Stream It Or Skip It: 'To Philly With Love' on the Hallmark Channel, where a historian researching a Revolution-era romance falls for a local archivist …and of course there the romance features cheesesteaks, it would be a crime if it didn’t.

Settling into “To Philly With Love,” the Hallmark movie about a historian falling in love with an archivist in Philly. decider.com/2026/04/18/t...

I’ve had the same editor since 1967. Many times he has said to me over the years or asked me, Why would you use a semicolon instead of a colon? And many times over the years I have said to him things like: I will never speak to you again. Forever. Goodbye. That is it. Thank you very much. And I leave. Then I read the piece and I think of his suggestions. I send him a telegram that says, OK, so you’re right. So what? Don’t ever mention this to me again. If you do, I will never speak to you again

Maya Angelou on the joys of being edited

Bag of rofo cheese curls with crab seasoning

Re-acclimating myself after a short trip abroad (Pennsylvania)

“Some groups” = every historian I’ve ever met

We have like twenty dozen books on this, come on

Happening now at #OAH26!

Hopkins press book exhibit.

Friends (and enemies, I guess) at #OAH26: I will be giving away the books on this table FOR FREE starting at noon tomorrow. First come first served, one per person, please form an orderly queue, don’t make me break up any day-after-Thanksgiving style brawls please.

Good thread here from TJ, one of the best at writing serious history that is also captivating to read

You can also take a look if you’re at #OAH26! We’re here until Saturday.

With books by @mpbrown.bsky.social @abbymullen.bsky.social @dannagal.bsky.social @jkosseff.bsky.social and many others not on this app. Also TWO books about cats.

If you’re at #OAH26, the exhibit hall (3rd floor of the Marriott, behind the registration desk) is open and we’ve got books

I drove several hundred miles last fall just to see a new comedy musical about the great emu war so…. same

😬

Honestly I’m hoping someone will send me a proposal on this as a result of this post

Please do not use AI to review a scholarly manuscript. I absolutely do not care what Claude or whoever thinks about the rise of emu farming in Omaha 1850-1864. I asked you because I care what you think about it.

Always gratifying when a manuscript comes in mumble-mumble years late and then publishes at the exact right point in The Discourse to get attention (and sales) and though I have thus far resisted the urge to say I planned it this way I do not know how much longer I can keep that up

Man, it’s always Bruce, isn’t it.

John Cage has nothing on Springsteen.

I said what I said.

The lyrical silence after “they’re still there, he’s all gone” in Springsteen’s Born in the USA

Little Hungarian Bake Shoppe | Chimney Cakes in Baltimore Baltimore bakery serving Hungarian chimney cakes, crêpes, sandwiches, and coffee. Visit us on Fleet Street in Canton!

Look, I am just saying. Carbs give you hope for the future.

‘Integrity, Arriving’: Navy Crew Recovers Astronauts After Artemis Mission - USNI News NAVAL BASE SAN DIEGO, Calif. — A boom across the Pacific near San Diego late Friday afternoon signaled the Orion capsule’s return to Earth’s atmosphere. The shock wave also summoned sailors tasked wit...

‘Integrity, Arriving’: How a Navy Crew Recovered Four NASA Astronauts, Orion Capsule After a Historic Lunar Mission — USNI News
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And even if you are lucky in the right-place-right-time kind of way to be mentored by a rigorously decent man, as I was, people still talk. It’s risky no matter what you do.

Hello, I made you a feed of your cats watching the Artemis II splashdown bsky.app/profile/did:...

someday we're going to be able to look at her up close at the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum and be like "I WATCHED THAT LIVE"

“Turn it off and turn it back on again”

Relatable, honestly

The fact that they sent four people to the moon but can’t work the fancy cell phone

Elder millennials joining in.

OKAY NAVY YOU’RE UP DO YOUR THING

“Great view of the moon out the window. A little smaller than yesterday.”
Mission Control: “Guess we’ll have to go back.”