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"Things are very, very bad at the western part of the state . . . I can’t emphasize enough how disastrous this winter has been for western Nebraska."

Peter Gleick: “This particular year is as clear an indication of the influence of climate change as anything we’ve seen."

We're in for a very tough summer here in the West.

you don’t have to know much world history to look at this map and immediately see why the entire western hemisphere has birthright citizenship

Calling all doctoral students of the North American West! The Western History Dissertation Workshop is accepting applications for their annual review workshop, being held at UC Davis May 7-9. Apply by April 1!

New oil pressure and water temperature gauges look terrific.

Not sure how different this is from Glenn Beck asking an AI George Washington about modern day issues. It’s cartoons either way.

The Declaration of Independence specifies 27 grievances with King George III and Britain. Donald Trump and his regime have committed at least 20 of those same offenses highlighted in yellow. #NoKings

Currently reading: Where The Sky Began: Land of the Tallgrass Prairie by John Madson 📚

Finally got the new steering wheel on.

Breaking the bottlenecks of transcription and coding can free up time and energy for historians do the stuff we already excel at: close reading, contextual thinking, narrative, interpretive nuance +

Cameron and I worked on an interactive map of his postal data when we were both at Stanford. I can only imagine what we could've done then with the tools we have now.

📣 New historical data visualization! "How Fast Was the Mail?" is an interactive map showing how long information took to travel across the US between 1882-1908: cblevins.github.io/mail-time/ +

Cold spell, 5-on-4 blunder cap otherwise record-breaking Nebraska season

I have no clue how or why Amazon's algorithms do what they do, but the hardcover of _Ethanol: A Hemispheric History for the Future of Biofuels_ is currently on sale for 20 percent off. www.amazon.com/Ethanol-Hemi...

It’s a big night, folks. #GBR

NEW: Wikipedia has banned AI-generated content.

The Western History Dissertation Workshop was one of the very best things I did in grad school. Very much recommend applying!

Finished reading: America, América: A New History of the New World by Greg Grandin 📚

Calling all doctoral students of the North American West! The Western History Dissertation Workshop is accepting applications for their annual review workshop, being held at UC Davis May 7-9. Apply by April 1!

Applications are open for the 2026 Roy Rosenzweig Prize for Creativity in Digital History, the signal prize in the field. Due May 15. www.historians.org/award-grant/...

"The AI Grad Student": A Harvard professor describes working with Claude. Early on, he describes misconduct that would cause any student to be terminated: "It faked results, hoping I wouldn't notice." But he ends the essay with "Now I'm doing 100% of my research with LLMs". Am I losing my mind?

I wrote about restoring my early digital history projects.

NEWS: USDA cuts ~ $300M in funding for a program that aimed to help beginning and underserved farmers buy and retain land. Scoop for @politico.com

The Forest Service alone lost 16% of its workforce because of DOGE, plus big reductions from Interior and Agriculture—all agencies tasked with both fighting fires and reducing fuel for fires on the landscape.

Hello everyone; the What's History feed seems to have fallen over—I've no idea what happened, but the poster list is intact. Meanwhile: #skystorians 🗃️ bsky.app/profile/did:...

We're hiring! 🌿 The Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities at the University of Stavanger invites applications for a 3-year postdoc in Environmental History. See thread for more details. #envhist #envhum

The greatest thing to ever happen to me as a Huskers football fan is Nebraska going to the Sweet 16.

Never noticed until today someone tacked up a bunch of vintage metal Funk’s seed corn dealer signs to our barn. Probably dates to the 1950s.

“In the US west, the seasons that people and nature were used to for centuries are disappearing, putting many, including outdoor workers and those without air conditioning, in danger…The threat isn’t distant – it is here.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

A massive wildfire in western Nebraska, the largest in the state's history, remains un-contained after several days. This is, by the way, the heart of cattle country in the state---and we're the second-largest beef producer in the United States.

Interesting new piece from @iatp.bsky.social showing how confidence in USDA data is eroding under the Trump Administration, with serious consequences. www.iatp.org/farming-risk...

Pete Ricketts introducing stock trading reform is like putting Bernie Madoff in charge of fraud prevention.

The Arizona desert community of Martinez Lake hit 110 degrees Fahrenheit, breaking the record for the highest March temperature ever recorded in the U.S.

The months of February through April are typically the American West's biggest snow months. As Rebecca Boyle writes, however, the heat dome coupled with a dry winter is an ominous sign for the region. The West is hitting summer temps in March.

A massive wildfire in western Nebraska, the largest in the state's history, remains un-contained after several days. This is, by the way, the heart of cattle country in the state---and we're the second-largest beef producer in the United States.

The NYT front page is 49 megabytes, larger than the original install disk size for Windows 95 thatshubham.com/blog/news-au...

Gross.

Some revisions to my National Grasslands map, using data from a public lands map I made ages ago and recent data from the National Forest Service. I wrote about creating it here: jasonheppler.org/2026/03/09/v... Interactive version here: jasonheppler.org/projects/ban...

I've been following this Cesar Chavez stuff over the past day with a pit in my stomach. Huerta's statement is incredibly important and I'm so incredibly sad for everyone affected by this.

“Many of the women say they were discouraged from speaking out in order to preserve Mr. Chavez’s public image.” 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/u...

The Cesar Chavez story discussed yesterday is out, in the New York Times. Two women say that he sexually assaulted them as children, beginning when they were 12 and 13. And Dolores Huerta says he raped her in 1966.

Rotational Gravity xkcd.com/3220/

This is insane.

Mexican novelist Álvaro Enrigue re-imagines the story of the American West — and the Apache fight for survival — in an epic that's both defiantly challenging and, at times, magical. n.pr/475SvQt

For those who haven’t heard it yet, the If Books Could Kill team did a pretty devastating dissection of The Population Bomb a couple of years ago podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

Steve Pearce, the White House’s second oil and gas-connected pick, is “not so sure” he’s changed.