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Christopher Jones
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I wrote 1236 more words today. Probably 3-4,000 to go and this chapter (and the book ms) will be finished!
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Historian of religion + race in North America + the Atlantic World. Editor, Journal of Mormon History.
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Christopher Jones
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I wrote 1236 more words today. Probably 3-4,000 to go and this chapter (and the book ms) will be finished!
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Paris Marx
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Google’s emissions are up 48% in 5 years. Microsoft’s are up 30% since 2020. Those soaring figures are being driven by mass investments in data centers to power AI tools. Generative AI is a climate disaster and data center expansion must be stopped.
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Seth Cotlar
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The question of what "the founding generation" thought about executive power is immensely complicated. What Thomas is doing here is not "originalism" in any meaningful sense, it's just history a la carte. It's "living constitutionalism" as done by pro-Trump judges.
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Seth Cotlar
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Paine helped draft the Pennsylvania Constitution of 1776. That constitution created a 13 PERSON EXECUTIVE because the people who wrote it were anxious to constrain the power of that branch. It's the exact opposite of Thomas's "unified executive" theory. avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century...
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Christopher Jones
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Chapter one finished! Now to finish the final chapter and send this thing off! #amwriting
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Adam Rothman
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"Today’s Supreme Court has just recreated one of the most despicable cases in English history, a case that signified the apex of absolutism in British history and was repudiated by a revolution for the damage it caused."
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Christopher Jones
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Was as clear as could be. Unbelievable.
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Christopher Jones
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Is John Roberts refereeing this match? #copaamerica
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Christopher Jones
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One of my former students made the Olympics.
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Christopher Jones
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Originalism is — and always has been — garbage.
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Christopher Jones
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1214 on a Friday morning finishes the body of this chapter. Just need to write the conclusion next week and then onto finishing chapter 6!
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Christopher Jones
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1119 more words today. The chapter ends chronologically in 1776, so my goal is now to finish it by July 4 (next Thursday). #amwriting
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Christopher Jones
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1302 words today. The end of chapter 1 is within reach. #amwriting
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Christopher Jones
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I’m just a guy who reads a lot of academic history books *begging* publishers who insist on endnotes to *at the very least* put “Notes to pages XY-XZ” at the top of each page of those notes. Please. 🙏🏼 📚
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Christopher Jones
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12yo just called me, excitedly reporting that she and her best friend discovered they are 5th cousins. She knew I’d be excited.
#historianskids #genealogistskids
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Christopher Jones
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Any chance you can share a copy of your essay? I don’t have access.
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Christopher Jones
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There is absolutely no doubt whatsoever that George Washington owned enslaved women and men. This is well documented and easily provable.
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pee wee herman-palladino
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I think a big part of Trump's appeal to conservatives is the promise that you can completely disconnect from observed reality and just say and do whatever you want. He gives them total license to live in the Fox News paranoia dream world
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Mark Healey
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"the programs fail because they’re designed with potential employers rather than employees in mind." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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rom comrade
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it is possible to do the right thing! woohoo!!
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Tofte
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Update: ChatGPT's position has been eliminated and resources have been reallocated to create a new Associate Dean line
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Alexandra Gallant-Lee
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The idea of “PhD level intelligence” is very funny to me, personally, because I have worked with scientists for 20 years. I know someone who has helped find treatments for diseases we didn’t even think were possible and also struggled to understand how the hot tap of a water cooler worked.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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always important to remember that this country pioneered the idea of the “confidence man”
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Christopher Jones
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Thursday night reading.
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Christopher Jones
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I am nearing completion of the book ms. Sections of two chapters left to write. Posting here to hold myself accountable. I hit 700 words today, and that feels like a good start.
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Jason Herbert, Ph.D.
@herberthistory.bsky.social
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Happy Juneteenth! Here's some cool reading options from @uncpress.bsky.social and if you want 30% off just use the code 01HATM30 when you're checking out.
uncpressblog.com/2024/06/19/j...
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Colleen Theisen
@librarycolleen.bsky.social
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Barbados. #libraries #fire
barbadostoday.bb/2024/06/18/h...
