Important news! I am delighted to announce the launch of my new podcast: The Untitled History Podcast. It's me, and guests, falling down all the history rabbitholes you can imagine. Please, please spread the word, subscribe and listen. Because... SHIPS CATS!! cms.megaphone.fm/channel/the-...

Maritime history 🤝 Cat history. Loved it.

Laura Yuen is my favorite @startribune.com writer. She writes with care, meaningful critique, and insight about our state. This article honors a local leader and the generations of Hmong kids who reached their potential in part because of his care. www.startribune.com/dave-moore-h...

Indira used to visit family members and her boyfriend, but hasn’t seen them in weeks, because everyone is too afraid to leave their homes. “The most difficult part of this whole situation; it’s feeling like we’re nothing. It’s feeling like we’re unwanted.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Reminded that there are few more corrosive trends in higher education in recent years than the divide and conquer approach to undermining faculty solidarity by focusing on numbers of majors. Each degree pathway at an institution is strengthened by each other form of expertise available to students.

Christina Rossetti: Apples and quinces, Lemons and oranges, Plump unpeck’d cherries, Melons and raspberries,Bloom-down-cheek’d peaches John Ruskin: Your whole poem can't just be listing food Rossetti: SWART-HEADED MULBERRIES, WILD FREE-BORN CRANBERRIES, CRAB-APPLES, DEWBERRIES, PINE-APPLES, BLACKB

Tipis erected near Fort Snelling have become a focal point for Native-led resistance to ICE activity, blending prayer, ceremony and protest on land marked by Dakota history. Written by Shubhanjana Das

@dessadarling.bsky.social draws together collective wisdom and profoundly simple* language to share "how to resist like Minneapolis." *There is great power in simple language woven together by a master of the craft.

Legendary founder of NPR programming Bill Siemering is enjoying Zoom visiting with students so much that he's asked me to put a second call out. No honorarium necessary. Any takers?

Feel free to share! More on the #authorsforminnesota event on February 28. Including participating bookstores & authors.

Fabulous way to raise awareness and funds, as well as to support local indie bookstores. Four hours is enough time to visit 2-3 stores, local friends! Is this already on your radar, @umnenglish.bsky.social? There are familiar names on the list of authors over on Facebook. 😉

Please read this entire thread on what immigration lawyers' clients are facing right now. The levels of law-breaking by federal agents are astonishing and sickening. The detail here is heart-breaking and infuriating in equal measure.

We are thrilled to announce that applications for our 1st round of Microgrant funding are now open! These small seed grants of up to $300 USD support exploratory research or new projects in periodical studies. Applications for this first round of funds are due March 1!

"What's happening in Minnesota is wrong. There's no shades of gray. It's clear," said Brooklyn Park's Rich Ruohonen. More: https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-sports/winter-olympian-from-minnesota-speaks-out-on-trump-immigration-crackdown

So grateful to @emilybstanback.bsky.social for this blurb: "Reznicek offers a compelling...of the national tale, calling attention to the foundational ways that concepts of health, illness, and disability have been used to define national identity" www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

Yes x 1000. I told my editors that all of the LLM drama came for romance (thanks to the Amazon marketplace) over a decade ago. Every iteration after that has been the same cycle over and over again. Can’t get serious people to treat it seriously, however, because it’s about women’s economic activity

Context: this speech is from SIR THOMAS MORE, a history written, as near as scholars can tell, in the early 1600s by 6 or 7 people including Dekker, Heywood, Chettle, Shakespeare, and Munday. It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.

It is hard to look him in the eye during this.

For those wondering how to help, near or far, consider donating to the rent emergency funds being stood up by local, long-standing orgs in the area. There are several listed in this article.

Quite important if you are relying on Google Books for teaching or research. Short-term snag or is it a hack? Just searched for 10 titles to no effect. #Skystorians

Don Lemon has been released without bail, and his next court appearance is Feb. 9

To round out your January, please enjoy Part 2 of "Getting Started in Periodicals Research," a conversation between @c19thnewshound.bsky.social and @patrickleary.bsky.social! In this installment, Patrick talks attributions research and digitization in periodical studies. rs4vp.org/getting-star...

The resolution requires ICE agents to obtain a warrant and meet with the tribe's public safety director before coming onto the Red Lake reservation, and it goes on to state that an ICE agent must also be accompanied by a tribal public safety officer when on tribal land.

Where do things stand in Iran? On The Current, Aslı Aydıntaşbaş speaks with Suzanne Maloney and Mara Karlin about the recent protests, the Iranian regime’s response, U.S. military options, and how President Trump might respond.

Walz: "To Americans who are watching this, I've got a question for you: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal govt that can kill, injury, menace, & kidnap its citizens off the streets? Or on the side of a nurse at the VA hospital who died bearing witness to such govt?"

