Historian and writer. I write about history, museums, and how Americans engage with the past. **Thy Will Be Done: George Washington's Legacy of Slavery and the Fight for American Memory** out now. www.johngmarks.com
John Garrison Marks
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According to these spam emails my career is about to take off!
I've spent months speaking to current & retired Black service members about being part of the military in this political moment. What I found were officers and soldiers despondent at the resurgence of racism, yet often insistent that they were fighting for what this country could be, not what it is.
Every time Wemby falls down it looks like one of those videos where they’ve tried to teach a robot karate
It's fun to work on pieces where you get to write things like "30,000 gallons of raw sewage" and "the elevator shaft filled with 9 feet of sewage."
Also, the last-minute cancellation of the "Nation's Gun Show" in northern Virginia is suddenly a professional inconvenience for me. Exciting and strange times over here.
I’m sorry the Knicks did what????
I am dew point truther. It's the only number I care about in the summer. And a dew point in the mid-70s SUCKS!
The 250th omens are getting to be a bit much. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/07/n...
I’m rarely at a loss for words but today I don’t have many for the enormity and the complexity of Gordon Wood’s legacy - I was inspired by his work even as I agreed with about 1/2 and was often irritated by the rest. RIP. A real one. www.brown.edu/news/2026-06...
