There's that there's also the fact that a loooooot of hippie/lefty farms are thinly veiled sex cults polyamory is one thing. "This guy owns property, his favorite girlfriend at the moment gets to run it, & there's a whole queue of girlfriends-in-waiting I mean interns" is another entirely

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This event had everything: national mythmaking, human zoos, social darwanism, Comstock, the ferris wheel, aunt jemima, Fredrick law Olmsted, Ida b wells, Frederick Douglass, mass mediation, Haiti, weird fantasies of ancient Europe, columbus, JP Morgan, the death of reconstruction, and so much more!

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My students, I think, are extremely tired of me inserting the 1893 Columbia Exposition (which you know as the Chicago World’s Fair) into every analysis of U.S. politics and culture. Do them a favor and if you see me in the streets ask me about it so I can spare them more often.

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Beware of AI scam emails targeting authors. Know the signs. I got one from a someone impersonating my publisher, demanding the manuscript I've been procrastinating on. Nice try.

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Resolved: Professors teaching a 0:1:0 course load on a quarters system should not generalize from their experience to pontificate about teaching, higher education, or really anything but how lucky they are.

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