This is one of my favorite images, from Pat Cohen's textbook. I learned a lot from Pat at UCSB. I keep thinking about Venezuela, oil, imperialism, and climate change. I think there's a pattern here.

Those in the know will not be surprised that much of modern conservatism in the U.S. can be traced to the ideology of slaveholders in the antebellum South. The person I study is part of that history. Apparently Genovese has written on this topic; not the person but the ideology.

Three things I've noticed in the news today: 1. Chrystia Freeland and colleagues referred to Washington as Mordor and you-know-who as Sauron. Nice. 2. U.S. is only major economy where climate-warming pollution increased dramatically last year. npr.org/2026/10/21/nx-s1-600…

Lauren MacIvor Thompson reminded me of Rachel Michelle Gunter's very interesting article from 2020 in the JGAPE. Gunter shows how the women's suffrage movement of the early-20th century linked citizenship with voting whereas the two had not been linked before.

I'm using my knowledge of U.S. history to make arguments in favor of Prop 40. My examples come from the colonial period, Gilded Age, New Deal era, and post-1980 paradigm. I just remembered Robin Einhorn's American Taxation, American Slavery. Here are my examples: