Made some bbq chicken on the grill

‘Like a sauna’: London tube travellers swelter in temperatures higher than legal limit for cattle

Watched the movie Aftersun a couple of weeks ago and am still thinking about it every day

More land back for the Rappahannock Tribe and the sacred Fones Cliffs site. ❤️‍🔥

Sanborn maps are super fun, too! They are historical fire insurance maps and they contain detailed information about properties and individual buildings in approximately 12,000 American cities and towns. www.loc.gov/item/sanborn...

It’s now the weekend, so I’ll be sweltering at home instead of sweltering at the office

This is by far the funniest thing happening in politics right now edition.cnn.com/2026/07/09/u...

The 1776 report 2.0 studied the National Museum of American History “for months” but apparently forgot to visit the museum. newrepublic.com/article/2128...

Summer issue of the Journal of the Early Republic is up. Interesting article on Cherokee expulsion from Texas, among other things 🗃️ muse.jhu.edu/issue/56958

Getting rid of grades in favor of qualitative assessment is looking more and more attractive www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

1/ I looked at 20 years of Supreme Court decisions and found that for the first time, all nine justices decided more cases by secret ballot — aka the “shadow docket” — than it did for cases argued in open court last term. 🧵:

Just ate aligot for the first time. Life affirming. Put it on your bucket list.

Huge congratulations to long-time podcast co-host & PhD candidate @sheahendry.bsky.social for her publication in AHR's special issue “‘76 Objects” marking the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence! academic.oup.com/ahr/article/... @historians.org @camhistory.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk

Happy Fourth of July from the UK! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Imagine if Lin-Manuel Miranda had done a promotional blitz for Hamilton not acknowledging it was adapted from Chernow’s biography

Amid 250th celebrations, stop by the APS for our essential exhibition: “These Truths: The Declarations of Independence." Hear Mary Grace Wahl, Associate Director of the APS Museum, share her favorite collection of items from the exhibition and see it for yourself until Jan. 3. amphilsoc.org/museum.

Very cool data viz

This is a great article about what has got to be one of the most expensive corporate blunders of all time

I love radio garden so much. Tonight I was scrolling through a Georgia and found this Conyers Old Time Radio station that just plays old time radio material. The man with the stolen face is playing rn. Listen to Conyers Old Time Radio live on Radio Garden

This is a new one: Kids school cancelled swimming because it’s too hot

Another big anniversary this week www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

"Thinking through forests: Colonialism, capitalism, and the global timber trade". Iva Lučić and I are excited to share the special issue on Timber Colonialism. #envhist @nichecanada.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

UPDATES: -The Great Lakes Fire History Digital Archive has hit the 100 item mark! -I’ve also built out an expanded “About” section explaining the project and how to use the site. -The “Suggested Materials” page now features relevant historical markers throughout the region. #envhist #envhum

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I honestly think Summer Streets are the best events in NYC, and possibly the world. 10 miles of car free walking, riding, and jogging through all of Manhattan, completely free. Just unbeatable.

Mozart manuscript discovered at French National Library to be performed for the first time

Big news, people! Thanks to my dedicated colleagues at @clementslibrary.bsky.social, all 139 volumes of the American Series of the Papers of General Thomas Gage are all now fully digitized and live on the University of Michigan website. Just in time for July 4th! quod.lib.umich.edu/g/gage/

Today is the official end of my eight years' affiliation with Oxford - and most importantly, with the Bodleian Libraries. A few fond reflections on the best and most bizarre library system on the planet - a network so vast and byzantine that it's hard to say how many libraries it actually contains:

My latest in Boston Review:

RIP Carlo Ginzburg (1939-2026) a giant of historical thought and a mensch www.repubblica.it/cultura/2026...

Turned in the manuscript for a 10 year anniversary edition of Masterless Men yesterday! @universitypress.cambridge.org The new version is shorter (<100k words) & has a new Introduction & a Foreword by Pulitzer Prize winner Steven Hahn. Out next year.😊 Original: a.co/d/01Vkx0IW

Delaware was a slave state; Pennsylvania was a free state. The Chester County History Center & the Delaware Public Archives have partnered to tell the stories of those who fled "Across State Lines" to find freedom – hear researchers discuss this new project at virtual talk @ noon this Thurs !

Google search is now just a Reddit /wikipedia aggregator: “tools like Google AI search and ChatGPT use to retrieve web content with citations in response to user queries, cite user-generated content from sites like Reddit or Wikipedia in roughly half of all queries” www.404media.co/it-is-trivia...

Some good news www.jurist.org/news/2026/06...

Still thinking about this tortured footnote from the Vanderbilt/WashU report

And here it is, my belabored retrospective on Gordon Wood. Of course they changed the title, as magazines do. I preferred "How Gordon S. Wood Became the Rhetoric and Reality of the American Revolution" but knew it probably wouldn't fly. newrepublic.com/article/2115...

I don’t just do citations manually, I enjoy it. The whole process feels cathartic

What's happening in middle America, 1720 - 1820? LIsten to this to find out, and then get a substantial discount on the book from the @pennpress.bsky.social shsmo.org/our-missouri...

Summer appears to have taken a "rain check" here in the UK, so there's no better time to check out our three latest articles, all available to read online free of charge (Open Access)! ☔ 📚 ☕ www.tandfonline.com/action/showA...

"Contested Continent," the first volume of the Oxford History of the United States, spans c. 1000–1680, from Norse arrivals to waves of revolts. It traces the enduring struggle for control of North America more than two centuries after Columbus. Learn more: oxford.ly/4dMt7TB

Still six weeks to publication day, but it's nice to hold Empire Ablaze in my hand! Thanks to those who came out in London last night to hear about it.

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Well this sounds like some very good news! www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

A large stretch of forest that has been owned by the state of Minnesota for more than 100 years will soon be returned to the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa.

Called "meticulously researched and readable" by the "Library Journal," Kevin Kokomoor's "The Cherokee War of 1776" uncovers the forgotten history of the US war against the Cherokee during the early days of American independence. https://tr.ee/AcOUaH

After several months, I finally managed to connect a 94-year-old woman from Alabama with an oral history program so she can make sure her experience with civil rights and desegregation gets saved. She reached out to me because of my 250th work and it had become my personal mission to get this done.

Dr Jethro Calacday, Postdoctoral Affiliate in the History Faculty, has been awarded the Stuart L. Bernath Scholarly Article Prize by the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations 👏👏 SHAFR described the article as “a major contribution to U.S. foreign relations history…” Link below ⬇️