Yesterday I taught a class about the historiography of Stonewall.
I used the official defacing of the Stonewall National Monument - removing the TQ+ by the administration - to illustrate how public memory and debates about history, aka historiography, have relevance today.
Next year I'll use this.
From @rjboutelle.bsky.social on ICE's detainment of chaplain Ayman Soliman: www.cincinnati.com/story/opinio...
An illustrated book page that has illustrations on the top, left side, and bottom of children walking, climbing, and in a boat. The text reads: The Tom-Boy Who was Changed Into a Real Boy. There was a little girl, The daughter of an Earl (You perceive no rank or station is from faults free, free), Who played with all the boys, Was so rude, and fond of noise, That--what happened to her presently we'll see, see, see.
I'm doing a very surface level search for information about queerness in the agricultural Antebellum South, and it led me to this gem from the @amantiquarian.bsky.social via outhistory.org/exhibits/sho.... No, it's not about a farmer. But I'm intrigued.
Best "traditional" country album? According to who? *coughs in judgemental folklorist*
www.billboard.com/music/awards...
Screenshot of an email that reads “Harvard Alert. The search has concluded. The shelter in place has been lifted.”
UPDATE: shelter in place has been lifted
Screenshot of an alert email that reads “Harvard Alert. Transit police are reporting shots fired at the Harvard Sq MBTA station. CPD, transit, state, and Harvard police are searching the Square for the suspect. Shelter in place. Please enter the nearest building and stay there until all clear is given.”
Anyone in Cambridge, MA: Harvard has issued a shelter in place order. Stay clear of the square.
A tweet by Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren ) reads: "If President Trump can wrongly deport a Maryland father to a prison in El Salvador and then defy a 9-0 Supreme Court order to facilitate bringing him home, who’s next? This threatens the rights and freedoms of everyone in the United States."
We must make our stand here.
A LETTER TO HARVARD LAW SCHOOL STUDENTS March 29, 2025 To our students: We are privileged to teach and learn the law with you. We write to you today—in our individual capacities-because we believe that American legal precepts and the institutions designed to uphold them are being severely tested, and many of you have expressed to us your concerns and fears about the present moment. Each of us brings different, sometimes irreconcilable, perspectives to what the law is and should be. Diverse viewpoints are a credit to our school. But we share, and take seriously, a commitment to the rule of law: for people to be equal before it, and for its administration to be impartial. That commitment is foundational to the whole legal profession, and to the special role that lawyers play in our society. As the Model Rules of Professional Conduct provide: "A lawyer is ... an officer of the legal system and a public citizen having special responsibility for the quality of justice." The rule of law is imperiled when government leaders: • single out lawyers and law firms for retribution based on their lawful and ethical representation of clients disfavored by the government, undermining the Sixth Amendment; • threaten law firms and legal clinics for their lawyers' pro bono work or prior government service; • relent on those arbitrary threats based on public acts of submission and outlays of funds for favored causes; and • punish people for lawfully speaking out on matters of public concern. While reasonable people can disagree about the characterization of particular incidents, we are all acutely concerned that severe challenges to the rule of law are taking place, and we strongly condemn any effort to undermine the basic norms we have described. On our own campus and at many other universities, international students have reported fear of imprisonment or deportation for lawful speech and political activism. Whatever we might each think about particular conduct under particular facts,…
From 91 professors at Harvard Law School: a letter to our students.
tinyurl.com/letter-to-ou...
Among the thousands of groups affected by the sudden cessation of funds are state arts councils, museums, historic sites, archives, libraries, educators and media outlets in all 50 states.
As has been stated quite a few times, Republicans could shut this down at any time if they wanted to…
Gonna keep saying this: In the 1840s, Southerners insisted that they could kidnap any person they alleged was a slave without any state or federal process. This turned even minimal process into resistance and raised the salience of the issue, which radicalized a bunch of people against slavery.
Not only am I incredibly excited to read this, I’ve also been trying to track down a font for WEEKS and it’s the font used on this cover. Anyone know what it’s called?
But more importantly. This. Book.
Cory Booker: "I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America."
Historians, crawling back into daylight from the depths of despair: "Did somebody somewhere ask for some wretched truth?"
"History also can be used as a force against advocacy, or, put another way, to advocate for the status quo."
Sen. Booker’s speech was a substantive and moral account of this moment. He did not read the phone book. He did not babble.
For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity.
What will you do?
@booker.senate.gov dismantles a Confederate monument.
Photo of Cory Booker in a black suit and tie
WASHINGTON (AP) — Cory Booker breaks the record for longest Senate speech, previously held by segregationist Strom Thurmond.
American political history was made minutes ago as the chamber burst into applause as Sen. Booker broke the record.
I'm invested in this Cory Booker thing for the sheer joy of watching that old racist fuck Strom Thurmond get dustbinned by history as he so richly deserves
“Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness.” I might need to get that on a poster! It’s a rallying cry to all historians out there in this moment 👊🗃️
@corybooker.com @booker.senate.gov
YES, Cory Booker! Tell us more why we study history! ✨✨✨
Cory Booker. 👇👇👇
Yes! The humanities are not a luxury. They are a necessary part of... humanity.
If anyone is wondering if this is a good use of Booker's time, I'm feeling hopeful for the first time in days. So thank you, @booker.senate.gov. Because it is only when we lose hope that we lose the ability to continue fighting.
Booker: "I confess that I have been imperfect. I confess that I've been inadequate to the moment. I've confess that the Democratic Party has made terrible mistakes that gave a lane to this demagogue. I confess we all must look in the mirror and say 'we will do better.'"
Write your elected officials to tell them to save the NEH: p2a.co/DdtlGIT
I need more silliness to break up the weight of my feed these days. Anyone have a favorite meme account? Cat account? Pop culture account? Nerdy humor? Send it my way, please.
There is no other way to say this: Today is the day the CDC was essentially dissolved. What's left is a husk. People will die as a direct result.
www.wired.com/story/cdc-gu...
Harvard has about 2500 faculty members, the majority of which are not ladder faculty (lecturers, tutors, adjunct, etc.)
