We received our flu and COVID vaccines and in honor of the event I made a meme 🤣.

Sitting in the Civics for All panel at NYCC. So inspiring what has been accomplished (5 years, 5 million comics given) and what is on the near horizon, in particular the "Know Your Rights" comic that is super exciting.

Dr. Eric White is a top scholar on the Gutenberg Bible, but in his free time, he's been studying one of baseball’s biggest mysteries – Who are the unnamed artists behind the classic Topps baseball cartoons? thefanfiles.com/articles/topps-baseball-cards-cartoons-comics-cartoonists

Me, in a hurry to get kids to school. My across the way neighbor: how’s it going? Me: good - rushing here… Neighbor: continues to lob questions. Me: gotta run. Neighbor: how are you dealing with students & Ai? Me (pausing to get a comic from my pocket): here - see page 3 (dashes off to bike)

I am absolutely heartbroken. @hsglobalhistory.bsky.social after our conversation I hope this additional news is not a tidings of the way things are headed: popcultureclassroom.org/2025/01/16/p...

Fascinating what got close (super close) and what is nowhere near (books made of nickel, so weird!...although I guess ebooks....)

AHA panel 203. Excellent panel on the state of graphic history, esp. in teaching. I want more of these. AHA needs whole days devoted to not only using comics in the classroom, but comics as archives / historical records too!!

I need to remember this page when I next teach comics!!!

What a way to wake up, dozens of new follows. It's nice to see the exodus happening in earnest, guess I need to actually be in here a lot more!!

Great day yesterday at NYCC. Awesome panels put together by Joe Schmidt and the NYDOE ... I can't seem to find folks on here to tag. Also procured a new to me issue of True Comics I'm super excited about!

Rose City Comic Con this weekend w/ @yidcaledon.bsky.social @kjknoblauch.bsky.social and @bethpollard.bsky.social "Adaptations: A Panel on Comics Beyond the Panels" (5:15pm). And then the Comprehending Comics Conference (all virtual). The program/to register: www.historyincomics.org/conferences-...

World History Assoc. Conference in San Francisco... Women in World History. Merry Weisner-Hanks, Candice Goucher, and Linda Black.

Call for Artists: artworkstrenton.org/sequential/

Boys & Girls pages, or similarly titled, are fascinating! Here I've come across a competition to encourage kids between the ages of 16-19 and 11-16 (I think) to decipher Cook's writing in journal entries from his time on HMS Endeavor. Would love to know if any of those kids went on to be historians!

Ooh! This is so cool.

SU 24, Drs. DeRosa, Rhett, Heinrich, & Brzycki will host a PD Wrkshp series Jul 10: Military Strategy of US Civil War Jul 17: LGBTQ & Disability History & Comics Jul 24: Arch. & Enslavement in NJ Jul 31: Childhood & Youth in Modern China For more info & to register: www.monmouth.edu/.../professi...

This summer my colleagues and I will be hosting a series of K12 PD workshops. Join us!! For more information and to register go to: www.monmouth.edu/.../professi...

Good morning, everyone! Looking for a speaker for summer or fall faculty events? I'm taking the Pedagogy of Kindness on the road. If you're interested, details are here: bit.ly/CateSpeaking

Worldies ... Obviously not a TT position, but a world-centeric position for 2 years is not bad. USAF may not hit well too, but reading the job ad makes me think they are trying to head in the right direction. So, thought I'd pass it along! www.h-net.org/jobs/job_dis...

Two comics related conferences I really want to try and make coming up! networks.h-net.org/group/announ... and networks.h-net.org/group/announ... @yidcaledon.bsky.social @kjknoblauch.bsky.social @bethpollard.bsky.social

How are those New Year's Resolutions going? I'm off to a slow start this year myself 😆 . This is a "How it Began" by Paul Berdanier. c. 1934, I think this one came from The Evening News out of Harrisburg, PA.

This is great!

"Our Democracy," from The Smyrna Times 1946. I've found others in the series. Definitely strongly patriotic/jingoistic at times, but loved the sentiment of this one. (Pulled from Chronicling America through the Library of Congress)

ARCHIVIST JOB ALERT: Smith College seeks an archivist for the Sophia Smith collection of women’s history. 📜📚
 smithcollege.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/smithc...

HISTORY JOB ALERT 🚨🗃️ Assistant Professor in Modern History (post 1800), of Britain (including Ireland) or Europe and/or their empires. Come work with us @WarwickHistory! Please share and circulate. Details below 👇 Deadline: 14 January 2024 warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/candidate...

Fun with history!

For those in European History, esp. if you are looking for an academia adjacent job: collegeboard.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Career...

Our first #AHAReads Winter Reading Challenge is running from November 1 to January 31. Check off just one task to complete this reading challenge. 🗃️

Are you a new scholar working on maritime history? Consider applying to the British Commission for Maritime History's New Researchers Conference! Excited to host this at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow on 22-23 March 2024⛵️ See details below! Submit here: forms.gle/NRvgsE4oaP6K...

@bethpollard.bsky.social love your cover pic!!

Experimenting hard in my intro history class this semester. Today is the 1st test of how it's working. Given how the group activity went I have my doubts. I love the dynamic of teaching food history with cookbooks, but not sure I'm going about it the right way. So many have never seen a cookbook!

Reviewing an article. I refuse to be Reviewer 2, and I do not think it is an outright reject, but hoo boy it does need revision. ... It also makes me reconsider my own submissions over the years!

Forgive me if I've missed this, but do we have something snappy for the missives we send out over here? Or are we stuck with "post"? Clouds? Puffs? Rays? ... maybe I should actually be thinking about grading and not this?

I started reading the Guardian article and stopped to google the bit about _War of the Worlds_ and Tasmania. I had no idea!! daily.jstor.org/what-the-war... I can't say as I'm surprised, especially because Wells is such a colorful figure himself, but seriously I knew nothing about the connection!

Some sharp and smart recipe comics from my nonfiction comics-making class! (note: Not all are actual recipes for food...) They had a blast with them and we'll likely revise and make a proper anthology Recipe Book collecting them end of term...

Reading the AHA's Jobs Report (tl;dr there are none) is wild when I look at my department's enrollment crush. Our undergrads want History; all courses fill & waitlists form; meanwhile, our resources are stretched so thin, growth is structurally precluded. www.historians.org/research-and...

Once again, we could avoid this dumb circling firing squad btw our starved campuses & solve nearly every other problem in higher education - up to & including parents’ hysteria about getting their kids into the Ivies - simply by Funding. The. Damn. Public. Universities. Like. We. Used. To.

1/2 To test the waters over here, building on a "toot" from Mastodon earlier this year: I'm really interested in History Comics, in particular created before 1940. I have a fairly extensive list from the US, some from Canada, the UK, and France as well as Catalan Auca.