“He was gay and lived through two world wars and 40 US Presidents” is a fucking outstanding epitaph

Fellowships! The National Maritime Museum in Amsterdam has published a call for proposals to conduct research into its maritime historical collection. More information, including the English translation of the call texts, can be found here www.hetscheepvaartmuseum.nl/collectie/on... #skystorians

Today is launch day for @mkn.bsky.social's new book THE WESTERNERS: MYTHMAKING AND BELONGING ON THE AMERICAN FRONTIER but only Reckoning with Jason Herbert is asking the hard questions around here.

Listen to the pod and then order the book. Links below. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

yeah, I’m working on this right now

Camberville folks: my friend @mfryerwood.bsky.social and I are holding a craft fair to benefit families impacted by ICE, in both MA and MN, on May 23rd! ✨ You can sign up to be a vendor here: cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/for...

Transplanted my pea seedlings this morning. Here’s hoping it’s warm enough and the squirrels don’t get them all.

For cis folks who haven't been following the NYT / AMA story, the basics are: The NYT has been caught in a typical transphobic lie and the only unusual part is the AMA has sort of pushed back.

Just a reminder that my book about the census and enumerators is now available for pre-order - www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Recording-th... #Genealogy #Ancestry

I'm finally allowed to reveal the cover for my book! This is Love Never Dies: Romance in Horror Movies. It's coming from @beaconpress on September 29. Isn't it beautiful? Dan McCarthy is the artist and Louis Roe is the designer.

macommunityfridges.neocities.org I just refreshed the layout of the Massachusetts Community Fridge directory! It's still v much a work in progress, but please check it out and share widely. This layout should be more mobile friendly and the font sizes more accessible. Feedback welcome!

Ever wanted to know how to conduct a 17th century highway robbery? Good news! On the Untitled History Podcast this week I teach you how to do it! Come for the crime instruction, stay for the social history. cms.megaphone.fm/channel/the-...

So excited to share this documentary about how the United States Colored Troops in the Battle of Nashville turned the tide for the US in the Civil War! Featuring me and many other local historians and descendants making sense of this complex story for PBS. www.pbs.org/video/tide-t...

Every immigrant teen and adult they've arrested AT IMMIGRATION COURT was a violation. The Justice Dept is "repeatedly apologizing" in court now, which does fuck all for everyone harmed, of course.

50% of the Centrality of Slavery, NOW. Discount code in the link. Get yourself a copy. www.pennpress.org/978151282842...

It would be cool if people worried less about the average American's ability to read historical documents and more about the pummeling of history as a viable discipline via decades of underfunding, adjunctification, and the collapse of a dozen inter-related job markets.

Absolutely thrilled to report that the Board of Governors at @uncpress.bsky.social have approved my book THE RACIALIZATION OF PRINT for publication by @oieahc.bsky.social. Forthcoming, early 2027.

I'm so excited that my article "Fragmens philosophiques: An Eighteenth-Century Clandestine Manuscript of Voltaire’s Apocrypha and Related Works" is now out in the world, in the latest issue of The Library! liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...

After the FWW, the Imperial War Graves Commission had a policy of not repatriating the bodies of soldiers who died overseas. Many remains were exhumed to be "concentrated" into larger cemeteries, but they were not moved by family request. An exception: Pte. Frank Flintham, 4th Queen's Own Hussars

I would tear my walls down to the studs and redecorate around them

On this 115th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, we remember the victims – who were primarily young immigrant women. We also carry forward the lessons of this painful moment in NYC's history. Reckless, unchecked greed resulted in mass catastrophe. (1/3)

Today we have a fantastic essay on medicine’s patriarchal assumptions in treating women’s bodies. nursingclio.org/2026/03/25/t...

I planted some peas and tiny lettuces in a tray in my kitchen and now I check on them every 20 minutes like a kindergartener.

If you're in Manhattan today, keep your eyes out for these sidewalk chalk memorials for the 146 victims of the Triangle Factory Fire. The Chalk Project was started by Ruth Sergel in 2004 and is now organized by the Tenement Museum.

I'm excited to decipher this person's name in the original records. Place your bets.

Taking a break from Big Project to chip away at this fascinating service record (a Scottish man who served in the French army early in the FWW before sliding over into British intelligence work).

I know all sorts of libraries and archives are having trouble with data scrapers, and they're doing their best to protect their data. Still, it sucks that I am locked out of UK sites like TNA and CWGC about a third of the time I try to use them. Sometimes I can do a captcha, but sometimes just NO.

I checked the list and pretty quickly spotted scrapes from Rachel Reid, E. H. Lupton, and something called Fae-Ted Mates (I think we can all decode that particular algospeak)

📣 🎉Today is the official release day of my book, even tho many of you have it in hand already. 🙏 to all who purchased. Availability: Amazon has the paper w/ discount, Bookshop/OUP on back order. Should be an e-version that is missing. I will check w/ my press. More: www.annaolaw.com/book-migrati...

Final call ...

Watching basketball and crocheting the world’s largest sock.

I'm going to take this as an opportunity to promote my new article on the abolitionists' use of sarcasm, mockery, and ridicule. academic.oup.com/jah/article-...

my favorite thing is that Nurse Jesse is a REAL ER NURSE

After so many years, its wonderful to finally put a face to a name. Frank Hayward was born in Bristol in August 1898 to Henry & Minnie. He attested into the 12th Battalion Essex Regiment in August 1916, around the time of his 18th birthday.

On the value organizing using your own brain: 🧵 For my PhD, I read a mountain of books and over 2,000 European printed and manuscript maps & atlases c.1450-1650 (and some older ones). I identified 200-ish maps/atlases with distinctive imagery of peoples of the Americas (not just stick figures). 1/

So honored that my book, White Power: Policing American Slavery, will be the first in the new W. Hodding Carter III trade imprint from @uncpress.bsky.social. For those attending #OAH2026, please join us for a celebration of the new imprint! Pre-order the book here! tinyurl.com/mwcc4977

So happy about this great review of THE WESTERNERS in @publisherswkly.bsky.social ! Thank you! @scribnerbooks.bsky.social

Blueskis, in the midst of all The Crazy, there was An Unboxing! Were the kittehhhhs impressed? Watch and see.

in the national museum of scotland and I'm pleased to see they still have my favourite exhibit here: Rats Fucking in a Sewer While Turds Float Past

"A ... federal judge has dismissed a writer's lawsuit accusing a bestselling fiction author of stealing her romance-fantasy book drafts to create the popular 'Crave' series, issuing a lengthy opinion finding tropes of the genre —such as 'hot, sexy, dangerous boys'— are not protected by copyright."

FYI: “hot, sexy, dangerous boys — central to virtually all young adult romance novels — cannot be copyrighted.”

Oh, wow, this paragraph:

This week my @baylor.bsky.social graduate Black Atlantic History seminar engages Claire Bourhis-Mariotti’s brilliant *Wanted! A Nation!* (@ugapress.bsky.social ). 🇭🇹🇺🇸

Hey if you guys are free this weekend, there's a 250th conference at Central Connecticut State University. I will be talking about Connecticut Loyalists. www.ccsu.edu/event/ct-177...

Happy Evacuation Day to William Vassall, who left Boston during the Revolution and spent the rest of his life complaining about it. "Losers have a right to complain."

Rev Henry Caner of King's Chapel Boston describes fleeing Boston #Rev250

I’m so excited to be talking about #AgentZo at the Oxford Lit Fest… please join me if you’re free!

Meteors and earthquakes — the early moderns might think it's about time for someone to invent the concept of introspection.