Excited to share the final cover design for my book (coming out with @uncpressblog this Fall)! If you're already jonesing for some railroad action, the amazon pre-order page is also now live: https://t.co/wsfZtiEZty
I told my Appalachian history students I wore my Mothman t-shirt to their final exam for good luck and one was like isn’t seeing the mothman actually bad luck and….yeah I didn’t really think that one through
after the 1916 floods, the Southern Railway restored service between Asheville and Salisbury in 6 weeks. It took 18 months post-Helene: https://t.co/IzBRETk6X2
maintenance is here at the humanities offices now bc it smells like something died in here. I mean c'mon isn't this metaphor just a little too on the nose
started my PhD in 2007 and while picking a program I distinctly remember a campus visit conversation about how the # of job ads was actually greater than new PhDs that year 💀
Been off the conference circuit as I've worked to wrap up the Casey Jones project but I'm heading up to Huntington for App Studies on Thursday! I'll be sharing some research (on a 1916 flood/railroad disaster ballad that I found in a Utah archive) at 8 am Friday
teaching Civil War in a highly visible library classroom w/glass windows = shocking random students with my lecture slide feat. a pile of amputated limbs (it was civil war medicine day)
From @TheAthletic: The Norwegian skier Atle Lie McGrath was heartbroken after he lost a slalom gold medal that was his to take. He threw his poles, unstrapped his skis, and stormed off, alone with his thoughts as the world watched on. https://t.co/0IVjzp37XV
Excited to share that “Casey Jones: America’s Engineer” (tentative title) now has final UNC Press board approval and is heading to publication (in early 2027). Thanks especially to @Lucas_Church for working with me to get this over the line. Stay tuned for more details…🚂
@HerecomesDrBob@AstorAaron@news5wcyb we had another strange temp inversion thing during that ice store a week or so ago. It was way warmer up on Beech than it was in the valleys and down in the Piedmont