Hey @shafrhistorians.bsky.social peeps, due to overwhelming demand, I'm in need of more mentors for the SHAFR Backchannel, our informal mentoring session at the conference this month. If you'd be willing to chat w/ a student for 30min over coffee, shoot me a message!

another day, another story about the administration's war on knowledge itself, all in service of allow its corporate patrons free rein to rob us blind and poison our world www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/c...

people will assert anything to justify AI use. "It’s seductive as hell." No it isn’t. That isn't true.

This is a disturbing but important project. Black Churches were a major organizing hub of the Civil Rights movement so of course white supremacists targeted them.

BREAKING: In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court tosses out Terry Pitchford's death sentence, ruling that the Mississippi Supreme Court improperly held that Pitchford had waived his Batson claim — of racial discrimination in jury selection — in his capital case. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

because I know y’all can’t click and read

BREAKING: Judge Waverly Crenshaw dismisses indictment of Kilmar Abrego Garcia based on selective and vindictive prosecution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

An accidental yet lovely double feature in the JAEH!

Contributions of @srmeiners.bsky.social (@dartmouthdickey.bsky.social) in Journal of American Ethnic History 45.3: 📄 "Guam, Where US Refugee History Begins? Crafting Operation New Life Through Territorial Diplomacy in the US Empire" scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jaeh/art...

Eisenhower Library archival research practical needed. Have not been there in years. E.g. Just how cold is it? Is there a coffee room accessible to researchers? Anything special I should bring?

After he was tortured in El Salvador and a family member was killed, M.G. sought refuge in the United States. The Convention Against Torture was supposed to make sure he didn’t go back. But he was deported — and no one has heard from him since. blockclubchi.co/4trbltx

Delighted to share that my article, "Decolonizing International Law: Wellington Koo’s Dissents Against Empire From the International Court of Justice Bench," is out. Massive thanks to @emleake.bsky.social and @erezmanela.bsky.social, Itinerario staff, and reviewers! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

me, buying a book written by someone who I've never met but we sometimes like each other's posts on Bluesky: my friend wrote this

Political scientist: did you not read @proftalmadge.bsky.social TWENTY YEARS AGO???

Historical research does not need to be done faster or in greater volume for any social or intellectual purpose whatever; if anything, it needs to be done more slowly and deliberately than at present, by people allowed the training, time, space, and resources to do it that way.

Keep an eye out for the forthcoming volume Teaching US Military History, eds. @bethbailey.bsky.social & Andrew Preston via @universitypress.cambridge.org. Since US history is a history of ongoing war, the book is helpful for all teachers of American history. My blurb:

Journal of American Ethnic History Vol 45, No 3, is now available! Featuring 3 new articles and 11 book reviews. Work by @srmeiners.bsky.social (@dartmouthdickey.bsky.social), @ldgutier.bsky.social, @tbowmanhist.bsky.social & more. @iehs.bsky.social scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jaeh/iss...

👋Hi! I’m Jessica Lussenhop, and for the last 4 years, I served as ProPublica’s first Minnesota-based reporter. But now I’ve got big news: On May 14, ProPublica is launching a brand new podcast! It’s called “Paper Trail,” and I’ll be your host. Thread 🧵

Yesterday, the U.S. killed two more people in the Caribbean. 188 people have now died in 56 strikes.

IEHS Outstanding Dissertation Award -Winner: Sarah Meiners, “Asylum Archipelago: Migration in the Borders of Empire in the Caribbean and the Pacific” -Honorable Mention: Lauren Catterson, “Bad Behaviour at the Border: Abuse, Misconduct, and the Early Twentieth-Century U.S. Immigration Service” 6/

Just in: A federal appeals court has restricted access to one of the most common means of abortion in the U.S. by blocking the mailing of mifepristone.

An ICE Air flight (OAE2124) is currently en route to Baltimore, MD from El Paso, TX. It’s expected to make multiple deportation stops, including carrying Ukrainian nationals to Poland where they’ll likely be transferred to Ukraine.

