More on the historians' brief filed with the Supreme Court regarding presidential immunity -- theguardian.com/us-news/2024/a…

"'We have more and more conviction that we need people who majored in history, in English, and things that have nothing to do with finance or technology,' said Goldstein of BlackRock’s new hiring strategy." bit.ly/4dKzvsm

For freedom. Eternal gratitude to our Allies.

"its assumption that humanities graduates were somehow not ‘job-ready’ was based not in evidence, but in ideology. As the most recent Graduate Outcomes Survey has shown, humanities graduates remain highly employable." bit.ly/3xhGZTq

I wrote a history of Watergate that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize last year. And let me tell you: When Nixon said “if the president does it, it’s not illegal,” no one believed that was true.

Alexander Hamilton wrote in Federalist 69 that former presidents would be “liable to prosecution and punishment in the ordinary course of law.” But what did he know? He was just a bastard, orphan, son of a whore and a Scotsman, dropped in the middle of a forgotten spot in the

Have come to the sad conclusion that there were probably more constitutional constraints operating on George III in 1776 than now operate on the US president. Forget about undoing the American Revolution - this decision rolls back the Glorious Revolution.

#OTD 248 years ago, the Continental Congress voted to declare independence from a king. I don’t know what comes next, but I know, without a shadow of a doubt, that the Supreme Court decision is the antithesis of what the framers intended and is the opposite of originalism.

nobody will remember: - your salary - how “busy you were” - how many hours you worked people will remember: - The Great Molasses Flood of 1919

Despite the fact that there were armed officers at Apalachee High School, a 14-year-old boy was still able to bring a gun to school and kill four people and wound 30 others before he was stopped. Armed officers aren't the answer; stronger gun laws are. abcnews.go.com/US/police-resp…

Faneuil Hall and Quincy Market #Boston #TimeTravel

An academic’s academic

You don’t permanently delete a perfectly good paragraph. You save it to a seperate document for 8 years and then permanently delete it

#OTD in #history, 1812, #Massachusetts Gov. Elbridge Gerry—a signer of the Declaration of Independence—reluctantly signed a bill that redrew state voting districts, advantaging his party. Since the map resembled a salamander monster, the practice became known as “gerrymandering.”

This is so disheartening. Jim Ryan was a great University president -- it really makes me fear who and what will come after him to appease Trump.

Unwavering support for UNESCO, a universal guardian of science, the Ocean, education, culture, and world heritage. The withdrawal of the United States will not weaken our commitment alongside those who lead this fight.

Great museums should illuminate our complicated past, not sanitize it. To see the US’s national history museum succumb to the executive branch’s propagandizing is shameful.

Here's another reason why we need to re-think the 250th. Should it be a celebration...or a wake?

Thomas Jefferson’s University must never sign on to such an outlandish decree. Wrote Jefferson: “For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.”

The University of Virginia said it would not sign the Trump administration’s proposed offer of priority access for federal funding, the fifth university to turn down the “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education.” wapo.st/4nYjUdC