can you teach something at Texas A&M? just follow this flowchart.
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can you teach something at Texas A&M? just follow this flowchart.
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I stayed in longer than I should have because all I ever posted there was pdfs containing a link to my institutional repository. I'm still glad to be long gone!
The Romans had a name for a ruler whose speech (dicta) was law: dictator.
Careers for History Majors, revamped and updated for 2026, conveys the value of the undergraduate study of history through clear graphs and informal prose. Readers will find hard data, practical advice, and answers to common questions from students and their parents. 🗃️
JUST IN: Texas A&M professor Melissa McCoul sues over firing linked to gender-related content in youth literature class. TX Gov. Abbott called for her firing. Among the defendants: former POLITICO owner & NOTUS founder, Robert Allbritton. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Two brave Texas Tech history majors speak on the record here. One would like to ask the Chancellor, "should I drop out?" www.texastribune.org/2026/02/04/t...
Someone needs to edit the beginning of this video, as he rubs his hands together, with a thought bubble reading "Out damn spot!"
The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.
New Texas School Prayer Law Seems a Tad Fuzzy www.patheos.com/blogs/therel...
With all the AI spyware built into Windows 11 and AI's inability to prevent spewing protected information if prompted, some university lawyers should really investigate whether teachers using Windows 11 violates FERPA.
I used to go there as a kid. I loved that place.
Publicly funded research should be publicly available!
I have been informed by the good folks at @gorgiaspress.bsky.social that my translation of the Syriac Apocalypse of Baruch (aka 2 Baruch) is officially in print, though I don't have a hard copy yet. Here's a link: www.gorgiaspress.com/maccabees-3-...
The Romans gave us a word for a person whose speech (dicta) is law. Just hearing this claim feels like a gut punch.
History majors have lower unemployment than computer science majors.
Folks with humanities graduate degrees are more sought after by corporate recruiters than those with MBAs.
Study history! Get a job!
If forced to recommend a prayer for Texas school children, I'd probably go with Psalm 10.
When your leadership style is gaslighting
Our team has been working on a major Open Education Resource (OER) about U.S. legal history for teaching and learning. If you are teaching U.S. legal history, we hope that EQUALITY BEFORE THE LAW will help you and your students. Check out our initial launch site at: teachinglegalhistory.unl.edu
I was so happy to participate in the original roundtable discussion and this publication that came out of it. Many thanks to Dave Michelson for his work to bring this together!
Humanities Who needs history? Literature? Languages? Art? Philosophy? These can only help you to better understand our humanity. Best to let machines read your books. And write your books. Do your art for you. You will never need to think. Never need to learn. You’ll learn to like it. And when the end comes you’ll have never burdened down your soul with any growth. Someone selling this sees profit in destroying your humanity. -- John Wyatt Greenlee
A poem from this morning.
The ruling deems the government's termination of grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities "unlawful" and allows a lawsuit brought by humanities groups to move forward.
The 2025 @aaup.org Faculty in the South Survey is live. If you are a professor in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, or Texas it's for you. Ends 8/29 at 5pm Eastern forms.gle/v7T3BH2w9LXs...
A dachshund stands in a store, visible through glass doors marked with a "no dachshunds" graphic silhouette sign. The interior shows shopping carts and tiled flooring.
BECOME UNGOVERNABLE
Congratulations to Prof. Salvesen! This is a very well-deserved honor.
Syriaca.org has been committed to curating linked data in the field of Syriac studies for over a decade. We are thrilled to see researchers using this infrastructure to do amazing work!
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NEW: The Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled that a 2021 censorship law can't be used to ban teaching about race and gender in Oklahoma's higher education institutions.
This is a win for academic freedom and the First Amendment.