Kudos to you for posting this, Holly.
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Kudos to you for posting this, Holly.
28 December 1784, ship Empress of China, with supercargo Samuel Shaw, sailed from Whampoa (Huamg-po) for New York, ending first American visit to China
In 1987, Tom Wolfe fretted over a threat to established institutions by a group that "sought nothing less than to sweep aside all codes and restraints of the past." He blamed "the hippies." One wonders what he would say about our current political plight. matiane.wordpress.com/2021/11/30/g...
What went wrong with the @nytimes?
I felt shattered.
My beef—well, one of—is how “popular historians appropriate the work of academic researchers to gain sales and notoriety, pretending they did all the work themselves.
"The tragedy of the contemporary academy is that even when traditional liberal learning clearly wins with students and donors, it loses with those in power."
Students Want the Liberal Arts. Administrators, Not So Much. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/o...
Book cover with various kinds of evidence of family history arrayed around the author and title, the latter is _Lineage: Genealogy and the Power of Connection in Early America_. The kinds of materials include printed texts, manuscripts, a red book (shhhhh that figures largely in the Introduction!), a watercolor family record, Fraktur, gravestone, and a sampler. One repeated text says "born free, born free (etc)"
It’s been a long time coming… so thrilled to share the cover (and Oxford UP website last in 🧵) for my book, _Lineage: Genealogy and the Power of Connection in Early America_, pub date 7.2.25 (but will ship, so they say very enticingly, mid-June. 1/ #VastEarlyAmerica 🗃️
Our colleague, @provatlantic.bsky.social , came up with a great anti-AI phrase: “Leave History to people.” Can we make this go viral? @kawulf.bsky.social @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social @danmandel.bsky.social
Dem leaders just can’t let go of their tired, losing ways.
An alternative interpretation: Native Americans didn't kill enough Coulters.
OK, this is how it's done.
Chair of history department at U.S. Naval Academy resigns after order to remove paper from symposium “for reasons having nothing to do with scholarship.” [James Matheson, Baltimore Sun]
The Academy was founded by John Adams during the American Revolution.
Every institute should be fighting back.
Millions of Americans stood at the barrel of a gun to help protect what Trump is destroying now.
So, ICE isn’t actually going after gangs and drug-dealers? Who would have guessed?
Proud of my alma mater tonight.
Scholnick on James Mill, 1824: "
What nonsense.
Can you file for an extension?
Join me tomorrow at 12:00 for a #lunchtimetalk on #women & #boycotts of #Englishmade #shoes in the years prior to the #AmRev #wenhammuseum @revolution250.bsky.social @hopkinspress.bsky.social #resistancethroughfashion #purchasingpower #womenlead #nonimportation #letmetellyouastoryaboutshoes
Really looking forward to Revolutionary April in Salem! www.historicnewengland.org/visit/events/
FWIT, today marks the anniversary of the Revenue Act of 1764 (the Sugar Act), for which Stephen Hopkins of Rhode Island observed, "Liberty is the greatest blessing that men can enjoy, and slavery is the heaviest curse that human nature is capable of...."
I submit a proposition: Fox News is the greatest threat to our society and national security, amplifying falsehoods, eliding truths, and distorting reality.
I submit a proposition: Fox News is the greatest threat to our society and national security, amplifying falsehoods, eliding truths, and distorting reality.
I submit a proposition: Fox News is the greatest threat to our society and national security, amplifying falsehoods, eliding truths, and distorting reality.!!
More tyranny from the Trump Administration.
In honor of #BlackHistoryMonth, the National Park Service and historians pay tribute to the Black cowboys and cowgirls who made their mark on the wild west. buckrail.com/celebrating-... #tellemwhatwedid ✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿
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