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When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
Seems like it's worth posting this one again.
Why Do Historians Still Have To Go To Archives?
Why do historians go to archives? Hasn’t everything already been digitized?
contingentmagazine.org
December 22, 2025 at 1:40 AM
When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
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ICE kidnapped high schoolers as the walked out of finals, they took parents a week before Christmas. Columbus is here to say, not without a fight. When you come for our neighbors, our kids, our sisters and brothers, when you come for our friends, you come for all of us. #ICEoutofCbus
December 20, 2025 at 2:25 PM
ICE kidnapped high schoolers as the walked out of finals, they took parents a week before Christmas. Columbus is here to say, not without a fight. When you come for our neighbors, our kids, our sisters and brothers, when you come for our friends, you come for all of us. #ICEoutofCbus
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ICE moved their group of 200 traveling gestapo into Columbus, Ohio, and for the last few days my community has been scrambling, connecting, activating and showing up in the most magnificent way. There are so many different emergency trainings, protests, etc. that I physically can’t go to them all.
December 20, 2025 at 2:25 PM
ICE moved their group of 200 traveling gestapo into Columbus, Ohio, and for the last few days my community has been scrambling, connecting, activating and showing up in the most magnificent way. There are so many different emergency trainings, protests, etc. that I physically can’t go to them all.
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ICE descends on my hometown of Columbus, Ohio, hitting K-12 schools and immigrant neighborhoods. Update: ICE reportedly arrested two Dublin Scioto high schools students today.
austinkocher.substack.com/p/ice-descen...
austinkocher.substack.com/p/ice-descen...
ICE Descends on Columbus, Ohio, Hits K-12 Schools and Immigrant Neighborhoods
I received a disturbing text message from my sister yesterday afternoon: “ICE has been at the girls’ old school today.”
austinkocher.substack.com
December 19, 2025 at 7:21 PM
ICE descends on my hometown of Columbus, Ohio, hitting K-12 schools and immigrant neighborhoods. Update: ICE reportedly arrested two Dublin Scioto high schools students today.
austinkocher.substack.com/p/ice-descen...
austinkocher.substack.com/p/ice-descen...
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ICE has made it to Columbus and I’m honestly quite heartened by the solidarity being exhibited by my neighbors.
December 19, 2025 at 2:26 PM
ICE has made it to Columbus and I’m honestly quite heartened by the solidarity being exhibited by my neighbors.
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ICE Targets School Zones in Columbus, Families Detained by Dissent in Bloom: They pulled parents and students out of their cars on the way out of the student pickup line. I don’t know what happened to some of my friends, but I know I might not see them ever again.” freepress.org/article/ice-...
ICE Targets School Zones in Columbus, Families Detained
On December 19th, school let out early in Columbus, and children did what children always do. Kids walked home and waited in pickup lines expecting to go home with family for winter break and all the coming festivities of the holidays.
freepress.org
December 21, 2025 at 3:00 AM
ICE Targets School Zones in Columbus, Families Detained by Dissent in Bloom: They pulled parents and students out of their cars on the way out of the student pickup line. I don’t know what happened to some of my friends, but I know I might not see them ever again.” freepress.org/article/ice-...
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The google AI summary of my most famous piece of writing--a thousand word blog post--misunderstands it on a fundamental level. In doing so, it reproduces the way critical yet lazy scholars misunderstood it, by reading the title and filling in what they thought was the most likely meaning.
Are you citing things you have not read?
Knowing that LLMs are text-generation machines, not text-analysis machines, that's more than a bit irresponsible and suspect.
Knowing that LLMs are text-generation machines, not text-analysis machines, that's more than a bit irresponsible and suspect.
December 21, 2025 at 4:17 AM
The google AI summary of my most famous piece of writing--a thousand word blog post--misunderstands it on a fundamental level. In doing so, it reproduces the way critical yet lazy scholars misunderstood it, by reading the title and filling in what they thought was the most likely meaning.
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I spent the morning at an ICE Detention Center and I don’t think I will ever be the same.
If you’d like to read it in full, I’ve put it in the comments below.
