I’m heading back to my graduate school department next Monday to present a paper at the Hopkins Seminar. Just sent off the manuscript: “Before Emancipation Park: Urban Reconstruction and the Origins of Juneteenth.”

When I last presented a paper in the Seminar, as a first-year PhD student, it was possible for me to pull a near all-nighter before the deadline. These days that is … not advisable. Ask me how I know.