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!

Western historians: consider this CFP for the digital history lightning round at the 2026 WHA conference in Portland! Great format for discussing work in progress with a supportive audience. Happy to answer any questions. Respond by Wed., Dec. 3. #AmWest 🗃️

Today is publication day for my book, Mixed-Blood Histories: Race, Law, and Dakota Indians in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest, through the University of Minnesota Press! www.upress.umn.edu/978151792034...

Here it is, a very special--& especially supersized—250th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Please add more below, share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...

This is an incredible film archive. Tons of early films free to watch. Here’s Billy and His Pal (1911), a western starring Francis Ford. 🗃️ www.filmpreservation.org/preserved-fi...

I've been looking into RAG systems for turning published indexes into structured data. NotebookLLM is a mixed bag: it reduces transcription time but makes many errors, so requires combing through output line by line. The errors it hallucinates are telling though...

Made the mistake of mentally committing myself to reading through the private laws of the United States without realizing they run to like 800 pages some years. Finding myself wishing ill on all these Civil War pensioners

I recently wrote an article about colleges getting reparations for war damage to buildings built by slaves. It examined one case, but there are others. No one knows how many. Anyway, I just came across Washington and Lee Uni collecting $17k for Civil War damage to property amassed by selling slaves

New issue of the WMQ looks 🔥🗃️ oieahc.wm.edu/publications...

Very helpful name for a law

Most of the recent private laws passed by the US relate to immigration status adjustments but you occasionally get ones like this: $1 million in back pay to a double agent who spent decades under cover www.congress.gov/107/statute/...

Today I learned that the 7th volume of the US Statutes at Large, ca 1845, was devoted entirely to Indian treaties ratified up to that point

Had a great time at the Western History Association Conference in Albuquerque. Here's a Western History starter pack I made aways back (let me know if you want to be added). Here's some award winners, congrats! (on the cover of California History is a painting by Ana #WHA2025 go.bsky.app/C4EU8cu

Always a good day when a new issue of the Western Historical Quarterly drops 🗃️ academic.oup.com/whq/issue/56/3