Join this community forum to help NPS and ASALH design a plan for National Historic Landmark designation for Black public secondary schools. Black Public High Schools 1870-1970 Project, led by Principal Investigator Amber N. Wiley, PhD.

UNM is awesome! Happy to sing its praises

Took about 20 years. And I never thought a book about enslavers using deputization to give themselves policing power would be relevant to our times. But we are where we are. My book, White Power: Policing American Slavery, is now available for preorder. a.co/d/29c7EIP

First, an important & exciting announcement for folks used to reading these threads on Substack—my wife @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social & I have a new public scholarly website Black & White & Read All Over, & these threads will be fully migrating over here. blackwhiteandread.com

Cuts to and closures of university presses are 100% part of the separation (or as @mattseybold.bsky.social has called it "unbundling") of research and teaching in the humanities and the devaluation of both quite frankly--in this case at the expense of the career training admin claims to care about.

We are back!!! In this episode I interview my co-host Boyd Cothran about his recent book, _The Edwin Fox: How an Ordinary Sailing Ship Connected the Workd in the Age of Globalization, 1850-1914_, published by @uncpress.bsky.social @shgape.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Kelly Goodman talks about the history of teacher strikes, funding challenges in public education and the impact of recent policy changes on school budgets. Listen to the interview below. awf.labortools.com/listen/kelly...

The Immigration and Ethnic History Society (IEHS) offers a number of prestigious awards that recognize excellence in scholarship in the fields of immigration and ethnic history. Visit the awards page for details regarding all 2025-26 awards, including deadlines. iehs.org/awards/

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I just learned it was Yamiche. They let him talk to her that way again.

No solidarity. Reporters let Trump talk this way to a woman reporter and then clamor to get their own question answered. He used to do it to April Ryan, Yamiche Alcindor and Abby Phillip. And that’s why he controls media. No solidarity.

This “explicit” is a weird editorial choice. The constitution gives the president no power over this at all. It’s not ambiguous.

I’m a labor nerd so this is how I found out lol Congrats to union folks on building yet another union!

Attention Catholic Studies folks

The Trump administration is intent on destroying U.S. higher education, which has for more than half a century been a beacon to the world.

Mail-in ballots are critical for seniors, people with disabilities, service members and their families, and millions of other Americans to exercise their right to vote. We are not a democracy if everyone cannot participate.

Not sure how a voting rights historian should feel on the anniversary of the 19th Amendment's ratification while SCOTUS is likely gutting the rest of the Voting Rights Act & the president is pledging to end mail in ballots, which would disfranchise most of the US military #ItsComplicated 🗃️

my statement on Ai from the mini-comic I'm making as syllabus for a new class I'm teaching this fall. It's simple, but I pretty much said all I have to say on it - it robs you of decisions and struggle - and the joy of being surprised. It robs you of learning...

My biography of Amelia Bloomer just got another nice review, this one from the Indiana Magazine of History @inhistoryeditor.bsky.social The author wished I had given more detail on where to read more of Bloomer's writing. Here you go!

Junior faculty and grad students in political science, history, law, and Native American Studies, come take a class with us at the New York Historical Society (and via Zoom) on Native Peoples, American Colonialism, and the U.S. Constitution. To apply, Institute for Constitutional History: 1/2

Apply for the CWWH’s Irene Ledesma Prize for the most outstanding graduate student research in gender & western women’s history in 2025. The prize is named in honor of Irene Ledesma's important contributions to the fields of Chicana & working-class history. Apps due September 1, 2025.

Between 1899 and her death, in 1962, the photographer Lora Webb Nichols created and collected some 24,000 negatives documenting life in her small Wyoming town, whose fortunes boomed and then busted along with the region’s copper mines.

🚨New Episode Alert🚨 This month we talk about 19th-century photography & re-envisioning the West w/ Robert Sullivan & his book "Double Exposure: Resurveying the West with Timothy O'Sullivan, America's Most Mysterious War Photographer" (@fsgbooks.bsky.social 2024). www.podbean.com/eas/pb-38yuk...

