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EMILY WILSONNo professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...
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Jurretta Heckscher
Профиль VivelyCultural historian & writer; ret. Early American Specialist, Main Reading Rm., Lib. of Congress. Orthodox Christian; politics follow Matt. 25:31-46. Lover of arts & natural world (N. America & Brit. Isles). Stop climate change, or little else will matter.
I didn’t know it, but this was the image I needed tonight:
Elizabeth TuttyThroughstone and squeeze stile. St John’s in the Vale.
Best brief summary I’ve yet seen on Washington and slavery.
John Garrison MarksSome abolitionists once played up an antislavery version of George Washington to try to end slavery. Now the Trump administration is doing it to deny slavery mattered at all. I wrote about the new exhibit at the President’s House in Philly for @theatlantic.com. www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...
In a few brushstrokes, an incisive miniature portrait….
Annette Gordon-Reedwww.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
This was fascinating. Watch it if you have any interest in what worried early Americans when they worried about politics:
SHEARAre you unable to attend the tonight's (6:15pm) SHEAR Presidential Address? Well, President Carolyn Eastman’s address on “What They Talked About When They Talked About Demagogues in the Early American Republic,” will be livestreamed to our YouTube channel. Link here: www.youtube.com/live/0izEG4S...
There are more of us than one might think….
Elias GreigHad to complete a survey at work today and there were three separate questions about how I used AI in my work — and each time I had to scroll right down to the bottom to find the option that said "I do not use AI". I wonder for how much longer we'll still have that as an option.
Americans, welcome to the Soviet model of research “support.” All Federal grants— science, medicine, arts, humanities, all of it— must now be approved and supervised by ideologically-driven political appointees. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...
Summary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance RuleRussell Vought is going to destroy American Scienceelizabethginexi.substack.comOf course they’re on their way. If José Andres doesn’t receive a Nobel Peace Prize, the Norwegian parliamentary committee that awards it needs to reexamine its criteria.
Lydia MulveyWorld Central Kitchen is en route to Venezuela to provide hot meals for those affected by the devastating twin earthquakes as well as first responders, a vital, life-saving service if you are able and funds allow, you can donate at the link below donate.wck.org/campaign/815...
A truly great historian whose light shone far beyond merely academic circles, exemplary though his achievements were within them. For the sake of our nation’s self-understanding in a time of gathering darkness, may we continue to learn in his light. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/08/b...
Gordon S. Wood, Pioneering Historian of Early America, Dies at 92www.nytimes.com