looks like my poem “The World” just baaarely snuck into the emily wilson/odyssey issue lmao
Patricia Lockwood · Poem: ‘The World’
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What can a single moment reveal about the course of a nation? The “Pivotal Moments in American History” series explores how individuals and events intersect within larger historical forces. Discover the moments that changed everything: oxford.ly/4ejCome
The Louisiana Purchase was not simply a land deal between nations. In this Q and A, historian Alexander Mikaberidze explains how it emerged from global currents of empire, revolution, and ambition. Read more on the OUP Blog: oxford.ly/3TYEiRv
I know this would be closing the barn door after he horse has been reelected president, but if Democrats win both chambers I'd really like to see a concurrent resolution deeming January 6 an insurrection under 14(3). 1/
Him doing this with that chyron is something
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d agoRFK Jr yelling at Dana Bash sounds like a rabid dog barking
We didn’t ask you to release a diary. We demanded you release the Epstein files. We even passed a law.
Pierre Charles L’Enfant was born in Paris OTD in 1754. After serving the American cause in the Revolutionary War, he worked as a New York architect. In 1791, President George Washington appointed L’Enfant to design the new federal city that became Washington, D.C. Image: Library of Congress.
Chandra Manning and I wrote about this back in 2013. archive.nytimes.com/opinionator....
The Name of War
How the War of Rebellion became the Civil War.
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Patrick Sheridan@psheridanhistory.bsky.social · 3d agoI'm curious about what my fellow U.S. historians think about this essay. For me, it makes a compelling argument and goes hand-in-hand with recent efforts to refer to the Union Army as the "U.S. Army." #skystorians www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/o...
Thanks to everybody who bought an advance copy! Algo likes pre-orders, I'm told ;-)
Thanks to everybody who bought an advance copy! Algo likes pre-orders, I'm told ;-)
When you slow down and think about it you realize it's ten times worse than it seems. Sure it's farcical, but it's also a brutal legal attack on a man they knew to be innocent, done to distract from their own thievery and incompetence and as a flex to terrify anyone who might make them look bad.
Brendel@brendelbored.bsky.social · 5d agoIt is very weird that they just lie about normal people and then it’s not a scandal when they admit it
A reminder of what Abraham Lincoln thought of the Know Nothings, the party that championed "heritage Americans" and attacked immigrants in his day. quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln/li...
Alexander Clarkson@aphclarkson.bsky.social · 4d agoAnother datapoint for the fascist radicalisation of institutional pillars of much of the American Right
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‘He Has the People’ Review: An Election That Tore the Nation
After Lincoln was elected president in 1860, seven Southern states seceded from the Union.
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The late great JAMES GARNER signs autographs while filming ‘The Rockford Files’ in Burbank in 1977.
Epstein files aren't worth seeing or discussing, but Fauci's personal diary...? THERE's our new distraction. I'd listen to this remarkable woman.
The Princess Bride (1987) 🎬💛 Behind the scenes 📸
"According to four people involved in the show, who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of repercussions from the administration, no historians or professional curators collaborated on the exhibition..." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/a...
After Claiming ‘Bias’ at Smithsonian, Trump Officials Stage Patriotic Exhibition (Gift Article)
Trump officials have promised to “make visual arts great,” with a museum exhibition that includes artwork by several people with personal connections to the planners.
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On this day in 1980, these legends met in London: Chrissie Hynde, Pauline Black, Debbie Harry, Poly Styrene, Viv Albertine and Siouxsie Sioux. 📸Chris Stein
In 1944, MN teenager Jeanne Gibson went to work in the Seattle shipyards welding destroyers for the Allies. She then moved to Juneau and joined the Army Transportation Corps supplying ships in the Pacific. She later got a Master’s and her pilots license. RIP, hero. 🫡 www.kron4.com/news/bay-are...
Here about his increasingly prescient novella The Confidence Man: His Masquerade (1857): americanstudier.blogspot.com/2012/04/apri...
April 4, 2012: Melville’s Confidence Man
[This week, in honor of April Fool’s Day, I’ll be highlighting various American Studies connections to the holiday—not just to foolishness, ...
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