Joseph M. Adelman
@jmadelman.bsky.social
Historian of politics, business, media in early America. Author of Revolutionary Networks. He/him. See https://josephadelman.com for more.
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Succotash. Tamales. Cornbread.
Foods we call “American” often have Indigenous roots.
In Ep. 426, Michael Wise helps us see Native cuisine—hidden in plain sight.
🎧 benfranklinsworld.com/426
Foods we call “American” often have Indigenous roots.
In Ep. 426, Michael Wise helps us see Native cuisine—hidden in plain sight.
🎧 benfranklinsworld.com/426
Episode 426: Michael Wise, Beyond the First Thanksgiving: Indigenous Agriculture and the Hidden Science of Native Foodways
Discover how Wampanoag and Cherokee farmers shaped early America through Indigenous agriculture, Native foodways, and hidden science.
benfranklinsworld.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Succotash. Tamales. Cornbread.
Foods we call “American” often have Indigenous roots.
In Ep. 426, Michael Wise helps us see Native cuisine—hidden in plain sight.
🎧 benfranklinsworld.com/426
Foods we call “American” often have Indigenous roots.
In Ep. 426, Michael Wise helps us see Native cuisine—hidden in plain sight.
🎧 benfranklinsworld.com/426
Clio Digital Media is embarking on its first #GivingTuesday campaign this year—and we have a 2x matching donor! All donations up to $3,700 will be double-matched, tripling your impact. Can you help us reach our goal? @lizcovart.bsky.social @kawulf.bsky.social #VastEarlyAmerica #BenFranklinsWorld
Giving Tuesday 2025
This Giving Tuesday, every dollar you give—up to $3,700—will be matched twice, tripling your impact.
Your generosity fuels Clio Digital Media’s mission to make trustworthy, engaging early American his...
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November 28, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Clio Digital Media is embarking on its first #GivingTuesday campaign this year—and we have a 2x matching donor! All donations up to $3,700 will be double-matched, tripling your impact. Can you help us reach our goal? @lizcovart.bsky.social @kawulf.bsky.social #VastEarlyAmerica #BenFranklinsWorld
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Insulting to have to point this out, but if you have spent even 30 minutes reading US history, you realize that every decade has been dominated by racist hysteria that the "new" people won't ever fit in.
This exact prejudice would have been applied to Miller's forebears, when they fled pogroms.
This exact prejudice would have been applied to Miller's forebears, when they fled pogroms.
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Insulting to have to point this out, but if you have spent even 30 minutes reading US history, you realize that every decade has been dominated by racist hysteria that the "new" people won't ever fit in.
This exact prejudice would have been applied to Miller's forebears, when they fled pogroms.
This exact prejudice would have been applied to Miller's forebears, when they fled pogroms.
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The question for our time is what story we tell instead of the one being peddled by monsters, what do we build to inspire and sustain the best of us
November 28, 2025 at 2:37 PM
The question for our time is what story we tell instead of the one being peddled by monsters, what do we build to inspire and sustain the best of us
A box of breakfast sandwiches from a local deli. Westchester Thanksgiving Day 2 is underway.
November 28, 2025 at 1:51 PM
A box of breakfast sandwiches from a local deli. Westchester Thanksgiving Day 2 is underway.
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The nostalgia performers at the Macy’s Parade are all people I remember from high school in the 90s and welp, I’m old now. #macysparade #thanksgiving
November 27, 2025 at 3:23 PM
The nostalgia performers at the Macy’s Parade are all people I remember from high school in the 90s and welp, I’m old now. #macysparade #thanksgiving
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Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
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I remember asking @katecarp.bsky.social if @draftingthepast.bsky.social was a confessional space...I think it is, and I was giddy to get to talk with Kate about the joy of writing history -- and my tremendous good fortune to get to do it. draftingthepast.com/podcast-epis...
Episode 76: Karin Wulf Keeps Her Brain Humming Along - Drafting the Past
In this episode, Kate is joined by Karin Wulf, the director and librarian of the John Carter Brown Library, to discuss her new book, Lineage, and her research and writing process.
draftingthepast.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:20 AM
I remember asking @katecarp.bsky.social if @draftingthepast.bsky.social was a confessional space...I think it is, and I was giddy to get to talk with Kate about the joy of writing history -- and my tremendous good fortune to get to do it. draftingthepast.com/podcast-epis...
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Nearly-perfect printed and handwritten text recognition is the most consequential technical contribution to the study of human culture of the last fifteen years, and it's not even close.
It fundamentally changes our (both lay and expert) relationship with the written past.
It fundamentally changes our (both lay and expert) relationship with the written past.
New issue of my newsletter: "The Writing Is on the Wall for Handwriting Recognition" — One of the hardest problems in digital humanities has finally been solved, and it's a good use of AI newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/the-...
The Writing Is on the Wall for Handwriting Recognition
One of the hardest problems in digital humanities has finally been solved
newsletter.dancohen.org
November 25, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Nearly-perfect printed and handwritten text recognition is the most consequential technical contribution to the study of human culture of the last fifteen years, and it's not even close.
It fundamentally changes our (both lay and expert) relationship with the written past.
It fundamentally changes our (both lay and expert) relationship with the written past.
An eerie quiet descends on a college campus on the Tuesday of Thanksgiving week.
November 25, 2025 at 4:04 PM
An eerie quiet descends on a college campus on the Tuesday of Thanksgiving week.
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Today is the anniversary of the British evacuating New York City after the end of the Revolutionary War. Here's how I learned about it: the piece that introduced me to the terrific work of @bencarp.bsky.social
Evacuation Day: Marking the End of the Revolutionary War
We know how to honor the image of soldiers charging forward, but we often forget to cheer the backs of troops as they peaceably depart.
werehistory.org
November 25, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Today is the anniversary of the British evacuating New York City after the end of the Revolutionary War. Here's how I learned about it: the piece that introduced me to the terrific work of @bencarp.bsky.social
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Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
Heading out on the road today for #Thanksgiving travel? Take Ben Franklin’s World with you!
