Plastic rings for a six pack. One set whole and one cut up to save the turtles and birds from horrible fates.

Is GenX the only one who does this or has everyone been traumatized by pictures of deformed turtles they saw as kids?

If you've done in-person research at any of the following presidential libraries in the last 8 months, can you please follow me/contact me—soon—for a story I'm working on (can be off the record)?

Hoover
FDR
Truman
Eisenhower
JFK
LBJ
Ford
Carter

And either way, can you please share this request? 🙏

We need more history majors. #knowledgeispower

Courtesy of the Library of Congress -- a copy of the first edition of The Wizard of Oz. The illustrations are awesome. you can go through page by page, and there are illustrations on almost every page. read.gov/books/pagetu....

Black poster with photo of Katherine Landdeck smiling wearing a blue shirt and sunglasses over her head and a Stearman airplane behind her. Four images line the left side of the flyer - one from World War II shows four women walking away from a B-17 airplane with parachutes in their hands, one shows four women from the United States Air Force Academy with helmets on their head and guns in their hands, one shows a confident Jacqueline Cochran wearing a flight suit and resting her arm on the nose of her plane shortly after she broke the speed of sound, the final picture shows a woman from the USAF Academy in a white shirt standing at attention and dark pants with an upper classman wearing a white shirt, a hat and white gloves standing over her. The two modern pictures show women who entered the USAF Academy in 1976 - the first group to do so.

I will be giving the 67th Harmon Memorial Lecture at the United States Air Force Academy this October. From the first lecture in 1959 given by Frank Craven to others by George Herring, John Blum, Roger Launius, and Rick Atkinson, I am humbled to join the list. @crownpublishing.bsky.social

NEW OPPORTUNITY FOR GRAD STUDENTS: “SMH (Grad Student) TALKS” at #SMH2026 Annual Conference!
Submission deadline: November 15, 2025

www.smh-hq.org/annualmeetin...

In late June 1973 news broke that the Nixon admin had compiled an "enemies list." Among those listed were journalist Daniel Schorr & actor/activist Paul Newman. Hunter S. Thompson was disappointed he wasn't included. Here's Paul Conrad's editorial cartoon on the Nixon enemies list in the LA Times.

We published 10 articles about historians' work for, with, and on the National Park Service in #AHAPerspectives this summer. You can find them all here: 🗃️

Blown away yo have been honored in Atchison, KS this weekend at the Intl. Forest of Friendship (w the 99s) for "exceptional contribution to aviation." Thank you so much!!

A Minnesota Lawmaker and Her Husband Are Lying in State. Next to Them: Their Golden Retriever.

I think it is always worth mentioning that Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark were killed with their beloved dog Gilbert: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/u...

The most powerful message I’ve seen

We haven't declared war since 1941.

Crazy!

Who did they censure?

It's Saturday of Labor Day weekend. I sit marking a student's 70-pg thesis. If your Provost doesn't see you working,does it have any value? If it is not a data point does it count? How do we quantity the nights & weekends we labor for our students in a way the bean counters will recognize? We can't.

Plot twist: it was the Provost, who promised a vice-provost position to whoever got the job done. Now how to prove it?

Is it a humanities department? Then no. No they will not. The university needs a new AI Czar and will take that 60k assistant prof to add to the 100k they stole from other departments for the new, made up administrator. Then tell remaining faculty to work 20% harder.

"The students are all given A's so they won't talk thus they don't care either."

hey hey rfk
how many kids did you kill today

The CDC is also discontinuing drowning prevention. It really is unfathomable how bad RFK jr is.

Here are some advocacy resources for public history from the NCPH.
ncph.org/what-is-publ...

The argument against regulation is always the same: “It stifles growth and jobs.”

But just as tax cuts for corporations have not trickled down, regulatory cuts have not benefited most people.

Big companies enjoy bigger profits. Working people bear the costs.

It's a very short walk from here to "Anne Frank died of typhus, thus there were no gas chambers."

Unbelievable footage from NOAA’s Hurricane Hunters inside the eye of Hurricane Erin.

Simply incredible.

Never imagined we'd have scenes reminiscent of the Bonus Marchers debacle (I know different target - you know what I mean) and Munich in one week in 2025. I am really not enjoying this timeline. I've seen this movie and know what's next.

NUTS!

This is exactly what I needed today! Thank you!!

I am so glad you enjoyed it! It is definitely a one of a kind place. I hope you will come back and we can meet. Please keep in touch and let me know what you think about the book!

So sorry I missed you! I will be there next year if you come again. Hope you enjoyed Oshkosh! Hope you enjoy the book too!

My wife just shared with me, "The ABC of City Planning," a children's book Mayor La Guardia’s Committee on City Planning released in 1937. I have a feeling the urbanists on Bluesky are going to like this.

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