Blistering piece on ed tech in @economist.com. ‘Although ed-tech companies tout huge learning gains, independent research has made clear that technology rarely boosts learning in schools—and often impairs it.’ economist.com/united-state...

People are rightly angry at the murders of Good and Pretti, and the fact they're on video in broad daylight surely contributes, but there's no avoiding how little mention of Keith Porter there is. And ICE has shot or otherwise killed non-citizens, who are no less deserving of attention.

If you have any firsthand video of today’s shooting, please please submit here so the Hennepin County Attorneys Office can review it hennepinprosecutor.evidence.com/axon/communi...

You have to understand that "well, now..." (sometimes followed by "I don't know") Is about the most aggressive disagreement I've heard from a native Minnesotan in the decade I've lived here. The casual use of an f-bomb in public conversation is unheard of from anyone over swear-experimentation age.

Protesters chanting "We're not cold, we're not afraid, Minne[apolis/sota] taught us to be brave" in Boston tonight outside Government Center station.

This little light of mine. All our lights, of all sorts, sizes, strengths. Minnesotans stand together with broken hearts and strong spirits.

On a downtown street in Minneapolis, as people stream out from the massive march, Mary Tyler Moore says “fuck ice.”

The next special issue of Victorian Popular Fictions Journal is “Human–Animal Relations in Victorian Popular Literature and Culture” and will be guest-edited by Dr Bethany Dahlstrom & Dr Helena Esser. For full CFP and submission guidelines, please see: victorianpopularfiction.org/wp-content/u...

We have nine days left until our current CBA expires. Here are our contract demands, straight from the voices that make the stories at @huffpost.com possible.

When we started this list of Minnesota businesses taking part in the Jan. 23 economic blackout we didn't realize quite what an undertaking it would be, but we are now at more than 250 and counting. Keep 'em coming!

I just think that 18th centuryists should get a higher word count for their bibliography. This book's title is 42 words long and I have the same word count as a paper on 'Ulysses'? Travesty. 18th century books with titles whole pages long and I still have to fit this article into 5000 words?

Several of the 13 “worst of the worst” criminals that the Department of Homeland Security said were arrested in Minnesota through its immigration enforcement operation were actually handed over to ICE by state prisons before Operation Metro Surge began.

THREAD of offers of guest lectures (via Zoom) for Minneapolis-area classes so faculty can offer their students a top-quality education while dealing with other crises Seeing tons of extremely generous offers. I'll try to post 'em all here--please add your own w topics you can cover & how to contact

This is important and, also, not not new. There were reports of this in LA, Portland, and Chicago, at least, as well.

"Tuesday's development, where six dedicated public servants feel the need to resign their positions abruptly," said Doug Kelley, a former U.S. assistant attorney with Minnesota. "That's the darkest day in my 51 years of practicing law in this state."

A friend reminded me to actively counter my brain’s negativity bias. Yes, it’s scary here in Minnesota, but this place also has so much beauty, art, and kindness.

As protests grow over violent ICE enforcement actions in Minneapolis, the president said he could invoke a centuries-old law that would give him sweeping powers to deploy the military in U.S. cities. The White House did not release a statement on the president's threat. Here's what to know.

While we have seen time and again the Trump presidency blatantly ignore the law, constitution, and courts, it is critical that government leaders continue to follow legal procedures. {gift article from @startribune.com}

ICE agents deployed chemicals irritants and left a Minneapolis crash scene after ramming a man’s car and questioning his citizenship. The man and his wife, both U.S. citizens, said the whole incident started because ICE agents profiled him for being Hispanic.

It's been a pretty rough week here in Minneapolis; 'hearing' @patrickleary.bsky.social's voice and wisdom has been a boon. Particularly appreciate that "[his] experience suggests the value of energetic opportunism in periodicals research. Make use of what you can, when you can."

It's #DigitalFriday ! This is my routine appeal to #skystorians and all other academics prepping for teaching to share any software, hardware, online resources (primary, secondary, teaching tools, blogs) tips and tricks that they've found useful this week! #AcademicSky 🗃️(pls boost to relevant feeds)

Mark your calendars! We're kicking off our 2026 #RSVPDigiEvent season on Friday, 23 January with a talk by Beth Gaskell entitled "Yesterday's News: Behind the Scenes at the British National Newspaper Collection." As always, this event is free and open to all. Register here: rs4vp.org/yesterdays-n...

Walz: "Do you have no decency? We have someone dead in their car for no reason whatsoever. I don't want to be right about this, but I said if they do this they're gonna create a chaotic situation where someone innocent is gonna get killed. And they did it."