Please stop sharing that video of RFK Jr and Kid Rock. Please!

No cover yet, but my new book, Beer Ghosts: In Search of Lost Hops and the Women Who Grew Them, has appeared on the @uchicagopress.bsky.social website! Out in October…👻 press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Now available for free! Please check out this important special issue. Now more than ever, the Civil War era provides us with important lessons for our harrowing current moment

“In 2019, as [Gannett] began fully moving operations out of the bldg, the entire collection—by then scattered across the basement—was suddenly in limbo… The Poughkeepsie Public Library stepped in, agreed to pay rent on a dedicated storage unit + took on physical custodianship of the archive…”

Stole an hour today to visit colonial NYC: 1. Stone marking SW bastion of Fort Amsterdam/George 2. Iron fence that guarded George III statue on Bowling Green 3. Alexander Hamilton Customs House, where Ft. Amsterdam/George stood 4. Pearl Street, where Catalina Trico & husband Joris once lived

Applications open for the Keasbey Isaac Newton Fellowship in American Studies at Selwyn College, Cambridge. This is a 3yr postdoc/JRF for a scholar of US culture, society, politics or history from any discipline. Closes March 19 Please spread the word www.sel.cam.ac.uk/jobs/Keasbey...

📝 Ella Deloria was an Indigenous anthropologist in the 20th century, a difficult time to be an Indigenous person and a woman in any professional field. Read this week's blog post by Madhavi Tiruchelvam, former APS Curatorial Intern, to learn about Deloria's life in the field. https://bit.ly/4rhj0KI

Writing “told here for the first time” is just asking for trouble

“The United States used Fort Snelling as a concentration camp during the Dakota Indian Wars to imprison thousands of Dakota and Ho-Chunk people in abysmal conditions.” ictnews.org/news/a-forme...

Jesse Jackson gave a speech at my high school in the 90s. I can still picture him chanting ‘Up with hope, down with dope!’ RIP

New byline in @latimes.com on what a late medieval/Renaissance map has to do with politics today. 🗃 #maps #cartography #histsci #medieval #renaissance #earlymodern www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

A metaphor for our times www.popville.com/2026/02/mass...

Some good news newrepublic.com/post/206625/...

Talking about grad school with a student today and it hit home how much external funding has dried up

We cannot separate the history of the nation from the history of slavery. George Washington was an enslaver. As President he brought enslaved people to Philadelphia, and rotated them out to evade a Pennsylvania law that promised emancipation after six months in the state. /1

Read a banger article from the 1930s and shocked to find it’s only been cited 7 times

Cromwell’s horse slept here

Sad state of affairs when the most effective argument against mass detention camps might be that they have a negative impact on property values www.ms.now/opinion/ice-...

For those following the NEH lawsuit www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Given how AI works, I’m looking forward to soon reading an essay starting with “I have searched the depths of Historical Arguments not yet articulated or vetted on this subject, and will be presenting an irrefutable one”

Feels like it's a good day to repost this: www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

On February 13, 1951, The World of Willa Cather was published by Dodd, Mead. The first biography of Cather, it appeared four years after her death. It was Mildred Bennett's first book. 🧵

What a sick conference program! Heavy hitters! www.nyhistory.org/programs/lib...

They’re not gonna be happy until the Cayahoga River is on fire again www.ciel.org/news/us-roll...

It’s a great time to study the US from an ocean away. So apply for the 3-year Mellon postdoc in American History at Cambridge. Closes March 1. www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/mellon-...

Can someone recommend an independent researcher that can visit an archive in New Haven, CT? I really need someone ASAP. I would prefer someone experienced, but in theory anyone that can read these city names and dates in cursive could be fine. It should take 4-6 hours. 🗃️

If you're teaching Digital Humanities, encourage students to participate in the Dear Data project. It's v. engaging for students to keep track of data in visually interesting ways. Doing it along side your students! Here's my visualization which traces my commute/weather from Hattiesburg to NOLA.

Our next The American Revolution documentary post on Ep. 2, "An Asylum for Mankind," is live! In "Ken Burn's Inevitable Revolution," Helena Yoo-Roth unpacks the significance and need for "interpretation" in history. Read this and others on the #JERPano: thepanorama.shear.org/2026/02/12/i...

“It marks a key development for the tribe, which was forcibly removed from its lands and saw its individual allotments stolen, said the tribe’s chairperson, Serrell Smokey.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Future generations will despise us www.euronews.com/green/2026/0...

Always a mystery if the printer’s gonna print

So, Arkansas used to employ prisoners as armed guards to oversee their fellow inmates. Called them 'trusties.' Sometimes they put them on horseback and gave them shotguns to oversee prisoners laboring in fields

Newest Western Historical Quarterly is up! Looks like it’s accidentally a special issue on land, with articles on forced fee patents, boundary making, and real estate speculation academic.oup.com/whq/issue/57/1

Friends, can I ask you to spread the word that we have a THREE-YEAR postdoc in American history at Cambridge up for grabs - ANY field, but applications are due March 1 so don't delay - apply, apply, apply! networks.h-net.org/jobs/69790/u...

Three-year Mellon postdoc in American History at the University of Cambridge. Any subfield. Fast turn-around—application closes March 1. Please spread widely.🗃️ networks.h-net.org/jobs/69790/u...

Shocking stat from the first paragraph of the annual report of the Carlisle Indian boarding school in 1893: the death rate of students was more than double the graduation rate

A ‘Barrage of Bills’ Would Overhaul Higher Ed in Iowa—If They Actually Pass www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...

PLEASE REPOST 🥺🙏 The Canadian Letters & Images Project is an online digital archive of Canadians’ experience during wartime at home & in battle. It contains thousands of personal letters & photos that reveal people’s experience through their own words & eyes. www.canadianletters.ca/content/abou...

I came back to share that I just did a podcast about the book for those interested. newbooksnetwork.com/mixed-blood-...

WashPo newest section: Not Made by History

A whole article about US imperial expansion. Not a word about Native nations theweek.com/history/amer...

I’ve started moving my blogposts over to Substack. Consider it a running commentary on the historical issues raised in NATIVE AMERICA, my textbook on Native American/Indigenous history. Please feel free to subscribe (at no cost) and follow along. open.substack.com/pub/nativeam...

‘America’ Vespucci was the Anna Delvy of the 1830s. Broke, charming, and European, she nearly convinced Congress to give her a land grant because the continent was named after her family. Her real name was Elena portraits.allenbrowne.info/Vespucci/Read/

“If they're going to censor anything about broken treaties, that's certainly not good. We want the truth to come out," added Eugene Little Coyote, assistant to the tribal vice president. "We have a lost narrative about this battle that needs to be brought to light.” www.ktvq.com/news/local-n...

This outfit was so fly it caused riots

Almost like I can feel myself turning into a curmudgeon in real time. Like a middle age version of growing pains