Evan Sullivan

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My H-Disability review of Dagmar Herzog’s new book, The Question of Unworthy Life: Eugenics and Germany’s Twentieth Century. www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

It is mind blowing how much of the Revolutionary War took place in upstate New York!

Next Monday, SUNY Adirondack and the Warren County Historical Society are hosting History Day for the lead up to the 250th anniversary of the #AmRev featuring local orgs and various talks (I’m presenting on Rev War veterans). Free & open to public w/ registration www.sunyacc.edu/news-stories...

Pathologizing Politics: Eugenics and Political Discourse in the Modern United States Carrie Buck was three months shy of her twenty-second birthday when she was forcibly sterilized on October 19, 1927. Buck’s fate was based on the 1924 Virginia eugenic sterilization law, which mark…

Still relevant nearly six years later nursingclio.org/2020/02/25/p...

Worth always keeping in mind that the Guardian has a commercial partnership with OpenAI, so nothing it writes about AI can be trusted

I’m at the Saratoga Book Festival this evening, but beforehand I stopped into @northshirebooks.bsky.social, saw my book on the shelf (first time that has happened), and signed a couple copies.

Dorothy Thompson was, well…Dorothy Thompson.

reminder that one of the first things Hegseth did was end DOD recognition of Black History Month.

"Not all homeless people deserve involuntary lethal injection" is one hell of an apology.

The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.

The problem with allowing guns everywhere is that no one is safe anywhere.

One of the last places we might expect artificial intelligence to show up is the tattoo parlor, with its mix of artistry, personal expression and permanent ink. But a high-end ink shop in New York City is now taking appointments for an AI-driven tattoo robot. The technology is the product of Blackdot, an Austin, Texas-based startup that has been pursuing a vision of autonomous, AI-fueled tattooing since 2019. Blackdot—which has raised roughly $7 million from a combination of strategic and angel investors, crowdfunding and venture capital—says its device’s precision boosts predictability and reduces pain. “There are people that are wondering if technology should make its way into the tattoo industry,” said founder Joel Pennington. “But that was what happened when Gutenberg came out with a printing press, and everyone thought that books should be handwritten.”

Literally the entire point of a tattoo is the human element and interaction.
Working with your tattoo artist, personalizing your designs, its all so intimate and rightly so. Thats what its all about!
Why do techbros try to ruin EVERYTHING?

Congrats! This is great and I can’t wait to get a copy.

First time playing live since high school. Only this time I got to play with my dad and brother, I have more gray hairs, and I am not playing post-hardcore music.

Hundreds of swimmers rescued by dangerous rip currents Hundreds of swimmers along California’s coast were rescued over Labor Day weekend after they were caught in dangerous rip currents. NBC News’ Dana Griffin has more.

Wow how kind of the rip currents to rescue hundreds of swimmers.

Nation’s largest RN union: Time for HHS Secretary RFK Jr. to go the wake of the latest scandal he has perpetuated, National Nurses United, the nation’s largest nurses union and professional organization, today called for Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the Secretary of He...

wow

Trump, 79, Fundraises on Desperate Push to Get Into Heaven The president has spoken about his mortality more and more as speculation mounts about his declining health.

Instead of Johann Tetzel meandering into your 16th c town of Halberstadt to sell indulgences so that your grandfather who died of rickets at the ripe old age of 34 will spend one less day in purgatory, a former game show host is asking you for donations so HE won’t go to hell.

What is important to remember is that the initial installation of the Robert E. Lee portrait had little to do with history. It was installed in the 1950s. To understand why you need to appreciate the vagaries of historical memory. The relevant history or context is the 1950s and not the 1860s.

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Gutted: How Deeply Trump Has Cut Federal Health Agencies More than 20,500 workers have left or been pushed out of federal health agencies, a ProPublica analysis found. Staffers say the cuts will leave their agencies less equipped to conduct studies, perform...

NEW: More than ‎20,500 workers have left or been pushed out of federal health agencies, a ProPublica analysis found.

Staffers say the cuts will leave their agencies less equipped to conduct studies, perform inspections and combat deadly outbreaks.

Constructing Disability after the Great War

More on the book here: www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...

Save the date! On Friday, October 3rd, I will be at the Literary Night Market with other local authors for the Saratoga Book Festival! The event is free, and I’ll have signed paperback copies of my book for sale — Constructing Disability after the Great War: Blind Veterans in the Progressive Era.

Trump escalates his attacks on cultural institutes | CNN Eleni Giokos speaks to historian David Blight about President Donald Trump’s attack on Smithsonian Institution museums, and his comments on slavery.

“What the world should know, is that the president of the United States is a profoundly ignorant person about American history. And history is full of examples of power possessed by people of great historical ignorance, and that’s what we’re experiencing.” — Historian David Blight

Don’t ask me for data because I DONT HAVE IT

It is a scientific FACT that eating 3 cookies spaced out half a cookie every 15 minutes is not as bad for you as 3 all at once. Something about the act of contemplating more cookies burns additional calories.

Face Authenticator didn’t work because I was shoveling a quesadilla in my mouth

White House to conduct review of Smithsonian museum exhibitions to ensure they fit with Trump's view of American history The White House plans to conduct a wide-ranging review of the Smithsonian Institution's museum exhibitions, materials and operations ahead of America's 250th anniversary.

This is fascist. History should be complex, good, bad, uncomfortable, surprising, everything. It shouldn’t cater to an insecure man’s misconceptions about the past.

Part of the first page of a book. The first sentence is highlighted INTRODUCTION There is no doubt that past and present events do shape those of the future. This observation is true for both our individual lives, as well as for the all-important controversy in which the life of our universe is involved the irreconcilable conflict between light and darkness, righteousness and sin, right and wrong, and life and death.

big if true

The business model of a pyramid scheme