Upcoming deadline (1/31): submit your proposals for 2026 New England Quarterly symposium on Environmental Histories of New England, 1600-2025. #envhist #newengland #cfp

The Routledge Companion to Libraries, Archives, and the Digital Humanities edited by Isabel Galina and Glenn Lane-Worthey www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1... free Editors' Intro www.book2look.com/book/hpV4zdn... #archives #DH

Locked in a quasi-permanent war over resources, Yucatán and Honduras became a hotspot of empire, trade, and indigo in 1779. Learn more in our online lecture with Prof. Milagrosa Romero Samper, “Mad about the blue,” on 19 Jan, 1pm. #earlymodern #history Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/ships-seaf...

In 2022, for the first time, the names of Black men and women military heroes replaced those of Confederates on army bases. In 2025, the current administration reversed these changes, restoring the names of the Confederates who fought to preserve slavery.

"What kinds of histories and stories might be useful for radical social movements and political struggles today, to overcome the enormous challenges that we face?" Current and former History Workshop editors reflect on the 50th anniversary of the History Workshop collective.

*blushing demurely* Some more brilliant free research training events coming up this term... www.history.ac.uk/study-traini...

IMLS: FY26 Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO): National Leadership Grants for Libraries Program (NLG-L) supports projects that develop, enhance, or adapt replicable practices, programs, models, or tools to strengthen library & archival services for the American public. www.imls.gov/find-funding...

JOB: Director of Engagement at Massachusetts Historical Society (Boston) www.masshist.org/job-announce... $95,000-$120,000 @mhs1791.bsky.social #PublicHistory #Archives #jobs @ncph.bsky.social

#dhist Join the @ihr.bsky.social Digital History seminar 20 Jan midday GMT (on Zoom) for @thomassmits.bsky.social & @melvinwevers.bsky.social on 'Orientalist pixels: How machine learning reveals the colonial color palette of early photography'. Details ⬇️ ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2025/09/tues...

"Researchers have reconfigured the traditional use of natural history collections for taxonomic, systematic, and biogeographical study into indicators of global climate change." - @nulybranch.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2025/11/24/b... #envhist #histsci #naturalhistory #climatechange

RBS is now accepting applications for our summer 2026 courses—including new course offerings & partner locations! Details: rarebookschool.org/schedule The first-round deadline is 𝟭𝟳 𝗙𝗲𝗯𝗿𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆. Applications received after that date will be reviewed on a rolling basis. #BookSky #RareBooks

Friends, I hope you’ll share this widely. The @jcblibrary.bsky.social is hiring 2 3-yr research associates for collaborative work on religions and freedoms in the early Americas. Info is here and I’m happy to take questions offline: brown.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/staff-...

Start 2026 off right with a DPASSH conference proposal submission and make a plan to join us in #Belfast this summer! #DigiPres #CFP #Play ➡️ Ready, Set, Preserve! Making Space for Play in Digital Preservation

"Preserving the Past of HBCUs --- A new partnership between Getty Images and the genealogy website Ancestry aims to save the records and photographs of historically Black colleges and universities" May 2026 www.insidehighered.com/news/institu...

Thomas Paine began 1776 with _Common Sense_ and the call to reject monarchy, and ended with _The American Crisis_, warning that "these are the times that try men's souls." Like many in my field, I've spent the last dozen years preparing for 2026, sure that the fullest histories serve us best. 1/

🕛 At midnight, new creative works enter the public domain in the US. 🎙️ In the latest Future Knowledge podcast, James Boyle (The Public Domain) explains why the public domain matters & how digital enclosures are quietly fencing it off. 🎧 Listen now ➡️ futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/the...

Hey you! Yeah, that's right, you! I bet you've got a nomination for public scholarly articles, podcasts, books, newsletters/blog posts that especially stood out this year (including/especially your own). So share 'em for the best-of-2025 #ScholarSunday thread! 🗃️ blackwhiteandread.com/announcements/

See hundreds of titles borrowed and read by Darwin in the 1840s from The London Library. In addition to many already known from his reading notebooks, we find many titles and authors that we did not know Darwin had read. darwin-online.org.uk/content/fram... Courtesy of The London Library

Looking for a New Year's resolution that is good for your mind and (relatively) easy to keep? Check out the Institute of Historical Research seminars for January 2026. Fourteen seminars in week 1 alone. Free, broad-ranging, open to the public and usually available both in person and online.

For decades, a cacophony of technological prophets has repeatedly proclaimed the impending end of the paper era. But here we still are, a paper-using humankind. @agnesgehbald.bsky.social and me wrote an article about paper in global book cultures. #paperhistory is #bookhistory, #globalhistory 1/3

Celebrate the Public Domain with the Internet Archive in 2026! #PublicDomainDay is nearly here. Works from 1930 & sound recordings from 1925 will soon be open to reuse. Enter our film contest & join our events! All the details ⤵️ blog.archive.org/public-domai... #PublicDomain #event #contest

🎉 Today I defended my dissertation and passed with summa cum laude. The title is "Dependent Lives In and Beyond Archives: Enslaved People in Sephardic Jewish Households in Early Modern Bridgetown, Barbados (1654-1800)." The abstract is below, and I hope to publish it soon.

