Very pleased to have been awarded the Society for the Study of Nineteenth Century Ireland Essay Prize for my 2024 Irish Historical Studies article 'The Irish-American press, the Franco-Prussian War and Irish-American identity in the postbellum United States, 1870–71’ doi.org/10.1017/ihs....

Despite everything terrible going on, I have something very nice to report: starting this summer, I will be moving out west to become the new curator of the John L. Wehle Gallery at Genesee Country Village & Museum! www.gcv.org/the-john-l-w...

Congratulations to Nicole Viglini, Asst. Professor of History, UNC-Charlotte and former Richards Center postdoc fellow, who has received a John L. Nau III Center for Civil War History short-term fellowship to conduct research on the U.S. Civil War era!

I was a dissertation fellow at the Library Company of Philadelphia 20 years ago. I'm thrilled to return next week to discuss my book "Canal Dreamers." I might even talk about sharks! Join me on April 15 at 5 PM. support.librarycompany.org/event/canal-... 🗃️ #oceanhist #histsci #envhist #coastalhist

I think university press landing pages for edited volumes should provide chapter titles with contributing authors' names, and I'm not afraid to say it.

This book identifies several understudied areas of U.S. presidential politics & helps explain the origins of presidential campaigning, e.g., campaign biographies, political cartoons, material culture, political music, political rallies, women's contributions, etc. www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

So excited to read my copy of @carolinesharples.bsky.social book The Long Death of Hitler (need to come back from a trip & finish grading but then it’s time to read)! She’ll be speaking in Leicester this week for anyone local #skystorians 🗃️ yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

I think the reason AI propagandists are so flustered by the fact that no real writer wants to use their idiotic tools is that they themselves don't enjoy writing. They see it as a boring arduous chore to be avoided, while real writers actually enjoy writing and actually care about the quality of it.

You'll die full of ideas. If I threw myself 100% into just executing the stuff in my notebooks NOW, I'd never get through them in the 20-odd years I have left. Ideas are just boxes to hold the emotions you're trying to magically convey from your brain into strangers' brains.

Huzzah!

Sorry. Another ask. Historians of women: I'm interested in showing my bb US women's history the breadth of what our subfield makes possible. If you're moved, I'd love to hear the question that motivated (one of) your research project(s)

Publication Day! Very excited!

Many thanks to Mississippi State University for sharing the news on "Martyrs and Migrants" being awarded the Alixa Naff Prize in Migration Studies! @nyupress.bsky.social @khayrallahcenter.bsky.social www.msstate.edu/newsroom/art...

Any historians able to read the name in the pink box below? Letter of 1796 describes the arrival in Scotland of the 10-ish year old illegitimate daughter of an indigo planter and an Indian mother: '...our first visitor is ?? ???. She has a friendly honest affectionate Heart...' #Skystorians

Read more of Sharon & Christopher Leahy's blog "Julia Gardiner Tyler: More Substance than People Realize" https://kansaspress.ku.edu/blog/2026/03/27/julia-gardiner-tyler/ Learn about the book Presidentess: https://kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700642670/ #WomansHistoryMonth #JuliaGardinerTyler #UPKansas

The new epsiode of Transatlantic is live! David Gleeson discusses the long and varied history of the Irish in Charleston & Savannah, from the 17th century to the present day. We hear about the surprising extent of that emigration and some very specific regional links: shows.acast.com/transatlanti...

Eilean Donan Castle #Lochalsh #Dornie #Scotland #Highlands www.damianshields.com

Digital humanities folks, a question: I'm giving some thought to creating a searchable online database populated with data I've stored in Access and can export to Excel. What software/apps work for this? Any tips for turning a spreadsheet into an accessible online form -- with minimal coding? 🗃️

“When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.” — Ansel Adams. ‘Road and Fog, Del Monte Forest, Pebble Beach, California,’ 1964.

My new book on the Declaration of Independence, out in November, is now available for pre-order, which is especially exciting because I still have talks for my previous book over the next few months in MA, TX, NC, TN, NY, CT, NJ, PA, MO, and CA.

Please read my essay in the new Journal of American History about how abolitionists used runaway slave ads to ridicule slavery. #slaveryarchive

I am extremely excited to share that my book Make Your Own Job received the 2026 Merle Curti Award in Intellectual History from the Organization of American Historians. It is a real honor. www.oah.org/2026/03/26/o...

I’m so thrilled to learn that my book, Opium Slavery: Civil War Veterans and America’s First Opioid Crisis, is the honorable mention for the W.E.B. Du Bois-John Hope Franklin Award from @oah.org! Thank you award committee and to everyone who helped bring the book to life www.oah.org/2026/03/26/o...

