Teaching "revisionist" history = actually just teaching history.

The event "is about the history and the foundations of our nation, which was built on Christian values, on the Bible ... This is really truly rededicating the country to God." So weird, then, that the (yes, mostly Christian) founders designed an aggressively secular government.

I'm always partial to scenarios in which the historian is the only sane person in the room.

If there's any upside to Canvas getting hacked, let it be that the IT tech bros in universities across the nation finally learn that human beings are more important than online platforms in the actual work of teaching. They won't learn that lesson. But a professor can dream.

Texas Tech is no longer in the business of educating people.

Seven. Not counting today. I'm so tired.

Well, at least he didn’t depict himself wearing a tan suit.

I guess no one likes Vance in Hungary, either.

The (First) Lady doth protest too much, methinks.

Just got through three hours of teaching, and I'm wondering: did I miss anything while I was in class? And should I bother prepping for Thursday?

I would think that at the absolute minimum, we should have the World Cup taken away. Of course, the whole FIFA participation peace prize thing would make it awkward.

This is several layers of unconstitutional, I think.

2026 has taken much, but every so often it gives a little back.

You don't have to study early American family life to know what happens to babies who don't have the advantage of modern medical intervention. But I do study early American family life, and I can definitely tell you what happens. Babies die. An astonishing and heartbreaking number of babies die.

Don't you have to be dead to have your image on a coin? www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/0...

Normally, I couldn't care about the World Baseball Classic (and in fact might not know it was happening), but the US doesn't deserve any nice things, especially at Venezuela's expense, and now I hope it makes his head explode.

"We're marching through the world" is, historically, not a sentence uttered by the good guys.

I wonder if she thinks the money spent on her Mar-a-Lago face was worth it.

I would say "ask a historian" before pulling crap like this, but I'm pretty sure the asked someone who knew exactly how to piss the historians off. www.upi.com/News_Photos/...

We're at the wear-a-pink-triangle phase of whatever is happening here. Not the good kind of pink triangle. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

We're hiring! (Wow, you don't hear *that* every day...) Come work with us! Please feel free to circulate this job ad -- thank you! msudenver.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/MSUDen...

This is how it's done, people. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02...

Don't tell me you can't do anything with a history degree. news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...

If the Americans had an image of George Washington on their uniforms, would the IOC remove it? No? There's your answer. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/03/h...

I'm not sure who disgusts me more: the people who are *just now* admitting how racist he is, or the people who still don't care.

This is fine. Everything is fine. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/u...

Don't you have to die first? www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

I remember when we used to think critically about Manifest Destiny. Those days were nice.

Democracy dies in darkness, and the Washington Post sure seems eager to turn out the lights.

Behold the Boss. @brucespringsteen.net www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWKS...

Have to admit that "The Republicans have a Second Amendment problem" was not on my 2026 bingo card.

Wishing history away doesn't actually erase it, strangely enough. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Feeling nostalgic for the days when we learned about Teapot Dome as a textbook example of shameful presidential corruption. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Over winter break, my Constitution fell, which … seems about right.

Five years ago, right about now, I was thinking, "Well, at least this should be the end of the road for him." Shame on me. I am rarely so naïve.

So we are sixteenth-century Spain now. That's not we should aspire to becoming. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Seems like now is a really good time for some early Americanists to contextualize and critique the Monroe Doctrine, if only anyone would ever listen to us. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/w...

Invading another country and kidnapping its leader seems like a pretty wild way to distract us from the Epstein files.

Tell me you know nothing about academia without telling me you know nothing about academia.

Hmm. Mass forced migrations, but make it profitable. Where have I seen that before? www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

Definitely what an innocent person would do.

What a rotting heap of garbage he is.

Heartbroken for my alma mater and my adopted city.

We seized a Venezuelan oil tanker? Will someone just declare war on us already?

Undergoing three cognitive exams when other presidents have not taken any is not the flex he thinks it is. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!

It would have taken far less effort to just continue to do the right thing. www.sfgate.com/national-par...

Yeah, we had that station wagon in the 1970s. It shouldn't come back.

L'État, c'est moi. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Your daily reminder that the republic is definitely not in a state of collapse. www.whitehouse.gov/mediabias/

There. Fixed it.