I was talking about this with my students yesterdayβthroughout Western Europe, Nazism is treated in public spaces and memorials as a nightmare, as horror that must never be repeated.
If slavery and Jim Crow received the same commemoration in the US, we'd be a very different country.
05.06.2025 18:46 β π 2165 π 580 π¬ 41 π 39
βThe termination of your grant represents an urgent priority for this administrationβ
My NEH grant has been terminated
Incredible when the funding for your book about the educational culture wars is cut as a result of the educational culture wars
You canβt say history isnβt relevant
04.04.2025 10:37 β π 4635 π 1158 π¬ 133 π 47
I am so angry that so many people, here and elsewhere, were willing to pretend they thought that protests against genocide were antisemitic. That playacting allowed them to get here.
03.04.2025 23:44 β π 253 π 51 π¬ 2 π 2
Alabama stands up!
02.04.2025 19:28 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
This is such a travesty!
02.04.2025 19:23 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
After getting some rest, I am in awe of everyone who continues to lift their voice and speak out. This is a moment for our country, and we must make a choice about the America we want to be.
02.04.2025 16:32 β π 84005 π 10912 π¬ 4289 π 599
The NEH staff is the most thoughtful group of people I've ever worked with. With their small budget they have done so much. Thank you NEH, incl @neh-odh.bsky.social. @ach.bsky.social
13.03.2025 00:40 β π 74 π 20 π¬ 0 π 3
On Israeli TV, extremism reigns and the Gaza horror is completely screened out
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A content analysis of the most popular Israeli TV news channel found that on 50 randomly selected news broadcasts, there were only 4 mentions of Palestinian civilians killed across 6 months. And only twice did they include any images.
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
25.10.2024 05:02 β π 159 π 91 π¬ 6 π 3
Opinion: Portlandβs monuments should include the writers who inspire us
As the city reckons with its public monuments, it should look to honor its literary giants as well, writes Literary Arts Executive Director Andrew Proctor. The city can start by honoring one of Oregon...
Andrew Proctor of Literary Arts writes, "Even as a 'book town,' Portland has few monuments to our writers ... The city should look to rectify this oversight and can start by memorializing one of Portlandβs most groundbreaking authors, Ursula K. Le Guin."
25.11.2024 23:44 β π 200 π 27 π¬ 5 π 4
Entry for ABCEDARY in 7th edition of Encyclopedia Britannica
Excited today when I ran across a new word in the 1842 Ency. Britannica. Mentioned it to my wife, a former librarian, who knew it well, since it refers to every kid's alphabet book ever made. π«₯ Live and learn.
25.11.2024 19:14 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
a woman with glasses says this explains everything on peacock
ALT: a woman with glasses says this explains everything on peacock
New to BlueSky. Trying to find my DH, Victorianist, and writing friends. Busy meanwhile researching the history of knowledge, and improving machine-readable text from historical editions of Ency. Brit. I think everyone should be retired--it's the only way to get stuff done.
20.11.2024 02:21 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
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DH research into race and slavery in the early Encyclopaedia Britannica
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βοΈπ Associate Professor, Classics at UCLA. Co-founder and editor, Res Difficiles, The Journal. She/her. "Chew-leek"
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