Los Angeles followers: Author @sarahkeyesphd.bsky.social will discuss her book AMERICAN BURIAL GROUND at an event at The Autry Museum this Thursday exploring the iconic computer game Oregon Trail! Learn more and get your tickets:

Calling all scholars of Quaker history, Peace history, and allied topics! Swarthmore College Special Collections is now accepting applications for our Moore Research Fellowship for the 2025-2026 cycle. www.swarthmore.edu/friends-hist...

A very engaging write-up from Robert Klara for @smithsonianmag.bsky.social. Honored to be quoted! www.smithsonianmag.com/history/when...

Bay Area followers: Don't miss author @sarahkeyesphd.bsky.social discussing her book AMERICAN BURIAL GROUND at The Bill Lane Center for the American West tomorrow, Tuesday 1/14, at 4:30 p.m. PT! More info:

Hope some of you can join me on Tuesday!

A little something about cowboy masculinity and the 2024 presidential election.

Check out @adamquinn.bsky.social's review of @jasonheppler.org's "Silicon Valley and the Environmental Inequalities of High-Tech Urbanism," published in 2024 by University of Oklahoma Press; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envtech #histSTM 🖥️🏙️🔌 www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

Some thoughts on summer road trips on this first day of summer. www.pennpress.org/blog/road-tr...

My latest for MadeByHistory TIME connecting American Burial Ground to AI companions. Happy Valentine's Day! time.com/6694247/ai-c...

Can't wait for this 2/7 event in Bozeman. That the invitation came frome one of my very first undergrad students (now an Asst Prof) makes it extra special.

Happening in 2 hours! I'm hoping we get a chance to unlock the "frail monument epitaph." 🪦

On December 19th at 12pm Kathleen Kuo and I will be playing The Oregon Trail (2022) and talking about my book, American Burial Ground: A New History of the Overland Trail. I hope you can join us! www.nevadahumanities.org/events/2023/...

Publishing job alert! @uncpress.bsky.social is hiring an acquisitions department intern to work directly with two editors who acquire books in an exciting range of fields! We’re looking for someone to start early in the new year. @aupresses.bsky.social

I had such a great time chatting with @brendenwrensink.bsky.social. Thank you!

Now accepting applications for the Western History Dissertation Workshop. This year Princeton will host in May 2024. It’s a great opportunity for PhD candidates working on the American West to share their work. networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

Finished my lectures in time to announce that it's publication day! Yay!

Helping a friend research his family history. Anyone have any sources to help me place this article about student-veteran high school ed in context? hdl.handle.net/2027/umn.319...

In the mailbag, @sarahkeyesphd.bsky.social!

#AmericanBurialGround & I visited Donner Memorial @CASTATEPARKS this week. Be sure to check out @pioneermonument’s groundbreaking work on the 1918 monument. pioneermonuments.net/about-us/ Hope to be back soon for a public lecture & book signing!

Moving reporting from @nytimes.com: "she found a forlorn stone that tore at her heart. No bigger than a book, it was inscribed simply 'LUCY.'" America’s Black Cemeteries and Three Women Trying to Save Them

Two TT jobs here at Illinois State, skystorians! One in early US history w/ an interest in work in the trans-Appalachian West, one in Eastern Asian history (fields open for both positions): 🗃️ jobsearch.illinoisstate.edu/en-us/job/51... jobsearch.illinoisstate.edu/en-us/job/51...

JOB: Assistant Professor of Environmental History, Clemson University (USA) careers.historians.org/jobs/1919895... #envhist 📗

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Dr. Sarah Keyes announces the publication of her book, American Burial Ground: A New History of the Overland Trail www.unr.edu/nevada-today...

First batch of postcards are in the mail, and today #AmericanBurialGround is available for preorder @ pennpress.org/978151282451.... DM me for the @PennPress discount code.