I have ONE more essay I want to write about it--about how George Washington's biographers have treated the fire over the years. It's wild, I need to think of a good venue for it.

Fire and Freedom by edited by Thomas S. Wermuth, Devin Lander, Jennifer Lemak, and Robert Chiles. foreword by Russell Shorto | Hardcover | Cornell University Press More than two hundred and fifty years after the revolution began, Fire and Freedom invites readers to rediscover America's journey to independence. Showcasing New York's central role in the revolution...

I'm in this new volume from Cornell Press, full of really interesting essays about New York and the Revolution: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

How I know I did the OAH conference right--I got four follow-up emails, all from non-tenured scholars. (Well, that and I had good conversations with editors and might actually have some direction now.) It was good to see tenured friends too, though!

Artifacts, accounts from 1770s Siege of Boston Evacuation Day, an official holiday in Massachusetts’ Suffolk County and nearby Somerville public schools, commemorates the March 17, 1776, withdrawal of King George III’s troops from Boston following...

Bwahaha! They included my line about Boston: "“It was a place of violence,” said Carp, author of “Rebels Rising: Cities and the American Revolution” (2007). “It was a rough-and-tumble place full of xenophobic Sabbatarians.”
current.fas.harvard.edu/stories/arti...

As a matter of heritage, I was BORN to tolerate whining!

Congratulations on the book, Anna, which I'm thrilled to have in my hands. I'll take the whining and wining combo any day.

It’s not 100% sad for the authors of history books, though!

Well, I can’t, and I think you know why. 😉

Tomorrow at OAH in Philadelphia, commenting on papers about crowd action and the Revolutionary era by VanJessica Gladney, Grant Stanton and @bencarp.bsky.social -- & thinking and talking about Ed Countryman whose subtle, dialectical take on crowds and politics entranced me and sent me on my journey.

Life imitating “The Boys,” part 2
( I was legitimately thrown by “Vought”)

Life imitating “The Boys”

My wonderful @historydeptbc.bsky.social colleague Karen Stern is in this distinguished list! Double Woot!!!

Looks like the OAH conference in Philadelphia is going to simulate the feel of a July SHEAR conference, with highs in the 80s and 90s...

In the event of a water landing...

Sounds like a great assignment! Thanks for letting me know,

Maybe the driver was a third-base coach. 🤔

My favorite license plate story: I was on Nantucket and I saw one of those Cape/Island license plates that Massachusetts issues, and the personalized plate said:
“GO HOME”

Oh also I don’t do audiobooks so my impression is strictly dead-tree. But my friend liked the audiobooks (once they got going).

They’re fun, but I never read or saw RPO so I can’t compare. I do need to take breaks between books because the style gets to be a bit much, but OTOH I’ve also devoured like five of them by now

This is also the plot of Moana.

Nailed it.

[General family stuff]
Jeez, it never rains but it f***ing pours, eh?

Anyway it's a beautiful day and I'm getting stuff done.

Flowering trees and a lit lamppost beside a walkway, at night

Signs of spring

I gotta say, all he did was give up a run and give the rest of the bullpen a rest—job well done. It was the lack of offense today.

A corollary to the Dad Joke is Dad Patter. Example:

A small child comes back in the room on some little quest. You say: “YOU again?” And so on.

I do improv, too (I made up some great songs about legs yesterday), but I draw on some stock stuff.

Sister Sledge - We Are Family (Official Music Video) YouTube video by RHINO

How else will they figure out who’s going to light candle number six at graduation?

youtu.be/uyGY2NfYpeE

Furby Hancock tweet: waiter: so how is everything? me: great! waiter: (disgusted) even war?

This was not in the list of precautions to take before going to a protest

And that’s just for the soppressata

On the train from Boston I just overheard someone (who got on at Mystic) pronounce "awesome" as "AH-some" without any trace of an "AW," and I'm now absolutely ready to be back in New York City. 🍎