I forgot it was March b/c it keeps snowing here...I'm generally off socials these days, but this is going to make me keep checking in - I want to know what this route is like! I hope the high stress roads get balanced out by relaxing beaches for recovery... Onward!
Some of our favorite history writing asks us to reconsider the ways in which we tend to think about the past. Here are a handful of essays in that vein that we found to be especially powerful:
It’s that time of year again, when we pick our favorite pieces of short-form history writing from the year just concluded. It’s never an easy task, and always entails some very tough decisions!
But without further ado, we present the 2025 Bunk Top 40:
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In this moment we need #RevolutionaryLove #JoyfulResistance #Solidarity #PeoplePower and loud, visible protests in the streets! #Ride4Republic
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Not much, sorry! Seems like an instance where a writer thought of a pun they could use to make a pop culture reference, and hung a storyline around it in which they could embed whatever lesson was assigned for that episode. A pretty common tactic for Sesame Street!
This is truly delightful. youtu.be/n5efl8clgT4?...
🗃️ The question posed by James Madison in 1788 is just as salient today: should we trust “these parchment barriers against the encroaching spirit of power?” www.hnn.us/article/the-...
I'm adding two articles I wrote back in 2016 and 2017, during a different round of threats to NEH and other valuable cultural agencies.
The first is "How to Fight for Federal Support of Cultural Research and Why It Matters," which offers some specific advocacy tips
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Highlights reel from the @walkuprozzie.bsky.social Roslindale Zoning Zoom! Seriously excellent, clear, helpful explanations of how zoning for density eases displacement, enhances affordability, increases tax revenue, accommodates parking, & allows aging in place.
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Attention fellow Boston-area folks, and/or folks interested in housing: join the Rozzie Zoning Zoom TONIGHT at 7pm an informational panel discussion where planning experts & Bos & Camb city councilors will discuss what new zoning changes will mean in practice.
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Image of a large, multi-story structure behind several bare trees. The building is identified on the back of the photograph (not shown) as Franklin Square House
Mary Grace Chapman moved to Boston from Lewiston, Maine, with her parents, two siblings, and a nephew. In 1920, she lived at Franklin Street House, a home for single women, with at least 116 other 1920 New Women Voters. Image: Franklin Square House. Boston Public Library Arts Department.
The editors of the Atlantic City Press were responding to motordom’s pursuit of what it called “a radical revision of our conception of what a city street is for.”
Vivian Gordon was murdered #OTD in 1931 to keep her from testifying about an NYPD ring that extracted bribes by framing innocent women for prostitution. As @erinblakemore.bsky.social explains, the resulting investigation took down the corrupt NYC mayor and his Tammany Hall cronies: loom.ly/lR8K_GY
"We wanted our voices to be heard. We wanted to feel that we were a part of the mainstream, and that as Blacks or African-Americans, we would we would have a certain amount of power that we could leverage for whatever we wanted to in the future."
www.npr.org/2024/02/28/1...
Engines 604 and 607 make such a cute couple! @amtrak.com Valentines ❤️
Rethinking the job of history — and the American Historical Association — after the veto of the Gaza “scholasticide” resolution. www.hnn.us/article/what...
Each year, we sift through thousands of online articles, essays, blogs, and newsletters that deal, in one way or another, with the American past. Here is our annual roundup of 40 standouts from 2024.
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Matchbox containing tiny glass eyeballs.
Went to the "Spineless" exhibit of Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka 19th-century glass sea creatures at Mystic Seaport (which I highly recommend). Something their studio had generations before Jim Henson's Creature Shop? A drawer full of eyeballs.
that duck is one ice cold m*fer. flippin' your fins you don't get to far, legs are required for jumping...and murder.
The band of the fires is on fire on this frigid Boston day. It's Alright to play the Longest Day on the shortest - it's the Sound of Our Town! There's nothing I would rearrange: Del Fuegos, don't you change!
Looking forward to talking with @wdet.bsky.social this morning about Sesame Street on The Metro's deep dive into ad jingles in American culture!
Reminder: Our call for proposals is still open.
“So Long, Dental Plan!” Unions, Labor Relations and Class Struggle…As Seen On TV
Visit solongdentalplan.com for more info, or HMU.
I love this. @dsuisman.bsky.social recognizes that the music we often assume was important in the past, the music people truly wanted and liked, and the music people actually heard around them on a daily basis, are all different things.
calling 20th century scholars: the MHS is so well known for 18th & 19th century material that it has a ton of untapped 20th century papers just waiting to be mined...check their website, ask them about unprocessed collections, & apply!
between the weight and the nice low aerodynamic body position, that whale is gonna be a killer on downhill segments (if it doesn't get him banned from the race)
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"Mediacy" never caught on as a term, but maybe it should have! Now "media literacy" sounds unnecessarily clunky and I can't un-hear it.
“Rather than drawing out elements of the ancient past that speak to and give nuance to the problems of modern politics, Ridley Scott’s anachronisms forcibly superimpose modern ideas and ideals onto the ancient world. For me, these anachronisms exist on a sliding scale.” www.hnn.us/article/all-...
Hello Bluesky! The MHS is the oldest historical society in the US founded in 1791! Follow along to learn more about our vast collections and archives, as well as our array of programs.
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Oh no! WKIT was my introduction to classic rock as a kid. I didn't realize it was courtesy of Stephen King. Good on him for all his philanthropy re music and libraries over the years.
Bins of nuts for sale.
You want to get nuts? Let's get nuts!
