We’re told history is made on the battlefield. But Sigrid Schultz made it from a newsroom—risking everything to expose Nazi Germany from within. Her story is at the heart of The Dragon from Chicago. 🗃️

🗃 My next project... @socintelhist.bsky.social I'll be looking for readers for a novel that blends serious history (thanks to @theresakaminski.bsky.social for the blueprin 20 years ago) and a generational what if.

Didn't want the day to get away before highlighting the 258th #ScholarSunday from @americanstudier.bsky.social. 🗃️

"I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality." Alice Paul, born on this day in 1885

The SPEAKER implies. The LISTENER infers. The DUDE abides.

Here at Southfork, a trio of deer 🦌 visited the back forty.

Rep. @AOC: I understand that Vance believes shooting a young mother of three in the face three times is an acceptable America that he wants to live in, and I do not. That is a fundamental difference between Vance and I. I do not believe that the American people should be assassinated in the street.

Tonight at 8 PM: #AHA26 plenary, “Let Facts Be Submitted to a Candid World”: Historians, their Publics, and the 250th Anniversary of the US Declaration of Independence, with chair Serena R. Zabin, John R. Dichtl, Jason Hanson, Jane Kamensky, Colleen Shogan, Kyera Singleton, and Karin Wulf.

First day of the @historians.org annual meeting! Visit our virtual exhibit and take 50% off all American history books with code AHA at checkout! www.press.uillinois.edu/wordpress/ah... #AHA26

you could pre-order it now. if you're going to try to write for the public, its even tax deductible.

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Constancy in these times. The first #ScholarSunday of 2026.

This keeps playing through my head. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiwg...

Spent the last month in a work sprint to get a bunch of stuff done before the new years. Then, on the day when I turn in my reviews, I get my author copies of Living in a DAISY Age! It's very, very surreal, but amazing, to hold a copy for the first time.

Cover reveal. It's about how & why colonies/states controlled international & domestic migration until 1888, why in the late 19th c the feds took over, & what it was like for politically disfavored groups to live under that arrangement of power. You can't understand voluntary migration history 1/

To celebrate New Year's Day I went bowling.

Um.....

The following is a roundup of new publishers and agents announced in 2025—free to all. Want to be notified every week of new publishers and agents? Sign up for my newsletter The Bottom Line (free version works as well as the paid version for this purpose). See comments for sign-up link.

"Standing in the wreckage." Today's article pick from Damn History, a free newsletter for readers/writers of #popularhistory. Congrats to writer @curiouslana.bsky.social & @hazlitt.bsky.social! Read/subscribe to Damn History: damn-history-16d93f.beehiiv.com/subscribe hazlitt.net/longreads/de...

Subtle innuendos follow..... www.youtube.com/watch?v=o41A...

How I'm walking out of 2025.

Historians! Publishers! I'll be at AHA and free for coffee, chats, cold walks.

Did you know a 17-year-old Vietnamese girl once led an army on an elephant? Should she get her own full post? More stories: historyinthemargins.com 🗃️

Here at Southfork, the back forty is just about covered. #Southforklife #WIwinter

Here at Southfork, the gingerbread eggnog trifle is ready for tomorrow's festivities. Merry merry to all who celebrate. #Southforklife #happyholidays

A very timely holiday gift from @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social. Merry, merry!

What a marvelous thread! Read and enjoy.

And that's a wrap on #ScholarSunday 2025. Many thanks for all the good reading, @americanstudier.bsky.social, and happy holidays to everyone.

I'm so far behind! ICYMI, here's my December #Reads for the Rest of Us with @msmagazine.com, featuring titles by @allynwalker.bsky.social @angelafrederick.bsky.social @wordsiren.bsky.social @bnwosu.bsky.social and more! msmagazine.com/2025/12/09/b...

The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go. South Pacific I don't even know what to do with that.

The word genocide didn’t exist until 1944. Raphael Lemkin coined it to name what the world was witnessing—and chose to fight for its recognition in law. This week’s post revisits his work, his losses, and his legacy.🗃️ https://www.historyinthemargins.com #

I think this statement by @kathleenbelew.bsky.social needs to go on a coffee mug and/or t-shirt. #writinglife #amwriting

Do you have a history-focused channel on YouTube? Throw the link into the comments below so that we can help get more of the Humanities out into the world! youtube.com/@thetattooed...

From the blog's archives, my 2016 post about a Pearl Harbor anniversary. theresakaminski.com/2016/12/07/w...

Another (the 253rd!) great #ScholarSunday from @americanstudier.bsky.social. Take a look at all the wonderful pieces. 🗃️

Reminder! "Best Of" lists are tied to publicity and marketing budgets, who is able to hire publicists, what books made it to the top of a TBR stack *thousands* of arcs tall, and the shrinking # of outlets still doing book coverage. Talk about your favorite books! They likely weren't read. ❤️📚

I would add another Sturges movie to this Christmas movie list: The Miracle of Morgan's Creek. (And Trudy Kockenlocker is the best name ever.) #christmasmovies

Tonight! 6:30 EST online, the Schomburg's Conversations in Black Freedom Studies is having a special program on the 30th anniversary of Charles Payne's I've Got the Light of Freedom with @profjeffries.bsky.social, Emilye Crosby, Tess Raser, Charlie Cobb & Charles Payne! youtube.com/live/8IZksfH...

This may be my final blog post for 2025, a piece about Jane Grant, Marcia Davenport, and archival absences (with a bit about sightseeing in DC). #womenshistory #writinglife #history #amwriting 🗃️ theresakaminski.com/2025/12/03/t...

Take a welcome break from everything that's unwelcome with @bornwithatail.bsky.social's Minnesota cities as Muppets.

Support indie bookstores with @bookshop.org and get FREE SHIPPING! (And you might want to consider this as a gift for the history lovers on your list.) #womenshistory bookshop.org/p/books/dr-m...

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen: The Guess Who Elvis Presley (x2) Eric Clapton The Wallflowers Elvis Costello

And of course this is for #SecularPieThursday!

Part of my Thanksgiving every year. The WKRP turkey drop. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGFt...

On this day, @duchessgoldblatt.bsky.social's Secular Pie Thursday, my offering went totally rogue and rearranged itself into a fudge brownie pumpkin cheesecake trifle.

When @lollardfish.bsky.social talks, I listen. This is my most recent book. I think it's pretty wonderful. www.simonandschuster.com/books/Queen-...

"Vintage" Calvin and Hobbes. www.gocomics.com/calvinandhob...

Find out what @beltpublishing.bsky.social is bringing you next year---

Yes, @scatterall.bsky.social is the Bloomer expert! #womenshistory www.arcadiapublishing.com/products/ame...

Left a good job in the city Workin' for the man every night and day And I never lost one minute of sleepin' Worryin' 'bout the way things might have been Big wheel keep on turnin' Proud Mary keep on burnin'