The Friends Historical Association is pleased to announce its grants application cycle is officially open for 2026-2027.! Funds are available in support of research, projects, and book subventions in the fields of Quaker History and Quaker Studies. The deadline for each application is June 19, 2026:

Among my obsessions, the critical importance of government documents. As a historical subject as well as source. IOW, it's *always* been a data state. My new piece for Smithsonian on chasing paperwork around the American Revolution. Owes to work by: www.smithsonianmag.com/history/ever...

anyway here's me at the art-themed Met Gala

Imagine my surprise when I hear James Nayler mentioned in my spooky little folklore podcast

Good Expectations

In my ideal reading situation right now (stack of books to read and reread for a syllabus; novel; biography for newfound all-consuming side interest)

I put on my boots and James Avery today in honor of my close personal friend and fellow Texan, Kacey Musgraves.

It really is in the midst of chaos that you feel compelled to read a 500+ page biography of Edgar Allan Poe.

ICYMI: A new semi-regularly series from @kawulf.bsky.social over @commonplacejrnl.bsky.social! #ReadMoreBooks

sick at home the last few days and no little critter has ever been more sweet and more ready for me to scoot out and leave her at peace in HER apartment

author Courtney Maum facetiously called one of the genres of book deal announcements the Oscar’s speech (1/8)

I am back from my unplanned Bluesky break to say that I am SO PROUD of @emilysneff.bsky.social. A fellow grad school cohort-member articulated it beautifully: it is tremendous to see the incredible journey of Emily's rich research from talking about in class to it being published. Go go go!!! 🎉

Join us on April 21 as The Revolution Is News continues with a conversation about Black Loyalism with Adam McNeil, a post-doctoral fellow at @woodsonuva. Details at jcblibrary.org!

The healing powers of a little calico cat sauntering over for a quick head boop amid your cycle of fretting.

Feeling emotional!!!

Join us today, April 2, at noon as the series JCB Reads continues with a conversation about Katharine Gerbner's recent publication Archival Irruptions: Constructing Religion and Criminalizing Obeah in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica. Register at brown.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

This Friday!

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear arguments about birthright citizenship. Here, for the NYTimes and with Kate Masur, I offer a view of what those of you who think historically should be listening for. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/o...

In Providence next week? We have your Friday plans all sorted! events.brown.edu/event/327145...

Heard Mary Dyer’s name mentioned on the NBC 10 Boston news and was summoned to the living room as if by magnetic force.

Law & History Review is pleased to announce publication of our joint special issue with The William and Mary Quarterly: New Legal Histories of the American Revolution [vol. 44, no. 1, Feb., 2026] Here is our table of contents with links. ALL articles are open access ✅ and ready for download/view.

I think in the US, it's so incredibly uncommon to learn anything meaningful about religion in public school that your mental map of the religious landscape of the entire country is informed by the way religion is lived/practiced/visible in your little world.

ur joking

So honored that my book, White Power: Policing American Slavery, will be the first in the new W. Hodding Carter III trade imprint from @uncpress.bsky.social. For those attending #OAH2026, please join us for a celebration of the new imprint! Pre-order the book here! tinyurl.com/mwcc4977

Me, desperately trying to verify the identity of the man in the document I've been trying to find for at least three years ->😀 A man in 1789, right before he burns down the courthouse that housed the documents that would have verified the family connection -> 😜

I loved curating this with @kawulf.bsky.social. Come by the @jcblibrary.bsky.social, we’re thrilled to welcome you to the exhibit! ☺️

Either I found a record that I've been searching for for years or else it is totally unrelated and everyone has the same name and I!! Think that's!!! Neat!!

Swarthmore‘s collections are invaluable, as are their incredible archives and librarians. Apply apply!

a preliminary survey for the next component of my research: if you're willing to tell me about your connection to the movie/musical 1776... docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

NEW: They Didn’t Want to Have C-Sections. A Judge Would Decide How They Gave Birth. Two Florida women had to attend virtual court hearings while in labor to argue for their right to choose their own medical care. By @amyyurkanin.bsky.social

Rereading The Return of Martin Guerre on the train and once again reacting as if I was present in Toulouse

🧵 On immigration court: In 2017, I observed immigration court and deportation proceedings in Phoenix. The events and results were sad; and the physical space was sterile. Despite this, staff was helpful and judges welcomed observers. Yesterday I brought 9 college students to observe court in NYC.

Lucy Dacus playing: Richmond, I’m coming for you ❤️

I love mess (records from proprietary Carolina)

I have a nine hour train ride ahead of me, which albums have you been listening ly to recently to withstand the horrors?

I'm gutted to be out of town for this, but if you're in Providence next Friday, you should check this out! An excellent opportunity to meditate on the mythos and complexity of 1776. With @kawulf.bsky.social talking about "1776 Across the Americas."

NEW on Commonplace: Beth van Duzer shares the methods she used to locate the historic African American burial sites of Concord, MA. Learn more about van Duzer's efforts in and beyond the archive when the documentary paper trail seemed to go cold. Now live! commonplace.online/article/the-...

many thanks to @brownhist.bsky.social for this video promoting DEAR MISS PERKINS (@kensingtonbooks.bsky.social) just in time for #womenshistorymonth www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsxx...

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.

back from my socials sabbatical because for the past few weeks i've been trying to put down words about how it feels to be trans and see what's been happening at my alma mater, texas a&m university. on being trans, texan, and loving things that can't love you back: www.chron.com/culture/arti...

As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.

What a week www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/u...

True story! Thanks for boosting the JCB’s accessible images, Jenny! We’re working on digital access every day led by @meaghanbrown.bsky.social americana.jcblibrary.org

Power is out. Layers are piled on. My roommate continues her unfailing coverage of 2026 blizzard watch.

Like a beacon in the night, the sound of a totally unbothered calico cat cutting through a nascent panic attack about the wind, yowling at me for her wet food. 😂❤️

Got up early enough to be able to reliably make a cup of hot coffee and holy cow I haven’t experienced wind like this since being a kid in Houston hurricane season.

Deeply upsetting from the school that inspired me to become a professional historian. I can’t imagine what the last decade of my life would have been without UT’s History department. Without the French department, women’s and gender studies, and anthro department, too.

I’ve assembled an elite blizzard-watch team (my calico just hopped into her front window perch).

Happy #pubday to "The Global Age of Revolutions: A History from 1650 to Today," edited @bryanbanksphd.bsky.social and @cindyermus.bsky.social! Redrawing the map and resetting the clock of the Age of Revolutions www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10176/ @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social #skystorians