Apparently I started this draft in June 2021. Or, rather, I created a new “story” here in Medium, partly at the prompting of my new therapist, and in the spirit of Pride Month. I wrote one word in it: Gendernope And then I abandoned the story/let it gestate for nine…

The story that this post replaced has been returned to its original link as of May 10, 2021. You can read it here. NOTE: The post, from April 16, 2019, is replicated below in full, as a matter of public record. …

Last night I saw this tweet by Emily Arbelo, an undergraduate student at Cornell University. As of the time of this Medium post, it had been retweeted over 36,000 times, and liked 362,000 times. …

Project Introduction A couple of weeks ago, I had a conversation with four other members of my family (one of whom was not yet verbal, but very present in body — and undoubtedly was the unspoken context/motivation for the conversation, as we imagine the world she will grow up to experience). It…

CONTEXTUAL NOTE: On March 30, during the Awards Breakfast at the Annual Meeting of the National Council on Public History (NCPH) in Hartford, I made public an open secret: the decades-long collusion of leaders in the public history field — including leadership of the NCPH, academic historians, museum directors, and more —…

As a scholar of the politics of the past, I dig anniversaries. Which is why I’m writing about Hamilton this month, two years after it…