“You can’t just get these things online,” said Dr. Williams...Older material hasn’t been converted to a digital format, while many recent scientific & engineering journals and texts are behind a digital paywall and will be harder to access from outside the library. #histsci #histSTM #humanities 🗃️📜📚

Students want to be informed but often don't know the difference between an expert & an influencer @laurenfturek.bsky.social & I tried to create a space--away from algo rabbit holes--where teachers could find expertise on these issues for their classrooms www.routledge.com/The-Routledg... 6/6

It's time for @laurenfturek.bsky.social & I to celebrate the book birthday for The Routledge History of Religion and Politics in the United States Since 1775! 44 chapters, 48 contributors representing both History & Religious Studies www.routledge.com/The-Routledg... 1/n

This is such incredible reporting from my colleagues: much of Musk’s government cost-cutting efforts at the helm of DOGE were “an accounting mirage.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...

ICE has posted a video of Santa Claus arresting immigrants. Your government is hijacking a symbol of charity to spread fear and hate. it’s up to all of us to defeat these twisted fascists.

bari weiss saw this and decided that she had to hide it from the american public

This thread is right on:

How do these AI evangelists not understand that part of becoming an expert in any subject area involves developing a personal capacity for discernment?

Cece the Cat, proud next to (and then mischievous beneath) our kitschmas tree.

All this defiling of America, these symbolic shifts from "We the People" to a personalist regime, must be removed entirely as soon as the American people regain their democracy. The gross bribe-funded ballroom, the illegal "Department of War," the illegal renaming of the Kennedy Center, all of it.

My new book — Humanitarianism: A Very Short Introduction — is now available as an e-book (paperback in March 2026)! The book offers a concise history of humanitarianism in an international perspective, from the 18th century to the present. More info here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

NEW: Without USAID funding to help buy food for refugees, the World Food Program rushed to prioritize families based on need, determining that only half the population would get food. Refugees learned which half they were in from a number stamped on the back of their ration card.

Historian here if you want to read one piece that will explain neo colonialism in post independence Africa read this review by @hofrench.bsky.social in @thenation.com of Professor Mamdanis brilliant book Slow Poison. www.thenation.com/article/worl...

In 1965, a plutonium-packed generator disappeared on one of the world’s highest mountains in a hush-hush CIA mission the U.S. still won’t talk about...this is quite the story. 🗃️

New Episode! "Recovering Black Mariners in the Atlantic World with Mary Hicks" Check out my conversation with Dr. Hicks about the stories she tells in Captive Cosmopolitans Black Mariners and the World of South Atlantic Slavery @uncpress.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...

What small, cruel, and petty people these are.

The ‘Race Against Time’ to Save Music Legends’ Decaying Tapes - a very cool read about tape restoration! www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/a...

The Epstein emails "sketch a devastating epistolary portrait of how our social order functions, and for whom. Saying that isn’t extreme. The way this elite operates is." @anandwrites.bsky.social explores how those in elite circles focus on taking care of themselves, and not the general welfare.

Somehow I spoke to more anthropologists for my silly little podcast than Yuval Harari did for his bestselling book

‘We don’t even know all of what we have.’ Howard University fights to preserve Black newspapers. www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/... Last year, during a move, workers found two whole boxes of Frederick Douglass’s’ The North Star’s first year of publication.

Historian David Herzberg, who directs the drugs, health and society program at SUNY Buffalo, on the history of drug use and trade in the United States and why the current approach to fighting fentanyl is and will continue to be a failure:

Under the Trump administration, many NEH programs have been ended, 2/3 of the staff along with the scholarly council fired, and most of the money that has been given out as noncompetitive awards given to handpicked recipients... 🗃️

On September 11, 1990, two Pizza Huts opened in Moscow...and this is quite the tale about what transpired there between then and when they closed in 1998.

Mafia governance in action "the only offer on the table was that I needed to resign by 5pm that day or the DOJ would basically rain hell on UVA... If I did not resign that day, I was told that the DOJ would extract/block hundreds of millions of dollars from UVA before they would even negotiate."

