The American Historical Association promotes the critical role of historical thinking in public life, defends academic freedom, develops professional standards, and supports scholarship and teaching. Learn about our recent advocacy actions on our website. 🗃️

We are pleased to announce a search for The Wallace Stegner Chair of Western American Studies in the Department of History at Montana State University-Bozeman. This is an exciting moment at MSU. Join us. jobs.montana.edu/postings/48151

"Black Patriots and Black Loyalists of the American Revolution exhibit" #America250 #VA250 va250.org/event-detail...

The #AHR is seeking proposals for a special issue on methodological approaches to archival silences in early history. Visit our website to read the full call for proposals and learn more about the guidelines for submission. Proposals are due September 16.

For anyone teaching the slave trade and slavery this fall: check out my documentary film, *Ghosts of Amistad*, about the memory of the 1839 uprising in contemporary Sierra Leone, w/ French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish subtitles. Study guides for teachers and students too. www.ghostsofamistad.com

Our team has been working on a major Open Education Resource (OER) about U.S. legal history for teaching and learning. If you are teaching U.S. legal history, we hope that EQUALITY BEFORE THE LAW will help you and your students. Check out our initial launch site at: teachinglegalhistory.unl.edu

Congratulations to AHA members Merle Eisenberg, James Illingworth, James P. McClure, Christopher F. Minty, Michael L. Satlow, and Jennifer Stertzer, as well as all the other historians who were awarded grants by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for humanities projects in 2025. 🗃️

When your team brings fresh huckleberries to the office, there’s only one thing to do! Montana State, Bobcats, Montana!

Erasing history by defunding #archives www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

We have a terrific opening. Please repost! Join our team at the College of Letters and Science at Montana State University in Bozeman. careers.insidehighered.com/job/3374448/...

The #AHR is seeking proposals for a special issue on methodological approaches to archival silences in early history. Visit our website to read the full call for proposals and learn more about the guidelines for submission. Proposals are due September 16. 🗃️

The Senate appropriations committee has voiced its intent to ignore the request by President Donald Trump to slash the budgets of the National Science Foundation and NASA science programs. scim.ag/4nW7XWi

Join Montana State University's College of Letters and Science! We are seeking a new assistant dean to advance and support the college's mission in undergraduate student success, recruitment, and retention. The full position description and posting are linked here: jobs.montana.edu/postings/47389

Happy birthday to our special one today! 24!!

Six years since my Juneteenth 2019 tour through southern Maryland with Letitia Clark and Guilford Queen, descendants of the families who sued for freedom from slavery in the 1790s.

The AHA is pleased to announce this year's #AHAPerspectives summer columnists! Congratulations to Mary F. Casey (Univ. of California, Riverside), Alisa Kuzmina (Univ. of Minnesota), and Cecilia Slane (Univ. of Oklahoma), who will each write two columns. Learn about them and their upcoming work: 🗃️

Consultants, software developers, fundraisers, soldiers, human rights commissioners—read how history graduates say their degrees helped them in a variety of careers. www.historians.org/teaching-lea...

The American Society for Legal History runs a program to help scholars navigate the dissertation-to-book process. This year's group will be led by the brilliant Prof. Chris Schmidt of Chicago-Kent Law. A fantastic opportunity! To apply: aslh.net/award/wallac...

A tiny but wild snapshot of the current chaos

The new hire is possible through support from Report for America and CatchLight.

"Academic freedom-the ability to pursue the truth wherever it might lead, and to make publicly available what one believes is true ...[is] not the arcane privilege of an... intellectual guild, but a prerogative essential to the functioning of our Republic and the education of its citizenry." 💯

The AHA encourages members to contact their senators today through the Coalition for International Education & @humanitiesall.bsky.social's action alert, & urge them to sign on to Sen. Schatz's letter supporting robust funding for international education & foreign language infrastructure in FY26. 🗃️

NSF Physics was cut by 85%, basically wiping out most of its capacity for supporting research. NSF Astronomy was cut by 53% Undergrad education was cut by 71% and research on learning by 79% Graduate education was cut by 100% to ZERO. #GiftLink ⚛️🔭 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

From #AHAPerspectives in 2024: As a new department chair presiding over end of year celebrations, @bryanbanksphd.bsky.social “felt compelled to draw together the reasons we were in that room and in that community.” 🗃️

Decades after the release of his first feature film, Alexander Payne is preparing for a career first: a sequel. The Oscar-winning filmmaker from Omaha is in the early stages of a follow-up to his acclaimed 1999 comedy “Election.” It promises to be “a very, very Omaha movie.” 🔗 buff.ly/BL7UL3S

Last summer, a team from @historians.org issued a report on the teaching of history in U.S. K-12 schools. We asked them to write an essay-length version of that report for History of Education Quarterly. And then we invited four leading scholars to comment. In this thread, I'll post links to all.

