tomcutterham.bsky.social
Historian of class and capital in the American Revolution. Working on Angelica Schuyler and her friends. Previously, *Gentlemen Revolutionaries* https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691172668/gentlemen-revolutionaries
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But the book wasn’t a bible; instead, it was the oldest chronicle of the cathedral and it is now preserved in archives at Cambridge. I was thinking a lot today about that monk, who fought to preserve a history book, and about faith in the past and what that means to historians and communities.
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Never been clearer that you can have billionaires or you can have democracy, not both
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let's not talk about local government either! 😭
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The answer was not the point. The answer was never the point. The process of searching is the process of learning.
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*...people responsible *got* out
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Think this diagnosis might have legs? The book's in paperback for $33. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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"When viewed from the perspective of Cutterham’s ruling elite, the entire American experiment ends up looking like an elaborate get-rich-quick scheme engineered by a cabal of already privileged people..."
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In that case, yes! Will be watching while I make dinner for the family at home 🙂
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Really wish I could make it down for this!
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Fantastic stuff!
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If you'd prefer something with more footnotes, I also have an article in this winter's @thejerpano.bsky.social exploring the historiography of the confederation period: "The Age of Reconstitution: Negotiating Statehood and Citizenship in the 1780s" muse.jhu.edu/pub/12/artic...
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Didn't realise it's my shelf full of moleskines that's sending us all to hell!
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I am not someone who thinks AI, even currently, has zero acceptable use cases. I do think the concerted push to have every monkey at every typewriter pushing inputs to these models and simply making use of them is emphatically not for our benefit. They want ubiquity for a reason.
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Birthright citizenship is one of many instances where Black struggle helped create a more egalitarian society for everyone. That’s why the right is so afraid of it
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Horrifying!
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Such a great cover!