My Day at an ICE Detention Center: open.substack.com/pub/zachwlam...
If you’d like to read it in full, I’ve put it in the comments below.
My Day at an ICE Detention Center: open.substack.com/pub/zachwlam...
My Day at an ICE Detention Center
“Do not mistreat or oppress an immigrant." Exodus 22:21
open.substack.com
December 17, 2025 at 12:47 AM
I spent the morning at an ICE Detention Center and I don’t think I will ever be the same.
If you’d like to read it in full, I’ve put it in the comments below.
My Day at an ICE Detention Center: open.substack.com/pub/zachwlam...
If you’d like to read it in full, I’ve put it in the comments below.
My Day at an ICE Detention Center: open.substack.com/pub/zachwlam...
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Worth reading for lots of reasons, but particularly because it closes with something I see in my work and travels speaking on writing and AI. Many, maybe most students do not want AI-mediated schooling or lives. We can offer them something better. www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
www.currentaffairs.org
December 7, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Worth reading for lots of reasons, but particularly because it closes with something I see in my work and travels speaking on writing and AI. Many, maybe most students do not want AI-mediated schooling or lives. We can offer them something better. www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
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This really is a must read for anyone in academia.
December 7, 2025 at 5:12 PM
This really is a must read for anyone in academia.
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OPINION: For people wanting to experience God, we are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church. religionnews.com/2025/11/13/w...
Why clergy should risk assault to protest ICE
(RNS) — For people wanting to experience God, we are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church.
religionnews.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:00 AM
OPINION: For people wanting to experience God, we are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church. religionnews.com/2025/11/13/w...
Love this: "Hope is not blind optimism or uncritical belief in a political savior. Hope, to me, means the ability to imagine a better world is possible and then work to build it brick by brick. It is... not an emotion but a discipline–one we must practice every single day."
New — I wrote about Zohran's victory, the challenge of celebrating wins in a broken world, and reconciling the competing realities of profound hope and festering fear:
Mayor Mamdani redefines what it means to hope
His victory has created a harsh contrast between the world we want and the world we have.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 8, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Love this: "Hope is not blind optimism or uncritical belief in a political savior. Hope, to me, means the ability to imagine a better world is possible and then work to build it brick by brick. It is... not an emotion but a discipline–one we must practice every single day."
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Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry
November 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry
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Get in, nerds. The records of Truman's Commission on the Renovation of the Executive Mansion (1949-1952) have been digitized.
www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/fede...
www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/fede...
Records of Temporary Committees, Commissions and Boards: Records of the Commission on the Renovation of the Executive Mansion (Record Group 220) | Harry S. Truman
The records of the Commission on Renovation of the Executive Mansion include meeting minutes and correspondence about the renovation of the White House during the administration of President Harry S. ...
www.trumanlibrary.gov
October 23, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Get in, nerds. The records of Truman's Commission on the Renovation of the Executive Mansion (1949-1952) have been digitized.
www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/fede...
www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/fede...
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If you would like to support some of the families of people who have been abducted by ICE in my area during the recent federal attacks on our community that I've written about, local organizers have put together this trusted list of crowd funds.
Rogers Park Immigrant Families Need Your Support
Please give as you are able AND share this page! If you have friends and family asking how they can support Chicago in this difficult time, this is a way to directly support families. Go FundMe Link...
docs.google.com
October 23, 2025 at 4:13 PM
If you would like to support some of the families of people who have been abducted by ICE in my area during the recent federal attacks on our community that I've written about, local organizers have put together this trusted list of crowd funds.
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It’s hard to convey just how much Chicagoans are mobilizing against ICE. Don’t want to downplay the harm, or make it seem like a fair fight. But in neighborhoods across this city, ICE is getting chased by people blowing whistles and shouting. People are running TOWARD ICE to protect their neighbors.
October 22, 2025 at 12:12 PM
It’s hard to convey just how much Chicagoans are mobilizing against ICE. Don’t want to downplay the harm, or make it seem like a fair fight. But in neighborhoods across this city, ICE is getting chased by people blowing whistles and shouting. People are running TOWARD ICE to protect their neighbors.
