Eric Brandom
@ebrandom.bsky.social
Intellectual history, here decontextualized. Especially modern France, history of political thought, and socialism. And Kansas, because that's where I live "als Gelehrter, der durch Schriften zum eigentlichen Publikum, nämlich der Welt, spricht."
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Eric Brandom
@ebrandom.bsky.social
· Feb 22
"the common ruin of the contending classes"
Re-reading this for teaching, so well done -- from the steel mills to the health care industry in Pittsburgh. academic.oup.com/jsh/article/...
“Hard Times Make for Hard Arteries and Hard Livers”: Deindustrialization, Biopolitics, and the Making of a New Working Class
Abstract. This article argues for a view of “actually existing neoliberalism,” identifying points of continuity from midcentury social democracy and showin
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September 16, 2026 at 6:06 PM
Re-reading this for teaching, so well done -- from the steel mills to the health care industry in Pittsburgh. academic.oup.com/jsh/article/...
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ANTHONY GRAFTON IN THE HOUSE!!! #earlymodern #skystorians
In person in the Warburg but with nice online access!
In person in the Warburg but with nice online access!
We're thrilled to be co-sponsoring the 2026 E.H. Gombrich Lecture Series next week, 22-24 September at 6:00 pm BST, with @warburginstitute.bsky.social!
Dr. Anthony Grafton of @princeton.edu will deliver this three-part lecture series on the life & controversies of Joseph Scaliger. Details below:
Dr. Anthony Grafton of @princeton.edu will deliver this three-part lecture series on the life & controversies of Joseph Scaliger. Details below:
September 15, 2026 at 11:21 AM
ANTHONY GRAFTON IN THE HOUSE!!! #earlymodern #skystorians
In person in the Warburg but with nice online access!
In person in the Warburg but with nice online access!
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Richardson, in case you don't know his work, is one of the great photographers of North American agriculture and the interior west. I love his stuff. Here's an image of prairie grass that just knocked me out.
September 16, 2026 at 5:07 PM
Richardson, in case you don't know his work, is one of the great photographers of North American agriculture and the interior west. I love his stuff. Here's an image of prairie grass that just knocked me out.
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For Part I of the JHI Blog's retrospective on Mrinalini Sinha’s "Specters of Mother India," we present Susan Pedersen’s 2006 review, hitherto unpublished. @dukepress.bsky.social
Universal Rights and the Specters of Indian Feminism, Part I: A Review by Susan Pedersen
In 1927, an American's polemic sets off a storm in British India; Indian women refuse to be spoken for; their activism transforms the political history of rights....
web.sas.upenn.edu
September 16, 2026 at 2:54 PM
For Part I of the JHI Blog's retrospective on Mrinalini Sinha’s "Specters of Mother India," we present Susan Pedersen’s 2006 review, hitherto unpublished. @dukepress.bsky.social
September 16, 2026 at 2:33 PM
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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek was one of the most unforgettable books I've read. Years and years later I still recall passages sometimes when I slow down and really look at the world. Dillard's work was such a gift
Annie Dillard, Meditative Author of ‘Pilgrim at Tinker Creek,’ Dies at 81
Her Thoreau-like account of journeys in the woods, published when she was 28, was the first of many ruminations on life and nature, good and evil.
www.nytimes.com
September 16, 2026 at 2:15 PM
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek was one of the most unforgettable books I've read. Years and years later I still recall passages sometimes when I slow down and really look at the world. Dillard's work was such a gift
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I will never miss an opportunity to share this photo of Judge Posner--or to inform students that this is not how one should hold a cat
September 16, 2026 at 1:40 PM
I will never miss an opportunity to share this photo of Judge Posner--or to inform students that this is not how one should hold a cat
Pirate crews, charted
September 16, 2026 at 1:15 PM
Pirate crews, charted
Bats and sloths are both semi-apes, but differently. Haeckel, 1887. www.jstor.org/stable/commu...
September 16, 2026 at 3:07 AM
Bats and sloths are both semi-apes, but differently. Haeckel, 1887. www.jstor.org/stable/commu...
