I always tell myself I'm going to post On Here throughout the annual meeting and then immediately get caught up and forget to look at the internet for four days. So, belatedly, thanks to everyone who came out to #AHA26! My fifth(!!) meeting as AHA staff and possibly my favorite one yet 🩵

Not to be completely earnest on main, but I have some of the best colleagues around. Brilliant historians, thinkers, organizers, community builders. No one else I would rather be incredibly tired with after a 15-hour day than the AHA staff. #AHA26

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

Just loving this year's art, designed by our own @rebeccawest.bsky.social. You can read about how the design came together in #AHAPerspectives. 🗃️

Really pleased with how this year's cover art came out and excited to finally be holding the program in my hands!! Time to flip through and highlight more sessions than I will possibly be able to attend

Reminds me of pro-slavery southern voices before the civil war, like John C Calhoun. They worried about new “free states” joining the union, and losing their majority in the senate—

Hey that's me!

This January, @danieljstory.bsky.social, Alexandra Levy, and I are once again co-leading @historians.org's Sinclair Podcast Workshops. Do you have a history pod idea you want to vet with a small group? Pitch us for Developmental Conversations! Deadline 12/1/25. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

#AHAReads is wrapping up for another summer. Thanks to all who participated. I always love hearing about what folks are reading and enjoying. 🗃️

trains are such a great example of how the future is here, if we want it and are willing to subsidize it

@jasperjsmith.bsky.social and @katiemangan.bsky.social have been all over the George Mason U. DOJ investigations since they began. Today they broke some news @chronicle.com: GMU president Gregory Washington is digging his heels in and won't be apologizing for DEI work. #HigherEd #AcademicSky

Fall 2025 semester let's goooooo

We talked to @igd.bsky.social about the ongoing resistance and mutual aid efforts happening in DC as the military and federal police occupy our city. Check it out! itsgoingdown.org/whole-city-f...

Another #AHAReads pick done! Despite the title of Charlie English’s “The CIA Book Club: The Secret Mission to Win the Cold War with Forbidden Literature,” the book really focuses on the Polish Solidarity movement, making it perfect for the “history of a resistance movement” task.

We’re almost halfway through this year’s AHA Summer Reading Challenge — but there’s still plenty of time to join in! Check out our roundup of what participants read in June for inspiration. #AHAReads 📚

It’s appropriate that, on this especially fraught holiday weekend, my 232nd #ScholarSunday thread is my longest yet, full of so much public scholarly writing, podcasts, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more below, share widely, & enjoy! 🗃️ americanstudier.substack.com/p/scholarsun...

I loved talking to the folks restoring and preserving some of the DC area's most iconic historic buildings for this piece. The Folklife Festival runs through July 7, make sure to go see these immensely talented craftspeople if you're attending! (And drink lots of water and wear sunscreen!)

LAURA IS SUCH A GREAT PERSON AND ALSO A CREDIT TO OUR PROFESSION AND ALSO AN AMAZING LEADER OF HISTORIANS AND ALSO HOORAY

For the material culture task I read Skirts by Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell -- I loved learned about the "hemline wars" and the a lot of social and cultural forces behind what's in my closet! #AHAReads www.goodreads.com/book/show/59...

Happy #AHAReads season!! My first pick this summer is Skirts: Fashioning Modern Femininity in the Twentieth Century by Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell for the "read a history that uses material culture" task 👗

What a beautiful May Day to launch the fight for the rights of our labor - #NEH staff and grantees alike - and for the #humanities. Our work to preserve and make accessible #history and #culture for all people is NOT expendable. @paulakrebs.bsky.social @acls1919.bsky.social

#Skystorians, the best way you can support actions like this is to join @historians.org at historians.org/join. You can also donate to the AHA’s advocacy fund to help support this lawsuit. historians.org/donate

@acls1919.bsky.social, the AHA, & @modernlanguage.bsky.social filed a lawsuit in federal district court today, seeking to reverse the recent actions of the NEH to devastate the agency, including the elimination of grant programs, staff, and entire divisions and programs. 🗃️

AHA staff does Broadway before #AHA25 begins tomorrow!

Thrilled to find that someone has created my dream store: combination ice cream shop and bookshop! Shoutout the the Fountain Bookshop in Washington Heights for the NYE treats 📚🍦

Is it really an AHA annual meeting if I don't get into town early to catch some hockey? Got to NYC and immediately hopped a train down to New Jersey for the afternoon, super glad to finally get to a PWHL game!

Come see us in New York!!