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.

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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

Knowing I'm going to be in my beloved RVA in one short month to spend the week looking at tax records and tithables and circuit court records....🙂

NEW on Commonplace: In a new essay, Paul Lindholdt sifts through the facts and folklore of one of the most iconic seafaring figures from the late nineteenth-century Pacific Northwest, smuggler Lawrence Kelly. commonplace.online/article/smug...

They are merging AMST with three other departments, effectively shuttering a program that has been in existence for 85 years. www.texastribune.org/2026/02/12/t...

I left my laptop locked up at work on a weekend of unforgiving writing deadlines, so I’d like to offer my thanks yet again to public libraries for the many services they provide, public computer access among them.

As someone who loves Valentine’s Day (sue me!!!), it feels cosmically aligned that my little lady has a heart spot on her back.

Opened the dissertation file for the first time in months and immediately found a typo

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

TOMORROW! Join us in person or via Zoom for Coffee Nation: How One Commodity Transformed the Early United States, a talk by Michelle Craig McDonald. Details and registration here: jcblibrary.org/events/coffe...

Many many many thanks to @woodbrooke.bsky.social for virtually hosting me on the 27th! Going to discuss Quakers, slavery, and early abolitionist strategies in the American South.

"Minneapolis is the home we love with our whole big hurting hearts. A city of lakes, creeks, springs and the big river, Mississippi or Gichii Ziibi in Ojibwe. In my mind, our city is a body, alive and coursing through us, even where sacred streams are sluiced under streets."

Been deep in the North Carolina Manumission Society records lately for an upcoming lecture and keep returning to this anonymous 1820s address recorded in the minutes wherein the author grapples with their past apathy/neutrality ("neutrality" was their word)-

We are most grateful to the @browndailyherald.bsky.social for Ella Piscatello's piece on our new exhibition, "1776 Across the Americas: A Hemispheric History from the Collections of the John Carter Brown Library." Read all about it! www.browndailyherald.com/article/2026...

Everything about trans history (and much LGBTQ+ history) has been erased from government websites since last year this time. See @outhistory.bsky.social @lgbtqhistorya.bsky.social and other groups that have been speaking out and documenting this for a while now. 🗃️ 🏳️‍🌈

Please circulate and share this important resource: thepanorama.shear.org/2025/04/09/t...

I truly cannot stop thinking about the Ann Lee film.

NEW on Commonplace: You may be familiar with the Salem Witch Trials of 1692, but have you heard of Dr. William Griggs? Benjamin Ray examines Griggs's medical context and the role the physician played in setting off the famous witch panic. commonplace.online/article/the-...

Research $$ in peace history, Quaker history and more! Call for applications for research funding @swarthmorecollege.bsky.social Special Collections. www.swarthmore.edu/libraries/re...

Kao Kalia Yang at @literaryhub.bsky.social - "If they take me and leave the children." One of our great local writers at this moment of crisis.

NEW on Commonplace: A historical novel imagines the world of self-taught composer, leather tanner, and Boston Whig, William Billings. In his essay for Commonplace, David Stowe explores the life and works of the man who inspired his most recent writing ventures. commonplace.online/article/writ...

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

A nurse. A researcher. A helper.