Richard A Bailey
@richardabailey.bsky.social
Historian. Professor. Author, “Race and Redemption in Puritan New England” (OUP, 2011). northern AL in western NY. Fly fisher. Personal account. Thus, opinions = mine.
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What an amazing conversation between @silashouse and @crystalwilki about the writing of creative nonfiction. Once again, I’m reminded how much these folks rock. Y’all find it wherever you go for podcasts and listen.
August 21, 2025 at 3:28 PM
What an amazing conversation between @silashouse and @crystalwilki about the writing of creative nonfiction. Once again, I’m reminded how much these folks rock. Y’all find it wherever you go for podcasts and listen.
Progressively getting situated in a new space. This gift from some students seemed appropriate to bring over on Wendell’s ninety-first birthday.
August 5, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Progressively getting situated in a new space. This gift from some students seemed appropriate to bring over on Wendell’s ninety-first birthday.
Though a few years removed, I’ve been haunted (in a good way) by memories of Easy Bistro’s “Ode to Peanuts.” Today, Broadbent hams helped me relive that experience.
July 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Though a few years removed, I’ve been haunted (in a good way) by memories of Easy Bistro’s “Ode to Peanuts.” Today, Broadbent hams helped me relive that experience.
Here we are: bringing up the rear #SHEAR2025
July 20, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Here we are: bringing up the rear #SHEAR2025
A good morning to return (once again) to •The Long-Legged House•
June 22, 2025 at 2:25 PM
A good morning to return (once again) to •The Long-Legged House•
Good friends make for good days
May 18, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Good friends make for good days
Pre-archives time spent writing on a manuscript purportedly arguing about race & early American evangelicalism while uncertain how these pages made it thru a survey course let alone to the desk of a major university press.
Friends, given what I had to write, I did not do what the cup encouraged.
Friends, given what I had to write, I did not do what the cup encouraged.
May 7, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Pre-archives time spent writing on a manuscript purportedly arguing about race & early American evangelicalism while uncertain how these pages made it thru a survey course let alone to the desk of a major university press.
Friends, given what I had to write, I did not do what the cup encouraged.
Friends, given what I had to write, I did not do what the cup encouraged.
One way to spend a rainy day in March
March 17, 2025 at 4:33 PM
One way to spend a rainy day in March
Thomas Merton’s extended discussion of propaganda in his 1966 •Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander• (of which this paragraph is a part) is so very good and, well, prescient.
March 4, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Thomas Merton’s extended discussion of propaganda in his 1966 •Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander• (of which this paragraph is a part) is so very good and, well, prescient.
Ladies and gentlemen, your Department of Education—where sadly too many folks would not be able to distinguish between learning and divisive ideologies or indoctrination if lives depended on it. And, well, they do.
February 28, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Ladies and gentlemen, your Department of Education—where sadly too many folks would not be able to distinguish between learning and divisive ideologies or indoctrination if lives depended on it. And, well, they do.
As I reflect today that Dad passed away a year ago this afternoon, here’s hoping that Stephen Wilson Jr. is correct and that I’ll be able to say “Everything I am’s everything he was.”
Check out the link shorturl.at/R2QbV and scroll down to see today’s thoughts and video.
Check out the link shorturl.at/R2QbV and scroll down to see today’s thoughts and video.
February 6, 2025 at 4:00 PM
As I reflect today that Dad passed away a year ago this afternoon, here’s hoping that Stephen Wilson Jr. is correct and that I’ll be able to say “Everything I am’s everything he was.”
Check out the link shorturl.at/R2QbV and scroll down to see today’s thoughts and video.
Check out the link shorturl.at/R2QbV and scroll down to see today’s thoughts and video.
Click here: shorturl.at/R2QbV and scroll down as modeled in this video to see today’s addition to my reflections on some of the ways that Leigh Bingham Nash and Stephen Wilson Jr. have helped make life (and grief) richer.
February 5, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Click here: shorturl.at/R2QbV and scroll down as modeled in this video to see today’s addition to my reflections on some of the ways that Leigh Bingham Nash and Stephen Wilson Jr. have helped make life (and grief) richer.
