I'd like to order some scans of early eighteenth-century merchant letters from the Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies, but they can only do it for people living in the UK. It will be £40.25. Do I know anyone willing to do me this favor? I would pay it through Wise or Paypal, of course.

My essay “Slouching Towards Arlington House” is out now in a special issue of the Journal of the Civil War Era, featuring “Historians of Crisis in a Moment of Crisis.” The whole issue is open access this month, thanks to the good folks at @uncpress.bsky.social.

The new @inpursuitusa.bsky.social project launches today for #PresidentsDay with articles on George & Martha Washington. George W. Bush on George: www.inpursuit.org/lessons/for-... @kawulf.bsky.social on Martha: www.inpursuit.org/lessons/befo... 🗃️

I’m volunteering on (and receiving travel funds for) a digital portal project for the Frances Perkins Center. first stop: Mount Holyoke

We cannot separate the history of the nation from the history of slavery. George Washington was an enslaver. As President he brought enslaved people to Philadelphia, and rotated them out to evade a Pennsylvania law that promised emancipation after six months in the state. /1

To steal a line from our friends at Friends of Lindenwald and Martin Van Buren National Historic Site, let's party with Marty on this Presidents' Day!

Two particular donors deserve mention. Bob & Pam Black made the initial donation to get PMVB off of the ground, & Cynthia Van Buren left an estate gift that funds the lecture series named in her memory & provides funding for our student internships.

We also want to thank past and present members of our advisory board for their advice and support. vanburenpapers.org/about-projec...

and the Tennessee General Assembly), our editorial staff (James Bradley, Erica Cavanaugh, Katie Blizzard, Andrew Wiley, David Gregory, Katie Hatton, Aaron Crawford, Max Matherne, Cole Nichols, Ed Bradley, and Maggie Baldwin), and our students and volunteers: vanburenpapers.org/about-projec....

Over the past ten years, our work has been made possible by our sponsors and partners (Cumberland Univ., @nehgov.bsky.social, the NHPRC, the Center for Digital Editing (centerfordigitalediting.org), the Van Buren Family Foundation, the Watson-Brown Foundation, the Heller Family Foundation,

Today marks ten years since the Papers of Martin Van Buren officially launched at Cumberland Univ. Our project has built on the solid foundation provided by the original PMVB project @ Penn State Univ. (1969-87), transforming its microfilm edition into a more accessible 21st-century digital edition.

Hogan's Heroes and Postwar America video/podcast Kickstarter campaign is officially launched!! Please consider backing us. If you haven't done a Kickstarter before, if we don't meet the campaign goal, no money moves. Pledges above the goal will continue to flow. www.kickstarter.com/projects/lee...

Last night, I was awarded the 2026 Outstanding Educator of the Year from the Daughters of the America Revolution. To be honored this early in my career is a testament to the dedication I’ve tried to put in the last five years. This award is dedicated to all my students: past, present, and future.

Anyone have any recommendations for finding statistics about the changing demographics by gender of moviegoers, especially in the U.S., especially from 1930-1970? #HATM Again, I'm not interested in the demographics of people involved in the industry for these purposes but those attending the films.

Can someone recommend an independent researcher that can visit an archive in New Haven, CT? I really need someone ASAP. I would prefer someone experienced, but in theory anyone that can read these city names and dates in cursive could be fine. It should take 4-6 hours. 🗃️

Help! Can anybody more skilled than I in reading crabbing Tudor hands help me read what it is that the 100 oaks were cut down to make (the last word underlined)? [TNA, C 154/1 no. 3] #palaeography #skystorians

it's literally impossible for an LLM to do a historian's job it's not even LLMs sucking it's that they need data input to do anything and where's that data supposed to be coming from without historians never met a computer that can dig through a thousand year old book in a library

Yet another crucial point: the vast majority of the world’s historical archives have not been digitized and are thus totally invisible to LLMs/AI. bsky.app/profile/jcte...

AI simply cannot stand in front of a classroom, gesticulating wildly and writing semi-illegibly on chalkboards, both of which are key to building rapport and convincing your students you are worth learning from

I can't express how happy I am to open this box today. The Limits of Revolution: Worker Citizens in a Bolivian Mining City, out March 10 from @utexaspress.bsky.social You can pre-order now! utpress.utexas.edu/9781477333297/ #skystorians #bolivia #mining #laborhistory #miningfamilies🗄️📁🗃️

I know some people are embarrassed about promoting the release of a new book, but don't think of it as simply the product of your own mind and effort. Think about all the people at your publisher, who have invested their time and talent into producing your book. Celebrate what is a team effort.

Research/Technology question: Does anyone know of software I can use to create a digital version of this conspiracy chart? Ideally free or cheap software? #History 🗃️

Yes, I'll be flooding my feed with announcements. Sorry! Please click the "Notify me on Launch" button on our prelaunch page! www.kickstarter.com/projects/lee...

