Delighted to see this OA chapter on French woollen cloth in Asia in print! This gives a taste of my early findings: in brief, by focussing on the success of Languedocian cloth in *Levantine* markets, we've overlooked the importance of *Asian* markets at large in the industry's development 🗃️

Lancaster U History hiring 2 x 1-year posts: Lecturer in Global Environmental History - hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... Lecturer in Modern British History - hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... Stay tuned also for a permanent position in Late Medieval/Early Modern. #skyhistorians #envhist

FWIW, I don’t think the major problem in my field, or related ones, is that people need to move faster & produce more. I read a lot of papers as part of the job, and I’m increasingly convinced we’d benefit from fewer papers and better ones, not more mediocre work produced ever more “efficiently.”

🧵 In 1691, a French shipmaster and his crew were invited onboard an English vessel in the port of Tunis to eat. He proceeded to hit the English shipmaster over the head with his weapon, and his crew seized the vessel. In response, Tunis detained 15 or so French vessels. How did Marseille respond?

www.erininthemorning.com/p/texas-tech... A new memo at Texas Tech University establishes a sweeping and draconian censorship policy toward LGBTQ+ people, creating a campus equivalent of "Don't Say Gay" in one of the most extreme anti-speech policies ever imposed at a public university….

Hey remember when I told you guys I wrote my 1st peer-reviewed essay in 4ever during the most challenging yr of my life? It's out! In Victorian Poetry! And it's OA! I critique the persistence of inside/outside metaphors & concepts to understand the production and consumption of scholarly work. 1/?

Spread the word, my uni is hiring a one-year VAP in Medieval European History for the 2026-27 academic year. I am the chair of this search. Send potential candidates with questions my way! Review of applications begins 4/15/26! hr.wwu.edu/careers-facu... (photo from Carcassonne for attention)

Come work with me! careers.sru.edu/postings/10721 This is a full-time but temporary position in Medieval European History. (DM or email me, and I am happy to talk more about working here!)

I gasped so loud at this headline that I startled myself!

I describe it as such as a historian of disability because I want to remind scientists and the world that the history of science IS the history of eugenics, scientific racism and medical racism, and more. I’m not comforting them with the idea that it was a ‘pseudoscience.’ This is your history.

On 24 April 26 at 10am (GMT-4), FCHS will host a panel that brings together three journal editors and university press director to discuss what makes a good peer review. Register Here: rowan.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

🗃️ Have a project you want to do on French political economy? Stanford Libraries are a great place to do research - especially if they're paying! Deadline on Friday.

We’re seeking information on the final resting place (grave) of Matthias Alexis Roche de Fermoy (ca. 1737-ca.1780), a brigadier general in the Continental Army who left that army around 1778, perhaps going to Guadeloupe or to Martinique, where he was born.

Briefly returning from my social media hiatus to share that my article for the Journal of the Early Republic, on Philadelphian freedom-seeking in the Haitian Revolutionary diaspora, is now live (thank you to @chelseastieber.bsky.social for alerting me!). muse.jhu.edu/pub/12/artic...

Have you wondered how France tried to craft its representation in the #18thc Mediterranean? Been curious about the role French dragomans played in constructing the boundaries of identity and nationality? Well good news! I wrote an article about it! 🗃️ doi.org/10.14321/fre...

if you are in search of decency in North America's iteration of this sport, you'll have to look only to the women's side

Online version published, print version coming soon! The Oxford Handbook of Intersectional Approaches to Migration, Gender and Sexuality, edited with @gokceyurdakul.bsky.social @lizamugge.bsky.social Sarah Scuzzarello and Sirjit Sunata lnkd.in/dhv8VFRN

Am a French historian looking for good articles/books that discuss the origins of the social bonds that we are seeing in action in #Minneapolis. Doesn't have to be abt #Minnesota. Social structures that generate strong communities. Historians? Sociologists? Political scientists? #Skystorians

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This cannot be reformed. These murderers need to be brought to justice

PhD funding for early career historians completing a doctorate. Applications are invited for the Society's Centenary PhD Fellowships for the academic year 2026-27 bit.ly/49MzqmT. Two awards of £8500 per student, held jointly with @ihr.bsky.social. Closing date: 31 January 2026 #Skystorians

I curate the history series at public media's trade journal Current. We're looking for pieces on the history of NPR, PBS and its affiliates, with some space to imagine public media's future. We accept academic articles repurposed for wide readership. Plus, we pay. Please circulate!

