://bsky.app/profile/williamhogeland.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/williamhogeland.bsky.social/post/3mllusivyo22fFeee preview on HOGELAND'S BAD HISTORY: https://williamhogeland.substack.com/p/aoc-the-american-revolution-and-the11 May 2026 18:12 +0000at://did:plc:antvi5lib3hrgohswqbroaba/app.bsky.feed.post/3mllusivyo22fhttps://bsky.app/profile/williamhogeland.bsky.social/post/3ml7hpnj7222wI'm having a discussion with the Thomas Paine Historical Association regarding Paine's startling role in 1776--way beyond Common Sense--in bringing about American independence. On Zoom, and free, Saturday 5/9 at 4PM ET: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/SktwUNgXRHiygOqV-d9vew#/registration06 May 2026 19:46 +0000at://did:plc:antvi5lib3hrgohswqbroaba/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml7hpnj7222whttps://bsky.app/profile/williamhogeland.bsky.social/post/3ml6iuyewek2dI find that the misconceptions that Aaron Burr murdered Hamilton and committed treason are even more prevalent on BlueSky than on Twitter.06 May 2026 10:34 +0000at://did:plc:antvi5lib3hrgohswqbroaba/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml6iuyewek2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/williamhogeland.bsky.social/post/3mjxa54shxs2zBecome a paying subscriber to BAD HISTORY and celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Bicentennial with Robert Altman's "Nashville." https://williamhogeland.substack.com/p/the-50th-anniversary-of-robert-altmans20 Apr 2026 19:44 +0000at://did:plc:antvi5lib3hrgohswqbroaba/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjxa54shxs2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/williamhogeland.bsky.social/post/3mjn3drqz7c2eIf you were a paying BAD HISTORY subscriber ($5/mo. or $50/yr.), you'd be reading about how Patrick Henry's 1775 "liberty or death" speech was made up forty years after the fact. https://williamhogeland.substack.com/p/patrick-henrys-made-up-speech16 Apr 2026 18:51 +0000at://did:plc:antvi5lib3hrgohswqbroaba/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjn3drqz7c2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/williamhogeland.bsky.social/post/3mjcck2dvrk22Since it's time to talk about blackface again (and then no doubt forget about it again) three of my essays locating that pervasive impulse in places that aren't as strange as they seem: 1. On "Dixie": williamhogeland.substack.com/p/whistlin-d- https://williamhogeland.substack.com/p/whistlin-d-12 Apr 2026 12:01 +0000at://did:plc:antvi5lib3hrgohswqbroaba/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjcck2dvrk22https://bsky.app/profile/williamhogeland.bsky.social/post/3misatticnc2fEvidently Whitey is soon to be on the moon.06 Apr 2026 02:48 +0000at://did:plc:antvi5lib3hrgohswqbroaba/app.bsky.feed.post/3misatticnc2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/williamhogeland.bsky.social/post/3miche5peik2gFree preview on BAD HISTORY: williamhogeland.substack.com/p/yes-king https://williamhogeland.substack.com/p/yes-king30 Mar 2026 20:02 +0000at://did:plc:antvi5lib3hrgohswqbroaba/app.bsky.feed.post/3miche5peik2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/williamhogeland.bsky.social/post/3mhxhlhk5r22xTime-honored presidential move [contains quote post or other embedded content]26 Mar 2026 11:07 +0000at://did:plc:antvi5lib3hrgohswqbroaba/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhxhlhk5r22xhttps://bsky.app/profile/williamhogeland.bsky.social/post/3mhwhz3culk23On my list of settings for movies that will never get made. [contains quote post or other embedded content]26 Mar 2026 01:42 +0000at://did:plc:antvi5lib3hrgohswqbroaba/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhwhz3culk23https://bsky.app/profile/williamhogeland.bsky.social/post/3mhsorjvmc227No paywall. https://williamhogeland.substack.com/p/sinners-and-the-bad-history-of-the24 Mar 2026 13:32 +0000at://did:plc:antvi5lib3hrgohswqbroaba/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhsorjvmc227https://bsky.app/profile/williamhogeland.bsky.social/post/3mhsorjvmc227No paywall. https://williamhogeland.substack.com/p/sinners-and-the-bad-history-of-the24 Mar 2026 13:32 +0000at://did:plc:antvi5lib3hrgohswqbroaba/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhsorjvmc227https://bsky.app/profile/williamhogeland.bsky.social/post/3mhots2yfpc2oSince Sinners wanted to bring in the Choctaw, it might have done something interesting with their Jim Crow practices, following the emancipation of the African-descended people whom, as members of the Five "Civilized" Tribes that allied with the Confederacy, they'd held in slavery.23 Mar 2026 00:51 +0000at://did:plc:antvi5lib3hrgohswqbroaba/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhots2yfpc2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/williamhogeland.bsky.social/post/3mhodtwj7yc2uStartled to find in Sinners the all too familiar essentializing of Delta and Chicago blues. That phenomenon reflects musical and racial fantasies invented long ago by nerdy white boys--the very kind of white people the movie tries (I think; it's chaotic) to cast as vampires.22 Mar 2026 20:06 +0000at://did:plc:antvi5lib3hrgohswqbroaba/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhodtwj7yc2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/williamhogeland.bsky.social/post/3mhodbmr3ic2dNY Times on Sinners: "Sammie all but burns the place down with his resonant voice and twangy dobro [sic], a guitar with a provenance as devilish as that of the bluesman Robert Johnson." WTF22 