This, but for history and the humanities.
03.03.2026 21:05
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This, but for history and the humanities.
This is why a liberal arts education matters!
I teach first half of US and its mostly non-History majors. In general History majors us AP credits to place out of the 100 level courses.
Devastating indictment.
BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide.
This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.
NEW: A Presidents' Day lesson from Philadelphia.
“Each person who visits the President’s House and does not learn of the realities of founding-era slavery receives a false account of this country’s history,“ Judge Cynthia Rufe wrote.
This evening, at Law Dork:
WTF. This year for the first time I included a ban on recording my class without consent or a documented accommodation. This is completely ridiculous.
1. It was not an accident.
2. It was not a staffer.
3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia.
4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares.
5. His base agrees with him.
6. He will do it again.
7. No one in power will hold him accountable.
If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff.
Democracy dies in oligarchy.
A song that starts with Lincoln's Lyceum Speech and ends with William Lloyd Garrison?! On a Civil War-themed concept album?! I realize this is from 2010 but I heard it for the first time yesterday and I can't stop listening. Speaks to the present moment as well.
open.spotify.com/track/2FErbk...
Large brick wall with a tiny white signat the base of the wall that says "Slavery was real"
"Slavery was real"
Tiny sign at the base of a brick wall that, until yesterday, held panels about the people enslaved by George Washington.
Presidents House, Philadelphia.
OpenAI chair Bret Taylor says AI is 'probably' a bubble, expects correction in coming years
Interested in getting an MA in Historical Studies at UMBC??
Apply this week for free: umbc.edu/admissions/g...
We specialize in US History, Early Modern Europe, Asia, and Public History. We also have expertise in 20th Century Europe and colonial Latin America. Reach out for more information!
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Interested in getting an MA in Historical Studies at UMBC??
Apply this week for free: umbc.edu/admissions/g...
We specialize in US History, Early Modern Europe, Asia, and Public History. We also have expertise in 20th Century Europe and colonial Latin America. Reach out for more information!
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Hey everybody, it’s the 250th anniversary of Common Sense, whose luminous author Tom Paine, figured centrally in the American Revolution, the Enlightenment and the movement for Democracy still sweeping the Earth. The times hath found us.
A reminder - before Trump, MAGA, Musk and Fox rewrote history - that this is what the entire country agreed had happened five years ago today:
There is a fantastic documentary about this -- The Uprising of 34.
www.imdb.com/title/tt0114...
The past is never dead. It's not even past. 🗃️
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-e...
I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.
the thing that drives me insane about genAI/chatgpt bullshit is that brother, the process IS the work IS the entire thing. no artist comes to art for the final result. the final result is inextricable from the fucking labor that came into making it
To all the young people in New York and across our country who count on gender-affirming care:
I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care.
Your health care is still legal and protected.
I'll always fight for you.
Tomorrow, the House of Representatives will vote on a bill that bans gender-affirming medical care for any transgender person under 18, and threatens any medical professional providing this care to youth with 10 years in prison.
Tell Congress to protect trans youth and vote NO.
Does this mean I will live forever?
There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom
One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential
Niche content, but hilarious