We stopped expanding the House in the 1920s, decided the Supreme Court should freeze in the 1930s, added the last states in the 1950s, amended the Constitution only once in the last fifty years. The USA and its government continued to grow, but almost all that growth came in the executive branch.

This is fabulous. Grabbing to use in my classes.

With all the news about the return of Confederate monuments, I wanted to share my Confederate Monuments Syllabus page. It includes op-eds going back to 2017, interviews, lectures, teaching resources, primary sources, and a bibliography. #sschat #historyteacher 🗃️ cwmemory.com/civilwarmemo...

Author friends- anyone ever get a text like this? I assume it is spam, but on the off chance it is not, I thought I’d check.

This is an important point Much in DC in its formative years as our capital was deliberately “plain” Because our government was supposedly not going to reflect the excess & exclusion of Old World royalty The White House is stately & straightforward as a statement of principle You know. No kings.

@thewha.bsky.social The National Humanities Center welcomes applications from scholars engaged in advanced humanities research for the 2026–27 academic year. The deadline to apply is October 2, 2025. Please help us spread the word about this opportunity.

“Authors have until the end of August to opt out of the licensing agreement. If they do not, their work will be used to help train AI models.”

Sacramento city leaders are looking to commemorate African American History in Sacramento by considering naming 12 historic landmarks and creating a new historic district: the New Helvetia District. www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/n...

I’m old enough to remember when getting too excited and yelling a bit on the campaign trail and did your candidacy…

Historian Friends! @shgape.bsky.social is holding a conference next June in that great GA/PE city, Chicago! See link to CFP below!

"We are at a critical moment for the arts and humanities in this country, and it is more important than ever that you support your local organizations" bit.ly/3IAYPWY

“My 2020 article on the NPS website was edited to remove the words transgender, nonbinary, genderfluid, and butch,” writes @wendylrouse.bsky.social in #AHAPerspectives. 🗃️

Received this plea today re: the closing of the Iowa City branch of the Iowa State Historical Society, archives deaccessed, and shuttering of Iowa's 160+ year old peer-reviewed history journal as a result of decisions made by the Iowa Dept of Administrative Services. (h/t @wickenkamp.bsky.social)

We learned last month that the State of Iowa will no longer fund or publish their peer-reviewed journal Annals of Iowa, which is now looking for an institutional home. Here we share our letter of concern, and we hope others will join us in supporting state and local history! 🗃️ 🧵

Excellent thread! Lots of drama-clowns, firefighters, Orangemen, chaos!!

Parents insist their kids go to college to get business degrees. Administrators respond by defunding the humanities and social sciences, while hiring business profs at ~2X what historians get paid. Meanwhile, businesses say over and over that they want to hire humanities and social science majors.

Watch the AHA’s Congressional Briefing on the history of tariffs on C-SPAN. Panelists @douglasirwin.bsky.social, @sharonannmurphy.bsky.social, & @rauchway.bsky.social discussed how the government has implemented tariffs in the past & how they have impacted the economy. 🗃️

How much have things changed since January? ⬇️

And we could easily save the History major with: “How to do research and write about it all by yourself”

I grew up near the canal in Easton, PA and guarantee almost nobody there knows about this despite there being a canal museum in the city

Boyd and I recently had a fantastic talk with Leslie Jones, Director of Museum Affairs and Chief Curator at The Preservation Society of Newport County, about the society's new exhibit: Richard Morris Hunt: In A New Light. Check it out and enjoy! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1...

“ICE in just a few weeks has transformed itself into the closest thing that the US has ever had to a ‘secret police,’ with more seemingly culturally in common with the Klan nightriders of Reconstruction than their federal agency brethren like the FBI or ATF.” @garrettgraff.bsky.social

OMG - just in case you thought Roger Rabbit was based on a conspiracy theory.

Dearest humanities friends, I’m sending up the humanities bat signal. Heard a NEH colleague that orgs aren’t submitting requests for close out costs on terminated awards—which they are entitled to!! Here’s what to do: 1/

So, 65% of the annual NEH budget.