There’s a house in my part of town with a flagpole flying US and German flags. They’ve turned their front yard into a kind of Schrebergarten – and are out there all the time. Makes me chuckle every time I drive by.

I love the @wendemuseum.bsky.social and love being able to have my students do things there (tours, research, internships). It really shows how a museum can be an anchor institution for a neighborhood, all the more so with the new Glorya Kaufman Community Center. www.latimes.com/lifestyle/st...

If you are at the #aaslh2025 meeting & going to Friday morning’s poster session, be sure to stop at The Marymount Tradition poster to learn about LMU students’ oral history & digital history project about the history of Marymount College & its merger w/ Loyola University. No Marymount, No Merger!

History majors have lower unemployment than computer science majors. Folks with humanities graduate degrees are more sought after by corporate recruiters than those with MBAs. Study history! Get a job!

I sat next to one of the co-authors of this paper (Morgan Cable from JPL) on a flight from Frankfurt to LA this summer. And while I normally try to avoid plane conversations, we had a great chat about her work at JPL, including this article: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Exciting to see it out! 1/2

Kara Walker's work is always so thought-provoking, a challenge to consider our past. And I am so excited to see her deconstruction of the Stonewall Jackson monument and the entire Monuments exhibition. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/a...

SCOTUS now ~officially~ allows the Trump admin and the Court to overrule centuries old cases on the shadow docket. Apparently "irreparable harm" entitling the gov't to a stay now means "The Trump admin can't preemptively by fiat overrule cases it & we don't like."

BREAKING: By an apparent 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court halts an injunction that had prevented immigration agents from racially profiling Latinos in central California. Sotomayor, dissenting, says the decision is "unconscionably irreconcilable with our nation's constitutional guarantees."

if i had the opportunity to ask a question of anyone in the administration, given this "war in chicago" messaging, i would ask them how many americans the president intends to kill in his war

The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city. This is not a joke. This is not normal. Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.

Live footage of historians these days

In the coming days, we expect to see what's playing out in LA and DC happen in Chicago. These efforts are not about fighting crime or making communities safer. This is about Donald Trump testing his power and producing political drama to cover up his own corruption.

Pritzker: Any rational person who has spent even the most minimal amount of time studying human history has to ask themselves one important question: Once they get the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law, what comes next

We’ve compiled a few essential tips, drawn from the experiences of on-the-ground activists and immigrant rights groups. Guide: lataco.com/documenting-...

Illinois Gov. Pritzker ahead of Trump National Guard deployment: "To Chicagoans... Look out for your communities and your neighbours. Know your rights. Film things that you see happening... Authoritarians thrive on your silence. Be loud for America."

Let's give a shout out to the men & women who labor in the fields to put food on our tables. #WeFeedYou #LaborDay. Mandemosle un saludo a los hombres y mujeres que trabajan en el campo para poner comida en nuestras mesas. Thank you Ignacio Gomez for letting us use this art

I have been a loyal reader of the @nytimes.com Kids Section for the past 8 years. The last issue was today. 😢 Reading kids talk about what's important to them was always my favorite part. Case in point: this advice about conquering middle school. The advice is just as good for college – and life!

BBC reveals web of spammers profiting from AI Holocaust images

OPINION: "While some process their grief through photography, through writing and by remembering hardships, others have not yet peeled back the layers of their grief," writes. "What others may choose to release is held. Katrina, like many disasters, exposed both the best and worst of humanity."

I remember the first time I visited Bay Waveland after the storm. It was hard to describe it to others.

It's the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina's landfall on the Gulf Coast. At the time, I was living about an hour north of the coast in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. I have such vivid memories of those days... www.npr.org/2025/08/29/n... 1/4

It's the very beginning of the school year and already there's been a school shooting. But instead of enacting real and meaningful gun control measures, the administration is sending armed National Guard to patrol the Mall and Union Station. wapo.st/420xPXq

Yes! Finally one in my German history wheelhouse. Though I also seem to be incapable of watching and posting at the same time.

Sharing just because I loved (love) "Goodnight, Moon" and "The Runaway Bunny," and Margaret Wise Brown was a fascinating woman.

Illinois Gov. Pritzker vows to pursue Trump officials who participate in an illegal National Guard deployment to Chicago: "If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."

