For your reading pleasure (if you’d like to spend your July Fourth holiday reading about a few folks who were not feeling very celebratory 250 years ago):

New Episode: "What did the American Revolution actually achieve? What did it inspire on a global basis?" Dr. Patrick Griffin discusses Charles Cornwallis and the subtle ways "imperfect people in the past try to do what they can to manage unstable contexts." podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

The episode in which @sheahendry.bsky.social and I convince Eliga Gould to promote our nonexistent 6-part podcast series on the Jay Treaty 😶‍🌫️🙌

An interview with a historian who set out to weave a textile of the type that would have been sold to plantations for use by enslaved people, using period equipment. www.publicbooks.org/cloth-and-co...

A group, led by Gates Cambridge Scholars, is helping Palestinian students navigate the admissions processes of universities across the world. Find out more here - www.gatescambridge.org/about/news/s... #gaza #education @uniofcam.bsky.social @gatesfoundation.bsky.social

James A. Dun shares a record of 4,428 discrete voyages between Philadelphia and a variety of Dominguan/Haitian ports for scholars to explore. Click for Dun's introduction to the project (with a BONUS StoryMap!) ageofrevolutions.com/2025/04/28/a...

Let them eat space

Bluesky community - I’m raising rapid-release funds to help Congolese friends with emergency evacuation and subsistence support in Bukavu and Goma. Many have lost work and access to aid, not least b/c of USAID gutting. Please give what you can & re-share this post! www.gofundme.com/f/emergency-...