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Public Historian, Musician, Colorization Artist, Collector of Old Photographs, Avid Reader, Family Man with an Amazing Wife and Daughter, Two Cats, and a Dog.
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Holocaust denialism is a very serious problem that must be addressed by historians & all decent people alike. However, I’m convinced the resurgence of Nazism in the U.S. & Europe is not a problem of forgetting about history, but quite the opposite.

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

I’m giving a free virtual presentation on the St. Louis City-County split, “The Great Divorce of 1876,” next Friday Jan 1/31 at 10AM Central Time. Register here: slcl.events.mylibrary.digital/event?id=150...

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

I left a comment on this essay, but it either fell through an internet hole or didn’t get approved, so I’ll add a few thoughts here instead. www.journalofthecivilwarera.org/2025/01/the-...

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

The Historical Figures App was trying to do this two years ago with AI conversations & it was a disaster. It appears that app is now defunct, but I guess that hasn’t stopped other developers from trying this insanity. pastexplore.wordpress.com/2023/02/13/i...

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

Yup, @jamellebouie.net has this exactly right. What these guys are celebrating/pursuing/yearning for is not masculine energy, it's *adolescent* energy. Drinking Red Bull, crushing Call of Duty, refusing to clean your room. It is indescribably pathetic. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/o...

submitted 37 days ago • 691 comments

Both of them were annoying this morning and then all was forgiven when they posed for this photo. We also learned today that Doobie is a 100% purebred Poodle, which is amazing given that he’s a rescue.

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

Kolchin’s introductory study on American slavery was very influential for me & remains a great resource on the topic. RIP. www.delawareonline.com/obituaries/p...

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

I am delighted to see so many replies objecting to the volunteer aspect of this NARA project. In a time of extreme precarity in the humanities, NARA should be paying for skilled work, not asking for free labor that further devalues our already devalued work.

submitted 39 days ago • 6 comments

Update: The College mysteriously deleted this post over the weekend. 🤷🏻‍♂️

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

Don’t know if it counts as a form of public history, but lately I’ve been working on Find A Grave updating missing/incorrect information on relatives along with some other figures I’ve researched. Started with my Great Grandmother, whose 116th birthday was yesterday, but is not listed on the site.

submitted 43 days ago • 2 comments

The Tulsa Race Massacre was not committed by an uncontrolled mob but was the result of “a coordinated, military-style attack” by white citizens, the Justice Department said in a report. It was the first time the U.S. government has given an official account of the 1921 massacre of Black residents.

submitted 44 days ago • 430 comments

Two questions for the history bloggers: 1. What’s a good app/widget for archiving your website, particularly a Wordpress site? 2. Are there any examples of bloggers who turned their online essays into a book of select writings?

submitted 44 days ago • 3 comments

Very thoughtful essay & worth reading. Need to be careful about the historiographical claim that Reconstruction historians have left out the rest of the world. Downs’s work on the Cuban Revolution & Hahn’s “A Nation Without Borders” being two recent examples of Reconstruction in intl. context.

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

In re Claremont, Paul Fussell rightly pointed out back in the 80s that think tanks and institutes with all their talk of “scholars” and “fellows” was just people playing at university without having actually to put in the work—or, I’d add, having to face oppositional views from colleagues.

submitted 45 days ago • 10 comments

I’ve been reading about constitutionalism. The scholar argues that England does not have a written constitution, but that its constitutional principles are so part of the national culture and seen as an inheritance that the people won’t stand for a deviation from their constitutional rights. 1/9

submitted 46 days ago • 1 comment

My alma mater has embraced AI & LinkedIn Tech Jargon. 😒

submitted 46 days ago • 1 comment

This thread is excellent & provides some great resources for further reading. I do want to point out that the Page Act of 1875 predates the Chinese Exclusion Act as a significant federal immigration law & really serves as a pretext for it. www.nps.gov/articles/000...

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

Since the dawn of time the history profession has grappled with questions. Merriam-Webster defines “grapple” as

submitted 47 days ago • 11 comments

BlueSky is the only social media platform where users have complete autonomy to curate their feeds as they wish: no targeted ads, no algorithms shaping your feed, and no data collection from psychopathic billionaires like Zuckerberg & Musk who want to track every step of your lives for their profit.

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

Tuning into HGTV on Jan. 20 as a “form of rebellion” and a resistance activity is…ridiculous. Boycotting the Inauguration won’t change a damn thing.

submitted 50 days ago • 1 comment

Short follow up on my website about why photo credits matter when sharing historical photos on these nostalgia FB groups: pastexplore.wordpress.com/2025/01/02/f...

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

Super niche, but hopefully someone else on Bluesky besides me got their start with STLPunk.

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments