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Saw this yesterday in the park. This little tree was chopped down, but it left a stump in the shape of a heart. Struck me as a good metaphor for these times. And life in general. No matter how hard things get, never lose heart.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

DEI initiatives are still legal. Universities need to stand their ground. A Friday gift to your university's General Counsel Office - courtesy of an all star lineup of civil rights lawyers and scholars. You're going to want to read this.

submitted 6 days ago • 13 comments

The NEH has funded a lot of award winning, community enhancing, life changing projects. It is worth considering which of them simply would not exist under these new restrictions.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

I heard the NEA is only considering proposals related to 1776 & the USA’s 250th birthday & I was feeling intensely patriotic, so I’m printing these really big posters inspired *directly* by the Founding Fathers The cut was carved from the masthead of a 19th century newspaper

submitted 7 days ago • 54 comments

Clearly some people have zero clue who “he” refers to in the Declaration of Independence

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

For the record all the gay people I know are v mad already about the erasure of trans people. But if there are any who are waiting for them to come for the “G”:

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

Because I received a grant from the NEH in the past, I have been asked to serve as a panelist in reviewing applications this year. Here is the email I sent in response to the invitation.

submitted 14 days ago • 21 comments

The NEH has decided to comply with fascist dictat. www.neh.gov/sites/defaul...

submitted 17 days ago • 6 comments

One more reason to love the American Philosophical Society

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Eons ago the Program in Early American Economy & Society took a chance on me. I wouldn't have written a book without that postdoc, and the friends I made there changed my life. So it is a thrill and honor to speak at the PEAES at 25 conference this week! librarycompany.org/academic-pro...

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

You know this historian with a thing for things loved talking about vast early American history and material culture in the latest issue of the WMQ! Grateful to the Early Modern Studies Institute at the Huntington-USC and the WMQ for the forum. Available now on Project Muse (DM for copy)

submitted 22 days ago • 7 comments