Vienna

That special rare thing when you really hit if off with your students’ parents

Kid: (working on a paper): I procrastinate by doing more research Me:

Overheard: Rusty, today is not the day to start with me

The write a book review without ending it “these minor critiques notwithstanding…” challenge

I'm shocked that the faux populist with the death's head tattoo doesn't understand basic economics

How far are we from giving these out to mothers of 5 Trump babies

The scene over here

Eggplant Eden!

So if they don’t give up their nuclear program, we’ll nuke them because we can’t allow a dangerous unstable regime to possess nuclear weapons. Am I getting that right?

Jfc

dreamt I took students to midtown Manhattan instead of Vienna

How much longer till the midterms

Not me spending 2 hours on the ÖBB website and eventually calling Austria (and for some reason speaking in a weird semi-Austrian German accent) to learn that to buy train tickets for a group larger than 6, you have to purchase them in batches of no more than 6

Rusty Sunday

Oh excuse me guys. Hope I’m not interrupting anything

$400 million but no ballroom? www.wsj.com/real-estate/...

Parenting while historian: explaining the social basis of Nazi support while cleaning the kitchen at midnight

Wow, who knew that PEZ comes from Pfefferminz and came from interwar Austria www.youtube.com/watch?v=Axvu...

Last class before we leave for Vienna: let's go!!!! 🗃️

Morning commute

Tempting as it is, I think I'll pass www.gpsmycity.com/tours/hitler...

I haven't read Crabapple's book yet but I really appreciate this deep dive into the history of the Bund and the historical nuance and precision brought to bear on the discussion in this 🧵

If only I had a ballroom I would have finished this book by now

Packed house last night at the @dornsife.usc.edu Max Kade Institute with authors @danielagerson.bsky.social & Judy Batalion in conversation with Aliza Luft (UCLA) about their brand new books. Fascinating and lively discussion.

Me: Get out of the shower—you’re going to be late to school! Teen: You’re denying me my agency.

Spouse texted me a shopping list: milk, asparagus, chaos, and zucchini maybe some cookies. On it!

“Weimar Germany, 1918/19–1933,” the final volume of our relaunched “German History in Documents and Images” primary source project, is now published and available! You can find the expanded edition, edited and with a new introduction by Erik Jensen, here: germanhistorydocs.org/en/weimar-ge...

The LA TImes Festival of Celebrity Books

At a lunch today. Person 1: What brings you here? Person 2: I'm a Holocaust survivor. Person 1: Congratulations

Ding ding ding!

Back in session

Is Vance actually some kind of Manchurian candidate sent in to destroy MAGA because it seems to be working

Congress while we hurtle toward World War Three

@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcasts coming this summer. Looking forward to talking with @chadgibbs101.bsky.social & Sarah Zarrow about their fantastic new books!

It’s almost as if humanity shouldn’t have built an entire civilization around petroleum

I think the Soviet Union would like a word.

Someone tell the president that he’s just supposed to seem like a madman, not actually be one

LA this event is going to be really special. Come join us!!

What could be a more appropriate Easter message than celebrating unrestrained greed and unceasing aerial bombardment

my luck to be stuck next to an oversharing hypnotherapist at this cafe

I thought she meant the president's diapers

how many dimensional chess is this?

Wake me when it’s over

So excited for this upcoming event with authors @danielagerson.bsky.social and Judy Battalion at The Max Kade Institute @dornsife.usc.edu on the 26th. 🗃️

OMG this is the greatest thing ever apnews.com/article/type...

Let's do this! 🗃️

It's an obvious point but it needs to be said: protesting Israel's actions is not antisemitism. Demanding lists of Jews from a university is. Full stop.

Not my field, but we won the War in Vietnam?