River restoration on America's first industrialized river in Rhode Island: How the Blackstone lost its river herring – and the plan to bring them back providencejournal.com/story/news/env… via Providence Journal

I got to see America’s oldest mural at the Warner House in Portsmouth, NH. Pictured are 2 of the Mohawk Kings that visited Queen Anne in 1710 and King William III lifting the siege of Derry.

Analysis of US college syllabi by the Open Syllabus project shows that bell hooks is assigned more than Aristotle, Judith Butler more than Plato, Edward Said more than than Kant, and Foucault more than everybody. (Thanks to Jon Shields for these comparisons.)

14 Aug 1624: the last night of Thomas Middleton's A Game at Chess at the Globe #London #otd - it was closed down following complaints from the #Spanish ambassador (Folger)

For those of you who were not aware: we’ve published two new short stories by Jaroslav Hašek this year which had never before been translated into English. Links in the replies!

There are SO many great history books to read! You really don't need ones (ghost) written by cable tv hosts.

I was interviewed about the legacy of New England's colonial wars in the first few minutes of this program

Unnecessary Roughness no context college football Phillip the Good, After Rogier van der Weyden, 1451-1500

As a Maine native, put me in the Baxter State Park > Acadia National Park camp. nytimes.com/2025/08/27/tra…

Larry Siedentop's Inventing the Individual is a great book on the Christian origins of human rights and equality.

The lated Guided by Voices release "Oxford Talawanda" is bringing back memories of my time in the Ox-Box Miami University youtube.com/watch?v=f1PayO…

“When people stop talking, that’s when you get violence. That’s when civil war happens. Because you start to think the other side is so evil and they lose their humanity” Amen, Charlie.

Stephen King should be commended for this, not further dragged. He acknowledged a making mistake, set the facts straight, deleted the original tweet, and apologized for it. Twitter would be a better place if we saw more of this.

This new land will be used to forward the Penobscot Tribe of Maine's first priority: restoring Atlantic Salmon runs. pressherald.com/2025/09/16/pen…

Big conservation news on Maine's Kennebec River! The Nature Conservancy has reached an agreement with Brookfield Renewable to purchase 4 dams on prime sea-run fish spawning habitat. nature.org/en-us/about-us…

Some encouraging environmental news: the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is reporting that 5.9 million river herring ascended the Penobscot River this year, that's DOUBLE their numbers from two years ago! Dams were removed only 10 years ago. American Rivers