A good day to recall that the Count of Monte Cristo is about an innocent man railroaded by a sham trial

Jeanine Pirro really has egg salad on her face now

An American folk hero was born today

Keep the sandwich puns coming lol

Viva sandwich guy! www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

This is the mother of all grifts

Literally last week www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/t...

Another pathway to the professoriate being closed #academicsky

Coming to NYC! www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

CFP for Slavery North conference on "Rebellion, Resistance, and Refuge: Slavery and Border-Crossing during the American Revolution" @umassamherst.bsky.social 7/9-7/12/2026, abstracts due 12/19/2025 #vastearlyamerica slaverynorth.com/event/call-f... 🗃️

Looks like that last minute ad in Arabic put Mamdani over the top

Watch out world, Cuomo’s going to lick his wounds then get to work plotting his next humiliating electoral loss

Right on cue abcnews.go.com/amp/US/depar...

If money is speech, then a sandwich is definitely speech

Can’t believe the US had a vice president who shot a guy in the face and it wasn’t Aaron Burr

Made the mistake of mentally committing myself to reading through the private laws of the United States without realizing they run to like 800 pages some years. Finding myself wishing ill on all these Civil War pensioners

Very likely that by the end of this week the US will be in it’s longest government shutdown ever - beating Trump’s record from his first term. My guess is that it won’t end until air traffic controllers call out en masse, which most congresspeople can’t avoid being personally inconvenienced by

I recently wrote an article about colleges getting reparations for war damage to buildings built by slaves. It examined one case, but there are others. No one knows how many. Anyway, I just came across Washington and Lee Uni collecting $17k for Civil War damage to property amassed by selling slaves

Having seen none of it, I can’t tell if it’s been the most exciting World Series in decades or if it’s just the algorithm

Is spectacularly humiliating himself Cuomo’s way of apologizing?

The new ACA premiums people are starting to report sound more like mortgages. No amount of scrimping and saving is going to stop people from getting crushed under paying an extra $2800 every month

Don't see a way out of this apart from the strict legal regulation of all generative "AI". Everything needs to be labeled, the use of the likeness of real people (alive or dead) without their express consent needs to be libel (even in a labeled video), and the fines need to be ruinous.

'His book tour brought him to Cambridgeshire, where he would marry and have two children with Susannah Cullen, an Englishwoman from Ely. They settled in Soham, supported by a local network including abolitionist friends, safe...when reactionary “church and king” mobs were targeting reformers.' 1/3

New issue of the WMQ looks 🔥🗃️ oieahc.wm.edu/publications...

Today, the descendants of the people enslaved by these Massachusetts families are in tremendous need. This is the exact area hit hardest by Hurricane Melissa. Part of the reason the people are so vulnerable is that their ancestors were enslaved, exploited, and impoverished to make Cambridge rich.

Haven’t heard much from historians about NARA being closed because we all have emergency funds of thousands of archival photographs we’ve yet to look at

How the legacy of the Civil War—as presented by writers, poets, and artists of the time—has shaped American visions of democracy. @shirleyinithaca.bsky.social's Haunted by the Civil War is now available (23 Dec UK pub). Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... #Literature #History #CivilWar

I’m a historian of the 19th c that doesn’t study health at all and I’ve just been saved days, possibly weeks, of work, by a dataset posted by the National Institute of Health a few years ago. If these resources disappear many people will never even realize how they’ve been impoverished by the loss

What just fell out of this court record? Pounce! Before blotting paper became available, & for long after too, people used pulverized cuttlefish bone to dry ink. You can it clearly on this inky mess of a signature, together with a piece of contemporary blotting paper for comparison 🗃️ #bookhistory

“if Rushmore’s story is told the right way, ‘people are going to be leaving pissed’” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This display is just two piles of pumpkins lmao

Very helpful name for a law

I can’t believe we’re only 9 months in. Worse every week. Never a break.

This fox won’t quit. It pulled out the debris and moved the bricks I put in the tunnel it dug. Got me feeling like farmer Boggis out here

Most of the recent private laws passed by the US relate to immigration status adjustments but you occasionally get ones like this: $1 million in back pay to a double agent who spent decades under cover www.congress.gov/107/statute/...

If we put half as much resources into metadata and cataloging as we do into dumb AI stuff, we’d way better off in terms of the info/data ecosystem

I went to the Bigfoot museum in Santa Cruz once and there were a couple of Idaho State University cars in the parking lot. They were having a conference. RIP www.wsj.com/science/biol...

If you're in DC on Sunday, please stop by the teach-in on American history-- "In an authoritarian regime, one of the first things that is taken from the public is honest and credible information..."

College looking like a postcard today

US went from having the first Native chair of the NEH to devastating cuts to Native artists and orgs ictnews.org/arts-enterta...

A rancher went all the way to the Supreme Court in his effort to make corner-crossing on the public/private land checkerboards illegal trespassing. He wasted his money. Good. www.wyomingpublicmedia.org/natural-reso...

Today I learned that the 7th volume of the US Statutes at Large, ca 1845, was devoted entirely to Indian treaties ratified up to that point

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Had a great time at the Western History Association Conference in Albuquerque. Here's a Western History starter pack I made aways back (let me know if you want to be added). Here's some award winners, congrats! (on the cover of California History is a painting by Ana #WHA2025 go.bsky.app/C4EU8cu

Ok last time! One week to apply for this 20th US job at Cambridge. Please spread the word 🗃️

This time of year in Cambridge. Only grayer. Lovely, actually

Pretty stoked about this collaboration with my colleague Megan! filsonhistorical.org/event/printi... And thanks to @filsonhistorical.bsky.social for supporting! #NAIS #bookhistory #letterpress #Indigenous #NativeAmerica #printmaking

One thing I’ll say for history as a discipline is that I’ve never heard anyone anywhere invoke h-index in relation to hiring.