Historians in the US need a strong disciplinary organization to advocate on their behalf, but a disciplinary organization that sees its members as a threat cannot be a strong one. 🗃️

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That the AHA is demanding a level of access to government records that it refuses to allow even its own members to its own proceedings doesn't, to me, seem like a very strong or effective advocacy position. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

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I very much appreciate the AHA's advocacy against restrictions on access to government documents, but I find it it a bit hypocritical given what we've learned about their relentless opposition to transparency and access to their own records. www.historians.org/news/aha-adv...

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Liberals were fine with college students reading queer theory or "Orientalism" or Marx in so far as doing so did not actually translate into any social movement. They were horrified to learn that peoples' reading and thinking could not be controlled and that they might act on it politically.

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according to economic historians, rickshaws were actually "efficient as fuck"

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