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Doug Sackman
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Historian, Nature and Culture, author of Orange Empire and Wild Men and editor of A Companion to American Environmental History

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Boycotting
November 24, 2025 at 10:38 PM
I just talked to my elderly aunt from Texas, who used to send us pecan everything, and that reminds me everyone should read the pecan chapter in All that she carried, by tiya miles
November 24, 2025 at 8:35 PM
it's a win win win...no brainer. Unfortunately, so many, mostly in the GOP, have self-lobotomized. And suppressed their heart feeling.
November 23, 2025 at 6:20 PM
I was going to say just this. Seconded.
November 23, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Not to mention unintelligible. That was her challenge. She basically was doing a translation of his aesthetics.
November 22, 2025 at 8:36 PM
as an editor of a handbook who once had to write half a chapter when the author was unable to continue (due to health issues), this hit home with me on another level.
November 22, 2025 at 8:15 PM
My mom wrote her master's thesis in 1976 on Kant's aesthetics. She's 84 now, and I was just reading her thesis out loud to her today, which she took great delight in (even as it is all worlds away).
November 22, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Cohen was partial soundtrack for my very long road trip yesterday
November 22, 2025 at 6:02 AM
driving down from sacramento in the 1970s in the family station wagon, descending the tehachapis into the la basin was also letting in an infection that would catch in the throat, and kick off a dialectic of shallow breath and coughing lasting the entire visit with grandparents.
November 20, 2025 at 4:13 AM
UCmuLA
November 19, 2025 at 11:55 PM
I praised my Harvard colleague for the good work being done this week by Harvard faculty—Vincent Brown, Phil Deloria, and Annette Gordon-Reed, on the American Revolution. Lepore is impressive, if also infuriating. (And Summers can just rot).
November 19, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Tiya Miles, All that she carried. (maybe not quite what you're asking for, but it's immersive and a page-turner nonetheless, for the beautiful craft throughout).
November 19, 2025 at 11:42 PM
inspired my first history book.
November 19, 2025 at 11:39 PM