📣 Planning a panel for BHC 2026 in London? Use our Session Organizer thebhc.org/session-orga... to connect and form panels 💡 #CFP thebhc.org/bhc-2026-cal... @historians.org @hagleycenter.bsky.social @businesshistory.bsky.social @repec-nep-his.bsky.social #BHC2026 #BizHis #CoCreation #Skystorians

Come join H-Material-Culture and great conversations! #materialculture #skystorians networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

Excited to announce my chapter on direct mail advertising has been published! Available now from @upenn.edu press! www.pennpress.org/978151282750... Commercial Intimacy – Penn Press

This week my #misericordiaU intern found a bone saw with a mining camp doctor's kit! 🫣 #publichistory #skystorians #EckleyMinersVillage Check out his progress: wp.me/p6FQbP-O3

My #MisericordiaUniversity interns are up to some cool things this summer! Check it out! wp.me/p6FQbP-NO #publichistory #interns #skystorians

Check out this great review of my book #BrandingTrust @pennpress.bsky.social in @thejerpano.bsky.social !! So honored doi.org/10.1353/jer....

The #JERPano seeks contributors for a new series, "Teaching the Early American Republic." We invite reflections on classroom experiences, lesson plans, source reviews, or challenges in 500 to 1000 words by June 30th. For posting guidelines, visit us at: thepanorama.shear.org/write-for-us/

Have you ever wondered how museums clean their displays? Check out my #MisericordiaU student's #intern blog from this week! #publichistory #localhistory wp.me/p6FQbP-MC

Wildfires in the Canadian province of Manitoba, which shares a border with the United States, have prompted authorities to declare a state of emergency and order tens of thousands of people to leave their homes. Winds will likely blow wildfire smoke into Midwestern states.

So thrilled that my #MisericordiaU student won a prestigious #KeystoneInternship from the state of PA this summer! #publichistory #localhistory Check out his first blog post here: wp.me/p6FQbP-Mt

Boston loves a Revolutionary War reference @ #HandsOff Boston

All obvious heinous things aside, this is a reminder that—despite lies from republicans—undocumented people pay taxes. and now their contributions are being used against them.

This makes me want to cry

Four universities, each about to lose much of its funding and research infrastructure thanks to the illegal actions of the federal government. Thousands of jobs are going to disappear in each of these communities; diseases un-cured; inventions not invented. There will be no winners here.

Little less than a month left to get your proposal in for "WARTIME TRANSFORMATIONS" the 4th in the "For 2026" series. What better time to discuss the AmRev than now and where better than Williamsburg? CFP closes 4/15. bit.ly/3Fk6Rl5

NEW: Internal staff email from Smithsonian secretary Lonnie Bunch addressing Trump’s executive order. “As always, our work will be shaped by the best scholarship, free of partisanship, to help the American public better understand our nation’s history, challenges and trumphs.”

Today & tomorrow-- 50% off my book @upenn.edu press! Use code FOUNDERSDAY25 www.pennpress.org/978151282500...

www.oah.org/2025/03/12/r.... The OAH is collecting info about deleted or recently restricted historical sources-- please share

"Any digital project team that would benefit from a week of focused work is welcome to apply (the “Liberal Arts” in ILiADS = methods+values, not limited to liberal arts institutions). Typically, teams are a mix of faculty, students, librarians, and/or technologists": iliads.org

Emma Goldman was deported along with another 600 anarchists, communists & socialists, while 10k+ more nationwide were rounded up in the Palmer Raids, 105 years ago during the First Red Scare and tbh idek which number Red Scare we're on now www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...

Always a great time at the @businesshistoryc.bsky.social annual conference #BHC2025. didn't get any pics but got lots of ideas! #bizhist #skystorians

Well put.

Ok, starting a thread of these whoops, we accidentally-threw-the engine-overboard moments, send me your faves. www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

Can't wait for #BHC2025 in a few weeks! Who's going?? @businesshistoryc.bsky.social

HIRED THUGS This Shocking Moment at a GOP Town Hall in Idaho Is a Foreboding Sign Private, unidentified security personnel dragged a woman out of the event. It raises questions not just about tolerance for dissent but about who gets deputized to do what. newrepublic.com/article/1919...

Excited to share the cover for my forthcoming book with @ugapress.bsky.social #histed #edhist #history #Blackhistory #southernhistory #protest #pedagogy @aeraedresearch.bsky.social

How we are we doing out there #skystorians? It's been a week

This is my shocked face. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I have seen almost nothing assessing the scale of the impact of the wrecking of the USPS, if it goes through. But it would mess with voting by mail, prescriptions by mail, so many small and large businesses, how a lot of daily life now runs. Good for the NALC workers.

On this date in 1862, Congress passed the First Legal Tender Act and began issuing new greenbacks (named for the color on their reverse side) a few weeks later. Here is one of those initial $5 bills (March 10, 1862) with a portrait of Hamilton and the Freedom statue from the US Capitol dome. 🗃️

"We didn’t become the greatest shirtwaist factory in the world by resting on our laurels. That’s why we’ve brought in a new efficiency czar, Noel Skum, whose job is to cut unnecessary spending and roll back overly restrictive safety regulations." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/tha...

Historically, suddenly forcing massive numbers of highly educated and well paid people into unexpected mass unemployment has not led to *stability*

"working to swiftly rectify the situation..." www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

This new EO is a doozy, clearly written to test the constitutionality of independent agencies at the SCt. It purports to effectively bring all independent agencies - including the Fed Election Cmsn and the Fed (in part) under presidential control. Irreconcilable w/existing law full stop. /1

Historians Politely Remind Nation To Check What's Happened In Past Before Making Any Big Decisions theonion.com/historians-p...

for pity’s sake, I am BEGGING university leaders to stop framing this issue in terms of what this will cost the university. people dont care! EXPLAIN WHAT THIS WILL COST THE PUBLIC: closed hospitals and clinics, skipped treatments, loss of access to experimental drugs, unemployment, recession

February 18, 2025

It seems almost unavoidable at this point that we are headed for a deep, deep recession. Just based on 200K+ federal firings & pullback of contracts, the March employment report (to be released April 4) seems certain to show bigger job losses than any month ever outside of a few in 2008-9 and 2020.

"But we are not in usual times. Thus, it is important to ensure that educational policy is not changed based on a letter that oversteps legal boundaries." www.chronicle.com/article/hitt...

𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 𝐁𝐇𝐂 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦 📅 Event Date: March 13–15, 2025 📍 Location: Atlanta, Georgia 🌐 Program: https://buff.ly/4grwtcO Register ☑️ https://buff.ly/3E4b38c #BHC2025 #BizHis

Probationary employees are receiving termination notices today at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). Notices have already started going out, per agency source.

Im donating to the @apnews.com this morning apnews.com/article/trum...

Trying to keep my head down and just do my work. That's going to be hard when I'm reaching immigration & Jim Crow in one class & slavery in the other

ICYMI check out my interview w/ @businesshistoryc.bsky.social on #brandingTrust youtu.be/Otkukbs0joI?...

Interested in why the poinsettia is a symbol of Christmas and so widely available this time of year? Check out this article by my father, Norman Ellstrand, and I in Time Magazine's "Made by History" column. time.com/7202847/poin...