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Why You Should Subscribe to “William F. Spivey’s History Channel”
Stories You Won’t Find in a Florida or Texas Textbook
When I started writing about history, I’d write about something that interested me, often learning something that sent me scurrying down rabbit holes to fill in the details. In the past five years, I’ve written over 1,500 stories, almost half of which are about history. A few hundred were about politics and damned if they didn’t involve history as well. I often write about race, which cannot be understood without historical context, so I always seem to end up in the same place.
What you’ll find by subscribing to William F. Spivey’s History Channel is not just history but context. What happened before and after? What else was happening at the time? The facts are the facts, but I often draw conclusions not found in history books. While Ron DeSantis and Texas school books offer a sanitized version of history. I don’t shy away from discussing “forced breeding and rape,” which they call “natural increase” or “natural reproduction.”
You will have a large sample size to wade through before deciding to subscribe. The first 150 articles I publish will be free; 87 stories have already been published. I anticipate making the conversion to paid subscribers only sometime in late September. The subscription rate is the lowest available on Substack: $5 monthly or $40 annually. My goal is to reach people, not hide information.
Some of my stories are opinion pieces like “Did the South Really Lose the Civil War?”
There are stories from the Civil Rights Movement you may have missed:
And sometimes, I write about whatever crosses my mind, lingering until I write down my thoughts.
Even a Strong Black Woman Feels Tired Sometimes
Don't Take Them For Granted
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Please check me out. For now, everything is free. Hopefully, you’ll see enough value to stick around when the inevitable bill comes due. Feel free to challenge my opinions but not the facts.
William Spivey
