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Jake Blackwell
@jakeblackwell.bsky.social
Higher Ed advising, environmental history & sundry
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I haven’t seen this one!
There’s this squad, plus we rightly make a big deal about Jesse Owens, but the U.S. did not stick it to the Nazis. Germany handily won the medal count, and the 1936 Olympics were a PR triumph for the Nazis. #HATMen.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936_Su...
1936 Summer Olympics medal table - Wikipedia
Hey, did you know that 1936 was the origin of gender testing in the Olympics? That’s right, it all started with Nazis! #HATMus.macmillan.com/books/978037...
The Other Olympians
Named a Most Anticipated Book by Esquire, Town & Country, and Electric Literature"Michael Waters performs an Olympian act of storytelling, using the stor...
JB
Jake Blackwell
@jakeblackwell.bsky.social
Higher Ed advising, environmental history & sundry
257 followers216 following530 posts