“The fish is rotting from the head down,” said retired Brig. Gen. Martin France, a 1981 academy graduate who previously served as chairman of the school’s astronautical engineering program. [1/2] www.denverpost.com/2025/11/10/a...

I'm looking forward to speaking about the 1844 Nativist Riots with the tour guides who bring Philadelphia history to the streets. phillyguides.org/event/nativi...

Road to Nowhere @ People’s Book in Takoma Park today at 2 pm! peoplesbooktakoma.com/event/road-t...

This showed up in a 1962 issue of Air University Quarterly Review. I have questions, especially concerning the Algeria-Hudson Bay corridor.

I've been waiting to comment publicly on this until the university made its announcement, but the Department of History at Princeton is devastated by the recent death of our wonderful colleague Alison Isenberg.

Chris Rufo/Ron DeSantis overhauled New College and made it "the most financially inefficient school in the university system" Degree yield is 19%, 2nd-worst in Fla. Operating funds per student at New College: $83,207 Same category at Univ of Florida: $45,765 www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/e...

The AHA will partner with @nationalhistoryday.bsky.social for Revolutionary Ideals: Understanding 250 Years of American Principles, a virtual professional learning series for K–12 educators in April 2026. Applications will launch in January 2026, with 240 spots available for teachers nationwide. 🗃️

Next Wednesday in Philadelphia! phillyguides.org/event/nativi...

The beautiful cover for my new book: "The Broken Machine: Histories of Technology, Social Order, and the Self." Coming June 2026. (mitpress.mit.edu/978026255334...). @mitpress.bsky.social

Major win in Arlington County Public Schools, with pro-trans Moe Bryant dominating the election. Arlington County Public Schools has made headlines for defying the Trump admin on trans kids in bathrooms.

I am now all the more determined to live long enough to see Linklater’s Merrily We Roll Along bluemoonfilm.com

Catesby Leigh asks, "Did [due process] forestall erection of brutalist eyesores like the FBI’s J. Edgar Hoover Building?" wapo.st/4qCuQiz [1/3]

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It's here! #PhillyIsGreater

Thanks to @reaktionbooks.bsky.social for making my history of protest in England's public spaces into a beautiful, well produced book with a fab cover. Buy it here reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/contest...

I'm launching a blog series to chronicle my work with Claude to build AcadiMeet (acadimeet.org), including the strategic methods and communication patterns I used to launch the app. The first post argues that the best way to begin is to focus on vision, not code. foundhistory.org/2025/10/ai-c...

I construct this whole syllabus about post 1945 US history and then they just tweet it out like this

Really well done graphics in this story share.inquirer.com/042ANV

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Linking verbs are fine—in moderation. Here's a Word macro that will highlight all the linking verbs in your document, helping you (and your students) spot opportunities to convert some to action verbs. 🗃️ historyprofessor.org/code/highlig...

I made my students a little “book” (just using Google slides) to show them how you all answered my question about how you take notes for research. Just to show the variety.

What can you do with a PhD in history? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/u...

Please understand that the only reason this has been released is because of the UCLA faculty association who filed a request and challenged the refusal in court. If you are a UC faculty member, join your FA!

In today’s Guardian with @kcarterjackson.bsky.social, explaining why teach-ins (like the one we’re holding Sunday!) are a vital part of activism.

It wasn't fake. It was edited. But Reagan really did spend a five-minute speech – an April 25, 1987, national radio address that the Reagan Library has published on YouTube – to rail against tariffs. It was a full-throated expression of support for free and fair trade. https://cnn.it/4o5pBGv

This is far from the most important issue here, but the Ontario govt was under no obligation to "seek...permission to use and edit" any recording of Ronald Reagan that is in the U.S. National Archives/Reagan Library, as is the case here. And the Reagan Foundation has *no* relevant role here.

DC Swifties! DC people in general? Come hear me talk Taylor and talk about the new book alongside the great @rtushnet.bsky.social @politicsprose.bsky.social (Union Market location) this Saturday: politics-prose.com/stephanie-burt

Series of historical photos of the East Wing, in case anyone else was also wondering. www.tysto.com/east-wing.htm

Graduate seminar did a deep dive on Thomas Paine’s Common Sense yesterday. At the line, “in America the law is king,” they (14 students from 6 countries) burst out laughing. I've been doing this for 35 years and this is the first time that was a laugh line.

www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t... What a convoluted explanation from UT Austin as to why the Provost can engage in political speech but the Graduate Student Assembly cannot.

post on John Foot’s new book on the trials of the Red Brigades, 1970s Italy. through their violent and disruptive tactics, they almost managed to bring the legal system to its knees. so how do historians tell the story of this legal theatre of cruelty? 🗃️ williamgpooley.wordpress.com/2025/10/21/l...

The classicists are starting to realize that the ballroom is going to be a very bad, clumsy, overscaled building, columns or not. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/a...

Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs - Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75% - Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60% - Social Sciences by 50–70% - History by 60% - Biology by 75% - The German department will lose all PhD seats - Sociology from six PhD students to zero

DC friends!! Join us on this Sunday on the National Mall for a teach-in in defense of history and museums, ft. an all-star line-up! We’ll be there from sun-up to sun-down. More info here: linktr.ee/historyteachin

Canadians who make the occasional war of 1812 joke are currently trying to read the room on this white house demolition thing

My most frequent comment on undergrad research proposals: "choose your fighter." Whether it's mixed methods, too many cases, conflating causal mechanisms and confounders---they are all over the place. Rather than specifying how to refine their causal story, I give them feedback in their dialect.

It's time for me to finish revisions for _Property Wrongs_; aiming to wind things up this semester. I have a Tuesday afternoon Zoom writing group you might like to join -- 1-3pm Eastern. Longtime participants are urban historians and landscape studies people. DM for Zoom link.

Ladies and Gentlemen: WE ARE OUT HERE! Send us your pics & videos! #NoKings #NoKingsAAUP #DefendHigherEd

I was not aware of this story, and I'm guessing that the University of Virginia wanted it that way augustafreepress.com/news/shame-o...

"I followed a piece of advice from one of my dissertation committee members, Zach Schrag at George Mason: whenever you stumble on a new idea in the archives, file it away in a dedicated folder on your computer and come back to it later." www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/b...

A Japanese "science warrior" rampages through NYC (in Oct. 1943), blending healthy doses of tradition, modernity, and delusion

Congrats to Eric Gonzaba, whose WHA award-winning article pub'd in "California History" examines the culture of California Christian nightclubs opened by evangelical entrepreneurs in the 1970s and ’80s. #WHA2025 www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/b...

UPDATE: Following the firing of the director of the student newspaper, Indiana University has now cut the print edition of the newspaper entirely. www.idsnews.com/article/2025...

The AHA, @socialstudies.org, and @oah.org encourage our members and other supporters of a full account of history to submit comments on the proposed patriotic education funding priority by October 17, 2025. Learn more and take action here 🗃️:

My next book has a cover! I Will Not Abandon You is a new history of queer women under Nazism that calls for us to rethink how we understand fascist persecution as well as the very foundations of progressive politics today. You can preorder it anywhere you buy books bookshop.org/p/books/i-wi...

“‘How do we frame that, you know, in a way that’s not seen as censorship?’ This is the college that (formerly) named its journalism school after the legendary Ernie Pyle. I went to an inspiring high school journalism camp here one summer.

my goodness 🗃️ replica.seattletimes.com/popovers/dyn...