one reason iâd like to see an unapologetically pro-union civil war epic is that i think modern audiences still have a hard time with the idea that people could have genuinely hated slavery even if they werenât racial egalitarians
I missed Vanceâs comments comparing the 2020 election to 1876 a few days ago but itâs wild how this reference wonât die. @erikalexander.bsky.socialwww.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021...@jbouie.bsky.socialwww.nytimes.com/2024/06/15/o...
A look at the senatorâs defense of Donald Trumpâs conduct after the 2020 election.
đď¸ Y'all I appreciate the Lincoln quote but we have to stop telling the story this way. Lincoln was not just reacting to a heinous decision, he was telling a vital truth about how people of the era understood constitutionalism. Near universal acceptance of judicial supremacy is a 20th c phenomenon 1/
New in PN: Lincoln warned that if government policy "upon vital questions affecting the whole people⌠is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of SCOTUS⌠the people will have ceased to be their own rulers.â It's like Abe was addressing the Roberts Court.
It's like he was talking specifically about the Roberts Court.
đď¸ The folks over at the JAH process blog asked me and @erikalexander.bsky.socialwww.processhistory.org/alexander-an...
In the December 2023 issue of the Journal of American History, Rachel A. Shelden and Erik B. Alexander argue that our understanding of nineteenth-century politics has been hindered by a framework know...
WowâI find that unbelievable! Very sorry thatâs been your experience. Iâve never seen that any of the places Iâve been.
Thatâs very frustrating! So, hypothetically, you might say âWe need a TT prof to teach the modern world history survey with expertise for upper level course in East Asia or Latin Americaâ and admin responds âYour search will be for a historian of medieval France.â
(Also, I realize I mean to say searches, not hires.)
And thank you for this!
We may not get many hires approved, but when we do, it is at least the sub field we put forward and request. Admin does at least defer to departmental expertise about their fields and curricular needs (and not just for history). But there isnât much hiring one way or the other!
Perhaps I misunderstood your original postâI took it to say that you send a list of potential hires to admin and then they ignore it, and perhaps even choose a different sub field altogether? That seems totally unthinkable to me.