Today is a good day to pitch your local outlet something about the canvas hack. Put TIMELY in the subject line. Describe yourself as an educator in a few lines (two sentence!). Then make an argument.

New book! @aidanmilliff.com and I spent years tracking down survey data from the late 1950s-2025 on how the Indian public has viewed China, the US, and Russia/USSR. We use the data to explore trends and patterns. Cambridge has made it Open Access until 5/18, so go read for free here: t.co/YtNCz74758

oh are we talking about Advanced Placement?

In which @lollardfish.bsky.social (kindly) tells me to go to therapy. I'm delighted to have David back on the show to talk THE PUBLIC SCHOLAR (@hopkinspress.bsky.social) and have him ease our (my?) anxieties about writing for the public. Listen: draftingthepast.com/podcast-epis...

oh f yes @lollardfish.bsky.social @katecarp.bsky.social @draftingthepast.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

What a run, first with Conan and now Colbert. A lovely profile and I never knew he created the “Andy’s little sister” sketch.

It’s gonna be May—well, it is May, & with it comes my 274th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, please share widely, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ + blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...

Blueskys: the American Society for Legal History has a Digital Legal History Prize! Deadline June 1. I am a little embarrassed to have such a prize named for me since my current work isn't digital. 🙄 But years ago, when blogs were new, I created the Legal History Blog. aslh.net/award/mary-l...

Presidential control over the NSF was a major issue during the initial debates about creating a federal science agency. I wrote about the political battle to create the NSF last year. Includes lots of links to great scholarship: 🗃️ #Histsci daily.jstor.org/science-in-w...

"...we now also know that a nuclear accident anytime is a nuclear accident for all time—in the public imagination, if not in the environment" carnegieendowment.org/emissary/202...

Hello Bluesky #BookSky! The Public Scholar is out today from @hopkinspress.bsky.social. You can buy it everywhere books are sold. Bookshop: tinyurl.com/2uj47sa7 Order from @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social and I'll sign it - moonpalacebooks.com/item/I12x_a-... You can read an excerpt here. (1)

Here it is, my 273rd #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, please share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ + blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...

I'm sorry to constantly post about my website, but I do think public scholarship is one of our most important resistance tools right now. Experts getting information and historical context out to the public before fascists can shape narratives is crucial. I'm building resources on my site to help 🗃️

"Sometimes science 'progresses' in terrible ways...Brushing off these practices as unscientific implies that 'true' science is, and always has been, unimpeachable." Today's #histSTM lunch read: @wbarlowrobles.bsky.social's @contingent-mag.bsky.social piece on the dangers of Whiggish #histsci 🗃️📜

Mark Twain may be one of America’s greatest writers. He was also, at times, a world-class hater.

So excited to see this review of The Fate of the Americas in Foreign Affairs that praises my "engaging prose" and "extensive research in Latin American archives"!! www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/fate... @foreignaffairs.com @uncpress.bsky.social @shafrhistorians.bsky.social #History 🗃️

After so many great works, is there more scholars of India can learn about the Green Revolution? The answer is YES. For H-Environment, I reviewed Prakash Kumar's excellent book, A History of India's Green Revolution: Reign of Technocracy. Read my review and read Kumar's book.

Live from New York, because #ScholarSunday travels, here’s my 272nd thread of great public scholarly writing, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ + blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...

An unforgettable opossum is waiting on the other side of this link... #histsci #envhist

There has never been a better time to read the declassified history of the failed CIA-led invasion of Cuba in April 1961 at the Bay of Pigs. nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

This is excellent

Great collection of documents here from @nsarchive.bsky.social for the 65th anniversary of the Bay of Pigs Invasion... important warnings for today, too! #History #Cuba 🗃️ nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

"Brushing off these practices as unscientific implies that 'true' science is, and always has been, unimpeachable. It denies us a chance to examine what flaws may fuel our own ways of thinking." A new mailbag from @wbarlowrobles.bsky.social

thrilled to share that my article, "The Ghost of Comilla: Authoritarian Biopolitics and Global Development in Rural East Pakistan," is now out in print in the latest issue of @diplomatichistory.bsky.social.

