“That’s not fair!”

*Severance elevator thing happens*

Yeah well life’s not fair, pal.

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It’s the runaway as for Judge, shredded and nailed over the portrait.

Thanks! if you pre-order it you’ll be first to get it, and I’ll send you a signed book plate: form.jotform.com/johngmarks/s...

I’m not sure yet but I hope so! Hopefully if the folks at @uncpress.bsky.social know people want it they can make it happen.

Thanks! A real “gotta shoot your shot” thing, managed to get in touch with the artist and he said yes to using it. I’m so stoked about it.

My book about how Americans have remembered, forgotten, and manipulated the history of George Washington and slavery over the past 250 years comes out in April. And Titus Kaphar’s art makes it the one of the coolest covers you’ll see next year. uncpress.org/978146969352...

In my newsletter for AASLH last week I wrote about how historians/museum people will soon have to contend with the fact that a huge group of people are first going to encounter the idea of the 250th on beer can or at a mall kiosk.

They made a big deal about giving out their new service award at halftime of the Lions’ Thanksgiving game either last year or the year before, but I don’t think they even aired it in the broadcast.

Still at the very beginning but some gems: “…musk deer whose four-inch fangs give them the appearance of evolutionary outtakes.”

“…the agility and appetites of a cat with the mass of an industrial refrigerator.”

what a legend

Lmao I only got one, a few months ago, but yes I got it. I’m taking this as a sign of my great career achievements.

I had no idea we were *anywhere near* this level already. Excited to see it get increasingly refined, but already thinking through how useful this would be.

Growing up we had a white German Shepherd. She was huge, like 100+ pounds, more than 5 feet tall when she stood on her hind legs. On Christmas, right before heading to my aunts for dinner, she grabbed an entire spiral ham off the counter and ate the whole thing. No main course for the rest of us.

The most powerful people in this country right now reject it, but most people accept it. So even as we might argue with Wood on lots of specifics here, there’s widespread agreement on the idea of a creedal nation, specifically one grounded in the language and values of the Declaration.