{"version":"https://jsonfeed.org/version/1","title":"Micro.blog - W. Caleb McDaniel","home_page_url":"https://micro.blog","feed_url":"https://micro.blog/posts/wcaleb","_microblog":{"about":"https://micro.blog/about/api","id":"1620562","username":"wcaleb","bio":"I teach, write, and think about history at Rice University in Houston, TX. ","pronouns":"","is_following":false,"is_you":false,"following_count":55,"discover_count":0},"author":{"name":"W. 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So many kudos for the colleagues and students who put this together!</p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/1000x/https%3A%2F%2Fupdates.wcaleb.org%2Fuploads%2F2026%2F3fe438accb.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\">\n","summary":"","url":"https://updates.wcaleb.org/2026/09/17/the-opening-night-for-the.html","date_published":"2026-09-18T01:31:41+00:00","author":{"name":"W. 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But I think it’s a good mantra for historians, too. 🗃️</p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/1000x/https%3A%2F%2Fupdates.wcaleb.org%2Fuploads%2F2026%2Fmedia.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" alt=\"Picture of a poster with a photograph of an early twentieth century pilot and the phrase Reality has a surprising amount of detail\" loading=\"lazy\">\n","summary":"","url":"https://updates.wcaleb.org/2026/08/29/new-office-door-decor-courtesy.html","date_published":"2026-08-29T17:08:01+00:00","author":{"name":"W. 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Caleb McDaniel","url":"http://wcaleb.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F21%2F1620562.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"wcaleb"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-28 20:08","date_timestamp":1787947691,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"96501144","content_html":"<p>I’ve spent the AM organizing some materials to deposit in <a href=\"https://library.rice.edu/places/woodson-research-center-special-collections-archives\">special collections</a>. Most relate to the <a href=\"https://taskforce.rice.edu\">Task Force</a> and the <a href=\"https://taskforce.rice.edu/second-foundings\">Second Foundings Conference</a>. Working on institutional history gives anyone new appreciation for how important it is to preserve such records, but it definitely takes time and care.</p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://updates.wcaleb.org/2026/08/27/ive-spent-the-am-organizing.html","date_published":"2026-08-27T17:06:30+00:00","author":{"name":"W. 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Caleb McDaniel","url":"http://wcaleb.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F21%2F1620562.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"wcaleb"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-21 15:33","date_timestamp":1787326411,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"96150978","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/jaheppler\">@jaheppler</a> Nice work! I knew Malin mostly for his Brown book. Nice to learn more about him and about Wunder.</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/wcaleb/96150978","date_published":"2026-08-21T12:21:39+00:00","author":{"name":"W. Caleb McDaniel","url":"http://wcaleb.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F21%2F1620562.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"wcaleb"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-21 12:21","date_timestamp":1787314899,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"96150899","content_html":"<p><a href=\"http://johncraighammond.bsky.social\">@johncraighammond.bsky.social</a> Thanks!</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/wcaleb/96150899","date_published":"2026-08-21T12:19:10+00:00","author":{"name":"W. Caleb McDaniel","url":"http://wcaleb.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F21%2F1620562.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"wcaleb"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-21 12:19","date_timestamp":1787314750,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"96150895","content_html":"<p><a href=\"http://adamrothman.bsky.social\">@adamrothman.bsky.social</a> Thanks! As an ex-chair, I’ll take the good luck!</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/wcaleb/96150895","date_published":"2026-08-21T12:19:00+00:00","author":{"name":"W. Caleb McDaniel","url":"http://wcaleb.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F21%2F1620562.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"wcaleb"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-21 12:19","date_timestamp":1787314740,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"96127304","content_html":"<p>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.</p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://updates.wcaleb.org/2026/08/20/this-year-i-will-be.html","date_published":"2026-08-21T01:06:22+00:00","author":{"name":"W. Caleb McDaniel","url":"http://wcaleb.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F21%2F1620562.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"wcaleb"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-21 01:06","date_timestamp":1787274382,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xqhneg6kdfrgv7cqp4qfybkh/post/3mtkkzni57c2k"]}},{"id":"96057948","content_html":"<p>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.</p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/1000x/https%3A%2F%2Fupdates.wcaleb.org%2Fuploads%2F2026%2Ffaea9ab57c.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\">\n","summary":"","url":"https://updates.wcaleb.org/2026/08/19/one-of-the-coolest-things.html","date_published":"2026-08-19T21:32:28+00:00","author":{"name":"W. Caleb McDaniel","url":"http://wcaleb.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F21%2F1620562.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"wcaleb"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-19 21:32","date_timestamp":1787175148,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xqhneg6kdfrgv7cqp4qfybkh/post/3mthomdo4ak2v"]}},{"id":"96038468","content_html":"<p>This morning I spoke to all the matriculating doctoral students at Rice University. I told the story of <a href=\"https://updates.wcaleb.org/2024/12/17/ntozake-shange-and.html\">Dr. Julius S. 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Caleb McDaniel","url":"http://wcaleb.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F21%2F1620562.