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Scott Reynolds Nelson@nelsonhist.bsky.social |
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Dad, historian, tireless layabout. wrote: Steel Drivin' Man, Nation of Deadbeats, Iron Confederacies, & OCEANS OF GRAIN @basicbooks he/him
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Stephen West
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btw, you could build a pretty awesome reading list in history and other non-fiction just by following the links that Bouie inserts in his columns. Hahn is 1 of 4 scholars he namechecks/quotes/links today - I can't think of another columnist who does so this regularly. 🗃️
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Matt Jordan
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Some thoughts on the impact of oligarch oligopoly on local TV news using the case of Sinclair Broadcasting. 📰 🗃️
newsliteracy.psu.edu/news/the-new...
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Scott Reynolds Nelson
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OMG. When a 30-something Chinese journalist understands your book's arguments better than you do yourself. This was a fantastic interview.
m.guancha.cn/ScottReynold...
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Scott Reynolds Nelson
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Toulouse in late May with Cindy
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Maggie Harrison Dupré
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I kept digging into that AI company behind Sports Illustrated's fake writers. Turns out it's created tons more fake writers across the web, sometimes for surprisingly huge media clients. And then things get even wilder...
For @futurism.bsky.social // futurism.com/advon-ai-con...
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Scott Reynolds Nelson
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In NYC last night I, my partner Cindy Hahamovitch, & this naked man were inducted into the Society of American Historians "in recognition of the literary merit in their writing or presentation of American history." Actually the naked man didn't get in
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Scott Reynolds Nelson
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Just an addendum - this was actually 1987. My wife graduated in 1983; some historian I am!
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Scott Reynolds Nelson
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Wow. In 1983 I smuggled a UNC divest now banner (in ANC colors) under my blue graduation robe & 4 of us unfurled it as we marched across the field for graduation. We got boos & cheers both. My dad stormed out; nobody arrested me
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Edith Charles 🏳️⚧️
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I hope one day all of Florida can get as much healthcare as this fish
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Matt Seybold
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In the Spring of 1864 Twain, while working as a beat reporter for the SF Morning Call, Twain witnessed the murder of a Chinese laborer by a mob that included cops. It radicalized him. He wrote it up, one of the first things he ever authored which he thought deserved to be called “literature”… 2/
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Jen Sorensen
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I've been drawing strips for years about attacks on students' right to protest, yet strangely I've never been invited to give a TED Talk, speak at an "ideas festival," or pen a column for the Atlantic. This is from 2016.
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Scott Reynolds Nelson
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and by "its obsession" I mean Putin's obsession. Sorry
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Scott Reynolds Nelson
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hb is expensive but ebook is on sale for $10! play.google.com/books/reader...
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Scott Reynolds Nelson
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Highly recommended: the best single book for understanding Russia's post 1991 recovery; it's ability to withstand sanctions; and its obsession with dominating Ukraine @efinkel.bsky.social global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Katherine (Kate) Rye Jewell
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Thanks, Scott! I’m waiting for the term “flying squadrons of discord” to be deployed against the UAW like it was against the UTW…
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Scott Reynolds Nelson
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A great piece on our Deep South governors (+TN) & the future they imagine when they say New South vs. a real New South. w/ a shoutout to @katejewell.bsky.social !
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Sumita Pahwa
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America's finest news source is on it again.
www.theonion.com/harvard-stre...
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Neil Gaiman
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The first five minutes of Dead Boy Detectives can be watched at www.netflix.com/tudum/videos...
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Scott Reynolds Nelson
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It's pretty funny to hear Stephen Pinker talk about what's wrong with Harvard when Stephen Pinker is pretty much what's wrong with Harvard
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Scott Reynolds Nelson
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A fantastic critique of the New History of Capitalism that makes us confront the postbellum problems that those historians have tended to ignore
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Scott Reynolds Nelson
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Happy to announce that my first UGA PhD, Matt O'Neal, is now on the tenure track in history & southern studies @ U of Mississippi. He's an amazing scholar finishing a book on racial violence in 1919 Appalachia. He also knows how to wear a doctoral gown and which shoes to wear to a graduation
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Scott Reynolds Nelson
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Congrats!
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kim
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i’m not falling for that again
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Kevin Gannon
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Hey, remember MOOCs? Remember "the year of the MOOC?" Remember how UVA's board tried to fire the president because she wasn't sufficiently hyped about MOOCs? Remember how Sebastian Thrun (Udacity) said there would eventually be only 10 higher-ed outlets bc of MOOCs? Just thought I'd ask.
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Scott Reynolds Nelson
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Psyched: I'll be here Aug 2024-May 2025 at Harvard University working on an environmental justice project on the Deep South's Black bottoms. Because the bottoms were formed 66 million years ago (in the K-T extinction event that killed the dinosaurs) I'm actually embarrassingly late to this project
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Scott Reynolds Nelson
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OMG, what a writer she is! "People clinked glasses of free champagne in outfits worth more than the market price of all the organs in my body."
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Kathleen E. Kennedy
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No thinkpiece can adequately diagnose any complex problem, but Kotsko's is interesting in a variety of respects: a) isn't blaming students b) situates the beginning of the changes pre-pandemic and considers common core alongside the usual culprits I'd add C) exponential increased demands on faculty
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Scott Reynolds Nelson
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Great piece. One correction: on p6 thrown-->throne. More generally, wasn't there also an appreciation for the Dutch citizen-militias that (as they saw it) heroically opposed the Holy Roman Empire? I show my students "The Night Watch" as a way to think about the 2nd amendment
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ApocalypticaNow
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"Some prisoners work on the same plantation soil where slaves harvested cotton, tobacco and sugarcane more than 150 years ago, with some present-day images looking eerily similar to the past." The US economy has never functioned without the stolen value produced by slave labor
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Scott Reynolds Nelson
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Yesterday 25 historians of Reconstruction (including me) sent an Amicus Brief to the US Supreme Ct making it clear that the 14th amendment's authors had the presidency in mind when disqualifying insurrectionists from holding future office - they spoke directly about Jefferson Davis
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Scott Reynolds Nelson
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Put another way, "Why is Kuhn's cribbing of Ludwick Fleck's _Genesis & Development of a Scientific Fact_ (1935) so important?"