Elyse Graham

It’s going to take decades for this to happen, but an intro to machine learning should be required for first-year students.

Anthony Grafton · No Cheese Please: The First Bibliophiles The library made possible a new kind of intellectual life. Machiavelli, when he’d been exiled from Florence, described...

Lovely essay in the @lrb.co.uk on Renaissance era libraries and their influence
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

A Fish Falls From the Sky and Sparks a Brush Fire in British Columbia

For a medieval monastic chronicler, a headline to die for

French Revolution document rifle continues! Let’s just not think too much about what these personal papers might be stained with eh 😬😬😬

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The gravestone of Ruth Sprague, whose body was disinterred by "resurrection men" who supplied medical schools; the gravestone lists their names, to shame them.

"Her body dissected by fiendish Men
Her bones anatomised
Her soul we trust has risen to God
Where few physicians rise."

A billboard-style sign reading, "The first written words started here"

A sign in Uruk, Iraq, to memorialize the invention of cuneiform writing.

A close-up photo of an old book page numbered 267, showing Latin text printed in black ink. In the upper right margin, there is a visible black fingerprint smudge, suggesting someone with ink-stained fingers touched the page. The paper has a rough texture and slightly browned edges.

A little bit of a personal touch left behind.

De censuris Ecclesiasticis tractatus. Leiden, 1608 #NationalLibraryOfLithuanis
#earlymodern #printculture

Very dramatic skies in Austria, a few years ago.

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Music to my ears.

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I heard that it's international tiger day!

In 1917, American women were asked to ditch their corsets to help win the war.

They did—and freed up enough steel to build two battleships.

Once again: never underestimate the historical power of women’s clothing choices.🗃️

Corsets and battleships, explained: tinyurl.com/37kkd4n9

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What was the most morbid children's rhyme you learned when you were younger? I just remembered the one that goes, "Concentrate. Concentrate. People are dying, children are crying...."

The Oak Bluffs collection is almost criminally good.

Literally every early modern paper pamphlet looking for quarrels

Harry Houdini volunteered to write the entries on stage magic for the 1926 Encyclopedia Britannica. He then wrote entries that cast himself as the greatest magician of the age.

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Victor is actually a pretty clever dog.
DAD
He is. It's misplaced, but he is.

If anyone wants to see the kind of attention that's being grabbed, they should check out the comments Gen Z are leaving on the company's TikTok account.

In the death registers of early modern Venice, marginalia often marks the cause of death: drawings of daggers for murders, for instance.

In 1696, Giovanni Battista Rinaldi was killed by a dog. This is the drawing by his entry.

Victor, a Tibetan Spaniel, wearing an orange lifejacket, standing in the shallows at the edge of the sea. He does not look wholly thrilled to be wet.

sea wolf

I mean, in his role as a translator, Lascelles Wraxall was mediating a famous magician for an English audience, you can see how it would work as a reference. But I think that was secondary to getting a good name.

A screen grab of Henry Lascelles and Gilbert Norrell in the miniseries based on the novel "Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell." They are sitting at a table, looking up from some papers.

I can't prove it, but I think Lascelles in "Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell" got his name from Lascelles Wraxall, who translated the memoirs of the magician Robert-Houdin.

I don't think it means anything, I just think that's where it comes from. I do think Robert-Houdin's memoirs influenced the book.

Journal of Political Philosophy Officially Ends - Daily Nous "The Journal of Political Philosophy will cease publication effective January 1, 2026." That's from an email sent by the journal's publisher, Wiley, earlier today, calling the move "a difficult decisi...

Wiley officially closes the Journal of Political Philosophy, which was abandoned by its editorial team and shunned by academics after Wiley attempted moves that would have compromised the journal's editorial independence.

I got a book listing every stage magician in the historical record, so I decided to post snippets about them from time to time. The Black stage magician Richard Potter (1783-1835), who had an exceedingly interesting life, has been called "America's first celebrity."

Interested in integrating Native American stories and culture in your classroom through comics? Here are some lesson ideas
I developed with Trickster as a central book docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Already had a tear in my eye as I concluded @dblight.bsky.social's wonderful bio of Frederick Douglass. But this picture of Douglass with his grandson Joseph, a very talented violinist, reminding me so much of my late Dad with my sons (both talented violinists themselves)? Whew. Love & our best.

"Perhaps the most" = "the most, but don't write me letters."