John Harris

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Back from Yet Another Globetrotting Adventure, Indiana Jones Checks His Mail and Discovers That His Bid for Tenure Has Been Denied January 22, 1939 Assistant Professor Henry “Indiana” Jones Jr. Department of Anthropology Chapman Hall 227B Marshall College Dr. Jones: As chairman...

It's Harrison Ford's birthday today, thus we are contractually obligated to point you to this ridiculous classic from our archives.

Should be a gift article. If not you can go to my page where it’s in gift form.

The Brooklyn Allergist’s Office That Was Once Home to a Spy

Here you go: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/06/r...

The Brooklyn Allergist’s Office That Was Once Home to a Spy An antislavery spy who worked for the British in New York in the 1800s lived in a house that is now home to an allergy doctor descended from Horace Greeley.

Check out a @nytimes feature from John Harris, author of The Last Slave Ships, a history of illegal transatlantic slave trade in the United States 

I enjoy mazey bookstores (Edisto Island SC)

Fascinating Jeremy. Fills in a few gaps for me. Thanks!

Next, the movie? (I wish)

Thanks for sharing!

From Smithsonian description: "This ambitious chart presents U.S. political history on a single page. Moving from left to right, a timeline of parties, policies, persons, and events courses like a river through graphic space marked in four-year intervals. The analogy between politics and springs and rivulets (that jump and rejoin their banks) is the most conspicuous feature of the timeline. The parties appear in different colors. The ascendance of a party is gauged as its stream rises above the centerline, and above the streams of other parties. The thickness of a stream indicates the party’s strength. The diagram is meant to dramatize U.S. political history in a more accessible shape for educators and to offer a ready reference for scholars, statisticians, and statesmen. The chart itself, titled “Diagram of the Rise and Fall of American Political Parties, from 1789 to 1880, inclusive,” is from the Conspectus of the History of Political Parties and the Federal Government, by Walter R. Houghton, 1880"

Absolutely incredible graphic from 1880 tracing the history of political parties in the United States.

4. After you knock on strange doors, have lunch with Anna

What can I say, I live by a code

Thanks Kevin

The Brooklyn Allergist’s Office That Was Once Home to a Spy

Grateful to the New York Times for covering my research.

I am referred to as a potential “nut case” in the first paragraph, which is also pleasing.

The Brooklyn Allergist’s Office That Was Once Home to a Spy www.nytimes.com/2025/07/06/r...

Couldnt believe it when I saw. Awful.

Great idea. I took my slave trade class to sullivan’s island, the “quarantine” area before the Charleston wharves, and they wrote papers about how what happened was or wasn’t commemorated.

Thank you. A very important issue that my wife and I are going through with our parents.

Indeed, building a list

Donald J. Trump & @realDonald Trump We have completed our very successful attack on the three Nuclear sites in Iran, including Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan. All planes are now outside of Iran air space. A full payload of BOMBS was dropped on the primary site, Fordow. All planes are safely on their way home. Congratulations to our great American Warriors. There is not another military in the World that could have done this. NOW IS THE TIME FOR PEACE!Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Trump says the U.S. military has just attacked three Iranian nuclear sites:

$1.5M partnership with AI company will offer USC students, faculty free access “The campuswide adoption of secure enterprise AI technology puts USC on the leading edge of higher education institutions.”

Revealing to read these “universities partner with AI companies” articles and discover that faculty are nowhere to be seen, either in the articles or, apparently, in the universities’ decision making process.

The faculty; you know, the folks who do the educating

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Today's complaint about the AI in education discourse: Too much of it is framed around a future that is going to happen to us, as opposed to seeing the future as something we may have some agency to shape. I reject the deterministic view of AI, particularly genAI. It's a tool, not our master.

Everyone Is Using A.I. for Everything. Is That Bad?

i just find this so bizarre. searching through texts and doing the reading for myself is how i actually think through ideas! trying to put together a sentence is how i figure out what i actually want to say!

Huge congrats!!

I Have Avenged America A moving and humane portrait of the abolitionist revolutionary Jean-Jacques Dessalines, who led Haiti’s fight for independence from French colonial rule  ...

PUBLICATION DAY!

_I Have Avenged America: Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Haiti's Fight for Freedom_ is now available from @yalepress.bsky.social

To celebrate, I am going to post some of the most extraordinary Dessalines quotations below!
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Got a call from the New York Times today. Something cool coming, hopefully this week…

It’s hopelessly naive, but wouldn’t it be wonderful if the AI era produced a new appreciation of actual expertise

Yes