A good overview of the incompetent and nonsensical (but not unexpected) way DOGE ripped apart the NEH last spring, leading to hundreds of cancelled grants for petty reasons. I'm grateful to @historians.org and co-plantiffs for challenging these actions in federal court.

Hey everyone. My event with @brookenewman.bsky.social has to be postponed until a future date as I have COVID. I can't give 100% to the event, so therefore I'll wait until I can. A new date and time will be posted in the near future. Apologies to all who were excited to tune in on Monday.

As we head towards the US 250th, what can the messy, protest-filled Bicentennial of 1976 teach us? I sat down with OAH President-elect Marc Stein to discuss his new book and why the "People’s Bicentennial" is a blueprint for contemporary activities. Watch here: www.youtube.com/live/FSVFklN...

My wife is conducting research for a workshop about those of you who like to thrift/shop for vintage clothing. She needs to get 100 people in her dataset, and I would appreciate it if you would take 5 minutes to fill our her survey! Pass it on to your friends who love vintage! tinyurl.com/22vczxe6

I'm really looking forward to this one! Consider subscribing to my YouTube channel as I have all kinds of history on there.

My wife is conducting research for a workshop about those of you who like to thrift/shop for vintage clothing. She needs to get 100 people in her dataset, and I would appreciate it if you would take 5 minutes to fill our her survey! Pass it on to your friends who love vintage! tinyurl.com/22vczxe6

I'm really looking forward to this one! Consider subscribing to my YouTube channel as I have all kinds of history on there.

The newest reading list based on Marc Stein's amazing presentation yesterday on my YouTube channel is now available for channel members at the Café Corporal level. I'm seriously considering turning off ALL ads on my channel if I get enough members. www.youtube.com/channel/UCb8...

Going live with Marc Stein in 30 minutes on my YouTube channel. You'll want to hear his presentation due to the rhymes of history, and we would love to see you in the live chat: youtube.com/thetattooedhistorian

You just know this guy could make you some amazing chipped beef gravy on toast ("SOS" for those in the know!). And if it's not good, you'd better not complain. 🤣

This is tomorrow folks!

OK Bluesky. Where are my fellow Humanities people at? Introduce yourself in my replies, plug your books, talk about your research, etc.

OK Bluesky. Where are my fellow Humanities people at? Introduce yourself in my replies, plug your books, talk about your research, etc.

I have added a new perk to my YouTube channel membership at the Café Corporal level: post-livestream reading lists! The listed works will help to enhance contextual knowledge of the theme or topic we just covered on the livestream. More books to get from the library! youtube.com/thetattooedhistorian

Just picked this up at the university library!

Happening LIVE on Wednesday at 4:00 pm ET only on my YouTube channel. Please consider subscribing! youtube.com/thetattooedhistorian

But software is a cheaper bet than taking the political hit and reorganising society around a meaningful defence industrial capacity. As I’m not one to miss a chance to sell my book, check it out here: amzn.eu/d/0cnsnfBC

Refuelling! A maple latte always hits the spot

"A setting such as this cannot be replicated on a screen." After hosting numerous in-person events before and after the lockdowns, I can honestly say that the analog experience is back. People want to be together to talk about the Humanities and I'm all for it. open.substack.com/pub/thetatto...

We're live right now! www.youtube.com/live/XahVaCf...

"A setting such as this cannot be replicated on a screen." After hosting numerous in-person events before and after the lockdowns, I can honestly say that the analog experience is back. People want to be together to talk about the Humanities and I'm all for it. open.substack.com/pub/thetatto...

Wars aren’t only lost on battlefields. They’re lost when people decide that someone else’s suffering is no longer worth their time. open.substack.com/pub/theinter...

Wars aren’t only lost on battlefields. They’re lost when people decide that someone else’s suffering is no longer worth their time. open.substack.com/pub/theinter...

