The Crimson covers our team's report on Black History at the Vassall Estate, emphasizing our focus on co-designing the research with the descendant community. Read the report: doi.org/10.36967/231... Watch a virtual presentation: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZyv... @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social

symposium: Public History in Authoritarian Times Sat Nov 8 10:00-2:30 in person only at Yale registration info to come macmillan.yale.edu/glc #PublicHistory

Today @nulybranch.bsky.social introduce a new series in "Archival Outliers, Invented Ephemerals in Constructing Environmental Histories." niche-canada.org/2025/09/26/a... #envhist #archives

🎉The call for participation for #HAP26 is now open! Alongside @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy, @royalhistsoc.org & @unisheffieldlib.bsky.social we invite you to explore the theme 'Shaping Societies, Improving Lives: The Impact of Archives and Historical Research'. Apply today: bit.ly/46VfEVY

Registration now open! Join us at The @britishlibrary.bsky.social for the Fantastic Futures 2025 conference on the theme of "AI Everywhere, All at Once" 🎉 sites.google.com/view/ai4lam/... #FF2025 @bldigischol.bsky.social

My book Cultural Analytics in R: A Tidy Approach has just been published! It showcases how tidy data can be used in cultural analytics workflows, from text analysis, machine learning, network science, etc. Check it out: link.springer.com/book/10.1007... #tidyverse #rstats #digitalhumanities

Look at our lovely autumn/winter @ihr.bsky.social Digital History seminar schedule, including talks from @bamcshane.bsky.social @jeroenputtevils.bsky.social @rubenros.bsky.social @thomassmits.bsky.social @melvinwevers.bsky.social and more! #dhist

Join us for a discussion on how #PublicHistorians can push back on efforts to sanitize or avoid "controversial" topics in their workplaces! Register at https://community.ncph.org/event/workplacechallenges#PublicHistorians#Skystorians

We're hiring! The MHS is seeking a full time Director of Engagement to develop and implement a stimulating and audience-building roster of programs and events that respond to the moment, spotlight thought leaders, and amplify the Society’s mission. Full posting: www.masshist.org/admin/upload...

New faculty book alert! Dr. Jenifer Barclay's new volume Cripping the Archive, co-edited with Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy, is out now from @illinoispress.bsky.social! This important text considers how and why disabilities are underrepresented, erased, or distorted in the historical record. #dishist

We just launched a new version of the Surveillance Watch platform with improved filtering and search, detailed entity analysis views, better visualization of connections between entities & investors, a more accessible lite version etc. Have a look at the latest updates at www.surveillancewatch.io

Excited to talk with folks on this Thursday (9.18) 1:00 EDT about the power of genealogy in early America (and beyond). Thanks for having me @congrelib.bsky.social!

The Call for Proposals for NCPH-AASLH 2026 is here! If you’re looking for feedback or possible co-presenters for a proposal-in-progress, you can submit an optional topic proposal by Oct. 15, 2025. https://ncph.org/conference/2026-annual-meeting/topic-proposal-form/

Did you hear? Douglass Day 2026 is on the way! Friday, February 13, 2026 Sign up today: DouglassDay.org Oh, and this year we are featuring a massive *new* trove of rediscovered documents from our friends at the @ccp-org.bsky.social! 🎂

📢 An Invitation: Black History at the Vassall Estate Virtual Presentation Thurs, Sept 25, 6–7pm ET. Register here: harvard.zoom.us/meeting/regi... ft @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social, me, and a village of researchers & descendant community members who contributed to our forthcoming 200+ page report!

Please spread the word—The Scholars’ Workshop in Early African American Print at AAS Jan. 12-15, 2026. A writing workshop and intro to archives for junior scholars working on the dissertation or first book. Fully funded. Apply by Oct. 15 2025. PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD

Long stories are my specialty, so I wrote a very short book. "Oral History: A Very Short Introduction" is a compact, comprehensive, and global overview of oral history. I'm so proud of this little book. Shipping October 10. Pre-order your copy today! www.amazon.com/Oral-History... #OralHistory

The all new Sourcery is here! Request scans from any archive in New York or Boston and our team of Sourcerers will get them for you! Get yours now! sourceryapp.org (Chicago, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. coming soon!)

Going to national parks this weekend? Save Our Signs is doing a last push to document what's there on the ground before administration censorship kicks into high(er) gear. This post lists some places that need documenting. #PublicHistory

You should be very excited by our eyeball, too, peeps. (Ahem. Excuse the pun.) See it in 'A body of knowledge' from 10 Sep, or online -- I've made an animation. Of course I have. history.rcp.ac.uk/exhibitions/...

