History isn’t reality, it’s methodology.
Historian. Husband. Iowan. Pittsburgh 🏳️🌈🐕🪕⚾️ Wrote a book long ago. Writing another on the Métis Rez in Nebraska. Most useful thing I’ve done is probably https://commonplace.online/article/how-to-read-a-book/
Scott Sandage
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Deeply saddened to learn of Gordon Wood's passing. Few have had an equal impact on the study of the American Founding, or on my own intellectual development. No book is more responsible for making me a historian of early constitutional history than Wood's *The Creation of the American Republic*.
Everyone who cares abt teaching, learning, critical & historical thinking should read & repost this piece. My faculty & student group chats have been trading/talking abt it all day. @johnfea1.bsky.social brought many of us to tears. He speaks for us in sorrow & in glory. We grieve & we hope.
The interesting question is not who uses Zotero or does not use Zotero. The interesting question is which academics enjoy working conditions that allow them to make scholarship central to their professional lives, and which academics have to do scholarship <in spite> of their working conditions.
"Society has a profound need for humanistic knowledge. But there is no political movement in support of the academic humanities in public education on the political Left." asheeshksi.substack.com/publish/post...
