A collection of more than 1,100 napkins are being preserved in perpetuity alongside documents from the Founding Fathers and tomes dating to the 15th century. The collection offers a window into decades of American history and social change.

Thrilled to announce our CFP for a new LCP–APS conference on the long history of Black declarations of independence. Presenters will focus on one document to keep the work publicly accessible Please spread the word! librarycompany.org/academic-pro...

I'm honored that my article, "Policing Venereal Disease at Fort Huachuca, 1941-1945," published in the Journal of Military History, won the 2025 Nupur Chaudhuri First Article Prize from the Coordinating Council for Women in History.

Jasmine Ray, who served at City Hall in a $160,000-a-year job, had an undisclosed romance with Eric Adams years before he became New York City’s mayor. In her memoir, she describes their relationship.

By placing activism against state violence at the center of the civil rights story, @joshuaclarkdavis.bsky.social's Police Against the Movement offers critical insight into the power of political resistance in the face of government attacks on protest. Out Oct 7: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

"Natalie Shibley's innovative article 'Policing Venereal Disease at Fort Huachuca, 1941–1945' provides a window onto an important and understudied area of U.S. history, contributing to our understanding of the history of African Americans in World War II and of the U.S. Army."

More great reading for you today!One of our editors @nshibley.bsky.social has written a fantastic piece on legal challenges to the trans military ban time.com/7216460/figh...

I wrote this for Time on the history of legal challenges to the ban on trans military personnel: time.com/7216460/figh...

Piggly Wiggly has known this since 1916

Many thanks to @bostonreview.bsky.social for publishing this adapted excerpt from my book, THE INTERNAL COLONY: RACE AND THE AMERICAN POLITICS OF GLOBAL DECOLONIZATION -- which is out now from @uchicagopress.bsky.social!

The Pentagon has agreed to settle a class action lawsuit involving about 35,000 LGBTQ+ veterans that will help them get benefits like health care and disability.

The companion to our book list, our journal article list has 27 nifty pieces written by historians working off the tenure track. Many of them are open access!

Our sixth annual list of books by historians working off the tenure track.

A prime opportunity to procure Ordering the Human: The Global Spread of Racial Science cup.columbia.edu/book/orderin...