Paul Harvey
@pharvey61.bsky.social
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I bet the Dodgers have gold-plated bathrooms.
November 2, 2025 at 3:23 AM
I bet the Dodgers have gold-plated bathrooms.
I know Otani had a decent game last night, but you should have seen my game last week in my seminar class; nothing like it in history. Threw a shutout (all questions asked were strikeouts, students whiffed on all responses), hit two homers (guest lecturer spoke, then let class out early).
October 18, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I know Otani had a decent game last night, but you should have seen my game last week in my seminar class; nothing like it in history. Threw a shutout (all questions asked were strikeouts, students whiffed on all responses), hit two homers (guest lecturer spoke, then let class out early).
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Congratulations and happy Pub Day to @ktgerbs.bsky.social "Archival Irruptions" tells a new history of Obeah, an Afro-Caribbean religion that was criminalized in 1760 after the largest slave revolt in the 18th century British Empire
www.dukeupress.edu/archival-irr...
www.dukeupress.edu/archival-irr...
Archival Irruptions: Constructing Religion and Criminalizing Obeah in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica
www.dukeupress.edu
October 15, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Congratulations and happy Pub Day to @ktgerbs.bsky.social "Archival Irruptions" tells a new history of Obeah, an Afro-Caribbean religion that was criminalized in 1760 after the largest slave revolt in the 18th century British Empire
www.dukeupress.edu/archival-irr...
www.dukeupress.edu/archival-irr...
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A reflection on history and freedom. "Histories can be revised; rights revoked."
time.com/7325167/supr...
Please read and share!
Thanks to Allie Lopez and Made By History for working with me on this.
time.com/7325167/supr...
Please read and share!
Thanks to Allie Lopez and Made By History for working with me on this.
The Perils of the Supreme Court Forgetting the Past
Louisiana is asking the Supreme Court to erase a critical chapter of the past and to weaken the Voting Rights Act.
time.com
October 15, 2025 at 3:01 PM
A reflection on history and freedom. "Histories can be revised; rights revoked."
time.com/7325167/supr...
Please read and share!
Thanks to Allie Lopez and Made By History for working with me on this.
time.com/7325167/supr...
Please read and share!
Thanks to Allie Lopez and Made By History for working with me on this.
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On October 21, 1850, the Chicago City Council passed a resolution condemning the new Fugitive Slave Law as “cruel and unjust” and directing the city's police “not to render any assistance for the arrest of fugitive slaves.”
www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/1430.h...
www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/1430.h...
Fugitive Slave Law of 1850
www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org
October 13, 2025 at 9:24 PM
On October 21, 1850, the Chicago City Council passed a resolution condemning the new Fugitive Slave Law as “cruel and unjust” and directing the city's police “not to render any assistance for the arrest of fugitive slaves.”
www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/1430.h...
www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/1430.h...
www.american-religion.org/back-pages/r... Old Man Yells at Cloud . . . err, Senior Scholar reflects on his first book.
Redeeming My Own Work — American Religion
Paul Harvey on Redeeming the South (1997)
www.american-religion.org
October 14, 2025 at 4:45 AM
www.american-religion.org/back-pages/r... Old Man Yells at Cloud . . . err, Senior Scholar reflects on his first book.
All Faculty/Staff email today:
"Are you tasked with planning how your organization/department will get back to doing business as normal after an emergency?"
Why yes! But we're not in the "after" part yet, we're still in Year One of the ongoing emergency. Can I get back to you in 3 years pls?
"Are you tasked with planning how your organization/department will get back to doing business as normal after an emergency?"
Why yes! But we're not in the "after" part yet, we're still in Year One of the ongoing emergency. Can I get back to you in 3 years pls?
September 22, 2025 at 8:35 PM
All Faculty/Staff email today:
"Are you tasked with planning how your organization/department will get back to doing business as normal after an emergency?"
Why yes! But we're not in the "after" part yet, we're still in Year One of the ongoing emergency. Can I get back to you in 3 years pls?
"Are you tasked with planning how your organization/department will get back to doing business as normal after an emergency?"
Why yes! But we're not in the "after" part yet, we're still in Year One of the ongoing emergency. Can I get back to you in 3 years pls?
Stolen from facebook: image conveying my contribution and level of engagement this year so far in Chairs and Directors meetings.
September 22, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Stolen from facebook: image conveying my contribution and level of engagement this year so far in Chairs and Directors meetings.
