Ready to serve.

So excited about this episode: we invite actual children to the table to think about hideouts, forts, and other ways of escaping adult surveillance.

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UConn Students fighting for their future. #SaveUconn

finished episode 6 of the last of us

What an amazing project this is!

So honored that my book, Educated for Freedom, is featured in this NYRB essay by the brilliant Manisha Sinha! It is thrilling to be recognized by a scholar who I respect so deeply, and to be in the company of so many luminaries in the field.

Who’s more famous?

It was an honor to speak about Henry Highland Garnet at the Starr Center yesterday. And it was a thrill to have the chance to view ⁦Jason Patterson 📚📜🗜🎨⁩’s beautiful portrait of Garnet, which hangs in a place of honor in Chestertown, MD. instagram.com/p/Cx_PnemPqas/…

Every woman who has ever tried to have a drink at a bar by herself has dealt with this guy. You are an SNL sketch character come to life.

This Chicago DNC crowd is dangerously Macarena-ready

The humanities teach us to make connections, have conversations & find mutual sites of understanding. These skills are essential for alleviating the social isolation that has become an epidemic. @UCHI is delighted to host this vital event (1st of many!)

I just wrote this blog post connected to my new book. Enjoy! Amputation Nation: Loss, Memory, and Reconstructing the Racial Order cambridgeblog.org/2024/10/amputa… via Cambridge University Press - Academic

Delighted to share this piece on UConn Humanities's work addressing the social connection crisis. We teach students to code; we can also teach them to connect. In fact, the humanities have done this work for centuries. tinyurl.com/3f8wfzay

As investment in humanities education has plummeted over two decades, loneliness among young people has soared. I think that's no coincidence--I wrote about it here. theconversation.com/how-humanities… via The Conversation U.S.

#Humanities aren’t just for majors — #STEM students gain critical thinking and interpersonal skills too. An English professor explains the benefits: buff.ly/4iGex0d (Anna Mae Duane @uconn) #loneliness #highered

Weather folks: It should tell you something that literally every major weather personality from across the political spectrum—from national TV legends to local favorites to top streamers to your favorite chaserdudes—are attesting to the value of the National Weather Service.

I’m the dairy farmer running in the special election to replace Elise Stefanik in New York’s 21st Congressional District. Can you repost this, give me a follow, and help spread the word?

Historian here brilliant to see all the #HandsOff rallies across the country against the kleptocratic Trump-Musk regime. May I give you an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence on the eve of the 250th founding of the American republic.