Still glowing from glorious weekend celebrating Guy Thomas and law school graduation at University of Montana Law. Inspiring to see so many young lawyers dedicated to rule of law, candor before the court, and zealous advocates for justice…

When it comes to employment prospects, majors in nutrition, art history and philosophy all outperform some STEM-based counterparts, according to a recent analysis by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York www.cnbc.com/2025/05/16/c...

So very proud of our GuyThomas, class of 2025 University of Montana School of Law, graduation day in Missoula!

AHA members @joguldi.bsky.social, Peter Roady, @laraputnam.bsky.social, @kalanicraig.bsky.social, Arlene Díaz, & Katherine McDonough were featured in an article in PNAS, one of the most-cited & comprehensive multidisciplinary scientific journals, on how historians use data science to mine the past.

Enjoyed the Lukas Prizes awards last week at Columbia. A wonderful celebration of nonfiction writing and history. Congratulations Ned Blackhawk! And all the honorees, incl. Gary Bass, Seth Rockman, Kathleen Duval, and Edda L. Fields-Black.

If you missed C-SPAN’s BookTV broadcasts, you can catch the recording with me with Danielle Allen talking THE TROUBLE OF COLOR here. People ask how my family feels about the book!? My wonderful cousins get their questions in during the Q&A. www.c-span.org/program/book... @CSPAN

Todd Blanche, a former personal lawyer for President Trump, is now acting Librarian of Congress. According to his public profile, Blanche has no experience working in libraries or archives.

This piece is not only about judgment and leadership but a really incisive explainer on what’s happening to essential agencies that undergird American research and scholarship in the public interest.

Some sad confirmation from @bcgl.bsky.social while I was at UW last week—the National Digital Newspaper Program—which builds Chronicling America—has been shut down Historical newspapers are probably the archival material most used by the general public—for genealogy, local history—it’s such a loss

The church said it's terminating a decades-long partnership with the federal government to help refugees arriving in the U.S., citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa.

The law professors who are arguing against birthright citizenship in the US are reinventing a common law decision from 1677 about allegiance and aliens that was pivotal for creating a common law of slavery in England’s empire. — a logic recreated in Dred Scot. — rejected by 14th amendment.

Celebrating graduation and commencement at Montana State University today! Beautiful day in Bozeman Mt. And at MSU.

Looking forward to celebrating Ned Blackhawk and Kathleen Duval and other awardees tonight at the Lukas Prizes awards at Columbia Journalism School. journalism.columbia.edu/lukas

A fantastic webinar underway with two great scholars -- Prof. Eric Berger (Univ. Nebraska Law) and Prof. Katrina Jagodinsky (Univ. Nebraska, History) on Academic Freedom. Illuminating, clarifying, inspiring. We'll post it in full soon. Join our webinar series! uslawandrace.unl.edu/programs/web...

Amazing and beautiful retirement party for our phenomenal president Waded Cruzado last night. She’s headed to lead APLU but will always have blue and gold in her veins! So thankful for her leadership.

@acls1919.bsky.social, the AHA, & @modernlanguage.bsky.social filed a lawsuit in federal district court today, seeking to reverse the recent actions of the NEH to devastate the agency, including the elimination of grant programs, staff, and entire divisions and programs. 🗃️

The AHA recognizes that our colleagues in the federal government are facing unprecedented workforce reductions & has compiled resources in support, & are offering one year of free membership in the AHA to former employees of the federal govt. who have been terminated or resigned since January 20.

AHA executive director @jgrossman.bsky.social has been named the recipient of the Society of American Historians’ 2025 Tony Horwitz Prize, which “honors distinguished work in American history of wide appeal and enduring public significance.” 🗃️

We are thrilled that the Buffalo Food Systems Initiative at Montana State University received a $500,000 Mellon Foundation grant to sustain Indigenous food systems and sovereignty--for more about the initiative and the Buffalo Nations www.montana.edu/news/24483/m...

The AHA has released a statement condemning the current administration’s immigration policies and practices, which “threaten the vitality of historical work through the targeting of international scholars for increased scrutiny and legal action.” 🗃️

@historians.org American Historical Association conference reporting by Montana State Univ. student newspaper The Exponent: www.msuexponent.com/news/msu-pro...

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. 🗃️

As part of the #FreedomToLearn initiative, the AHA responds directly to legislation that would restrict history education. Visit our website for a full list of letters sent by the AHA in response to such legislation. #HonestHistory 🗃️

A joyful celebration of Dept of Mathematical Sciences undergraduate and graduate student awards last evening at Montana State. Thanks to so many generous MSU donors funding scholarships and awards!