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briandistelberg

  1. Life magazine's batch of photos of gay activism c. 1971: life.time.com/history/gay-ri… 1:31 PM May 23rd via web
  2. Seriously? itunes.apple.com/us/app/shelflo… 6:52 AM May 16th via web
  3. Back in the office after a lovely weekend of book-storing in Boston and Cambridge: @brattlebookshop, @HarvardBooks, Bryn Mawr Book Store 7:49 AM May 7th via web
  4. What I'm reading: Doing Recent History, ed. @TenuredRadical and Renee Romano, before tonight's @TheNewSchool event: chronicle.com/blognetwork/te… 1:38 PM May 3rd via web
  5. One of several just-released preview clips from the forthcoming documentary "The Lavender Scare": youtube.com/watch?v=LPQFdg… #lgbt #history 6:56 AM May 1st via web
  6. What I'm reading: @Harvard_Press's new biography of Brigham Young, by John G. Turner. Come late summer, you can too: hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?re… 7:17 AM Apr 30th via web
  7. Twin baby girls proving a big draw at the booth #oah2012 12:14 PM Apr 20th via Twitter for iPhone
  8. Running out of ways to make booth pictures visually interesting. But come visit the @Harvard_Press booth! #oah2012 twitter.com/briandistelber… 7:10 AM Apr 20th via Twitter for iPhone
  9. I'd imagine historians of urban renewal (and of new urbanism?) could provide some context for @TenuredRadical's questions, right? #oah2012 4:26 AM Apr 20th via web
  10. @TenuredRadical: "Why are conferences in such soulless venues? When were all these beige boxes built ... ?" chronicle.com/blognetwork/te… #oah2012 4:23 AM Apr 20th via web
  11. @Davulis I came thisclose to buying a bow tie for the conference! #oah2012 2:22 PM Apr 19th via Twitter for iPhone in reply to Davulis
  12. Flat-voweled security lady warning me about tornadoes. Definitely in the Midwest. #oah2012 11:51 AM Apr 19th via Twitter for iPhone
  13. Playing "Guess the Historian" while awaiting my LGA-MKE flight. No elbow patches in sight. What are other key giveaways? #oah2012 8:08 AM Apr 19th via Twitter for iPhone
  14. Historiann asks, "Are there any regions left in American history?" historiann.com/2012/04/18/are… 10:27 AM Apr 18th via web
  15. @maddow, why not stop by #OAH2012 while you're in Milwaukee this weekend? Lots of relevant history to be had! 5:22 PM Apr 17th via web in reply to maddow
  16. Fantastic color photographs of Times Square c. 1950s: ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/2012/04/12/a-p… 11:47 AM Apr 12th via web