This Tylenol thing is perfectly engineered to produce an Emily Oster opinion essay that you will also hate.

My book exploring how generations of Americans have fought over how to understand George Washington and slavery officially has a pre-order page up! a.co/d/j5sBjLH

What a book cover that is! 🗃️

Really looking forward to this book. 🗃️

Look at the bright side: Lyndsey Halligan is the administration’s point person in their crusade against the Smithsonian, maybe she’ll be too busy now!

My book exploring how generations of Americans have fought over how to understand George Washington and slavery officially has a pre-order page up! a.co/d/j5sBjLH

I’ve watched a lot of kid movies the past 5 years. The Paddington movies are very good.

Just ollied on a skateboard for the first time in 25 years to prove to my 6 year old that I can.

I think it’s under appreciated just how difficult it is to apply for a federal grant. It’s what makes the cut to state humanities councils so harmful—regranting federal funds through the states is one of the best ways to make them accessible to small orgs.

This was awesome, btw. Go see it.

Taking my day off work to see Apollo 13 in IMAX in a nearly empty theater. Let’s goooo.

Page proofs! That's my weekend sorted. Coming your way next spring.

Really smart, as usual, from @anneapplebaum.bsky.social. One of the things I say in my book about our arguments about George Washington and slavery is that Americans have never reconciled GW and slavery because we‘ve never really agreed about meaning of equality or democracy.

It’s truly impossible to describe how unhinged this video about this “America 250 Civics Coalition” is, you just have to watch it. Calls out educational decline in “last 60 to 70 years.” Might as well just come out and say “since Brown v Board.” m.youtube.com/watch?v=GI2M...

***DEEP SIGH***

I'm so glad @bannermoco.bsky.social is doing independent journalism where I live now. This story about a new state park on the land of a pathbreaking free Black Maryland family was great to see. www.thebanner.com/community/lo...

Second edition. New preface. Coming in 2026. @uncpress.bsky.social

I know this isn't the news of the day but I'm getting ready to send my review of my copyedits back to the publisher, marking the last possible time I can make any meaningful changes to this book. 😬😬😬

Welp

This is what I was missing at the constitution event I attended today. Not enough recognition that today’s problems are not the same ones as a year or five years ago.

At a Constituition Day event from More Perfect / iCivics, and am struck by the fact that conversations about “civic education” always seems to end when people turn 17. How do we get the hundreds of millions over 18 to expand their knowledge of civics and rebuild our completely broken civic culture?

As I launch into reviewing copy edits this morning, a quick reminder: I have a book coming out in the Spring that I’m very excited about.

Every day is a new adventure with two little kids who wake up before us and try to cook for themselves.

That this list includes the President’s House site in Philadelphia where George Washington lived and enslaved other human beings as president is both tragic and predictable. For 250 years, Americans have claimed that mentioning Washington and slavery together “disparages” him and his legacy.

That this list includes the President’s House site in Philadelphia where George Washington lived and enslaved other human beings as president is both tragic and predictable. For 250 years, Americans have claimed that mentioning Washington and slavery together “disparages” him and his legacy.

As I launch into reviewing copy edits this morning, a quick reminder: I have a book coming out in the Spring that I’m very excited about.

And here I thought the Cincinnati airport would be empty at 4:30 in the morning. 🤦‍♂️

Well that was fun. Go Bengals.

I’ve been a Bengals fan my whole life and I get to go to see them in Cincinnati for the first time ever tomorrow. I can’t wait.

Made it to Nippert Stadium at University of Cincinnati for the first time since I was in elementary school. The way things are going I might see the Bearcats score 100.

Final day at #AASLH2025, spending the morning facilitating a session for CEOs about managing political pressure at history museums. Should be easy! 😬

The Cincinnati Museum Center is one of the best museums I’ve ever been to in my life. Was incredible to set the world aside and walk joyfully through a series of museums for 3 hours.

Great to finally meet @dgershenowitz.bsky.social in person after she spent years editing my book! #AASLH2025

Another exciting 250th Anniversary initiative from the White House. Sigh. www.tampafp.com/president-tr...

50 cents! Half a dollar!

Wasn’t ready for the book banning discussion in the chapter of Diary of a Wimpy Kid book I was reading my son this morning. Too real, wimpy kid. Too real.

I’m not sure how society is supposed to function when we allow one student to revise the curriculum (and the faculty/staff), when a few rich neighbors can scuttle a wind farm project, etc. Grim stuff.

Got my 4yo to play DB while I was throwing football w the 7yo. These kids bring great WR1/CB1 energy. 7yo blamed every dropped pass on me, while 4yo took credit for them. Great stuff.

Apparently my first book—about free Black life before the abolition of slavery in Charleston and Cartagena de Indias—is selling for **50 cents** on Amazon if you want the Kindle edition. It looks at how the lived experience of Black freedom compared across the Americas www.amazon.com/Black-Freedo...

Heading to the @aaslh.org conference in Cincinnati this week, only packing the essential wardrobe.

Apparently ICE is hiring a historian to help investigate human rights violations, can't imagine how that could go wrong. careers.historians.org/jobs/2164421...

I couldn’t sleep and turned the game on right before the wild Keon Coleman tipped-ball catch, what in the world Is going on

If you want a true sensory overload, watch A Goofy Movie in an elementary school gym with 100 kids under 10. Just absolute madness here.

The administration's continued efforts to undermine the independence of museums is deeply concerning, but also there's some real irony in Trump decimating the only agency that could conceivably provide some kind of structure to make this happen. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/u...

Let’s just all agree to never discuss that NFL float commercial ever again.

Happy to be involved in this effort and really proud of my colleagues for putting so much work into this over the last several weeks. Hope it helps.

Happy to be involved in this effort and really proud of my colleagues for putting so much work into this over the last several weeks. Hope it helps.

I remembered some mid-2000's Bengals players with the @defector.com / Immaculate Grid tool and boy is this a grim picture.

The right would be furious that Auntie Anne’s got rid of the halo in their logo but they are too scared of the roving “gangs” of 14 year olds to go near the food court so they haven’t noticed.

I’ve never seen a more “tax the rich” sign in my life.