If you use AI to create your art, your story, your whatever, I immediately know you don’t care about making things — you only care about selling them.

Just finished a lovely and fruitful three weeks at the @burnslibrary.bsky.social as part of my NERFC fellowship. I’ll miss the reading room and the incredible staff!

Bessie Belloc’s habit of sending her best friend annotated versions of letters she’d received from others is the progressive era equivalent of me sending my best friend screenshots

My dissertation research has included reading some nineteenth century poetry, and my favorite so far has been “Renouncement” by Alice Meynell

Read the 2024 Brooke L. Blower and Sarah T. Phillips prize winning essay from John Miles Brach, titled "Union Exemption: Nonprofit Work and the Boundaries of the Commercial Economy, 1951–1976." Early career scholars, see below for details on how to submit your own piece for consideration for 2025!

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

I first heard about this project when Brantley zoomed into a labor history grad seminar at ND. It’s so exciting to see more work on the intersection of labor and religion!

I’m trying to find a 1915 periodical titled “The Catholic Convert,” and google is like “did you mean JD Vance and that one NYT article from 2022”

between the panels | NYC/AHA on 35 mm film

We're saying goodbye to one editorial assistant and welcoming another! A warm thank you to Sean Raming, who has been invaluable for the past 2 years. After working alongside Sean for the past few months, Notre Dame grad student Ella Hadacek @ellahadacek.bsky.social takes over as the new EA!

Call for Papers! *Deadline Extended* Until January 31st, MAH is accepting proposals for a 2026 Special Issue on the US #Semiquincentennial (250th). See this CFP (link below) for details, and send any questions to [email protected] www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

the camera vs the photos //Chicago in November on Kodak gold

Thrilled to see @modamhist.bsky.social here on Bluesky!

finally winter in South Bend ❄️

Anyone have any ideas about what cursive method this is? I’ve seen it in different collections. It’s always so distinctive, but it’s not one of the main ones I can fine online

I wish people in the nineteenth century would’ve just used another piece of paper (I’m going through another collection full of cross writing)

Quick intro: I am a 3rd year PhD student, and I study the intersection of women & gender and religious history. My dissertation project looks at English and American women who converted to Catholicism in the long 19th. Outside of work, I’m a knitter, film photographer, and coffee shop dweller!

Tried my hand at a starter pack for Catholic history folks in anticipation of AHA/ACHA 2025 (let me know if you want to be added!) go.bsky.app/Dr6tri