“Take a moment to think before you dive in. That’s the best advice for Google Photos users, as the company confirms its latest update can scan all your photos to “use actual images of you and your loved ones” in AI image generation.” www.forbes.com/sites/zakdof...

📢❗One week until applications for the Cokie Roberts Fellowship for Women's History close for the 2026-27 cycle! Past fellows share how the award furthered their own projects using materials from the National Archives Apply now ➡️https://archivesfoundation.org/cokie-roberts-fellowship/ #womenshistory

Hi all, its your friendly neighborhood retired therapist here to remind you that the horrors persist and so do we! Have you: -had a glass of water or something liquid that is not caffeinated recently? -used any calming or grounding techniques you like? -eaten a food? If not, do that now. 💜

I'm live over at @askhistorians.bsky.social! AMA about George Washington, slavery, and public memory before my book comes out tomorrow! www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

My emotional well being is entirely too reliant on the health of an eagle family in California. 🤣

Job alert! Southern Illinois University Edwardsville is hiring a tenure-track digital archivist. I'm on the search committee and happy to answer questions. Please share widely! This is a great collection, full of hidden gems, in an academic library committed to students. apply.interfolio.com/184021

#historians - looking for any sources, primary or secondary, on controlling migration to Australia, during the first half of the 20th century, at port of departure (ie discouraging or preventing potential migrants from travelling to Australia), rather than at port of entry. #OzHist 🗃️

What does the Fourteenth Amendment actually say about birthright citizenship? AHA member Kate Masur breaks down its historical foundations as the Supreme Court takes up the issue. 🗃️ #history #humanities #SCOTUS

We all need to be watching and witnessing what happens on Wednesday. 🗃️

Attending the American Society for Environmental History meeting this year? Whether you're attending or not, you can browse our virtual exhibit. Check out our featured books and get 30% off & free domestic shipping with promo code EX58258 here: bit.ly/UCPEXASEH #ASEH2026

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!

A viral video about a man named Solomon Fairfax, who earned the nickname the "Grim Reaper" of Charleston after spending years killing slaveholders, has hundreds of thousands of likes and shares. There’s just one problem: Solomon Fairfax doesn't exist

So cool that people are still discovering this #Sinners syllabus, published by the African American Intellectual History Society, and composed by Jemar Tisby & Keisha N. Blain. Enjoy!

Jürgen Habermas, a philosopher and public intellectual who was one of the most influential and cited thinkers in postwar Germany, died on Saturday. He was 96.

What can you do with a history BA? Join our online roundtable History Majors at Work on March 26, 3–4:15 p.m. ET to hear from professionals who turned their history training into careers across a range of fields. Includes a live Q&A. 🗃️

It’s Furry Friends Friday! 🐾♥️ Lucky and his pals are enjoying the weather, but he wants to remind everyone that it’s Daylight Savings this Sunday. So everyone turn your clocks ONE HOUR FORWARD!

Call for Applications for the SHEAR DEI Fellowships! SHEAR will offer at least 2 research fellowships to scholars examining African diasporic, Latinx, Indigenous, Asian American, and/or Pacific Island history from 1776 to 1861. Application deadline is May 1. Details here: shear.org/about-us/she....

Friday evening news drop: Iowa State department of history is hiring an Assistant Teaching Professor in Modern European History. 3/3 load, 3-year contract, possibility of renewal. Come be my colleague! 🗃️ isu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/IowaStateJob...

I'm hiring! 🏛️ This is a VA-based, hybrid 3-year position for a historian working on digital projects related to religious history. We'll also be hiring a historian working on onsite programming and training related to religious history. Feel free to reach out! www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...

To celebrate Women's History Month, save 50% on books that share women’s stories from Nebraska, Bison Books, and Potomac Books with discount code 6WHM26! bit.ly/WHMSale26

Register for our Leadership and Administration for History Organizations Online Course to learn about the importance of museum vision and mission, HR management, charting your museum's future, and the role, challenges, and expectations of history museums today. Register at tinyurl.com/4pn993nc.

Advanced graduate students, the deadline for the Richards Center's Predoctoral Dissertation Fellowship in the history of the Civil War Era has been extended to March 15, 2026. If you are working on any subject that considers the Civil War broadly, please consider applying.

I’m going to do this, and you should too!

