Joseph M. Adelman

Why Write Historical Fiction? I wanted to understand a hidden part of my own family’s history.

“Imagination is a vital tool that any writer must deploy to access aspects of the past.”

Our latest, from Ben Nadler.

Lots of great advice in this thread! Other JOURNAL thoughts:
1) It's a long process: *at least* 2 years from 1st submission to publication
2) Not all journal editors are created equal: really good editors will assess the reader reports for you--pay attention, this is a pathway to publication!

Historians’ Amicus Brief in Trump v. Barbara Two historians and professors of legal history represented by Kendall Brill & Kelly LLP have filed a brief supporting a challenge to President Trump’s executive order purporting to end birthright citi...

« The historians’ brief — authored by Professor Martha S. Jones and Professor Kate Masur — centers on the pre–Civil War advocacy of free Black Americans for a broad and inclusive principle of birthright citizenship. » www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

The Century-Long Capture of U.S. Media | On the Media | WNYC Studios As media empires, from The Washington Post to CBS News, continue to be dealt significant blows, uncertainties abound about the remaining strength of a once robust American press lands...

From @onthemedia.bsky.social A rocking interview about media capture from mid-19th century to now. Clear, detailed, with helpful comparison to systems other than ours. Can't say enough about it. With @victorpickard.bsky.social, a brilliantly accessible expert.

www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

As the OP says below—this is about more than driving a car.

Voting.
Traveling.
Getting prescriptions filled.

All those MANY times in everyday life when you have to show your license?

You no longer have one.

Unless you erase yourself.

Part of what is great about college for a lot of people (and I know this is not something everybody wants to do or is able to do) is that not every class you take is taken for your major, or because it’s a requirement.

Great analogy.

These are “low enrollment” majors but the classes are regularly at capacity. They changed the funding structure a few years ago here, switching the allocation from course enrollments to majors then blamed these departments for a structural, top-down change. This is entirely a political choice.

Lifelong Learning Lecture: The Revolutionary Legacy of the Free Press Guest speaker: Dr. Joseph M. Adelman, Professor of History, Framingham State University Since the ratification of the First Amendment in 1791, the Constitution has promised to safeguard “freedom of the press.” The meaning of the phrase has changed significantly as news media has grown and expanded from the weekly newspapers of the 18th century to the international corporations that own television and internet today. Explore the origins of the “free press” in the American Revolution and how those principles can protect the press today. All Lifelong Learning mailing list recipients receive the Zoom link. If you have not joined our Lifelong Learning mailing list, go to bit.ly/Lifelong-Learning-Lectures.

Working this afternoon on the finishing touches for an online talk tomorrow evening for the Framingham Public Library on "The Revolutionary Legacy of the Free Press."

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#America250 #FreePress #journalism

Amanda Herbert and Kevin Dawson debut a new HLQ article category called Early/Modern Connections: original #earlymodern research in service of the public good. The article and cover feature art by Ebony Iman Dallas. Open access: muse.jhu.edu/article/983132

The Historian and the Historian-ish: A Workshop with M.J. Rymsza-Pawlowska This workshop is the second part of a two-day visit by Dr. M.J. Rymsza-Pawlowska, associate professor of history at American University. With a PhD...

The Historian and the Historian-ish Workshop by @mjrp.bsky.social on Fri. Feb. 27th at 10am in the JNBC aka Nightingale-Brown aka "the mansion" events.brown.edu/2026/event/3... (3/4)

Cross Talk on Labor Panel moderated by @sethrockman.bsky.social et al on Fri. Feb. 27th at 5pm @jcblibrary.bsky.social (4/4) events.brown.edu/john-carter-...

The Historian and the Historian-ish In the contemporary, people are engaging in forms of historical practice that allow them to act in the role of the historian—whether that means a...

The Historian and the Historian-ish Lecture by @mjrp.bsky.social on Thurs. Feb. 26th at 6:30pm in Friedman Hall 102 events.brown.edu/history/even...

friends in Providence, Boston, or anywhere near Providence! Brown 2026 has several exceptional events during the last week of February aka next week. highlighting three here that I hope you'll consider attending 🐻🤎 (1/4)

Oy vey. We also got that clipper, but it started later and was just a dusting, so they're all safely tucked in at school.

a woman says " we 're in the good place " while wearing a pink sweater Alt: Kristen Bell says " we 're in the good place " while wearing a pink sweater

February break is over.
The two snow days are over.
My children are all back in school today.

Imagine telling kids: Listen, rich people made this somewhat crappy product they're going to make you use when you end up having to work for them, so we have to teach you how to try to use it and that's a lot of work for both of us because it's pretty crappy.

That's called "AI literacy."

All-time good will squanderers:

Curt Schilling
Rudy Giuliani
2026 U.S. Men's Hockey
Charles Lindbergh
Bill Clinton

Who am I missing?

It’s interesting - in the US people are offended by masking- like Americans are insulted I guess because someone doesn’t want to be exposed to their germs. In Japan, for example, it’s the norm to mask so you don’t make others sick. In the US we assume it’s the opposite.

You Want a Lot of Iced Coffee? Dunkin’ Has a Bucket for You.

This is going to kill a lot of my uncles and Ben Affleck

Shackled migrants trapped on deportation plane stuck in blizzard. (Portsmouth, N.H.) @gbrockell.bsky.social

👇👇👇👇👇👇⚾

If I could change one piece of the discourse-that-drives-policy it’d be to underscore that higher education is not only a benefit to the individual but to all of us. It’s a collective good.

I don't think the "Einstein" or other AI replacing the important steps of learning, esp in higher ed, would be posing quite the challenge it is right now if students hadn't been sent the message their entire lives that the point of college is to get good grades and a high paying job, not to learn.

From the National Weather Service: Blizzard of 2026 Here is a list of airport locations that reached blizzard criteria on February 23, 2026. A blizzard is defined as visibility of 1/4 mile or less and wind speeds (sustained or frequent gusts) of 35 mph or higher, being the prevailing conditions over at least a period of 3 hours. Location Reached Criteria End Time Bedford, MA (BED) 930 am Continuing Block Island, RI (BID) 930 am Continuing Boston, MA (BOS) 920 am Continuing Beverly, MA (BVY) 915 am Continuing Chatham, MA (CQX) 925 am Continuing Falmouth, MA (FMH) 500 am Continuing Hyannis, MA (HYA) 820 am Continuing Martha’s Vineyard, MA (MVY) 1000 am Continuing New Bedford, MA (EWB) 1035 am Continuing Norwood, MA (OWD) 820 am Continuing Providence, RI (PVD) 825 am Continuing Smithfield, RI (SFZ) 830 am Continuing Newport, RI (UUU) 750 am Continuing Westerly, RI (WST) 730 am Continuing Worcester, MA (ORH) 545 am Continuing

Officially the BLIZZARD of 2026

I'm very short, it's easy to look over me!

Definitely Rob Parkinson, also yours truly. And Nathan Perl-Rosenthal's dissertation (which he turned into articles but not a book, if memory serves).

Everything is there (for now) ... except for figure skating!

Our reaction to Judge Cannon's order "permanently" barring the release of Jack Smith's Mar-a-Lago report. knightcolumbia.org/content/judg...