The Harvard-Yenching Library is now accepting applications for 10 travel grants up to $2,000 each. Open to non-tenured faculty and Ph.D. candidates who are U.S. citizens or permanent residents: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #sinology

Job posting: Training Manager in the Smithsonian's Office of Digital and Innovation. Deadline: 12/23 OR after first 100 applications, whichever comes first (so apply NOW if interested) 2-yr term position onsite, Washington, DC; $101,401-$131,826/yr

It's not just social media. Looks like visitors to the US from Europe and other countries that are part of the visa waiver program will have to submit an enormous amount of data about themselves and their families, including DNA, if proposed new rules are accepted

What does Gen AI mean for the work of the historian and the value of historical experience, skills and craft? 'The Historian in the Age of AI' by @chriscampbell1.bsky.social. New Comment article now available in 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society' bit.ly/4atErTB #Skystorians 1/2

NCPH and @usaconservation.bsky.social Mellon Humanities Program designed a series to help #PublicHistorians and #PublicHumanitarians get our heads around #genAI technology and its impact on our work. https://ncph.org/conference/ethics-ai-and-the-public-humanities/

"The Land Kept Teaching: Climate, Survivance, & Residential Schooling in Inuuvik, Northwest Territories" by Crystal Gail Fraser is the latest in our Land, Memory, and Schooling: Environmental Histories of Colonial Education, edited by Fraser & @jdunkin.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2025/12/09/t...

#libraryjobs Reminder! Our two Diversity Residency positions are closing soon! OER librarian closes TODAY; Music & Performing Arts Special Collections closes FRIDAY: www.library.illinois.edu/geninfo/resi...

Save the date! Douglass Day 2026 "All Rights for All" Fri, February 13 Sign up today! DouglassDay.org Feat. the Colored Conventions Project! @ccp-org.bsky.social @digblk.bsky.social

The results that @marinelives.bsky.social is getting using Gemini 3 Pro, transcribing and translating Armenian ms materials are stunning. Historians, teachers and archivists really need to be discussing where we want to be with this stuff. open.substack.com/pub/generati...

My lightning talk at #FF2025, “Refactoring the @iiif.bsky.social Artificial Intelligence Community“ zenodo.org/records/1783...

Lots of great posts coming out of the Fantastic Futures: AI in Libraries, Archives, Museums conference this week. #ff2025 #archives

Thrilled to be at Fantastic Futures w/@bertspaan.nl to talk about working w/digitized map collections as research data! You can explore VERY large datasets of text from maps with our prototype #dataviz interface at text-on-maps-viz.allmaps.workers.dev Featuring Rumsey collection maps! #ff2025

ICYMI: "Statement of Agency’s Reinstatement of Terminated IMLS Grants" www.imls.gov/news/stateme... HT @fletcherdurant.bsky.social @bb.usefairuse.com

The deadline to submit session proposals for next year's conference is at the end of this week. Share your knowledge with the field at the first-ever joint conference with the National Council on Public History. Learn more and submit a proposal at tinyurl.com/AASLH2026.

Arithmetic book of Ezra Wood, Phillips Academy class of 1829. Includes pages describing the process of and reasons for creating the book, which Wood wrote several years later. #mathematics

Announcing IHR Discovery Courses: Historic Maps, Townscape & Architecture, and Archaeology for Historians. Suitable for historians working in all contexts, or anyone looking for new learning experiences, and inspiration. www.history.ac.uk/study-traini...

Recording & slides for 11/12 #OhioDIG "Tech Tools for Transcription" virtual meeting now online! It covered text/audio transcription, #Transkribus, Generative AI tools, Open AI’s Whisper, vendor services. Thank you speakers! Visit meetings page and scroll down to that meeting. ohiodig.org/meetings

A botany related follow up #Wiki workshop will be held on 9 December at 3.30pm NZST. We'll be covering creating new species articles in #Wikipedia, changing plant image file names in #WikiCommons & giving links to #Wikidata tools. Anyone can attend! Register at: tepapa.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

🔔 We’re honored to open a new round in the @susih.bsky.social -IU Community Scholars Program, which unlocks onsite + remote library access for 3 years for contingent scholars + historians working beyond the academy. Please apply + share! CFP due 2/1. Onward! 🗃️ s-usih.org/2025/12/cfp-...

Can AI be ethical and transparent? At READ-COOP, the unique European cooperative behind Transkribus, we prioritise democratic control and purpose over profit. Read Melissa Terras' (@melissaterras.bsky.social) thoughts on why this model is a global blueprint:  blog.transkribus.org/en/melissa-t...

Lineage: Genealogy and the Power of Connection in Early America talk by @kawulf.bsky.social Thurs Dec 4 7-8pm online & in person American Antiquarian Society (Worcester, Mass) www.americanantiquarian.org/programs-eve... #genealogy

Mashpee, MA: Archive Technician, Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe

Curious about AI4LAM? You can join the Slack or Google Group via ai4lam.org or check out the community call tonight at 4pm GMT

Reviews in Digital Humanities covers a wide variety of scholarly projects via a broad range of methods & disciplines reviewsindh.pubpub.org Editors @roopikarisam.bsky.social @jenguiliano.bsky.social #DigitalHumanities #dh

"When did human beings first become literate? Who was able to read in different societies – men or women, adults or children, masters or slaves?" fivebooks.com/best-books/h...

I very much appreciate research at scale on the representativeness of and biases in digitized archival collections. Some examples below. 🧵

Read this whole thread. It is worth it!

GAERHF talk happening November 25th at 5PM in London. "Deep Time and Global Scope in a Digital Project: The example of the Human Figure" www.history.ac.uk/digital-huma... . It will be on Zoom as well. Link will be sent after registration (I think).