This Black History Month preorder Black books, a concrete way to resist erasure and tell publishing&booksellers we still value this work. #BHM My book Black Freedom is available for pre-order: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/blair-lm-kelley-2/black-freedom/9780762486939/?lens=black-dog-leventhal

Friends, can I ask you to spread the word that we have a THREE-YEAR postdoc in American history at Cambridge up for grabs - ANY field, but applications are due March 1 so don't delay - apply, apply, apply! networks.h-net.org/jobs/69790/u...

On this day in 1907, Republican US Representative Charles Curtis of Kansas became a US Senator. An enrolled member of the Kaw Nation, he was first Native American to serve in Congress (and both houses at that!). He was later Vice President (1929-33) under Herbert Hoover. Image: Library of Congress.

Looking for classroom resources for courses in African American history? Check out these videos from The Future of the African American Past, a landmark 2016 conference co-hosted by the AHA & the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture that brought together 60+ scholars. 🗃️

To turn off that awful new “Liquid Glass” feature in the latest iOS update: Settings-> Accessibility-> Display & Text Size -> Reduce Transparency

Call for Applications: 2026-27 Predoctoral Fellows, History of the Civil War Era This is a limited-term fellowship for advanced graduate students who are in the writing stage of their dissertation. Review of app materials will begin March 1. Learn more: richardscenter.la.psu.edu/fellowships/...

Ok, skystorians: are there good surveys of slavery in the ancient/classical Mediterranean? I'm presuming there's something better out there than the opening chapters of Blackburn and D. B. Davis's books.

Nominations are now open for the @nursingclio.bsky.social Prize for Best Journal Article, an award for the best peer-reviewed academic journal article on the intersection of gender and medical histories in English. Self-nominations are encouraged! 🗃️

Announcement: The @shearites.bsky.social Robyn Lily Davis Dissertation Prize Starting with the July 2026 award, the winner will receive $1,000! For the 2026 competition, please submit a CV, the dissertation’s table of contents, the introduction, and a sample chapter by January 30, 2026.

Civil rights activist Claudette Colvin dies at 86 19thnews.org/2026/01/civi... via @19thnews.org

The life and legacy of historian and author Dr. John Hope Franklin www.kut.org/life-arts/20...

Since it is the 250th anniversary of Common Sense's publication, it is a great time to revisit J. M. Opal's fascinating piece in Commonplace that puts Paine and his famous work in the context of South Asia and the wider British Empire. Definitely worth a read: 🗃️ commonplace.online/article/comm...

Last week I very belatedly sent an appreciative email to a creator whose show I loved at the Fringe last fall Got a nice reply this evening Did you like and/or assign something someone wrote? Or did your students like someone's work? TELL THEM! It will always make them happy.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting — which helped fund NPR, PBS and many local radio and TV stations — is officially shutting down, months after Congress passed spending cuts that stripped the organization of more than $1 billion in funding.

I'm wondering if anyone knows of books/articles on society/society & politics in late 18th century/French Revolutionary Ratisbon/Regensburg (in French or English). I'm not having much luck finding anything. All suggestions welcome. #skystorians #c18th 🗃️

HMU: What's the best article or chapter you've read in the last five years that involves women and charters in pre-Conquest England? #medievalsky

How I’m walking out of 2025…

EDSITEment - a project National Endowment for the Humanities with 30 years of development and over 1,000 lesson plans and resources for K-16 students that attracted 2.5 million visitors per year - appears to have been archived and is no longer accessible. This is what the #NEH has become.

The History department at the University of Toronto is searching in the field of Ukrainian history. networks.h-net.org/group/discus...

🗃️ My History Department is hiring for a tenure track position in Native American history. See link for details! jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

Amazon is making money off AI copies of books - and putting the onus on authors to prove they’ve been plagiarised. Honestly, just stop buying books from Amazon. Get them from an actual bookshop or order them from a reputable book supplier like bookshop.org www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

Attention scholars: to mark the 20th anniversary of Patrick Wolfe's "Settler Colonialism and the Elimination of the Native," SETTLER COLONIAL STUDIES is soliciting reflections/ critiques for a special issue on Wolfe and his influence. Details below. Please circulate widely!

In an interview, Ken Burns and Sarah Botstein, two of the directors of the new PBS documentary, share how lesser-known individuals, the perspectives of Indigenous and enslaved people, and more.

The Clements Center for Southwest Studies invites fellowship applications for the 2026-2027 academic year. For more info and to apply: www.smu.edu/dedman/resea... If you're interested of have questions, feel free to contact me directly.