Patrick A. Lewis
@plewishistory.bsky.social
President & CEO, Filson Historical Society, Louisville, Kentucky. US Civil War #skystorian. UPK & LSU Press author.
This week on my 📱, an archaeologist and presenter on BBC historic farm recreation shows delves into the lost world of making, doing, and knowing that our industrialized world has lost. There are the histories written down and the histories that only our working hands remember how to tell
April 27, 2025 at 7:57 AM
This week on my 📱, an archaeologist and presenter on BBC historic farm recreation shows delves into the lost world of making, doing, and knowing that our industrialized world has lost. There are the histories written down and the histories that only our working hands remember how to tell
This week in my 🎧, Succession meets Millennial rejection of the expectations of our promising childhoods in a world full of disasters, crumbling blue chip industries, and (in this case) a bit of magic. Could take or leave the latter, but the narrator is a gem
Witty and deceptive throughout.
Witty and deceptive throughout.
April 22, 2025 at 11:05 PM
This week in my 🎧, Succession meets Millennial rejection of the expectations of our promising childhoods in a world full of disasters, crumbling blue chip industries, and (in this case) a bit of magic. Could take or leave the latter, but the narrator is a gem
Witty and deceptive throughout.
Witty and deceptive throughout.
This week in my 📚, Hudson retired back home from a career at UGA and would occasionally pop in for lunch at KHS. Read this one with Sally in anticipation of bringing a future trip to Etowah alive. #skystorians
April 13, 2025 at 6:05 PM
This week in my 📚, Hudson retired back home from a career at UGA and would occasionally pop in for lunch at KHS. Read this one with Sally in anticipation of bringing a future trip to Etowah alive. #skystorians
This week in my 🎧, a relaxing detour into millennial craft culture, disconnecting from the world with a DIY cabin in the woods. #skystorians
April 11, 2025 at 10:05 PM
This week in my 🎧, a relaxing detour into millennial craft culture, disconnecting from the world with a DIY cabin in the woods. #skystorians
This week on my 📱, I was jealous when my wife got the advance copy of this from my favorite horror writer. This didn’t haunt me like The Only Good Indians, but it’s still a stunning reflection on American history wrapped in terror. #skystorians
April 10, 2025 at 11:55 PM
This week on my 📱, I was jealous when my wife got the advance copy of this from my favorite horror writer. This didn’t haunt me like The Only Good Indians, but it’s still a stunning reflection on American history wrapped in terror. #skystorians
This week in my 🎧, truly an epic. 48 hrs of listening time invested. Interesting comparison with Musashi, a Japanese-authored samurai novel of the mid-century, which I think I preferred as a cultural window. But this was good fun. #skystorians
April 9, 2025 at 9:57 AM
This week in my 🎧, truly an epic. 48 hrs of listening time invested. Interesting comparison with Musashi, a Japanese-authored samurai novel of the mid-century, which I think I preferred as a cultural window. But this was good fun. #skystorians
This week in my 📚, reading the advance copy of what has to be another Pulitzer winner. Interviewing him on stage with the @filsonhistorical.bsky.social in June. Make sure you’re there! #skystorians
March 30, 2025 at 11:51 AM
This week in my 📚, reading the advance copy of what has to be another Pulitzer winner. Interviewing him on stage with the @filsonhistorical.bsky.social in June. Make sure you’re there! #skystorians
This week in my 🎧, what an incredible book. The dystopian projection of our for-profit prison system and toxic media climate of the reality tv/social media age into the near future. This one will stay with me for a long time. Particularly well acted by the audio cast, too. #skystorians
March 15, 2025 at 1:59 PM
This week in my 🎧, what an incredible book. The dystopian projection of our for-profit prison system and toxic media climate of the reality tv/social media age into the near future. This one will stay with me for a long time. Particularly well acted by the audio cast, too. #skystorians
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You will be hard pressed to find a better NPS staff than the one at Camp Nelson in Kentucky. There is no better place to learn about the military service of Black Union soldiers. 🗃️ www.kentucky.com/news/state/k...
