Attention scholars: to mark the 20th anniversary of Patrick Wolfe's "Settler Colonialism and the Elimination of the Native," SETTLER COLONIAL STUDIES is soliciting reflections/ critiques for a special issue on Wolfe and his influence. Details below. Please circulate widely!

The Clements Center for Southwest Studies invites fellowship applications for the 2026-2027 academic year. For more info and to apply: www.smu.edu/dedman/resea... If you're interested of have questions, feel free to contact me directly.

Quintard Taylor was dedicated to studying Black people in the West — a field that often went unresearched, esp at the beginning of his research in the mid 1970s. Taylor’s work helped correct the narrative that the history of Black people in the West is insignificant. www.dailyuw.com/article/1353...

Nate Allen, who spent 52 years covering the Razorbacks for Arkansas newspapers big and small, died this afternoon in Fayetteville. Remembering one of our state's great sports reporters. www.wholehogsports.com/news/2025/de...

We found that the BLM skipped environmental review on 75% of its grazing land. Our new @propublica.org story explains the ”loophole” that allows BLM to bypass enviro reviews. www.propublica.org/article/graz...

Western historians: consider this CFP for the digital history lightning round at the 2026 WHA conference in Portland! Great format for discussing work in progress with a supportive audience. Happy to answer any questions. Respond by Wed., Dec. 3. #AmWest 🗃️

Today is publication day for my book, Mixed-Blood Histories: Race, Law, and Dakota Indians in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest, through the University of Minnesota Press! www.upress.umn.edu/978151792034...

A photograph of Japanese American students at the Rohwer incarceration camp in Arkansas. The students rush between barracks to get to their respective classes. The photograph was taken by Tom Parker on November 17, 1942. 🗃 #skystorians #OTD

CALL FOR PAPERS! Thrilled to announce the third Communication and Exchange in the Early Modern 1500-1850 conference: ‘A Continent in Conversation.’ (Aberystwyth University, 11-12 June 2026). Please do check out and share our #CfP! #Earlymodern #History

Applications due November 14! 🗃️

Applications due November 14! 🗃️

Archivist Erin Fehr will speak about how Native American players helped cruise the Little Rock Travelers to a Southern League championship win in 1920 at CALS’ monthly Legacies & Lunch lecture.

Call for papers for the edited collection, Beyond the American Western: Picturing the Far West in Global Comics: williamgrady.co.uk/cfp/ Deadline for proposals: 14th December 2025.

A nice job has opened in my department at Cambridge: Assistant Prof. in US History since 1920. Please share widely! No references letters required up front. Applications close 27 Oct. 2025.🗃️ www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...

There's a job opportunity in my department at the University of Arkansas - Asst. Professor of Early American History jobs.h-net.org/jobs/69108 UA still experiencing enrollment growth each year. Our chancellor & vice provost are history dept. faculty members. And Fayetteville is a great place to live

Tonight the University of Washington community is mourning the loss of professor Quintard Taylor. His 1994 book “The Forging of a Black Community” is foundational reading about race, class, and urban planning in Seattle political history. He will be missed sorely.

There's a job opportunity in my department at the University of Arkansas - Asst. Professor of Early American History jobs.h-net.org/jobs/69108 UA still experiencing enrollment growth each year. Our chancellor & vice provost are history dept. faculty members. And Fayetteville is a great place to live

"In order to know your role in history, you need to see yourself in it."

The world’s richest 1 per cent have increased their wealth by $33.9 trillion since 2015, “more than enough to eliminate annual poverty 22 times over,” according to new @oxfaminternational.bsky.social analysis.

June 21, 1925: A Ku Klux Klan baseball team plays a Black team in Wichita, Kan. The Black squad, the Wichita Monrovians, win, 10-8. How this matchup came to be is unexplained. Fans are warned against "strangle holds, razors, horsewhips, and other violent implements of argument."

#AmRel Postdoc beginning July. Bryn Mawr College 1-year renewable postdoct with expertise in contemporary American religion, partnering with President Wendy Cadge and research collaborators on a large national project about the changing spiritual infrastructure of the United States.

Some sad confirmation from @bcgl.bsky.social while I was at UW last week—the National Digital Newspaper Program—which builds Chronicling America—has been shut down Historical newspapers are probably the archival material most used by the general public—for genealogy, local history—it’s such a loss

***Digital History Seed Grants*** The IEHS invites submissions for awards, up to $2,000 each, to support graduate students and early-career scholars seeking to develop or engage with digital history work connected to migration history and related fields. Deadline: 8/1/25 iehs.org/awards/seed_...

