I had a family wedding yesterday and missed this talk, so I am super excited that Kate's also speaking at Mount Vernon next month! www.mountvernon.org/plan-your-vi...

this has been all but inevitable since colleges started pushing professional skills as degrees. I would love to know what percentage of of these folks have liberal arts backgrounds

no, what they *imagine* is an ivy league seminar course, which is always just some dead poets society imagined 50s prep school shit. not coincidentally, this is also what they're *really* trying to make ivy league schools return to by pushing out anyone who doesn't look like baby ethan hawke!

given that you don’t actually need any historian credentials for this job, i feel like AHA could’ve skipped on posting this.

Estoy traducida al español! for @france24.com by #NataliaCabrera www.france24.com/es/ee-uu-y-c...

some nice bicentennial history by @piperhudsburn.bsky.social and a plug for my book @uncpress.bsky.social! www.cnn.com/2025/09/06/p...

one book, five articles. pay me.

this happens when most of your humanistic knowledge comes from listening to an AI read the john locke wiki entry at 1.75 speed while you're on the treadmill

Related, some enterprising editor needs to commission @mjrp.bsky.social to write about this weirdness.

if you're puzzled by the existence of this exhibit may I suggest Tammy Gordon's excellent and *increasingly* relevant Private History in Public?

yeah, let's talk about this!

sorry but is this thing getting stupider

by "historians" the @nytimes.com means one historian plus a political scientist, an expert on international security, and a business school dean.

and if you want to know exactly which American workers they mean, there’s the other side of the building

This morning: MPD and ATF conducted a massive paramilitary operation, with officers in masks and camo, in the Mt. Pleasant neighborhood of DC within 500 yards of an elementary school while neighborhood children were heading to school. On their third day of classes.

just some headlines from the last time the federal government was in charge of Union Station!

alarmingly sloppy history in the @nytimes.com today--this is exactly why we need the museum content the current administration is trying to take down.

just printed this out and put it on my office door

Plenty of people think this, actually, and it’s on us to change it! One of the most impactful things that professional historians should be doing is pulling back the curtain on how museums, interpretation, research works. History’s best allies are its audiences!

❤️ ❤️D.C. ❤️❤️

Today: rewatch of Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure; tomorrow, probably tankie history TikTok 🫠🤪

c'est moi! dans @lemonde.fr!

Sorry I am never leaving twitter, ever, I love being mad too much!

For research today I am on an absolutely cursed app that bills itself as Duolingo for history 😵‍💫

They really put a fitness trainer on tv to talk about the history of slavery

I don't think enough people realize this: people leave tenured & t-t jobs to work at SI! curators have advanced degrees, do original research, publish, teach, mentor, AND do history that reflects and engages the entire nation! it's not just "exhibits" that are being reviewed, its scholarship.

every SI exhibit is vetted at the highest possible levels and at every stage of development: peer review by top scholars, extensive visitor, studies panels with every type of stakeholder. I'd like to see reporters covering the curatorial process and the actual experts at these museums #publichistory

yes! I'll also add that the best way to puncture myths is by emphasizing historical thinking & historical methods in public engagement. right now, the majority of the discipline seems to be stuck in offering-corrective mode--that needs to change, like yesterday

This from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social hit me over the head like a mallet of truth. This is the thing. This is what I’ve been trying to warn people about perfectly crystallized. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/o...

In 1943 DC—including this very hotel—was segregated

time for everyone to dust off ye olde agamben

Please read and share this thread, where @mjrp.bsky.social documents well the precedents to Trump's federalization of the DC police force and its ominous portents for other cities. Today's measures are far more than a distraction from the Epstein files; they are integral to his fascist goals.

in light of today's events, here's a #DCHistory thread about why and how we should be putting recent charges about DC’s “crime crisis” into its larger contexts. Hints: it’s not the first time, and it’s not about crime. More below: 1/?

from 1993. just your daily reminder that trump is playing d.c. out of an old, old playbook--people like tucker carlson literally cut their teeth on demanding federal oversight for d.c. we have been telling your this for 50 years.

Now through this weekend, I'll donate $1 to @51st.news for each: - person who reposts this post - new follower @51st.news ws gets - new follower @maustermuhle.bsky.social gets - new follower @christurdisani.bsky.social gets - new follower I get And tag/DM me your donation = I'll match it 1:1.

totally not true, absolutely pernicious, and K-16 education is inviting this sh*t in

no one has done worse by actual D.C. than its establishment journalists who have been committed to circulating a wildly inaccurate, exclusive, and self-serving image of the city for decades

some more details: 1) before the march, Klanspeople mailed threats to Black-owned businesses in DC 2) 1/3 of the marchers were women 3) the majority were from the North, including ME, MI and PA 4) many put on their robes as soon as they reached Union Station, and wore them to sightsee

I take heart from stories like these: "Especially when the world is so unstable and insecure, I think that art is a place of reflection, resistance and imagination"... "They are seeing a doom-and-gloom world presented to them and [think], 'Why not go and create a life that is meaningful'"

as ever, D.C. is the testing ground for federalization policy. We are where no-knock and facial recognition were piloted, among others. Every American should be watching closely and helping to #freedc

Very excited to read a take on AI that actually questions and rejects the faulty premise of AI as a thinking machine that will make all other thinking obsolete

Increasingly convinced that instead of trying to find ways to keep students from using AI we in the humanities need to be working collaboratively to show them that they need to be able to think & write outside of and against AI.

Hey @washingtonpost.com fix your captions—that cabinet was broken into in Daniel Ellsberg’s psychiatrist’s office, not during Watergate…

tomorrow is the end of my time with @c2dh.uni.lu -- I've so enjoyed watching collaboration in action across the two research groups (Public History and History of Lux) that I've had the privilege to be embedded with--a much needed reminder of the vitality of our international community of scholars

Cool cool cool wonder if OpenAI now has access to everything I + my students have ever put into Canvas

Today’s great read, everyone should be paying attention to what crappy platforms are helping our universities enshit themselves faster

vis a vis A.I. in the classroom I'm going to start by asking my students to imagine what the future of work is going to look like and then hope they can scare themselves into valuing critical thinking and writing skills instead

Our new survey of public history students is available: What do students do after their Master? Do they have jobs? In what field do they work? What did they find useful in their training? publichistoryonline.org/survey-of-pu... #PublicHistory #Career #University @ncph.bsky.social

been looking at current public humanities projects for this new book and whoa do they uncritically take up business-speak and start-up culture: so much collabing, innovating, founding, activating, disrupting...

I’d be curious to see what the gender breakdown looks like for service awards in higher ed