When you read Paxton's Anatomy of Fascism, this is basically the central point: it's not coherant. This is why he doesn't offer a definition until then end. Because you have to look at what fascists do, not what they say, to understand it. There is no ur-text of fascism.

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It’s time…

Absolutely right. AI might be able to summarize (poorly) what we currently know, but a major goal of historical research is to find the hidden surprises out there. Let me illustrate …

Building on this, “Feeding AI” also devalues the labor of archivists, while endangering original records as well as the authenticity and reliability of the records. People do not understand that end of the work and assume we can just digitize everything. No. No we cannot.

I paid Rolling Stone enough money while they had a TV critic to not mind going around the paywall now. Enjoy! archive.ph/Ta745

Injecting some LIGHT 🕎 onto my timeline, by sharing my throwback @historians.org essay “Of Potato Latkes and Pedagogy.” Gender history, auto-ethnography, pedagogy… and “Mom’s” latke recipe! 😋 🗃️ www.historians.org/perspectives...

the reason its bad to run universities like businesses is that almost all businesses fail on any reasonable timeline of evaluation. hudson's bay made it the longest and even they only got to about half an oxford of longevity

Dr. Schen and her daughter Maddy Cherr's coauthored essay, "Embracing the Untamed Garden," which recently appeared in the AHR was highlighted by the UB Arts and Sciences! The project was also recently featured on the American Historical Review's podcast, "Mistakes I Have Made."

Publication!! Parution!! The newest edition of French Colonial History (vol 23-24) is now available! La dernière édition de French Colonial History (vol. 23-24) est maintenant disponible ! muse.jhu.edu/issue/55916?...

Niche joke, but its beautiful

And now "leadership" has completely cancelled all print editions of the student newspaper (in publication since 1867) www.idsnews.com/article/2025...

How to delete your account without agreeing to the new TOS: In the dialogue box asking you to agree, DO NOT click agree. Instead, click on the TOS link which will open another tab. In the top right of that tab you can go to your account settings and delete your account.

1. Modeling data does not a historical argument make. 2. Lefebvre might have written an early classic, but his sources are not the complete 'archive' of Great Fear rumors. 1/n

Since I was focused here on transcription, I didn't mention perhaps the most important thing: it's by reading hundreds of these documents myself that I start to formulate my arguments, get an idea of the institutional set-up, the context, and so on.

A thread on transcription and AI. One reason I don't use AI to transcribe (besides the fact that AI is hugely detrimental to the environment & is coming for our jobs) is that it can't tell the difference between original documents & new notes added by staff members to whom documents were sent. 🗃️ 1/?

hoping that when they say the LLM talks like a Ph.D.-level expert, they mean "holds indecipherable decades-long academic grudges expressed largely in the form of questions that are actually more of a comment"

Be sure to read this new review of FIVE recent books on Algerian History (@tgpeterson.bsky.social, @elisefranklin.bsky.social, Sara Rahnama, Elizabeth Perego, and Susan Slyomovics) by @anaisfaurt.bsky.social in Contemporary European History! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Truly disgusting. Yes, Grok is a Nazi AI bot.

This is insane.

Listen, @housedemocrats.bsky.social @senatedemocrats.bsky.social address this flagrant, insulting & incendiary racism. Where is the censure motion? Stop jumping at every smear against Mamdani. Focus on what a U.S. Senator is saying abt a key part of your base. www.al.com/politics/202...

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Looks like my book is in this @cornellupress.bsky.social sale! Want to know how a wildly unpopular king trumped up an attack on a Muslim country to justify suspending the rule of law at home? But then ended up getting overthrown himself? This is the book for you 🗃️

Sitting US Senator Alex Padilla forcibly wrestled to the ground and arrested by the FBI for attempting to ask a question of DHS secretary Kristin Noem.

Published an English-language book on French history this year? The AHA's Russell Major Book Prize is accepting submissions til May 15. 🗃️ More info here: www.historians.org/award-grant/...