The American Philosophical Society is hosting my book talk in person and remote Oct. 7. Register here: www.amphilsoc.org/events/nativ...
Carl M. Loeb University Professor, Harvard, Author of, among other books, Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings:An American Controversy,The Hemingses of Monticello,, Vernon Can Read: A Memoir with Vernon Jordan, On Juneteenth
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The American Philosophical Society is hosting my book talk in person and remote Oct. 7. Register here: www.amphilsoc.org/events/nativ...
The. Founders. Museum. www.readtpa.com/p/your-tax-d...
Someone’s got to…
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I didn’t see the post warranting it. I’m prepared…
Wow!
RIP Giorgio Armani: in several of my favourite stylish movies of the eighties / nineties, he designed the fashions
Those suits!
www.facebook.com/share/r/14HS... Lenny says wake up!
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/s...
Of course.
What happened to all the antigovernment types?
2) All that material about slavery at Monticello was there waiting to be mined. James Bear and Cinder Stanton got the ball rolling.
1) Back in Cambridge for the day. At lunch, overheating a person describe the book he’s working on, about the economy of slavery in Richmond during the war. Just reminded that one of the reasons there’s so much writing & talk about slavery is that so many aspects of it were overlooked in the past.
Is this real?
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Ahhh, then I will unpost.
Interesting. I don’t know her work as an art historian.
This is worth sharing far and wide. Federal Employees and contractors oral history project. Im not involved in this. Just got the link, idea seems to be to create a record of the assault on the American Repuvlic after Jan 2025. www.fecohp.org
Wow.
58 degrees in NYC. Brisk morning walk with Daisy
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Y’all…
There’s something humorous about them. I had a friend in college whose family had land on which there was a stream. They were always slightly at war with the beavers who kept building dams. I thought it was funny. They didn’t.
What amazing animals!
Character countdown for The Radical Fund, no. 47: George Creel, the Wilson administration propagandist and foil for the Garland Fund’s efforts to think about democracy in an age of mass communications. #TheRadicalFund
If a tree falls in the woods and it’s only written about, talked about, witnessed, etc, does it really make a sound unless SCIENCE uses data on it?
50 characters in 50 days, person number 49: Edward L. Bernays, public relations guru, nephew of Sigmund Freud, and creator of the Garland Fund-sponsored anti-lynching ad campaign (here with wife Doris Fleischman). #TheRadicalFund
Happy Birthday!!
Glad you enjoyed it. Thank you.
www.publishersweekly.com/9781324092452
Listening to the new biography of James Baldwin by Nicholas Boggs. It’s good.
Hahaha
Thanks!
Game on.
I say that to people, “Alack and alas” and they sometimes ask me what I mean.
Me: I got a lamb chop! Husband: Lamb chops for dinner. Yay! Me: No. Lamb Chop. I got a lamb chop doll for Daisy. Husband, crestfallen. Will fix lamb Chops for dinner soon.
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People have made the point about the double standard in essays,op-eds, & verbally. Nothing has been so effective in showing it as this. How can one be tolerated, but not the other?
The response is provoked have been so revealing. One person can communicate like this, but the other cannot, even as a parody.
I understand.
Two different situations. They call for different approaches.
I had trouble signing up, but I used the link
Hahahaha
!!!!!
It’s downright chilly here in NYC tonight!
Joining with our friends @knightfoundation.org and others in a new philanthropic effort to help stabilize, support, and revitalize public media. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/b...
This can’t be the remedy for violating a supposed legislative procedural “rule”.
The White House has called for a far-reaching review of Smithsonian museum exhibitions in order to ensure they align with President Trump's interpretation of U.S. history. "I don't think that this is something that the American people want," says historian @agordonreed.bsky.social.
I had a pretty big one, too—9 lbs, 20 inches.
Big baby!
4 months old?
Part of it is that I just have to admit I’m a creature of my time. It’s just so much easier for me to deal with hard copies rather than material online. Printing this whole thing out and going through it allows me to see things more clearly.