Mar 2026 19:56 +0000at://did:plc:antvi5lib3hrgohswqbroaba/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhodbmr3ic2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/williamhogeland.bsky.social/post/3mhnsbwfxbs2rIf you know you know.22 Mar 2026 14:52 +0000at://did:plc:antvi5lib3hrgohswqbroaba/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhnsbwfxbs2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/williamhogeland.bsky.social/post/3mdvboxjngc23If we need real founding-era parallels to demonizing an opposition party as insurrectionist (we don't): "You could as soon scrub the blackamoor white, as to change the principles of a professed Democrat...he will leave nothing unattempted to overturn the Government of this Country." -- G. Washington02 Feb 2026 16:35 +0000at://did:plc:antvi5lib3hrgohswqbroaba/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdvboxjngc23https://bsky.app/profile/williamhogeland.bsky.social/post/3meo5ea56ns2uTwo posts, on failures in this crisis of appeals to our nation's founding that are interesting in part because "the writers are by no means stupid; they’re just bedazzled by sentiment." On Ted Widmer: https://williamhogeland.substack.com/p/lame-and-useless-us-history-parallels ...12 Feb 2026 13:54 +0000at://did:plc:antvi5lib3hrgohswqbroaba/app.bsky.feed.post/3meo5ea56ns2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/williamhogeland.bsky.social/post/3mf6lumdfn227Free preview: williamhogeland.substack.com/p/hi-william https://williamhogeland.substack.com/p/hi-william19 Feb 2026 02:56 +0000at://did:plc:antvi5lib3hrgohswqbroaba/app.bsky.feed.post/3mf6lumdfn227https://bsky.app/profile/williamhogeland.bsky.social/post/3mfpcojruyk2uGet rid of the State pf the Union Address. https://williamhogeland.substack.com/p/the-worst-state-of-the-union-address25 Feb 2026 18:27 +0000at://did:plc:antvi5lib3hrgohswqbroaba/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfpcojruyk2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/williamhogeland.bsky.social/post/3mfpxt6sob22qThe State of the Union Address is a very bad institution. https://williamhogeland.substack.com/p/the-worst-state-of-the-union-address26 Feb 2026 00:46 +0000at://did:plc:antvi5lib3hrgohswqbroaba/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfpxt6sob22qhttps://bsky.app/profile/williamhogeland.bsky.social/post/3mfpcojruyk2uGet rid of the State pf the Union Address. https://williamhogeland.substack.com/p/the-worst-state-of-the-union-address25 Feb 2026 18:27 +0000at://did:plc:antvi5lib3hrgohswqbroaba/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfpcojruyk2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/williamhogeland.bsky.social/post/3mf6lumdfn227Free preview: williamhogeland.substack.com/p/hi-william https://williamhogeland.substack.com/p/hi-william19 Feb 2026 02:56 +0000at://did:plc:antvi5lib3hrgohswqbroaba/app.bsky.feed.post/3mf6lumdfn227https://bsky.app/profile/williamhogeland.bsky.social/post/3mezlhs3th22bIt doesn't seem to occur to anybody, liberal or conservative, that the founders--and many of the rest of the important historical leaders--were as full of shit as any of the rest of us.17 Feb 2026 03:06 +0000at://did:plc:antvi5lib3hrgohswqbroaba/app.bsky.feed.post/3mezlhs3th22bhttps://bsky.app/profile/williamhogeland.bsky.social/post/3meto6sifgc2tHamilton's most effective piece of writing was the sleazebag letter from beyond the grave where he pretended he was going to waste his shot in the duel with Burr.14 Feb 2026 18:39 +0000at://did:plc:antvi5lib3hrgohswqbroaba/app.bsky.feed.post/3meto6sifgc2thttps://bsky.app/profile/williamhogeland.bsky.social/post/3meo5ea56ns2uTwo posts, on failures in this crisis of appeals to our nation's founding that are interesting in part because "the writers are by no means stupid; they’re just bedazzled by sentiment." On Ted Widmer: https://williamhogeland.substack.com/p/lame-and-useless-us-history-parallels ...12 Feb 2026 13:54 +0000at://did:plc:antvi5lib3hrgohswqbroaba/app.bsky.feed.post/3meo5ea56ns2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/williamhogeland.bsky.social/post/3meltaltroc27Here I criticize Tyler Austin Harper's Second Amendment analysis of ICE's killing of Alex Pretti. https://open.substack.com/pub/williamhogeland/p/in-response-to-the-ice-killings-another11 Feb 2026 15:48 +0000at://did:plc:antvi5lib3hrgohswqbroaba/app.bsky.feed.post/3meltaltroc27https://bsky.app/profile/williamhogeland.bsky.social/post/3meki76vbuk2thttps://williamhogeland.substack.com/p/in-response-to-the-ice-killings-another11 Feb 2026 02:58 +0000at://did:plc:antvi5lib3hrgohswqbroaba/app.bsky.feed.post/3meki76vbuk2thttps://bsky.app/profile/williamhogeland.bsky.social/post/3mdvboxjngc23If we need real founding-era parallels to demonizing an opposition party as insurrectionist (we don't): "You could as soon scrub the blackamoor white, as to change the principles of a professed Democrat...he will leave nothing unattempted to overturn the Government of this Country." -- G. Washington02 Feb 2026 16:35 +0000at://did:plc:antvi5lib3hrgohswqbroaba/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdvboxjngc23https://bsky.app/profile/williamhogeland.bsky.social/post/3mdt2cligx225Updated the post to note that if we do need founding-era parallels to what's going on in MN--I think we don't--the real one would be the Federalist period, not 1770's Boston. [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 Feb 2026 19:18 +0000at://did:plc:antvi5lib3hrgohswqbroaba/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdt2cligx225