It Is hard to celebrate America at 250... When this is what we brought to the world. Death. Violence.
Also domestically: ice reign of terror, economic stagnation, targeting vulnerable populations including trans people, rampant misogyny.
This is the best we could do in 250 years?
I needed spring break yesterday 😔
Do not start with me about using Chat GPT to do this... Let me have these small joys
I used to be really good at the game balderdash... Which is basically developing the skill of making up absurd but believable lies.
I had no clue how handy this skill would be in making up wrong multiple choice options for reading quizzes.
I'm sure I'm not the only historian who thought of this analogy.
Q for Historians: there's a document about the creation of a memorial that is housed in the archives of the Ville de Paris that I'd like to access. It is from ~10 years ago, and the "conditions d'accès" = "50 ans (vie privée)." Is it remotely reasonable to request a dérogation?
I am midterm tired and it's not even two weeks into the semester.
An African-American woman and man loading vegetables onto shelves in a food pantry. Volunteers Jamiela Taylor, left, and Tavion Melton worked to restock the produce section of the food pantry at NorthPoint Health and Wellness Center. Photo by David Pierini. From https://mynorthnews.org/stories/2025/10/30/need-a-hot-meal-or-groceries-for-your-family-we-have-a-growing-list-of-resources-in-minneapolis
Am a French historian looking for good articles/books that discuss the origins of the social bonds that we are seeing in action in #Minneapolis. Doesn't have to be abt #Minnesota. Social structures that generate strong communities.
Historians? Sociologists? Political scientists?
#Skystorians
I miss snow days. COVID transformed them all into remote learning....
But sometimes it's nice just to abandon email and play in the snow unexpectedly.....
Please help spread the word: Davidson College’s Department of Gender & Sexuality Studies is hiring a tenure-track assistant professor. The specialization is open, but we are hoping for candidates who add to, rather than replicate, existing strengths in teaching and research among our GSS faculty.
I think we found someone. But thank you!
This is a major long shot, but are any of my friends on here looking to make another ~7k this semester by teaching one section of French I online for a school in my state system (35 students total)? Classes start on Tuesday, but I am sure there could be some flexibility for a last-minute need.
I am usually pretty chill about my name being consistently spelled or pronounced incorrectly. I am a people pleaser and hate conflict so I won't correct people. But as I realize, I am not being mean or rude for speaking up.
It's my name. I am allowed to ask for it to be spelled/pronounced correctly.
Dog looking skeptically at the camera/his mom
This is the look Moose gives me when we don't agree on which direction we should go on our walk
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/b...
Remember back in the 90s when we had to pretend we weren't just doing naked imperialism and invading whatever for oil?
I guess I appreciate being up front about violating Venezuelan independence and self-determination in favor of extraction and exploitation....?
Anyone have a good example of a dual book review? Writing my first and am considering my options re: organization. 🗃️
The two most recent of Moose man
Merry Christmas! Love, Moose and Moose's Dad
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You know we are an oligarchy when even Mitt Romney is writing opinion pieces in the NYT on why we need to tax the rich. MITT ROMNEY
Yeah. You are right. It's NEVER to read more...
Ah. Student evals are out. Non-experts get to rate my pedagogy using arbitrary measures.
Then I get to reflect on the directly contradictory advice I get on ways to improve. (Eg. More reading. Less reading. No reading at all.)
My gift to me? Waiting till after X-mas to read. Ignorance is bliss!
This. Too much of my life I've and mental energy is spent on AI/LLM. I want chat GPT to personally compensate me for this labor.
Time saving...? Not for me.
Thank you! Will do
I have Bailyn but not that one (I like his short overview of Atlantic history as a primer)... I don't do much US history because I feel like they get SO MUCH in school in the US.
Wow! Thank you to everyone who posted! I am so excited to work on this!
I am so thankful for this blue sky community of historians!
That is so generous! I will definitely let you know! Thank you!
This looks great! I'll have to read it!
Also a year or so back in I started suggesting students struggling to keep up with readings read your "Sandage method" for reading and I am just thankful to you for writing it and being so vulnerable!
Truly! These are amazing recs! Reminds me how twitter used to be!
