One final look back at Michael Cullinane’s excellent podcasting work as we wrap up 2025- also, a small glimpse into my current research obsession, finding a painting by Kathryn Woodman Leighton. Happy New Year to all! @shgape.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

We are thrilled to announce our latest episode of the New Books in Women's History Podcast. @lcargin.bsky.social spoke with @ayahnerd.bsky.social, @lmansley.bsky.social, and and @sarahbelle721.bsky.social about the new Nursing Clio Reader! Listen here: newbooksnetwork.com/the-nursing-...

🗃️ My History Department is hiring for a tenure track position in Native American history. See link for details! jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

Hear me out: Book train.

Buy University Press Books This Holiday Season #academicpresses cc: @uncpress.bsky.social @utpress.bsky.social @lsupress.bsky.social @fordhampress.bsky.social @univpressofkansas.bsky.social @univnebpress.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

instead of doing the fun part of conceptualizing and recording a podcast where a person gets to use their brain and flash their wit and talk to another person, they can now hope for a poorly paid job cleaning up the janky ai podcasts

Apologies for Slavery, circa 2025 by @marthasjones.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/hardhist...

Where to Find "The Better Angels of Our Nature" open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

Historian of eugenics here. I don't normally like to retweet bad arguments, but this is such a fundamental misunderstanding of eugenics, I think it's important to point out. I don't have time to debunk all of the ways this is inaccurate, but I'll highlight a few things and then recommend some books🧵

The original White House--like the Capitol--was deliberately NOT garish.They were supposed to reflect republican governance: not monarchies, not aristocracies.They were supposed to show a commitment to We the People. The current decorations are the precise opposite. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Another @shgape.bsky.social podcast dropped! This is Boyd’s 2nd “best of.” Episode 54 Michael Cullinane interviews Chris Suh about his award-winning book _The Allure of Empire: American Encounters with Asians in the Age of Transpacific Expansion and Exclusion_. shows.acast.com/gildedageand...

If you're a PhD student, postdoc, or independent scholar working in Mormon studies, please consider applying to the Eugene England Summer Institute, which I co-lead with @taylorpetrey.bsky.social and Jana Riess. Our first year was an incredible experience & we expect the second year to be as well.

Noting the decision not to mark the day, the State Department stated: "An awareness day is not a strategy." Activists in the fight to end the ongoing AIDS epidemic disagree. n.pr/3Xu36zt

It's time for the 2026 Comics Criticism Mini Grant! My family and I are awarding four $250 grants to active comics critics. The application is simple, just your name, email, and two recent clips. Deadline for submissions is January 1st. forms.gle/Cy8FtCcqVSWa...

Some places in Colorado, including Denver, already print ballots in both Spanish and English for every election. But until the passage of SB 1, each city was left to decide whether to provide multilingual ballots—and many places chose not to do so.

Are you watching Death by Lightening? Here’s some suggestions to learn more!

This kind of idiocy and chaos not only betrays our allies, but also makes every one of us less safe.

A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF

Have you written an excellent article on women’s and gender history in Canada? If so, please consider submitting it for the French or English Hilda Neatby prize by January 1st. The prizes will be awarded at the CHA’s annual meeting in Charlottetown. #cdnhist #prize

It's increasingly clear that these people portray immigrants, LGBT folks, and trans people as creepy predators who prey on women and children because they themselves are creepy predators who prety on women and children.

my takeaway from this letter is that glenn youngkin, rector sheridan and their flunkies on the board are deeply dishonest people who are engaged, with the trump administration, in a mob-style shakedown against the university of virginia

Anyone who’s ever used emergency contraception or gains peace of mind by even having it on hand owes Dr Camp a debt of gratitude. What a force. (Also, I just learned one reason the FDA rejected it at first was that they said the name Plan B was too glib!) Great obit—no paywall.

