Today at 5! Glades is located near the book exhibit hall. See y’all there! 🗃️

Attending the annual meeting in St. Pete Beach? The SCWH Early Career Committee invites you to a Happy Hour! 5 to 6:30 PM on Friday 11/7 at the Glades.

The SHA invites K-12 teachers to attend our annual meeting! See the attached flyer for information and registration details.

Thousands of volunteers are racing to preserve America’s history — photographing museum exhibits they fear the Trump administration could erase.

Heading to @thesouthernsha.bsky.social next week? Join the Society of Civil War Historians Early Career Committee for for our annual Happy Hour! 5:00-6:30 pm Friday, November 7 in The Glades @jcwe.bsky.social 🗃️

CALL FOR NEW MEMBERS: The Society of Civil War Historians Graduate Student Connections Committee is looking for 3 new members. Graduate students studying the Civil War Era (broadly defined) are encouraged to apply. If you have any questions feel free to reach out to me (I'm the Chair of the GSCC)

Today we're highlighting former Richards Center postdoc @jonathansjones.bsky.social, whose book Opium Slavery was just published by UNC Press! uncpress.org/978146968953...

It’s officially pub day for Opium Slavery: Civil War Veterans and America‘s First Opioid Crisis! Available at a bookshop near you. Thanks to everyone who made it possible to bring this research to life! 🗃️ @uncpress.bsky.social uncpress.org/978146968953...

Due to the government shutdown, this briefing on Wednesday is moving online. But silver lining—that means you folks can attend! 🗃️

Great project, wish we could have a similar project unlocking asylum records here in the US 🗃️

Congratulations to @jonathansjones.bsky.social on the publication of his new book with @uncpress.bsky.social. Just received my copy and it looks fantastic. uncpress.org/978146968953...

Come work with me! My department at JMU is hiring for a tenure-track historian of the modern US (post 1950). Otherwise, the position is broadly construed. We are a large department in a growing university with strong enrollment, just 2 hrs from the archives in DC 🗃️ networks.h-net.org/jobs/69300/j...

the Keeley Institutes and Gold Cure appear in my book, Opium Slavery, as Gilded Age “cures” for addiction to narcotics and alcohol, before smoking. Love to see this ad from the ‘20s

Look what came in the mail today, @uncpress.bsky.social @simpsonvos.bsky.social @profsommerville.bsky.social! 🗃️

Fred Ramsdell was parked at a campground in Montana on Monday when his wife suddenly started shouting. He first thought that maybe she had seen a grizzly bear. Instead, she had regained cell service and had seen a flood of text messages with the same news. “You just won the Nobel Prize!” she yelled.

NOT A DRILLLLLLL IT WORKS!

🗃️ So very excited to host Laura Edwards for the annual Brose Lectures at the @richardscenter.bsky.social this year! The lectures, are free and open to the public. Please join us: Thursday, October 23 at 5:30pm Friday, October 24 at 5:30pm Saturday, October 25 at 11:30am

Historians and citizens who say they are concerned about the Trump administration's pressure on the Smithsonian are working to document exhibits, as they exist today, throughout the museum network.

There was a post circulating a few days back on bluesky about an AI-generated history book cover... does anyone have the link to that post? Giving a talk on AI and history to some students tomorrow, and the cover would be a great convo starter 🗃️

At a time when the Trump administration is actively suppressing the work of public historians and the history of American slavery, the decision to highlight one of the most harmful historical myths in American history should be roundly condemned by all of us. 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

Teaching request: I'm having students listen to and annotate oral histories from the Vietnam War. I need some kind of form that they can complete as part of their active listening and that can let them document their key takeaways. Does anyone have a form you'd be willing to share? 🗃️

Justice Clarence Thomas writes constantly that the Constitution is "colorblind." Yet, as @pemalevy.bsky.social writes, Thomas was silent this week as the high court voted to allow the Trump admin to detain immigrants based in part on the color of their skin or whether they spoke with an accent.

Not good www.cnn.com/2025/09/09/e...

Our book is out!! Happy publication day to our fantastic team of editors and authors.

