‪Muster's @robertdbland.bsky.social discusses the JCWE June special issue on material culture with guest editors joanecashin.bsky.social‬ and Alaina E. Roberts: https://www.journalofthecivilwarera.org/2025/07/conversation-with-june-2025-special-issue-editors-joan-e-cashin-and-alaina-e-roberts/

Now on First View: The latest MAH Q&A on how the national crisis in higher ed affects historians of the modern United States. Lauren Jae Gutterman speaks to Julio Capó, Jr., Joan E. Cashin, Alex Lichtenstein, and Melanie Newport. Read the full Q&A here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Today is the official release date for my new book about free people of color in the Civil War era. My first book events are coming up next month in the Boston area. I’ll be at the Cambridge Public Library on 5/13 and the Museum of African American History on 5/14. Both events start at 6 pm.

5 Resistance Museums Recall the Bravery of ‘Ordinary People’ www.nytimes.com/2026/04/24/t...

“Demand letters to universities, a compact which is nothing more than a loyalty oath, ideologically driven state houses that are ending tenure and collective-bargaining rights, ending academic freedom — and you’re going to tell me I should be neutral?”

#OTD in 1892, The Awakening by Kate Chopin is published. lithub.com/lit-hub-dail... Works by Chopin at PG: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho... #books #literature

Harvard’s slavery researchers quitting or being fired... "My role was to hold down a desk that allowed Harvard to mislead the press about how serious they were about making reparations and confronting centuries of profiting from slavery." #AcademicSky www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

JOB: Associate Professor/Professor, History of Medicine, McMaster University Cross-appointed with Division of Infectious Diseases universityaffairs.ca/search-jobs/...

You always know when Women's History Month starts because of @pdtoler.bsky.social's annual blog series. Don't miss reading about the people who do the work of women's history. 🗃️ #WomensHistoryMonth www.historyinthemargins.com/2026/03/02/t...

Lawrence Summers Will Resign From Harvard After Epstein Revelations www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/u...

A Wake for The Washington Post’s Books Section www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/b... A serious loss for readers and writers everywhere.

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

Food for thought. An Anti-A.I. Movement Is Coming. Which Party Will Lead It? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/o...

“The more we gave in, the more we complied with that kind of treatment, the more oppressive it became.” #OnThisDay, 1 Dec 1955, Rosa Parks does *not* give up her seat on the bus for a white passenger, and is arrested. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory 🗃️ 1/4

Including Larry Summers's wife, Elisa New, professor of American literature at Harvard.

Many thanks to the GAR Museum in Philadelphia for hosting a talk on my book, WAR STUFF. A great audience with great questions.

Call for proposals: MIDDLE WEST REVIEW, special issue on "The Modern Midwest, 1989-2025." Send a proposal of 300 words and a vita to [email protected] by October 1. #History #Midwest

A Foremost Scholar of Slavery Wonders if America Can Ever Atone www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/b...

Attention food historians, urban historians, immigration scholars, and gender studies specialists: a fascinating exhibit curated by Shiyong Lu, who received her BA at Ohio State and is now in the doctoral program at NYU. www.nyhistory.org/exhibitions/...

Dear Cambridge Univ Press authors, Did you get the recent post about the AI Aggregation, and what are your thoughts? Best, Joan

After they destroyed the Rose Garden, they want to ruin the entire building. Jackie Kennedy turns over in her grave. White House Unveils Plan for $200 Million Ballroom, Trump’s Long-Sought Imprint www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/u...

A long-forgotten African American cemetery in Jacksonville, where World War II veterans and descendants of enslaved families are buried, is finally receiving the honor and recognition it deserves. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRGq...

BREAKING: @theassemblync.bsky.social obtained an email in which UNC-Chapel Hill's ex-provost said Chancellor Lee Roberts agreed to the Board of Trustees’ controversial move to delay tenure votes for financial reasons. From me & @themhartman.bsky.social www.theassemblync.com/education/hi...

Just returned from a great trip to the Filson Historical Society in Louisville. Marvelous holdings for the history of the Ohio River Valley and the 19th century overall. Plus they have travel fellowships: filsonhistorical.org/about-us/fel...

