@drleonj.bsky.social
Black dogs, orange cats, and manuscripts. Professor @ USC. I write about African American life in early national and antebellum Boston.
Sending love out to all my friends and colleagues at Emory.
08.08.2025 22:44 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0She played in Montreal a few weeks ago!
08.08.2025 22:35 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Love this!
08.08.2025 22:29 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Well, thereβs your next book all lined up!
08.08.2025 22:25 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Divight for Dwight is a dead giveaway.
08.08.2025 19:40 β π 10 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0It's your vacation. Enjoy how you like!
08.08.2025 19:38 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0"My advice to you, Sir, is to get a job."
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James M. McGill billboard
08.08.2025 19:37 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0That's decades of shitty OCR coming home to roost right there
08.08.2025 19:27 β π 19 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Happy 8/8/98 Piper Day to all who celebrate.
relisten.net/phish/1998/0...
A small orange a white cat sits on a bookshelf
They tell me itβs International Cat Day, which is all the excuse I need to post a picture of baby Mishmish doing research.
08.08.2025 14:48 β π 14 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Congratulations!
08.08.2025 12:00 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Sending you a scholarly hug π«
08.08.2025 11:59 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Iβm so sorry. Anniversaries are always tough.
08.08.2025 11:57 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Curiousity killed the campus
08.08.2025 11:56 β π 8 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0They have absolutely zero motivation to invest a cent more than they have already.
08.08.2025 01:08 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Well, for starters, I won't search in an expensive database for the word 'riot' in nineteenth century newspapers and waste the entire day looking at the word 'not' highlighted over and over (and over and over and over) again.
08.08.2025 00:35 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0What a magnificent picture. Serious Atkinson Grimshaw vibes!
07.08.2025 21:06 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Utterly brilliant!
07.08.2025 20:17 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0hefty boi!
07.08.2025 18:38 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I, he said, with what was, for him, perhaps not the most unctuous tone, yet not without an acerbic edge to it in his voice, am rubber, and, he added, or so it seemed to him at him at the time, under his voice, you are glue.
07.08.2025 18:08 β π 14 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0Dickens, because James sucks!
07.08.2025 18:03 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0RKβs work is great, and itβs a mystery to me why he didnβt make a bigger splash in book history circles.
07.08.2025 16:13 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Thereβs this oldy but goodie:
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
The brilliant @lmbd1418.bsky.social has suggested people write to the Home Secretary Yvette Cooper re: my case. If you could spare five minutes, she's created a draft letter which you can use to send to coopery@parliament.uk. I appreciate everyone's support. β€οΈ
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Done! Fingers crossed for you!
07.08.2025 13:12 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Hi. About to publish a major reconsideration of Walkerβs Boston years, and one finding is that the pamphlets-hidden-in-clothing story is a modern fabrication.
07.08.2025 12:30 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Never used it. Never will. Sign me tf up! π
07.08.2025 02:19 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0It felt like four book ideas badly shoe-horned into one rickety narrative. Didnβt work for me at all.
07.08.2025 01:55 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Love to see Walkerβs Appeal in there!
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