Christopher R Davis
@christopherdavis67.bsky.social
PhD Historian. Modern America, History of Sport, Desegregation of College Football
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“You cannot understand the greatness of a country without understanding the totality of a country. You cannot understand all without illuminating the dark corners. Curating means let’s shine the light. Let’s tell the truth.”
What Lonnie Bunch said! 🗃️
What Lonnie Bunch said! 🗃️
‘Let’s tell the truth’: Smithsonian head given standing ovation as he hits back at Trump attacks
Outgoing secretary Lonnie Bunch rejects claims the institution is unpatriotic, telling audience ‘You cannot understand all without illuminating the dark corners’
www.theguardian.com
September 26, 2026 at 7:42 PM
“You cannot understand the greatness of a country without understanding the totality of a country. You cannot understand all without illuminating the dark corners. Curating means let’s shine the light. Let’s tell the truth.”
What Lonnie Bunch said! 🗃️
What Lonnie Bunch said! 🗃️
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On this day in 1868, white mobs led by the local sheriff in Camilla, Georgia, ambushed and attacked Black people and supporters at a political rally, killing at least 7 people in a mass lynching.
Sep. 19, 1868 | White Mobs Ambush Black People in Georgia in Mass Lynching
Learn more about our history of racial injustice.
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September 19, 2026 at 1:00 PM
On this day in 1868, white mobs led by the local sheriff in Camilla, Georgia, ambushed and attacked Black people and supporters at a political rally, killing at least 7 people in a mass lynching.
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The History Department at the University of Arkansas (my department) is hiring an Assistant Professor in U.S. Latino/a/e History! The U of A is setting enrollment & graduation rate records each year. Please help spread the word 🗃️:
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September 17, 2026 at 10:29 PM
The History Department at the University of Arkansas (my department) is hiring an Assistant Professor in U.S. Latino/a/e History! The U of A is setting enrollment & graduation rate records each year. Please help spread the word 🗃️:
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It's not a writing class if students are using AI.
Also, if there's any "trust between faculty and students" being damaged, it's being damaged by the cheaters, not faculty who honestly want to teach writing.
Also, if there's any "trust between faculty and students" being damaged, it's being damaged by the cheaters, not faculty who honestly want to teach writing.
I just don't understand this push--otoh, they claim "AI is just a tool, and students need this tool" but otoh, administrators and some faculty are insistent that all professors, irrespective of field or interest or method, MUST use this tool because they say so.
its so ludicrous.
its so ludicrous.
September 4, 2026 at 1:14 AM
It's not a writing class if students are using AI.
Also, if there's any "trust between faculty and students" being damaged, it's being damaged by the cheaters, not faculty who honestly want to teach writing.
Also, if there's any "trust between faculty and students" being damaged, it's being damaged by the cheaters, not faculty who honestly want to teach writing.
It's not a writing class if students are using AI.
Also, if there's any "trust between faculty and students" being damaged, it's being damaged by the cheaters, not faculty who honestly want to teach writing.
Also, if there's any "trust between faculty and students" being damaged, it's being damaged by the cheaters, not faculty who honestly want to teach writing.
I just don't understand this push--otoh, they claim "AI is just a tool, and students need this tool" but otoh, administrators and some faculty are insistent that all professors, irrespective of field or interest or method, MUST use this tool because they say so.
its so ludicrous.
its so ludicrous.
September 4, 2026 at 1:14 AM
It's not a writing class if students are using AI.
Also, if there's any "trust between faculty and students" being damaged, it's being damaged by the cheaters, not faculty who honestly want to teach writing.
Also, if there's any "trust between faculty and students" being damaged, it's being damaged by the cheaters, not faculty who honestly want to teach writing.
Now he's bringing back the old People's Party platform.
August 28, 2026 at 2:39 PM
Now he's bringing back the old People's Party platform.
"...disciplining the left..."???? LOL
How about a massive left-wave change election that gets rid of the party that truly needs disciplining and unites a broad left that agrees on like 90% of the issues.
How about a massive left-wave change election that gets rid of the party that truly needs disciplining and unites a broad left that agrees on like 90% of the issues.
August 27, 2026 at 10:19 PM
"...disciplining the left..."???? LOL
How about a massive left-wave change election that gets rid of the party that truly needs disciplining and unites a broad left that agrees on like 90% of the issues.
How about a massive left-wave change election that gets rid of the party that truly needs disciplining and unites a broad left that agrees on like 90% of the issues.
