Today's the day! A TRUE ACCOUNT is out in paperback! https://t.co/NlpC5PeGlM

Grandmother's Codfish Balls

This week my students at Marymount are reading a chapter from Yekl: A Tale of the New York Ghetto, an often-overlooked masterpiece of American realism that was the basis for the 1975 film Hester Street. Have you read it? https://t.co/tgbeGfStDh

Spent the morning filing my claim in the Anthropic suit. Authors, did you file yet? https://t.co/TcgowhtmI5

This is my "I did it!" face. https://t.co/py6LUvAfIe

Awakened in the Night

.@JamesTalarico: Social media algorithms and cable news networks tear us apart so we don’t notice they are closing our schools, gutting our health care, and cutting taxes for the rich. They want to keep us from seeing that there is far more that unites us than divides us

🚨Pete Buttigieg just gave the most powerful warning yet about how we confront political violence in America: “Yes, we have to reject those who commit political violence. Yes, we have to reject those who celebrate or promote political violence. But also, in order to deprive

Pay attention to James Talarico. He’s 36. He’s social media savvy. He communicates with all audiences calmly. He talks about issues not many Democrats talk about. He’s a star & he’s the future of our party—& he’s now running for Senate in TX. Watch this. https://t.co/EQrOMNpQdx

On this day in 1950, Sylvia Plath was me

What I Did on My Summer Vacation

Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good. I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.

I'm finding I'm stopping by here less and less. Come say hello on Threads if you like. @katherinebhowe there too. https://t.co/HWQP5H1k32

Go Colin go!

Attention: everyone whose students email me for National History Day because they've been told to interview an expert instead of being taught how to become one.

Today in 1865, the Emancipation Proclamation is announced publicly in Galveston two years after it was issued, as Union forces arrive to ensure 250,000 enslaved Texans are freed. #Juneteenth

Best sign at the No Kings protest by far.

Post a picture of your favorite sign from today's protests. I will go first. I have no clue what city this was taken in, but it made me laugh. How about you? Show me your favorite sign.

Just received my pass list from @uniofeastanglia. I'm finally Dr. Howe. For real. They can't take it back! #historicalfiction

I used to enjoy the #MetGala, but these days it feels a little Nero-ey. #Romeburns

Trump signed an Executive Order directing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to "cease federal funding for NPR and PBS." Here's what Mr. Rogers told Congress when Richard Nixon tried gutting public broadcasting 56 years ago.