And pre-orders!

CFP for Slavery North conference on "Rebellion, Resistance, and Refuge: Slavery and Border-Crossing during the American Revolution" @umassamherst.bsky.social 7/9-7/12/2026, abstracts due 12/19/2025 #vastearlyamerica slaverynorth.com/event/call-f... 🗃️

A few things going on today but just conceded a chunk of the morning to this marvelous resource. Congrats to @timhitchcock.bsky.social and the team!

It’s publication day for two of my friends who have terrific books out. First is @rickbell.bsky.social new book on the American Revolution, which looks at the conflict from a global scale: amzn.to/4hIdKf9

Job alert: the University of Illinois Library is hiring a Humanities Librarian to serve as liaison to African-American Studies and English Literatures. I’m sure someone here would be a great fit for this job—& we’ve got a pretty phenomenal community here Please share!

I am appreciating this book of powerhouse essays so much. And not just because it vibes with my orange glitter pen. 🤓

Looking forward to talking with @alexiscoe.bsky.social about the histories of family and genealogy and why the political contexts are so impossible to ignore... I mean she does say this conversation is for history cranks and fiends. 😁

Very excited for the @bfworld.bsky.social conversation I hosted about 2026 work in the two states I love best. Oh did I give that away? 😁🥸 Thanks to Liz for letting me take the wheel --and for essential support.

Excited for this conversation with Kate Johnston in just a few minutes! Hop on over to the registration page for the zoom link and join us!

The best morning of the year, when daylight gets reallocated properly! 😃☀️ #UnrepentantStandardTimeStan

'His book tour brought him to Cambridgeshire, where he would marry and have two children with Susannah Cullen, an Englishwoman from Ely. They settled in Soham, supported by a local network including abolitionist friends, safe...when reactionary “church and king” mobs were targeting reformers.' 1/3

This cheerful little fella wishing you a funtastic All Hallows Eve. (From an account of Cooke's voyage, 1712. @jcblibrary.bsky.social ofc)

The Heritage Foundation recently published a "Guide to Historic Sites" in advance of the 250th. They review sites for "accuracy" and "ideological bias." There's, well, a lot to take in, but here's one thing I noticed about its discussion of slavery and the founders. /1 historicsites.heritage.org

This cheerful little fella wishing you a funtastic All Hallows Eve. (From an account of Cooke's voyage, 1712. @jcblibrary.bsky.social ofc)

Want a taste of *Sweet Taste of Empire*? See this pre-launch discussion w/ a former student about the book, my relationship to writing and to food -- and why it's not just about the early modern. #booksky #RaceB4Race #ShakeRace #writing #foodhistory #history bcrw.barnard.edu/brown-sugar-...

PSA: If you're on Mastodon on historians.social, remember that this instance closes down tomorrow, Oct 31! I moved to hcommons.social easily. Note that there's a manual step where the instance managers (?) check your application (took maybe 5-10 mins), so don't leave it too long. 🗃 #academicsky 1/

“The [MFA] has reached a historic agreement with the known descendants of David Drake (also known as Dave the Potter) regarding two monumental stoneware vessels in the MFA’s collection that were made by the enslaved potter and poet…”

“…for all this moral clarity, the survey reveals gaping holes in institutional preparedness.” 🚨

Always a good day to support your local food banks.

ARCHIVAL FUNDING: Ann Ball Bodley Visiting Fellowship in Women’s History, to use Bodleian Libraries collections to advance scholarship in women’s history, of any geographical area and historical period. Deadline 28th Nov. www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowsh...

Teaching about “historical events from the perspective of marginalized and oppressed groups” is just history, mainstream history, and has been for half a century.

Guest Post — The Great Pullback: Why Academic Social Media’s Fragmentation Matters scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/10/29/g...

What a great conversation. Had a thought about something I’m writing and also just ordered the new bio of Thomas More! This podcast does the work. 😁

Gotta tell you this was really really great. Hundreds of folks, thoughtful candidates and all of them seem committed to public service whether they win this particular city council race or not.

I’m so excited and grateful to my friend the brilliant historian Leslie Harris for coming to Providence for this conversation about the sharp politics of family history. 11.11 and there’s a zoom link coming…

Big turnout to hear candidates for our city council. Nice!

