Congratulations!

Amazing that this must be done. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

With Bailey Howell, Miss Juneteenth DFW 2025!

What is up at Gordon-Reed Elementary School

Dr. Quintard Taylor, historian and founder of BlackPast.org, has died at 77. From "The Forging of a Black Community" to building a global archive, he made Black history accessible to all. Read Lola E. Peters' reflection here: soseaem.org/4mEIrTv #Seattle

Please no rain. Yankees v White Sox. White Sox manager, Will Venable, is my husband’s cousin.

10 (More) Questions With Zohran Mamdani www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/n...

Wonderful. Science matters! www.bbc.com/news/article...

"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...

Strongly recommend the “Two Georges” exhibition at the Library of Congress. It includes original material on loan from the Royal Archives. Here George III writing in response to the act of association from Congress, September 11, 1774: “The dye is now cast.”

Last night at NYC’s Town Hall.

Wow!

Robert Redford, Screen Idol Turned Director and Activist, Dies at 89 www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/m...

360 pages of Jefferson on Race—maybe I’ve gone a little overboard…

My God, this!

Thanks to @harvardpress.bsky.social for sending along an advance copy of their new annotated edition of The Memoirs of General William Tecumseh Sherman. It's still a classic and a must read for any serious student of the Civil War era. 🗃️ www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

The failure of the three branch system of government is the story of the day. Much of what has happened could have been accomplished with Congress’s help. They have the majority. The decision to bypass Congress, and Congress’s total acquiescence in that, gives us a different form of government.

Earless Lamb Chop. Stuffing-deprived Lamb Chop. Time for a new Lamb Chop.

Oregon and Oklahoma State… They should stop this. 69 to 3 in the third quarter!

This story is WILD. Trump sent Seal Team 6 into North Korea to plant a listening device. The entire thing went sideways within minutes of landing when they noticed a fishing boat near the beach. They killed everyone on board, sunk the bodies to cover their tracks, and fled. Congress was never told.

The American Philosophical Society is hosting my book talk in person and remote Oct. 7. Register here: www.amphilsoc.org/events/nativ...

The. Founders. Museum. www.readtpa.com/p/your-tax-d...

RIP Giorgio Armani: in several of my favourite stylish movies of the eighties / nineties, he designed the fashions

Those suits!

www.facebook.com/share/r/14HS... Lenny says wake up!

1) Back in Cambridge for the day. At lunch, overheating a person describe the book he’s working on, about the economy of slavery in Richmond during the war. Just reminded that one of the reasons there’s so much writing & talk about slavery is that so many aspects of it were overlooked in the past.

This is worth sharing far and wide. Federal Employees and contractors oral history project. Im not involved in this. Just got the link, idea seems to be to create a record of the assault on the American Repuvlic after Jan 2025. www.fecohp.org

58 degrees in NYC. Brisk morning walk with Daisy

Y’all…

What amazing animals!

Character countdown for The Radical Fund, no. 47: George Creel, the Wilson administration propagandist and foil for the Garland Fund’s efforts to think about democracy in an age of mass communications. #TheRadicalFund

If a tree falls in the woods and it’s only written about, talked about, witnessed, etc, does it really make a sound unless SCIENCE uses data on it?

50 characters in 50 days, person number 49: Edward L. Bernays, public relations guru, nephew of Sigmund Freud, and creator of the Garland Fund-sponsored anti-lynching ad campaign (here with wife Doris Fleischman). #TheRadicalFund

Listening to the new biography of James Baldwin by Nicholas Boggs. It’s good.

Hahaha

Game on.

Me: I got a lamb chop! Husband: Lamb chops for dinner. Yay! Me: No. Lamb Chop. I got a lamb chop doll for Daisy. Husband, crestfallen. Will fix lamb Chops for dinner soon.

Hahahaha

It’s downright chilly here in NYC tonight!

Joining with our friends @knightfoundation.org and others in a new philanthropic effort to help stabilize, support, and revitalize public media. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/b...

This can’t be the remedy for violating a supposed legislative procedural “rule”.

The White House has called for a far-reaching review of Smithsonian museum exhibitions in order to ensure they align with President Trump's interpretation of U.S. history. "I don't think that this is something that the American people want," says historian @agordonreed.bsky.social.

I’ve always respected documentary editors, but after this experience I’m more in awe. It’s so much easier dealing with copy editing & getting a handle on a manuscript of one’s own prose as compared to the letters of another person, even if you are quite familiar with the person’s epistolary record.

📢 The OAH has issued a Statement on the White House Review of the Smithsonian. Read the statement: ow.ly/hgLR50WGhfQ