Here are some themed episodes for your en-route listening, starting with our amazing two-part series, The World of the Wampanoag. #BFW #VastEarlyAmerica @lizcovart.bsky.social
Here are some themed episodes for your en-route listening, starting with our amazing two-part series, The World of the Wampanoag. #BFW #VastEarlyAmerica @lizcovart.bsky.social
Episode 290: The World of the Wampanoag, Part 1: Before 1620
We’ll explore the World of the Wampanoag before and after 1620, a year that saw approximately 100 English colonists enter the Wampanoags’ world.
benfranklinsworld.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Heading out on the road today for #Thanksgiving travel? Take Ben Franklin’s World with you!
Here are some themed episodes for your en-route listening, starting with our amazing two-part series, The World of the Wampanoag. #BFW #VastEarlyAmerica @lizcovart.bsky.social
Here are some themed episodes for your en-route listening, starting with our amazing two-part series, The World of the Wampanoag. #BFW #VastEarlyAmerica @lizcovart.bsky.social
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i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
Fifteen Years
xkcd.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:58 AM
i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
My mom’s whole family comes to visit one year. On Wednesday night we order pizza and salad, which comes with a creamy house balsamic dressing.
Friday we serve leftovers. My aunts comment that the gravy tastes sour, but still finish their turkey and stuffing with creamy house balsamic dressing.
Friday we serve leftovers. My aunts comment that the gravy tastes sour, but still finish their turkey and stuffing with creamy house balsamic dressing.
yes, hello, I would like to place an order for everyone’s funniest stories of holiday food-related family grudges / drama / chaotic incidents / lore
I feel like we need this
I feel like we need this
November 25, 2025 at 12:55 AM
My mom’s whole family comes to visit one year. On Wednesday night we order pizza and salad, which comes with a creamy house balsamic dressing.
Friday we serve leftovers. My aunts comment that the gravy tastes sour, but still finish their turkey and stuffing with creamy house balsamic dressing.
Friday we serve leftovers. My aunts comment that the gravy tastes sour, but still finish their turkey and stuffing with creamy house balsamic dressing.
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Haven't received as many contributions as usual for this year's lists--could be many things, but one aspect is surely that our ability to get this in front of people is much diminished. If you know folks whose stuff should be on here, please suggest it! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...
Publications by Non-Tenure-Track Historians
Since we began publishing in 2019, Contingent has published end-of-year lists of books and articles by non-tenure-track historians released in the past calendar year. To submit something for inclusion...
contingentmagazine.org
November 24, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Haven't received as many contributions as usual for this year's lists--could be many things, but one aspect is surely that our ability to get this in front of people is much diminished. If you know folks whose stuff should be on here, please suggest it! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...
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"Ongoing digitization and cataloging work not only serves the interests of scholars and manuscript communities—it also creates crucial, publicly-accessible provenance records that provide an increasingly robust bulwark against manuscript theft and trafficking."
hmml.org/stories/reve...
hmml.org/stories/reve...
Reversal of Fates: Access Through Photographs can be a Counterbalance
“Cultural losses continue to beset communities around the world, especially in areas subject to armed conflict...”
hmml.org
November 24, 2025 at 8:27 AM
"Ongoing digitization and cataloging work not only serves the interests of scholars and manuscript communities—it also creates crucial, publicly-accessible provenance records that provide an increasingly robust bulwark against manuscript theft and trafficking."
hmml.org/stories/reve...
hmml.org/stories/reve...
I’ve been sitting with this Gordon Wood essay for a bit. There’s much to consider as he makes the case for America as a “creedal nation” rather than an ethnicity. /1 #VastEarlyAmerica www.wsj.com/opinion/why-...
Opinion | Why America Is a ‘Creedal Nation’
The distinguished historian says the U.S. isn’t like other nations and never has been. There is no American ethnicity to back up the state.
www.wsj.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:55 AM
I’ve been sitting with this Gordon Wood essay for a bit. There’s much to consider as he makes the case for America as a “creedal nation” rather than an ethnicity. /1 #VastEarlyAmerica www.wsj.com/opinion/why-...
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It’s blowing my mind that schools, universities, public services would run headlong into this. We spent 15 years documenting black boxes. This is a black box in a black hole!
I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
November 23, 2025 at 11:16 PM
It’s blowing my mind that schools, universities, public services would run headlong into this. We spent 15 years documenting black boxes. This is a black box in a black hole!
Just got out of Wicked: For Good and I gotta tell you, I did not expect the surprise twist ending where the Wizard wakes up in bed next to Suzanne Pleshette and realizes it was all a dream.
November 23, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Just got out of Wicked: For Good and I gotta tell you, I did not expect the surprise twist ending where the Wizard wakes up in bed next to Suzanne Pleshette and realizes it was all a dream.
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Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.
One of the bragging rights that the US ed system had in the 20th century is that we didn't have education tracks. Essentially, any kid could go to a CC or state school & major in whatever they wanted to (obviously an oversimplification). I fear this aspect of the American dream is dying.
November 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.
I think my state-school students deserve to learn how to think and analyze for themselves. Will my administrators agree or just tell students they should let a computer think for them?
Who invests in critical thinking and who invests in an AI chatbot to help you think will be really telling.
November 23, 2025 at 4:57 PM
I think my state-school students deserve to learn how to think and analyze for themselves. Will my administrators agree or just tell students they should let a computer think for them?
Johnny Tremain.
November 23, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Johnny Tremain.