Dr. Jessica Otis and Katherine Kania published "The Monarchs' Bills of Mortality," analyzing 17th-century London death records to reveal connections between epidemic outbreaks, socioeconomic trends, and environmental factors. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03058034.2025.2572138

CRDH Vol. 8: New research from Fabio Gigone, Natacha Klein Käfer, Natália da Silva Perez, Nadav Borenstein, Miara Fraikin, Sanne Maekelberg, and Anna McGee explores topics from royal iconography to AI-powered print analysis, midwifery education to palace networks. Read here: https://crdh.rrchnm.org

Ahead of #AHA26 in Chicago, check out our Resources & Guides to learn about our annual meeting policies, accessibility, travel, resources for speakers and undergraduates, and much more. 🗃️

The AHA offers travel and childcare grants to help graduate students, early career historians, un/underemployed historians, and community college and public high school teachers attend #AHA26. Check out the full list of available grants at the link. 🗃️

If you're at #WHA2025 I hope you'll join @cblevins.bsky.social, @regan008.bsky.social, Rachel Birch, Sean Fraga and myself on Friday at 8:15 to talk with us about generative AI and History. I have a strong feeling I might be quite curmudgeonly, so come join us!

Congratulations to the winners of the Roy Rosenzweig Prize for Creativity in Digital History, Gergely Baics, Meredith Linn, Leah Meisterlin, and Myles Zhang, for their project Envisioning Seneca Village! Explore the project: envisioningsenecavillage.github.io

How do you tell the story of a copy of the Declaration of Independence that doesn't exist anymore? This week's newsletter focuses on Polly Palmer, with help from the @rrchnm.bsky.social podcast Your Most Obedient & Humble Servant declarationstories.org/stories/miss-polly-or-myra

📖We’re now accepting nominations for the NCPH #BookAward through November 1! Books published in 2024 or 2025 are eligible for the $1,000 prize. The winner will be honored by NCPH at the joint NCPH-AASLH conference in Providence, RI, next September. https://ncph.org/about/awards/book-award/

Why does having a cover for your book make it feel more official? Thrilled to share mine for Civil Blood: Vendetta Violence and the Civic Elites in Early Modern Italy out Nov 15 with @cornellupress.bsky.social This book has some things to say about the intersections between violence and statecraft.

Happy First Day of School! Make sure you've signed up for our monthly newsletter to stay up to date on all of our projects. airtable.com/appCTQZLKPTy...

1) Finally back in the research trenches and working on the next book (and the project Mapping Violence) and the Venetian material I've collected continues to delight. Today's find from the archives of the Council of Ten: An investigation of a 'cartello' of a treasonous poem from Verona.

Undergraduates: submit to #AHA26's Undergraduate Poster Session by October 15. The Poster Session is an opportunity for undergraduates to share their research with peers and established scholars in a visual format.

Want to learn more about our Omeka Intensive Courses? Join us for an info session on Wednesday, August 27th at 7:30 PM EDT. Instructor Dani Willcutt will provide a brief overview of the Classic and S courses and address audience questions. Register now:

It' that time again! Registration is now open for our Fall intensive trainings. Sign up to reserve your spot in our Classic or S course today:

Today I’m working on some experimentation with a local LLM and OCR to see how well I can get an LLM to understand historical documents, identify themes, potential linkages between documents, extract indexes of people, places, or events, and other document metadata.

Hearing from Jessica Otis at @rrchnm.bsky.social about their monumental effort to reduce technical debt and figure out what to do with several DH projects since 2014. Similar situation was faced by MITH and @kingsdigitallab.bsky.social among others. #dh2025

We’re hiring! Join AIP’s research team as an Archives Fellow or Intern to help highlight women’s contributions to the physical sciences. Great part time opportunities for grad students. Apply here: - Fellow: workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/defau... - Intern: workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/defau...

The JCB is seeking a senior leader for its ambitious digital programs. Our Associate Director for Digital Asset Management will guide the continuing development of our innovative platform, Americana, and oversee the digitization of library collections. 1/3

If you're attending #DH2025 make sure to check out @jmotis.bsky.social's panel Revitalizing, Maintaining, & Sunsetting the Digital Humanities on Friday and @deepthimurali.bsky.social & @jasonheppler.org's session Participatory Platforms, Open Scholarship and Advanced OCR on Thursday.

Coming in October 2025. A new, three-volume history of Greater Philadelphia. Look for my entry on the 1844 nativist riots in volume 3: Greater Philadelphia and the World www.pennpress.org/978151282935...

Heads up! The new series I'm editing for @unmpress.bsky.social has been renamed to "The West in Context" (less generic than the original). Flyer attached. Please message me if you want to pitch a manuscript or otherwise talk shop!

"One of many!" How did the East India Company get its start on the Indian sub-continent? Contributing expert @deepthimurali.bsky.social of George Mason University takes us back to the reign of Elizabeth I in this clip from Episode 16: The Tea.

The Rebellion is now in progress.