To all my friends who study and write Texas history. I hope you'll submit a panel or paper proposal and come visit us in the Rio Grande Valley next May. #ATxH
August 27, 2026 at 10:05 PM
To all my friends who study and write Texas history. I hope you'll submit a panel or paper proposal and come visit us in the Rio Grande Valley next May. #ATxH
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I'm excited that my department and institution will be hosting this conference next May.
August 22, 2026 at 9:31 PM
I'm excited that my department and institution will be hosting this conference next May.
I'm excited that my department and institution will be hosting this conference next May.
August 22, 2026 at 9:31 PM
I'm excited that my department and institution will be hosting this conference next May.
I don't know if professionalism will be good for college football overall, but at least the cherished old myth of amateurism is finally dead.
Another plus, the talent on the field, many from poor and working class backgrounds, is finally getting in on the profits.
www.espn.com/college-foot...
Another plus, the talent on the field, many from poor and working class backgrounds, is finally getting in on the profits.
www.espn.com/college-foot...
College football 2026: How much does each position cost?
We talked to general managers, staffers and agents from around the nation to put a price on each position.
www.espn.com
August 11, 2026 at 4:36 PM
I don't know if professionalism will be good for college football overall, but at least the cherished old myth of amateurism is finally dead.
Another plus, the talent on the field, many from poor and working class backgrounds, is finally getting in on the profits.
www.espn.com/college-foot...
Another plus, the talent on the field, many from poor and working class backgrounds, is finally getting in on the profits.
www.espn.com/college-foot...
The problem with school ratings is that they are much more a reflection of the socio-economics of the neighborhood and city the school is located in than they are about the quality of the teachers and staff working in the school.
From last week: Under Mike Miles, Houston ISD forced 1000s of students into remedial classes in order to artificially improve school ratings. It's a stark warning of what's to come for other school districts under threat of takeover.
The ‘Houston Miracle’ Shell Game
How Houston ISD’s takeover regime inflated school accountability ratings by systematically holding back certain students
www.texasobserver.org
August 10, 2026 at 2:07 PM
The problem with school ratings is that they are much more a reflection of the socio-economics of the neighborhood and city the school is located in than they are about the quality of the teachers and staff working in the school.
We've got to get back to the point where the truth matters if we're going to meet the steep challenges of a perilous future. Politicians, public officials, and others who knowingly lie to the public must be scorned if what's left of the American experiment is to endure.
August 2, 2026 at 11:44 PM
We've got to get back to the point where the truth matters if we're going to meet the steep challenges of a perilous future. Politicians, public officials, and others who knowingly lie to the public must be scorned if what's left of the American experiment is to endure.
Great thread here. AI makes writing cheap and easy for student and academic writers alike. However, for the graders and editors charged with verifying the originality and authenticity of the work it creates mountains of new labor.
Kudos to everyone performing that labor--the truth matters!
Kudos to everyone performing that labor--the truth matters!
The anatomy of an AI-supported academic article is becoming more apparent.
I desk reviewed ~70 manuscripts this week for our journal. Reckon 20ish had significant AI assistance. On top of hundreds of others recently I'm starting to see patterns. Are other editors are seeing the same or similar? 1/
I desk reviewed ~70 manuscripts this week for our journal. Reckon 20ish had significant AI assistance. On top of hundreds of others recently I'm starting to see patterns. Are other editors are seeing the same or similar? 1/
July 19, 2026 at 3:40 PM
Great thread here. AI makes writing cheap and easy for student and academic writers alike. However, for the graders and editors charged with verifying the originality and authenticity of the work it creates mountains of new labor.
Kudos to everyone performing that labor--the truth matters!
Kudos to everyone performing that labor--the truth matters!
Like I've always said: Being smart isn't going out of style.
July 5, 2026 at 2:02 PM
Like I've always said: Being smart isn't going out of style.
It's just so Jim Crow 2.0 to argue that it's not racist to do something if any other causal factor could explain the action. Echoes a time when literacy tests, poll taxes, and the like disenfranchised people for allegedly non-racial reasons.
Recent Supreme Court decisions make it feel even more like we're currently living through a second Redemption.
June 29, 2026 at 4:16 PM
It's just so Jim Crow 2.0 to argue that it's not racist to do something if any other causal factor could explain the action. Echoes a time when literacy tests, poll taxes, and the like disenfranchised people for allegedly non-racial reasons.
Recent Supreme Court decisions make it feel even more like we're currently living through a second Redemption.
June 29, 2026 at 4:09 PM
Recent Supreme Court decisions make it feel even more like we're currently living through a second Redemption.
