Michael Hattem

Excellent! I’ve gotten a really good feedback from people using parts 2 and 6 in undergrad courses.

Interesting! Balkin and Rana’s recent books might be useful.

I may have to print this out and frame it!

US District Judge Fred Biery cites several grievances from the #DeclarationofIndependence in an order releasing Adrian Conejo Arias and his five year old son, Liam, who were seized by ICE in Minneapolis, and tells the Trump administration that "'We the people' are hearing echos of that history."

Looking forward to doing a short remote talk and then some conversation hosted by the American Antiquarian Society tonight at 7pm. Registration link below.

www.americanantiquarian.org/programs-eve...

You look appropriately concerned. 😀

We are watching one of the wildest things a nation-state has ever done: A superpower is committing suicide because the GOP Congress is too cowardly to stand up to the Mad King.

This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever.

this is all to say that should democrats win the house and senate this november, they should hold similarly dramatic — which is to say televised and highly publicized — hearings on the conduct of ICE and CBP, with testimony from victims. we want as much of *this* as possible in the record. (3/?)

Hi all,

I rarely do this, but I'm posting that I'm back on the academic job market.

As a Californian, my partner and I are trying to stay on the West Coast. Any leads for jobs in History, American Studies, Cultural Studies, etc. in the Western U.S. are greatly appreciated!

Sincerely,

Nathan

Ivano Dal Prete was awarded the 2023 ACHA Marraro prize for distinguished book in Italian history or history of Italo-American relations. If you're interested in the history of (mythmaking about) deep time, this is the book!
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Should be 5-1 right now

Only a few hours after ICE agent Jonathan Ross shot and killed Minneapolis resident and mother Renee Good on January 7, federal immigration enforcement agents descended onto Roosevelt High School property during school dismissal as students were exiting the building. MFE members say that ICE agents tackled and detained a school staff member and union member who was working at the time. The MFE member was since released, according to a union spokesperson. The agents also deployed a chemical irritant against students and staff on school grounds, MFE says. A school official, speaking to MPR News on condition of anonymity, said many students sheltered in a nearby library.

Kind of wild there has been almost no coverage of the fact that the federal government unleashed chemical weapons against literal kids *at school*.

workdaymagazine.org/minneapolis-...

Can’t remember the last time I saw a team win on pens 3-0.

Worst half of the season and still didn’t concede. Sucks but we’re six points clear.

If only we had some sort of historical precedent that could help us understand what might happen when a constellation of highly militarized far right governments, organized around an angry and resentful, blood and soil version of nationalism, emerges and tries to remake the world in their image.

Friends, I hope you’ll share this widely. The @jcblibrary.bsky.social is hiring 2 3-yr research associates for collaborative work on religions and freedoms in the early Americas. Info is here and I’m happy to take questions offline: brown.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/staff-...

Also have a remote talk hosed by the American Antiquarian Society on January 29th at 7pm.

www.americanantiquarian.org/programs-eve...

Looking forward to this talk at the Pequot Library later this month!!

Donnarumma is embarrassing.

Looking forward to this talk in a few weeks!

We are so dominant it looks like Villa are down a man.

I know there will be bigger priorities but the next Dem president, if there is one, needs to remove Trump’s name from the Kennedy Center. They also need to undo all the renovations to the White House and restore it exactly to how it was.

I literally just said that to someone. Imagine telling your editor she should read Chapter 4 first. 🤣 But then also imagine telling her that each section of the book has begins with a “Prolegomenon” and ends with an “Epilogism.”

A paragraph from the preface of Michael Kammen’s “People of Paradox.”

Yeah, 23/24. We started out playing very slowly and not scoring much and then in February we started winning 5-0, 6-0, 5-1, etc… and ended up breaking the club’s single PL season record for goals scored.

As a grad student my research & handwriting analysis solved a 240-year old mystery about the authorship of a 1775 Cont. Congress document. And during my diss, I identified the author of an anon. mss in the NYHS’s Jay Papers that turned out to be one of the first histories of the AmRev by D. Ramsay.

Who do they think is going to watch that?

AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.

They’re trying to poison the entire intellectual structure and with it the very notions of expertise and authority. Some for the purpose of discrediting it entirely and others for the purpose of making it easily manipulated on both the micro and macro levels.

www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

What was stolen was the difference between increased productivity and stagnant wages over the decades following 1971.