As they should.

George Hardy, last of the Tuskegee Airmen's World War II combat pilots, dies at 100

Hegseth has doubled down on honoring these “heroes,” who participated in the slaughter of over 100 women and children, plus unarmed men, the elderly, and infirm. Many were shot while fleeing and left for dead on the snow-covered prairie. I’ll spare you the graphic images of the mass grave.

Hi y'all! Would anyone be interested in collaborating on a panel reconsidering religion in the South in the Revolutionary Era (broadly defined) for the Southern? Definitely want to do something on Quakerism and Southern religious pluralism. www.thesha.org/submit-a-pro...

Rest in peace, Ethan. Still cannot believe it has been ten years.

The American Society for Legal History has $$$ for your creative ideas! 9/19 deadline. aslh.net/award/projec...

Some Good News, everybody! "Nonprofit environmental organization the Ocean Cleanup has announced that it's on track to eliminate the Great Pacific Garbage Patch by 2034"

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

Who can be published by a university press? https://bit.ly/3ljDLFX University press publishers answer frequently asked questions like this one on our #AskUP site. Curious about how university press publishing works? #AskUP!

The Trump administration has reportedly ordered the removal of signs and exhibits related to slavery at multiple national parks, including the historic photograph “The Scourged Back” www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

btw Costco seems to have the cheapest updated COVID vax. You can get it without a card at the pharmacy and they do take walk-ins. If you’re also uninsured due to the massive amounts of layoffs this year, they also take this goodrx coupon to lower the cost of www.goodrx.com/comirnaty?sr...

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BREAKING: Multiple HBCUs reportedly received threats, prompting lockdowns and heightened security

I took a short nap and woke up to news of chaos and violence at yet another university. This uptick in political violence and assassinations leaves my heart heavy.

The Program in African American History at the Library Company of Philadelphia invites applications for its Mellon Scholars Program in African American History Postdoctoral Fellowship. The stipend is $55,000 for the academic year. networks.h-net.org/jobs/69079/l...

BREAKING Poland’s military confirms that Russian drones entered its territory. The military says that “our airspace was repeatedly violated by drone-type objects.” The statement also says the military response is still active and that citizens and residents of Poland should stay home for now.

I love this. The generation that endured polio is getting older, and young folks just don’t understand how terrifying that disease was.

Once again, I’m bitter that being a crocheter means I—a historian—have to do math.

My brain immediately went to Steven Curtis Chapman’s song “Burn the Ships,” which is where teenage me first heard this story…about Hernan Cortes. Anyone else?

I’m teaching modern US history survey in-person in the spring for the first time in six years. What are the new cool supplemental books to assign students? 🗃️

White House’s review of Smithsonian content could reach into classrooms nationwide - apnews.com/article/smit...

The Data Rescue Project is gathering and cataloging U.S. government data at risk. The Project's Save Our Signs initiative invites the public to take photos of interpretive signs at National Park Service sites that the Trump administration may remove.

One of the most remarkable things of the last 9 months is how many Americans seem to believe the President is all powerful and Congress has no say. Actually Congress has been ineffective by choice. It has immense power if it had the courage to use it.

Changing the name of the Department of Defense will cost billions.We could build units for all unhoused veterans. Or give service members a pay raise so 35K active duty members wouldn’t have to rely on food stamps. Or… or… or…

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I will be interested to see how this plays out. My book would qualify and I have filled out the contact form.

📢 #academicjob alert My department at #LehighUniversity is hiring: a new Assistant professor in "United States and the World 🌎 in the twentieth and/or twenty-first centuries", 2:2 teaching load, review of applications begins on October 6. apply.interfolio.com/172322

Nursing Clio is seeking three new staff members: one Book Reviews Editor and two new Editors! We are a volunteer-run, open access, collaborative blog project that ties historical scholarship to current political, social, and cultural issues related to gender and medicine. Please share widely!

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Graham Greene has died. A Canadian acting icon, he earned an Oscar nomination for his role as Kicking Bird in Dances With Wolves. He also won a Grammy, Gemini and Canadian Screen Award, along with the Governor General's Performing Arts Award. He also earned a star on Canada's Walk of Fame.

Louder for the folks in the back….

70 years ago, on this date, Emmett Till was kidnapped and brutally murdered by white men. His family, including his cousin who was with him at the time, is repeating the train ride he took from Chicago to Mississippi in 1955 to mark the anniversary

🚨Livestream🚨 What is American Indian Studies? And why is it relevant today? Join @The_Red_Nation today at 1:30 pm CT for a discussion with American Indian Studies scholars Elise Boxer and Jerome Clark. www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7iu...

If your research has been used to train AI (you can check that here, www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...), I recommend you share your info with lawyers working on the Anthropic suit, www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au.... This puts you on their list of potential plaintiffs.

The only thing that this AI garbage has accomplished in my field is making the internet almost unusable as a classroom resource & digital assignments almost totally impossible.

"WGBH, the bellwether public TV station in Boston, has laid off the 13 people who worked on the history series “American Experience” and announced that no new documentaries will be produced for the show until further notice." 🗃️ www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/a...

Abraham Lincoln was a messy bitch who lived for drama

Anyone able to help?

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Please share! We are looking for TWO postdoctoral scholars in African American history and history of the Civil War era. Fellowships are for TWO years, and the anticipated start date is July 1, 2026. The deadline to apply is NOVEMBER 1! Links are in the replies below.

I’ve had the “I have one daughter” song stuck in my head for over a week and it needs to GO. 🥴

Just a reminder that fascists, authoritarians, dictators of all stripes destroy archives— books, museums, databases, &c— because those things provide windows onto a plurality of other ways we might organize the world. And so preserving, defending, and spreading that knowledge harms those regimes.

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Every tech update now is like: "Great news, the word processor you've relied on for twenty years has learned to juggle! Is it good at it? No! Does it help in any way? Of course not! Has it made it insufferable to use? Oh, absolutely."

Here is the truth about museums: Museums are among the most trusted institutions in American society. Especially history museums. Museums support over 700,000 jobs in the US. Museums generate $50 billion in economic activity in the US every year. Just the facts. That’s what we do. #museum

This, actually works. For me at least.

Unfortunately, my policy on AI has grown by quite a few sources over the last year. Here it is for anyone who wants to adopt or adapt it for their courses. And if you have ideas, I'm all ears.

Historians, we’re interested in publishing responses to the White House plan to “review” Smithsonian exhibits. DM us if you’d like to write something! 🗃️ #publichistory

This doesn’t seem problematic at all.