My Element is out out featuring several #earlymodern mobile lives and open access too. Let me know if you use it in your teaching and if you like it. Woohoo! 🎉 www.cambridge.org/core/element...

A new website w/database on the 1680s Scottish migration to East New Jersey is 'live' #earlymodern #VastEarlyAmerica eastjerseybound.scot

A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.

Now they have come for the NEH, and with it my beloved Humanities Tennessee and Chapter 16, where I spent 10 years of my professional life. The fact that it was inevitable in this Orwellian year of 2025 doesn’t make it any less heartbreaking. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/o...

For no particular reason, an old blog post of mine about "Barefoot Running and Goatmeat" (and yes, I am vegetarian)! tentsmuir.wordpress.com/2013/12/30/b... #Running #Barefoot #RunChat #Privateer #Run #Runner #LowCarb #LowSalt @barefootrunning.bsky.social

“Americans really like book festivals and local history museums…We especially like it when such gifts are available to everyone, and not just to those who can afford the price of a ticket.” Excellent @margaretrenkl.bsky.social on the high ROI of the NEH. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/o...

NEH funding terminated. Here are some talking points, links, for those in SC but also federal resources. I’m proud to serve on SC Hum Board. Contact any and all to advocate. What impacts one, impacts us all #NEH schumanities.org/advocacy-act...

Parallel map for NEH funding to states. NB that 40% of NEH funding goes directly to the state humanities councils, which do critical community work and which benefits people --culturally and economically-- all across the country. www.neh.gov/impact/states

These rumors have been confirmed, Blueskis. I am enraged.

How did people conceptualize disability in the past? In the latest for Broadsides, Anna Conner explores disability and identity in C17 naval petitions. #skystorians #histmed www.nacbs.org/post/shiftin...

Gently, respectfully, placing this posthumously published 1949 view from Bloch…here…

So happy to be connected together again, Annika! @mouseemperor.bsky.social

I know I am a nobody grad student but I’m also a museum worker of ~a decade, & I’m really imploring Big Name historians who will write op-eds & go on msnbc to rail against this EO to be as loud & clear about the people whose lives & work are at stake here as you will abt the ideological warfare

Please join the Department of History for “State of the Field: A Conversation About US History” on April 16 at 4:30 in the John Hope Franklin Room (SSRB 224). The event will feature Sven Beckert, Martha Jones, and David Waldstreicher.

Be kind to newly minted PhDs of US History. How could they foresee the obstacles they now face? I am so pleased that advisors pointed me towards Atlantic topics. Buy these new US PhD folk their choice from the top shelf. They will need it.

The new issue of the 'Journal of the British Academy' offers a range of perspectives 'On recent closures and threats of closure in the Humanities and Social Sciences' bit.ly/3FGuPHE These include "Reflections on History closures' bit.ly/4iIJsc9 by @eicathomefinn.bsky.social #Skystorians

taking the long way from eastern market to tenleytown part 1(?) 📍USHMM

Given that it is #WomensHistoryMonth & I'm settled into Bsky here's a bit of info on my research. Almost 327 yrs ago ships left #Scotland for Panama. This map from @uofglasgowasc.bsky.social Darien; Spencer Col is a ship-view that travelers saw. It’s the closest we have to understanding their view.

We had the good fortune to talk with Dr. Marjoleine Kars this afternoon about North Carolina’s Regulator Rebellion for an upcoming episode of Worlds Turned Upside Down. Look for Kars soon in Episode 14: “The Corruption” and check out her book, Breaking Loose Together, from @uncpress.bsky.social.

I don't publish much, but are some of my articles... History: The Truth Behind My Lai - www.nytimes.com/2018/03/16/o... Teaching Colonization and Decolonization During the “CRT” Panic - activisthistory.com/2022/02/11/t...

AHA–OAH Joint Statement on Federal Censorship of American History www.historians.org/news/aha-oah... #skystorians 🗃️

Doing a little fact finding, #skystorians Do US faculty at your Uni have representation w/in the Board of Trustees? Thx for sharing for broader reach & thx for responding 😉 @roperlou.bsky.social @phdrachel.bsky.social #HATM @tadstoermer.bsky.social

For anyone interested in #c18th political or electoral history & for students researching EPQs, special subjects &/or final year dissertations, do check out the wealth of data & information available on our Political Participation & Electoral Culture (ECPPEC) website #skystorians 🗃️ecppec.ncl.ac.uk

The Call for Papers for NACBS 2025 is now open! Join us in Montreal! www.nacbs.org/call-for-pap...

My book The Gift was reviewed in the Hispanic American Historical Review by. The review summarizes the book and is below if you are curious. Hope it encourages you to ask your library to get it and to possibly assign it. It's 20 % off on Amazon www.amazon.com/Gift-Prestig... #slaveryarchive

New 'double' issue of Journal of Early American History just out. 'Special issue': Business of Empire in the Atlantic' ed. by Catia Antunes as well as articles by Evan Haefeli, Francis Bremer, and 'The' Jaap Jacobs 🤣 (some OA): brill.com/view/journal...

Sounds fantastically useful! Thanks for the share.

❤️ Happy to see my The Gift: How Objects of Prestige Shaped the Atlantic Slave Trade and Colonialism next to next to award-winning books of dear Mariana Candido and José Ligna Nafafé in the printed program African Studies Association meeting to be held this December in Chicago ❤️ #slaveryarchive

New Book! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 "Captive Cosmopolitans: Black Mariners and the World of the South Atlantic Slavery" by Dr. Mary Hicks is now on pre-sale and on discount! uncpress.org/book/9781469...

Re/turning to Bluesky, can at least do it with a big post. Advance copy of my new book!

I've been thinking about why so many history students get themselves into a pickle by thinking an argument comes *before* research. More at my blog: catherinedenial.org/blog/uncateg...

Here is a fascinating article by Fara Dabhoiwala in the LRB about the 18c Afro-Jamaica polymath Francis Williams (c, 1690-c. 1770). Brilliant detective work on the level of Carlo Ginsburg. And it has a Benjamin Lay connection! www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

It is our purpose to be the light that shines. And to remind others that they are stars also.—John Lewis John Lewis was a man I’d long admired but never read. Finished this this morning.