The way you know Bluesky is not a representative sample is several people are livetweeting their reading of an encyclical

Ya'll. I am shook. In a good way. Pope Leo XIV makes historic apology for Holy See's own role in legitimizing Slavery

In the interest of being a good professor, if you want to read the pertinent sections of Magnifica Humanitas on slavery, the "apology" and the implications for AI, skip to sections 172-181 of the Encyclical.

Maybe the perfect book to arrive at the office during Colgate graduation weekend? Congratulations, @dygottlieb.bsky.social!

If you saw me loitering by the UNC booth at OAH last weekend, I was reading the introduction to MINOR MOVES and it is the real deal! ✨

OAH is rarely the place for #amrel but we were there and had a good time with a great audience 🪡

Thanks to everyone who has already stopped by the @uncpress.bsky.social booth at #OAH26. We’re looking forward to seeing more people and having more conversations today!

It’s summer in Philly and I stopped at Head House Books before I even checked in to my hotel.

tfw you're revising your OAH paper and fall into a minor rabbit hole about girl's clothing made out of fabric called nuns' veiling.

how am I supposed to finish writing anything today when I'm crying about space 🌘

Popping up to recommend my friend and #amrel scholar Melissa Borja’s great new limited series, One Million Neighbors: the story of U.S. faith communities‘ work in 1970s refugee resettlement in the Twin Cities and beyond 🎧 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...

Favorite story in the obituary of Paula Doress-Worters (R.I.P.) — OBO’s #nuntastic connections 🙏https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/15/books/paula-doress-worters-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.VVA._NYJ.0ocMYEdRbvLD&smid=url-share h/t @marie259.bsky.social

In case you weren't already convinced, Durba Mitra's beautiful introduction to The Future That Was is available to read on the Princeton UP website. What is the future we yearn for?

So thrilled to see this--Barbara Smith's collections include the records of Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press, handwritten drafts of the Combahee River Collective Statement, and Smith’s own electric JCPenney typewriter. (Maybe some Albany, NY records too?) www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/news-and-ide...

just got off the phone with Oscar. he said sorry for snubbing ann lee despite the same creative team getting an insane amount of awards heat for a much worse movie a couple years ago. it’s okay i said. he said sorry for being a misogynist. i said it’s okay oscar. it’s okay

We are excited to share the CFP for next year's annual meeting in New Orleans, from January 7 through January 10! We are accepting proposals on any topic relevant to Catholic studies. To submit a proposal or visit our collaboration Google Sheet, visit achahistory.org/neworleans20....

In case you missed the moment. Art is powerful

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

Rümeysa Öztürk, in her own words. "Our scream is individual and collective, and it is a response to the loss of autonomy, to the violation of consent, to being treated as an object by unfamiliar hands." www.thecut.com/article/rume...

Each city has developed different tactics to fight ICE but we are also learning from each other. They will lose in Minneapolis and they will try to take another city, but they will be starting from behind because we will have learned from our northern siblings and gotten stronger in the meantime.

On January 22, 2016 my laptop died as I was thinking about outlining my Colgate job talk and everything shut down for snowmageddon. On January 23 I just walked around Philly to gawk at the snow because who cared, I was never going to get a job anyway. Time flies. Stay warm & check in on your people.

I am revisiting some of my annotations in books for a curriculum guide and community political education initiative we will be launching with the documentary (please don’t ask! I’m so overwhelmed) and I’m thinking of how today’s children will one day testify about ICE.

If you want to experience some light in the darkness, ask your seminar to map their journeys to taking History honors & see all the ways that students find meaning in the work we do together @colgate.edu. (Pretty sure I stole this exercise from @jackiantonovich.bsky.social a long long time ago!) 🗃️

Bear down, the @achahistory.bsky.social made it happen 🏈

Grateful to be joined by both Pope Leo and the Second City Sisters (of the perpetual indulgence) this weekend at ACHA 2026. #AHA26

We love a fresh start.

Remember to add our annual off-site panel, Blurred Lines: Catholic Flirtations, when registering for the ACHA 2026 Annual Meeting at Gallery Cabaret in Chicago! To register and add the event, go to achahistory.org/chicago2026/.

Registration for the ACHA Annual Meeting is open! Please note that all presenters must register for both the AHA and ACHA meetings. To register, go to achahistory.org/chicago2026/

Happy St Catherine’s Day! She’s the patron of women students, anyone who works with wheels (e.g., potters), tanners, philosophers, and librarians. She’s also my confirmation saint. I love this painting of her by Caravaggio.

Great 24 hours in arts & culture for a me: Rosalía’s new album drops with a wimple and THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE trailer reveals a Christmas Day release 🙏🏻

bluesky: we love baseball and zohran mamdani and our joints are starting to hurt when it rains

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NEW BOOK. Her first was dazzling. Impatient to read this and add to my MSt syllabus

Stunned by this news. I've long been an admirer of Durba Mitra's scholarship, her advocacy for the Schlesinger Library, and her vision for what WGSS history (and teaching!) can be. Harvard, of course, disagrees.

Any Philadelphia historians out there who can point me to good sources for understanding Philadelphia highlife culture in the immediate post-Civil War era? late 1860s and early 1870s? I'm particularly interested in any info on the Moyamensing Balls

I hope everybody is noticing that public and private universities all over the country are dismantling religious studies programs as white christian nationalists are ascendant in all levels of our government

Thrilled to see Aaron Robertson (whose Black Utopians is on my summer reading pile!) named the Commonweal Centennial fellow. He'll spend some of his time on a novel-in-progress, "which imagines a fictional Black Catholic priest leading a revolt against the closure of Detroit parishes in 1989."

NEW: Bishop Rojas of San Bernardino has dispensed his Diocese from the obligation to attend Sunday Mass due to ongoing ICE raids.

every day is another what the absolute fuck

The entire Latino population in the U.S. is 65 million. She means all of us.

has any sitting Dem politician Locked In as much over the last 6 months as Kathy Hochul?

“I am stomach acid in the Body of Christ.” — Sister Simone Campbell at the final night of my favorite triennial gathering, CHWR (Conference on the History of Women Religious) 🙏🏼

☀️ Catholic Sisters showed up on Capitol Hill today to pray and speak out for immigrants and a just economy. Echo Events happening across the country. Full recap + photos coming soon.

I wish someone would make a compilation of all the unusual places, the small towns, rural counties, the South, etc. I went to one of those rallies. It was big. And I don’t think it was an outlier.

I need everyone on Normal People internet to know that American Girl Doll Instagram is doing doll protests today. There are tiny t-shirts and signs. AND THEN I realized it's a joint protest with the Barbie ppl, where there are EVEN TINIER SIGNS.

Reading the candidate statements in the AHA election & hoping some of the members of the alternative slate get through!!!! Look at Annelise Oreck's statement - not more of the same at all!

Peeking out from my book revisions hidey hole to yell about how much I love this @religiondispatches.org interview format!