I wrote about Springfield, and the limits of thinking of Trump and Vance as “weird.” www.nytimes.com/2024/09/14/o...
There is something particularly insidious about his claim that Haitian immigrants are eating household pets.
His total assets not including the pensions amount to something like $13,000, which If you want to be relatable to millennials and zoomers, that's an excellent place to start.
Sorry, no —I don’t go back that far in this talk. Mostly late medieval and 16th century. Though the Vestal Virgins will appear in the book!
Heading to Denton, TX to celebrate Women's History Month with @jakobburnham.bsky.social. Come on over if you're in the neighborhood.
Job at Georgetown: Assistant Professor of African American History and Provost’s Distinguished Faculty Fellow. www.h-net.org/jobs/job_dis...
Ordered Thai take-out and watched Funny Girl. Then down a Wikipedia rabbit hole on Fannie Brice, Nicky Arnstein, and Ray Stark. The usual.
Breaking News: Americans will once again be able to receive free Covid tests by mail, U.S. officials said, ahead of a possible winter surge. nyti.ms/3POUsZy
I've been doing a version of the unessay for my Elizabeth I class and it's transformed the final project (and my enthusiasm for grading it). I highly recommend playing around with it.
What a dream to work with @bryanbanksphd.bsky.social on an article for Perspectives! Bryan writes about the unessay, which he sees "as more than an assignment type. It is a call to arms."
A popular assignment format meets students—and audiences—where they are.
I've been covering pinkification and how harmful the gendered approach to breast cancer is for a whole slew of people for over ten years, and this is a really thorough, thoughtful approach to same, published posthumously by someone who experienced it. (For more on this, Ehrenreich's 'Bright Sided')
The culture around breast cancer is full of positivity and femininity. But it comes at the expense of the marginalised
So many historians coming through BlueSky lately ... is this what it was like seeing Huguenots coming into Britain after 1685? Fleeing a tyrant etc.?