Hi, folks. I’m looking for at least one more person to create a panel for AHA 2027. I have a working paper on the legacies of the Indian slave trade in the 20th and 21st centuries and I’m working with someone who is focusing on slave patrols and the Southern system. Anyone interested? #historians

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

Friends, where do people post CFP these days? I've used H-Net. The fall of twitter history means it's much harder to reach people these days! I've had quite a few great abstracts for the below but I feel like I should be reaching more folks.

Do any historians know what type of certificate would possibly be useful for a voter in a 1853 Connecticut election? It’s far too early for it to have been a birth certificate, and a naturalization certificate seems unlikely to be important for Whig voters after 1852. 🗃️

Today is the paperback release day for my book The Contagion of Liberty! It’s about how Americans demanded that their governments provide inoculations for smallpox to the public as their right and also to affirm that public health is a foremost duty of government. www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

Two weeks from today, we will be celebrating the 10th anniversary of our project!

You can pre-order the 2nd edition. Now in paperback. 📘🗃️ @uncpress.bsky.social #abolishice

welcome to zoom. as punishment for launching the app two (2) minutes before the meeting you're running, we are downloading ten (10) minutes of updates... now

Today is publication day! Wow. Thanks to everyone who preordered the book. I really appreciate it. If you have not preordered, then you can go to your local bookstore and pick up a copy. Please send me a pic if you already have a copy or when you go pick it up! I'd love to see it!

I was in the 7th grade and had stayed home alone from school because I was sick. I had just turned off a movie and saw the launch and explosion by chance.

The Space Shuttle Challenger disaster took place on this day 40 years ago: Jan. 28, 1986. All seven astronauts aboard (photo) were killed. I was in 7th grade and remember the school principal coming on the PA system and telling the entire school what had happened. Image: NASA via AP.

I wondered if anyone can help with deciphering this signature please? It's on a confidential letter to the Metropolitan Police in 1876 regarding a murder suspect. I can't quite make out the name and all suggestions would be gratefully received!

I recently had the privilege of writing updated essays on Martin Van Buren for the University of Virginia's Miller Center. millercenter.org/president/va...

Thank you thank you🙏 to everyone who has preordered my new book, THE CROWN’S SILENCE, and made it the TOP NEW RELEASE in English history!! I’m beyond grateful for your support! Out this Tuesday!! www.harpercollins.com/products/the...

An important new book by @brookenewman.bsky.social featured in @theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Well this is humiliating. Should be trivial yes but certified palaeogrpahic clown that I am, for the life of me I can't figure out the trailing word at the end of each line of this ledger. England ≈1550 Bonus: or this first name 🤡 Put me out of my misery? #palaeography #earlymodern #skystorians

Grateful for this thoughtful review by John Kinder in the American Historical Review. “Evan Sullivan joins the top tier of historians working in the field of the history of disabled veterans…”

Morning Lanes. 8°C and a Southerly breeze. Hares.

I am pleased to learn that my forthcoming book is now listed on bookshop dot org, and there’s a nice little discount! Nice if you want to avoid the evil empire (the website not Man United) bookshop.org/p/books/whit...

How do historians tell a story of a fascinating person who left few personal papers? In a new Commonplace piece, David Stowe explains how/why his historical novel might be the right approach for the life of William Billings, the first significant US composer. 🗃️ commonplace.online/article/writ...

I had so much fun chatting with @londomomposino.bsky.social about Canal Dreamers. He was such a wonderful conversationalist! I am currently reading a new source he recommended for my research on the history of Nicaraguan Sharks! 🌎 🌊🦈 🗃️ @uncpress.bsky.social #envhist #histsci #oceanhist #skystorians

Blueskis, studies have shown that when folks see or hear about a book more than five times, they are likely to check it out, and buy it. So in the spirit of creating buzz, here is the gorgeous cover of THE WESTERNERS, which will be published on March 31!

On Presidents Day, Feb 16, we're celebrating the tenth anniversary of @vanburenpapers.bsky.social's launch, starting w/ an afternoon event looking at the history of the Van Buren Papers & providing updates on its progress. At 7 PM, PMVB editor Andrew Wiley will deliver the Cynthia Van Buren Lecture.

On Presidents Day, Feb 16, we're celebrating the tenth anniversary of @vanburenpapers.bsky.social's launch, starting w/ an afternoon event looking at the history of the Van Buren Papers & providing updates on its progress. At 7 PM, PMVB editor Andrew Wiley will deliver the Cynthia Van Buren Lecture.

I am so humbled and thrilled to say that my first book, Opium Slavery: Civil War Veterans and America’s First Opioid Crisis, is a finalist for the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize! 🗃️ @uncpress.bsky.social www.gilderlehrman.org/book-prizes/...

Pre-orders are great for authors and presses, Blueskis. They show reader interest in the topic, and justify the print run. If you want to support the work of historians, pre-order their books!

Do I know anyone at Wayne State University who could copy some documents in the archives for me? The archivists will only copy two folders, and I need more than that. I'd happily pay. I need folders 1-7 of IWW organizer Hagbard Edwards's manuscript autobiography: archives.wayne.edu/repositories...