Removing a monument honoring Black US soldiers has nothing to do with DEI. It’s erasure of history and it’s straight-up racism.

NEW: Jeffrey Epstein said in emails that he had been advising the Russian government on how to deal with Donald Trump, one of several cases in which he wielded his connections to try to influence the course of foreign affairs. w @nahaltoosi www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far

AI billionaires are enshittifying our lives, jacking up our electricity bills, destroying our jobs, and inflating a bubble that may crash our economy. For @newrepublic.com, I ask if Democrats will take, or waste, this obvious opportunity? newrepublic.com/article/2028...

This is why this surrender isn't just about this narrow issue but is rather the whole constitutional ballgame: Democrats are affirmatively signaling they do not want political power at the same time Trump is transitioning the political system into an autocratic one wherein they're denied it forever

We are being led by absolute cowards

look I know being an engaged citizen IS the work of democracy but it is also the work of elected officials not to create situations where everyone has to be mobilized all the time to prevent them from allowing some kind of Dickensian horror on a Sunday night while you're in between loads of laundry

As Trump Recasts History, a Civil Rights Museum Sticks to a Messy Past www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/a...

Reminder that Republicans don't really believe in religious liberty. Religion is a tool for enhancing their political power, and any expression of faith to the contrary must be suppressed.

Trump "has expressed such outrage at attacks on Christians in Nigeria that he has threatened military intervention there... but here’s the awkwardness: Trump’s aid cuts are killing far more Nigerian Christians than Islamic terrorists are." @nickkristof.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/o...

Denver Post confirms what we’ve been hearing: nearly all federal HSI agents with expertise on cultural property crimes have been reassigned to immigration duties in recent months. Major loss of law enforcement capabilities in the world’s largest art market. www.denverpost.com/2025/11/06/u...

Oof, more disastrous unforced errors: Putin tells officials to submit plans for possibly resuming nuclear tests after Trump's social media remarks

I’m just a small-town political scientist, & it’s still relatively early, but it appears that The Actual Democrats did not Need To Do any of the Things or Learn any of the Obvious Lessons that Ezra Douthglesias said they Must Do & Learn.

Is there ever going to be an interviewer who pushes back and tells him that immigrants seeking asylum is different than insane asylums?

With Kate Rogers’ forced resignation, there is no freedom at the Alamo www.expressnews.com/opinion/comm...

Happy Halloween from our Treatzilla to yours! Cece the Cat hopes that everyone has just as much success as she does in menacing the local populace into providing tasty treats! 🎃

This is a tangible example of how regulatory agencies matter to people in practical ways. The CFPB had been investigating and blocking these abuses of the law, until Russ Vought and Trump stopped them from doing so. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Trenchant analysis of the current Democratic party, the challenges it faces, and the current political moment from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social

Excellent piece from @jamellebouie.net on Congress & the imperial presidency—"by keeping the House on indefinite hiatus...Republicans have successfully circumvented the text of the Constitution to make our national legislature a nullity. They have, for all intents and purposes, dissolved Congress."

As someone involved in a lot of serious historical programming for the US's 250th in 2026 this new find struck just the right chord 😆... NEW Dr. Seuss for 2026, recently discovered "Sing the 50 United States!"🗃️: apnews.com/article/dr-s...

"Ed Tech has gradually penetrated higher education....these public-private partnerships have enriched private equity firms and tech companies...[and] have helped university administrators circumvent shared governance with faculty and implement increasingly punitive and surveilling tech and policies"

When Anthonhy Burns was kidnapped in Boston in 1854 under the auspices of the Fugitive Slave Act, thousands of ordinary white and Black Bostonians responded with outrage like this and stormed the jail in an unsuccessful attempt to free him.

More shameful efforts by state leaders to whitewash and distort history

Chris Murphy: "There's a lot of history that has taken place in the East Wing & it was just destroyed without any conversation in the public, without any consent of Congress. It's absolutely illegal. That visual is powerful b/c you're watching destruction of the rule of law as those walls come down"