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History editor, JHU Press. Got a book idea? Get in touch: [email protected]. No DMs, please. (I do not speak for my employer here, etc etc.)
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A thing that I think about almost every day is Caro’s line about LBJ was “the man who broke the presidency.” Before LBJ, when polled, voters generally trusted that the president was telling the truth. That craters in the late 60s and never, ever recovers.

submitted 15 hours ago • 5 comments

It should go without saying, but apparently it needs to be said: if you are peer reviewing a ms for a scholarly press, DO NOT feed that ms into an AI machine to write your reader report for you. DO NOT.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Many people who write about publishing--academics, newsletter writers, etc.--might spend more time *interviewing publishing workers*! I read so much that is just...factually wrong? Talking to ppl in the industry isn't hard.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

A reminder, because apparently that’s needed today: tarring and feathering is an act of physical violence against someone. During the Revolutionary era, it was employed specifically as an act of terror to intimidate officials, merchants, and others who opposed the Sons of Liberty.

submitted 1 day ago • 57 comments

my main takeaway after spending the afternoon at the national history day competition is that the kids are pretty alright. also, that reactionaries are right to fear the consequences of kids learning the truth.

submitted 2 days ago • 129 comments

Had reason to google the John Foster Dulles Book of Humor today and google’s AI confidently asserted “It is unlikely that there is a book titled John Foster Dulles Book of Humor” which is wrong (this book does exist, published 1996) but is also, actually, 100% correct

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Interestingly, the headline and article use the word “seize” which I would argue is more correct. “Divert” implies less active control (even a sort of passivity) than “seize.” Words mean things!

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

As a former resident of Connecticut, I cannot express in words how delighted I am to see this

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Is there more info on this out there? Any articles on this new ownership?

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Every communications professional right now is trying to decide if they drop the bad news now or bet on this going on for another 24 hours so they can double-bury it tomorrow at 5pm

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

This is more or less like the Lincoln Douglas debates?

submitted 6 days ago • 31 comments

Historians, you are great, but you gotta write shorter books. Your colleagues don’t want to read the long ones. They won’t tell you this but they do tell me, all the time. I say all this with love.

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

I cannot stress enough: this is the most delicious thing in the world

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Ok help me out here. How does 2000 gallons of diesel get from E Fayette St to the Harbor? Underground? Sewer? (Magic?) Not disputing the facts of the case, but I looked at a map and don’t understand how this works.

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

Individuals can and should have their own opinions. They cannot have their own facts. Facts are social, public, shared. History is a fact-based discipline. Historians may disagree over how to interpret evidence or over what counts as evidence, but not over basic facts. The Holocaust happened.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Just discovered that MS Teams is attaching a picture of The Cure (yes, the band) to every transcript/recording of our editorial meetings. As you might imagine: I have some questions.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

I’d like to again propose that the number of era-defining crises that any one person is asked to live through be capped at 2.

submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments

I am not here to scold you about not reading the terms and conditions at academia.edu. Lord knows that I click through these things all the time. But yes, you did give them the rights to make an AI podcast of your uploaded work, I am sorry to say.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

“Is this book so important that we are willing to lose money on it” is the first question I ask myself when considering a book proposal (and we often are! But those are the stakes, bluntly stated.)

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

This no-kill animal shelter is in desperate need of kitten food, kitten milk replacement, and other supplies. If you post a screenshot in my replies showing that you donated at least $10 (even as a Chewy gift card), I'll answer a style-related question for you. Donation info in their thread.

submitted 10 days ago • 358 comments

Ben Franklin would be on Pornhub within literal minutes.

submitted 11 days ago • 147 comments

“Book agent” offering “endorsement” to pubs is an extremely common scam approach. One bright spot re: this kind of approach is that while there are dozens of different scam companies, they all use the same playbook. Once you’ve gotten a few of these, they are easy to recognize and dismiss

submitted 11 days ago • 5 comments