The NFL game in Sao Paolo hasn't even started yet but I'm calling it: just move the entire league to Brazil, this is so much better than our boring-ass broadcasts. Saxophone-bass jazz-tinged Star-Spangled Banner almost managed to revive that dead corpse of a tune. Sidebar commentators hilarious.
September 6, 2025 at 12:15 AM
The NFL game in Sao Paolo hasn't even started yet but I'm calling it: just move the entire league to Brazil, this is so much better than our boring-ass broadcasts. Saxophone-bass jazz-tinged Star-Spangled Banner almost managed to revive that dead corpse of a tune. Sidebar commentators hilarious.
So actually RFK Jr destroying the public health system in America was in fact on my bingo card for 2025 #shockedshocked
August 29, 2025 at 5:25 AM
So actually RFK Jr destroying the public health system in America was in fact on my bingo card for 2025 #shockedshocked
That "the professors are the enemy" guy opines on history.
JD Vance: "This is how wars ultimately get settled. If you go back to World War 2, if you go back to every major conflict in human history, they all end with some kind of negotiation."
August 25, 2025 at 2:08 AM
That "the professors are the enemy" guy opines on history.
Hilarious entry in daily spam messages digest:
mail@hillsdalemail.com
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Your opinion on the courts needed
Oh yeah, Mr. Hillsdale President, I have opinions.
mail@hillsdalemail.com
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Your opinion on the courts needed
Oh yeah, Mr. Hillsdale President, I have opinions.
August 23, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Hilarious entry in daily spam messages digest:
mail@hillsdalemail.com
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Your opinion on the courts needed
Oh yeah, Mr. Hillsdale President, I have opinions.
mail@hillsdalemail.com
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Your opinion on the courts needed
Oh yeah, Mr. Hillsdale President, I have opinions.
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Is Stephen Douglas behind this?
Breaking News: Union Pacific agreed to buy Norfolk Southern in an $85 billion deal, a merger that would create the first coast-to-coast U.S. rail network.
Union Pacific to Buy Norfolk Southern in $85 Billion Railroad Deal
The merger would create the United States’ first coast-to-coast rail network, spanning 50,000 miles and 43 states.
nyti.ms
July 29, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Is Stephen Douglas behind this?
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Barbara Fields and I wrote this five years ago to the day. You can decide whether we were right and if it still holds up. I think so, of course.
www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
The Death of Hannah Fizer - Dissent Magazine
Black people suffer disproportionately from police violence. But white skin does not provide immunity.
www.dissentmagazine.org
July 24, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Barbara Fields and I wrote this five years ago to the day. You can decide whether we were right and if it still holds up. I think so, of course.
www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
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This must be what getting trapped in quicksand feels like.
“…faculty members will be able to click an icon that connects them with various AI features…, like a grading tool, a discussion-post summarizer… Canvas’s parent company, Instructure, is also in partnership w/ OpenAI… so instructors can use generative-AI technology as part of their assignments.”
Instructors Will Now See AI Throughout a Widely Used Course Software
New features integrated into Canvas include a grading assistant, a discussion-post summarizer, and even a way to pair assignments with generative AI tools.
www.chronicle.com
July 24, 2025 at 2:49 AM
This must be what getting trapped in quicksand feels like.
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Most UVa thing ever. Forty years ago, made me want to be a historian even more. Wahoowa, Hoorahray!
“And I'll be frank that anybody who says that Jim Ryan's resignation is depoliticizing the University, that's not true. It's being more politicized than ever before by the people who pushed him out,” Taylor said.
www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...
www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...
Was Ryan ‘anti-Jeffersonian?’ Historians weigh in after his resignation
While the Jefferson Council argues that Ryan violated the University's founding mission, historians suggest that even Jefferson’s own views were far from consistent.
www.cavalierdaily.com
July 22, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Most UVa thing ever. Forty years ago, made me want to be a historian even more. Wahoowa, Hoorahray!
Today's comedic relief: Ben Sasse in the Wall Street Journal weighs in on the meaning of Stephen Colbert's cancellation and what that means for late night TV and The Future of What Holds Our Civilization Together. For those who awoke this morning wondering what his take on this was.
July 21, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Today's comedic relief: Ben Sasse in the Wall Street Journal weighs in on the meaning of Stephen Colbert's cancellation and what that means for late night TV and The Future of What Holds Our Civilization Together. For those who awoke this morning wondering what his take on this was.
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Terrific thread, with wonderful specific detail, about why historiography matters.
I write serious history—via biography—for a non-academic audience. So I'd like to say something about Ken Burns's remark, something that also explains why AI can't write history.