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“Polls suggest that Americans’ confidence in higher education is at an historic low. Why… would faculty delegate their role as expert evaluators to machines?”
dailynorthwestern.com/2026/05/21/o...
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Pearson: Faculty should not use AI to grade students Opinion | Pearson: Faculty should not use AI to grade students
It feels like artificial intelligence is everywhere in higher education news these days. Students at the University of Pennsylvania and Stanford University recently expressed public alarm about the e...
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May 24, 2026 at 1:38 AM
“Polls suggest that Americans’ confidence in higher education is at an historic low. Why… would faculty delegate their role as expert evaluators to machines?”
dailynorthwestern.com/2026/05/21/o...
dailynorthwestern.com/2026/05/21/o...
Not a single female at the negotiating table in Beijing. Says a lot about both sides in these negotiations.
May 14, 2026 at 2:49 AM
Not a single female at the negotiating table in Beijing. Says a lot about both sides in these negotiations.
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Watching a series of former Confederate states rush to eliminate any vestige of black representation in the House pretty much answers the question whether the Voting Rights Act was still necessary.
May 13, 2026 at 8:16 PM
Watching a series of former Confederate states rush to eliminate any vestige of black representation in the House pretty much answers the question whether the Voting Rights Act was still necessary.
Criticizing govt policy ultimately helps make the nation stronger and is protected by the 1st Amendment.
Implementing a former KGB agent's wildest fantasies as American national policy and then overseeing and greatly hastening the decline of American hegemony --- now, that's closer to treason.
Implementing a former KGB agent's wildest fantasies as American national policy and then overseeing and greatly hastening the decline of American hegemony --- now, that's closer to treason.
Trump says it's "TREASON" to say that Iran is doing well in the war against the U.S.
May 12, 2026 at 10:32 PM
Criticizing govt policy ultimately helps make the nation stronger and is protected by the 1st Amendment.
Implementing a former KGB agent's wildest fantasies as American national policy and then overseeing and greatly hastening the decline of American hegemony --- now, that's closer to treason.
Implementing a former KGB agent's wildest fantasies as American national policy and then overseeing and greatly hastening the decline of American hegemony --- now, that's closer to treason.
Plus the gasoline tax is used to maintain our massive network of highways and roads. Less revenue means lousier roads.
Like Oliver Wendall Holmes Jr. said "taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society."
Like Oliver Wendall Holmes Jr. said "taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society."
As suspending the federal gas tax gains traction in Washington, a prescient reminder from our Senior Fellow @pkrugman.bsky.social: gas tax holidays are largely a windfall for producers that barely move prices at the pump for the consumers suffering from inflation.
May 12, 2026 at 5:47 PM
Plus the gasoline tax is used to maintain our massive network of highways and roads. Less revenue means lousier roads.
Like Oliver Wendall Holmes Jr. said "taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society."
Like Oliver Wendall Holmes Jr. said "taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society."
FDR's leadership took down the Nazis while also fighting Japan (who had a helluva "warrior ethos"). These two bush leaguers, meanwhile, are getting thumped by Iran as they destroy American world leadership.
What you write in an “editor’s note” at the end of a story when you are definitely a credible news outlet running reporting by a legitimate journalist
May 12, 2026 at 4:01 AM
FDR's leadership took down the Nazis while also fighting Japan (who had a helluva "warrior ethos"). These two bush leaguers, meanwhile, are getting thumped by Iran as they destroy American world leadership.
If the Civil Rights Movement was the Second Reconstruction, then the period we're living through now is the Second Redemption.
May 12, 2026 at 3:44 AM
If the Civil Rights Movement was the Second Reconstruction, then the period we're living through now is the Second Redemption.
Great point here.
I also remember all those years they policed everybody's morality. Claimed Clinton's shortcomings disqualified him as a leader and now their guy lies, cheats, and steals and they laugh and say principles, morals, & rules are for chumps.
I also remember all those years they policed everybody's morality. Claimed Clinton's shortcomings disqualified him as a leader and now their guy lies, cheats, and steals and they laugh and say principles, morals, & rules are for chumps.
May 12, 2026 at 3:26 AM
Great point here.
I also remember all those years they policed everybody's morality. Claimed Clinton's shortcomings disqualified him as a leader and now their guy lies, cheats, and steals and they laugh and say principles, morals, & rules are for chumps.
I also remember all those years they policed everybody's morality. Claimed Clinton's shortcomings disqualified him as a leader and now their guy lies, cheats, and steals and they laugh and say principles, morals, & rules are for chumps.