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Just arrived at Reykjavík for the Iceland Noir writers conference for the third time. First time I saw the moon being cradled by cloud-hands. Then a a volcano erupted. I wonder what this year will show me 🤩 #ViewFromMyWindow

On this eve of fifty Novembers the winds still howl the bell still tolls. My breath turns heavy as we drift into the long cold night. The Fitzgerald stirs beneath. I harbor their echoes and cradle her steel. My waves bear the sorrow of all I have taken.

Charting the History of New York’s Middle Eastern Community A New York Public Library exhibition features nearly two centuries of cultural, social and political artifacts on Middle Easterners and North Africans in the city. Gift link!

Happy news: My new book -- Humanitarianism: A Very Short Introduction -- now has a cover and is available for preorder! The book is a concise history of humanitarianism in an international and global perspective, from the 18th century to the present. More info here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

🗃️ HUGE thanks to all who made the #USIH2025 conference such a great success! Lucky to find time in the #Detroit Institute of Arts between panels, go! @susih.bsky.social

March 10 is the release date of the book that took me 16 years to research and write. Here's the PRE-ORDER page: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

An exceptionally busy day on the ice. Sledding, slipping, skating, and of course kolf! By Aert van der Neer, whose day is today.

Happy Sunday! 🦛 💙 Adorable ancient Egyptian blue faience hippos made by artisans some 4,000 years ago! 📷 by me #Archaeology

Beautiful tree on my walk this morning

SO excited to have the ARCs of "The Westerners" out there in the world!

Describe your cat's personality with one photo

Looking forward to watching Death by Lightning about James Garfield and Charles Guiteau. Seems like the sort of thing that someone should write an interesting review about and then send it to me for Commonplace. Any volunteers?

Few better ways to spend a Friday afternoon than to scheme with other history nerds about how to commemorate the US 250th anniversary. Panel features @sarageorgini.bsky.social, @lizcovart.bsky.social, @theotherrbg.bsky.social, @jmadelman.bsky.social, & @kathrynbrownell.bsky.social.

Coming this afternoon at #USIH2025, a fun session on thinking about public history and #America250, moderated by @sarageorgini.bsky.social and featuring me, @kathrynbrownell.bsky.social @theotherrbg.bsky.social @lizcovart.bsky.social (unfortunately @katejewell.bsky.social can’t be here).

sharing this incredible resource created by a poster in r/boston: a map of local restaurants offering free or discounted meals to SNAP recipients link: mysnapmap.com

The Autumn 2025 issue of The Recipes Project is live! This issue, GLOBALIZING EARLY MODERN RECIPES, was co-edited by Lavinia Gambini, Lucy Havard, & Amanda Herbert. recipes.hypotheses.org

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... 🗃️

Don't forget the deadline for applications to the June 2026 #SHAFR Summer Institute at The Ohio State University @mershoncenter.bsky.social is Dec. 15. Open to advanced PhD students & early career scholars www.shafr.org/index.php?op...

Apart from all the bells and whistles on the site itself, some users may like to know that the London Lives bibliography has been Zoterified (so it's searchable etc): www.zotero.org/groups/45875...

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. 😁

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!

all the staffers at teen vogue who just got laid off I hope yall feel how appreciated your work has been by so many.

Did you happen to leave your @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk purchases on the Metropolitan line yesterday? Did one of your friends do this and send an anguished message to the group chat? If so, Darren has just done you a very good turn. 👇

Ooooh, Wildly Different! Just ordered! 📚 🛒 🗃️

1850. The Public Libraries Act means councils in England & Wales can now spend local taxes on libraries. Some London regions are VERY slow to adopt the act. St Pancras rate-payers object to “wasting” money on “showy luxuries”. Fifty years pass before a free library opens in the district #PubLibs 💙📚

Greenwich by moonlight

Something pleasant for your scrolling. A view of Lake Michigan on a gorgeous fall day.

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

the sun has come out

HIP benefits still available if you have 1 cent left on SNAP card. BPS students still get free meals. #boston

Wu: #Boston and the Boston Foundation starting a fund to help 140,000 Bostonians who get SNAP benefits to afford food. Starting with $1 million in seed funding. BPS, BHA will be alerting people how to get aid, 311 operators trained on resources. boston.gov/snap

Applications are open until Tuesday 31 March for the RPS Ambache Fund, offering grants of up to £5,000 to support performers, ensembles, venues and festivals putting music by historic women composers at the heart of their programming. Find out more: royalphilharmonicsociety.org.uk/performers/r...

look who won the office costume contest

Perfect little leaf.

something beautiful #MuseumsAreNotNeutral #DaveThePotter www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/10/29/m...

Out of curiosity, I looked to see if Chewy had a pet food donation program, and they do: www.chewy.com/g/give-back Enter your location and it lists area organizations, including pet food pantries, and their needs. Also seems to be a good place to start if you are in need of pet food too.

Read more booooooooks!👻📚

Fantastic opportunity for a field biologist to work with the @birdscanada.bsky.social grasslands team (who definitely ROCK) #birds

HBD 🎂 (290?!) to the one and only John Adams! From the #archives: I wrote about how the descendant of a Puritan maltster raised a glass… 🗃️ earlyamericanists.com/2015/10/30/a...

HBD 🎂 (290?!) to the one and only John Adams! From the #archives: I wrote about how the descendant of a Puritan maltster raised a glass… 🗃️ earlyamericanists.com/2015/10/30/a...

(Boston) Free farmers market in JP including bread and produce, Thursdays 11-1, 12 South Street #SNAP

Come work with meeee!

Michelle Wu’s Boston

Saw this perfectly-timed exhibit and can't stop thinking about it. So thoughtfully researched and curated. The way they displayed the pieces was creative, inclusive and thought provoking. And it's free just like everything in the library.

The Boston Public Library and the Greater Boston Food Bank have teamed up to bring more flavor to your neighborhood and need your help! Donate unopened spices and dried herbs to the BPL locations listed below and the GBFB will gift them to families and individuals across Eastern Massachusetts.

'Astronomers' is an anagram for 'moon starers.'