Lincoln Mullen

Currently reading: The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe 📚

Currently reading: A Righteous Smokescreen: Postwar America and the Politics of Cultural Globalization by Sam Lebovic 📚

It’s important to me that I have a place to put my “outtakes and scraps” when writing. The folder is a complete fiction: I’ve never even once returned an outtake to the draft. But it’s mentally easier to move prose to a different folder than to delete it.

After threatening to upend my digital life with their changes to GSuite, Google has backed down. My steely-eyed resolve (i.e., procrastination) surely led to this decision. I still intend to move away from Google and GSuite entirely, but glad I don’t have to do so in a rush.

Most recent issue of our “American Religion @ RRCHNM” newsletter. Features a well-done graduate student presentation on women preachers in the early American republic, the re-opening of archives, and our pandemic collecting project for American Jews. Subscribe here.

Okay, Micro.blog friends. What examples of popular musicians who made their best (or at least, very good) music in old age can you think of? No points for saying Johnny Cash: who else?

What do you call a book “manuscript,” but for a book-length interactive scholarly work? Whatever you call it, I sent the final version to my publisher on Friday afternoon. I hope Stanford UP will have it through production and published this year.

Here is an excerpt from the development version of America’s Public Bible, showing how books of the Bible quote one another. This is probably pretty obvious to anyone who has read the Bible a few times, but it is fun to see visually.

Working on final copyedits and proofreading for a project.

One never finishes a project; one simply becomes so weary of it that one casts the project out into the world to fend for itself.

Small family dinner to celebrate Abby signing on the dotted line to become assistant professor of U.S. naval history at—you guessed it—the U.S. Naval Academy.

Currently reading: Cash: by the editors of Rolling Stone 📚

The Fall.

Caroline Greer writes about what you can learn about the first community of Shakers in the U.S. from the 1926 Census of Religious Bodies, a century and a half after they had been founded.

The progress bar is not strictly necessary, but it does make one feel better.

Thanks to my colleague, John Turner, a group of us from GMU got to take a tour of the Latter-day Saints Washington, DC temple during its open house. Here is a group of us from RRCHNM.

Currently reading: A Heartbeat and a Guitar: Johnny Cash and the Making of Bitter Tears by Antonino D’Ambrosio 📚

Currently reading: I Shot a Man in Reno: A History of Death by Murder, Suicide, Fire, Flood, Drugs, Disease and General Misadventure, As Related in Popular Song by Graeme Thomson 📚

Pleased to learn that the Commonwealth of Virginia appears to have upgraded me from a Human Resource to a Human Capital.

Nice enough to work outside again.

I have been a member of the American Society of Church History since graduate school, and every time I write out the name I have to look up whether it is of or for.

📧 New issue of the “American Religion @ RRCHNM” newsletter, featuring our most recent interactive map of city-level data from the 1926 census, a blog post about women’s leadership of an Adventist church, and Passover/Easter items from our pandemic collecting projects.

My collaborators at RRCHNM (@chnm) recently started a newsletter: “American Religion @ RRCHNM.” All things about digital history and American religion, including maps, visualizations, datasets, digital collections, digital editions. New issue coming soon. Subscribe here.