Christopher R Davis

Excellent point. And, in the long run, most of those efforts have failed and ultimately contributed to strengthening the idea of academic freedom.

No guarantees that will happen this time though ...

Or at least enough people to convince 20 Republican Senators to do the right thing for their country and its posterity.

Ironically, he might have benefited from a good 4-yr liberal arts education.

Once, while interviewing 2 candidates with online degrees, we asked each one to name their most influential grad school professor. Neither candidate could name a single one. Telling ...

Agreed! Hence the enduring power of the graduate seminar. No better way to learn about the big ideas.

If you work for the American people and refuse to swear an oath to tell the truth, you should be immediately fired from your position.

Literally every policy they've pursued seems almost design to weaken the U.S.

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Did everyone else miss the news that Trump's director of personnel failed a background check, was using a false name, was born in the Soviet Union despite claiming to be from Malta, and has now been made Ambassador to India?

nypost.com/2025/06/17/u...

Even though Stephen Miller's relatives did just that not all that long ago.

Fascism lacks human compassion, empathy, and logic. It's deep selfishness.

My experience is that a lot of the go-getters who submit essays early in my classes these days are actually cheaters using ChatGPT or other AI.

"A student who cuts and pastes a history paper is enrolled in a cutting and pasting class, not a history class."

I'm sympathetic to almost everything this guy has to say. However, his take that both sides are to blame for the situation is part of the problem. One side is trying to help people like him, while the other is doing so much to make things worse.

I'm sympathetic to almost everything this guy has to say. However, his take that both sides are to blame for the situation is part of the problem. One side is trying to help people like him, while the other is doing so much to make things worse.

🗃️ Important new research on anti-Mexican racism and immigration law here 👇🏽

Creating a “Mass Production Technique”: Anti-Mexican Racism and the McCarran-Walter Act of 1952 by S. Deborah Kang New archival research shines a light on the anti-Mexican animus that motivated the authors and agents of the McCarran-Walter Act of 1952 and reveals that racism was a feature, rathe...

Delighted to see this piece in print: jach.law.wisc.edu/anti-mexican...

Many thanks to the Journal of American Constitutional History for creating an online space for publishing legal historical work, esp. since making this piece accessible to scholars and advocates was my number one priority.

A thread on transcription and AI. One reason I don't use AI to transcribe (besides the fact that AI is hugely detrimental to the environment & is coming for our jobs) is that it can't tell the difference between original documents & new notes added by staff members to whom documents were sent. 🗃️ 1/?

A thread on fear of cities. I grew up in 70s & 80s in a mostly working class white town I didn’t know at the time was segregated from the small, Blacker city across the river. My mom was a rare lefty who loved cities, but I absorbed attitudes at school: “cities are scary.” 1/

Bigger?

Ohh, I don't know ... Overthrowing the Constitution of the United States

Bigger?

Ohh, I don't know ... Overthrowing the Constitution of the United States

History may well remember Hegseth and his ilk as the "lemmings (going) off the cliff."

Don't let it haunt you; you were dead-on right. The 20th century, for example, was in some ways a period of amazing, unprecedented progress, but it also produced WWI, WWII, the bomb, the Holocaust, etc... as people applied the methods of that progress to killing others.

Yeah, threatening nuclear war, I'd say that's disproportionate intensity.

I heard a lot of Dems speak out against Project 2025, remember the signs at the Dem convention. The problem was the GOP (Trump) lied and said it wasn't intricately linked to their plans and voters were too naive and believed them.

I heard a lot of Dems speak out against Project 2025, remember the signs at the Dem convention. The problem was the GOP (Trump) lied and said it wasn't intricately linked to their plans and voters were too naive and believed them.

To ask that question, a student would need to already know about the concept of supply and, if they know the concept, they probably already understand that more supply would drive the price lower. So, in this case at least, the chatbot adds very little learning wise.

First I've heard about this book, but it just jumped to the top of my summer reading list.
#SportHistory

To paraphrase Twain:

"There are lies, damn lies, and BS written by ChatGPT."

I appreciate your concerns, but I hope it turns into an opportunity for academic historians to engage a broader public on what historiography is, how it evolves, and why it is so important to studying and understanding the past.

A really great thread here about doing history, the critical importance of historiography, and why AI will never be anything more than average.