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There were activists and organizers at our local march giving people tangible steps to do the next right thing.
Performative doesn’t inherently mean bad.
Performative doesn’t inherently mean bad.
Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.
October 19, 2025 at 2:00 AM
There were activists and organizers at our local march giving people tangible steps to do the next right thing.
Performative doesn’t inherently mean bad.
Performative doesn’t inherently mean bad.
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I’ve thought about this article every day for 14 days. It so perfectly encapsulates why showing up in all of our humanity beats machines every single time. “What A.I. can’t do is feel the shape of silence after someone says something so honest we forget we’re here to learn.”
Nope. That’s my job.
Nope. That’s my job.
October 22, 2025 at 12:39 AM
I’ve thought about this article every day for 14 days. It so perfectly encapsulates why showing up in all of our humanity beats machines every single time. “What A.I. can’t do is feel the shape of silence after someone says something so honest we forget we’re here to learn.”
Nope. That’s my job.
Nope. That’s my job.
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These two historians are verbalizing why changes to the White House bother me SO much. @hcrichardson.bsky.social @jbf1755.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9A-...
What the Heck Just Happened? Joanne and Heather Chat
YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson
www.youtube.com
August 7, 2025 at 11:34 PM
These two historians are verbalizing why changes to the White House bother me SO much. @hcrichardson.bsky.social @jbf1755.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9A-...
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learned recently that the guy who wrote "The Night Before Christmas," clement clarke moore, also wrote a takedown of thomas jefferson's proto-scientific racism in "Notes on the State of Virginia," basically accusing him and others of making it up to justify slavery. which, that's right.
October 21, 2025 at 1:45 AM
learned recently that the guy who wrote "The Night Before Christmas," clement clarke moore, also wrote a takedown of thomas jefferson's proto-scientific racism in "Notes on the State of Virginia," basically accusing him and others of making it up to justify slavery. which, that's right.
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just a reminder that there were people of the time — and of the same class and station — who saw this stuff and thought, "yeah this is bullshit"
October 21, 2025 at 1:47 AM
just a reminder that there were people of the time — and of the same class and station — who saw this stuff and thought, "yeah this is bullshit"
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In the Northeast, now is also a good time to reach out to your co-workers, family members and friends to organize Warm Kit packing parties. If you've followed me for a while, you know that I've been doing #Warm4Holidays for years: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
#Warm4Holidays2024
#Warm4Holidays Public Library Edition For a few years on Twitter, I used the #Warm4Holidays hashtag to organize crafters to join a New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day challenge. Crafters were invited t...
docs.google.com
October 19, 2025 at 9:35 PM
In the Northeast, now is also a good time to reach out to your co-workers, family members and friends to organize Warm Kit packing parties. If you've followed me for a while, you know that I've been doing #Warm4Holidays for years: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.
I did it because the government isn’t.
This is what I found.
I did it because the government isn’t.
This is what I found.
October 18, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.
I did it because the government isn’t.
This is what I found.
I did it because the government isn’t.
This is what I found.
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Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states.
Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”
Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”
October 18, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states.
Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”
Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”
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Today, millions of Americans sent a message to the Trump regime.
We are not scared.
We will keep fighting.
We will organize, we will mobilize, and we will resist—over and over again—until this corrupt wannabe authoritarian regime is removed from power.
Because in America, we have No Kings.
We are not scared.
We will keep fighting.
We will organize, we will mobilize, and we will resist—over and over again—until this corrupt wannabe authoritarian regime is removed from power.
Because in America, we have No Kings.
October 19, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Today, millions of Americans sent a message to the Trump regime.
We are not scared.
We will keep fighting.
We will organize, we will mobilize, and we will resist—over and over again—until this corrupt wannabe authoritarian regime is removed from power.
Because in America, we have No Kings.
We are not scared.
We will keep fighting.
We will organize, we will mobilize, and we will resist—over and over again—until this corrupt wannabe authoritarian regime is removed from power.
Because in America, we have No Kings.