Eric Brandom @ebrandom.bsky.social · 14hWild that there was a time (the later 19th century) when buying and running a small town newspaper was apparently a plausible way to materially support yourself and your family. 1160
Reposted by Eric BrandomEric Brandom @ebrandom.bsky.social · 17/08/2026"How now, you rogue! Whence come you back so at night-time, you that wear shamelessness as a garment?" 111
Eric Brandom @ebrandom.bsky.social · 16hRecently became aware of DJ BoBo youtu.be/nn5hCEMyE-E?...youtu.beDJ Bobo - THERE IS A PARTY (Official Music Video)YouTube video by DJ BoBo 100
Reposted by Eric BrandomMathilde Larrère @mathildelarrere.bsky.social · 02/10/2026le numéro de la revue L’irrégulière. Revue d’histoire de l’enfance publié chez @anamosa-ed.bsky.social est vraiment à lire en ce moment! anamosa.fr/livre/jeunes...anamosa.frJeunes en révolte, XIXe-XXIe siècle - ANAMOSADu gamin de Paris sur les barricades de 1832 à la mobilisation qui a suivi la mort de Nahel Merzouk en 2023, les mots sont les mêmes pour stigmatiser et délégitimer les jeunes en révolte à deux siècle... 22016
Eric Brandom @ebrandom.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I had, obviously, a very different context for first hearing the Violent Femmes, but it's true they really don't sound like a lot of other stuff from that moment 000
Eric Brandom @ebrandom.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I had a professor in college who ended the semester by pulling off his shirt to reveal this shirt underneath 050
Eric Brandom @ebrandom.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Not a germanist, but Koonz's *Nazi Conscience* is excellent, and very much something an undergrad can read. About getting to the Holocaust, really. 010
Reposted by Eric Brandomprofessor tools for commensality (red scare edition) @inquiline.myatproto.social · 01/10/2026but i figure the OG in my world is probably Haraway and sure enough: "The new genitalia of writing will supply the analyst with her metaphors, as the sex/gender system transmogrifies into other worlds of consequential, power-charged difference." (Gender for a Marxist Dictionary, in Simians, Cyborg) 141
Eric Brandom @ebrandom.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Wendy Brown uses is several times in a recent essay, but now I've seen it at least once and I think twice elsewhere. Would have said never before 120
Eric Brandom @ebrandom.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I've encountered the word "transmogrify", which I had thought was made up by Bill Watterson, in several pieces of scholarship recently. A vibe shift of some kind. 5260
Eric Brandom @ebrandom.bsky.social · 01/10/2026*Wired* radio! What a bizarre way to do things -- it's a PA system! 120
Reposted by Eric Brandomk’eguro @keguro.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026I suspect there’s something about our hyperdocumenting present that has intensified anxieties about history, archives, memory, the past (add other terms). I do not think the absence of hyperdocumented befores impoverishes those befores. It means we use different methods to think toward them. 1133
Reposted by Eric BrandomLaurence De Cock @ldec.bsky.social · 01/10/2026La cause du peuple, 1973 La joie des archives Rien ne se perd, tout se recycle 02612
Reposted by Eric BrandomKen Wissoker @kwissoker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This is one of the most amazing books I have ever been honored to work on. Around 40 years of oral & documentary history about Selassie's visit to Jamaica and the Caribbean which transformed the place of Rastafarians in Jamaican society. A historic volume. 03010
Eric Brandom @ebrandom.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Good stuff -- I don't know if our station does that still? At any rate I haven't heard it -- 110
Eric Brandom @ebrandom.bsky.social · 30/09/2026student radio station tag line earlier today was something like, "When the aux dies and spotify is gone, we'll still be at 919, where you belong" 3222
Eric Brandom @ebrandom.bsky.social · 30/09/2026maybe off to the side, and am no expert, but scott gelber's book *the university and the people* is very interesting and iirc has stuff about how much the populists liked the idea of teaching people political economy. 010
Reposted by Eric BrandomJW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Question for any historians (or historian-like people) on here: Any recommended articles about the 19th century US Populists' thinking on money and banking? I've read Lawrence Goodwyn and Michael Kazin. But there must be lots of more recent stuff. Thanks! 977
Eric Brandom @ebrandom.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Yes! This seems significant! One student told me that the tuition they pay is like a third of the total cost of attending, all told. 000
Reposted by Eric BrandomSarah Zimmerman @sjzimmerman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026For junior scholars.... The Laura Bassi Scholarship was established in 2018 with the aim of providing editorial assistance to postgraduates and junior academics whose research focuses on neglected topics of study, broadly construed, within their disciplines.editing.pressEditing Press | Editorial Funding | Laura Bassi Scholarship 133
Eric Brandom @ebrandom.bsky.social · 30/09/2026*ag school. What costs is living while you're a student 250
Eric Brandom @ebrandom.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This is interesting and tracks with the pain points, as far as I understand them, experienced by students at my large regional age school. 131
Eric Brandom @ebrandom.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"At first glance, the evidence we have would not seem to provide any obvious support for this interpretation." 030
Eric Brandom @ebrandom.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"We don't know how this new cultural grid came to incorporate nearly everyone living on a thousand-mile-long island, but however it happened, sex and conversation must have played a central role." 160
Reposted by Eric BrandomQuinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 28/09/2026New open access article on the origins of the WEF's global competitiveness index from Janick Marina Schaufelbuehl: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...cambridge.orgInventing the Global Competitiveness Race: The World Economic Forum, the IMD and the Neoliberal Benchmarking Tool They Created | Contemporary European History | Cambridge CoreInventing the Global Competitiveness Race: The World Economic Forum, the IMD and the Neoliberal Benchmarking Tool They Created - Volume 35 0228
Reposted by Eric BrandomWalt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Wandering amazed at my own lightness and glee, 074
Eric Brandom @ebrandom.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I've not seen this movie! People keep telling me I should 010
Reposted by Eric BrandomRyan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 28/09/2026Thanks to y’all’s help & some more research, my list of video games that include printing presses is growing I think I’ve found a student who wants to work on this project with me, so any other suggestions—particularly from the 80s & 90s—would be most welcome I can’t find an existing list anywhere 225121
Eric Brandom @ebrandom.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The child *loves* to go outside with the Peterson guide and attempt to identify mushrooms 3150
Reposted by Eric BrandomGreg Priest @gregpriest.bsky.social · 28/09/2026OTD in 1838, Charles Darwin read Malthus’s Principles of Population “for amusement.” The idea of a “war of nature” was venerable, but D realized that such a war would tend to remove deleterious variations from populations. Natural selection would necessarily follow. 🌱🐋🧪#HistSTM #philsci 📈📉#evolbio 1259
Eric Brandom @ebrandom.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Had a legitimate reason to recommend Horkheimer and Adorno to a student in conversation after class today. Living the dream. 3140
Reposted by Eric BrandomMatthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Favourite work on Victorian social policy/infrastructure? 033
Eric Brandom @ebrandom.bsky.social · 28/09/2026"If the IRS proposal is implemented, it would mark the first time the federal government removes tax-exempt status from a school since 1983, when the Supreme Court revoked Bob Jones University’s status after it was discovered that the school banned interracial dating." 064
Eric Brandom @ebrandom.bsky.social · 28/09/2026"a book more comfortable in the seminar room and less ambitious as cultural criticism" 050