Minneapolis yesterday. This. 🙏❤️

I’m sorry. Dominant what? And that’s a good thing???

Happy New Year, Bluesky 🎉 May peace, care for working folks, racial justice, access to universal healthcare, scientific & historical research, & empathy be our guiding lights.

A searching article from three outstanding historians in @irishhiststudies.bsky.social Thinking through how one moves beyond the statist view of history, in Ireland or elsewhere, is essential in the 21st century. I highly recommend this piece.

That feeling when you’re traveling, and there’s a layover, and you think ‘I’ll just check what’s happening in the Ireland v Hungary match…!!!! #coybig 🎉☘️🎉

🧵Important re: transatlantic nexus of this type of culture war demand

SNAP isn't about "people who don't work." It's about people who don't get paid enough to live. Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps: * Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled * Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages

A great pleasure to join Damian @irishacw.bsky.social and the Transatlantic podcast to talk about the Irish in Wisconsin & Milwaukee.

Excellent brief essay on the importance of multi-lingual skills to the Irish Revolution www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

🧵This work looks so exciting. Thanks for calling attention to it.

Stephen Mullen, a highly regarded historian specialising in Scotland's links with Atlantic slavery, objects to a right wing scholar's flagrant misrepresentation of his own work and that of Glasgow's Kelvingrove Museum's curators in @thetimes.com alanlester.co.uk/blog/falsify...

An important essay to consider. The argument is specific to UChicago, but its lessons to a greater or lesser degree apply to many American higher ed institutions, particularly R1s.

Looking forward to the return for season 2 of this terrific series!

Dear Americans, This is not true: "The European Union will pay the United States a tariff rate of 15%". This is true: Americans will have to pay 15% extra for goods from EU. You're welcome and thank you for your attention in this matter, Is Mise, GnaM

Trump hiring Oddjob to caddy for him because…of course

Imagine being disappeared in one dictatorship, making it to America, and then being disappeared again

1/11 History Reclaimed is still trying to invalidate the Church of England’s Project Spire reparative justice investment fund on historical grounds, with letters to the TLS and this rebuttal of the work of historians who examined the Church's complicity in slave-trading:

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The reverse Robin Hood: take from the poor to give to the rich.

Amplify this analysis. 🧵 from @asharangappa.bsky.social

This would seem to be very bad: the National Archives belong to the people of the United States.

Long 🧵. Read to the end. Links throughout as well. GRMA, a Rothaí!

WASHINGTON—With the United States facing a daunting array of problems, leading historians reminded the nation that when making tough choices, it never hurts to stop, take a look at similar situations from the past, and then think about whether the decisions people made back then were good or bad.

When Tim Walz became Kamala Harris's running mate, progressives highlighted policies passed. It could not have been possible without Melissa Hortman. -Free school breakfast and lunch -Restoring voting rights for felons -Paid leave Great piece by @gracepanetta.bsky.social 19thnews.org/2025/06/rep-...

Disturbing story from the UMichigan.

The USA has a hate problem—one it has never dealt with, one that is getting license from the top but that has roots deep in our society.

So…how’s going?

We have a Fulbright Fellowship in #IrishStudies for US faculty available for 2027 - see here for details: www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...

Last week, the Australian govt announced it had approved the country’s biggest fossil fuel project, the North West Shelf Project - in an area incredibly significant to indigenous Australians- to continue operations until 2070. Indigenous campaigners have said they will keep fighting the project.

La longue nécrologie de Pierre Nora par Antoine Flandrin dans Le Monde est excellente : plutôt qu’un éloge convenu, un portrait précis, équilibré et sans concessions, rappelant les controverses historiographiques, mais aussi, entre autres, ses propos honteux de 2011 sur le génocide des Arméniens.

We could widen this comment to be any students in disciplines requiring research and analytical writing.

Applications are open for the 2025-26 AHSS Global Fellows Scheme at QUB, funding visits by established academics of 4-12 weeks to Belfast. Specialists in Irish Studies are welcome to contact us at [email protected] before 30 May. More info at www.qub.ac.uk/about/Leader...

The @acls1919.bsky.social, AHA, & @modernlanguage.bsky.social filed a motion for a preliminary injunction to enjoin the unlawful dismantling of the NEH: "Congress believed NEH to be essential to the functioning of our democracy, & the public interest would be served by honoring that determination."

My brilliant colleague @smgonzalezwi.bsky.social appearing on our invaluable local NPR affiliate to talk about immigration history to this upper-Midwest state and especially about the tradition of sanctuary here.

The most transactional person to be president is not happy that a large multinational is making deals in its interests and not according to the presidential script.

🧵about past histories, with a telling example of an imperial history that brought the Whiggish narrative of progress to the empty spaces of the world & those beset by anarchy. Revising old narratives through better understanding is both healthy & proper.

Wouldn't it be nice if every news outlet that covered the Bukele Oval Office meeting noted: District court wrote: Abrego Garcia "has never been charged with or convicted of any crime."⤵️ Fourth Circuit: The government presented "NO EVIDENCE" of MS-13 affiliation. Abandoned argument before court. ⤵️

It's an apt week to remember the South Sea Bubble of 1720. And for anyone thinking of teaching comparative financial crises next year, a reminder of the fab resources and datasets on the Bubble compiled by the Yale School of Management: som.yale.edu/centers/inte...

Anyone concerned about the concept of one-person/one-vote should oppose this disenfranchisement bill.

Devastating. This is a disaster on a scale that is hard to imagine. Please keep the people of Queensland and Australia in your thoughts.

🧵Anyone who has secured, applied for, or written recs for any of these programs can appreciate these sentiments. But as Dr Posner says, reviewers bring accumulated expertise to the process and perform exacting work to determine those selected. Deeply insulting & injurious to their labor.

She died in binary. That’s dedication. RIP.

Paul Lashmar’s ‘Drax of Drax Hall’ isn’t just a look into the dark sources of one family’s fortune; it’s an indictment of a nation’s refusal to reckon with its past. Review by @alexpreston.bsky.social @paullashmar.bsky.social

"The Senate received very troubling information that key Australian groups opposing offshore wind rollouts are not in fact grassroots community movements ...they are linked to political, organised and well-funded global campaigns to undermine renewable energy" #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03...

Not normally staid historians share this alarm.

Trinity College has advised researchers not to respond to a request for information from the Trump administration if they receive it. The US government is asking whether there is a climate, gender or diversity and equality element to research it funds. http://jrnl.ie/6662142