I have NO patience for people who claim that historians should be producing traditional scholarship and not addressing the public.
Historians should be engaging with EVERY public.
Talking about democracy.
Teaching about democracy.
Highlighting the gaslighting & correcting the whitewashing.
If ever there was a time for historians to step up & engage with the public for the sake of American democracy, it's NOW.
Folks in Blue States who think abortion rights is only an issue for the rest of us are going to realize real quick that abortion rights is a 50-state issue as long as Republicans control the courts.
https://www.axios.com/2023/02/10/abortion-access-mifepristone-data-fda-lawsuit
Kudos to the New York Public Library (#NYPL) for mining this vein of gold beneath our feet.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/epzyde/librarians-are-finding-thousands-of-books-no-longer-protected-by-copyright-law
"NYPL has been reviewing the US #Copyright Office’s official…records for [books] whose copyrights haven’t been renewed…The books in question were published between 1923 & 1964, before changes to US copyright law removed the requirement for rights holders to renew their copyrights…Around 65 -75% of rights holders opted not to renew their copyrights."
Average list price for a unit of insulin:
Australia: $6.94
UK: $7.52
France: $9.08
Germany: $11
Canada: $12
Japan: $14.40
US: $98.70
Isn't it time America hold Big Pharma accountable for its extortion?
In times of tragedy, human beings come together.
Please help UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency deliver emergency supplies for those hit by the earthquakes in Türkiye and Syria: https://unh.cr/63e229e4e9
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