After floods killed more than 130 people and initially left over 100 missing in Kerr County, first responders and volunteers have worked to return cherished belongings swept away in the disaster. NBC News spoke with locals about the items recovered and their powerful meaning. nbcnews.to/4lDecwx

Happy Nelson Mandela International Day #MandelaDay2025 #MandelaDay

The father's political views are just as appalling. See my essay on HUFF POST, 29 Jan 2017: "Trump Family History: Donald, Fred, and the Ku Klux Klan."

COLUMBUS OH - Ohio’s public universities are spending millions to comply w/Senate Bill 1 as the sweeping law forces institutions to dismantle diversity offices, cut academic programs & overhaul operations across all 37 public colleges & universities by Laura Hancock www.cleveland.com/open/2025/07...

The Bayeux Tapestry, a British Masterpiece, Returns to England After 900 Years www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/w... #History#TextileTuesday#MedievalHistory

A Minnesota Lawmaker and Her Husband Are Lying in State. Next to Them: Their Golden Retriever. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/u... #dogs #dogsofbluesky

Trying to help spread the word about NARA. It isn't as bad as we thought, but bad news spreads quickly and is hard to rebut. 🗃️

‘No Kings’ Protests Across the United States www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/u... This map left off all the protests in central Ohio. More than one, and all well-documented. New York Times, do better.

A Cutting French Senator Becomes Trump’s European Nemesis www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/w...

Academic freedom and higher education are under fire as a wave of legislation moves forward in Ohio, Texas, Florida, and elsewhere @aaup.bsky.social @apnews.com insightintoacademia.com/academic-fre...

“Just three people” took on Ohio education law — and sparked a movement Since their petition was certified on May 5, the group has secured a cohort of more than 1,500 volunteers statewide to help with signature gathering to repeal SB1. www.salon.com/2025/06/07/j...

A Black Eye at the White House: Who Punched Elon? www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/u.... Maybe he did it to himself, to get attention.

🎬 Watch BEING A HISTORIAN - 📜 5 historians share the excitement & frustration of life as a professional historian w/ Miri Rubin, Q. Skinner, Darrin McMahon, Josiah Ober, Richard Janko & Teo Ruiz. 🎬 ideasroadshow.com/being-a-hist... 🗃️ #AncientBlueSky #ClassicsBlueSky #medievalsky 🏺 #SkyStorians

I'm proud of the stand my alma mater, Harvard University, has been taking lately. And remember: Harvard offers free online courses on civics and government (choose the "audit" option when selecting a course). pll.harvard.edu/subject/gove...

#MemorialDay🇺🇸 @epennysworth.bsky.social @judithbolyard.bsky.social @free2beme.bsky.social @rcnc.bsky.social @hkdevine.bsky.social @wisewonders.bsky.social @afforsyth.bsky.social @turquoise-cat.bsky.social @catherinezoltan.bsky.social @chrros.bsky.social @obitala.bsky.social @ltwlauren.bsky.social

Hey everybody, check out the June issue of JOURNAL OF THE CIVIL WAR ERA. Alaina Roberts and I organized a special issue on material culture, with great essays by Laura Edwards and Amy Murrell Taylor and a fascinating roundtable by Alaina, Julie Reed, Karen Shade-Lanier, and Melissa Payne.

This is a disaster for American history, historians, and students. I have my students use this every semester to learn to navigate primary sources and to explore topics of their choosing. 🗃️

1/ Under an executive order issued in January, 47 has started to churn out his own approved version of US history that professional historians fear will resort to the tried & tested authoritarian playbook of airbrushing out inconvenient chapters that don't align w/ his vision of American greatness.

As Harvard Battles Trump, Its President Will Take a 25% Pay Cut www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/u... An example to leaders at other universities under attack.

Psss! All #Historians on #AcademicSky and #HASS #History #Scholarship @sociologyaustralia.bsky.social may be able to promote also

New Pope Has Creole Roots in New Orleans www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/u... American history, everybody.

Last Saturday's #TeslaTakedown at Easton in Columbus, OH. The weather forecast for tomorrow's protest is☀️with spring temperatures. Join the peaceful gathering from 4:30 - 5:30 and let your voices (and signs) be heard! youtu.be/hOlnCUEhjp8

Contemporary printmaker Julia Lucey often employs aquatint etchings, printing them, cutting out elements by hand, and collaging them, layer upon layer #WomrnsArt

Veritas.

This Is How Universities Can Escape Trump’s Trap, If They Dare www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/o...