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AGM of @folkloresociety.bsky.social and wonderful talk from President David Hopkin on the “Passion of the Flax” in which I learned the origins of “heckling” which originally refers to flax preparation. The Scots hecklers had rep for political radicalism, would invite news reader… and interrupt 🗃️
September 15, 2026 at 5:35 PM
AGM of @folkloresociety.bsky.social and wonderful talk from President David Hopkin on the “Passion of the Flax” in which I learned the origins of “heckling” which originally refers to flax preparation. The Scots hecklers had rep for political radicalism, would invite news reader… and interrupt 🗃️
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Hey fellow historians: Does anyone know which history journal first adopted blind peer review of articles as a standard practice (and what year they started doing so)?
September 14, 2026 at 4:43 PM
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It doesn’t matter to me anymore because I’m not in a union anymore but does Randi Weingarten have a job for life or what
September 14, 2026 at 3:04 PM
It doesn’t matter to me anymore because I’m not in a union anymore but does Randi Weingarten have a job for life or what
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#MondayNetwork - a regular appeal to any #skystorians with intersecting interests: food /nutrition, surviving climate change, environmental determinism, race science, exploration, acclimatisation & physiology, cit sci, Indigenous knowledge, & related topics to say hi or share link to your work! 🗃️
September 14, 2026 at 7:30 AM
#MondayNetwork - a regular appeal to any #skystorians with intersecting interests: food /nutrition, surviving climate change, environmental determinism, race science, exploration, acclimatisation & physiology, cit sci, Indigenous knowledge, & related topics to say hi or share link to your work! 🗃️
What would I read if I wanted the best possible case for taking seriously Bruno Latour and the notion of non-human agency?
September 14, 2026 at 2:00 PM
What would I read if I wanted the best possible case for taking seriously Bruno Latour and the notion of non-human agency?
Willa Cather had kinda wild handwriting collections.newberry.org/asset-manage...
September 14, 2026 at 1:47 AM
Willa Cather had kinda wild handwriting collections.newberry.org/asset-manage...
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pity, Cassandra, that no one believed you
but then again, you were lost from the start
but then again, you were lost from the start
September 14, 2026 at 12:52 AM
pity, Cassandra, that no one believed you
but then again, you were lost from the start
but then again, you were lost from the start
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teachers of Bluesky: it is officially France, Haiti, and CLR James week in my Revolution philosophy class and...things are going to escalate pretty dramatically. any tricks or habits you all have developed around teaching particularly violent periods of history?
September 14, 2026 at 12:12 AM
teachers of Bluesky: it is officially France, Haiti, and CLR James week in my Revolution philosophy class and...things are going to escalate pretty dramatically. any tricks or habits you all have developed around teaching particularly violent periods of history?
"Margot la Critique," Félix Bracquemond, 1854. www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
September 13, 2026 at 8:29 PM
"Margot la Critique," Félix Bracquemond, 1854. www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
A. Aubrey Bodine. Pratt Street, Baltimore. 1935. www.jstor.org/stable/commu...
September 11, 2026 at 7:39 PM
A. Aubrey Bodine. Pratt Street, Baltimore. 1935. www.jstor.org/stable/commu...
The Hyperboreans, according to Pliny: "they worship the gods severally and in congregations; all discord and all sorrow is unknown. Death comes to them only when, owing to satiety of life, after holding a banquet and anointing their old age with luxury, they leap from a certain rock into the sea"
September 11, 2026 at 5:17 PM
The Hyperboreans, according to Pliny: "they worship the gods severally and in congregations; all discord and all sorrow is unknown. Death comes to them only when, owing to satiety of life, after holding a banquet and anointing their old age with luxury, they leap from a certain rock into the sea"
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happy birthday to this banger
September 10, 2026 at 11:39 AM
happy birthday to this banger
Older daughter has, somewhere, learned the phrase "government name"
September 11, 2026 at 2:04 AM
Older daughter has, somewhere, learned the phrase "government name"