Ho, ho, ho! I've got a holiday-themed web piece dropping in a week--watch this space! (Well, unless they let me into the new historians instance with the herd--in that case, watch THAT space.)

Panorama’d this morning’s post-sunrise rainbow

Am I the only person who tortures themselves looking for a mailing address to put at the top of an (electronically submitted) academic letter of reference? Often there is literally no mailing address to be found. Is this just a hopelessly antiquated convention now?

My older cousin reminded me of the time I visited her and her boyfriend (now husband) at college. While everyone was chatting, I listened (mostly quietly) while drawing "This Side Up" on the back of his course packet, with the exact same design as he had done on the front.

Huh! My first book, Rebels Rising: Cities and the American Revolution (2007), was cited in a brief as part of the US Supreme Court case Moore v. Harper. It's not using a major part of my argument nor are they using my book for a major part of theirs, but it's still kinda cool

If I'm going to be a #histodon (i.e., join the #histodons in the #Twittermigration ) I guess I should do an #introduction! I live in #NYC, teach at #BrooklynCollege and the Graduate Center at #CUNY, I have a book coming out soon on the Great Fire of New York in 1776, and I mainly study the #AmericanRevolution and other eighteenth-century (and occasionally nineteeth-century) stuff. That's the professional bit, anyway! I mostly used Twitter to crack mostly harmless jokes.

Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Is Also Migrating to Mastodon #migration