D Waldstreicher
@DWaldstreicher
History @ CUNY Graduate Center. The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley, Farrar Straus & Giroux. More at http://www.bostonreview.net/authors/david-waldstreicher
It’s paperback day! and a good day to thank everyone who has help ed to spread word of The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley during the past year!
Not wearing glasses for the first time in decades, I am remembering how much, as a teenaged me loved Maz for doing it all those big '70s spectacles.
7/17/1979 With the National League trailing by a run in the eighth, Lee Mazzilli hits a pinch-hit home run to tie the game. In the next inning, Mazzilli works a two-out bases loaded walk to put the NL in front.
Don't miss it, guaranteed to trigger!
Curious about the origins of toxic white masculinity in the United States? Sign up for my Zoom book talk with The Library Company of Philadelphia fireside chat program at 7pm Eastern today. support.librarycompany.org/event/fireside…
Earl Warren on educational freedom: “No one should underestimate the vital role in a democracy that is played by those who guide and train our youth. To impose any strait jacket upon the intellectual leaders in our colleges & universities would imperil the future of our Nation.”
And nothing winks at the alter cocker vote like threatening to go to Florida.
Nothing says “I ❤️ NY” like “I will only live here if I am the Mayor.” nypost.com/2025/07/19/us-…
Nothing says “I ❤️ NY” like “I will only live here if I am the Mayor.” nypost.com/2025/07/19/us-…
Great essay by Kim Phillips-Fein comparing laguardia and Mamdani: jewishcurrents.org/lessons-from-l…
After comptrolling gets tired, maybe chancellor of CUNY? @bradlander
For my first submission to @lithub I feel pretty good about a B+. (But I also felt good about coming in 3rd with 11% of the vote, so it may be that I’m falling victim to the era of grade inflation). lithub.com/is-brad-lander…
CBS canceled Colbert’s show just THREE DAYS after Colbert called out CBS parent company Paramount for its $16M settlement with Trump – a deal that looks like bribery. America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons. Watch and share his message.
My dear colleague and friend Anna Law, cutting through the nonsense on birthright citizenship and where it comes from: time.com/7300066/why-bi…
On June 27, 2015, ten days after a white supremacist murdered nine Black members of Charleston’s Mother Emanuel AME Church, Bree Newsome scaled a flagpole in front of the South Carolina State House and removed a Confederate flag that had hung on the grounds since 1961.
The civil rights mvt for Jews was *the civil rights mvt - ending anti-Black apartheid also made the US less racist in general, against immigrants, other poc, and less antisemitic. It created political alliances that kept a white supremacist Right out of power for a generation
civil rights mvts don’t run apartheid states
In 1982, Mel Blanc went on David Letterman to promote the latest Looney Tunes Film. He did not disappoint.
Social media really is academic.
the best cure for writer’s block is to read something that makes you really mad
The demand for “viewpoint diversity” does not extend to the Board of Visitors at UVA. As usual THE CAVALIER DAILY is a very fine newspaper. Perhaps we should get some of its journalists appointed to the NYTimes. cavalierdaily.com/article/2025/0…
damn, deblasio takes no prisoners
The @nytimes continues its self-invalidation tour… How many Ivy League degrees does it take for you to figure out Uganda is in Africa? @ZohranKMamdani
My feelings go out to writers at The Onion.
Two decades of comics and he just tweeted it out
Best of the bunch for the fourth this year, so far. motherjones.com/politics/2025/…
Americans "used the Fourth of July to praise and criticize their governments and one another, in the process struggling over who, and what, was truly American," argues David Waldstreicher: on.theatln.tc/l1xrCI3
annual report, apologies for paywall. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
Happy Independence Day! Learn how the #FourthofJuly came to become a national holiday in this essay from David Waldstreicher. gilderlehrman.org/history-now/in…