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Excited to welcome @johngmarks.com back to campus today for a lecture about his great new book, Thy Will Be Done: George Washington’s Legacy of Slavery and the Fight for American Memory.

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@jaheppler Thanks! But the minute the Rice registrar begins to layout the HTML academic calendar differently, I’m cooked! BeautifulSoup is brittle that way ….

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@ayjay 😢 indeed! Big changes ahead! Excited to see what they hold for you.

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Eleven Years of the Syllabus Maker: updates.wcaleb.org

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I’m looking forward to moderating a discussion on American Punishment: Its Origins, Legacies, and How to Build a Better Future this evening with historians Chin Jou and Talitha LeFlouria at Rice University.

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@patrickrhone Have a good one!

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@davoh My condolences to you and your community.

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Currently reading the dog’s gaze.

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Only one album possible for the drive in today, the centennial birthday of John Coltrane.

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The Rice University History Department is currently searching for a tenure-track assistant or associate professor in the history of artificial intelligence, broadly conceived. Read more …

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@ayjay Roz Chast could probably just rerun this cartoon with a new caption: “After Gen AI.”

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The opening night for the Beyond the Hedges: Historias de Latinidad at Rice University exhibit was incredible. So many kudos for the colleagues and students who put this together!

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Spotted a screech owl on campus this morning, almost to the day when I found one last year. Circling this week on the calendar!

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UPDATE: And two great-horned owls, too!

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@markstoneman Rest up! Hope you feel better soon.

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@ayjay Deepest condolences.

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@jaheppler Yes, I’m young enough to know that.

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@davoh Congrats!

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@jaheppler I think the kids would say “tuff,” but I’m too old to be sure.

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@jaheppler Happy birthday!

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Looking forward to the opening of this new exhibit curated by colleagues at Rice: Beyond The Hedges: Historias de Latinidad at Rice University will be on view at the Houston Public Library’s Julia Ideson Building later this month!

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Updated some notes in my open research notebook: Refugeed Slaves.

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@ayjay When everything else falls away, having loved and been loved remains. This I believe.

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@overholt Are you saying he quailed at the qualia of his quills?

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Here’s a nice review of Slavery, Segregation, and the Second Founding of Rice University by Scot McFarlane.

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@isaacgreene @ablerism @ayjay Glad to meet another member of The Surprising Detail Detail.

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@ayjay @ablerism That corkboard proves the point!

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@ablerism 🤝

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New office door decor, courtesy of Robin Sloan quoting John Salvatier and featuring a photograph of airmail pilot William “Wild Bill” Hopson. Salvatier used the phrase to make a point about physical reality. But I think it’s a good mantra for historians, too. 🗃️

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@patrickrhone Best wishes to her and to her parents! Enjoy the drive!

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@jaheppler almost thou hast persuaded me …

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I’ve spent the AM organizing some materials to deposit in special collections. Most relate to the Task Force and the Second Foundings Conference. Working on institutional history gives anyone new appreciation for how important it is to preserve such records, but it definitely takes time and care.

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A nice story and brief video about the matriculation ceremony for doctoral students at Rice, which I spoke at last week.

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@jaheppler No, but I did learn that receipts are definitely checked!

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TFW you meant to upload a receipt to your expense report and instead uploaded a photo of your house cat from 2002.

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@jessamyn This is awesome.

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@jaheppler I can’t say I’d recommend the Brown scholarship …

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@jaheppler Nice work! I knew Malin mostly for his Brown book. Nice to learn more about him and about Wunder.

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@johncraighammond.bsky.social Thanks!

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@adamrothman.bsky.social Thanks! As an ex-chair, I’ll take the good luck!

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This year I will be serving as interim department chair for history at Rice. Today we welcomed a great new cohort of doctoral students into our program.

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One of the coolest things about Rice is the residential college system. Each college has faculty and staff associates who are assigned a small group of new students to get to know. Just finished writing welcome notes to each of ours, and now headed to dinner with them at Duncan College.

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This morning I spoke to all the matriculating doctoral students at Rice University. I told the story of Dr. Julius S. Scott and “The Dissertation.”

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@davoh Very nice!

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An EZProxy Shortcut: updates.wcaleb.org

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More of the exhibit at the Levi Jordan site. Proud to see the work of Rice students, led by mentors including Daniel Domingues da Silva and Molly Morgan, featured here.

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I spent the morning attending a meeting of the Texas Consortium of Universities and Colleges Studying Slavery and Race, and visiting the Levi Jordan Plantation Historic Site. There I was also able to see an exhibit created by Rice students on the trafficking of enslaved people to Texas.

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My new progressive lenses are in a frame called Hayden. It will probably take a couple weeks to get used to reading everything as emplotment.

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Why Regional Branches of the National Archives Matter 🗃️ \"Photograph : updates.wcaleb.org

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Still gathering my thoughts for this Saturday’s session honoring Jim Stewart at #SHEAR2026.

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I’ll be at #SHEAR2026 in Philadelphia this Saturday to chair a hybrid roundtable session honoring the late James Brewer Stewart. In preparation, I have had the pleasant task of going back through some of Jim’s scholarship, to which I and so many other historians of abolitionism have been indebted over the...

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