Overlooked No More: Violeta Parra, Folk ‘Genius’ Who Redefined Latin American Music www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...

Life lately: www.bu.edu/americanstud...

Congratulations to Meghan Townes, recipient of the William C. and Susan S. Mariner Ceramics Fellowship at the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts in Winston-Salem! @meghantownes.bsky.social

From the @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social archive, Andrew Wehrman on smallpox and inoculation: "Inoculate Before It Is Too Late." ageofrevolutions.com/2021/11/15/i...

My Slate piece on the widespread NEH grant cancellations is live. So much gratitude to everyone who took the time to talk with me these past few days while fighting fires on every side. #humanities #highered #neh slate.com/news-and-pol...

Hello Bluesky! 👋 We’re the Boston University American Studies program (formerly American and New England Studies). Happy to be here! Visit our site for more info: www.bu.edu/amnesp/

For our next issue, Ampersand solicits papers on rupturing, deconstructing, and recreating boundaries of assumed forms within American Studies. We encourage a variety of topics and formats and prioritize the work of emerging scholars. Find out more and submit by 4/1 at sites.bu.edu/ampersandjou...

One of the few signatures I've come across in research that made me squeak a little

NEH introduces new prohibited categories to comply with executive orders. This is an infringement of academic freedom plain and simple, and also nonsense: what is “discriminatory equity ideology”

Would I illegally import Swedish Fish? Absolutely not. Cheetos, on the other hand... www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

An unelected billionaire gleefully shutting down the world’s largest provider of food assistance, an agency started 60 years ago by JFK with 10,000 employees in 100 countries www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

This is a great way to support kids and get your cookie fix: www.erininthemorning.com/p/2025-trans...

It is cookie season, which necessitates a visit to this perennially useful article from Vox (Little Brownie is clearly superior, but I sadly live in ABC land): www.vox.com/2015/3/4/814...

For Blue Monday we can't think of anything more appropriate than this charming depiction of a man getting his face eaten off by a leopard. #MosaicMonday

What you need to understand about the Boston suburbs is that every neighborhood has a dad who will happily clear all the sidewalks with his Toro snowblower the morning after a storm, dressed in nothing more than sweatpants and a high school wrestling team hoodie.

Many years ago in NoVA, I passed a burgundy van absolutely covered in Washington football stickers, driven by a little old lady in a veil, with a license plate that read “Nun4You.” All I can say is, Sister, I hope you’re watching this game

Missed this when it was published, but enjoy this brief snapshot from my summer. wilder.vcu.edu/news-and-eve...

Vol. III, Issue 1 spotlight: @meghantownes.bsky.social juggles the scholarly and the personal in the story of how one small-town Alabama high school band came to march for JFK’s inauguration, largely due to the noisy organizing of Townes’s grandmother. Read it now at the link in bio!

Follow my program’s online journal, which just joined Bluesky! A new issue is out now (including a piece by me)