Solar-panel-covered canals have their day in the sun in California California realizing an idea to save billions of gallons of water each year and produce enough clean energy to power a city the size of Los Angeles for nine months annually .. www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/solar-p...

What do you think Eric Adams is doing today

This is such a great thread. Field or subfield preoccupations wax and wane. If you’re getting salty instead of rolling with it, it may be time to just pass the baton (quietly)

1975 was closer to 2000 than we are

I’ll take it.

Newish article on a fascinating topic by Jennifer Rae Greeson on "Thomas Hobbes, the Virginia Company, and the Invention of Corporate Sovereignty" www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

This remains one of the best cooking tips out there m.youtube.com/watch?v=J2Tk...

New Year’s Day, Cambridge

VJ is now officially an old timey profession, like blacksmith or cooper

This one hits in the feels. I have vague memories of tokens from childhood visits but the metrocard was a constant companion of my years in NYC www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/n...

Internet killed the video star deadline.com/2025/12/mtv-...

No ruling yet on if the chamber pot makes the room en suite www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

No way I’m staying up til midnight. Happy New Year!

In this essay, brought to you by Doritos, I will argue

This has been a very nice spot for morning coffee

Bison return to Illinois’ Kane County after 200 years, a crucial step for conservation and Indigenous connection www.seattletimes.com/nation-world... #goodnews

People should celebrate those who manage to retire gracefully

New Journal of American History issue is up 🗃️ academic.oup.com/jah/issue/11...

This whole thread is hilarious. Driving ‘round in Jon Voight’s car energy

Here it comes!

I cataloged manuscripts for a collection that had a copy of the Constitution signed by Benjamin Franklin, and it somehow got misfiled. Everyone was put to work in teams to find it by methodically checking every box in the vault. Took several nerve-racking days before it finally turned up.

Looks very homemade but was good

#academicsky this is wild stuff

Come work with me at the Minnesota Historical Society! We’re looking for our next Gale Scholar to join the Research team. Apply by February 16 for full consideration, and feel free to reach out to me with any questions! workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/defau...

My forthcoming book— For which I began research in 2006. Is now posted on the website for Princeton University Press. Cover will be added soon. The King’s Slaves: The British Empire & the Origins of American Slavery

🗃️ My History Department is hiring for a tenure track position in Native American history. See link for details! jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

A talk at a California high school in the 1970s by the man who Ishi revealed himself to in 1911. 🗃️ m.youtube.com/watch?v=fmu4...

This is GREAT news for students

There were thousands of exhibits at the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. My favorite is an interactive map designed long before there was GIS: Ives’ Mechanical Map of US Territorial Acquisitions 🗃️ m.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_Cl...

December 15 marks 10 years since the Truth and Reconciliation Commission released its Final Report on residential school and called for changes to address the legacy of colonialism in Canada. For justice and healing, remembrance must be matched with the full implementation of the Calls to Action. 🇨🇦

The latest Western Historical Quarterly issue is up. Among other things, it’s got a doozy of an article on ‘rabbit drives,’ a once common but now obscure spectacle where men and boys slaughtered rabbits in pens by the thousands 🗃️ academic.oup.com/whq/article/...

Our 2025 ANCH journal prize goes to the exceptional @aishadjelid.bsky.social and her article on slavery and forced intimacy, which has now reached a simply staggering 82,000 VIEWS! Amazing work 🥳 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

US-Japan archaeological team argues strong similarities between very earliest US lithic technology and lithic tech from Hokkaido means that isolated groups on Hokkaido may have used boats to hop along Beringia coast to Americas 18-22K yrs ago (no walk across the land bridge at all). (From Oct.)

Great list of book recs from Charles C. Mann. Our research interests tend to be similar, so YMMV. I'll be scooping up his recommendations on new Stewart Brand and two books on Western rivers. Of the latter category, add The Dreamt Land by Mark Arax which blew me away this year. amzn.to/3XRpB1E

It exists!

Proofs!

Is not putting page numbers on essays a generational thing? This is a pet peeve hill worth dying on

He must be a hoot at committee meetings

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don’t miss the 2025 @contingent-mag.bsky.social book list! inclusive & welcoming as ever, Contingent curates a list where the hard part is not getting on it, but rather, the hard part is researching & writing a book while contingent contingentmagazine.org/2025/12/02/2...

As fall comes to a close, the #JERPano would like to introduce another one of our authors—Daniel Carpenter. Read Carpenter’s Fall 2025 piece, “Petitioning as Governance: The Scattered and Multinational World of the Early United States” at: muse.jhu.edu/article/969333

Pretty sweet winter lights show at the Cambridge Botanic Garden

I'm very grateful to the Paul E. Lovejoy Prize jury and @journalslavery.bsky.social for this recognition! Congrats to the winner, Magdalena Moorthy Kloss, and other finalists. brill.com/view/journal...

The John Quincy Adams line-a-day diary is now on Bluesky! We're looking forward to what @jqadams-mhs.bsky.social has in store for the rest of 1825.

Research fellowship applications for the 2026-2027 academic year are now open! Join our scholarly community and enrich your historical scholarship at the MHS. Apply now: masshistfellowships.slideroom.com?fbclid=IwY2x...

The recording of our Hidden Histories of Unauthorized Migrations from Europe to the US webinar is now available at cla.umn.edu/ihrc/news-ev... @iehs.bsky.social @migrationcollab.bsky.social @illinoispress.bsky.social

New book from @ucpress.bsky.social: Extracting the Future: Lithium in an Era of Energy Transition by Mark Goodale www.ucpress.edu/books/extrac...

Reading William G. McLoughlin’s Cherokee Renascence today. One of those load-bearing books, still essential decades after publication archive.org/details/cher...

Really, really agree with this piece from Huffpo. We don't have to accept the aura of AI inevitability. We can, and should, refuse to engage with it in our classrooms (and elsewhere, but especially in the classroom!)

Interested in beavers, the fur trade, and environmental history? I was honored to be a guest on the Minnesota Historical Society’s award-winning podcast, Minnesota Unraveled, on their most recent episode: “Beaver Tales: From Minnesota’s Ice Age to the Present.” Give it a listen!