Developed as part of the AHA’s Teaching Things project, Sarah Jones Weicksel’s “A Case for Objects” includes an easy-to-use method and set of exercises for exploring history through objects and introducing students to doing history through material culture.doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rh…

NEW EPISODE: Worlds Turned Upside Down: "The Stamp" In the mid-1760s, the British draw up plans for a permanent army in North America, and a Stamp Tax on the colonies to pay for it, sparking massive protests in British America and beyond. r2studios.org/show/worlds-tu… #stampact

Future historians will likely "struggle to understand fully how we lived our lives in the early 21st century" as so much of our digital imprint risks erasure. Already, "25% of web pages posted between 2013 and 2023 have vanished"... bbc.com/future/article…

I HATE AARON BURR!

#OnThisDay in 1787, George Washington and 38 delegates signed the Constitution at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, creating a new government for the United States of America.

Instead of spending $926,011.60 in opposition to reproductive freedoms in Amendment 4, the Florida diocese could have provided parishioners with over 55,000 meals.

To all the Christians arguing about who their neighbor is: It’s a trick question. Jesus commanded us to love our enemies, too.

Love this idea.

It's stunning to me how little many in the West know about 🇷🇺's abduction of 🇺🇦 children. Even when I did a series of events on the subject, I had Ukrainians who attended unaware of the scale. Confirmed numbers are around 20 000. Russia said 700 000 children in July 2023.

Russia developed similar “kill lists” of Ukrainian elites to be murdered, tortured, or imprisoned before the launch of the ful-scale invasion in February 2022

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I'm in Teen Vogue talking about why we should keep making our students DO THE READING! teenvogue.com/story/college-…

I have a parishioner who teaches at the Springfield, OH, public school system. She was telling me yesterday that the Haitian kids are the most wonderful kids to have with her. Her dismay at the victimization of immigrants was very heartfelt! Let us put an end to this evil.

The "let AI transform your classroom" marketing is making me very nervous, too. No, like most every academic product to come before it, yours is not going to transform anything. Don't let a tool drive pedagogy.

A student said they loved my "teaching style," and the funny thing is I never thought of myself as having any style before, teaching or otherwise!

"What people don't realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross. It is much harder to believe than not to believe" Flannery O'Connor

Page proofs are here, which I guess means I really do have an article coming out in next month's WMQ. Apologies in advance for the amount of advertising I'm about to do - so chuffed to see part of my federalism research being released into the wild at last

Head of Church of England quotes Jesuit!

Spent some time this afternoon writing a new assignment in which students analyze a journal article-- its argument, historiography, evidence, significance. Reading will be Jennifer Morgan's "Some could suckle over their shoulder."