Started watching “King & Conqueror” and everything is so . . . brown. Why do directors do this? The past had color, I promise.

Can someone please unplug the Matrix? We need a hard reboot.

As a historian of the 18th c and an American, I've always known 2026 would be a critical moment. This doc is worth watching, and thinking through. Begins and ends w Indigenous contexts, conveys the horrors of a civil war wrought w racism + the ideals of liberty and equality we keep reaching for. 1/

Ladies, first we ruined the office. Then we ruined literature. What should we do next?

Meanwhile, “did women ruin the workplace?”

Every technology problem is three social problems in a trench coat

Wait, wait, he tore up another room done by Jackie Kennedy?

Back to grinding my teeth . . .

DC was pinky-promised that we’d get the $1 billion owed us after the last shutdown battle. I know you’ll be shocked to hear that didn’t happen. . . .

“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion” futurism.com/artificial-i...

240,000 pages of manuscript and printed sources at your fingertips, now with much improved usability! 🗃️📜

ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections

Feeling something a little bit like hope . . .

Excerpt from #AdvanceBritannia which is released in the UK on 6 November, preorders appreciated! uk.bookshop.org/p/books/brit...

Get in, nerds. The records of Truman's Commission on the Renovation of the Executive Mansion (1949-1952) have been digitized. www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/fede...

Goddamn @theamynicholson.bsky.social COOKED with this FRANKENSTEIN review. Bow down to one of the greats. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

I need to purge some books because I am out of shelf space . . .

Is fall festival season causing FOMO? Consider The AFI Silver Classic Film Weekend in Silver Spring, Md. It returns Nov. 6–9 with restorations, rarely-screened gems, silents with live musical accompaniment, delicious pre-Codes, 35mm prints. I'll be introducing a few! silver.afi.com/classic-film...

This is A+

And a million historians cried out “NOOOOOOO”

Wait til you see it. A book-lover's book.

As someone who lived through their agency getting DOGE’d, this brought everything back.

Federal employees have been through enough already. They shouldn’t be pawns in the standoff.

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply." me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

What time is the rapture? Do I have time for more coffee?

NEWS: The D.C. Council just passed an emergency bill allowing anyone to get a COVID-19 vaccine without a doctor's prescription, which have been requested recently due to changes in federal vaccine recommendations. (And some D.C. residents have had to go to Maryland or Virginia.)

Fox really thinks America is more interested in Giants-Cowboys than Eagles-Chiefs.

Today is publication day for The Nursing Clio Reader. As I write in the preface of the book, I started Nursing Clio back when I was a second-semester grad student as part of a final project in a public humanities seminar taught by historian Matthew Countryman at UMich. 🧵

You know what wins real wars against peer opponents? Warehouses full of bombs and bullets and tourniquets, maintenance crew to service the vehicles that move them and "warriors" to where they need to go, and boring spreadsheets to tell you how much of everything you have. Logistics! Logistics!

People from all over are showing up for DC. This is not a moment. It’s a movement. We are united in our demands. We are all DC! #FreeDC

At the federal agency I worked at, every new administration, like clockwork, would spend $$$ on a rebrand to make us “more relevant.” So much money spent to fundamentally misinterpret our mission. Same here.

DC folks, I got a COVID vax appointment at CVS. Go get ‘em!

The War Office couldn't help itself, even when commenting on Sir Walter Raleigh's first volume of the official history of the #RAF in #WW1...

Looking forward to them owning Meta.

Don’t threaten me with a good time.

234 years ago, enslaved men and women rose in revolution in the French colony of Saint-Domingue. They secured the first permanent abolition of slavery, and eventually declared Haitian independence on January 1, 1804. 🇭🇹 www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020...

I have been experimenting with listening to history audiobooks. I discovered I can’t do battles. I loose track of who is doing what.

That was more than 50 years ago. Come on with this.

Grateful to my fellow DC residents for filming everything happening. Nothing good about this situation.

Imagine what would happen if all these people trashing DC put the same energy into helping DC get back its $1 billion shortfall.

As a former fed, this is a terrible idea! Peer pressure to listen or conform. Plus it gives managers license to penalize those who don’t share their beliefs.

Architectural history Women in the Middle Ages Epic Poetry

If you were alive in the 1980s, this is among the most wonderful & truly incredible things you have ever witnessed in your lifetime.

JUST IN: A federal judge has blocked the cancelation of $175 million in National Endowment for the Humanities grants, mass terminated by DOGE in April. She says the effort was transparent viewpoint discrimination in violation of the First Amendment.

DESTINATION CASABLANCA came out almost eight years ago and I still get emails from readers. Write the author of a book you loved and make their day!

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It’s a truth universally acknowledged that a middle-aged white man wearing pink-red shorts will watch TikTok videos on his phone at high volume as if he was the only train passenger.

"THE WESTERNERS" COVER REVEAL, including the spine! Both show how my new history of the 19th-c American West puts readers on the ground in this vast region with several fascinating individuals (four of them pictured here), all of whom put the lie to the frontier myth. Pub date: April 21, 2026!

Love this for Charm City. Now, let’s do DC.

I'm so delighted to have recorded this podcast episode w @lizcovart.bsky.social for Ben Franklin's World! I'm lucky to have worked behind the scenes for this pathbreaking podcast over the years, and it is super fun to be behind the mic w Liz's great questions. benfranklinsworld.com/episode-416-...