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Christopher Jones
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Starting #MHA2024 with a little #histgym. If you’re in Cleveland/Kirtland this weekend, come say hi at the @jmormonhist.bsky.social booth (especially if you have an article in mind!).
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Christopher Jones
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I simply cannot figure out what half of it is or why they chose to do it that way.
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Christopher Jones
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I’ve been editing an academic journal for a year and a half now, and the number 1 thing I’ve learned is that people really do some strange, strange formatting when writing, revising, and editing their work.
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Christopher Jones
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Can only speak to our school district, but yes. My kid requires her phone to manage her T1D.
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Kevin Gannon
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cut personnel, reduce course offerings ----> "enrollments are way down; no one takes history courses any more" ----> cut more personnel, cut more course offerings, eliminate history major -----> "sorry, but students just aren't majoring in history any more" -----> cut more personnel, cut more cou
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Stephen Wolf
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Texas’ GOP calls for an amendment to ensure Republicans always win statewide elections by requiring candidates to win a majority of counties. Texas has 254 counties. Half its population lives in just 7 of them. Trump won 232 of counties, but the 22 counties Biden won contain 58% of Texas residents
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ArtButMakeItSports
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Ecce Homo, by Jan Mostaert, 16th century
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Christopher Jones
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Favorite comment ever.
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Jason Herbert, Ph.D.
@herberthistory.bsky.social
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When @ccjones.bsky.social gets to be Reviewer #2
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Christopher Jones
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We do, yes. Part of the reason we’re all getting trained is to enable any full time FH faculty member to teach it, if needed (and to better incorporate it into our other core classes).
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Christopher Jones
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“History is so much cooler than what the internet told me. Why don’t we learn about this?!” Why indeed, my child. Why, indeed.
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Christopher Jones
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6th grader is working on her end-of-year group report on the American Revolution. “Dad, all we find in books is stuff about the ‘Founding Fathers.’ What was everyone else doing?” She’s now framing the report around Abigail Adams, Deborah Sampson, Harry Washington, and Thayendanegea (Joseph Brant).
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Christopher Jones
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Day 1 of a DNA genealogy class for several colleagues + me. We spent time figuring out how we’re each related + who our shared (distant) relatives are. One colleague + I share a Mayflower ancestor w/ Taylor Swift, FDR, Ulysses Grant, LL Bean, Elvis Presley, Jeffrey Dahmer, + John Wayne Gacy.
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Christopher Jones
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There are few things I’m more proud of helping with during my term so far as editor of @jmormonhist.bsky.social than this t-shirt, commemorating one of the journal’s most downloaded articles.
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Benjamin Park
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You know what's cool? Supporting history organizations. You know what's also cool? Bigfoot. You know how you can blend both worlds? Order this super cool Journal of Mormon History/Bigfoot t-shirt that Mormon History Association is selling as part of a fundraiser. igiv.org/support/mha2...
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Christopher Jones
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Just finished @davidaustinwalsh.bsky.social’s Taking America Back, a provocative + convincing take on the far right’s historical relationship with, and place within, the broader conservative movement. Highly recommended.
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Christopher Jones
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Has anyone written about Hatch’s Democratization of American Christianity as a product of the very late Cold War period in which it was written/published?
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American Historical Association
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The AHA has issued a statement “deplor[ing] recent decisions among college and university administrators to draw on local and state police forces to evict peaceful demonstrators.” 🗃️
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J. D.
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It's incredibly disheartening that every personal conservation measure I've taken in my entire lifetime can be neutralized by a single Fortune 500 company middle manager trying to replace some $35k/year admin assistants with a computer that parrots copy-writing to wow the lamest of MBA grads.
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Christopher Jones
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Yesterday it was 75° and sunny here. I went to a track meet + got sunburned. Today? This.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb
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Pulitzer Prize Board acknowledges the "extraordinary real-time reporting" of student journalists covering campus protests.
www.pulitzer.org/news/stateme...
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Christopher Jones
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People of a certain generation: “Kids these days are so soft, with their safe spaces and avoidance of conflict.” The same people: “Send in hundreds of militarized police officers to show those kids who’s boss.”
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