Olga Tsapina
@otsapina.bsky.social
Manuscripts curator. Creator of superior typos ("bother-in-law"). Dog person who respects cats.
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I didn’t believe it at first, either.
(via David Sacks)
(via David Sacks)
September 30, 2026 at 10:18 AM
I didn’t believe it at first, either.
(via David Sacks)
(via David Sacks)
Too soon?
EXCLUSIVE @ms.now: Trump administration officials have discussed attaching the president’s name to Ford’s Theatre, the playhouse where Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in 1865
Officials are circulating a list of government sites that could carry the president’s name
www.ms.now/news/trump-f...
Officials are circulating a list of government sites that could carry the president’s name
www.ms.now/news/trump-f...
Trump aides explore attaching president’s name to Ford’s Theatre
The playhouse where Abraham Lincoln was assassinated has been mentioned among federal properties that could carry the president’s name, people familiar with the effort told MS NOW.
www.ms.now
September 23, 2026 at 4:08 PM
Too soon?
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September 23, 2026 at 10:19 AM
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Politics these days. youtube.com/watch?v=Ca70...
Springtime for Hitler ft. John Barrowman | The Producers (2005) | TUNE
YouTube video by TUNE - Musical Moments
youtube.com
September 7, 2026 at 10:07 PM
Politics these days. youtube.com/watch?v=Ca70...
My spirit animal.
September 5, 2026 at 1:32 PM
My spirit animal.
Party success may at times be temporarily secured by adroit devices, plausible preferences, and partisan addresses; but the permanent preservation of this Union can be maintained only by frankness and integrity.
Jacob Collamer, 1856
Jacob Collamer, 1856
September 2, 2026 at 9:39 PM
Party success may at times be temporarily secured by adroit devices, plausible preferences, and partisan addresses; but the permanent preservation of this Union can be maintained only by frankness and integrity.
Jacob Collamer, 1856
Jacob Collamer, 1856
I'm not normally given to Schadenfreude, but this particular Schaden deserves a little Freude.
August 28, 2026 at 7:50 PM
I'm not normally given to Schadenfreude, but this particular Schaden deserves a little Freude.
The Library of Congress has already changed its authority files from the Gulf of Mexico to the stupid Gulf of America. More to come? Also, should my neighboring municipality La Canada Flintridge be worried? America Flintridge anyone?
Everyday I wonder how things can get stupider and everyday I am informed how, against my will.
August 25, 2026 at 2:30 PM
The Library of Congress has already changed its authority files from the Gulf of Mexico to the stupid Gulf of America. More to come? Also, should my neighboring municipality La Canada Flintridge be worried? America Flintridge anyone?
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The third round of formal reflection for for Karin and I (along with a lifetime of constantly talking about it)! Please share widely. Please circulate widely to anyone who might be interested. We will be welcoming people who would like to attend and join the dialogue as well as paper givers.
Call For Proposals:
Conference on Families in Early American and Atlantic Worlds
April 15-17, 2027
Hosted by the John Carter Brown Library (Co-chairs Julie Hardwick and Karin Wulf)
Details at:
forms.gle/QWcB23XGbwu6...
Conference on Families in Early American and Atlantic Worlds
April 15-17, 2027
Hosted by the John Carter Brown Library (Co-chairs Julie Hardwick and Karin Wulf)
Details at:
forms.gle/QWcB23XGbwu6...
August 3, 2026 at 11:21 PM
The third round of formal reflection for for Karin and I (along with a lifetime of constantly talking about it)! Please share widely. Please circulate widely to anyone who might be interested. We will be welcoming people who would like to attend and join the dialogue as well as paper givers.
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Half the planet is having a massive fight about how to correctly interpret an Ancient Greek poem but go ahead, close some more humanities departments.
July 29, 2026 at 11:02 AM
Half the planet is having a massive fight about how to correctly interpret an Ancient Greek poem but go ahead, close some more humanities departments.
I have never wanted a pair of shoes less.
July 22, 2026 at 11:53 AM
I have never wanted a pair of shoes less.
I wrote a thing about the Declaration at The Huntington.
McKesson’s Annotated Declaration academic.oup.com/ahr/article-...
McKesson’s Annotated Declaration academic.oup.com/ahr/article-...
McKesson’s Annotated Declaration
In February 1920, the American Art Association in New York auctioned an item of “excessive rarity”—the broadside of the Declaration of Independence produce
academic.oup.com
July 4, 2026 at 1:46 AM
I wrote a thing about the Declaration at The Huntington.
McKesson’s Annotated Declaration academic.oup.com/ahr/article-...
McKesson’s Annotated Declaration academic.oup.com/ahr/article-...
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Hey, look at that, what had been subtext is once again just text.
This is a Redeemer administration.
This is a Redeemer administration.
July 2, 2026 at 8:48 AM
Hey, look at that, what had been subtext is once again just text.
This is a Redeemer administration.
This is a Redeemer administration.
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Fac Romam Magna Iterum! Κάντε τη Ρώμη Μεγάλη ξανά!
I HAVE NOW RESTORED THE ROMAN EMPIRE. THERE IS A BEAUTIFUL CEASEFIRE IN ITALY THERE IS NO WAR WITH THE GOTHS AND THERE IS UNIVERSAL PROSPERITY, ANYBODY SPREADING RUMOURS ABOUT A plague IS WRONG, THER IS ALSO NO HERESY ANYMORE ALL IS ORTHODOX
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER, YOUR EMPEROR
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER, YOUR EMPEROR
June 24, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Fac Romam Magna Iterum! Κάντε τη Ρώμη Μεγάλη ξανά!