One-fourth of federal staff fired at Civil War site that housed Black Union soldiers in KY
“It is our No. 1 tourism asset in Jessamine County. It’s our most visited spot,” said a longtime Camp Nelson volunteer.
www.kentucky.com
March 12, 2025 at 9:15 PM
You will be hard pressed to find a better NPS staff than the one at Camp Nelson in Kentucky. There is no better place to learn about the military service of Black Union soldiers. 🗃️ www.kentucky.com/news/state/k...
This week in my 🎧, what an amazing book. US historians have a bad habit of following European history up to 1789, but 1848 shaped so much of American life in the late 19th c. Broad, exhaustive, and at times really witty. #skystorians
March 9, 2025 at 11:12 PM
This week in my 🎧, what an amazing book. US historians have a bad habit of following European history up to 1789, but 1848 shaped so much of American life in the late 19th c. Broad, exhaustive, and at times really witty. #skystorians
This week on my 📱, grieving for Alexander at the end of The Persian Boy, it took me a year to return to Renault’s trilogy. The intrigues of the διάδοχοι never hit the heights of the previous books, but neither did the successors. What were they without Alexander? At least Ptolemy got the last word.
March 6, 2025 at 11:30 AM
This week on my 📱, grieving for Alexander at the end of The Persian Boy, it took me a year to return to Renault’s trilogy. The intrigues of the διάδοχοι never hit the heights of the previous books, but neither did the successors. What were they without Alexander? At least Ptolemy got the last word.
This week in my 🎧, gender and class shape the words we use, and when language moves from the breath to the page, it is in peril of being constrained, excised, and obscured. A great story for this age of misinformation about a previous one. #skystorians
March 1, 2025 at 7:26 PM
This week in my 🎧, gender and class shape the words we use, and when language moves from the breath to the page, it is in peril of being constrained, excised, and obscured. A great story for this age of misinformation about a previous one. #skystorians
This week in my 📚, the exceptional photos and great short essays here help follow up an incredible visit with the author, where I got to handle and examine most of these pieces, ate good Western Kentucky bacon, played with old dogs, and dodged floods #skystorians
February 27, 2025 at 11:39 AM
This week in my 📚, the exceptional photos and great short essays here help follow up an incredible visit with the author, where I got to handle and examine most of these pieces, ate good Western Kentucky bacon, played with old dogs, and dodged floods #skystorians
This week in my 🎧, I don’t know, I just thought rereading a friend’s book about gender fluidity, freedom, and fulfillment in the Jazz age being crushed in the 30s, 40s, and 50s with devastating personal consequences seemed relevant, somehow #skystorians
February 25, 2025 at 11:50 AM
This week in my 🎧, I don’t know, I just thought rereading a friend’s book about gender fluidity, freedom, and fulfillment in the Jazz age being crushed in the 30s, 40s, and 50s with devastating personal consequences seemed relevant, somehow #skystorians
This week on my 📱, a classic @filsonhistorical.bsky.social publication that sets the mood for finishing up a long-term project of mine.
February 20, 2025 at 12:33 AM
This week on my 📱, a classic @filsonhistorical.bsky.social publication that sets the mood for finishing up a long-term project of mine.
Here it is, y’all. I grew up just off post, going to Ft. Campbell for school and athletic events and knowing military kids who jumped between my school and this one year to year. Now they can’t even learn that the 101st was deployed to Little Rock to support Central HS
“At an elementary school at Fort Campbell, home of the 101st Airborne Division, librarians are hard at work scrubbing the shelves….for books that contain references to slavery, the civil rights movement and anything else related to diversity, equity and inclusion.” clarksvillenow.com/local/books-...
