Historians - I'm looking for essays/articles that center on one primary source. Topic = US & the world (broadly conceived) 1890s-1950s. I love Ngai on 1924 immigration act, Costigliola on Kennan's long telegram. Recent & undergrad-accessible preferred. Thanks! @shafrhistorians.bsky.social 🗃️

25 undergrads showed up this morning to listen to oral arguments in Trump v. Barbara. The kids are alright.

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

One of the best pieces I’ve read in ages about where we are now. Does that brilliant and impossibly difficult thing of articulating core truths that you know and have even shouted across tables at people but reframing them so you see them with a different clarity & can redefine your own argument.

“American Academy of Arts&Sciences reports 96.3% of humanities grads age 23-32 fully employed. Earnings in humanitiess comparable to social/life sciences, job satisfaction levels too. A serious mismatch bw actual employment for hum grads +general perception." www.mellon.org/voices/human...

On #IndieBookstoreDay, read more from Lanora Jennings—currently the Midwest Sales Representative and Indie Bookstore Relations Manager for Princeton University Press: press.princeton.edu/ideas/bookst...

If you're protesting this weekend, know your rights when interacting with law enforcement, including immigration agents.

Madeleine L'Engle; this is why they want you illiterate

Age yourself with a movie you saw in the theater

An excellent deep dive intp the dats behind FIRE's "campus free speech" rankings. You won't be surprised to learn they are bullshit, riddled with errors and willful misrepresentions. This is not a serious organization and we would stop treating it as such. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

OK, I wrote my “who’s going to enforce it?” piece. It’s a lengthy read, trying to respond to a lot of questions I’ve gotten over the past three weeks, but it’s about democracy so I decided it was worth it to lay out in depth, with examples, what I’ve been talking about here and elsewhere.

A Life magazine feature and map on the student sit-in movement, September 19, 1960.

Effective and creative data visualization in the form of a full page piece in the WaPo today to show how Trump/Musk are dismantling government.

Fuck. 🗃️

Bondi's Justice Department looks poised to prosecute blue state doctors who mail abortion pills into red states, probably under the Comstock Act. She's also very likely to restrict access to medication abortion WITHIN blue states by declaring that *all* mailing of abortion pills is unlawful.

Got some great mail today from @biblioracle.bsky.social. Can't wait to dig in!

For "One First," I wrote about Monday's OMB memo purporting to (temporarily) freeze billions of dollars of appropriated federal spending—and why it constitutes both unconstitutional and unlawful "impoundment" that's unlikely to be upheld by even *this* #SCOTUS: www.stevevladeck.com/p/120-the-im...

Holy moly. I'm trying to write an academic paper, and nearly every application I'm using is not only offering Generative AI as an option for writing, but *pushing it* -- pervading the design to the point where a simple misclick would make my content AI-generated. Here's why that's a problem. 🧵

This is exactly where I'm at too. Thanks, Cate.

Sometimes grading is fun.

Pro tip: when you have to spend Thanksgiving with your spouse's racist conservative relatives, make sure you have a son-in-law who's a sommelier and knows exactly what kind of wine you like. 🥂

I've been able to recite this entire song since the age of 12, when I had no idea what it meant. Now I'm writing a book on the draft, and I appreciate it in a whole new way.

BREAKING: Gaetz out

This is your periodic reminder - from a department chair whose colleague just had to go on emergency leave - that academia runs on uncompensated and undercompensated labor.

"College classrooms are places for collective inquiry, not partisan competition." Great critique of "viewpoint diversity" from my Denison colleague John McHugh for @insidehighered.com.

Including someone from the Manhattan Institute in this forum ("Just follow the law! Continue to eliminate DEI!") is akin to asking an arsonist to contribute to a forum on fire prevention. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

As the second Trump White House takes shape, our reporters are already digging into some issues that will require scrutiny in the coming years. We want to share some details, including how you can help inform future reporting. 👇

Speaking of the utterly broken Twitter search (RIP), here are instructions for searching on Bluesky. It requires a little more from you, but once you know the prefixes, I've found the search works just fine. bsky.social/about/blog/0...

In addition to all the great historians and academics and journalists I now follow (thanks, starter packs!), I found a few fun accounts with animal photos over the weekend. All I need is some good West Wing content and my feed will be just like it was at the bad place!

Tornadoes in Ohio in February. Sure. Totally normal.

I really needed this today! FWIW, I'm working on my third book, and I still find Laura's advice incredibly useful.

This. @biblioracle.bsky.social

IF it were true that U.S. history is dying as a field*, don't you think the destruction of tenure might have SOMETHING to do with it? You can't produce ground-breaking scholarship while teaching hundreds of students on a 5-5 with no job security and no research support.

Finalizing the syllabus for my Fourteenth Amendment class and realizing the tagline could be, "A class about how much the Supreme Court sucks." @fivefourpod.bsky.social

Hot takes on the Rahimi oral argument: Justice Kagan asks SG Prelogar what would be helpful for SCOTUS to clarify in Rahimi after Bruen, and Prelogar essentially gives my wishlist: (1) Clarify the whole original public meaning matters, not just historic regulations;

SHAFR historians, check your email! The Council on Foreign Relations has pledged to contribute $5,000 to SHAFR's grad student travel fund if 30% of SHAFR members complete the CFR's survey on historic foreign policy decisions. Just takes a few minutes!

Something seems off.

Good game! 🗃️ 1. "We don't do women's history anymore" (actual quote) 2. The US was not an empire 3. Gender has nothing to do with diplomacy

I'll do one for history 1. The state wasn't important in early America 2. If you want to understand the history of federal courts start with Hart and Wechsler and Frankfurter 3. "slavery had nothing to do with law" (actual quote)

The Brennan Center is hosting a terrific panel next week on the Supreme Court’s increasingly problematic use of history. Check out the details/register for this FREE event here: www.eventbrite.com/e/a-supreme-... 🗃️

Donate your invite codes! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Wow! So happy to see this!

everyone saying "you have to convince students of the value of the humanities/higher ed/etc." has not seen what i've been seeing. the students are not the ones who need convincing.

For reasons I don't entirely understand, my large (70-lb) dog likes to mash herself into the tiniest of spaces and then stare at me woefully, like I put her there as punishment. She is awfully cute though.

Had my usual conversation today with my first-year writing students about academic integrity, but this time I also asked about generative AI. Does using ChatGPT constitute plagiarism? Is it cheating in any way? Their responses were SO thoughtful.