We're well into this year's edition of a popular spectator sport among CASBS staff: tracking numbers of books checked out by CASBS fellows. (We're easily amused.) Current leader: Barbara Keys (historian) 🥇 Erica Robles Anderson & Santi Furnari: Is that all you got? You've got 4 months

Historian friends, imagine publishing a peer-reviewed article in a scholarly journal that is based on two books and three online sources, one of which is Wikipedia.

A few FREE COPIES of my now rather old book, Reclaiming American Virtue: The Human Rights Revolution of the 1970s, are available, preferably to grad students: just look up my email and send me your US address (cont. US addresses only, sorry) hup.harvard.edu/books/97806747…

If anyone knows how I can get in touch with Mark Falcoff, please let me know.

I have this category on my CV and I am keeping it

Can anyone shed any light on a Nixon administration FRUS document that someone cited and seems to have been re-classified and taken off the website?? history.state.gov/historicaldocu…

BREAKING | Final totals: books checked-out by 2023-24 CASBS fellows 🏆Barbara Keys 🥈Erica Robles Anderson 🥉Santi Furnari Same order as our mid-year reporting (see 🧵) We note a gap-closing that, if successful, would've been documented in CASBS annals as "The RobleSurge" But no.

This is fun, but I gotta go to Abdul’s house to eat a cat.

Interested in the semiotics of Trump's playing the Village People's "YMCA" to rally a crowd hostile to LGBTQ rights? Read the paper one of my undergrads published about the song! Alex Midgley, "Macho Types Wanted': The Village People, Homophobia, and Representation in the 1970s"

Niall Ferguson demolishes the notion that DT is fascist: he can't be, because he's funny. Who's the real threat to American democracy? It's the "blood-curdling" Samuel Moyn 🔭 dailymail.co.uk/debate/article…

Google AI struggling with some veeeerrry basic stuff

Can anyone point me to any info on the demise of The Historical Society?