Is miler wearing a tan suit?

No cover image yet, but look what's coming from CUP 🤓

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An idea:

Life: The Natural History of an Early Christian Universe. Catherine Michael Chin This is an unusual book on the world of the Church Fathers, often intriguing, at times moving. The author’s poetic writing is enhanced by a number of image

"often intriguing, at times moving"

Guy Stroumsa reviews Mike Chin's LIFE: THE NATURAL HISTORY OF AN EARLY CHRISTIAN UNIVERSE

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I’ll be interested to hear how it works.

BlueSky humanities people: For those who’ve written popular-facing trade books about history (esp ancient stuff), would any of you be willing to chat w me about things like agents & presses? I’m working on an idea w a friend but neither of us have done this before.

cliff ain't pulling punches!

Costco Doubled Down On DEI, Then 19 Attorneys General Warned Them To Stop Costco has emerged as a hero, choosing to keep their DEI efforts alive. Fans rejoiced! But this week, 19 states AGs sent them a letter warning them to stop & reconsider.

SHOP. AT. COSTCO.

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We stopped expanding the House in the 1920s, decided the Supreme Court should freeze in the 1930s, added the last states in the 1950s, amended the Constitution only once in the last fifty years.

The USA and its government continued to grow, but almost all that growth came in the executive branch.

Space... The Final Frontier... and coincidentaly the main subject of my essay that just came out in the Studies in Late Antiquity. online.ucpress.edu/SLA/issue/9/3

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This country is being run like a syndicate. Everyone needs to pay protection money or else.

Wow. Such a loss. But again for msnbc.

I hear you—I’ve always wondered whether anyone else noticed this.

They are actually counter productive

Annual Future Loss in the county where I live: $59M and 254 jobs.
Current Loss: $3.6M and 15 jobs

Depicting Jesus as a woman is not blasphemy Fresh from playing Elphaba in the cinematic adaptation of Wicked, Cynthia Erivo has been cast as Jesus in an upcoming production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Jesus Christ Superstar, due to be performed at

A pleasant surprise to wake up and find myself cited in @thetimes.com www.thetimes.com/comment/regi... @unibirmingham.bsky.social

Oh, you know, just the New Yorker quoting Sarah :) @sarahebond.bsky.social

I was asked by my editor for Basic Books if I knew anyone in the UK in media or folks who blog regularly. Do any of you do that? #history #publichistory

I remember attending a lecture where a leader of the field--actually, no, *the* leader of the field---was set to speak to about 300 people. The person tasked with introducing her did not prepare an introduction.

The Medieval Foremothers Society invites proposals for two hybrid sessions honoring Sharon Kinoshita (UC Santa Cruz) at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI in May 2026. Full CFP below!👇✨

Of course ice cream is good for you. Sicilians eat it for breakfast.

Dems should vow to impeach Bove and any nominee who did not testify truthfully under oath

Hundreds of medieval medical manuscripts now accessible Over the course of the last three years, the Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries project has been enhancing the discoverability of medieval medical recipes in historic library collections across the ...

Over 7000 pages of medieval medical recipes are now freely accessible online at the end of the Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries project.
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"In Things Unseen, Ellen Muehlberger exposes readers to a late ancient hall of mirrors: a series of illusory exteriors that ultimately reveal how interior truth is manufactured out of exterior falsehood." - me!

(get this book!)

Good idea!

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