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French Resistance fighter and historian Marc Bloch, murdered by the Gestapo in 1944, is inducted into Panthéon in Paris.
June 24, 2026 at 11:24 PM
French Resistance fighter and historian Marc Bloch, murdered by the Gestapo in 1944, is inducted into Panthéon in Paris.
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Letterpress Printer Rob Buchert Produces "Most Accurate" Dunlap Broadside Reproduction
www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-n...
www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-n...
Letterpress Printer Rob Buchert Produces "Most Accurate" Dunlap Broadside Reproduction
Philadelphia printer John Dunlap set the Declaration of Independence in type and printed an estimated 200 copies on the night of July 4, 1776, which spread the news of independence.
www.finebooksmagazine.com
June 24, 2026 at 12:51 PM
Letterpress Printer Rob Buchert Produces "Most Accurate" Dunlap Broadside Reproduction
www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-n...
www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-n...
Appeal to the collective wisdom: Can anyone recommend a work on the history of production of parchment (vellum) in America in the 18th and 19th century?
June 17, 2026 at 11:24 PM
Appeal to the collective wisdom: Can anyone recommend a work on the history of production of parchment (vellum) in America in the 18th and 19th century?
Not to draw flawed analogies, but the visuals from today's Belfast and Glasgow are not that different from those of July 1863 New York.
June 11, 2026 at 6:15 PM
Not to draw flawed analogies, but the visuals from today's Belfast and Glasgow are not that different from those of July 1863 New York.
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“When greatness is evoked as the natural condition of the nation, equality is humiliation. Because greatness can be measured only by comparison, it cannot exist on the level.” —@fotoole.bsky.social
Gulliver’s Warning | Fintan O’Toole
Like Gulliver in Lilliput, “greatness” in the political realm depends on the existence of a group deemed puny or weak.
www.nybooks.com
June 5, 2026 at 2:56 PM
“When greatness is evoked as the natural condition of the nation, equality is humiliation. Because greatness can be measured only by comparison, it cannot exist on the level.” —@fotoole.bsky.social
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June 1, 2026 at 3:37 PM
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Reading today.
"Humanity, created by God in all its grandeur, is today facing a pivotal choice: either to construct a new Tower of Babel or to build the city in which God and humanity dwell together."
www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
"Humanity, created by God in all its grandeur, is today facing a pivotal choice: either to construct a new Tower of Babel or to build the city in which God and humanity dwell together."
www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Leo XIV Magnifica Humanitas (15 May 2026)
ENCYCLICAL LETTER MAGNIFICA HUMANITAS OF HIS HOLINESS POPE LEO XIV ON SAFEGUARDING THE HUMAN PERSON IN THE TIME OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE [ Multimedia ] ___________________________
www.vatican.va
May 25, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Reading today.
"Humanity, created by God in all its grandeur, is today facing a pivotal choice: either to construct a new Tower of Babel or to build the city in which God and humanity dwell together."
www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
"Humanity, created by God in all its grandeur, is today facing a pivotal choice: either to construct a new Tower of Babel or to build the city in which God and humanity dwell together."
www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
[In the voice of a carnival barker]:
Step right up, #early_Americanists and #Regency people!
A brand new collection for all your primary sourcing needs!
Covers pretty much everything, from Gravesend to Baton Rouge, between March 1804 to October 1811. catalog.huntington.org/record=b1907...
Step right up, #early_Americanists and #Regency people!
A brand new collection for all your primary sourcing needs!
Covers pretty much everything, from Gravesend to Baton Rouge, between March 1804 to October 1811. catalog.huntington.org/record=b1907...
The Huntington Library
catalog.huntington.org
May 22, 2026 at 6:05 PM
[In the voice of a carnival barker]:
Step right up, #early_Americanists and #Regency people!
A brand new collection for all your primary sourcing needs!
Covers pretty much everything, from Gravesend to Baton Rouge, between March 1804 to October 1811. catalog.huntington.org/record=b1907...
Step right up, #early_Americanists and #Regency people!
A brand new collection for all your primary sourcing needs!
Covers pretty much everything, from Gravesend to Baton Rouge, between March 1804 to October 1811. catalog.huntington.org/record=b1907...
Josh Johnson: Symphony review – a masterful HBO special from a generational comedy talent | Tyson Wray www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Josh Johnson: Symphony review – a masterful HBO special from a generational comedy talent | Tyson Wray
US comedian has a remarkable ability to transform amusing, if somewhat banal, anecdotes into meticulously crafted joy and preposterousness
www.theguardian.com
May 19, 2026 at 3:17 PM
Josh Johnson: Symphony review – a masterful HBO special from a generational comedy talent | Tyson Wray www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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If you are the editor of a journal and you have received a submission from me that looks a bit weird (weirder than usual) please assume it is a LLM-generated paper from a ghost author. This has happened four times in recent weeks. In each case it is possible to see how a genuine published paper 1/2
May 5, 2026 at 9:32 AM
If you are the editor of a journal and you have received a submission from me that looks a bit weird (weirder than usual) please assume it is a LLM-generated paper from a ghost author. This has happened four times in recent weeks. In each case it is possible to see how a genuine published paper 1/2