Interested in learning more about how curators are bringing the history of Indigenous peoples to the public? Historians Amanda Cobb-Greetham and Scott Manning Stevens interview curators Kathleen Ash-Milby, Jordan Poorman Cocker, and Patricia Marroquin Norby on Indigenous history in museums

Now we're on item 11, social studies TEKS. Motion is to adopt recommendations for K-12, not K-8, which was the original charge for content advisors. Hickman wants to add Earl Rudder (I'm not Texan, but he's a WWII hero and Aggie, apparently?).

The Texas social studies standards revision saga continues!

Gorgeous manicule in this manuscript collection of works by Italian Humanist writers, including Bartolomeo Facio & Giannantonio de’Pandoni (known as Porcellius), written in Italy c. 1450-1500. Given to @theulspeccoll.bsky.social by Stephen Gaselee in 1919 & now MS Add. 6188.

This meeting is STILL going, and Whit is still watching, in case you're still following along and want to know how social studies standards get made in Texas.

I really love the cover of this book.

Okay, we’ve started. Commissioner is offering his opening remarks. Started with praise for the board for doing an unpaid service. Talking about the 2025 Annual Report, “organized around the strategic priorities we have for the state as a whole. Starts with our goal for public education.”

The III Winter Olympics in Lake Placid NY helped kick start a skiing boom in the 🇺🇸 – and a fight to protect the environment in the Adirondacks especially with the construction of the bobsled track #olympics #sporthistory #skystorians 🗃️ digital.la84.org/digital/coll...

Thank you to @historians.org and #AHA26 attendees for another great conference to start the new year! Our AHA website will be up for a few weeks so you still have time to save 40% on our latest History books: www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/a... See you next year in NOLA for #AHA27!

Need a professional headshot for your website or social media profile? Come to Booth 521 in the #AHA26 Exhibit Hall (located in Salon A in the Hilton Chicago) on Saturday from noon to 4 PM and get your photo taken at our complimentary headshot booth!

🚨CfP: Land and Power in the Late Roman World. Deadline: 11 Jan 26, event 29 Jun-1 July 26. Come join the Land & Loyalty team in sunny Tubingen to discuss why land was so important in the late Roman world. ECRs especially solicited! research.st-andrews.ac.uk/landloyalty/...

Just launched: @ceuropeanhistory.bsky.social's new blog featuring the projects of recipients of its annual research & travel grants. Check it out: tinyurl.com/2afay4ct . PS: Applications for the 2026 grants are still being accepted until January 15 (tinyurl.com/695jr4cm). Apply now!

SLAC historians coming to #AHA26: come join our pre-conference workshop on Thursday morning! We also have a Friday afternoon session on navigating times of crisis and an interactive Saturday morning session, "Hands-On History."

My first AHA annual meeting was Chicago 2019 (the before-times!) I was teaching a 4/4 load, so I attended a lot of the teaching sessions, and also non-teaching focused sessions about topics I just wanted to learn more about. I learned a lot and met some really interesting people! #AHA26

The #AHR December 2025 issue is now online. The issue features articles on postcolonial Korea, transportation history, and revisiting the “Comfort Girls” of Report 49, as well as a diverse collection of History Lab works on Indigenous history, retrodiction, and museum exhibit curation. 🗃️

The December 2025 issue of the American Historical Review is now available online: academic.oup.com/ahr/issue/13...

Also, the literal day and time of the course! Does this elective satisfy whatever requirements AND it’s on the day I don’t have volleyball practice? Sign me up.

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#AHA26 will feature a number of workshops for attendees. These professional development opportunities include chances to get feedback on proposals or assignments, present your research at a lightning round, or get experience with a new teaching resource. 🗃️

Academics, we’re curious: Where do you discover most of the titles that end up on your syllabus?

I've always been grateful for the fact-checking skills I learned at @joursouhist.bsky.social but now more than ever! 😬 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

If you are planning to be at #AHA26 in Chicago and you're at a liberal arts college, please consider attending the workshop developed by our Working Group on Small Liberal Arts Colleges. This is a great group of people & the workshop just gets better every year: aha.confex.com/aha/2026/web...

