The FRUS microfiche supplements were a great addition to the collection in their time, but are now the least accessible volumes in the series. It's good to see the American Republics 1958-60 documents are now online. history.state.gov/historicaldo...

White House stands by State Department nominee who complains that "white Americans are increasingly second-class citizens," warns of "white erasure" and says "the Jews love to see themselves as oppressed." @camcgrady.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/u...

No children should be in ICE detention.

It was a thrill to see @gabymoreno.bsky.social perform live last night at Wolf Trap. She played from her most recent album Dusk and her Grammy-winning album X Mi and included many of my favorites from earlier albums. Such an incredible talent.

For anyone about to be hunkering down this weekend, the first book of my Black space opera series is on sale today. Stay safe y'all 🤎 writteninmelanin.com/store/p/tlw1...

My (free) website for learning to read from Greek manuscripts is available. Still some tweaks to be made but it’s ready with 12 lessons, tips and hints, downloadable reports if you use it for a class, and links to lots of resources. Please share and give feedback! xeirographa.com

"Right on time for the start of the new year, the Dodis research centre is presenting its research on Switzerland’s international relations in 1995..." 1,800 documents published like clockwork on Jan. 1, 2016, "precisely when their legal protection period expires." www.dodis.ch/en/new-docum...

Foreign Relations of the United States, 1989–1992, Volume XXXI, START I, 1989–1991 is out today! Huge congratulations to @jamesgrahamwilson.bsky.social and the rest of the team at the State Department's Office of the Historian. history.state.gov/historicaldo...

In 1876, white terrorists attacked Black members of a militia company at Hamburg, SC. They killed half a dozen Black men, executing several after their surrender. In 1916, the state erected a monument to the 1 terrorist killed in the assault, lauding his sacrifice for "Anglo-Saxon civilization."

Our friends at the Office of the Historian have been busy! Out today are three chapters from Foreign Relations of the United States, 1977-1980, Volume XXVII, Western Europe: Canada, West Germany, and the Nordic countries. history.state.gov/historicaldo... #FRUS

With the dismantling of USAID, VOA, and tomorrow's anticipated RIFs at the State Dept. Ambassador William Burns' warning that "the future of our diplomatic service is uncertain" could not be any more urgent or timely. We must continue to #StandUpForService. Learn how at ServiceDisrupted.org

NEH staff do valuable work. The Office of Digital Humanities has spurred innovation and supported research that has changed the lives of students across the nation. Such a shame to see this destroyed.

Hey, fellow XML nerds & tag lovers! If you happen to be at Markup UK in #London this week, and got questions about eXist-db or want to talk about XQuery, native XML databases: Juri and Duncan from the eXist-db core team will be in the house! Come say hi — we’d would be happy to talk 💬😄

The eXist-db core developers published a statement concerning license violations in Elemental by Evolved Binary: exist-db.org/exist/apps/w... #LGPL-2.1 #XMLDB

New -slim images for duncdrum/existdb! 🚀 Now available for 6.4.0+, these come without stockapps in /exist/autodeploy — perfect for minimal base images or lean #XQuery only setups. All distroless variants have a -slim twin: e.g. duncdrum/existdb:6.4.0-nonroot-j8-slim hub.docker.com/r/duncdrum/e...

Announcement from Columbia's History Lab: 🗄️ HistoryLab AI 📁 history-lab.ramus.network 🗃️allows natural-language queries of over more than 5 million primary source records -- CIA files, Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) volumes, and State Department cables.

We are happy to announce that version 6.4.0 of eXist-db was released last week 🥳 Thanks to all who helped getting it out and everyone else who contributed in any other way like posting issues and testing. For more detailed information see: exist-db.org/exist/apps/w... Happy hacking! 🚀

Just a reminder that Digital Scholar is hiring an administrative assistant. If you’re in the DC area this job might be right for you (hybrid; 2 days in Falls Church a week). We’re a fun bunch to work with and the pay and benefits package is good. digitalscholar.org/job-administ...

Check out/sign up for our DHSI course, Processing Your XML/TEI with the XML Family of Languages, at DHSI Week 1 (May 26-30) in Montreal! ebeshero.github.io/UpTransform Early bird registration ends March 31! bit.ly/2025-dhsireg @teiconsortium.bsky.social

Now Trump and DOGE are making massive cuts to grants and staffing at the National Endowment for the Humanities. NEH funding is a tiny fraction of the federal budget, but it makes a difference in every state across the country. www.npr.org/2025/04/03/n...

Key 🧵that puts in context why today's DC Circuit ruling was so bad. The civil service has been (among other things) an indispensable check on executive power, ensuring political apptees adhere to laws passed by Congress. Like courts, universities, media, etc. a key guardrail of democracy. No more.

Without IMLS, there would be no Omeka and there would be no Zotero. Write to your representatives to defend IMLS today. www.6floors.org/bracket/2025...

Inbox: Statement from the American Meteorological Society says that firings at NOAA and other science-related agencies are "likely to cause irreparable harm and have far-reaching consequences for public safety, economic well-being, and the United States’ global leadership."

The majority of Americans want support for Ukraine to continue or increase.

Usefully sober fact sheet on Ukraine. Please share with those who need it. understandingwar.org/backgrounder...

A USAID HR director sent out this email today to staff letting them know he was placed on administrative leave. “Today, representatives of the Agency's front office and DOGE instructed me to violate the due process of our employees by issuing immediate termination notices to a group of employees.”

We're entering a dark period in US #accessibility. The White House home page has a bunch of links with "aria-hidden" and "tabindex=-1". This hides the links from assistive tech like screen readers & makes them unreachable with just a keyboard. Critical #WCAG compliance errors! But who can sue?

@simonbs.dev I'm enjoying Festivitas! Using Version 1.1.2 (9). The "Reset" button doesn't reset all settings. Perhaps it is only meant for resetting colors? A button to restore all defaults would be nice. I was futzing around with all of the settings, thinking the reset button would do this. Thx!

If I can finish proofreading and make the index in time, my new book will come out in January. 📖 I've been working on it for five years so I'm pretty excited that it will soon be a reality. I'd like to tell you a bit about it. 1/16

Blog post from last year about it too and my guidelines are on my website alexandraewingate.com/2023/05/30/t...