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Scott A. Sandage retweeted
Cornell is on my TL with two stories at present. One about the appalling handling of campus rape, the other touting it as a model to emulate for restoring public trust through āacademic civicsā and civil discourse.
Itās not the only university that serves up contradictions like thisāHarvardās Steven Pinker tut-tutting the kids-these-days-donāt-read-Plato while the Epstein files came to light would be another highly public example.
These things have to be addressed together, otherwise the words are worse than empty anyway.
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#DailyLincoln #72
"No one has needed favours more than I, and generally, few have been less unwilling to accept them; but in this case, favour to me, would be injustice to the public, and therefore I must beg your pardon for declining it."
- Abraham Lincoln, June 21, 1836
Scott A. Sandage retweeted
āThe ability to formulate an argument, the ability to evaluate an argument, the ability to read a bit of text and extract an argument from that text; I think these are really skills that ā¦ are going to come in handyā bit.ly/47gO70E
Scott A. Sandage retweeted
Today, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Edda Fields-Black presents the General of the Army Omar N. Bradley Memorial Lecture at the U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center in Carlisle. She examines Harriet Tubmanās leadership during the Combahee River Raid
#HarrietTubman
Scott A. Sandage retweeted
#OTD 60 yrs ago: 1st memory @2y4m. Roadtrip Iowa-Cleveland, visiting dadās WW2 bud & fam! They took us to a ballpark! Biggest crowd Iād yet seen! Awed by a low-flying jet, way bigger than prop jobs over Iowa. Unforgettable! I remember no music, but big bro says ātwas #TheBeatles
#OTD 60 yrs ago: 1st memory @2y4m. Roadtrip Iowa-Cleveland, visiting dadās WW2 bud & fam! They took us to a ballpark! Biggest crowd Iād yet seen! Awed by a low-flying jet, way bigger than prop jobs over Iowa. Unforgettable! I remember no music, but big bro says ātwas #TheBeatles
Scott A. Sandage retweeted
Iāll tell you, I think I became a historian b/c I had a teacher in HS obsessed w/the letters of Civil War nurses. This stuff matters.
Scott A. Sandage retweeted
"AI can process information, identify patterns, generate language and reproduce existing knowledge with remarkable speed. What it cannot adequately replace is the distinctly human capacity to interrogate meaning, evaluate values" bit.ly/4wVeLaH
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#DailyLincoln
"I am not ashamed to confess that twenty five years ago I was a hired laborer, mauling rails, at work on a flat-boatājust what might happen to any poor man's son! I want every man to have the chanceāand I believe a black man is entitled to itāin which he can better his conditionāwhen he may look forward and hope to be a hired laborer this year and the next, work for himself afterward, and finally to hire men to work for him! That is the true system."
- Abraham Lincoln, speech at New Haven, CT, March 6, 1860
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#DailyLincoln
"With educated people, I suppose, punctuation is a matter of rule; with me it is a matter of feeling. But I must say I have a great respect for the semicolon; it's a useful little chap."
- Abraham Lincoln to Noah Brooks
h/t @ScottSandage
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"We should all be concerned about any reduction in the flow of humanities graduates because, in the era of AI, we will likely increasingly value an understanding of how humans think and act, not the other way around"Ā bit.ly/4wDHuR2
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#DailyLincoln
"Wanting to work is so rare a merit, that it should be encouraged."
- Abraham Lincoln, October 17, 1861
Scott A. Sandage retweeted
"like medieval scribes intimidated by the invention of the printing press, there are some [historians] who insist that mechanical contrivances simply are not relevant to the task of teaching the humanities. This, I respectfully submit, begs the question." bit.ly/4pbSGRW
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"While the administration insists that it wants Americans to engage more deeply with their history, it announced just 10 days ago that it is simultaneously moving to close National Archives facilities in San Bruno, California, and Chicago, Illinois." bit.ly/4vW0wBW
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#oikos books as womenās work
8/ It comes down to whether the right to run a business existed at all ā the deep gender divergence @_alice_evans writes about, showing up in who printed Europe's books. Women shaped the early book trade less as writers than as the people who kept the presses alive. /end
Scott A. Sandage retweeted
Historian here how should we understand our unprecedented present in light of past divisions in U.S. history? Below is my most important point for our troubled times and the future of the republic. cnn.com/2026/07/05/politics/ā¦
Says historian @ProfMSinha āIt is a big sign of undemocratic, authoritarian rule when you question the legitimacy of your opponents to even exist, and you question the legitimacy of the citizenship of the people you donāt like.ā