Just a totally normal Easter Sunday at the White House

Props to the Berlin Natural History Museum for the shout out to Rosalind Franklin, and for throwing shade on Watson and Crick for stealing her thunder

Conference paper proposal vs the conference paper

🚨New Episode🚨 A conversation with BYU history prof. David-James Gonzales about his new book, "Breaking Down the Walls of Segregation: Mexican American Grassroots Politics and Civil Rights in Orange Country, California" (@academic.oup.com 2025). writingwestwardpodcast.podbean.com/e/085-david-...

🗃️ Super excited to share that we’re hiring at the Adams Papers, come work with us! @mhs1791.bsky.social www.masshist.org/admin/upload...

The #JERPano forum “Demystifying the Doctorate” is live on The Panorama! Grad student & early career scholar submissions that offer wisdom, empathy, and practical guidance for navigating the PhD: thepanorama.shear.org/.../demystif...

A recent federal court decision would allow land surrounding Chaco Canyon National Historic Park to lose its public land protection, leaving more than 300,000 acres vulnerable to oil & gas drilling. Public needs to weigh in by April 6 (link in article). nativenewsonline.net/environment/...

This ad gives 1996 the old-timey treatment

Syracuse charges $95,000 per year to attend www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/n...

Taking a closer look at a 17th-century map... The Kunyu Wagnuo Quantu (c.1644) was created by Chinese scholars and artisans after interactions with Western-style cartography. Earlier this week, our Collections team and expert conservators took it out of its custom-built case to examine it up close.

Not sure whether this is apt or terrible timing but here’s the official cover of my book due out with @uncpress.bsky.social W. Hodding Carter III imprint this fall. 🎉

Everyone’s just too exhausted for April fool’s

The Fox News of productivity software

Dammit, I have to fly here to visit my mom www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Blueskis, it’s publication day for THE WESTERNERS! I don’t have a photo or a fun video because I am a Very Bad Author and forgot to pack a copy for this trip to Montana. So if you have a copy of the book, please post a photo of it (with kiddos or pets, preferably) below! More to follow …. 📚🤓🤠

According to the ACLS rejection letter I received, there were "over 2000" applications for 63 fellowships - so around a 3% success rate. There's not enough funding for the humanities, exhibit 1000.

1920s farmhouse vacation rental

One week from today! Join us at the Denbo Center on April 6 for "The Freedman's Bank and the (Un)Making of Reconstruction" with Justene Hill Edwards. Streaming also available here: tiny.utk.edu/HillEdwardsDLS

📣 New historical data visualization! "How Fast Was the Mail?" is an interactive map showing how long information took to travel across the US between 1882-1908: cblevins.github.io/mail-time/ +

This is pretty weird. I've been looking through thousands of pages of the US statutes at large, and this is the first time I've come across something redacted. It's from the mid-1930s. No idea why

This looks like a good one! www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/b...

Fascinating article on general confiscation and the stakes of revolutionary legal culture🗃️

Calling all doctoral students of the North American West! The Western History Dissertation Workshop is accepting applications for their annual review workshop, being held at UC Davis May 7-9. Apply by April 1!

📣 🎉Today is the official release day of my book, even tho many of you have it in hand already. 🙏 to all who purchased. Availability: Amazon has the paper w/ discount, Bookshop/OUP on back order. Should be an e-version that is missing. I will check w/ my press. More: www.annaolaw.com/book-migrati...

The hits keep on coming.

Getting close to UK prices

I come back to this one again and again. One of the best hardback purchases I ever made

It will never stop being funny that Facebook/Meta renamed the whole corp after a hyped up product that flopped. It’s like if Pepsi had changed its name to Crystal in the 90s

Me when term is finally over

This sounds awful

This woman sued the government for blood money and won

Please someone powerful elevate this campaign. Why are we talking about Platner and Mills when we have someone like this unafraid to speak her mind?

Fancy a fascinating read that connects volcanoes, mosquitos and migration to the city of Savannah, Georgia? Then we have the OPEN ACCESS article you have been looking for! Check out this piece by Timothy J. Lockley: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Season 5, Episode 3 of the Object of History podcast is here! Learn about the capture of Fort Ticonderoga, the colonists’ dire need for artillery to break the Siege of Boston, Henry Knox’s journey, and more. Listen now: www.masshist.org/podcast/seas...

My first @thetls.bsky.social byline! But I’m afraid it’s for a book that will infuriate most historians. (That’s why you can read almost all of the review in the preview - you probably didn’t want to read 1500 words of my head exploding.)

Native Land Digital has new relational map on its site: "Our Constellation Map reimagines how Indigenous nations can be shown by highlighting relationships, connections, and presence rather than strict borders." native-land.ca/maps/constel...

I love footnotes, but even I'll admit things are getting out of hand when you get up over 2000

RIP apnews.com/article/juer...

Unboxing a book that took 16 years. What’s it about, who is it for? How to order? www.annaolaw.com/book-migrati... want 🎧 to Dahlia Lithwick interview me about it? Fresh podcast below 👇🏽/

Another reminder that thanks to the good folks at the Mellon Foundation, @uncpress.bsky.social , @ecds-emory.bsky.social and @foxcenteremory.bsky.social my book is FREE on Kindle and to read online at jimcrowintheasylum.com

New symposium on my book is out in the Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities! It features essays by an extraordinary group of scholars from across Law and History followed by my response. yaleconnect.yale.edu/yjlh/yjlh-is...

Congrats to two very deserving historians!

Beer Ghosts has a cover! Pageproofs and index almost done, coming your way in October. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

I have some good news:

I definitely did something right this week because I’m getting a bunch of whale videos in my feed

Call for Applications for the SHEAR DEI Fellowships! SHEAR will offer at least 2 research fellowships to scholars examining African diasporic, Latinx, Indigenous, Asian American, and/or Pacific Island history from 1776 to 1861. Application deadline is May 1. Details here: shear.org/about-us/she....

Thrilled/nervous to be taking over as Chair of BrANCH (@branchuk.bsky.social) from October. Emily has left some enormous shoes to fill (figuratively...), but this is the first organization I joined back in the mists of PhD time, and it's an enormous honor to step up here. www.branch.org.uk

Your quarterly bibliography of new and interesting scholarship in Native American History and Indigenous studies. michaelleroyoberg.com/new-publicat...

Full book jacket just dropped, and we're pretty happy with it. Huge thanks to @cecilefromont.bsky.social, @soccerpolitics.bsky.social, Alice, and Andrés for your generous words! #earlymodern #BeyondTheOcean global.oup.com/academic/pro...