Source: Richard Henry Dana, Two Years before The Mast (1840), 87-212. https://archive.org/details/americanhistoryt00ivunse/page/10/mode/2up

Source: Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America (1875), II, 137-143. https://archive.org/details/toldcontemporari03hartrich/page/524/mode/2up

Transcripts of family letters I discovered in a drawer in the Historical Society in Ashfield, Massachusetts.

Apropos of our current concerns about conspiracy theories, here's a look at one of America's first, the Illuminati Conspiracy of the 1790s.

In this one, with 278 days left until I lose my job, I have some thoughts about networks and the state university system.

My thoughts as the reality begins to set in.

I've been teaching as a tenure-track Assistant Professor since 2017. Was going up for tenure this fall. However, due to a financial calamity, my position and that of 26 other tenured and tenure-track faculty has been eliminated at the end of this academic year. Over the 281 days I have left, I'll be sharing my impressions.

Source: Angelina Grimké Weld, “Speech in Pennsylvania Hall”. (1838) BlackPast.org. https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/1838-angelina-grimke-weld-speech-pennsylvania-hall-2/

Source: William E. Channing, "A Letter to the Hon. Henry Clay on the Annexation of Texas to the United States" (1837), 34-46. https://archive.org/details/toldcontemporari03hartrich/page/642/mode/2up

Source: Congressional Globe, 35th Congress, 2nd session (1859), 1433-1438. https://archive.org/details/toldcontemporari03hartrich/page/636/mode/2up