"Not all homeless people deserve involuntary lethal injection" is one hell of an apology.

The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.

The problem with allowing guns everywhere is that no one is safe anywhere.

Literally the entire point of a tattoo is the human element and interaction. Working with your tattoo artist, personalizing your designs, its all so intimate and rightly so. Thats what its all about! Why do techbros try to ruin EVERYTHING?

First time playing live since high school. Only this time I got to play with my dad and brother, I have more gray hairs, and I am not playing post-hardcore music.

Wow how kind of the rip currents to rescue hundreds of swimmers.

wow

Instead of Johann Tetzel meandering into your 16th c town of Halberstadt to sell indulgences so that your grandfather who died of rickets at the ripe old age of 34 will spend one less day in purgatory, a former game show host is asking you for donations so HE won’t go to hell.

What is important to remember is that the initial installation of the Robert E. Lee portrait had little to do with history. It was installed in the 1950s. To understand why you need to appreciate the vagaries of historical memory. The relevant history or context is the 1950s and not the 1860s.

NEW: More than ‎20,500 workers have left or been pushed out of federal health agencies, a ProPublica analysis found. Staffers say the cuts will leave their agencies less equipped to conduct studies, perform inspections and combat deadly outbreaks.

Save the date! On Friday, October 3rd, I will be at the Literary Night Market with other local authors for the Saratoga Book Festival! The event is free, and I’ll have signed paperback copies of my book for sale — Constructing Disability after the Great War: Blind Veterans in the Progressive Era.

“What the world should know, is that the president of the United States is a profoundly ignorant person about American history. And history is full of examples of power possessed by people of great historical ignorance, and that’s what we’re experiencing.” — Historian David Blight

It is a scientific FACT that eating 3 cookies spaced out half a cookie every 15 minutes is not as bad for you as 3 all at once. Something about the act of contemplating more cookies burns additional calories.

Face Authenticator didn’t work because I was shoveling a quesadilla in my mouth

This is fascist. History should be complex, good, bad, uncomfortable, surprising, everything. It shouldn’t cater to an insecure man’s misconceptions about the past.

big if true

The business model of a pyramid scheme

Handily I wrote this piece a few years back about the British ninja panic, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and its social history here: tribunemag.co.uk/2021/04/when...

NEW: We interviewed nine Venezuelan men who were sent to CECOT by the Trump administration. Some said their feelings about what happened were still raw. All of the men said they were abused physically and mentally during their imprisonment.

This is how it should be done.

Spent the morning researching at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, reading through US surgeon journals from the Western Front.

Today was my last day at the Barbara Bates Center at UPenn’s School of Nursing. Great experience, wonderful help from the archivists! Tomorrow I’ll be in the archive at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia! Image: me standing in front of the sign for Claire M. Fagen Hall, School of Nursing.

At the Museum of the American Revolution, the temporary flag exhibit has a flag from the Massachusetts Militia, the same militia, though different regiment, in which my 6th great grandfather Captain Benjamin Barnes served.

Someone tell me, “Hey, Evan! It’s okay that you bought a couple books at the bookstore full price! Just enjoy it!”

One week in and Philly is pretty cool.

“Oh yeah I love New York City” “Yeah it’s great, I’m in upstate New York”

Today, I started my first research trip since publishing my book. I was awarded the Karen Buhler-Wilkerson fellowship by the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Nursing archives, the Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing.

George Retes, an American citizen disabled US Army veteran who has been held in federal custody since Thursday, was released without charges this evening. 1/

Back in @defector.com today! I wrote about the "Alligator Alcatraz," the vicious folklore of "gator bait," and the cultural history of white supremacists trying to recruit alligators as enforcers of racial terror

all those uber and lyft teslas will now use their many exterior cameras to decide whether or not to unlock the door based on the rider's skull shape

Again, the central feature of the people who want ChatGPT and AI to infiltrate every aspect of education is that they are deeply lazy & unwilling to put in the time & effort to do the actual daily work required in thinking, writing, learning, and teaching. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Here. This managed to ignite my utter loathing of tech bros enough for me to write this. othermeans.io/p/get-your-f...

“Letting an algorithm do all of your writing for you is like having your mom pack your lunch for you at your corporate job. Grow up.”

Does this mean that conservative natalists have to support climate change mitigation policies now?

nothing more american than an abandoned toys r us, a company destroyed by private equity, painted with a giant flag mural

Now live! We've created the most comprehensive map to-date of religious institutions in the German Peasants' War (1524-26), identifying many more affected institutions than existing source lists. Find our map, case studies, and much more on our website: germanpeasantswar.web.ox.ac.uk #skystorians

Don’t let fascists convince you that there’s no room for empathy in our society.

Hell yeah

It has been at least a few weeks, but I finally got the MX6 out for a drive today

Fellow historians: what is your preferred method of keeping source notes organized for a project, and why? Google docs? Word? OneNote? Something else?

“I feel like I’ve been lied to,” Kiley told his wife as his fever rose to 104 degrees. He tried to manage his symptoms at home with cod liver oil and vitamin D, supplements endorsed by Robert F. Kennedy Jr… and coughed and dry-heaved his way through the night.” cc @jackiantonovich.bsky.social

amtrak’s marketing team gets it

Essential “No Kings Day” reading from my PhD advisor T.H. Breen. George Washington specifically rejected a military parade like the one Trump is having tomorrow. What seems to a king like a sign of strength should be seen by citizens as a loss of liberty. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Mel Brooks turns 99 later this month. What an absolute legend.

Fascist authoritarian regimes require history to be celebratory, and view critical thinking - which is ultimately a way to help us live up to our ideals and not neglect past wrongs - as Marxist and unpatriotic.

Chicago.

👇🎯 These are not strategic, sophisticated people who have thought their way all the way down the game tree. We know this from observing literally every interaction of Trump & his kakistocrats on trade policy, foreign policy, & every other kind of policy. It's why really bad outcomes keep happening.

Grab a copy of my book, Constructing Disability after the Great War, for 50% off with University of Illinois Press’s summer sale! (Link below)