National Airport -- DC's official observation location -- picked up 0.3 inches of snow through 7 a.m. with steady snow continuing. It's the earliest accumulation in a season since 2018 and nearly three weeks early for first. Details as the event unfolds at cwg.live.

We’re thrilled to share that 6 Ohio University Press titles have recently earned top honors from leading scholarly organizations, including the African Studies Association, the American Historical Association, and others. Here's a rundown: www.ohio.edu/news/2025/12... #AfricanStudies

NWS has issued a Winter Weather Advisory for DC's far N&W burbs late Mon-midday Tue, including northern Fauquier, western Loudoun, Frederick and Carroll counties, where a wintry mix looks to create slippery roads mainly 4-11am Tue. Full forecast at cwg.live

That feeling when you’re watching the Ken Burns American Revolution documentary, and that eternal “but what about the Caribbean” question starts bubbling up in your head… and then BAM! Vincent Brown is on your screen, telling you about the Caribbean.

I'm only gonna dive in here to say that we can't rank, because we'll never know, because we were denied #TheHuntForBenSolo

"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe

I've been working on this project for months and I'm extremely excited to be able to offer this preview of our findings. We now know more than we've ever known about the public history workforce. More at the link below, and more detailed reports, infographics, and programming to come in 2026.

In case you were wondering how social studies standards get made, (in Texas at least) this thread is full of the nitty gritty details. Also, someone needs to order @drwhit.bsky.social a pizza.

How do books get to booksellers' shelves? Davida Breier, Director of Hopkins Fulfillment Services explains Everything You Never Wanted to Know About Book Distribution, but Were Afraid to Ask — a guest post at Feeding the Elephant! tinyurl.com/e75p9hmk

You can't beat the low price of free.

See upweek.up.hcommons.org/celebrate/un... for more details!

It's Friday night baby

The newest episode of #HistoryinFocus looks at the recent special edition of the #AHR's History Unclassified—"Mistakes I Have Made." @danieljstory.bsky.social speaks with the History Unclassified editors Kate Brown and Emily Callaci and nine contributors to the issue. Listen at the link. 🗃️

Again, your mostly non-profit mostly uni press humanities publishers are not the thing making a wreckage of scholarly publishing. Paying for their work is a good thing, and we should keep doing that.

This is a very cool opportunity for anyone looking to get into the world of history podcasting!

Proud to show off some of our WHA award-winning journal articles: Arrington-Prucha Prize from CALIFORNIA HISTORY "Born-Again Boogie: Christian Nightclub Experiments in California, 1970–1990" tinyurl.com/cubpkh2r Eric Gonzaba

When the new books just keep on coming:

H-Material Culture seeks applications for a Book Reviews editor, to start in November 2025. Interested applicants should send a CV and short letter of interest to [email protected] #MaterialCulture

This January, @danieljstory.bsky.social, Alexandra Levy, and I are once again co-leading @historians.org's Sinclair Podcast Workshops. Do you have a history pod idea you want to vet with a small group? Pitch us for Developmental Conversations! Deadline 12/1/25. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Hey historians 🗃: have you published in the AHR? How was your experience? Is it worth the extra rigamarole? I have an article I'm working on that might be a good fit, and I'm no longer under the gun for tenure. What should I know about the process?

The September 2025 issue of the American Historical Review is live! academic.oup.com/ahr/issue/13...

Starting a new cross stitch pattern this weekend, based on a 17th century Norwegian wall hanging.

Registration for our free Texas Conference on Introductory History Courses, October 24–25, at the University of Texas at Dallas, is open now. Join us for thought-provoking discussions about introductory history courses and student success in Texas.

Beautiful day at Soldier's Delight

very much saddened to learn that bucknell university press will be closing. they took a chance on my first book when other presses said it was too short or too narrowly focused on minor authors. www.chronicle.com/blogs/letter...

"The most popular new student choices of major reinforce the importance of foundational humanities disciplines, while the breadth of majors among all enrolled students seems to reflect a broadening of interests over time" bit.ly/4fFmCkZ

“The future of doctoral education in many humanities fields in the United States is bleak. We must find practical ways to fight austerity, help PhD students thrive when academic jobs are scarce, and engage them in the urgent mission of attracting the next generation of undergraduates” bit.ly/3JeNIDk

To me, this is Digital Humanities