Paul Erickson
Paul Erickson
@mrsidetable.bsky.social
Minnesota, Chicago, Austin. NY, RI, Ann Arbor. Old books, gingham, Saabs, side tables. All opinions my own. RT ≠ endorsement. Director of the William L. Clements Library at the University of Michigan.
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I am biting my tongue awfully hard at this news. But it's important to think about where your membership dues go.
In this explosive follow up to the story about the American Historical Association's use of DC lobbyists to silence AHA member Palestine advocacy, we have this: AHA is conducting a witchhunt of its Council. Loyalty oaths. Lawyers. Threats. Authoritarian behavior. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
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All you need to know right there.
Republicans Don’t Know Ball Update: A hockey blogger asked the two Michigan Senate candidates for statements on the Red Wings. Rogers: blah blah Michigan loves the Red Wings El-Sayed: angry rant about how the cheap owners MUST pay Detroit’s young star defenseman octopusthrower.com/what-each-mi...
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Oh shit: “his talents can be only calculated by one familiar with fractional arithmetic.” From an 1849 broadside by John Richmond attacking Sylvester Shearman, a congressional candidate in Rhode Island. Courtesy of www.lesserbooks.com
"And this summer, he mounted a rock musical he wrote about Benjamin Franklin titled “The Sound of America” in Philadelphia that cast the founding father as “America’s first rock star.” It finished its debut run this month." Missed opportunity, @shearites.bsky.social
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"If Jaissle is unsuccessful—and he may well be trying to shit the stable door after the horse has already bolted...—an Arsenal transfer will surely be inevitable." SI really should have kept some of those copyeditors. www.si.com/soccer/newca...
Usually colleges ask alumni to donate money to them, but I guess in some cases it can work the other way around.
“Harvard paid McKinsey & Company at least $250,000 to consult on the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ staff restructuring efforts, according to internal documents obtained by The Crimson.” www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
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This is the most important news day of the year. www.mnstatefair.org/new/food
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Come and take it
It’s been a hard and yet triumphant year for Minnesota. Ordinary people have been targeted by their fellow countrymen, and made heroic sacrifices for their neighbors. So, appropriate to remember that 163 years ago today, 262 average Minnesotans sacrificed themselves at the Battle of Gettysburg.
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