Historian of abolition here on this day Haiti became an independent republic in 1804, the African slave trade was abolished by the United States and Britain in 1808, and President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863.

As I wrote in the newsletter, these cost numbers are not reliable. (This one, for example, is almost certainly way, way too high.) it costs money, but it’s not clear how much. www.howtoreadthisch.art/president-ho...

Again, the man who’s next in line for the presidency after this walking corpse has said he’s deeply influenced by this outright Nazi, so maybe we could get a little more attention on that?

Trump golfed 1/4 of the days he was president in 2025. Costing US taxpayers to pay his Golf clubs $110,600,000.

It’s not just location - I live in a rural area, but I’m not a “real” American because I have a PhD. All my degrees were earned in this country, but having them somehow makes me less “real.” Also, I’m a woman, and we’re not even actual people.

A smaller but related point: can folks please stop contrasting academia and “the real world”? Last I checked, we academics are real, too.

1 January 1926 | A Polish Jew, Leon Weintraub, was born in Łódź. In #Auschwitz from August 1944. He was transferred to Groß-Rosen, Flossenbürg & Natzweiler-Struthof. He was liberated on 23 April 1945 near Donaueschingen. He became a doctor. Today he turns 100. Happy birthday!

Happy New Year! We love sharing these pro-book posters from the Works Projects Administration Poster Collection in the Library's Prints and Photographs Division. Of the 2,000 WPA posters known to exist, the Library of Congress's collection of more than 900 is the largest.

Feeling nostalgic for the days when I was amused by my mother’s inability to stay up until midnight on New Year’s Eve

This is literally Stalinesque, Hitleresque. Ethnic cleansing on a historically unprecedented scale.

Bulgaria joins the eurozone as its 21st country after formally adopting the euro.

Time for some librarians and archivists to go dumpster diving.

The destruction of knowledge and history is haphazard & breathtaking. NASA’s Largest Library Is Closing Amid Staff and Lab Cuts.

Timezones are so weird. Australia is in 2026, Canada is in 2025, and the United States is in 1939.

One of my furthest beliefs is that the next democratic administration needs to hire half a million IRS agents. 70,000 was far too few.

I have recently watched both ER and The Pitt and they both have storylines where the younger doctors are baffled by a case which an older doctor then immediately recognizes is measles, to everyone’s shock, given the decades-old safe & effective vaccine. After 2025, that plot won’t work again.

Future historians: of course it’s complicated. It’s always complicated. But it’s still all right to blame Mitch McConnell

Beyond just who he thinks is going to be inaugurated in his massive bulletproof ballroom: the symbolism of moving the ceremony from the Capitol to the White House. Does he also want to read the oath from a Teleprompter while the chief justice watches like the pope watching Napoleon crown himself?

Beyond just who he thinks is going to be inaugurated in his massive bulletproof ballroom: the symbolism of moving the ceremony from the Capitol to the White House. Does he also want to read the oath from a Teleprompter while the chief justice watches like the pope watching Napoleon crown himself?

So let’s get this straight: Trump’s DOJ buried Epstein’s crimes but kept flight logs on Julie K. Brown, the reporter who exposed them. Her 2019 American Airlines booking shows up in the files. That’s not a data glitch or an oversight.

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I can’t believe how stupid everything is

Was in a Little MissMatched store - the place that sold sets of 3 coordinated but not matching socks - at the Burlington Mall outside Boston, with my then-small daughter. The saleswoman said “do you see who that is over there?!” I looked: it was David Ortiz (Whose socks are always red at heart)

See also: the secretary of defense's tattoos

I mean, sure, but tribbles were also almost identical to Martian flat cats from the Robert Heinlein juvenile The Rolling Stones (1952)

I had an MRI yesterday bc my neurologist needs to follow the continuing changes in my brain resulting from >5.5 years of Long Covid. While a tech did a pre-scan blood draw, she told me everyone needs to “do their own due diligence” re the Covid vaccine. I choose the experts over an internet search.

The mainstream media only talks to Trump voters. Even in a year where Democrats win election after election, the only voters they talk to are people who vote for Republicans www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...

The last house we helped clean out literally had bags and bins of new sheets and towels - high quality 100% cotton. Most with tags and receipts. Never used. Beautiful ceramic plate sets, still new. Use the nice things!

This thread 👇👇👇 I knew the PhD was not in a research field particularly relevant to his current responsibilities (it’s in Econ). I hadn’t realized the MD was almost irrelevant as a clinical qualification (another doctor in this administration who was never licensed to practice medicine).

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Beyond crazy. Beyond idiotic. Beyond belief.

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I mean, they’re just tattoos. I’d much rather have some random guy with tattoos stay over than Stephen Miller. HE is someone who is not welcome in my home.

If you want to read the Carol aloud in its entirety, it'll take you about three hours. (Bleak House will take you about forty.)

Now if we could just get people to view US prisons through the same lens they view CECOT.

Putin needs no disinformation campaign of his own. He has the Trump gang.

Just want to point out that this man was leading the whole Turning Point USA crowd in prayer last week. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...

I know what I want for Christmas …

When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

What could go wrong? www.wsj.com/world/putin-...

The whole point of being an academic is that you need to be willing to spend three days creating a 700-word footnote that you will later delete. And you need to LIKE IT.

"Farage’s recollection is that he was a Powellite, not an advocate of further right movements, but that he went further to 'wind up’ his teachers. It is unusual to see “Enoch was right” pitched as proof of mainstream moderation by a 21st century politician" www.thenewworld.co.uk/sunder-katwa...

Mine is good but is this all a scam to get us to reveal our years of birth publicly on line?

Time to redefine “major party” (while being stunned at how quickly this has happened).

Do not cite an academic paper unless you’ve read it

NY-21 has very red parts and very purple parts, and might get redistricted again - it will be interesting to see what happens.

given everything we know about the forces that have intentionally destroyed higher education as a site of secure employment, anyone making the argument that they didn’t get a job because they’re white and male is either a lying grifter or so bad at analysis they should lose their PhD

This entire weekend

This Is Spinal Tap Stand By Me The Princess Bride When Harry Met Sally… Misery Hard pressed to think of a run of films that more perfectly embodied a whole decade.