Pardon me for citing the example of one of my books, "Custer's Trials," on one of history's best-known figures.
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Pardon me for citing the example of one of my books, "Custer's Trials," on one of history's best-known figures.
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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. 🗃️
July 19, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Terrific thread, with wonderful specific detail, about why historiography matters.
Photo from a Project 2025 forum that a colleague and I did last night at a downtown church (one of 4 this month, this happened to be our week on stage). Colleague talked theology, I talked history. Just two academic nerds talking, yet, by the end people were getting rowdy (in a good way)
July 17, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Photo from a Project 2025 forum that a colleague and I did last night at a downtown church (one of 4 this month, this happened to be our week on stage). Colleague talked theology, I talked history. Just two academic nerds talking, yet, by the end people were getting rowdy (in a good way)
Related to my last post, Russell Vought's other role in the admin: member of the "Presidential Prayer Team." Click on "prayer updates," next to last one basically calls for prayers to overturn birthright citizenship to "ensure national security." www.presidentialprayerteam.org
The Presidential Prayer Team – Praying for our President and National Leaders since 2001
Secretary Rubio expresses disappointment at the lack of progress after meeting with the Russian foreign minister. President Donald Trump addressed Russia stalling peace talks on Monday during a…
www.presidentialprayerteam.org
July 15, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Related to my last post, Russell Vought's other role in the admin: member of the "Presidential Prayer Team." Click on "prayer updates," next to last one basically calls for prayers to overturn birthright citizenship to "ensure national security." www.presidentialprayerteam.org
Gosh darn it, Russell Vought just flat-out lied in his effort to secure votes to eliminate PEPFAR, goodness me just shocked shocked the Wheaton grad and deeply religious man would stoop to such measures! WWJD? www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/h...
Trump Official Accused PEPFAR of Funding Abortions in Russia. It Wasn’t True.
www.nytimes.com
July 15, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Gosh darn it, Russell Vought just flat-out lied in his effort to secure votes to eliminate PEPFAR, goodness me just shocked shocked the Wheaton grad and deeply religious man would stoop to such measures! WWJD? www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/h...
Good news: get to give a talk on History and Project 2025 at a local church Wednesday; first in this series last week was packed, with 100 people turned away for lack of space
Bad news: guy last week said exactly what I had lined up to say (and killed it!), so gotta think of something else now. Hmm
Bad news: guy last week said exactly what I had lined up to say (and killed it!), so gotta think of something else now. Hmm
July 11, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Good news: get to give a talk on History and Project 2025 at a local church Wednesday; first in this series last week was packed, with 100 people turned away for lack of space
Bad news: guy last week said exactly what I had lined up to say (and killed it!), so gotta think of something else now. Hmm
Bad news: guy last week said exactly what I had lined up to say (and killed it!), so gotta think of something else now. Hmm
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In the last year, the Times has given Rufo the opportunity to opine 29 times on higher ed, transgender health care, national intelligence, student mental health, plagiarism, twitter's political dynamics, George Floyd, school vouchers, DEI, Donald Trump Jr, JD Vance, Project 2025, and Bari Weiss.
June 5, 2025 at 12:14 PM
In the last year, the Times has given Rufo the opportunity to opine 29 times on higher ed, transgender health care, national intelligence, student mental health, plagiarism, twitter's political dynamics, George Floyd, school vouchers, DEI, Donald Trump Jr, JD Vance, Project 2025, and Bari Weiss.
Took a break from reading an inspiring book about Frances Perkins, to read Jason Zengerle's new piece about Stephen Miller, and can't stop thinking about the role of savvy infighters and presidential "readers," for good and for evil, in effecting social change. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/o...
Opinion | The Ruthless Ambition of Stephen Miller
www.nytimes.com
July 7, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Took a break from reading an inspiring book about Frances Perkins, to read Jason Zengerle's new piece about Stephen Miller, and can't stop thinking about the role of savvy infighters and presidential "readers," for good and for evil, in effecting social change. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/o...
Seeking relief from this awful political week, stumbled on this story by Otessa Mossefgh (a writer totally new to me for some reason) and cannot stop thinking about it. Chilling/astonishing/hilarious/gutting all at once. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
“The Comedian,” by Ottessa Moshfegh
He was nothing and nobody, and nobody cared, and he thought that everyone was watching him, that even I was watching him.
www.newyorker.com
July 5, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Seeking relief from this awful political week, stumbled on this story by Otessa Mossefgh (a writer totally new to me for some reason) and cannot stop thinking about it. Chilling/astonishing/hilarious/gutting all at once. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...