Looking for a speaker for your 250 event? Want to better understand how the heck we got here? Call your local early American historian! civics.shear.org

The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is home to the stunning Cuypers Library, the largest and oldest art history research library in the Netherlands #museum #rijksmuseum #travel #books #library

So excited to see FREEDOM ROUND THE GLOBE out in the world, by my brilliant friend Sarah Pearsall. It's *really* good. But don't take my word for it...

It is publication day for my book, White Power: Policing American Slavery. Here’s the unboxing, with a trip down memory lane. Thanks so much to those who helped make this a reality, esp. my amazing agent Dani Segelbaum, @dgershenowitz.bsky.social @uncpress.bsky.social @sonyabonczek.bsky.social

The Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Loyola University New Orleans shared my Indigenous America digital class project on LOYNO's website and socials. Very grateful that our collaborative work stood out to university administration. More here: cas.loyno.edu/news/may-15-...

Ad Hoc Special Committee of the Board declares

I promised myself when I left my position at NEH that after a year had passed, I'd write something about my experience as an un/under/employed former fed. Here it is: halperta.com/public%20wri...

Some very good news

This is the funniest headline photo combo. There are like 8 books on that shelf www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2026...

You can pre-order The Almighty Dollar now! People are saying it's a very good book. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/634502...

Clarence Thomas fuming rn

“Among 97·1 million verified references, we identified 4046 fabricated references across 2810 papers” Every paper with a fabricated reference should be retracted.

Stolen Representation by Michael P. Olson This book uses a tremendous amount of new historical data to illuminate how voting rights shape legislative representation. 📚 https://cup.org/4tt9W6u

Seems like all the university presses are having huge spring sales right now….

All those Chuck Norris jokes shoulda been about John Brown

This looks really good

Grateful my book Freedom Enterprise received Honorable Mention for the Jon Gjerde Prize!

More book events + a commencement address at University of Lynchburg this month! Been a busy but fun spring so far.

Nice surprise waiting for me when I got home. Launching next month!

‘“I think, academically, I would describe it as a load of old phooey," says Grosvenor, who believes a lot of art historical colleagues are too nervous to speak out.’ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The impact of the Voting Rights Act on Black representation in the House. Pretty damn clear. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Shocking but not surprising. Voting Rights Act just got eviscerated by the Supreme Court www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

People, it is PUBLICATION DAY for Stealing America!! It is officially available to purchase online or in your favorite local bookstore. Come snag your own book cover cookies at RiffRaff in Providence this evening! I'll be joined by my friend and colleague, Mack Scott @ 7 pm.

It's officially release day for Dangerous Migration. You can still order here www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0... and get 30% off with promo code S26UIP.

Love me some art world drama. Read to the end www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

Need to stop checking NEH related news. It’s always bad www.bizjournals.com/portland/new...

Hi everyone! My book, Egypt's Mediterranean, came out with @ucpress.bsky.social on Tuesday 💙💛 It's a new look at how Egypt fit into the political economy of the Ottoman Empire and eastern Mediterranean. Please enjoy the *beautiful* cover art by Mohamed Gohar (@mohamed.gohar on IG)

Job openings. Assistant/Associate Editors, Massachusetts Historical Society, Papers of John Adams. masshist.org/job-announce...

„Wenn ich untergehe, laßt meine Bilder nicht sterben.“ Der Maler Felix Nussbaum beendete u.versteckte am 18. April 1944 sein letztes von ihm fertiggestelltes Bild in seinem Brüsseler Versteck.Kurz danach wurde er entdeckt und zusammen mit seiner Frau Felka Platek verhaftet, deportiert,ermordet  

Cambridge is very flat except for these chalk pits

Carlton C. Qualey Memorial Award Lila Teeters Knolle, “Indians Now Taxed: Citizenship and Taxation in Settler-Colonial South Dakota” #OAH26 6/

Tomorrow at OAH in Philadelphia, commenting on papers about crowd action and the Revolutionary era by VanJessica Gladney, Grant Stanton and @bencarp.bsky.social -- & thinking and talking about Ed Countryman whose subtle, dialectical take on crowds and politics entranced me and sent me on my journey.

Crazy stat from 1975: 5% of the population in the US owned nearly 2/3 of the privately held land. Wonder what it is today...

An in-depth analysis worth reading

Congratulations to our award winners at #OAH26! We’re proud to recognize the outstanding scholarship, teaching, and service across our community. See the full list of awardees here: https://ow.ly/R5nY50YLwkY

Very sad. Few places like this. Was like a northern New College before that one got destroyed by different means

They’re trying to clip out the fact that the early guides were slaves eu.courier-journal.com/story/news/l...

The US used to have a federal balloon-school, now look at it

Some good news www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/p...

I’m delighted to have my new book featured on The Way of Improvement Leads Home! @uncpress.bsky.social @emaisner.bsky.social @catehodorowicz.bsky.social thewayofimprovement.blog/2026/04/06/t... on

New evidence indicates Native Americans were playing dice at least 12,000 years ago, many millennia before evidence of their appearance in the Middle East or Europe www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

***Immigration and Ethnic History Society YouTube Channel*** Please visit the IEHS YouTube channel to watch clips from our past virtual events, including book talks, panel discussions, and more. These clips are great teaching tools! www.youtube.com/@iehs_org

Want to read an excerpt from the Prologue of THE WESTERNERS before committing to the whole book? If so, get thee to @literaryhub.bsky.social! lithub.com/frederick-ja...

This is a really important piece, which I would commend to anyone interested in the future of creativity under finance capitalism. The pressures on the art world are in some ways distinct from those encroaching on the humanities but there are also plenty of overlaps. doi.org/10.1162/OCTO...

Great feeling to open a library book and know you’ll never get a 404 error

The APS is hiring! We are seeking a special project fellow to assist with research on the Society’s Thomas Jefferson Garden, located just across the street from Independence Hall. Find more information and apply here: https://bit.ly/4sjEjv6

100 days from the release of my new book, Tarnished Promises: Indian Peace Medals in North America. Please feel free to reach out if you'd like to learn more or discuss a future speaking opportunity. upcolorado.com/university-p... #history #nonfiction #books #medals #NativeAmericanHistory #museums

Trying to appreciate the small things, like not having to wear gloves on my bike commute home today for the first time this year

There’s a long record of US leaders threatening to annihilate whole groups of people for refusing to bend the knee. In the revolutionary era the common threat leveled at Indigenous nations was “extirpation”. See www.jstor.org/stable/10.53...

This is why I love footnotes