John Craig Hammond
@johncraighammond.bsky.social
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Associate Professor of History, Penn State Enslavement, Emancipation, and Empire in North America, 1750 - 1820 https://www.pennpress.org/9781512828429/the-centrality-of-slavery/ https://sites.psu.edu/jch24/
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The Trump family, claiming divine omnipotence.
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What about democracy? The alliteration is begging for it. Begging for democracy to roundit out.
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Radiohead sucks.
The Great Gatsby is great in theory; terrible in execution.
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Excellent on multiple levels. Someone in 1939 had an interesting and timely read.
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All while closing seven branch campuses that overwhelmingly serve first gen and rural students. Ask me how I know.
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Throw in the "Montgomery Burns Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Excellence."
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AI in the classroom is well-loved by professors who don't want to put in the time and effort necessary for effective teaching.
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* Old Testament leavened with New Testament love.
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The transitions are ALWAYS the hardest part. They are also the most gratifying part.
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The Post Gazette had a good story on it 10+ years ago
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Because the college of arts & sciences is - and always should be - the core of a university. We care about knowledge for the sake of knowledge.
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These beauties arrived last night as author stock. Pub date is Nov 4 and I can’t wait to share these stories and this sprawling history…
A stack of new hardcovers of Richard Bell’s new book The American Revolution and the Fate of the World.
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Your experiences accord closely with mine, a son of Irish and Italian Catholics and the product of 12 years of Catholic education. I was raised to be fiercely defensive of the downtrodden.
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We should start referring to World War II movies as Antifa movies. As in, "Yeah, Kelly's Heroes is a great ANtifa flick!"
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Archivists enable historians! Thank you!