Rob MacDougall

Ignatius L. Donnelly Associate Professor of Old Weird American, Secret Canadian, Gilded Age, Digital, WKRP, Big, Alternate, and Two-Fisted History. He/him.

[Rob MacDougall @robotnik]

@LurkerReloaded @antichrist Yes

[Rob MacDougall @robotnik]

"It takes a long time to say anything in Old Entish. And we do not say anything unless it is worth taking a long time to say."

[Jo Guldi @joguldi]

Those of us with the luxury of academic tenure, I believe, are the luckiest of all because all we have to do to be aligned with radical change is to talk about it every day. And yet even we often don’t, prevented by our own fear or ignorance.

[Rob MacDougall @robotnik]

@cwilliamg Welcome to the History department. Thrilled to have you join us.

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@ScottMacShack @Quaker

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(source: Joel Meyerowitz, St. Louis, Missouri, 1978 via https://t.co/njRBeWgbSz)

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@ultra_lilac @MutantsMichael vivid memory of my wife Lisa, a grown adult woman with multiple advanced degrees, arguing the merits of Paddington 2, in part because Paddington 1 was, and I quote, "so meticulous in its world-building"

[Rob MacDougall @robotnik]

@alanmaceachern definitive is the new secret/untold

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This one was fun to do.

[HMOTD @HoldMyOrderWKRP]

HMOTD is now in reruns! In this episode, released April 1, 2017, 1992 is in the house, as Money Mike G & Easy Rob MacD dive deep into the NEW WKRP in Cincinnati! https://t.co/aJimUTMkJM

[Rob MacDougall @robotnik]

@TristanPEJ Wasn't there a movie about a Russian or (East) German family who contrived to keep their frail grandmother from knowing about the collapse of communism?

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@icpetrie my brother got married on my 40th birthday does that count?

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@Beth_macshack Thanks, Beth. I actually feel 💯 the same way but needed to feign otherwise to make the sentence work (I'm always happy to dust off my 2 hour lecture on whether or not whales are fish!)

[Rob MacDougall @robotnik]

So here's my essay/review of @jeremyzallen's fine book AMERICAN LUCIFERS, a powerful, often gruesome history of light and capitalism before electricity: https://t.co/9k1Xy0wML2

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@leonardpierce

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@ShiraLurie aw, you know just what to say

[Jeremy Zallen @jeremyzallen]

Thank you to @robotnik for this incredibly thoughtful and generous review in Reviews in American History. He beautifully places American Lucifers in historiographical context in ways I didn’t or couldn’t. It’s not every review that teaches you something new about your own book!

[Rob MacDougall @robotnik]

@icpetrie Doing what I can to boost her Impact Factor

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@samplereality Thanks, Mark.

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You should read American Lucifers too - it has won awards and lots of well-deserved praise - but in the meantime my review is marginally shorter.

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So, whew! That's a lot of emotional baggage to put on a book review.