The Slavery North fellowship program welcomes national & international students, artists, scholars, providing them with space, funding, time, community to produce transformative research outcomes. 3 positions slaverynorth.com/job/fellowsh... UMass Amherst #slavery

The July/August issue of #ReviewsInDH is now live! Jennifer Guiliano & I are happy to share "Latinx Oral Histories," edited by the brilliant Elena Foulis and Jennifer Lozano. Great projects, big and small, illuminating the collective impact of #DigitalHumanities reviewsindh.pubpub.org/v6-n7-8

The Call for Papers for 'Talking Records: Pollution in the Archive', a symposium at The National Archives in London, 4 December 2025, is now open! Submission deadline: Friday 19 Sept See the CFP and details about bursaries for speakers here: orlo.uk/Z8StS #envhum #envhist

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New version of the Slave Voyages website launched: www.slavevoyages.org/blog/slavevo... #History #EnslavedHistory 🗃️

Reading Historic Maps: A Practical Guide for Students and Educators www.worldhistory.pitt.edu/news/reading... by @khhart.bsky.social So helpful as we expand instruction with our amazing rare maps at Phillips Academy phillipsacademyarchives.net/collections/... #maps

Visiting a National Park this summer? Consider photographing the educational signs you read and upload the images to the Data Rescue Project (www.datarescueproject.org/save-our-sig...)

Heritage of the Printed Book Database (HPB) – unified access to early European printed works (c.1455–1830) from major European and North American libraries. Open access, with growing links to digitised copies. Explore via: www.cerl.org/resources/hp...

How do we reach an audience when the audience has scattered? New blog post: Digital Humanities Outreach and Media Fragmentation foundhistory.org/2025/08/digi... #dh #digitalhumanities

It’s literally *years* overdue—both the pandemic & team members going & *getting jobs and stuff* delayed the multigraph so, so much But I just sent a draft of the final chapter for our Viral Texts Project book to the press! There will be much yet to do—but hitting send on that email was incredible

To whom it may concern: There is an open acces Anti-Autocracy Handbook (2025) calling to action, resilience, and collective defence of democracy, truth, and academic freedom in the face of mounting authoritarianism. Download: zenodo.org/records/1569... #academia #academicchatter #academicSky

🗃️ Busy writing book2 about the American Library in Paris, and all the ways that #library workers inform and shape democracy. Amazing #archives, fabulous heroines, and…oui! A few spies. Coming soon via #OUP. 🕵🏻‍♀️ 📚 ✍️ 🇫🇷 🇺🇸

August is here, and with it my 236th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, share widely, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ + americanstudier.substack.com/p/scholarsun...

Author copies arrived today! 😍🥳 #dh #bookhistory #medievalsky

Really pleased to see the Autumn programme for @long18thsem.bsky.social is now available @ihrlibrary.bsky.social All welcome - but please do register. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Are you looking for a publisher for your manuscript in cultural history or heritage studies? We are setting up a new book series with Bloomsbury, titled Cultural History and Historical Culture.

Wonderful event on 30 Oct in London: "Challenging maps and exploration symposium" @rgsibg.bsky.social @kparkerhistorian.bsky.social & co-organised w/ the amazing Sunderland Collection (oculi-mundi.com). www.rgs.org/events/upcom... #maps #histsci #skystorians

Last Wednesday, the International Court of Justice, the United Nations’ top court, issued an advisory opinion that found all nations must tackle climate change and those that do not act could be obliged to pay reparations for the harm caused to the environment.

9/ Project such as Calculating Empires allows us to visualize how technological patterns of colonialism, militarization, automation, and enclosure since 1500 still subjugate. calculatingempires.net

Here's a write-up of my keynote from #DH2025, since academic publishing is slow and this was written for right now. roopikarisam.com/talks-cat/dh...

What does the internationalization of public history mean from the perspective of the Global South? available also in Spanish and Portuguese @degruyterbrill.bsky.social #GlobalSouth #colonialism, #humanrights #socialjustice #PublicHistory www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

AI and archives: recent talk by @foundhistory.bsky.social foundhistory.org/2025/07/gene... #archives

‘Weren’t all Black people owed something for the dispossession that accumulated over generations? Or was the university’s primary function only to pursue knowledge about the history that gave rise to these questions?’ Vincent Brown reviews ‘Yale and Slavery’: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Amazing trip to China with particular focus on places connected with early Chinese students at Phillips Academy (Andover) since the 1870s. Educational diplomacy! chinesestudents.andover.edu

Great article on the history of & specimens collected by the Lady Franklin Bay expedition. I loved the use & the crediting of @bionomia.net (which uses #Wikidata for deceased collectors) for assisting in the uncovering of more specimens from that expedition. doi.org/10.1002/ppp3... #Bionomia

“We will be submitting a petition to His Majesty King Charles III to refer to the privy council a set of questions that we want answered within his current position as head of state of Jamaica.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Can digitization preserve the past, or does it merely reinvent it? My latest article traces the metadata anomalies and hidden labor that haunt one digital surrogate: Thomas May’s The Tragedie of Cleopatra. Check it out here!

Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower was published in 1993 and starts in 2024—a 31-year leap. Are creators imagining futures that are closer or further away? Explore a *new* dataset of 2.5k narrative works set in the future, each tagged with its release year and setting. doi.org/10.18737/552...