All five international students at the University of Arkansas who had their visa status revoked last month have been reinstated, a university spokesperson confirmed Thursday.

NEW: A sweeping new study finds three-fourths of North America's bird species are in decline Scientists say it should be a wake-up call for us since some of the pressures on birds — climate change, pollution, etc. — aren't good for people, either www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

NEW: DeSantis directed the University of Florida to cancel a nearly-complete search for its next dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences — because the governor believed the finalists were not in alignment with the state's opposition to DEI

Hey #skystorians if you are in the area do join us for the Hotz lecture at the University of Arkansas sponsored by the History department and the law school news.uark.edu/articles/772...

And overnight your friends at @nehgov.bsky.social staff have been placed on Admin Leave.

Very excited to say something I haven't been able to say in a decade: we are hiring a tenure-track historian at Louisiana Tech. We're casting the net wide, basically any field outside of North America. Happy to answer any questions ulsltu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/LATECH...

I’m so tired of this! These are statements from Gila River Indian Community and Salt River Pima Indian Community leadership on the recent removal of flags from the 22 Arizona tribes from the Veterans Affairs Hospital in Phoenix. What is the point in this?

David Sloan, early American historian and my undergrad advisor at the U. of Arkansas died last week. His courses on colonial America and the Revolution inspired me to study that period. He’s also the only historian I know who left the circus to study history www.bernafuneralhomes.com/m/obituaries...

🗃️Exciting New Book News: Alessandra La Rocca Link's 'The Iron Horse in Indian Country Native Americans and Railroads in the US West' is out in a few weeks. Preorder: global.oup.com/academic/pro... and preview: books.google.com/books?id=1lh...

I'm thrilled that "The Myth of Continuity in American Gun Culture," a long (79-p.) article that I spent most of a year working on, has just been published in the California Law Review www.californialawreview.org/print/gun-co...

Applications for our annual funding season are due in 4 DAYS! March 15th. Please help spread the word (and apply yourself)! 🗃️ #AmWest

Just got an email from the Fulbright Association. As of right now, funding has been cut off to 12,500 US citizens currently abroad and and more than 7,400 foreigner scholars and students in the United States

A foundation at Haskell Indian Nations University is raising money to try to hire back laid off workers. https://www.ksnt.com/sports/local-sports/haskell-womens-basketball-coach-heads-to-naia-national-championship-despite-doge-cuts/ 

Led by fired coach Adam Strom, Haskell Indian Nations University women’s basketball team on Sunday advanced to the NAIA national tournament. “Man, we needed this,” one student said.

Resistance! Haskell Indian Nations University’s women’s basketball coach was fired by Trump but continued to coach without pay. The team recently won the Continental Athletic Conference championship over Northern NM, getting them a spot in the NAIA championships! www.nytimes.com/athletic/618...

This was great, highly recommend a listen. Thanks Jimmy, and thanks @cathleendcahill.bsky.social for the shout-out! The work of @jostler.bsky.social, @alainaroberts.bsky.social, @karl-jacoby.bsky.social, @lindat-smith.bsky.social, @embsumek.bsky.social, and many others are part of the discussion.

The AHA is hosting 3-week long NEH Institute for Higher Education Faculty on US environmental history and policy from the early 19th century through the 20th century in Little Rock, AR in June 2025. Applications are due March 5.

Ch-ch-ch-changes. michaelleroyoberg.com/local-histor...

CFP for the next Clements Center symposium: Indigenous Histories and Crossings in an Age of Global Change

President Trump signed an executive order denying birthright citizenship to babies of a parent "unlawfully present" in the US. The EO draws heavily upon a phrase inserted into the 14th A. to deny Native people citizenship--an effort to shield colonialism and dispossession from the Constitution. 1/

From me: ‘I'm going home': President Biden gives clemency to Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier’ www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...

The UMKC Center for Digital and Public Humanities is seeking 2 100% 12-m research assistants with HUMN BA or MA. On site - requires liaison work, historical research, dig/public HUMN skills, and logistical support plus other duties (cut and paste link). erecruit.umsystem.edu/psc/tamext/K...

I'm teaching an undergraduate Intro. to Digital History course this semester, for the first time. My big plans were vastly improved by the resources/ideas/assignments shared by @cblevins.bsky.social and Maeve Kane (maevekane.net), and several others who keep their pedagogy stuff public. Thanks!

“a long prayer attributed to Thomas Jefferson”!!!???