Kevin Vrevich

I really want to really know who told the NYT that $360 billion a year was somehow an astronomical part of the U.S. budget.

Only answer I get from anybody is “It’s hear to stay so we have to teach students how to use it,” which is just the lamest surrender of agency ever. Lots of things are “here to stay” that we would never think of deliberately inviting into our classrooms or homes.

I'm so tired of talking about AI but also my entire job hinges on conversations about AI and I'm so demoralized and feel so gaslit and I am just deeply not okay.

…or did it as undergrad majors but never learned how to teach it. Hence, they outsource. It’s worst in the history and social sciences because unlike math, science, and English, I don’t think we have a good idea of what basic building block skills in those subjects looks like.

The reason this happens is because education degrees favored by secondary schools devalue subject area expertise but are teaching curriculum that often emphasizes more advanced skills. So you have curriculum that wants students to conduct original research with teachers who either haven’t done it…

Ooooh, awesome and fun!

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It is my dream to teach a state history class like this. Obviously, New England states are the most likely candidates. I taught a full-semester colonial New England class my last semester at Wesleyan. It was (along with my Microhistories course the same semester) my favorite course I taught.

#notmyRhodeIsland 😂

The Original Gerrymanders Kevin Vrevich offers historical context for thinking about Texas Republicans recent redistricting plans.

So, I wrote a thing for the @shearites.bsky.social JER’s Panorama on some of the earliest gerrymanders to provide some historical context for what is happening. thepanorama.shear.org/2025/08/01/g...

The Original Gerrymanders Kevin Vrevich offers historical context for thinking about Texas Republicans recent redistricting plans.

So, I wrote a thing for the @shearites.bsky.social JER’s Panorama on some of the earliest gerrymanders to provide some historical context for what is happening. thepanorama.shear.org/2025/08/01/g...

Totally get it. My reaction is based as much on scarcity. Like finding an oasis in the desert.

I do wish that he got it right the first time, but this is still GREAT news for Connecticut. And, in a world completely devoid of good news, I’ll take it!!

The White House Announces White House Ballroom Construction to Begin Washington, D.C. — For 150 years, Presidents, Administrations, and White House Staff have longed for a large event space on the White House complex that

I can almost see the new Schlesinger volume on the shelves.

Right next to "Age of Jackson" and "The Crisis of the Old Order: Age of Roosevelt"

Now there's...

"The Orange Man and His Fancy Balls"

I love this so much.

Tartufo by Kira Jane Buxton is a delightful, warm, funny, and quirky book about a tight-knit Tuscan village of eccentrics and a truffle. It’s wonderful and incredibly comforting. You’ll laugh, you’ll tear up, and you’ll feel better after reading it. I recommend with a glass (or two) of Toscana.

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I posted MONTHS ago that if they retook power they would restore like 30% of what Trump destroyed and pat themselves on the back for a job well done

Tartufo by Kira Jane Buxton is a delightful, warm, funny, and quirky book about a tight-knit Tuscan village of eccentrics and a truffle. It’s wonderful and incredibly comforting. You’ll laugh, you’ll tear up, and you’ll feel better after reading it. I recommend with a glass (or two) of Toscana.

Because I’m about to blow another gasket let me recommend a book before I try to avoid the internet today:

… This is fair. I…I just don’t want to admit it yet. I mean, I guess since Lamont won’t fund UConn anyway…

They won’t CT just banks this money in the “rainy day fund” and then actively cuts higher ed.

It's true. The public has <no idea> how universities work, or why the federal budget cuts are an existential crisis, or anything else about how the assault on 🇺🇸 higher ed will affect society. Because our university leaders have been <totally absent> from the public square:

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I just…setting aside the obvious fascism, this level of abject stupidity…

Logistics being famously unnecessary in war.

We looked at some new survey books and, though we decided on Foner, the new edition of what was Tindall and Shi was well received.

That’s just before 1840, but the state convention seems to have forestalled the next rounds of efforts to ward off the antimasons.

1792, 1797, 1802, 1804, 1808, 1812, 1821 (state convention).

Let me check, but I think they did one in 1826.