To the inevitable cries of “just digitize everything, then;” not an answer. Making digital facsimiles accessible requires huge investment: staff, metadata, preservation. Orgs are currently not funded to meet these needs. While digital objects are great, they’ll never replace looking at originals.

As someone who has regularly explained to students studying the Reformation that Catholics are Christian, this is real.

Every time I read a story about gynecology it's always something like "doctors discovered women could experience pain in 1989 but decided not to act on this knowledge for 20 years"

So, Graham died of an aortic dissection. This is something I have a bit of experience with, as I have a dissection that’s runs from about 1mm from my aortic root (close to the heart) and runs full length to the illiac artery high in my left leg. Thread:

It really helps to be a historian when your Italian neighbor tells you that Jannik Sinner is really not Italian- he’s from South Tyrol, a part of Italy where they speak German.

12 July 1670 #OTD James Comber wrote to his son, Thomas, at Stonegrave with greetings to Thomas’s wife, Alice, and mother-in-law, Alice Thornton, suggesting that his wife visit the couple in #Yorkshire and ‘wait upon your mother in law Madam Thornton about April next’. #EarlyModern 🗃️ 📜

The next World Cup game?! For real this is may be the best sporting event ever (except everything the Birds and Phils have ever done) Vamos España! 🇪🇸

A new kind of fusion cuisine.

Am I the only one surprised that Lindsay Graham was only 71?

Megan Kate Nelson is an American historian, Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of “The Westerners: Mythmaking and Belonging on the American Frontier.” Nelson follows the journey of Lewis and Clark, who mapped the American West and transformed the nation. #WeAreAmerica250 @mkn.bsky.social

"You don’t pressure witnesses to a shooting to self-deport if your goal is to get to the bottom of what happened." In the same way that the government did not investigate the Minnesota shootings, they will not investigate these shootings.

(re)introducing myself now that I've crawled back on here: I'm a historian of medieval gender and sexuality, I'm about to start my new role as assistant professor at the university of rochester after two years as a marie skłodowska-curie postdoctoral fellow at trinity college dublin

Illustrated summary of the fourteen California Propositions on this year's ballot, which cover topics such as housing, elections, taxes, education, and healthcare! Individual slides at tinyurl.com/2026caprops and in the thread! 1/ 🧵✅

Question, though perhaps not answerable! I'm reading a ship's log from 1826, and the purser ordered 'beach shoes' from Deal, presumably to allow for better beach patrols. Has anyone ever seen a pair of these? #AmResearching #NavalHistory #CoastalHistory.

I think we should put the onus back on the reader in the conclusion. ‘OK now here’s a test to check that you were paying attention…’

Economists, man. They just do not live in the same reality as the rest of us.

“I am the most verbally and physically attacked public figure or politician of modern times.” The disgraceful Nigel Farage. Remembering Labour MP Jo Cox, born 1974, murdered 2016.

History books by women are also available

futurism.com/future-socie... lol

Grievance #7 in July4th festivus document: "He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands."

Also, the KIDS are raised to think this is a possibility -- aiming for D1 schools in their sport. 10 year olds. Schools are complicit: we have signing ceremonies for any sport at any college, but not colleges which chose students for academic achievement.

The destruction of UK universities is a tragedy for society, not just students and the people who work there. It breaks my heart. It will also, incidentally, harm the economy. The excellence of the universities was an important part of Britain’s global reputation.

A grim day in a grim week in a grim month for UK higher education, with Dundee, Exeter and Hertfordshire all making major announcements of planned redundancies. Shrinkage of the research & teaching base by the invisible hand's visible fist is not an 'us' or 'them', SHAPE or STEM phenomenon. 1/2

With hardly any media coverage one of Britain’s few world-leading sectors is, right now, being decimated. The university funding model does not work and anti-immigrant hysteria has deprived the country of the means by which we met the shortfall: international students.

A statement from Exeter UCU branch @ucu.org.uk - please share far and wide.

In honor of Juneteenth explore the Huntington Library's slavery and abolition collection. #history #earlymodern #huntingtonlibrary #juneteenth #abolition #slavery hdl.huntington.org/digital/coll...

Counterpoint: the only thing this set of people want to get rid of more than academic research is serious teaching.

