My colleague Rob Rouphail *just* published a new social and environmental history of Mauritius called Cyclonic Lives. It’s not quite what you’re looking for, but it’s not often I get asked to recommend a book on Mauritius.
This is so exciting, Henry. Congrats!
Mark Twain died #onthisday in 1910. The best known of his books is Huckleberry Finn, not so well known is Jap Herron which, according to a woman named Emily Grant Hutchings, he dictated from beyond the grave via a ouija board... publicdomainreview.org/collection/j... #OTD
the penne opticon
A handheld Simon game. It’s a circular piece of black plastic with four colored buttons: red, blue, yellow, and green.
Thinking about replacing my iPhone with this keychain Simon game my wife bought me.
Not ignorant at all! You’ve pointed out a flaw in my method, which was intended to be illustrative rather than exhaustive.
My reasoning wad that “negro” is more revealing than “slave,” since runaway and sale ads used the former rather than the latter. You’re right that it captures everything tho.
Did they not realize they were living in coastal Carolina?
A rough search of the ~200,000 pages published before 1865 (including German-language because I couldn't figure out how to toggle that off, surprisingly) yields 60,000 page hits for "negro" OR "negroes." So 30% of all pages.
I just reviewed your book for AHR. *You* did Missouri, and you did it very well!
"Okay, but that's Charleston, South Carolina!"
The DC National Intelligencer was the capital's dominant newspaper during its run from 1813 to 1869. The word "negro" (or "negroes") appears on 48% of its pages. That's every issue on average!
Discourses of slavery (and freedom) were universal.
I have to believe that folks who are critical of highlighting slavery's history imagine that scholars exaggerate its centrality.
Newspapers.com hosts 52,000 pages of the Charleston Mercury (1822-1868). The word "negro" appears on 73% of them. That's pages, not issues.
Slavery's evil was quotidian.
From 2009-2013, I believe I was paying $21k a year. I know the costs keeps creeping up, but that’s impressive consistency.
When I attended, the Geneseo History Department prepared students to succeed in doctoral programs at Georgetown, Maryland, William and Mary, and NYU.
Its cost is roughly the same as it was twenty years ago.
I asked the students in my History of Capitalism class who are majoring or minoring in business-related fields (which was about half of the class) whether they had encountered anti-capitalist perspectives in any of their business-related classes and not a single student raised a hand.
Just confirming that Made by History will now be back up and running in the next few weeks with a new home and new partners at the Philadelphia Inquirer. Exciting! So, if you have pitches, now's the time to start sending them to madebyhistory@inquirer.com 🗃️ #MadebyHistory #HistoryMatters
“What don’t you get? The best Death Cab album is the one that came out when I was in high school, and the best Arcade Fire album is the one that came out when I was in college.”
I too have written about white conservatives in southern state legislatures rushing through bullshit changes to the law just to thwart the advancement of literally one black man, but I'm a historian who writes about the Jim Crow era South and not a reporter discussing current fucking events there.
The White House is now Temu Versailles.
This may be a fundamentally new kind of sin blending blasphemy, idolatry, divination, and simony, among others. Those who are not horrified at this may be entirely lacking in authentic religious awareness and feeling.
"No," the swordmaster said.
"One does not refuse the king," the herald said.
"I do. I will not train his soldiers or officers, I will not tell my students to join his army, I will not support his unjust war."
"You will regret this!"
"No," the swordmaster said.
In Korea, when the president declared martial law after midnight and erected barricades in Seoul, congressional reps from all parties ran into the streets, yanked ak47s from the army at the barricades, broke down the locked door to Congress, repealed the martial law order, and arrested the president
It is increasingly brazen and open..... and yet, you won't find the term "white supremacist" in the coverage of Trump 2.0 in U.S. legacy media. It is still reserved for marginal groups on the fringes of U.S. society, even though it has been federal policy for over a year now.
A school board member raised the issue after noticing pride flags outside offices at the middle school. The school board's policy committee is debating whether they should be permitted.
For twenty years I've been asked about this. Here are my answers, for all to see. ggwash.org/view/102941/...
In my first lecture, I include a slide with a primary source that is entirely fabricated using AI. I went back and forth about the ethics of this, but I make a promise to my students that I will never intentionally deceive them again if they promise to do the same. I hope it est. stakes & trust.
Admittedly the Times is discussing conservative legal commentators opinions of Ark while the Post is discussing the administration's arguments about Ark, editors still make choices about when to publish certain pieces!
Screenshot of a New York Times story by Ann Mariomow timestamped 7 hours ago. The headline reads "Trump's Birthright Citizenship Order at Supreme Court Splits Conservative Scholars."
Compare that to the New York Times article discussing the same case, US v. Wong Kim Ark. Real editorial choices.
Screenshot of a Washington Post article timestamped from 1 hour ago, written by Justin Jouvenal. The headline reads "Trump officials cite white supremacists in bid to end birthright citizenship." The header image shows a tan-skinned woman protesting in front of the Supreme Court in a black tee shirt that reads "I stand with immigrants" holding a sign that reads "protect birthright citizenship." Another sign in the background reads "hands off the 14th."
Hell of a headline.
"When an Iowan encountered a young child about to be sold by her own father, who was also her master, he vowed, "By G-d I'll fight till he'll freezes over and then I'll cut the ice and fight on."" goes so hard, fuck em up, Iowa man
