Bobby Lee

“Gold bar bribery” - no way!
“Gold bar diplomacy” - OK!
www.wsj.com/world/europe...

Man, the US really needs a functioning news media. Some of these newsletters have important info but need editors and layout designers so badly (or anybody saying don’t use a different font size every other line)

Get a Pizza Hut Peace Prize or free breadsticks if your order is over $20

This is extremely cool!

The FT Influence List 2025 Who are the people who shaped the world this year?

Pretty weird that a bunch of the people on this list with Margaret Atwood are there for ushering in the dystopia she warned us about
www.ft.com/content/420f...

2025 Contingent Book List When you’re shopping for books this season, consider a contingent scholar.

don’t miss the 2025 @contingent-mag.bsky.social book list! inclusive & welcoming as ever, Contingent curates a list where the hard part is not getting on it, but rather, the hard part is researching & writing a book while contingent contingentmagazine.org/2025/12/02/2...

The hands on that trophy look like they are coming out of the underworld to drag us all to hell

This extinct horned turtle looks like the alien from Independence Day

Olivia Nuzzi and Vanity Fair Will Part Ways

I guess that means no more Lizza posts until she gets a new job
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/b...

At the National Archives, a Deep Dive Into the American Story

For anyone reading with even a little background, this article tells us a bit more about what's happening at the National Archives: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/a...

How to get away with murder. The Secretary throws the admiral under the bus. The admiral throws the lawyer under the bus. The lawyer throws a clerk under the bus. The clerk throws ChatGPT under the bus. ChapGPT blames training data from the Biden administration.

As fall comes to a close, the #JERPano would like to introduce another one of our authors—Daniel Carpenter.

Read Carpenter’s Fall 2025 piece, “Petitioning as Governance: The Scattered and Multinational World of the Early United States” at: muse.jhu.edu/article/969333

I got tired of studies saying historians were one of the top professions that could be replaced by AI. It just didn't sound right to me.

Librarians, curators, and teachers all score as much less "replaceable", and lawyers score much, much lower still. And I think I figured out why. /1

Pretty sweet winter lights show at the Cambridge Botanic Garden

There were tiny cars way before the Smart
www.autoweek.com/car-life/a69...

I'm very grateful to the Paul E. Lovejoy Prize jury and @journalslavery.bsky.social for this recognition!

Congrats to the winner, Magdalena Moorthy Kloss, and other finalists.

brill.com/view/journal...

The John Quincy Adams line-a-day diary is now on Bluesky! We're looking forward to what @jqadams-mhs.bsky.social has in store for the rest of 1825.

Steve Pearce is like if James Watt had a hate child with James Watt

Nothing quite like the smell of a used book store

This one’s worth a read

Theft of $24,000 wine bottle spurs high-speed chase through Va. countryside A couple talked their way into the Virginia wine cellar, where the woman reportedly distracted their guide while the man slipped bottles into his overcoat.

Yes, the wine was French
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

One of the ways academia has ruined me is that it feels really weird to read without a pen or highlighter in my hand

Been a while since

Congrats!

Dad took us to New Jack City when I was ten

Picture getting clearer on who Thorp was

This getting weirder. Now it says they got to put him on the "Road to Retail Liquer [sic]"

Does this say what I think it says?

Image of the MHS reading room with researchers sitting at desks. MHS staff librarians patrol the room, assisting researchers as needed.

Research fellowship applications for the 2026-2027 academic year are now open! Join our scholarly community and enrich your historical scholarship at the MHS. Apply now: masshistfellowships.slideroom.com?fbclid=IwY2x...

The recording of our Hidden Histories of Unauthorized Migrations from Europe to the US webinar is now available at cla.umn.edu/ihrc/news-ev...
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