Decay of Discourse
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Decay (v.) • Decline in quality, power, or vigor Discourse (n.) • Written or spoken communication or debate
Washington D.C.
Joined August 2018
We Interrupt the Regularly Scheduled Program to Bring You this Important Message: Dirty History ---> Decay of Discourse (02/02/21) Decay (v.) • Decline in quality, power, or vigor | Discourse (n.) • Written or spoken communication or debate.
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Many thanks to Thomas Thompson, host of @PodDirty, for devoting an episode to a discussion of my new book *The Battle of the Classics*! Those interested in the fate of the #humanities in higher education may want to check out our conversation: https://t.co/6SmUidSFPm
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I'm curious!
We Interrupt the Regularly Scheduled Program to Bring You this Important Message: Dirty History ---> Decay of Discourse (02/02/21) Decay (v.) • Decline in quality, power, or vigor | Discourse (n.) • Written or spoken communication or debate.
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Thanks to Thomas Thompson for asking such good questions about my work on his podcast, Decay of Discourse, formerly known as Dirty History (@PodDirty). https://t.co/NzEZG0HJmB.
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It's ironic that this obituary length bio of Eugene Berman should be accompanied by his portrait. As a painter, he had composed some of the most affecting landscapes I've seen. I should qualify that statement by…
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Hernan Baldrich was a Chilean dancer who gained renown in the early 1960s. ⠀ ⠀ In 1964 he received the Guggenheim fellowship which is a rare distinction for a choreographer, and one fated to be forever unknown to…
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Regardless of where you get your news, I think we can all agree that something about the cycle is broken. Perhaps there is a problem inherent in 24/7 cable news with oversized panels of commentators and pundits…
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Repost from @asmithmyer22: ⠀ •⠀ •⠀ •⠀ "A few years ago I took the time to visit two of the most famous cemeteries in Richmond, Virginia. A visit to Hollywood and Evergreen Cemeteries provide a unique story of race…
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repost from @wdlhistory: • • "Meet Lonnie Johnson the NASA engineer who accidentally invented the super soaker while experimenting on a jet pump project for NASA in 1982. Johnson shot a stream of water across the…
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The cover of an issue of "Presence." A quarterly poetry magazine meant to circumvent the mainstream art world of the 1960s and 70s. ⠀ ⠀ It was a self-described "magazine of the revolution."⠀ ⠀ Photo courtesy of the…
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A gushing oil derrick emptying into a river of oil (seen in the foreground). The photo was taken sometime between 1932-33 in the Kirkuk District of Iraq. Photo courtesy of the Matson (G. Eric and Edith)…
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He may seem irresponsible, but in Sammy Hagar's defense, he's been performing without an audience for ten years https://t.co/sWB86xKe7S
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"I’m sorry to say it, but we all gotta die, man," the former Van Halen frontman said last month.
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The Execution of Private William Johnson, 23 regt., U.S.C.T. in Petersburg, Virginia, 1864.⠀ ⠀ The photo description gives no clue as to what William Johnson was executed for. Nor does it provide much information as…
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Five men, identified as firefighters pose for a photo sometime between 1865 and 1870.⠀ From the Gladstone Collection of African American Photographs.
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A group of children gather for a photograph on Lookout Mountain. The photo was taken at some point between 1860 and 1870 by the photographer Robert M. Linn.⠀ Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and…
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Graduating law class at Howard University, Washington, D.C. 1900.⠀ ⠀ Sixteen African-American law students compose the graduating class at Howard University in 1900. Pictured here, they stand on the steps of a notary…
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