Thrilled to say that Worlds Turned Upside Down is nominated for the 2025 People's Choice Podcast Awards in two categories: People's Choice Award and Best History Podcast. We'd be most grateful for your vote! Cast your ballot here: www.podcastawards.com

One of the podcasts I produce is up for TWO People's Choice Podcast Awards! Worlds Turned Upside Down has been nominated for the People's Choice Award and Best History Podcast. I would really appreciate it if you would vote for Worlds Turned Upside Down! www.podcastawards.com

NOW PLAYING: Episode 15: The Heavens Fall The detainment of a West African-born enslaved Virginian named James Somerset in London leads to a court case decided by England's most powerful judge that challenges the foundations of slavery in the British Empire. www.r2studios.org/show/worlds-...

🚨New Episode ft. digital, environmental, & urban historian, Dr. @jasonheppler.org (Senior Developer, @rrchnm.bsky.social @georgemasonu.bsky.social), & his book "Silicon Valley and the Environmental Inequalities of High-Tech Urbanism" (@oupress.bsky.social, 2024). www.podbean.com/eas/pb-wmhpv...

Congratulations DR. Greer!

The #AHR is seeking proposals for a special issue on methodological approaches to archival silences in early history. Visit our website to read the full call for proposals and learn more about the guidelines for submission. Proposals are due September 16. 🗃️

The print edition of the Washington Post may be shrinking, but it's nice that they found room for this review of the new biography of Joseph Smith by my wonderful colleague, John Turner. Also, first peaches of the summer.

Big news from the #ITPS! We are thrilled to share a new series with @uvapress.bsky.social! Here are more details about "From Pamphlets to Podcasts" and if you're working on relevant themes (this is an intentionally 'big tent' series), consider sending them our way upress.virginia.edu/news/new-boo...

Congratulations to @jeanettepatrick.bsky.social for winning the Best Producer Award!!

June really snuck up on us, didn't it? But that means summer is here, and so is #AHAReads! I hope you'll join our Summer Reading Challenge, and read + discuss history with us throughout the next three months! 🗃️

📣 Call for participants 📣 Have you ever used any History Workshop Journal articles in your teaching practice? We’d love to hear from you for the 100th issue of HWJ! Please let us know by sending an email or feel free to DM.

This was a terrific episode! #skystorians #academicsky @rrchnm.bsky.social

Learning so much abt indigenous peoples & war in late 18th-c North America (esp the #Ohio country, where I am from). Listen to it while I garden or workout at the gym. @jimambuske.bsky.social @neorsd.org In case of interest to other Ohioans <3 #skystorians #academicsky #18c @rrchnm.bsky.social

Check the programme of the student led seminar, with presentation from 14 students from all over the world www.uni.lu/c2dh-en/even... #PublicHistory #Past #Conflict #Heritage @uni.lu @c2dh.uni.lu @ncph.bsky.social

Our friends @shearites.bsky.social are expanding a wonderful initiative around mentorship in honor of the late, great Jan Lewis, which kicks off this afternoon with a conversation about conferences with @carolyneastman.bsky.social @wmackintosh.bsky.social & @drhonor.bsky.social. Details⬇️

Congratulations to our former GRA Hernán Adasme on winning this award!

And that's a wrap on the grants awarded to the Department of History and Art History! We want to thank all our Program Officers at the NEH for their decades of hard work bringing #NEHfunded projects to the public. We couldn't have done any of this without you.

In 1977, Lawrence Levine had an #NEHfunded project on the Folk in American history. The NEH fellowship led to Levine's pathbreaking book, Highbrow/Lowbrow: The Emergence of Cultural Hierarchy in America www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

In 1978 and 1979, Carol Mattusch won a fellowship for an #NEHfunded research project on Greek bronze sculptures. Her fellowship led to the publication of Classical Bronzes: The Art and Craft of Greek and Roman Statuary

The #NEHfunded part of the George Mason's Legacy lecture series focused on Constitutional guarantees of rights.

In 1981, the #NEHfunded Sheila Ffolliott's work on the art patronage of Catherine de'Medici. Ffolliott went on to publish widely on Renaissance art and received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Renaissance Society of America.

The #NEHfunded the filming of the "Legacy of George Mason" lecture series in 1982.

In 1982, the #NEHfunded Roy Rosenzweig's study of various parks designed by Frederick Olmsted: www.jstor.org/stable/37872...

Lauren Rever, the 2024/2025 @gerda-henkel-stiftung.de Digital History Fellow, recently wrote a post for the @rrchnm.bsky.social news blog reflecting on our March conference on "Real-Time History": rrchnm.org/news/report-...

In 1985, the #NEHfunded Roy Rosenzweig to write a social history of Central Park. The fellowship led to the publication of his book, The Park and the People: A History of Central Park www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9780801...

In 1985, the #NEHfunded Carol Mattusch to work on the development of Greek bronze statuary.

The #NEHfunded Zachary Schrag to analyze how Christopher Columbus was depicted in American children's schoolbooks.