This event is happening on Wednesday! I think there's still time to book a place for either in person or to attend online and watch some very smart people (and me) talk about history and fantasy in games and media! 🗃️

Today in #AHAPerspectives, a real treat for me! I got to sit down with my friend and colleague, Sarah Weicksel, to discuss her new role as @historians.org executive director. As a fellow first-gen college student (and grad student), a lot in her experiences resonates with my own. 🗃️

Job alert: Penn State's @richardscenter.bsky.social is hiring for a Civil War & Reconstruction postdoc... apply!! This postdoc worked miracles for me a few years back and there's no better environment to turn your dissertation into a book. I can't recommend the Richards Center enough! 🗃️

Don’t walk, run to the new @uncpress.bsky.social website for a 48-hour-flash sale! Any titles you've had your eye on (including Opium Slavery 🤷‍♂️) are 50% off plus free shipping on orders over $75 with code 01NEWSITE50 at checkout 🗃️ uncpress.org/978146968953...

Fantastic resource for historians: a spreadsheet of NARA's digitized microfilm, with links to the files in the Archives catalog. May it help you as much as it has helped me. www.archives.gov/files/colleg...

I'll admit, I was skeptical when they said Gemini was just like a bunch of PhDs. But I gotta admit they nailed it.

The AHA is compiling resources developed by historians in response to recent actions by the federal governments. We welcome submissions from our members about op-eds, media appearances, or other resources they've contributed offering historical context and insight to the public. 🗃️

This list is practically out of the 1800s. It’s unreal, but real. When I was a public high school teacher in TX, just a decade ago, the ideas codified in these laws were literally laughable. And now they are law. Heartbroken. www.wfaa.com/article/news...

new polling suggests that American support for Israel's genocide in Gaza is starting to mirror how Americans felt about the US's conduct in Vietnam after the Tet Offensive in 1968-69 (from the big picture, at least) 🗃️ www.cnn.com/2025/07/31/p...

Yes! So we did this exercise with chatbots purporting to stand in for Frederick Douglass in my Civil War and Reconstruction class at JMU. Biggest takeaway from students? LLMs do a god awful job of emulating Douglass AND he would've hated having his powerful, inimitable voice stolen by big tech 🗃️

Check out Uncensored, the archive created by ex-NPS historians that documentes which stories have been censored by the administration www.resistancerangers.org/rangers-unce...

Back 31 years ago, Disney's attempt to build a theme park next to the Manassas battlefields was decisively rebuffed. It's absolutely not clear to me that AI data centers are deserving of any better reception, or indeed, of any reception other than what Disney's America got back then.

Y'all we need join with @battlefields.org and say a hard no to data centers that would ruin Northern Virginia's battlefields! 🗃️ www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Do not lead the goats.

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History should make you uncomfortable. Watch seven historians describe how exploring America’s past honestly in the classroom benefits the nation’s students, and how the #FreedomToLearn also strengthens our shared democracy. 🗃️

Imagine proof reading this footnote 🫠 (from The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion Part 2 Volume 1)

76% of Americans think democracy is under serious threat, according to the latest NPR/PBS News/Marist poll. Their faith in political leadership in the White House and Congress is low.

Proof of life! We have page proofs for Opium Slavery: Civil War Veterans and America’s First Opioid Crisis, coming this October with @uncpress.bsky.social 🗃️

Andrew Roth survived the Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald. Jack Moran helped liberate the camp while serving in the U.S. Army. Decades after liberation, the two met and shared their stories. https://n.pr/3ZUKlXC

If you are “neutral” about Nazis then your actions enable fascism. Especially galling behavior by an institution that censors “race” out of course titles… they are neutral on white supremacy but anti when it comes to racial equality. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/u...

And the data cited here that shows hallucinations are getting worse 😬

Today’s reminder that bad #histmed frequently leads to bad public policy. (With that said, it was a nice surprise to hear @melaniekiechle.bsky.social discussing miasma theory while I was running errands this morning!) #histSTM #histsci 🗃️

Please help me spread the word about this rally in support of the National Park Service, which will take place at the Eternal Light Peace Memorial at Gettysburg National Military Park on June 16 from 4-6:30PM. Thank you. #NationalParks #PublicHistory 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

Blatantly illegal.