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Historian, professor, tired.
The panic attacks coming in hot right now.
January 3, 2026 at 7:37 PM
Somebody please parody the Chaplin ball dance scene from The Great Dictator immediately.
January 3, 2026 at 3:30 PM
We’re doomed.
January 2, 2026 at 4:57 PM
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Last day to sign this petition of support for Mel Curth. It was initiated by OU faculty - many of whom joined students in on- campus protests last month. OU is closed & quiet 'til classed start on 1/20. actionnetwork.org/forms/defend...
Defend OU Instructors and Academic Freedom
Faculty, staff, students, alumni, and community members, The University of Oklahoma made national headlines this month after a routine grading dispute erupted into public controversy, leading OU to ...
actionnetwork.org
January 1, 2026 at 9:34 PM
So, the NYTimes food writers predicts that “grandmacore” canning, tinned fish, and cabbage will be trending in 2026. Finally, the culture has caught up with my hobo palate 🥬
January 1, 2026 at 6:25 PM
Wait, we have to do 2026 now? Haven’t we suffered enough?
January 1, 2026 at 4:28 PM
Feeling this bigly.
December 31, 2025 at 4:09 PM
2025 was a shitshow but at least we got gay hockey.
December 30, 2025 at 5:28 PM
I’m coming to the cottage 😭❤️
December 29, 2025 at 4:43 PM
There is not nearly enough Heated Rivalry discourse in my feed.
December 29, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Between the tamales, posole, breakfast tacos, and atole, I think my holiday body is 90% corn 🌽
December 28, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Nobody can say I didn’t accomplish anything in 2025.
December 27, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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If you’re cold, they’re cold. Let them in.

(Photo credit to kid heading to swim practice.)
December 27, 2025 at 3:47 PM
If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career
cnn.com CNN @cnn.com · 10d
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.” https://cnn.it/4b6g3rd
Oklahoma instructor removed from teaching for failing a Bible-based gender essay | CNN
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.”
cnn.it
December 24, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Happy Vince Guaraldi season to all who celebrate.
December 24, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Here’s a fun game! Let’s guess - is the following image:

A) The latest post from Homeland Security

B) Beta testing for David McCullough’s next book cover

C) Cover story of the OAH magazine

D) Elon Musk’s fever dream of his Mars colony
December 20, 2025 at 6:11 PM
🚨 JOB JOB JOB!!! 🚨
Late-breaking job! Indigenous history at University of Colorado Boulder. Assistant or eatly associate. Been trying to get this line for forever. It’s finally happening 🙏 Great place to live and work. Fabulous colleagues (ask me how I know!) networks.h-net.org/jobs/69637/u...
University of Colorado - Boulder - Assistant or Associate Professor of History | H-Net
The Department of History at the University of Colorado Boulder seeks a tenure-track Assistant Professor or early Associate Professor specializing in Native American history with a focus on the North American West, broadly defined. The successful applicant will have access to funds associated with the Walter and Lucienne Driskill Professorship in Western American History. Specialization is open, but the department particularly encourages applications from scholars whose research focuses on the early American West (pre-1920s) and engages with legal history, the history of women and gender, environmental history, and/or the history of medicine and public health.  Scholars with demonstrated commitments to engaging Native American communities and/or supporting Native and Indigenous students are especially encouraged to apply, as are those who bring relevant lived and individual experiences and achievements to this position.
networks.h-net.org
December 16, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Professor's pro-tip for anyone with college-age kids: Tell your kids go to class. It's really that simple. If you show up, you'll do okay. You don't have to be smart, you just have to be there. Maybe stay off your phones for 50 minutes. Just listen. You'll absorb something. I have data to prove it.
December 15, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Okay, I'm going to stand up and take a teacher bow for this one:

"In this class I stopped seeing the past as a series of events and started seeing it instead as this long history of conversations.”
December 15, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Omg these students and their creative finals! They've got me all in my feels.
December 15, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Looks like it’s time for somebody to get another MRI.
December 15, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Okay. I'm back to grading finals. These days, I don't often make connections between past and present explicit. I try to present the material within historical context and let the students make their own connections.

But holy shit, are they ever making connections.
December 15, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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When Scalia rewrote the Second Amendment in Heller, I warned that he would have “blood on his hands” from the carnage he was enabling.

The Second Amendment protects a “militia” right, which was the understanding of the courts for 200 years. The “individual right” rewrite is a suicide pact.
Brown University confirms two dead victims and eight others in critical but stable condition following a mass shooting on campus.
December 14, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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“Tell your children who the cowards were.”
December 13, 2025 at 2:16 PM
I have started graded final projects in my US survey course, so we have now entered the moment when I will be posted delighted posts about the creative projects my students have produced! Consider yourselves warned.
December 13, 2025 at 9:09 PM