Trump expelled three more people -- two Cameroonian women and one Egyptian man -- to Equatorial Guinea via an Omni ICE flight yesterday. Third-country removals to Ghana and Cameroon on the same plane also possible. First reported here: gillianbrockell.com/exclusive-ic...

“Use AI to brainstorm but not to write.” “Use AI to help you outline but not to write.” These are commonly proposed as “ethical” ways for undergrad students to use AI, but I’m sorry, brainstorming & outlining are just as integral to writing as the actual construction of sentences.

This stinks, the whole TPS termination was unlawful and bogus, and SCOTUS needs to not rubber stamp this lawless runaround www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/u...

In my new piece in @theatlantic.com, I argue that the consensus about birthright citizenship extended far beyond elite legal circles to readers of newspaper advice columns and letters to the editor pages for well more than a century. nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

The oldies radio station in my hometown now regularly plays songs from the 90s 🙃

BREAKING NEWS - We have an additional 1-2 spots available for the Book Proposal Workshop. Email Amy Sayward ASAP if interested.

Pope Leo reiterated the Catholic Church's teaching that the death penalty is "inadmissible," in a video message released hours after the Justice Department said it would allow firing squads for federal executions. n.pr/3OXE4bn

ok the Mr. Beast lawsuit, let’s go. step 1: don’t do this, or this, or this, or this

Hi friends: I'm assembling my file for promotion and want to include a list of classes where students read my work. Please let me know if you have assigned my books or articles! Thank you!! #History 🗃️ (Also, if you're assigning my work, THANK YOU and I'd love to Zoom with your class!)

I'm excited to share that we've made a collection of historic Supreme Court Records and Briefs available via @archive.org I've written a blog post where I go into detail about the importance of this collection. blog.archive.org/2026/04/20/u...

Congratulations, @ithacamcg.bsky.social! This is so richly deserved. An outstanding scholar, phenomenal mentor, and incredible leader. @iehs.bsky.social is what it is today because of what you started during your tenure as president.

Photos from our Annual IEHS Banquet and Awards Ceremony 4/ #OAH26

Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient Maria Cristina Garcia (Cornell University) #OAH26 12/ @ithacamcg.bsky.social

Outstanding Dissertation Award Sarah Meiners (Cornell University), “Asylum Archipelago: Migration in the Borders of Empire in the Caribbean and the Pacific” #OAH26 4/

Hey @nytimes.com, I already reported this earlier this week. And the G650s you mention? I reported on those in FEBRUARY. You credit NBC News and WSJ for first reporting parts of your story. Please credit me, too.

Happening in five minutes! Come learn!

I get to be on a panel with @daralind.bsky.social and @carlygoodman.bsky.social and very cool other historians about immigration history and policy! Stoked. Come by!

Typhoon Sinlaku wreaks havoc in the Northern Mariana Islands, prompting urgent relief efforts to aid affected communities. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

The idea that universities ”tend to exclude conservative intellectual traditions” is off base on two fronts: 1) how are “conservative intellectual traditions” relevant to the most of the popular majors and faculty research areas, such as computer science, engineering, the natural sciences?/1

6 Republicans cross aisle to advance House bill to let 350K Haitians keep their temporary protective status. 1st time Republicans have opposed Trump on immigration policy. (SCOTUS argument 4/29 on legality of Noem's termination of Haitians' & Syrians' TPS.) www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Who will be at the OAH historians conference in Philly? Hope to cross paths! On Friday at 10:30am — we have some dynamic scholars talking about labor and empire…

Bingo. People need to just look at the most recent immigration law— which will be 30 years old next year— for the root of pretty much every authority the Trump admin is using and misusing right now

BREAKING: The U.S. bishops’ Committee on Doctrine just issued a formal statement defending Pope Leo XIV's teaching authority on just war doctrine — less than twelve hours after JD Vance told a Turning Point USA crowd the pope should “be careful” talking theology. This is a serious escalation.