Congrats to the NY Knicks on their first NBA title in 53 years. I’ll just point out the only game Knicks lost was the one Trump attended. Because everything Trump touches dies. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Important questions for Bluesky: when I was growing up men took their hats off for the National anthem but women didn’t. Now it seems everyone is expected to take their hats off. When did that change?

I mean, I don’t have any experience removing letters from a marble façade, but it doesn’t look to me like they’re doing anything that would be relevant.

He hovered for years on the fringes of the community, generating unease. He never married, had no children, lived alone.One acquaintance described him as ‘a very shy, lonely person’. He was also interested in guns. Kevin Power on the perpetrator of the Dunblane massacre. drb.ie/article/mass...

Out today! 🥳 The King's Dinner: Family, nation, and identity on the British table, 1760-1820: uclpress.co.uk/book/the-kin.... My book with Rachel Rich, @sarahfoxhistory.bsky.social & @adamcrymble.bsky.social. It is #openaccess so come take a look! cc @uclpress.bsky.social #skystorians #foodhistory

Over the next three weeks, we feature the 8 monographs and 8 articles shortlisted for the Society's 2026 First Book & Early Career Article Prizes. Today: 'The Bonds of Freedom. Liberated Africans & the End of the Slave Trade', by Jake Subryan Richards (Yale UP, 2025) bit.ly/4onv2BK 1/2 #Skystorians

Interesting and unusual job posting, for a historian of computing/technology with aspirations to work in the museum field: computerhistory.org/jobs/oral-hi...

This is such an important point: we rightly bemoan the ‘corporatization’ of higher ed but the irony is that many of the corporate managerial practices being imposed on us were discredited and abandoned by for-profit corporations long ago.

I wrote a piece on Hegseth's religious code changes and the specific absurdity of removing the religions of some of our better known Founding Fathers. Up this afternoon @religiondispatches.org with my deepest thanks to @mpgphd.bsky.social for her edits & image. religiondispatches.org/2026/06/08/f...

The historian Gordon Wood, who died yesterday after being run over by a motorist in East Providence, was my dissertation advisor. He was 92. Here are some memories of him. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/gordo...

FYI AP US history has always been a bit of a problem, but also it may be a lot different from what you remember doing in high school as @lindstorian.bsky.social explains!

Teachinge young people how to deeplye engage wyth literature and poetrye and playes and novels ys teachinge them how to access an olde and goode and powerful system for sharinge messages yn tymes of emergencye. Readinge literature ys key to the ongoing struggle for a bettir and more just worlde.

I have an essay in the Irish Times this weekend reflecting on the intimate practice of writing about queer history in Belfast. Warning: contains pillow talk www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

Comment on this monstrosity by June 15

National Park Service has open comment page, for Albert Speer Memorial Arch that is next on MAGA wish list You can make comments here: parkplanning.nps.gov/documentsOpe... That page has lots of "before and after" illustrations. Below, before/after view from near JFK/RFK grave site in Arlington

You can nuance D-Day however you want professionally, but shitting on the idea of it as antifascist heroism, in 2026, in public history and politics settings and discourse, is fucking stupid.

Saying goodbye to my campus office and the amazing view of the county park. @ucmerced.bsky.social #retirement

37 years ago, on the 5th of June 1989, a still unidentified Chinese man blocked a column of tanks near Tiananmen Square a day after that square had been forcibly cleared by the Chinese government. Hundreds of pro-democracy demonstrators had been killed. #otd #history 🗃️

Today’s post brought a grand haul! Thanks @sdamussen.bsky.social @sarahabendall.bsky.social and Leah Astbury!

Who are the influential people on the policy center-left with sway among Democratic elites who are thinking about the reconstruction of the federal government knowledge infrastructure post-Trump & how do we as humanists reach them to make the case for robust public funding for humanities research?

So this is happening!

Judging from the line of cars by the County Hall ballot drop box today, the turnout in this primary will be high!

The fact I need to download an app for my car, my washing machine, the water detector thing, never mind for the grocery store, the pharmacy, etc. IT HAS NOT MADE MY LIFE EASIER. The whole thing is brilliant, especially the bit about QR codes in restaurants and parking apps.