To live in Halifax is to be told everything is the "largest" of its kind "in Atlantic Canada."

"Hey-la day-la, the bears are back"

Very much looking forward to hosting this conversation tonight with my former doctoral advisor George Rable about his excellent book on Lincoln and McClellan. Follow the link below to register: bit.ly/GeorgeRableC...

If you're in the Halifax region next month, come see me talk about my ongoing research on the little known but super interesting descendants of Abraham Lincoln and the struggles they had living under his enormous legacy:

For my latest @cwmonitor.bsky.social piece, I take a look at the world of Lincoln collecting and how it shapes the way we think about his life and legacy: www.civilwarmonitor.com/a-fistful-of...

Vexed that today's Cinematrix wouldn't accept Memoirs of an Invisible Man as a John Carpenter film between 1970-1999, but maybe that just means Carpenter runs the game: Vulture Cinematrix No. 537: Sep 14, 2025 I got 8/9 Correct Score: 2276 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬜🟩 Play at: vulture.com/vulturecinem...

The thing about Apocalypse Now is its views on political violence--especially regarding civilian populations--are not subtle.

One of the best Canadians.

Me and my wife when we play Mario with our kid:

Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival

Accurate

Sounds like a classic pay-it-forward scam

I don't think people realize how genuinely subversive this show was for it's time. Definitely give it a watch if you haven't before and think about what it's saying about domesticity in the 60s.

Alien Earth Take: So far doing a great job capturing the 90s Dark Horse Comics vibe.

slightly diminish a band: The Unfortunately Hip

Pure gold

Best end credits sequence in film history.

Had a blast at the @wordburglar.bsky.social show last night. Pretty sure I know which comic book artist was a dick to him.

Gandolfini in True Romance. That performance is basically an unintentional test run for Tony Soprano.

Post someone who looks good in a hat

Albert Pike went so hard for the Confederacy, he published his own ultra-nationalist lyrics for Dixie that became the preferred version of the Rebel elite: idn.duke.edu/ark:/87924/r...

Happy Nova Scotia Natal Day Weekend, people!

I miss the days when people got their news from reliable newspapers.

22. Not bad for a Canadian

Writing about Lincoln means constantly finding a book written in the last 160 years that you should have been citing all along.

this is also how I react to one (1) setback

The Loyalists were all bad people.

This seems like a good day to boost the wonderful work being done at NPS sites promoting and selling the best and latest work of historians and other scholars. Much of the non-academic sale of my own work came through NPS sites and I know that's true for many of my friends and colleagues

Ozzy is one of like 3 people in Decline of Western Civilization Part 2 that comes off as a decent human being and I always love the scene where Penelope Spheeris interviews him making breakfast while he explains the ups and downs of the business.

St. Vincent at Halifax Jazzfest, people!

Hot July Take: Mario Kart is pretty fun, guys.

Weird Al tonight people!

Ooooo, I like it, but looks like I have an anti-recency bias and apologies for at least two of these artists being problematic: Stankonia Kid A Elephant Funeral Franz Ferdinand My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy Hurry Up, We're Dreaming Run the Jewels 2 St. Vincent Lemonade

A lot of people will be thinking about the meaning of American Independence today and the legacy of the Declaration of Independence. It might help to know Lincoln grappled with the same thing his whole life and he too changed his mind over time. www.civilwarmonitor.com/conceived-in...

I mean, Brown Sugar is pretty tough to beat on this, right?

I am quite old...

And I'll be seeing him in Toronto next week!

In Nova Scotia for Canada Day and am truly delighted to be here.

Genius

When people talk about the greatest album cover art, they always sleep on Tracey Ullman's debut "You Broke My Heart in 17 Places" which goes harder than anything else:

Reposting for the evening crowd.

With Independence Day approaching fast, I wrote my latest @cwmonitor.bsky.social Lincoln Log on his deep, and sometimes complicated, connection to the Declaration of Independence: www.civilwarmonitor.com/conceived-in...

If you see this, post an image you saved because it made you laugh.

What actor's expression in a movie will stay with you the rest of your life? (Why isn't this everyone's answer?)

I'm with the folks who won't mess with NYT, but here are mine: 12 Years a Slave Anchorman Children of Men The Dark Knight Inglourious Basterds Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Mad Max: Fury Road The Social Network Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse There Will Be Blood

PARADISE LOST HARD ❌ As one great Furnace flam'd, yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible EASY ✅ Hell is hard to describe

This, BTW, is also how you reconcile Lincoln's position in the 1850s (at least) that the Declaration guaranteed equality for everyone with his occasional endorsements of white supremacy. He saw African Americans as part of the polity because he believed the Founders saw them that way.

What's "Juneteenth"? Learn about the origins of the term in historian Tracy Barnett's "Fighting Words" column from our current issue. Free to read today: bit.ly/3HOgp9g #juneteenth2025

Tenure for university professors has almost ceased to exist.

Historic Black community in Dartmouth deserves recognition – longtime resident