America's opioid crisis isn't new. Civil War veterans were called "opium slaves" after becoming dependent on battlefield medicine. Tomorrow evening I'm live on YouTube with historian Dr. Jonathan S. Jones about his eye-opening new book. Join us! 📖🎙️ www.youtube.com/live/XahVaCf...

Japan's 2025 National Defense Strategy is a billion times better than ours just based on the cover art alone

According to @bzelizer.bsky.social, the media isn't broken because of social media. It broke over 70 years ago during the Cold War. Three habits formed and never left. My newest video about her book breaks it down. youtu.be/8Acml2s-xzg?...

My coffee date this morning #catdad

I'm really enjoying this book by Victoria Hetherington. Why? Because she showcases the history of interactions with automatons for generations and how we have prescribed human traits to them.

As part of our work, our lab builds public-facing information-integrity dashboards, research apps, and tools to enhance transparency and support social science research on online participation and communities. You can find all of them here: socialmedialab.ca/apps/

You, an individual, cannot "fix" the whole world. You can act at the scale of your life. You should act at the scale of your life.

Congratulations boys!

Tim's words concerning the amount of industry that Canada employed to help the war effort in the Second World War is a key moment in this interview. I miss him. I would love to discuss contemporary defence production with him now. www.youtube.com/live/7tL8ccG...

Tim's words concerning the amount of industry that Canada employed to help the war effort in the Second World War is a key moment in this interview. I miss him. I would love to discuss contemporary defence production with him now. www.youtube.com/live/7tL8ccG...

This was a fun list to do live on YouTube! www.youtube.com/live/y9Pvtbn...

New research from historian @brookenewman.bsky.social reveals how the British Crown directly profited from slavery - not at the margins, but at the center of imperial power. I’ll be talking with Brooke on my YouTube channel in March about this subject. www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-...

How would Lincoln interact with our technology today? I asked David Kent this question and more on my YouTube channel this evening. Head over and check out the video now 👇 www.youtube.com/live/5wlS7ZR...

How would Lincoln interact with our technology today? I asked David Kent this question and more on my YouTube channel this evening. Head over and check out the video now 👇 www.youtube.com/live/5wlS7ZR...

We're live on YouTube right now! www.youtube.com/live/5wlS7ZR...

People saw the Gettysburg Film Festival poster and still told the organizers they used the wrong war for the poster. They weren't seeing the image. They were seeing what "Gettysburg" told them to see. New piece on what that small mistake reveals about all of us 👇 open.substack.com/pub/theinter...

Thread: Rethinking the battlefield as a network, not a map 1/ Most of us learned to understand war through maps - arrows advancing, fronts collapsing, etc. Clean lines, clear shapes. A sense that geography tells us the whole story. But this is only the entry point. www.euronews.com/2026/02/17/u...

People saw the Gettysburg Film Festival poster and still told the organizers they used the wrong war for the poster. They weren't seeing the image. They were seeing what "Gettysburg" told them to see. New piece on what that small mistake reveals about all of us 👇 open.substack.com/pub/theinter...

Did you miss @johngmarks.com's presentation on my YouTube channel? Well, you can check it out now! Don't forget to subscribe to my channel while you're there. www.youtube.com/live/YUgthVz...

Did you miss @johngmarks.com's presentation on my YouTube channel? Well, you can check it out now! Don't forget to subscribe to my channel while you're there. www.youtube.com/live/YUgthVz...

Thirty minutes to go!!

If you’re looking for a way to close out your Presidents’ Day, this starts in 45 minutes! That’s actually George Washington pictured above my name though. ⬇️⬇️⬇️

RIP, Robert Duvall

History is finding its way back to the everyday. Not the mythic, not the sanitized, just the human scale where real memory lives. I wrote about why this shift matters, and why the “everyday historian” is stepping forward again. open.substack.com/pub/thetatto...

It was an amazing feeling to walk on Juno Beach back in June 2024 during the 80th anniversary of the invasion of Normandy. I can't wait to return to France in May.