Such a good time spent with a great group of people at the Berry Center last night, hearing from Jason Peters about some of the ways he’s labored to help students engage the values of work and place. And the virtue of carrying a pocketknife.
January 24, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Such a good time spent with a great group of people at the Berry Center last night, hearing from Jason Peters about some of the ways he’s labored to help students engage the values of work and place. And the virtue of carrying a pocketknife.
Nearly situated for several months of good and variously productive (in all that word’s meanings) work #sabbaticalliving
January 9, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Nearly situated for several months of good and variously productive (in all that word’s meanings) work #sabbaticalliving
Even a really hurried perusal of the fabulous digital map collection of the @johncarterbrownlibrary reveals more than a few sixteenth-century maps—even with sea monsters—referring to the Gulf of Mexico (variants of Golfo de Mexico and Mexicanus Sinus).
But, sure, let’s simply make a change. 🤦♂️
But, sure, let’s simply make a change. 🤦♂️
January 7, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Even a really hurried perusal of the fabulous digital map collection of the @johncarterbrownlibrary reveals more than a few sixteenth-century maps—even with sea monsters—referring to the Gulf of Mexico (variants of Golfo de Mexico and Mexicanus Sinus).
But, sure, let’s simply make a change. 🤦♂️
But, sure, let’s simply make a change. 🤦♂️
It’s funny that after nearly forty years, this option right here is still the best way to engage unwelcome news. To be fair, though, it’s also the best way to engage welcome news.
December 30, 2024 at 10:43 PM
It’s funny that after nearly forty years, this option right here is still the best way to engage unwelcome news. To be fair, though, it’s also the best way to engage welcome news.
Relishing the slow start that a snow day during finals week offers.
December 12, 2024 at 1:38 PM
Relishing the slow start that a snow day during finals week offers.
I know. Those essays aren’t gonna comment on themselves before the end of the week, but, I mean, come on.
December 3, 2024 at 9:03 PM
I know. Those essays aren’t gonna comment on themselves before the end of the week, but, I mean, come on.
Guy comes home. One of the things he wants is chicken-fried steak sandwich. So, Turkey and Wolf, Dukes, Wickles Pickles, Moriarty Meats, Red Hog Butcher, and Treehouse Brewing help make it happen. Mercy.
November 26, 2024 at 11:09 PM
Guy comes home. One of the things he wants is chicken-fried steak sandwich. So, Turkey and Wolf, Dukes, Wickles Pickles, Moriarty Meats, Red Hog Butcher, and Treehouse Brewing help make it happen. Mercy.
Thankful this morning (and regularly) for the hopeful prospect of a more perfect Union. And for the opportunity to share that prospect with a group of students (most of whom were around four or five years old in 2008 when the then senator from Illinois shared these words).
November 26, 2024 at 1:49 PM
Thankful this morning (and regularly) for the hopeful prospect of a more perfect Union. And for the opportunity to share that prospect with a group of students (most of whom were around four or five years old in 2008 when the then senator from Illinois shared these words).
“The object of art is to give life a shape.” —William Shakespeare
November 24, 2024 at 10:15 PM
“The object of art is to give life a shape.” —William Shakespeare
When it gets to be braising season, it’s good to know artisans like Marsh Hen Mill (with the blue grits) and Moriarty Meats (with the pork collars) have your back.
November 23, 2024 at 10:47 PM
When it gets to be braising season, it’s good to know artisans like Marsh Hen Mill (with the blue grits) and Moriarty Meats (with the pork collars) have your back.
Many thanks to @jcblibrary.bsky.social, @kawulf.bsky.social, and @sethrockman.bsky.social (and likely countless others, including Sven Beckert and Keisha Blain) for making today’s launch of his new book possible for those near and (like me) far
November 22, 2024 at 8:50 PM
Many thanks to @jcblibrary.bsky.social, @kawulf.bsky.social, and @sethrockman.bsky.social (and likely countless others, including Sven Beckert and Keisha Blain) for making today’s launch of his new book possible for those near and (like me) far