#aha26 History Podcaster Meetup—today (Friday, 1/9) at 6pm. We'll meet at the Hilton bar. All are welcome! And please spread the word.

Starting this #AHA26 morning off with the debut of "The Memory of Negro Fort Podcast," now available on your favorite pod app. It's written & produced by Sebastian Garcia and John Lancaster of the University of Central Florida. Give it a listen! @historians.org podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Hey #AHA2026 folks. This Friday, come for a sneak peak of the upcoming, "The Memory of Negro Fort Podcast," a fascinating story about about a community of free Black and Indigenous people near Tallahassee in the era of the War of 1812! @historians.org aha.confex.com/aha/2026/web...

Headed to #AHA26 today, recorder and mic in hand! If you see me in the book exhibit, come say hi and tell me the most influential writing advice you know!

New from #HistoryInFocus — a conversation with new executive director of @historians.org Sarah Weicksel. We talk about her path to her current position, he work as a historian of material culture, and her vision for the AHA in this challenging moment.

Cyclist Now Comes to Complete Stop at Every Stop Sign, Unsure Why Drivers Still Hate Him - Just Wants To Be Liked. Creativebyrovelo.com/therovelorecord

I'll be interviewing the terrific hosts of @npr.org's Throughline podcast for a session at #AHA2026 later this week in Chicago. If you'll be around, please considering stopping by. Will be grand! @historians.org

If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free. consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov

Hey, #SantaCruz...👀

A tough one today...55 miles and 6,000 feet of elevation. 🚵‍♂️🥵

Robotaxis make urban transportation more fragile. If you want resilience, invest in transit.

I've always loved this illustration depicting Joseph and Mary looking for a room. I am finding it especially powerful this year

Somewhere near #SantaCruz...

Riding after the rain...

Between the rain...

In this piece I wrote about how AI is harming teaching and the academic job market, but of course it’s also undermining scholarship

🧵A leaked DOJ memo shows the Trump FBI is drawing up an enemies list that could encompass well over half the US public. If you align with any of the following, congrats. You may be headed for Bondi's list. Also set up a cash reward system for people who turn in anyone who promotes these thoughts.

America, you do not like home break-ins. But what if selling stolen goods is the way to restart the retail industry?

UnitedHealth is the nation’s largest health insurance conglomerate. ProPublica obtained what is effectively the company’s internal playbook for limiting and cutting therapy costs. Here’s what we found. (Published Nov. 2024)

My final manuscript in! And now I give you..... COVER REVEAL (US cover, UK is sooooo different but it's not public yet)

The new Jeff Buckley doc is pretty good, not least for the fact that it includes not a single interview clip with Brad Pitt.

Today on #HistoryInFocus, we revisit our episode on W.E.B. Du Bois’s 1935 magnum opus Black Reconstruction. Thanks again to Elizabeth Hinton for narrating this one, and for writing the long overdue review for AHR. @historians.org #historypodcast

The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort: www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...

New from History in Focus: A look at the recent special edition of the AHR's History Unclassified—"Mistakes I Have Made." I talk with HU editors Kate Brown and Emily Callaci, plus we hear from the nine contributors to the issue. @historians.org #historypodcast

Thinking about the Jill Lepore “students got difficult in 2016” thing: there’s a point for all of us when “youth opinion,” such as it is, no longer feels intuitive. It happened for me in the last few years. To understand where they’re coming from, you might have to do a little research.

Riding home from work today, I was close passed at high speed on a side street, just before a stop sign, and as an oncoming car came by. I, by the way, was going near 20 mph on my ebike. The Age of Cars could not end soon enough. 🤬 #thewaroncars

Bikes ≠ automobiles ❌Weigh 2-3 tons ❌Encased in a steel box ❌Kill thousands of people every year Bikes shouldn’t be treated as vehicles and shouldn’t be required to follow the same laws. Idaho stops are a perfect example. The increase safety when preformed correctly and make cycling safer!

As the 36th anniversary approaches, consider listening to my podcast project on the 1989 earthquake and its effects on Santa Cruz County...

Brief history of local earthquakes, to inspire preparation.. October 17, 1989 - MM 6.9 Epicenter near the ghost town of Loma Prieta in the Forest of Nisene Marks; 67 people died in California. Quake shifted Earth’s crust as much as 7.5 feet! There were 51 aftershocks >3.0 during the first day.

Our first major storm yesterday. Predictably, this morning all of the car lanes were neatly cleared of debris, throwing into stark contrast the bike lanes where much of said debris now resides.

If you see me riding on the edge of the bike lane, it is very likely because I am trying to avoid getting doored. Indeed, bike lanes that run along lines of parked cars are more accurately "door zones."

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US. 𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕. 𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

OPINION: Santa Cruz could lead the nation in safe, active transportation — yet city leaders keep stalling, writes local bike enthusiast Brooke Secor. While e-bikes boom and collisions rise, officials have not added even basic protections for cyclists and pedestrians.

Today from #HistoryInFocus — We revisit one my favorite episodes, "Soil and Memory," a look at the collaboration between historian Alexis Dudden and graphic artist Kim Inthavong as they explore history, memory, and activism in Okinawa, Japan. @historians.org

Radical idea: Instead of contorting ourselves and our society to the technology that the tech oligarchy thinks will make them the most money, why don't we instead ask—What is the world we want to live in?—and create/adopt the tools we need to make that world? 🤯

This January, @danieljstory.bsky.social, Alexandra Levy, and I are once again co-leading @historians.org's Sinclair Podcast Workshops. Do you have a history pod idea you want to vet with a small group? Pitch us for Developmental Conversations! Deadline 12/1/25. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

The School of Planning, Policy, and Environmental Studies at San José State University is hiring an Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies. We welcome applicants from all fields of environmental studies who apply an environmental justice lens to their work. jobs.sjsu.edu/sj/en-us/job...

From today's ride...

I'm excited to kick off a new season of #HistoryInFocus with a miniseries we're calling "State of the Field for Busy Teachers." In four brief episodes, we survey the fields of African History, Native American History, LGBTQ+ History, and Graphic History. @historians.org @detroittoaccra.bsky.social

Gigantic SUVs are a public health threat. Why don’t we treat them like one? The anti-smoking playbook is worth studying and learning from, and is completely applicable to oversized cars. This is a good article, worth reading. Via @davidzipper.bsky.social in @vox.com #CarBloat

Oh, how I love Chicago. 💕

Expert historian of the Constitution: “Once a constitutional crisis becomes an endemic condition, the term no longer usefully describes our collapsing system….we live in an era of constitutional failure when the relevant institutions cannot fulfill their responsibilities.” Fr @jrakove.bsky.social

New vibe for a new world—the current one we must resist and the one we're working toward. ✊🏼

Please read and share this statement from Sophie and Colin Hortman, children of Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark. (via WCCO reporter Caroline Cummings on X)

Hey @historians.org, #historypodcast folk, and other academic podcasters... I'll be at the inaugural Higher Ed PodCon this July in Chicago to talk about the power and potential of the limited series podcast. Even if you can't make it, good to have this new conference on your radar.

"AI, like a gun, is a responsibility." — Tom Sachs

For this final episode of season 3 of #HistoryInFocus, I had the pleasure of talking with @katecarp.bsky.social , creator and host of the podcast @draftingthepast.bsky.social, about the craft of writing history and about Kate's own area of research, the history of storm chasing. @historians.org