Books mentioning slavery, civil rights removed from shelves at Fort Campbell schools - ClarksvilleNow.com
At an elementary school at Fort Campbell, home of the 101st Airborne Division, librarians are hard at work scrubbing the shelves for books that contain references to slavery, the civil rights movement...
clarksvillenow.com
February 19, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Here it is, y’all. I grew up just off post, going to Ft. Campbell for school and athletic events and knowing military kids who jumped between my school and this one year to year. Now they can’t even learn that the 101st was deployed to Little Rock to support Central HS
This week in my 🎧, driving back to Louisville through a flooded Eastern Kentucky with a short meditation on land and our connection to it. If you can get the edition with Barbara Kingsolver’s 2020 intro, do so. She adds immensely to the message and makes this book’s enduring value clear #skystorians
February 19, 2025 at 10:53 AM
This week in my 🎧, driving back to Louisville through a flooded Eastern Kentucky with a short meditation on land and our connection to it. If you can get the edition with Barbara Kingsolver’s 2020 intro, do so. She adds immensely to the message and makes this book’s enduring value clear #skystorians
This week in my 🎧, an approachable and informative account of an era that is fundamental to understanding American revolutionary political thought. All the hopes and fears of the founders looked back to this era as we do to them. Great read #skystorians
February 15, 2025 at 12:22 AM
This week in my 🎧, an approachable and informative account of an era that is fundamental to understanding American revolutionary political thought. All the hopes and fears of the founders looked back to this era as we do to them. Great read #skystorians
This week in my 📚, I didn’t expect the supernatural elements or to be as moved by this little book as I was. Comforting in the best ways. #skystorians
February 7, 2025 at 8:52 PM
This week in my 📚, I didn’t expect the supernatural elements or to be as moved by this little book as I was. Comforting in the best ways. #skystorians
This week in my 📚, “we’re just folks who live around here” stand against tyranny. Appalachian folktale rooted in the failure of the Great Society, but broadly applicable in many places and times, even now. #skystorians
February 5, 2025 at 11:28 AM
This week in my 📚, “we’re just folks who live around here” stand against tyranny. Appalachian folktale rooted in the failure of the Great Society, but broadly applicable in many places and times, even now. #skystorians
This week on my 📱, an interesting if maybe incomplete look into the hardscrabble world of the 1770s-80s NC mountains. Carving a living out of a hardwood valley, though curiously untouched by the backcountry civil war raging all around them. #skystorians
February 4, 2025 at 11:51 AM
This week on my 📱, an interesting if maybe incomplete look into the hardscrabble world of the 1770s-80s NC mountains. Carving a living out of a hardwood valley, though curiously untouched by the backcountry civil war raging all around them. #skystorians
This week in my 🎧, medieval Welsh tales with roots that go much deeper. Like hearing bootleg recordings of the band that inspired the Silmarillion. #skystorians
February 4, 2025 at 12:39 AM
This week in my 🎧, medieval Welsh tales with roots that go much deeper. Like hearing bootleg recordings of the band that inspired the Silmarillion. #skystorians
This week in my 🎧, the perfect read for this week of administrative harassment from the new team in DC. It can happen here. Also, Kentucky might as well be a supporting actor in this plot, and I feel like we need to talk about that. #skystorians
January 29, 2025 at 11:33 PM
This week in my 🎧, the perfect read for this week of administrative harassment from the new team in DC. It can happen here. Also, Kentucky might as well be a supporting actor in this plot, and I feel like we need to talk about that. #skystorians
This week in my 🎧, timed it so I could listen while driving thru Cahokia. My fav book of ‘24, listening this time. Noir mystery set in a 1920s where Tribal sovereignty was never extinguished. Good research, can see the fingerprints of Charles Hudson’s books in the world building. #skystorians
January 26, 2025 at 12:54 PM
This week in my 🎧, timed it so I could listen while driving thru Cahokia. My fav book of ‘24, listening this time. Noir mystery set in a 1920s where Tribal sovereignty was never extinguished. Good research, can see the fingerprints of Charles Hudson’s books in the world building. #skystorians
This week on my 📱, glad to have a good new history of the war in the South, but while it was helpful in resetting my mental narrative about the lowcountry and piedmont, the backcountry could have stood some more attention, especially after 1781. But that’s the Kentuckian in me speaking. #skystorians
January 22, 2025 at 11:18 AM
This week on my 📱, glad to have a good new history of the war in the South, but while it was helpful in resetting my mental narrative about the lowcountry and piedmont, the backcountry could have stood some more attention, especially after 1781. But that’s the Kentuckian in me speaking. #skystorians