R.I.P. LINDSEY GRAHAM:
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July 12, 2026
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THE HISTORY PROFESSION IS QUESTIONABLE: A Decorated Historian’s Research Comes Under Fire.
A major publisher appeared to pull a prizewinning history book about a prominent South Carolina slaveholding family and its role in the abolitionist movement, after several scholars accused the author of misleading readers about details that were central to what reviewers had described as a groundbreaking narrative.
The book, “The Grimkes,” and its author, the historian Kerri K. Greenidge, received widespread acclaim when the book was released in 2022 by Liveright Publishing.
Glowing write-ups came pouring in, including from The New York Times Book Review and Publishers Weekly, which named “The Grimkes” one of the 10 best books of 2022. In 2023, the American Historical Association awarded Greenidge with the Joan Kelly Memorial Prize, which recognizes scholars in women’s history and feminist theory. . . .
In the review, Glenn noted that the book quoted letters exchanged between the Grimke sisters, Angelina and Sarah, “antebellum radicals who renounced their family heritage to campaign for abolitionism, racial equality, and women’s rights,” while the siblings discussed their biracial nephews.
But Glenn asserted in her review that the University of Michigan did not possess the letters in its archive, despite the book’s claims that they were kept there.
Glenn also disputed Greenidge’s account of an 1838 attack on Pennsylvania Hall in Philadelphia by an anti-abolitionist mob, which indicated that the Grimke sisters “led thousands of antislavery women through prayer” and helped them escape the “flaming building.”
“But as numerous sources have documented, no one was in the building when it was torched since antislavery activists cancelled a scheduled meeting, fearing impending violence,” Glenn wrote.
Shades of Michael Bellesiles, whose Arming America, which had the astonishing thesis that guns in colonial America were rare and usually held by the government in armories, won a lot of awards but was ultimately found to be full of lies, including references to nonexistent archival sources.
But as a white male, Bellesiles didn’t have access to this tactic: “In an interview on Friday, Greenidge, who is Black, said that her life’s work had been torn down by white scholars who disagreed with her conclusions about racism, slavery and white supremacy.”
Plus, this doesn’t inspire confidence: “She criticized the university’s peer review panel, which she said included two senior historians whom she described as hostile toward Black women in academia. She did not name them. She said that the university’s review was prompted by the complaints from a white woman scholar, whom she also declined to name. She said that she had sought a restraining order against that scholar.”
Puhleez. Race doesn’t excuse fraud, plagiarism, or even sloppy scholarship. And people who think it does have no business in academia.
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— Stephen E. Sachs (@StephenESachs) July 10, 2026
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT EARLIER: Bring Out Your Memes.
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WELL, THAT’S THAT: Hello Mrs. Owens.
July 11, 2026
¡NO PASARÁN!: Today Is George Bush’s Birthday (George Turns 23).
Today George Bush will be celebrating his birthday. Some will protest and say, that’s not true, the former president‘s birthday was July 6. But we’re not talking about the same person, apparently. Nor about his father. Because this George Bush turns only 23 today.
The George Bush I have in mind is not the one whose full name is George Walker Bush, nor the one whose full name is George Herbert Walker Bush, but the one whose full name is George Bush Abdul Kader Faris Abed El-Hussein (no relation to Saddam). And this George Bush was born in Baghdad on July 11, 2003.
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OPEN THREAD: I can’t cry anymore, while you post around.
CRITICS, CHINESE FRONTS, WHATEVER: The US wants to build offshore rocket launch sites. Critics say ‘our coasts deserve better.’
OH, GREAT, ANOTHER JURASSIC PARK SEQUEL: For The First Time, Ancient Human DNA Has Been Found Preserved on Cave Walls.
