Zachary Schrag
Professor of History, George Mason University. Currently researching history of the Dulles Corridor Metrorail Project. Views my own.
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- Reposted by Zachary Schraga detailed look at the mechanics of the new American censorship regime It runs on threats of accusations, administrative ambiguity, and pervasive, amorphous fear of sudden termination.
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- Reposted by Zachary SchragToday is the paperback release day for my book The Contagion of Liberty! It’s about how Americans demanded that their governments provide inoculations for smallpox to the public as their right and also to affirm that public health is a foremost duty of government. www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
- TIL that if you search Google Books for references to "bullshit" in 19c texts, you get lots of old books with more recent marginalia from impassioned readers.
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- Parashat Beshalach, welcome to the war on cars.
- I knew that all that reading about mixed-face tunneling would eventually prove useful.
- ICE phishing
- Reposted by Zachary SchragRe-upping my piece from a few weeks ago. Yes, ICE's murder of Alex Jeffrey Pretti is a 2nd Amendment issue. But looking at it from the perspective of why we have the #2A in the 1st place, his gun has nothing to with that. www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/depl...
- Reposted by Zachary SchragIf you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine
- More than 400 years of history and a decade of advocacy were torn down Thursday afternoon when National Park Service employees removed every single display at the President’s House. 🔗 What's next? We explain: www.inquirer.com/politics/nat...
- Dulles Corridor Metrorail Project architects spent years making sure that drivers to Dulles would still get their "peekaboo" glimpses at the terminal.
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- Reposted by Zachary Schragyou know this guy is a FOR REAL photographer because he's telling the story of his brutal, unconditional arrest by federal goons and can't help but slip in a gear review
- Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
- At the Library of Congress's "Two Georges" exhibit, an invitation to read primary sources closely.
- Reposted by Zachary SchragRead an interview with the author: www.upress.virginia.edu/author-corne...
- Now available! "Creating an Informed Citizenry: Knowledge and Democracy in the Early American Republic" by George D. Oberle III. Examining the early debates in the United States over how best to educate the constituents of the new nation www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10158/ #Booksky #skystorians
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- I missed this a few months back: a map of relative travel times to 12th and G Streets from various points in the DC area. Red=faster by car, green = faster by transit
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- tfw the engineers have used the passive voice one time too many.
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- More time has elapsed since the release of Mel Brooks's Silent Movie (1976) than elapsed from the release of The Jazz Singer (1927) to Silent Movie.
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- In 2025, I listened to 54 audiobooks that covered history, broadly defined. Standouts this year include The Occasional Human Sacrifice, Things Are Never So Bad That They Can’t Get Worse, 1967, Buckley, and Oscar Hammerstein II and the Invention of the Musical. historyprofessor.org/reading/hist...
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- Happy to start the day with a glimpse of the great Ken Cobb. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/n...
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- "Free Speech and Unfree News . . . helps us make better sense of the crises that beset the press in an age of aggressive corporate consolidation in media industries, an increasingly secretive national security state, and the daily newspaper’s continued decline." www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
- Reposted by Zachary SchragIf this is already the normal procedure everywhere, i.e. a google scholar import, universities’ library catalogues will be useless tomorrow.
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- Thinking of the 1990s, when my mother, Emily Fenichel, got to work with Rob Reiner on early childhood development advocacy. Having grown up in the 1950s, she was so proud to be collaborating with "Carl Reiner's son."
- Reposted by Zachary SchragFrom the Oklahoma U student paper: the school is now saying it will automatically suspend faculty (with pay) in response to student complaints www.oudaily.com/news/ou-poli...
- Have these people tried putting in a bike lane? www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
- Proud to get an inscribed copy from my friend and colleague @goberle.bsky.social I feel more informed already
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