I’ve always respected documentary editors, but after this experience I’m more in awe. It’s so much easier dealing with copy editing & getting a handle on a manuscript of one’s own prose as compared to the letters of another person, even if you are quite familiar with the person’s epistolary record.
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📢 The OAH has issued a Statement on the White House Review of the Smithsonian. Read the statement: ow.ly/hgLR50WGhfQ
Ahh, Alexander…
The AHA is compiling resources developed by historians in response to recent actions by the federal governments. We welcome submissions from our members about op-eds, media appearances, or other resources they've contributed offering historical context and insight to the public. 🗃️
White House Announces Comprehensive Review of Smithsonian Exhibitions www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/a...
More of this please.
It’s not a distraction. It’s an essential lesson for African-American people to keep in mind. We can deal with multiple issues at a time. We’ve had to.
It’s very instructive that this is considered acceptable. It means that many of the people we assume are our friends really are not.
Yes. Haha
I don’t think my work is included.
Oh no!
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Such memories.
Thanks. It was a lot of fun, an unexpected Sunday afternoon pleasure.
Omohundro Institute Council and Executive Board meeting, 2006
Deep, deep closet cleaning. How deep? Shoulder pads! And, again, vanity sizing. Tried things on that fit well, but in today’s sizing would be labeled about two sizes smaller. The past was unforgiving.
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and @oah.org president David Blight offers a rousing call to fight the administration's war on history: "Now we have to mobilize to defend our profession not only with research and teaching but in the realm of politics and public persuasion. And we cannot surrender!"
Thanks!
kathleenduval.net
About what size is it?
#ProudBlue This interview is very hard to listening to because of the cruelty these men endured. To hear that our government did this is infuriating. It fills me with so much rage & heartbreak. Andres is so full of grace & compassion. He is a beautiful soul & I’m so glad he is free.
Multiple times this year I’ve had coffee with fellow immigrants who grew up in corrupt third world countries and the shared sentiment has been that Americans don’t understand how bad things are going to get.
100% attack 0% damage baby goat... 👀😅🤣 #bluesky
At the Smithsonian.
What on earth…
Incredibly grateful for this shout by @jamellebouie.net in the New York Times. He adopts my analogy with French Republicanism though I wish I did not have to keep writing about the fall of the American republic. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/o...
Cheerfulness for the day! music.apple.com/us/album/anc...
August in NYC— the summer/autumn edition. Bought a bunch of sundresses and it’s a tad too chilly to wear them all day.
Oh, as soon as school ended, the shoes came off other than when we went to church, into town, or other formal occasions. I bought cigarettes, too.
We played baseball at some point almost every day—with two people with five people—with 15 people. And I was on my bike the rest of the time.
I was in my hometown a couple of weeks ago & saw the store I used to walk, or ride my bike to, from my home when I was a kid, by myself, or with other kids. It’s amazing that our parents let us do that. Just never thought about it.
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Don’t think of the Alamo, think of San Jacinto.
Breaking quorum is permitted by the Texas Constitution. If there is a chance of saving the remnants of representative democracy we will have to do some things. Texas Dems are doing some things. Stand with them. Here’s a very good piece by @lonestarleft.com. www.lonestarleft.com/p/we-will-no...
I’m glad you mentioned the Declaration. What is happening now on so many fronts is a ripping apart of foundational values. When I think of the DOI today, I think of the grievances.
How is it race blind to keep statistics about race and decide that there are too many Black people in the class?
Yikes!
This cannot be real.
Lovely!
Yup
MEDIA: Please report on the TX story w/context. Tx law requires redistricting every 10 years after census figures come in. TX did that. Trump, afraid to lose the midterms told Tx Republicans to find 5 more seats for the House. Meaning gerrymander away 5 Dem seats. The Republicans did it.
Sent me into a panic. I suspected this could be the case.
Not for me. But I grew up with a mother who loved okra.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...