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Cake day: September 19th, 2025

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  • as an economic sanction well into the war, Lincoln outlawed slavery.

    Expanding on this –

    It’s important to note that the Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves only in Confederate-controlled states, and not in Union border states, as well as welcoming any of those freed people into the Union Army. This served the multiple purposes of: creating chaos in the Confederacy; negatively impacting the economy of the Confederacy; forcing states in rebellion to expend more resources on controlling the enslaved people within their borders (and by extension, fewer resources on waging war); and increasing membership in the Union Army.







  • The squirrels on campus back in the day were so used to people. We’d go with a bag of peanuts and they would all come running. Some would sneak in and steal them out of the bag, others would eat them out of your hand, a couple would go wherever you led them, including on top of my head or in the palm of my outstretched hand. And then sit there and eat the peanuts.