Friday Varia and Quick Hits

We’re have a bit of a late fall resurgence this week in North Dakotaland after some snowy winter days. That means, everyone is out gathering the leaves that we buried under the snow and students were back in flip flops and shorts before temperatures slip back into more seasonally appropriate ranges. 

In other news, you may have heard that The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota published a book this week, Eric Burin’s Protesting on Bended Knee: Race, Dissent, and Patriotism in 21st century America. Check out an interview with Eric over at our local Pravda, UND Today or download (or buy) the book here. 

• Some interesting thoughts on the re-dating on why the re-dating of the Vesuvius eruptions matters. (And then read this twitter thread.)

• Greek shipwrecks.

• How Latin got woke.

• Check out the review of Mobilizing the Past in volume 31 (2018) of the Journal of Roman Archaeology.

• Rethinking Greek Migration as Settler Colonialism from the new journal Ergon: Greek/American Arts and Letters.

• Mapping Miseducation.

• Mapping every building in the U.S. (except our second garage).

• Digging downtown Fargo.

• The Global Market in the Mountains of Guerrero translated by my old friend Paul Worley.

• How Europe Underdeveloped Africa.

• White people chugging milk.

• Subscribe to North Dakota Quarterly. 

• What I’m reading: Donna Zuckerberg, Not all Dead White Men: Classics and Misogyny in the Digital Age (Harvard 2018).

• What I’m listening to: Uncle Tupelo, Anodyne.