When the broke Democrats held a telethon 📺📞💲in July 1972, my big brother (13) and I (8) called to pledge our allowances. The actress Sally Struthers took our call! Gloria Bunker from our favorite TV show! Yippee!! I’d still give Sally my allowance but NOT ONE DIME TO THE DNC

Centennial of a Metaphor: July 23, 1926. Shot in Cottage Grove, Oregon. Real train, real fire, real river, real bridge, real funny. #BusterKeaton #TheGeneral #NoAI

@netflix.com what happens when you use #AI on #ThomasJefferson #MrsDoubtfire #DoBetter #SupportArtists

Here is the relevant passage from Jan’s @shearites.bsky.social Presidential Address, “What Happened to the Three-Fifth’s Clause,” found here www.jstor.org/stable/90000...

RIP Gordon Wood, whose “Creation,” p.562, is worth a reread any day, esp. today: “the Federalists fixed the terms for the future discussion of American politics …. and created a distinctly American political theory but only at the cost of eventually impoverishing later American political thought.”

#ThatFeelingWhen you buy an old postcard on #eBay because your Grandma is in the third row, center. My darling Flossie May Belle Reynolds Farrer (1900-1984), who got her much hated first name from her Papa’s favorite horse.

aspace.lib.uiowa.edu/repositories... Today would be my radical mom’s 99th birthday. Use her papers for projects on migrant labor, second wave feminism, domestic violence, disability and more. And guess who in this photo is Shirley M. Sandage (1927-2012)

I’m old enough to have written a fan letter to Jesse Owens … who wrote back!

Congrats to my final grad student, Dr. Wyatt Erchak, who just defended “Private Wrongs”: A Hidden History of the First Black Civil War Regiment! Such an honor to co-advise with Edda Fields-Black here at @cmu.edu and have as our outside reader @marcusrediker.bsky.social #skystorians

With @aprilfmasten.bsky.social and @jonearle.bsky.social at a Rutgers-Princeton history grads cookout, circa 1994. Jon and I thought we were quite something in those shirts. April knew and knows the truth about us both. #skystorians

Teaching a favorite session today on #FrederickDouglass #Narrative — after decades of scrounging cheap original printings (1799 - 1832) of the #ColumbianOrator … I finally have enough to give one to each student & say, DISCUSS: What kinds of things could an enslaved teenager learn with this book?

25 years ago today, I first met my husband on a blind date for breakfast at a Pittsburgh diner. It’s still going strong, and so are we. Just had breakfast there to celebrate! ❤️ 🏳️‍🌈☕️🍳

Just found the word “birthright” in the back of my passport.

My Mr Peanut Period. Dunno where my brother dug this up.

All along the watchtower …

Right on! The Pete Seeger I knew (as a fan and banjo novice) wasn’t the goody two shoes of the movie.

Just made my first (banjo) #tutorial ever, for a friend and former (history) student who just got their first #banjo 🪕🎄 This is the left hand A-part of “Cripple Creek”🎶 #PracticePractice #Skystorians

I made the Little Prince for Greg at our second Christmas; by then, I clearly had him for life and retired from puppet-making. (PS, my mom sewed the clothes.)

Going on 25 Christmases ago (Dec 2000) in the throes of new love, I made this marionette from scratch for my now husband. He nods! He strums! He chords! He Goes Electric! Ok, not that, but his lips never move! #TrueLove #BobDylan #OscarBait #TimothéeChalamet #PapierMache #Harmonica #ACompleteUnknown

“A Conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward. A Reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards. A Liberal is a man who uses his legs and his hands at the behest-at the command—of his head.” FDR 1939 www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/ra...

I’m so sorry. Try Chazz Palminteri’s underrated film “Noel” (2004). Stellar cast, some gone too soon: Robin Williams in a dramatic role, Paul Walker with his shirt on, Alan Arkin serving up Almond cookies. The DVD sells for under $10, as low as $3. Spend the remaining $7 on tissues 🤧

My dad was born 104 years ago (12.02.1920) on the Omaha Rez in #Nebraska. Seen here in the Indian school 1927. Front row, 3d from right, barefoot, chewing hay. I’d know you anywhere, Dad. 👣 Happy Birthday to the sweetest guy I ever knew. Richard Elmont Sandage (1920-2009)

What are 4 Christmas movies to know you by?

We’ve been floating such bargains at our house. Concluded that, yes, we’d give up our dog. But Blues Traveler? Hmmm.