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I came across this today in McSweeney’s and thought others may enjoy as well:

“I’d Be Lead Harpooner on the Pequod If It Wasn’t For These DEI Hires”
by Amanda Lehr

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/id-be-lead-harpooner-on-the-pequod-if-it-wasnt-for-these-dei-hires

Dear All, I write to share news of my loss, my mother, a CUNY professor. She wanted no obituary, but I had already written one with Sam Roberts. With the pre-write, we were able to re-craft it for the present. Thank you Sam and Sarah! It is shared below:

 
Elizabeth A.R. Brown, Historian Who Refuted the Existence of Feudalism, dies in New York…[Read more]

Happy Birthday John Brown! May 9, 1800

Hi Everyone,

I went this morning to the scaffold site where John Brown was executed in Charles Town, West Virginia and the Kennedy Farm (Samples Manor) and was able to get picture. I drove through Harpers Ferry, but there’s no parking there, so I will have to go back. The Facebook Reel is me attempting to…[Read more]

Hi Everyone,

I hope you all had a good break! Here is a draft submission of my review, “Reynolds Explorations of the 19th Century.”

I will be posting a presentation before tomorrow’s class, I hope.

I know time is short and I appreciate any feedback.

Kind regards,

Lauren

In PDF for easy download!

Dear All,

So I need editorial help because the review is still too long! Please consider which sections could be cut. I’m not sure if I will use a PowerPoint tomorrow. If I do, I will post it tomorrow before class. Thank you for your thoughts!

Paul Hurh, American Terror: The Feeling of Thinking in Edwards, Poe, and Melville. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2015. 298 pages.