Nicholas P. Cox
@npcox.bsky.social
19th Century US Historian. Two year college advocate. History Department Chair. I’m not here to not make friends.
Higher Ed’s Rush To Adopt AI Is About So Much More Than AI - defector.com/higher-eds-r...
Higher Ed’s Rush To Adopt AI Is About So Much More Than AI | Defector
If you don’t work at a university or have college-age kids, you may have missed the flurry of news stories and social media banter about AI adoption in higher ed, stories which have snowballed into th...
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October 25, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Higher Ed’s Rush To Adopt AI Is About So Much More Than AI - defector.com/higher-eds-r...
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Please share: excellent history Postdoc opportunity at Wesleyan's Center for the Study of Guns & Society. Post involves archival research on 18th and 19th century firearms use & laws; work on databases, reports, and papers; & thinking and writing around wonderful people doing important work.
Digital Humanities Postdoctoral Researcher
Wesleyan University is a private liberal arts university (founded in 1831) in Connecticut and home to the Center for the Study of Guns and Society, the first academic center in the United States dedic...
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July 22, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Please share: excellent history Postdoc opportunity at Wesleyan's Center for the Study of Guns & Society. Post involves archival research on 18th and 19th century firearms use & laws; work on databases, reports, and papers; & thinking and writing around wonderful people doing important work.
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“We wanted to rid ourselves of the fashions of historiography,” Burns summarized at one event, “and make a film that simply shows what happened.”
That’s not how history works though. You’re making an argument about what happened & what mattered even if you don’t realize you’re doing it. 🗃️
That’s not how history works though. You’re making an argument about what happened & what mattered even if you don’t realize you’re doing it. 🗃️
“whatever you write, you are taking a stance on your subject and on the practice of history itself. the suggestion that other historians are not also interested in ‘show[ing] what happened’ is, at best, careless.” www.politico.com/news/magazin...
What Ken Burns Won’t Say About the American Revolution
On the road with America’s foremost history documentarian in a fractured country.
www.politico.com
July 19, 2025 at 3:11 PM
“We wanted to rid ourselves of the fashions of historiography,” Burns summarized at one event, “and make a film that simply shows what happened.”
That’s not how history works though. You’re making an argument about what happened & what mattered even if you don’t realize you’re doing it. 🗃️
That’s not how history works though. You’re making an argument about what happened & what mattered even if you don’t realize you’re doing it. 🗃️
Dear @shearites.bsky.social and pals, I a wonderful weekend. See y’all next year!
July 20, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Dear @shearites.bsky.social and pals, I a wonderful weekend. See y’all next year!
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“You look like you’d be going to Washington,” said my Amtrak seatmate—and older person who was quite pleasant.
“Why?” I asked.
“Your clothes…they all are sad colors,” she said before exiting the train in NYC.
“Why?” I asked.
“Your clothes…they all are sad colors,” she said before exiting the train in NYC.
July 19, 2025 at 8:59 PM
“You look like you’d be going to Washington,” said my Amtrak seatmate—and older person who was quite pleasant.
“Why?” I asked.
“Your clothes…they all are sad colors,” she said before exiting the train in NYC.
“Why?” I asked.
“Your clothes…they all are sad colors,” she said before exiting the train in NYC.
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“‘Buckley’ is very clearly the result of slow thinking and methodical research, which makes it precisely the sort of work that its subject could never produce.”
for Bills Week I decided to read the new 1000 page Buckley biography
William F. Buckley's Bill Never Came Due | Defector
Perhaps the highest praise I can offer a book that took 27 years to complete and runs over 1,000 pages is that I can see why, and that it doesn’t feel like it. Sam Tanenhaus’s extremely long and anxio...
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July 19, 2025 at 5:34 PM
“‘Buckley’ is very clearly the result of slow thinking and methodical research, which makes it precisely the sort of work that its subject could never produce.”
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Shelly C. Lowe, the first Native American to lead the National Endowment for the Humanities, has left her role at the direction of President Donald Trump.
Trump directs National Endowment for the Humanities chair to step aside
The departure comes as President Donald Trump seeks to dramatically reshape cultural institutions that the White House controls.
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March 13, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Shelly C. Lowe, the first Native American to lead the National Endowment for the Humanities, has left her role at the direction of President Donald Trump.
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I would even be happy with fewer Elon Musk.
March 13, 2025 at 1:30 AM
I would even be happy with fewer Elon Musk.
Jelani Cobb is good, actually. Shocked that some people need a reminder.
March 13, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Jelani Cobb is good, actually. Shocked that some people need a reminder.
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Walz: "The idea that the secretary of education would not know what IDEA is -- individuals with disability in education act -- that's like your mechanic not knowing how to put air in your tire. And she's in charge of this nation's education progress. It is catastrophic."
March 13, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Walz: "The idea that the secretary of education would not know what IDEA is -- individuals with disability in education act -- that's like your mechanic not knowing how to put air in your tire. And she's in charge of this nation's education progress. It is catastrophic."
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This week on Open Source: a civics lesson from Senator Angus King, during what King calls "the most direct assault on the Constitution in our history."
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Angus King’s Civics Lesson
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February 28, 2025 at 3:36 PM
This week on Open Source: a civics lesson from Senator Angus King, during what King calls "the most direct assault on the Constitution in our history."
radioopensource.org/angus-kings-...
radioopensource.org/angus-kings-...
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Reading intros to older academic books can make you real melancholy because there will be whole schools of thought at regional universities like SUNY Binghamton that would simply not be allowed to flourish under current economic conditions.
March 12, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Reading intros to older academic books can make you real melancholy because there will be whole schools of thought at regional universities like SUNY Binghamton that would simply not be allowed to flourish under current economic conditions.
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🚨🚨🚨 Legislators in Nebraska are about to hobble their public colleges and universities at a hearing TOMORROW, all because of fears over “woke ideology.” Read fresh analysis from @PENamerica about two bills that would profoundly damage Nebraska higher ed.🧵
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Nebraska lawmakers are considering damaging DEI and tenure bans
Legislators in Nebraska are hard at work undermining higher education in the state in the name of destroying “woke” ideologies.
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February 12, 2024 at 9:30 PM
🚨🚨🚨 Legislators in Nebraska are about to hobble their public colleges and universities at a hearing TOMORROW, all because of fears over “woke ideology.” Read fresh analysis from @PENamerica about two bills that would profoundly damage Nebraska higher ed.🧵
pen.org/nebraska-law...
pen.org/nebraska-law...