*Thing I most want to do this evening: read quietly. Thing I am going to do this evening: attend a candidate forum for a local race. Because it takes effort in every form to make this whole thing go. *Also going to restart the asterisk series, eg posting in the midst of all the things.

Among what I dislike about the ubiquitous “bubble” metaphor for AI right now is the suggestion of an instantaneous and total collapse (for how else can bubbles burst)? But media studies/history challenges such narratives. The aftermath will be messy, prolonged, and above all unevenly distributed.

For me it's the febreeze-like stuff everywhere... every trip that requires a ride app or cab 50/50 begins and ends with stink-induced nausea. ☹️

Useful to take a look at a 2020 story fr the NYT reporter covering education and history specifically. Quite useful in particular about the detailed differences in textbooks between two states, California and Texas. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

"It is an observation almost worn out that Great events proceed from small causes. The stream that was Insignificant at first and Contemptible, Joining Larger rivulets in its progress...forms itself into large rivers." -Rev. Bezaleel Howard, Springfield MA, summer of 1787 abt Shays's rebels.

"Drove a body of insurgents from there, under the command of Luke Day." January 27, 1787. Spending my morning reading about the role of Continental Army veterans in Shays's rebellion. As one does.

Thank you, Alice, it was so great to see you-- and what a great group, with lots of good questions about why and how genealogy was/ is a foundational legal and cultural structure --as well as a meaningful practice.

Delighted to share the Call for Papers for a special issue of French Historical Studies on the theme "European-Indigenous Relations in the French Americas" (to be co-edited by Scott Berthelette and myself) CFP and submission guidelines can be found here: read.dukeupress.edu/french-histo...

Is the East Wing demolition the most important thing? No. But in the maelstrom it is a potent symbol. And every picture makes me nauseous.

Just pondering Charles Thomson, the secretary of the Continental Congress, who served from 1774 through the adoption of the Constitution in 1789. His choices about recording proceedings were immensely important. This is his signature on an edition of the journals of congress for 1774.

DC friends!! Join us on this Sunday on the National Mall for a teach-in in defense of history and museums, ft. an all-star line-up! We’ll be there from sun-up to sun-down. More info here: linktr.ee/historyteachin

I think this is the National Trust for Historical Preservation version of same. savingplaces.org/press-center...

Again, your mostly non-profit mostly uni press humanities publishers are not the thing making a wreckage of scholarly publishing. Paying for their work is a good thing, and we should keep doing that.

Is the East Wing demolition the most important thing? No. But in the maelstrom it is a potent symbol. And every picture makes me nauseous.

Last night I did an online book club with a big group of Brown U alums about Mary Beth Norton's _1774: the Long Year of Revolution._ So much really good conversation and great questions about contingency, anticipation, revolutionary violence. From a world on the verge.

October 22, 1774. The First Continental Congress concludes, resolves to meet again "on the tenth of May next." But first, printing the Journals of the Proceedings is affirmed. From one of the @jcblibrary.bsky.social's dozens of copies of those journals, printed across the colonies and in London.

"Spanish remains my language for alarm and stress, and this is a moment for both." Excellent and moving piece by Carlos Lozado about language, belonging, and what the Constitution should be doing for us all. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/o...

'government agents are permitted to detain and question people about their immigration status based on a mix of four factors: their apparent race or ethnicity; their presence at a suspicious location...the type of work they do; and whether they are speaking Spanish, or even just accented English'.

"Spanish remains my language for alarm and stress, and this is a moment for both." Excellent and moving piece by Carlos Lozado about language, belonging, and what the Constitution should be doing for us all. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/o...

It's been a while, but I have exciting news! Our department is hiring a Digital Historian with a specialization in Early America. Help us spread the word by sharing this opportunity within your networks. #DigitalHistory #DH #HigherEdJobs jobs.uc.edu/job/Cincinna...

In which Nick Hillman tells some home truths to the 'Battle of Ideas' about HE myths and the alleged 'alternatives': in fact we need more education, not less.

Woohoooo! 🎉 Blueskis, if you have not listened to @draftingthepast.bsky.social yet — DO IT! Such fun conversations about the craft and tools of writing nonfiction.

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