Postcolonial nations in the Global South staged a revolution to build their own domestic computer and IT industries. They were met with a counter revolution led by major Western tech firms and their institutional allies. Learn more on the latest #HagleyHistoryHangout! www.hagley.org/research/his...

NYC friends - I’m giving a talk today at NYU at 4:30 PM. Hope to see some of you there.

Trump and his fans have to use AI because there’s never been an instance of him ever helping anyone.

Okay, sure, but there are five whole continents where Vance didn’t take an L this week.

Here it is, my 271st #ScholarSunday thread of public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, please share as widely as you can, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ + blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...

Brings me no joy to report this is his “Desolation Row.”

We are doomed to “two weeks” until Jan 2029. This nonsense cannot last.

I am begging you: take a couple minutes and look at the images from yesterday’s lunar flyby. They are absolutely incredible www.nasa.gov/gallery/luna...

Call me a bizarre anthropomorphic rabbit, because I’ve got so many Easter Eggs in my 270th #ScholarSunday thread of public scholarly writing, podcasts, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, share widely, & enjoy the hunt, all! 🗃️ + blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...

Working on this with Nathan was one of the only bright spots in the early days of Covid. We lost him last year, far too early, and I’d love you to read and listen to this small portion of the great scholarship he left us.

This is a great program! A student of mine attended last year and loved it. Definitely apply, there is still time, applications due April 17.

"In the show, the Forest Service ranger reflects the broad-minded optimism of this political moment and his implied role as a mediator distinct from timber interests."

#NoKings, but lots of badass public scholars in my 269th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, please share as widely as possible, & enjoy! 🗃️ + blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...

"From a German perspective, it was a rare opportunity to experience Canadian war memory first-hand."

From Flickr: President Donald J. Trump tours Graceland, Monday, March 23, 2026, in Memphis, Tennessee. (White House photo by Molly Riley)

Bracket busted? Join the club, & then check out all the winning picks in my 268th #ScholarSunday thread of public scholarly writing, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more below, share widely, & enjoy the March meaningfulness! 🗃️+ blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...

I’ve been out of the game for a while and lost track of people in the move to this place, so if you’re an adjunct/VAP/postdoc in history, can you reply and let me know what you work on? I am an editor at @contingent-mag.bsky.social and we are often looking for book reviewers etc.

Cokie Roberts Fellowship from the National Archives Foundation application is still open till April 15! it’s more than a research fellowship- it’s a community that supported me on my book’s publication day by letting me sign copies at a fancy desk!! archivesfoundation.org/news/sixth-a...

Thank you, @h-diplo.bsky.social. Our hopes exactly: "This article is, so far as I know, the first to seriously consider the question of what normalization means, not just in the specific context of US–China relations, but also in US foreign policy more broadly."🗃️ issforum.org/reviews/PDF/...

"I wrote 'duped' in my notebook and underlined it twice. Faithful pilgrim that I am, devoted Franciscan, I had collapsed in a cemetery with my head bowed for a lie."

Fresh off the Oscar wins for the deeply impressive production that's @realgdt.bsky.social's Frankenstein, I recommend reading @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social on how every adapter & director & cultural studier as well is both the doctor & the creature, & how art can help us find not immortality but humanity.

Before the Oscars, I’m nominating myself for Best Supporting Scholar with my 267th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing, podcasts, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, share widely, & the winner will be … all of us! 🗃️ blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...

many thanks to @brownhist.bsky.social for this video promoting DEAR MISS PERKINS (@kensingtonbooks.bsky.social) just in time for #womenshistorymonth www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsxx...

Honestly I need historians to be the plaintiffs in every case I cover because if they make it to discovery you just KNOW those primary sources are going public. Exhibit A: The American Historical Association uploading video depos of the DOGE bros to YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkCz...

Not ready to emerge into the “daylight” yet? Check out my super-sized 266th #ScholarSunday thread, chock-full o’ public scholarly writing, podcasts, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ + blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...

Excited to say that the website and publication date for my Flat Earth book is out. Mark your calendars for August 23! link.springer.com/book/9783032...