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"wcaleb"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-19 15:15","date_timestamp":1787152524,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xqhneg6kdfrgv7cqp4qfybkh/post/3mtgzkehms52v"]}},{"id":"95793927","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/davoh\">@davoh</a> Very nice!</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/wcaleb/95793927","date_published":"2026-08-15T01:07:08+00:00","author":{"name":"W. 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Caleb McDaniel","url":"http://wcaleb.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F21%2F1620562.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"wcaleb"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-14 14:39","date_timestamp":1786718397,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xqhneg6kdfrgv7cqp4qfybkh/post/3mt2fapxwo52i"]}},{"id":"95646241","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/manton\">@manton</a> I think many of the universities and school systems buying licenses are going with Google, which may goose the numbers.</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/wcaleb/95646241","date_published":"2026-08-12T15:46:11+00:00","author":{"name":"W. Caleb McDaniel","url":"http://wcaleb.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F21%2F1620562.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"wcaleb"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-12 15:46","date_timestamp":1786549571,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"95614294","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/patrickrhone\">@patrickrhone</a> Here in Houston it’s <em>months</em> away unfortunately!</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/wcaleb/95614294","date_published":"2026-08-12T03:08:21+00:00","author":{"name":"W. Caleb McDaniel","url":"http://wcaleb.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F21%2F1620562.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"wcaleb"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-12 03:08","date_timestamp":1786504101,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"95420974","content_html":"<p>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.</p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/1000x/https%3A%2F%2Fupdates.wcaleb.org%2Fuploads%2F2026%2Fd08a8d910e.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\">\n","summary":"","url":"https://updates.wcaleb.org/2026/08/08/more-of-the-exhibit-at.html","date_published":"2026-08-08T20:20:57+00:00","author":{"name":"W. Caleb McDaniel","url":"http://wcaleb.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F21%2F1620562.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"wcaleb"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-08 20:20","date_timestamp":1786220457,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xqhneg6kdfrgv7cqp4qfybkh/post/3mslvieg2i32l"]}},{"id":"95420838","content_html":"<p>I spent the morning attending a meeting of the Texas Consortium of Universities and Colleges Studying Slavery and Race, and visiting the <a href=\"https://thc.texas.gov/historic-sites/levi-jordan-plantation\">Levi Jordan Plantation Historic Site</a>. There I was also able to see an <a href=\"https://magazine.rice.edu/summer-2022/living-voyages\">exhibit created by Rice students</a> on the trafficking of enslaved people to Texas.</p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/1000x/https%3A%2F%2Fupdates.wcaleb.org%2Fuploads%2F2026%2Fc35adf8803.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\">\n","summary":"","url":"https://updates.wcaleb.org/2026/08/08/i-spent-the-morning-attending.html","date_published":"2026-08-08T20:16:54+00:00","author":{"name":"W. 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Caleb McDaniel","url":"http://wcaleb.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F21%2F1620562.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"wcaleb"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-07 18:03","date_timestamp":1786125819,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"95293659","content_html":"<p>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.</p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://updates.wcaleb.org/2026/08/06/my-new-progressive-lenses-are.html","date_published":"2026-08-06T13:44:58+00:00","author":{"name":"W. 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Ward at the Chicago branch of the National Archives\"> : <a href=\"https://updates.wcaleb.org/2026/07/23/why-regional-branches-of-the.html\">updates.wcaleb.org</a></p>","summary":"","url":"https://updates.wcaleb.org/2026/07/23/why-regional-branches-of-the.html","date_published":"2026-07-23T14:45:52+00:00","author":{"name":"W. 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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...</p> <a href=\"https://updates.wcaleb.org/2026/07/15/ill-be-at-shear-in.html\">updates.wcaleb.org</a>","summary":"","url":"https://updates.wcaleb.org/2026/07/15/ill-be-at-shear-in.html","date_published":"2026-07-15T15:21:17+00:00","author":{"name":"W. Caleb McDaniel","url":"http://wcaleb.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F21%2F1620562.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"wcaleb"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-15 15:21","date_timestamp":1784128877,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xqhneg6kdfrgv7cqp4qfybkh/post/3mqozkif6zp2d"]}},{"id":"93795223","content_html":"<p>I submitted a public comment on the OMB’s proposed changes to federal grant-making procedures, indicating my agreement with the warnings of the American Historical Association about the revisions. Here’s what I said:</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>As a professional historian, I have direct, personal experience with the federal grant-making process for humanities research, and I have observed how vital independent peer review is to that process. I am commenting on these regulations because I agree with professional non-profit organizations like the American Historical Association and the Organization of American Historians that the...</p>\n</blockquote> <a href=\"https://updates.wcaleb.org/2026/07/10/i-submitted-a-public-comment.html\">updates.wcaleb.org</a>","summary":"","url":"https://updates.wcaleb.org/2026/07/10/i-submitted-a-public-comment.html","date_published":"2026-07-10T21:12:01+00:00","author":{"name":"W. 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