📢New article in JBS!
📗"I Am Not Anti Black Music But...": Popular Music, the NME, and Race in Late Twentieth-Century Britain by Benjamin Bland @benjamin-bland.bsky.social
Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Withholding needed medical care from poor and disabled people in MN in order to score a political point is both vicious and unnecessary. Vance should be ashamed to be the mouthpiece for his boss’s cowardly attacks on the vulnerable. Not surprised yet somehow still shocked #medicaid #minnesota
📢New article in JBS!
📗"Rethinking the Legitimacy of British Botanizing in Late Qing China (1840–1912)" by Di Lu
Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Norman L. Jones, an accomplished historian of Tudor history, has passed away. In this remembrance, Robert Tittler and @susancogan.bsky.social reflect on his scholarship, life, and legacy.
www.nacbs.org/post/norman-...
📢New in JBS!
📗“Imperial Politics, the Dominions, and the Irish Question, 1907–21” by John C. Mitcham
Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Loved the newest piece from @bakerdphd.bsky.social's Inside Higher Ed blog today, and appreciated its attention to both historical context and the current power dynamics which make "institutional neutraility" far from neutral.
@lawrencecphd.bsky.social
Next up in the series!
📗"One British Archive: The Weather Extremes in England's Little Ice Age Database" by Madeline Bassnett
Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Over the next few weeks, the NACBS blog will feature a series of pieces on artificial intelligence. Check out the opening essay by @amywb.bsky.social and stay tuned for more!
www.nacbs.org/post/the-ai-...
My brilliant spouse just suggested that municipalities name landfills, sewage treatment facilities, and dumpsters after our “dear leader”. I love this idea.
The Strangers Case
I found the first investigative file from the first complainant against Epstein in 2005.
There are descriptions from the officer, over several interviews of the girl, of her pulling her knees up on the chair, drawing doodles, & the officer high-fiving her to keep her calm as she speaks of horror.
www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ja...
Nailed it with this review, and the taxidermy line!
I wrote this yesterday about the hero city of Minneapolis
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKOW...
"You don't get promoted to Chief Child Catcher without a little expertise!"
At the rate we're going, Larry Ellison is going to have Paramount Pictures put out a prestige drama about the valiant officers who tracked down Anne Frank
The DOJ is more than three weeks late in delivering the Epstein Files. In those three weeks:
- Trump declared himself acting President of Venezuela
- ICE murdered a woman in Minnesota
- Trump is preparing an invasion of a NATO ally
- Trump initiated a criminal investigation of Fed Chair Powell
I wrote about some of 2025's big generative AI developments and their implications for historians: multimodal generation, deep research, and handwriting transcription. In short, we need to stop dismissing this as nothing more than "autocomplete on steroids." cblevins.github.io/posts/gen-ai...
Bill Clinton releasing a statement saying 'release the Epstein files, you cowards' was not on my bingo list.
This administration is made up of internet influencers and Fox News mainstays who live for the camera, so I guess it’s not surprising they have no idea how to *hide* something from the media.
You are going to need a bigger boat
There has been no debate here among constitutional scholars, historians, political scientists, anyone with a pulse really.
Any telling you that this very straightforward point, one that has been universally accepted for a century and a half, is now an "abstruse" issue is just a liar and a hack.
Just the president of the United States rationalizing that a Washington Post reporter was basically asking to be murdered and cut to pieces with a bone saw because of his reporting.
As he sits next to the thug who ordered it.
I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.