We are coming up on the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. So much was broken in response to the storm, but not the Coast Guard – they worked tirelessly to help and save people. And now this...just awful.

😆 🔥 some beautiful, creative resistance

"Anton Wilhelm Amo, geboren um 1703 im heutigen Ghana, war der erste bekannte Philosoph und Jurist afrikanischer Herkunft an deutschen Universitäten. Er lehrte in Wittenberg, Halle und Jena."

So happy to see this article by my friend and colleague @amywb.bsky.social out in the world. It's a fascinating exploration of exhibition "trophies" – and once you read it, you'll start to see trophies everywhere. Trust me! And it's open access, so click away! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

If the AI bubble really is bursting, please take this lesson from it: Nothing marketed to you this relentlessly is ever worth it. If it was, they wouldn’t need to beg you.

I was on the minimalist side in a lopsided dorm room my freshman year. My roommate's side was fancied up by Gen X standards: curtains that matched the sink skirt that matched the bedding, lots of pillows. I had a much beloved quilt made by my grandmother, one pillow, and books. wapo.st/45LEVQT

The Ukrainian Embassy is my favorite embassy. The Forrest-Marbury house – Urial Forrest (not NB!), a founder of DC (Free DC!), and yes, that Marbury. But it's not just the history or architecture. For years, I passed this building as I walked back and forth between Rosslyn and Georgetown. Nostalgia.

CNN “reporters” keep talking about whether Zelenskyy will wear a suit and tie, because not doing so last time so irked the Trumpists. And good lord, I hope that he doesn’t wear one! And maybe the press can stop with such nonsense.

I'll admit, I was skeptical when they said Gemini was just like a bunch of PhDs. But I gotta admit they nailed it.

"American colleges and universities should be countercultural institutions...to allow undergraduates the opportunity to contemplate the human predicament and determine the sort of life they’d like to lead and the sort of nation they’d like to inhabit." www.chronicle.com/article/they...

A great read on UChicago, arguing we’re seeing the result of decades of mismanagement: “The university’s trustees and leaders view it preeminently as a tax-free technology incubator, and its debt load is so great that it is abandoning ideals it once held dear in order to sustain that goal.”

Is anyone surprised that T caved and abandoned our allies? 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...

This is an appalling move from the MPD chief. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

They remind me of the first-year Georgetown students who wander around the neighborhood in packs looking for parties for the first few weeks of the academic year. 🤣

Prague, 1968 — photo by Josef Koudelka

I fundamentally disagree with the foundational premises of this report. What the committee takes as settled, I very much do not.

I’m staring at the sentence about using “generative AI to produce a historical image.” What does the word “historical” mean in this sentence? Vibes?

This piece lays out all the reasons AI is ill-suited for historical work — getting facts wrong, relying on existing sources only, churning out banal claims in bland prose, etc — and then asserts we’ll all just have to use it anyway. Yeah, no.

Nice article about Br. Guy and the Vatican Observatory, one that really gets at Catholic ideas about faith and reason (and religion and science).

I’ve been to a Good Pierogi pop-up in LA, and they make truly delicious pierogi. So AD is really missing out. 😂 And 👏👏👏 to Krem.

“American Academy of Arts&Sciences reports 96.3% of humanities grads age 23-32 fully employed. Earnings in humanitiess comparable to social/life sciences, job satisfaction levels too. A serious mismatch bw actual employment for hum grads +general perception." www.mellon.org/voices/human...

"Saul" has been working harvesting strawberries on CAs Central Coast. He shares: It's a tiring job. I worked all day hunched over harvesting. I had to pick as fast as I could as I earn piece rate and this is the only way I might earn a couple of extra dollars. #WeFeedYou

I knew it was coming when the clawback vote passed, but this headline still provoked a kind of mourning in me. The attack on the CPB is so petty and senseless. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/b...

Teaching my Other Europes course again this fall & in response to student interest am expanding focus on queer & trans history & on disability history. Historian friends, any recs for favorite articles/book chapters &/or primary sources that work well w/ undergrads? 19th-20th c. focus. Thanks! 🗃️

Someone on here compared AI produced material as "digital asbestos " which in a few decades' time we will have to work out how to eradicate from the fabric of research.