'Erasing history' is done by defunding humanities depts, by causalizing academic staff, by launching campaigns against critical thinking. 'Erasing history' is done by putting up monuments celebrating violent men and systems and then forgetting why those monuments are there..

The Modern Condition

On Monday night, Coach Roy Williams and the Carolina Basketball program sent a powerful message that hearkened back to foundations built by Coach Dean Smith: Black Lives Matter.

when you learn the verb 'to be' in basically any language

The College of Arts and Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is excited to announce three faculty recruitments to promote a deeper understanding of Jewish history, culture and thought. Details: jewishstudies.unc.edu

A big chunk of a wall at the White Monastery near Sohag, Egypt collapsed last week. It is important that we look to the historical preservation of this site.

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Steve Kerr on today's tragic shooting in Uvalde, Texas.

Corpus Update: 87 new works from 73 authors have been added to the TLG. Complete list at: stephanus.tlg.uci.edu/tlgauthors/pos…

Very sad to hear of the passing of E. P. Sanders. He was actively teaching while I was at Duke. He was a profound reader of both Paul and Jesus, and several of his ideas were seminal for my own understanding of the New Testament.

A summer books give-away (the first of several)! If you want a chance to win this haul of books on Greco-Roman history, literature & language, just retweet this message. On the eve of Sunday 9 July we will send them to the first @antigonejournal follower from the list. Good luck!

New issue of Journal of Early Christian Studies Vol. 31, No. 4, (2023) muse.jhu.edu/issue/51438 Project MUSE Hopkins Press Luke Drake Sean Leatherbury

The masters of the Sweet 16: Carolina Basketball

The first of these Loeb giveaways, then: the nine-volume set of Early Greek Philosophy. A bedtime book if ever there were one. Or nine! To enter the draw, just share this tweet and cross your fingers for Monday 10 May!

On to Loeb Give-away IV: Homer's Iliad & Odyssey, Hesiod & the Homeric Hymns, Cicero on the gods, Catullus & Tibullus on love and loss, Ovid lustily on the same (sometimes roleplaying as famous women), and Marcus Aurelius' tutor on all sorts. Just RT this before draw on 11 July!

This is why BYU is so special. This is not a facade. This is one example of how the program is ran and truly practices what it preaches. BEST OF THE BEST !

"Strong schools depend on strong principals — and strong principals require deliberate, real-world preparation. Eliminating internships doesn’t save money; it shifts costs directly onto schools and students."