So happy I went with The Atlantic. It was that or take 150k from the Enquirer to kill it.

“Newly deciphered passages from a papyrus scroll that was buried beneath layers of volcanic ash after the AD79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius may have shed light on the final hours of Plato, a key figure in the history of western philosophy.”

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The professor being tempted to take on another book review

Norwegian military official with whimsical mustache on TV. I hope he’s building a Chitty Chitty Bang Bang flying machine that he’ll use to access his chocolate factory that’s deep inside an alpine cave.

“The Florida act was one of a hundred and forty educational gag orders passed by state legislatures in 2022; almost forty per cent of these targeted colleges and universities.”newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…

Looking forward to giving the plenary lecture at the annual meeting of the Historians of the Twentieth Century US, Univ of Southampton, June 19-21. It's based on current research/writing on the Dust Bowl, religion, enviro history, & migration. HOTCUS hotcus.org.uk/2024-annual-co…

The lambs are back! And they wanna test their jumping skills.

Draper Hill on Nixon as Richard III, Memphis Commercial Appeal, May 3, 1974.

Gallup polling on youth & campus protests, 1969-70. The biggest gripe about youth (30%): 'Undisciplined behavior, campus protests.' And this: 'Do you agree or disagree w/ college students going on strike as a way to protest the way things are run in this country?' 82% disagreed.

A starred review from Library Journal 'VERDICT This deeply researched, engaging work demonstrates what was at stake in the war of words between Roosevelt and isolationists in the immediate years prior to the U.S.’s entry into WWII. There’s much to enjoy in this title.'

“No he won’t. He’s Jordan Catalano.”

Franklin Morse on the growing power of the gun lobby in 1960s America, San Francisco Examiner, 7/27/1968.

'We forgot to let the dean out of his closet after commencement last week!' Bill Mauldin, San Francisco Examiner, 6/15/1968.

The International Review of Social History (International Review of Social History) has run a review dossier on our colleague, Daniel Laqua's amazing new book, 'Activism across Borders since 1870' (@BloomsburyHist). All #OpenAccess . Link here: cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Richard Hofstadter, The Paranoid Style in American Politics and Other Essays (Alfred A. Knopf, 1965), read by Paul Newman, 180g white vinyl. #BooksOnVinyl #FunWithPhotoshop

A tilt-shift of the Oslo t-bane between Forskningsparken and Blindern.

'Tenting on the old camp ground.' Bill Mauldin, San Francisco Examiner, 2/22/1969.

Andy B. Donato, 'Valedictorian, '69,' San Francisco Examiner, 3/1/1969.

Here’s White House Chief of Staff HR Haldeman describing a Sept 1971 conversation with Nixon. 'I just want to ask you one favor,” said Nixon. “If I'm assassinated, I want you to have them play [Liszt’s] Dante's Inferno and have Lawrence Welk produce it.' And-a one, and-a two

Hugh Haynie on Nixon's controversial interviews with David Frost. Nixon told Frost: 'when the president does it, that means that it is not illegal.' Louisville Courier-Journal, 5/27/1977.