Josh Hevert

Next time somebody tries to get me to justify the existence of the humanities, I’ll just point out how for the past two Super Bowls we’ve all jumped online and engaged in collective semiotics and hermeneutics of the half-time show as text.

Nevermind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:

Witches and Witchcraft

On Death and Dying

History of Christianity to 1500

Independent Study (Latin): Suetonius’ “Life of Caligula”

Religion, Politics, and Society

@gaius.bsky.social : Peter Brown’s “The Rise of Western Christendom” is pretty essential. And that guy has dreamy AF prose to boot!

i would like more discussion of the Middle Ages that isn't right-wing crusader fetish

And it’s not the only one, either. Go north on I-25 from Las Cruces, NM, and you’ll find one. Go west on I-10 from Las Cruces, and you’ll find another.

There it is, the dumbest thing ever to stain the internet.

When I went to Johnson Space Center a few years back, I got teary when we got to the Saturn V.

I haven’t been to Kennedy since 1994. I need to go back.

Brilliant as usual. 💜

A bar chart with the title "Many Americans describe the Middle Ages as 'violent,' 'dark,' and 'religious,' but not 'romantic' or 'peaceful'"

A stacked bar chart with the title, "Similar shares of Americans say the Middle Ages were a dark age and that they were no better or worse than any other era."

For @today.yougov.com , I asked Americans what they think about the European Middle Ages.

The results are mixed, but not particularly positive.

Find out more, with lots of charts, in my full article: today.yougov.com/entertainmen...

Cowboy is the GOAT.

What a loss.

To say that Moore’s work had a profound influence on my own scholarship would be a massive understatement. 😢

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New. Hummel and Howe – Attorneys at Crime. Side-by-side images of Hummel and Howe. Both are in black and white, and both men are older white men with large mustaches, wearing dark suits. Hummel's is a photograph while Howe's is an artist's rendering.

We're back! We're kicking off 2025 with an episode about Hummel and Howe, a pair of infamous criminal attorneys from Gilded Age New York. Listen now:

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Oh yeah! In fact, I’m pretty sure I met Kenneth when I went to London for a conference at King’s College London!

@footnotinghistory.bsky.social is small but mighty.

RFK’s elevation is going to be such a disaster for the autism community. Divisive. Fraudulent. Abusive. Ignorant. Dehumanizing.

I’d like you, right now, to read this by @juststimming.bsky.social and me. /1

Hello again, BlueSky.

@kpreeo.bsky.social Glad to see you here, dude. Hope things are good. Been thinking about you.

Hi! Your answer makes a lot of sense, and you’re absolutely right that classicizing literally everything is something the founders would do.

In the late-medieval/early modern context there is a lot of mythologizing Ethiopia re: Prester John, too.

Thank you so much! 😊

I absolutely will!

@kathleenbelew.bsky.social Hi, Prof. Belew! Myself and my colleagues at El Paso Community College, UT El Paso, and New Mexico State University would love to have you out for a talk re: white supremacist violence- is the best way to go about this via your agent? We’d love to work something out!

I don’t often open the Once Bird App, but I just did and it took two clicks to read a blue check arguing that we should have listened to Joseph McCarthy.

I’d like to go back to the Atlantic and walk out into it and never return.

Giving a talk on the Sicilian Vespers later this month. Thought I’d have some fun and make a flyer modeled on a teen magazine spread.

Aw man, thanks, Mike!

I’m doing a public lecture next month on the Sicilian Vespers.

I decided to call it, “Fred, Chuck, Mike, Pete, and a not-so-innocent Pope: How the Sicilian Vespers Remade the Mediterranean World.”

I refuse to have anything other than a good time. 🤣

I did a workshop for my college today on how to use some often-unused features of Adobe Acrobat.

I never imagined a career in which I would do such a thing.

Not going to lie, it’s really gratifying work.

After all, it’s teaching - the thing I love to do the most.

Today is my two-year cancerversary.

I’m so, so thankful that a single surgery got me to remission.

Since the dx, I’ve been living a bit more authentically and for the moment, doing things I always said I’d do but never made the time.

Life is good. I hope it stays that way for a while.

Hoping to build the same sort of community/feed here that once existed over on the Birb App.

Twitter was my favorite social media space for a long time; it’s a shame that it’s new proprietor is such a POS.

Here’s to greener pastures… errr… bluer skies(?)