Patrick McGee

@signfield.bsky.social

CUNY • intellectual history of reactionary aesthetics, archival theory, nature in allways

The NARA San Francisco office is *the* place to study histories of US immigration and western histories of all sorts. Its staff are extraordinarily valuable for researchers, historians, and citizens who visit daily to learn more about these topics. This is terrible. www.kqed.org/news/1208890...

Exclusive: The Bay Area’s National Archives Office Is Closing. Researchers Are Worried | KQED

The Bay Area collection includes original records from landmark birthright citizenship case United States v. Wong Kim Ark, and inmate records from Alcatraz. Federal officials didn’t provide details ab...

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In the last three hours, Musk has posted that USAID “was central to the creation of COVID-19,” “funded coronavirus research in China that killed millions of people,” “was used for terrorism,” and “killed millions.”

A few years back I accidentally unearthed the first time that Marshall McLuhan coined "Understanding Media," in a 1958 letter by an advocacy group that brought him to the US on a fellowship to develop a syllabus on educational technology.

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