Absolutely thrilled to report that the Board of Governors at @uncpress.bsky.social have approved my book THE RACIALIZATION OF PRINT for publication by @oieahc.bsky.social. Forthcoming, early 2027.

Me, when students ask if they can use whatever citation style they were taught at school.

Congratulations to Dr. Lauren Duval, whose new book, The Home Front: Revolutionary Households, Military Occupation, and the Making of American Independence, has been awarded the Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award for First Book!

🚨Job Alert🚨The Papers of Martin Van Buren is hiring! We are looking for an assistant editor and a research editor, with start dates of July 1 (or sooner, if possible). Info on both positions can be found at www.paycomonline.net/v4/ats/web.p... (posted under Staff).🗃️

“Darkology”: An authoritative new history of blackface in America. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/b...

📣 🎉Today is the official release day of my book, even tho many of you have it in hand already. 🙏 to all who purchased. Availability: Amazon has the paper w/ discount, Bookshop/OUP on back order. Should be an e-version that is missing. I will check w/ my press. More: www.annaolaw.com/book-migrati...

Announcement of my book deal with the @unmpress.bsky.social.

Give4Garnet is this Wednesday! We hope you are able to help support students like Amelia Gay, our Fall25 acquisitions intern. Amelia was a diligent intern with big plans to earn a graduate degree in history and then a PhD! You can submit you donations here: give4garnet.sc.edu/givin.../104...

"Cable chess" offered a new way to play correspondence chess in the late 19th century. Chess matches by telegraph helped inventors promote their tech, fed notions of modernity, and stoked hope that the telegraph would transform geopolitics. #HistSTM 🗃️ #chess daily.jstor.org/the-first-e-...

Saladin Ambar has a new book out on the Lyceum Address and its context. www.simonandschuster.com/books/Murder...

Anyone know what's going on with Newspaper Archive? 🗃️

Congratulations to Lauren Duval, winner of the First Book Award for The Home Front: Revolutionary Households, Military Occupation, and the Making of American Independence (Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture & University of North Carolina Press, 2025)

Congratulations to John M. Kinder, winner of the Distinguished Book Award (Category: Distinguished) for World War Zoos: Humans and Other Animals in the Deadliest Conflict in the Modern Age (University of Chicago Press, 2025)

It’s real! When the Declaration of Independence Was News, coming soon to a bookstore or mailbox near you. Today I discovered a new benefit of working as a public historian: sometimes, the copies for the museum gift shop arrive before your author copies!

Martin Van Buren did not say, "No evil can result from its inhibition more pernicious than its toleration.” Here's who actually did. 🗃 vanburenpapers.org/no-evil-can-...

Delighted to announce that I have signed a contract with the fine folks at the @unmpress.bsky.social for a book about William Manchester, the Kennedys, and the controversy over "The Death of a President," published in 1967. It will be my fourth book with the Press and editor Michael Millman.

So honored that my book, White Power: Policing American Slavery, will be the first in the new W. Hodding Carter III trade imprint from @uncpress.bsky.social. For those attending #OAH2026, please join us for a celebration of the new imprint! Pre-order the book here! tinyurl.com/mwcc4977

My unpopular hot take: we could save ourselves a lot of headaches by just not naming things after people.

Remember when the metaverse was sold to higher ed as an essential part of the future of learning (especially online)? And how colleges and universities should go all-in on the metaverse so they could be "pioneers" of this new technology? There's a lesson here for those who choose to learn it.

I have had to explain this to so many non-writers. I don't come to the page with my thoughts fully and cogently formed; it's the *act of writing* that creates organization, synthesis, and clarity. The page isn't a receptacle, it's a workshop.

One thing that AI evangelists seem to assume, particularly legal AI evangelists assume, is that the thinking and analysis is quick, and the writing is just tedious busywork that slows us down. But the writing IS the thinking and analysis. You work out the thinking and analysis by writing it down.

Lesson plan themes include slavery, territorial expansion, Indian removal, presidential politics, rhetoric, and visual culture. Registration is free, but seats are limited. Use the link below to reserve your spot! virginia.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Are you a teacher who has wanted to incorporate Martin Van Buren into your classroom but just didn't know how? Now you can! On May 19, our editors & a team of U.S. high school teachers will be leading a workshop centered on lesson plans that use MVB's papers to illuminate the era in which he lived.

Very excited to share that my political biography of William S. Cohen is moving forward with the University Press of Kansas. Cohen was an independent-minded Republican who, at several moments of democratic threat, worked to protect democracy in 20th century America. A few highlights below!

People often think of right-wing conspiracy nuts as Nick Fuentes or Alex Jones look-alikes, but the reality is that many conspiracists are women. @noellecook.com joined me to discuss her new book profiling why millions of women have descended into extremism