Michael Spencer
michaelspencer.bsky.social
Michael Spencer
@michaelspencer.bsky.social
See my latest in the Chicago Reader // adjunct history prof // US foreign policy
From the U.N. Regional Info Centre for Western Europe:
November 14, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Why does the Ventra App do this?
February 21, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Following the defeat of the Populist movement, states petitioned for new constitutional conventions quite frequently. Here’s a table from “Problems Relating to a Federal Constitutional Convention.” books.google.com/books?id=maP...
February 8, 2025 at 4:44 PM
A cross of golden arches.
January 27, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Illinois state legislature passed a landback bill in session today. www.ilga.gov/legislation/...
January 8, 2025 at 12:29 AM
When everyone is turning 30 this year and your birthday is in December:
December 13, 2024 at 4:17 AM
“Chronically absent” meant a teacher missed 10 days, *including* personal and sick days. @chicagotribune.com knows this detail undermines their editorial, so they put it ten paragraphs deep in the story.

www.chicagotribune.com/2024/11/24/e...
November 24, 2024 at 5:22 PM
Returning from a weekend trip in the Eastern timezone, I was thinking about how things worked before standardization. Here's a timetable you'd need in order to navigate the United States train system in the nineteenth century:
November 18, 2024 at 2:02 AM
Hortensia Allende at DePaul University in December ‘73.
August 20, 2023 at 4:42 PM
Jacob Engels was held in contempt of court for non compliance in Orange County last week.
June 28, 2023 at 4:19 PM