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drleonj.bsky.social
Black dogs, orange cats, and manuscripts. Professor @ USC. I write about African American life in early national and antebellum Boston.
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This little turkey just *attacked* the salmon I was getting ready to cook and ran off with a mouthful. I’m so . . . proud of her!

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Of the scores of archives I’ve visited, this one haunts me the most. Like, I’ve actually had nightmares about it! 🗃️

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Currently reading a book that uses abbreviated endnotes keyed to a bibliography with separate sections for newspapers, primary sources, secondary sources, and dissertations, so that looking up any reference requires leafing through more pages than I’d prefer. Footnotes, motherf*cker. Use footnotes.

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Hello Blue Sky! I’m a young legal scholar who is new here. I wanted to share my op-ed in the Washington Post today— on what we can learn from the senator who nearly died for democracy… wapo.st/3FyA9gt

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I think this means that it’s time for bed . . .

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OK, #Skystorians, do your stuff! 🗃️

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I once read a review that described a volume as "one of the worst-written scholarly books of importance that I have ever read." Those are the worst. I get that not everyone writes sparkling prose, but having to plough through a truly important but poorly written book is excruciating 🗃️

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It’s not often that Tulip looks dignified, but when she does, I always make a point of recording it for posterity! 🐕‍🦺

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Friends don’t let friends scrapbook nineteenth century business ledgers! 🗃️

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I absolutely love Margot Minardi’s Making Slavery History, which is one of the best studies of slavery & memory I’ve read, but I love it even more on seeing the cover designed by Karen Horton @oupacademic.bsky.social features faux stab marks on the spine as if it were a sewn antebellum pamphlet 🗃️

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Supremely helpful thread for anyone making their first visit to NARA this summer 🗃️

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"No, you cannot see the original because the document is digitized and available for study on the website. That is our policy. Request denied (again)."

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