During Jim Crow, everything from restaraunts to stores to hotels to pharmacies to gas stations required making safe choices. They shaped every trip a Black person made. We document that history, and you can add your story to it here #CommunityMap: greenbookproject.osu.edu #GreenBookProject #EconSky

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

Maybe it’s just the Humanities professor in me, but let it be noted that events of today (ahem) have demonstrated the value of being able to assess a large volume of qualitative data and do careful textual analysis with deep attention to context.

Meanwhile, “did women ruin the workplace?”

***Book Reviewers for the JAEH Needed*** If you are interested in reviewing books for the Journal of American Ethnic History, please complete the volunteer reviewer form or send your contact information and areas of expertise to [email protected] iehs.org/review-books...

Hey, this is the opposite of the NM erasure that usually happens, so progress? #OneOfOurFiftyIsMissing

New Black Cowboy Museum in Kendleton breaks ground www.fortbendstar.com/new-black-co...

Please take a few minutes to read this beautiful tribute to our friend and scholar Dr. Lloyd Ambrosius. Dr. Jeanette Eileen Jones, who authored the tribute, is hosting a panel on his legacy at the OAH in Philadelphia. More information can be found at the link. blog.shgape.org/tribute-to-l...

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

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This vote has not happened yet. Call your Senators, especially your Democratic Senators, and tell them that a deal without protection NOW for health insurance tax credits is unacceptable.

So Democrats get: 1. A CR that will prevent the GOP from facing the wrath of Americans for a shutdown over the holidays 2. A coupon for one (1) meaningless ACA vote that will fail 3. An end to the illegal RIF/SNAP moves that are already before the courts Those all seem like wins for the GOP.

Okay, Ezra is confirming that he's hearing D senators are actually plotting to cave to Trump and end the shutdown WITHOUT any extension of the ACA, just a promise of a vote later down the line. Call your senators, friends, NOW, and tell them NO DEAL without ACA funding! Find them here: reps.fyi

Our most recent @shgape.bsky.social pod dropped this week. We are revisiting a few of Michael Cullinane's 100 great episodes (w/ some help from @mikeconnolly.bsky.social ) so tough choices--which are your favorite past episodes & why? Let us know in the comments embed.acast.com/$/6116856492...?

perfect Election Day thread 🗃️

History has its eyes on you! Vote!

Good morning, Pennsylvania, we’ve got some voting to do! Retain, retain, retain!!

I was laid off from Teen Vogue this week, alongside multiple other phenomenal team members. At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.

Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva has now been waiting 36 days to be sworn in to office — setting a new record that any member of Congress has had to wait following a special election.

NEW: 12 Mississippi polling places have moved and 4 have been closed ahead of the Nov. 4 legislative special elections, an MFP investigation finds. Counties also have incorrect addresses in the state system for 11 polling places, risking sending some voters to the wrong location.

Here’s my my pitch for why you care about your state attorney general. The entire conservative judicial machine *depends* on conservative state attorney generals. John Roberts can’t take a case asking to destroy voting rights if a state attorney generals doesn’t bring it.

Why should you 🫵🏿 care about SNAP? SNAP recipients saw: - Improved life expectancy - Lower chance of incarceration - Lowers chance of poverty - Lived in better neighborhoods - Higher human capital SNAP keeps our neighbors fed, communities safer, and kids educated. Also people are HUNGRY. DUH!

Took a look at the entry they have for me in Elon's Grokipedia. There are some surprisingly deep details, dredged up from interviews I'd long ago forgotten about, and then there are some incredibly big points that are completely wrong. Let's roll the tape.

Come join us (or send your students) to Penn State for this fantastic post-doc!

Apply for Postdoctoral Scholar, African American History: psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...

In this week's Gilded Age & Progressive Era podcast Boyd and I talked about my recent book, _Recasting the Vote_, and what the history of suffrage looks like from different perspectives. I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed the conversation @shgape.bsky.social shows.acast.com/gildedageand...

The September Minding the GAPE is here! There's some exciting stuff including women's rights and bowling, public history at Gilded Age mansions in Newport, and the return of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era podcast! Please take a look and share with friends!