AHA members @theotherrbg.bsky.social and @emilysneff.bsky.social, talking about the Declaration in @smithsonianmag.bsky.social!

The Declaration of Independence was breaking news in 1776, but it didn’t reach everyone the same way. In Smithsonian Magazine, AHA member Rebecca Brenner Graham highlights fellow AHA member Emily Sneff’s research on how news of US independence spread through a fragmented information landscape. 🗃️

author Courtney Maum facetiously called one of the genres of book deal announcements the Oscar’s speech (1/8)

Huzzah! So happy this wonderful project is on its way! 🎉

good morning — oh I guess it’s 3pm — from #oah2026 three signed copies of my book on the PRH table now standing in the back of @gauthamrao.bsky.social standing-room-only panel

Always! Congratulations on this incredible achievement! It is going to be a great book!!!

I realized the other day that my Felicity doll is older than my entire museum education staff, so if you're saying "who's the target audience for this book?" Well, it's me. Felicity girl since ca. 1993.

🥳🥳🥳

author Courtney Maum facetiously called one of the genres of book deal announcements the Oscar’s speech (1/8)

the anti-fascist, frequently presidential quotation board is back 📍cafe la france, pvd train station

It's almost like "illegal immigration" wasn't the problem at all...He's trying to turn back the demographic changes made possible by the Immigration Act of 1965 which over time resulted in more *legal* immigrants from non-European countries.

finally found a non-office spot where I like working in pvd: the cafe la france in south street landing has everything that I look for in a work space 📍brown

Just confirming that Made by History will now be back up and running in the next few weeks with a new home and new partners at the Philadelphia Inquirer. Exciting! So, if you have pitches, now's the time to start sending them to [email protected] 🗃️ #MadebyHistory #HistoryMatters

many congratulations to @emilysneff.bsky.social on the new book WHEN THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE WAS NEWS @academic.oup.com — here’s our @smithsonianmag.bsky.social profile www.smithsonianmag.com/history/in-1...

Thanks to @theotherrbg.bsky.social for interviewing me and highlighting When the Declaration of Independence Was News for @smithsonianmag.bsky.social! www.smithsonianmag.com/history/in-1...

many congratulations to @emilysneff.bsky.social on the new book WHEN THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE WAS NEWS @academic.oup.com — here’s our @smithsonianmag.bsky.social profile www.smithsonianmag.com/history/in-1...

emails can wait till tonight. other reading can wait till train to philly for oah (did you see it’ll be eighty degrees😍😇) today’s objectives are to fly from memphis to pvd via chicago and to re-read book & make 15 revisions (should be a double ritalin day) 🤞🏼

Oh the duck hotel. I love that place

📍memphis

what if he said five green crew members. what if they brought a friend back

some might suggest that continually opening a new document to write the thing from scratch again is a sign of anxiety

📍the train! I did not cry leaving dc. not sure how so many people are talking in the quiet car that I politely asked the conductor to help me find the quiet car, not sarcastic. But at this point I get in at 11pm and fly out at 7am — my only objective the rest of Fri. Apr. 10 is to get to pvd!

happy birthday Frances Perkins

For a lot more on Perkins, see @theotherrbg.bsky.social's excellent book: www.kensingtonbooks.com/978080654317...

8am ritalin

And to have such a wonderful night in my city means the world to me

📢❗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

Kate Haulman re: THE MOTHER OF WASHINGTON IN NINETEENTH CENTURY AMERICA @oxfordunipress.bsky.social 📍AU

good day, great night 💛 thanks for having us, @peoplesbooktakoma.com

Frances Perkins, Then and Now Rebecca Brenner Graham received a 2025 Grateful American Book Prize Honorable Mention for Dear Miss Perkins. In this interview, Graham reflects on Perkins’s enduring legacy and its relevance to current U.S. policy. https://ow.ly/2XnZ50YEWPl

Frances Perkins, Then and Now Rebecca Brenner Graham received a 2025 Grateful American Book Prize Honorable Mention for Dear Miss Perkins. In this interview, Graham reflects on Perkins’s enduring legacy and its relevance to current U.S. policy. https://ow.ly/2XnZ50YEWPl

It's publication day for **THY WILL BE DONE: GEORGE WASHINGTON'S LEGACY OF SLAVERY AND THE FIGHT FOR AMERICAN MEMORY** at last! I have a new piece at @time.com about what our struggle to remember George Washington and slavery can teach us as we commemorate the 250th. time.com/article/2026...

I have two events in DC this week! 🌸 (1/2) @liveright.bsky.social @peoplesbooktakoma.com peoplesbooktakoma.com/event/darkol...

good morning from the newly renovated cafe la france in pvd train station ❤️ I THINK I was the second customer

goodnight moon

thank you moon for the timeline cleanse

The WSJ book review for When the Declaration of Independence Was News called me "a careful academic who prefers sober analysis to intriguing speculation" and you know what, yeah. That's me.

nervous for tomorrow/Monday. a couple Work things. plan is to take Ritalin and dress comfortably. then Tuesday I get to go to DC… have been struggling w/ being anxious & anxiety really for the first time since my audhd diagnoses in 2023

This reminds me of a really great passage from Barnes' interview in the NYT this week:

I have two events in DC this week! 🌸 (1/2) @liveright.bsky.social @peoplesbooktakoma.com peoplesbooktakoma.com/event/darkol...

my dad helped me move the rest of my stuff that I need over the summer from my office — which will be inaccessible in a building under construction — to my apt. gotta find places for the books, though the books-on-stove aesthetic is cool

Cross Talk: Labor #brown2026 @kawulf.bsky.social @sethrockman.bsky.social 📍 @jcblibrary.bsky.social

Years ago I planted six tulips. This feisty one is the sole survivor.

I’ve been struggling with internal mood regulation recently so much to look forward to in the month of April and desperately want to enjoy everything rather than being too anxious & dysregulated so, a thread for upcoming, life-affirming, good things…

tomorrow! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

why is this night different than all other nights because I get to text my cousin “do you know where grandma’s plague puppets originated”

served as a reference twice last week, & both were successful 🏆🏆

friends near pvd: join #Brown2026 and Discovery Through Dialogue for Cross Talk: A Whole Campus, Distinct Disciplines Approach @jcblibrary.bsky.social on Fri. April 3, 2026, at 5pm. this first Cross Talk is about Labor, moderated by @sethrockman.bsky.social docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

re-reading AGR’s THOMAS JEFFERSON & SALLY HEMINGS — just an absolute masterpiece

my sister is (kind of) in town, & I have one chance to see her so far enjoying the bus from providence to newport