The DaVinci code has 105 chapters. Just sayin’.

Please share: excellent history Postdoc opportunity at Wesleyan's Center for the Study of Guns & Society. Post involves archival research on 18th and 19th century firearms use & laws; work on databases, reports, and papers; & thinking and writing around wonderful people doing important work.

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“We wanted to rid ourselves of the fashions of historiography,” Burns summarized at one event, “and make a film that simply shows what happened.”

That’s not how history works though. You’re making an argument about what happened & what mattered even if you don’t realize you’re doing it. 🗃️

Dear @shearites.bsky.social and pals, I a wonderful weekend. See y’all next year!

“You look like you’d be going to Washington,” said my Amtrak seatmate—and older person who was quite pleasant.

“Why?” I asked.

“Your clothes…they all are sad colors,” she said before exiting the train in NYC.

“‘Buckley’ is very clearly the result of slow thinking and methodical research, which makes it precisely the sort of work that its subject could never produce.”

Shelly C. Lowe, the first Native American to lead the National Endowment for the Humanities, has left her role at the direction of President Donald Trump.

I would even be happy with fewer Elon Musk.

Jelani Cobb is good, actually. Shocked that some people need a reminder.

Walz: "The idea that the secretary of education would not know what IDEA is -- individuals with disability in education act -- that's like your mechanic not knowing how to put air in your tire. And she's in charge of this nation's education progress. It is catastrophic."

This week on Open Source: a civics lesson from Senator Angus King, during what King calls "the most direct assault on the Constitution in our history."

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Reading intros to older academic books can make you real melancholy because there will be whole schools of thought at regional universities like SUNY Binghamton that would simply not be allowed to flourish under current economic conditions.

🚨🚨🚨 Legislators in Nebraska are about to hobble their public colleges and universities at a hearing TOMORROW, all because of fears over “woke ideology.” Read fresh analysis from @PENamerica about two bills that would profoundly damage Nebraska higher ed.🧵
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I’m not allowed to participate in these kind of word games.