This is A+

And a million historians cried out “NOOOOOOO”

Wait til you see it. A book-lover's book.

As someone who lived through their agency getting DOGE’d, this brought everything back.

Federal employees have been through enough already. They shouldn’t be pawns in the standoff.

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply." me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

What time is the rapture? Do I have time for more coffee?

NEWS: The D.C. Council just passed an emergency bill allowing anyone to get a COVID-19 vaccine without a doctor's prescription, which have been requested recently due to changes in federal vaccine recommendations. (And some D.C. residents have had to go to Maryland or Virginia.)

Fox really thinks America is more interested in Giants-Cowboys than Eagles-Chiefs.

Today is publication day for The Nursing Clio Reader. As I write in the preface of the book, I started Nursing Clio back when I was a second-semester grad student as part of a final project in a public humanities seminar taught by historian Matthew Countryman at UMich. 🧵

You know what wins real wars against peer opponents? Warehouses full of bombs and bullets and tourniquets, maintenance crew to service the vehicles that move them and "warriors" to where they need to go, and boring spreadsheets to tell you how much of everything you have. Logistics! Logistics!

People from all over are showing up for DC. This is not a moment. It’s a movement. We are united in our demands. We are all DC! #FreeDC

At the federal agency I worked at, every new administration, like clockwork, would spend $$$ on a rebrand to make us “more relevant.” So much money spent to fundamentally misinterpret our mission. Same here.

DC folks, I got a COVID vax appointment at CVS. Go get ‘em!

The War Office couldn't help itself, even when commenting on Sir Walter Raleigh's first volume of the official history of the #RAF in #WW1...

Looking forward to them owning Meta.

Don’t threaten me with a good time.

234 years ago, enslaved men and women rose in revolution in the French colony of Saint-Domingue. They secured the first permanent abolition of slavery, and eventually declared Haitian independence on January 1, 1804. 🇭🇹 www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020...

I have been experimenting with listening to history audiobooks. I discovered I can’t do battles. I loose track of who is doing what.

That was more than 50 years ago. Come on with this.

Grateful to my fellow DC residents for filming everything happening. Nothing good about this situation.

Imagine what would happen if all these people trashing DC put the same energy into helping DC get back its $1 billion shortfall.

As a former fed, this is a terrible idea! Peer pressure to listen or conform. Plus it gives managers license to penalize those who don’t share their beliefs.

Architectural history Women in the Middle Ages Epic Poetry

If you were alive in the 1980s, this is among the most wonderful & truly incredible things you have ever witnessed in your lifetime.

JUST IN: A federal judge has blocked the cancelation of $175 million in National Endowment for the Humanities grants, mass terminated by DOGE in April. She says the effort was transparent viewpoint discrimination in violation of the First Amendment.

DESTINATION CASABLANCA came out almost eight years ago and I still get emails from readers. Write the author of a book you loved and make their day!

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It’s a truth universally acknowledged that a middle-aged white man wearing pink-red shorts will watch TikTok videos on his phone at high volume as if he was the only train passenger.

"THE WESTERNERS" COVER REVEAL, including the spine! Both show how my new history of the 19th-c American West puts readers on the ground in this vast region with several fascinating individuals (four of them pictured here), all of whom put the lie to the frontier myth. Pub date: April 21, 2026!

Love this for Charm City. Now, let’s do DC.

I'm so delighted to have recorded this podcast episode w @lizcovart.bsky.social for Ben Franklin's World! I'm lucky to have worked behind the scenes for this pathbreaking podcast over the years, and it is super fun to be behind the mic w Liz's great questions. benfranklinsworld.com/episode-416-...

honored to learn our Tom Holland deep dive caught Jason Kottke’s @kottke.org attention, and the rule stands: when you see it, you share it. What Tom Holland’s lip-sync of Umbrella can teach us about stormwater management: kottke.org/25/07/004708...

And Nazis. Keeping the Nazis from having unlimited power.

Congratulations to @kawulf.bsky.social on the publication of “LINEAGE: Genealogy and the Power of Connection in Early America”!Available at your favorite bookstore now!

Many #NationalArchives researchers have expressed alarm about a NARA website post regarding restricted access to Archives II in College Park. NARA has clarified that research rooms will remain open to the public. For details see www.historians.org/news/update-...

This bus-riding Schoolhouse Rock fangirl gives this an A+.

I guarantee half of Washington is doing this right now.

Appreciative of this Brown University write-up, especially as the work of humanists is not always recognized as "research" these days. Worth mentioning here that NEH funding helped make this book possible-- and without the NEH, future scholarship is going to suffer. www.brown.edu/news/2025-06...

Dearest humanities friends, I’m sending up the humanities bat signal. Heard a NEH colleague that orgs aren’t submitting requests for close out costs on terminated awards—which they are entitled to!! Here’s what to do: 1/

Listened to this while doing a house project. Recommend!

PUBLICATION DAY! _I Have Avenged America: Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Haiti's Fight for Freedom_ is now available from @yalepress.bsky.social To celebrate, I am going to post some of the most extraordinary Dessalines quotations below! yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

The “ghost robot dogs” have entered the chat. Come on Army, you’re better than this.

I did not edit this, this is the actual parade with the actual music being played. CINEMATIC

@faineg.bsky.social They just did a whole drone segment at the parade. You have to watch it. 😬

#FamilyHistory #genealogy If you'd like to celebrate the 250th birthday of the Army for real, may I recommend history.army.mil the website of the U.S. Army Center of Military History? Read a Unit History of the unit your relatives served in.

The photos coming from Trump’s birthday parade are just incredible. No one showed up.

They are playing “Fortunate Son”! It’s a Vietnam War protest song. 🤣

Even Rubio agrees. 🤣