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Bye bye WaPo subscription.

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The Diggins Memorial Lecture coming up historyprogram.commons.gc.cuny.edu/3-5-what-is-...

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

My zone (academia—in particular, the humanities) has been flooded. Now, what??? 😳

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Not important (in the scheme of things), but… REALLY?! After self-parody comes… ???

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Go Article III! coag.gov/app/uploads/...

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

People are gonna be like, so where were you when an entire Super Bowl crowd yelled “A minor?”

submitted 17 days ago • 13 comments

This is what local news orgs should be doing now: "In 2024, the Univ. of Alabama was in the top 1% of NIH-funded institutions. The university, Alabama’s largest public employer, has received more than $1 billion in NIH funding. NIH grants in Alabama supported 4,769 jobs" www.al.com/news/2025/02...

submitted 17 days ago • 42 comments

Yes, please!

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Yes!

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🙏

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Here is the guidance in full. The wording is very broad. This should help a lot of organizations and people.

submitted 24 days ago • 157 comments

On birthright citizenship, no president can end it "on day one" or any other day. It's in the Constitution - the 14th amendment. Indeed it was one of the key goals of that "new birth of freedom" - formerly enslaved people had parents who were not citizens. Media, please take note!

submitted 80 days ago • 6 comments

It’s Article TWO for a reason. Come on Article ONE: DO YOUR JOB! (I’d be happy for Article THREE to step up too, but that’s obviously more complicated. Some good early signs there though.)

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

NO ONE WANTS THIS

submitted 29 days ago • 7 comments

There is simply no plausible argument that the president has the constitutional authority to refuse to spend appropriated funds because he doesn’t like how the money is being spent. The legality of policy impoundments is just not a close question.

submitted 29 days ago • 276 comments

Poof! And there goes the “take care” clause! I thought I could get through this….Honestly, I don’t know anymore.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

The US is a multi-racial nation. But how do you tell the stories of voluntary European migrants alongside African Americans (some free, some enslaved)? The NYC Tenement Museum takes it on. See also the books of @kevinkenny.bsky.social @schoeppner.bsky.social Samantha Seeley, & my book out in 2026.

submitted 33 days ago • 2 comments

Well that didn’t take long! We seem to have boatloads of negativity over here, and that’s among “friends,” broadly speaking.

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

Huh. Seems to be a rush to cut taxes by Democrats (here in NY too). Couldn’t come up with any new ideas?

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

Such a good point. I’d add that laws are not self-legitimating either.

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sharing

submitted 39 days ago • 3 comments

New NEH/AHRC partnership "to encourage more international collaboration in humanities research between US and UK scholars focused on examining the societal impacts of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies and ensuring such technologies are deployed and used safely and responsibly" bit.ly/3Wilwmw

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Had to go to the ER recently (kidney stone), and it reminded me how much of medicine really is narrative. In triage, the doctors and nurses were begging me to tell a story that would help them understand, a story with a history. Funnily enough, I was pretty sure I had the DX down—no story required.

submitted 44 days ago • 1 comment

I have long thought that as long as I did not follow anyone on the far right on social media, I could avoid #Hitler photos. Silly me.

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Kenneth???

submitted 45 days ago • 1 comment

Amen, Adam. It’s soul-crushing too.

submitted 51 days ago • 1 comment

This is your semi-regular reminder that the cheapest way to get an academic book into your eager hands/brain is almost always by buying from the publisher with a discount code, not by buying from a (cough) internet retailer. If you’re not at #AHA25 you can still use discount code HAHA25 thru 1/20.

submitted 52 days ago • 3 comments

Great example to set for students. Some disciplines may use AI to good effect. The examples below suggest the opposite. I was disappointed not to see more critical engagement with the use of AI at #AHA25.

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

Hints?

submitted 59 days ago • 2 comments

#Skystorians coming to #AHA2025! Join me, Tanisha Ford, @chadwilliams.bsky.social @profgabriele.com @lollardfish.bsky.social & @adapalmer.bsky.social as we discuss the nuts, bolts, and FUN of writing narrative histories for trade publishers. Sun., Jan. 5, 3:30 p.m. Sheraton Empire Ballroom West.

submitted 60 days ago • 9 comments

Huh. It’s almost as if capitalism trumps…. wapo.st/4gnEm3L

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments