Friday Quick Hits and Varia

It’s a rainy Friday which sets the stage for a rainy Saturday, but it is apparently set to “nice up” (as they say around here) on Sunday and hopefully I’ll have the chance to get in a nice ride.

It’s not the worst time of year for a rainy Saturday. I have a pile of work to do, a sore knee, OSU has a bye week, the Phillies are on the West Coast, and the Eagles-Rams aren’t on locally. Fortunately, the F1 guys are at Baku and I’ll catch that before retreating to my cell to get work done.

In the meantime, here are some quick hits and varia:

• If I had know Josh Nudell was going to be at Northern Great Plains this week, I would have headed east to Mankato to trade tips on Quick Hits and Varia!

• Confronting Archaeology’s “Gray Zones”.

• The Colonial Museum as a Tool of Control.

• Associate or Full Professor of History and The Wallace Stegner Chair of Western American Studies.

• The Cicadian.

• A History of North Dakota’s Petroleum Industry, 1917-2017

• Guiding Principles for Artificial Intelligence in History Education.

• Arthur Sze

• RIP Marilyn Haggerty.

• What I’m reading: Edward Burtysky, Oil.

• What I’m listening to: Pharoah Sanders, Love is Here: The Complete Paris 1975 ORTF Recordings. 2025.