Can book reviews be an avenue to professional equity among historians? Gary G. Gibbs, Karen F. Harris, Whitney A. M. Leeson, and James M. Ogier tell #AHAPerspectives yes. historians.org/research-and-p…

The GOP trots out this victim narrative that Republicans are discriminated against in the media and academia. As opposed to the reality that the GOP hates these industries and does everything it can to destroy them and therefore loses support there.

Devastating news from Medieval Academy that Marcia Colish, a truly brilliant scholar, has died.

American academic conferences: 8:15-10:00: Panel A 10:30-12:15: Panel B 13:45-15:30: Panel C 16:00-17:45: Panel D European academic conferences:

“And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda”

I have officially requested that a mandatory eight-hour meeting on campus in August not be referred to as a "retreat." Thoughts and prayers.

All the beautiful aurora photos should come with a bit of an explanation: you need a camera/phone to see this intensity of colours! It was possible to make out strong hints of the colour with the naked eye last night which is unusual away from a dark site.

Donald Trump to join Harvard’s Institute of Politics

Dr. Fauci is a great human who did a nearly impossible job. Everyone trying to mess with him for clout is a ghoul.

A newly discovered fragment of a petition to Saladin! So far the fourth to turn up in the Geniza. geniza.princeton.edu/en/documents/3…

One thing I don’t understand about US politics is why the Presidential Electors don’t rule over small principalities

"Twelfth-century monks could construct paragraphs through scriptural allusions the way a man born in 1972 can carry on an entire conversation by quoting Homer Simpson." Getting a bit punchy with the edits--will probably leave it out of the final manuscript.

This.

A key point missing in a lot of post debate analysis is that Trump’s claim about immigrants eating pets almost perfectly syncs up to the piano in the Peanuts theme song.

The one thing linguistic prescriptivists and pedants are correct on is that "begs the question" should not be used as a synonym for "raises the question". Hold the line comrades.

Originalism

This, a million times this.

Now in paperback . . .

Paul Fouracre's The Guardian obituary of Jinty Nelson celebrates a historian who "managed to combine impeccable scholarship with a high degree of empathy towards figures past and present." bit.ly/3NWnZOW #twitterstorians 1/2

Did it: John Cotts (@johncotts.bsky.social) — Bluesky