1,000 words of my book draft written today--I'm calling it a win

hit my 1,000 word writing goal today. Not one sentence of it is gonna go in the actual book. It is one of the few times I am sure I will never return to it... but still calling it a win

It makes me chuckle that Environmental History encourages authors to focus on 3 things, but asks reviewers to focus on 5 things. 😂

Got a chance to talk about my newish book with the folks over at the Mainely History pod. Check it out here: mainelyhistory.podbean.com/e/logging/

It is really hard to write a lecture on the history of the U.S. West in the 19th century and not come away angry, depressed, and defeated... #twitterstorians

I'm over it. I'm writing lectures about the Gilded Age right now, and all I can think about is the economic crisis that will emerge from #AI and #automation. Americans will be pushed into lower-wage and "unskilled" jobs. We need a Luddite #revolution! #HistoryMatters

For those of you managing apartments: if something says starting at "x" price and then, when you click on the link and everything is $200 more, you misstated the starting price...

You like board games, video games, and the environment? Submit a pitch for NiCHE upcoming series!!! #twiterstorians #envhist #HSTEM niche-canada.org/2025/06/05/cal…

Edward Martin kept meticulous track of all the birds he killed from 1868-1908 to sell at market and these were his totals. It's hard to imagine how filled with wildlife the country used to be, and insane to reduce the little habitat they have left.

In Trump’s America, Who Gets to Call Themselves American? nytimes.com/2025/07/04/opi… via New York Times Opinion

When people die from a hurricane here, it will not be an accident and it will not be from ignorance. US immigration policy has used dangerous environments to kill and disappear immigrants for decades while claiming innocence. newrepublic.com/article/197508…

1/2 History shows that tech like AI will make workers do more and less pleasant work. EG: Whitney claimed with his cotton gin "one man and a horse will do more than fifty men with the old machines;" slavery increased in intensity. wsj.com/podcasts/the-j…

This country needs a history lesson on how automation creates surplus labor and brings down wages.

CNN: According to four officials inside FEMA.. a new rule that any expected expenditure over $100,000 needed sign off from Noem slowed the federal response.  The sources tell us that FEMA's deployment of urban search and rescue teams, which are typically deployed in

The Delta 100 years safety. Ideal is super weird. Racial and age rewriting of history all placed in a modern plain.

Historian here this happened often along the Kentucky/Ohio border when slave catchers and slaveholders would cross state lines to arrest freedom seekers and their abolitionist allies. In the famous Margaret Garner case the young mother tried to kill herself when she was arrested!

Carbon Democracy by Timothy Mitchell, one of the best books of the twenty first century to help us understand energy, power, and democracy. If we want to fix our democracy, we have to abandon the oil status quo.

Legitimately a great book!!