I'm going to listen to the Oh Hellos' Family Christmas Album and read about Southern disestablishment and will be well.

Taylor Momsen?! On my 2025 tv screen??

Immediately release the marching band edit of Vodka Cranberry!!!

As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store. Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.

Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”

"When God sings with his creations, ChatGPT will not be part of the choir." To me, a perfect opening line.

Textiles play a vibrant role in the churches of Ethiopia and Eritrea, and Ethiopic literature often refers to the varied uses. Dr. Jeremy R. Brown, cataloger of Ethiopic manuscripts at HMML, shares some examples: hmml.org/stories/series-textiles-veiling-the-holy-textiles-in-ethiopic-manuscripts

”Why would you watch tv when you could be watching me, mother?”

Bless and keep this thread.

So great to see college radio in all its glory featured in today's NYT. I interviewed for the piece (WFUV is at Fordham, WFMU is independent, formerly of Uppsala--such is the way with radio, which has more acronyms than the New Deal): www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/s...

Seen in Washington DC, capital of the land of the free

It’s official: I have purchased the first journal for secondary reading note taking post-dissertation.

NEW @commonplacejrnl.bsky.social from Caroline Greer! In this new essay, Greer uses the collections of the Valentine Museum to explore menstrual care in the 19th- and early 20th-century U.S. Check it out!

it's cold today in Reading so make sure to put on your big coat or animorph yourself into a pedigree sheep breed with a fleece that any worthwhile catwalk would envy

So academic. Much freedom. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...

If someone says “gender ideology” one more time like it means something, I’m going to lose my mind. Stop pretending like there’s not an entire scientific literature on gender identity and gender dysphoria. They’re trying to ban the teaching of that scientific literature.

Hi y'all! I wanted to re-up the CFP for the Southern and ask if anyone would be interested in putting together a roundtable reconsidering the impact the American Revolution had on Southern religious life: www.thesha.org/submit-a-pro...

Two weeks of being a cat mother and I can confidently say that I would let Sadie open a credit card in my name if she wanted.

Not to Youtube post twice in one day, but we finally have a teaser for the Ann Lee movie, I cannot wait for this to consume my every waking thought. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zK_...

A wonderful member of our Wednesday OI writing group alerted me to something that is smack bang at the center of my interests: Brandi Carlile quoting directly from Thomas Jefferson’s 1802 letter to the Danbury Baptists on her album from last year! m.youtube.com/watch?v=1gQ6...

CFP for Slavery North conference on "Rebellion, Resistance, and Refuge: Slavery and Border-Crossing during the American Revolution" @umassamherst.bsky.social 7/9-7/12/2026, abstracts due 12/19/2025 #vastearlyamerica slaverynorth.com/event/call-f... 🗃️

We have a NEW essay over @commonplacejrnl.bsky.social all about Halloween tourism and where witches are (and are not) in modern-day Salem. Courtesy of Carla Pestana!

Here to terrify on #Halloween 🦇😱 BL Add MS 18852; the 'Hours of Joanna I of Castile' or the 'Hours of Joanna the Mad'; 1486 CE-1506 CE; f.150r

On this Halloween Eve, we're taking a look through the @commonplacejrnl.bsky.social archives and sharing this 2022 piece from James D. Lilley all about Poe. You know, as in Edgar Allan? Man of mystery, macabre, and...mollusk studies? Check it out ⬇️⬇️⬇️

New @joursouhist.bsky.social day, best day!!

"Texas is home to more queer people than all the queer people in Canada. And more than double the number of queer New Yorkers." Everything's bigger in Texas.

Less than one week of being a cat mom and already working on a bit where I say “oooooh, I’m telling Sadieeee“ anytime anything displeases me.

"This fucking sucks" and "all is lost" are two different sentences. Don't say the second when you mean the first.

My sweet brave Sadie left her donut briefly to come over for some sniffs, pets, and an inspection of my morning coffee. Little steps that feel huge!

Historians at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello have announced the identification of 6 additional individuals who were enslaved at the plantation. www.29news.com/2025/10/21/m... It marks the first time new names have been added to the estate’s memorial dedicated to honoring the enslaved community.

Pink Panther Returns?! #Caturday #NewberryLibrary (Inc. 5656)

why did the crab go to prison crimes

A sincere bracing joy to spend time this week talking history with some incredible folks in Philadelphia. A little shot of gumption for the days ahead!

🗣️ PLEASE SHARE 🗣️ I'm writing an intro & sourcebook on late ancient Gazan literature for Dar al-Kalima University Press. The press and I plan to produce an Arabic translation to make Gazan literature more accessible to Palestinians. Help me compensate the Gazan translator! spot.fund/dn8t744sc

From the Daily Texan, the UT student newspaper: Academic freedom should not be for sale. thedailytexan.com/2025/10/16/a...

Listening to a generational run of songs (Safety Dance into Ironic into The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald) in a cafe in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Go--and I cannot emphasize this enough--Birds.

Once again, one reason Trump says & does whatever he wants is bc every societal institution, including the media, has totally normalized & internalized the idea that the laws, the Constitution, & the international treaties we have signed & ratified simply don’t apply to this one guy. It’s maddening.

Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776). In America, the law is king.

NEW on Commonplace: Think you know the full story of Eli Whitney's role in the road leading to the Civil War? Think again. Get the full story in Ariel Ron's latest essay for Commonplace: commonplace.online/article/how-...

NEW from @commonplacejrnl.bsky.social!!

When people tell you that founders as enslavers was something we should see "in the context of their time." Great piece fr @katytelling.bsky.social abt a wealthy 18hc Virginian (and there were others) who thought Washington and co. risked their honor and more. ageofrevolutions.com/2025/10/13/a...

Ned Blackhawk - How Native Nations Shaped the Revolution The Founders were inspired—and threatened—by the independence and self-governance of nations like the Iroquois Confederacy. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

@katytelling.bsky.social explores how race and masculinity were contested and constructed in the early American republic. What did it mean to have “a great reputation among men”? Dive into the complexities of honor, identity, and power. 📖 Read here: ageofrevolutions.com/2025/10/13/a...

So grateful to @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social for their time and care and for giving me space to have a verrrrrrry "thinking out loud" piece. ageofrevolutions.com/2025/10/13/a...

i love that every other video of Tyler Childers on the Snipe Hunter tour is him laying down on the stage in his finest visiting assistant Professor cardigan just yapping and airing out his grievances.

boygenius cover of Parting Glass bless this draft, bless this draft, boygenius cover of Parting Glass

I love Richmond and I love Francine. ❤️

I'm so excited for this!

If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.

The stories of enslaved African people and more than 1,000 British plantation owners who were compensated after abolition have been brought together in a searchable archive for the first time. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...