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Historian, fascinated by religion, science, politics. Italophile, father, friend.
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A great scholar www.lemonde.fr/disparitions...

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HASSAN: What is habeas corpus? NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country HASSAN: That's incorrect

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On June 4, Durham Co. Library presents “The End of the World: A History of Apocalypse” at Beer Study in Durham. Duke professor John Jeffries Martin will give a talk on the history of the apocalyptic imagination, and then we’ll bring our own sonic apocalypse. This show is free and all ages.

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This is outrageous. Harvard needs to find a way to continue to resist. A travesty that the national government is attacking this and other universities. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/u...

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This is barbarism—Texas lawmakers moving to greatly increase control of state universities

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Trump is consistently anti-constitutional. He needs to be removed from office -- Trump Administration Live Updates: President Repeatedly Responds ‘I Don’t Know’ to Constitutional Questions www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05...

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Terrifying www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

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Harvard resists! Hoping others will follow its lead.

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Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/u...

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RIP. Always begin my seminar on Conspiracy Theories with The Formation of a Persecuting Society.

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Here’s how we’d cover this if it were elsewhere: Musk Junta Seizes Key Governmental Offices February 1, 2025: WASHINGTON, D.C. — What started Thursday as a political purge of the internal security services accelerated Friday into a full-blown coup . . . www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-s-jun...

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Not just the LGBTQ community that is in danger. The president has mounted an attack on our many of our major freedoms -- from the military to the judiciary, to the CDC and our public health, and now to free trade. These assaults are not going to stop unless we stand up and fight back. HE/HIS/HIM.

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Oooooooooooh looking forward to reading this

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Palisades Fire Could Test Getty Center’s Efforts to Protect Its Art Collection www.nytimes.com/2025/01/11/u...

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Un libro stupendo

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Many thanks to @cocojournalist.bsky.social for including Fire Weather on BNN @bloomberg.com's "Ten Climate Books to Add to Your Holiday Reading List" bnnbloomberg.ca/investing/co... @ireadvintage.bsky.social @pulitzerprizes.bsky.social @nationalbook.bsky.social @sceptrebooks.bsky.social

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Notre-Dame Arises – AHA

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Eager to read

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Ancient DNA suggests syphilis originated in Americas before ravaging Europe

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Today on the blog - "Consumption, Sociability, and Mobility: Daniel Roche and French Historical Studies." A free collection of articles testifying to the influence of Daniel Roche, a foremost historian of early modern France: dukeupress.wordpress.com/2024/01/16/d... @sfhs.bsky.social

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A great loss!

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8 Nov. 1928: birth of Natalie Zemon Davis, one of the great pioneering historians: interdisciplinary history, history of early modern Europe, women, popular culture--who never stopped innovating universityaffairs.ca... All her works are available online utoronto.academia.ed...

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Emmanuel Macron annonce l'entrée au Panthéon de l'historien et résistant Marc Bloch, fusillé par la Gestapo en 1944. L'annonce est intervenue lors du discours du président pour commémorer le 80e anniversaire de la libération de Strasbourg. www.francetvinfo.fr/societe/deba...

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