if you're an older person who finds words like mogg and maxxing annoying, just starting using them. people over the age of 30 have the superpower to end trends by simply adopting them

You may laugh, but the Macbeths are a much better role model for a marriage than Romeo and Juliet. They discuss their problems (killing the king of Scotland), share their hobbies (killing the king of Scotland), and resolve their conflicts (by killing the king of Scotland).

Since February 15th is coming up, a friendly reminder that mouthy women get stuff done even way back in the day: constitutioncenter.org/blog/on-this... #belva #lockwood #women #lawyers ⚖️♀️

An historic day as the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, or ITK announced that the main campus of the first Inuit led university, Inuit Nunangat University will be located in Arviat, Nunavut.

Never give up hope.

🔗: bit.ly/4qv78DG James Van Der Beek has died. The actor, best known for his roles in Dawson's Creek and Varsity Blues, died after a journey with stage 3 colorectal cancer. 📷: Getty

There are just a handful of women marked so far, I'm sure the #histsci community on here can suggest many more (brief submission form via link below).

Dream big, my friends. Dream Big. www.newyorkupstate.com/albany/2026/...

Just stopped reading a blogpost after the author admits (*openly admits*) that they didn’t have time to read the text they’re commenting on and so got an AI to summarise it. Do people not feel shame about such admissions? Do they not want to crawl under a rock and be swallowed by the earth?

A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years

R/AccidentalRenaissance

Looked up the research on this and it was fascinating Thinking of offering extra credit to my students if they try it

OPINION: "[Ida B. Wells'] articles about Black life and racism became popular, appearing in many of the 200 Black newspapers in the U.S. at the time. In 1889, she was invited to join the Memphis Free Speech and Headlight as a reporter and co-owner," Richard Campbell writes.

As a movement to ban books reaches the front doors of libraries across the country, librarians find themselves on the frontlines. Watch @independentlens.bsky.social @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social on the PBS YouTube Channel and PBS app starting February 9. www.pbs.org/independentl...

People who consumed 200 to 300 milligrams of caffeine a day were less likely to develop coronary heart disease, Type 2 diabetes or stroke.

😞 stereogum.com/2488418/cake...

The Largest Historical Dictionary of English Slang Now Free Online: Covers 500 Years of the “Vulgar Tongue”

Every instance of "AI democratizes the arts, you're classist and ableist and a gatekeeper for trying to stop it" is a slap in the face to the literally centuries of poor, disabled people making art on the margins and a crass lie in service of a machine that strips down and regurgitates dreams

Democratizing the arts looks like universal income, low-barrier grants for both emerging and working artists, well-funded municipal arts & recreation programs, vibrant third spaces, and a well-funded public school system with progressive curriculum. Not a free pass for corporate-owned slop engines.

Need some advice do I put “not in the Epstein files” under skills or work history or achievements or all three?

Two bench press PRs in a single night.

if I could, instead of a short bio I would submit a recording of overlapping screams

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I am speechless. "The National Park Service has removed visitor brochures from the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument. Among the anticipated changes? No longer calling his murderer a 'racist.'" 🗃️ mississippitoday.org/2026/02/05/m...

Hey. Leave your phone and go out somewhere where there are no signs, no lights, no screens, no loud music Remembering what life can be like without ads in your face all the time will radicalize you if you let it

Carver literally saved agriculture in the South. Cotton is hugely draining in terms of nutrients, decades of monoculture left the soil depleted and barren, and eroding away, to the point that Georgia now has its own "Little Grand Canyon". It's gorgeous, but it was caused by the cotton industry

i had imposter syndrome trying to talk about fascism alongside Alberto Toscano, but i'm glad i did coz it was an incredibly generative conversation that helped distill & crystallize my own thoughts about fascism worldwide today & it's differentiations from the past. www.tni.org/en/article/l...

No new pictures. Where are you at mentally?

Among all the bleakness, strangeness, and terror of The Writhing, Verdant End, there is STELLAR nature writing--the kind that makes you want to go outside and just stare in awe at our beautiful world. Grab this weird ecohorror anthology here: www.cursedmorselspress.com/product/the-...

Wanna know more about railroads? I got you, boo. #HATM amzn.to/3ZHXCSL

🐋 #Whales #whaling #Brazil "...they discovered evidence from a museum in southern Brazil that indigenous people 5,000 years ago were hunting large baleen whales like the humpback before they’d discovered sailing, and before metallurgy." share.google/NZh84o7uDiOb...

Our host @johnmoe.bsky.social is a Bigfoot obsessive, as is the wonderful actor @realtoddstashwick.bsky.social. Join them for a talk about the big fella, how to do leisurely investigations of him, and whether he's a transdimensional traveler. So you can sleep. maximumfun.org/episodes/sle...

Nodders are heroes, no question about it.

Probably my favorite part of researching KING OF THE NORTH was discovering all the work Dr. King did with gang members in Chicago--how much he saw their potential for leadership & how much they respected him (even if they didn't always agree). A King for our times: hammerandhope.org/article/mart...

Ford’s Theatre Education is excited to share brand-new classroom lessons and activities in celebration of America’s 250th! fords.org/teaching-and...

Defenceless under the night Our world in stupor lies; Yet, dotted everywhere, Ironic points of light Flash out wherever the Just Exchange their messages: May I, composed like them Of Eros and of dust, Beleaguered by the same Negation and despair, Show an affirming flame. -W. H. Auden

I figured out a good way to describe good academic writing to geeks: Write The Hobbit, not The Silmarillion. Tight, readable narrative over rambling scope, and strong characters over sprawling mythological significance.

“…Long is the way/and hard that out of Hell leads up to light.” — Milton

Super delighted and honored to have a new piece out in Modern American History, which I’ve coauthored with my friend and colleague Brent Campney. Best part—it’s open access! 🗃️

I look forward to hearing about the large literature that shows the Fourth Amendment wasn't actually designed to protect homes from warrantless entries.

*From “Who Goes Nazi?” by Dorothy Thompson, Harper’s, 1941 (read it, it will blow your mind) harpers.org/archive/1941...

if i ever take a really long time to get back to you it's probably because i got in my head about writing a reply somehow and then had to go die

Denise Levertov, from Candles in Babylon (1982)

this is deeply satisfying to read. just masterfully done www.politico.com/news/magazin...

huh. Conde Nast failed to renew the trademark on "Gourmet" for magazines. So a journalist collective has swooped in and grabbed it. gourmetmagazine.net

The AskHistorians Best of 2025 Awards have been announced! Whether it's the Beast's books, Bond's booze or Blackfoot butts, come celebrate and enjoy some outstanding public history work! www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...