Seneca Creek State Park on a toasty spring day.

Delighted to share #HistoryLab on Traveling Histories of Abortion in the American Historical Review! So grateful to work with @drlmmurillo.bsky.social, Lynn M. Thomas, Natalie L. Kimball, and Sarah Mellors Rodriguez: @historians.org academic.oup.com/ahr/article/...

Humbled by this new review of my monograph in the American Historical Review (131/1), written by Isabel Moreira. academic.oup.com/ahr/article-... #MedievalSky

🌸PEAK BLOOM IS HERE!🌸 Metro’s the best way to get to the cherry blossoms. Smithsonian station is a 10 min. walk to the Tidal Basin and walking from L’Enfant Plaza or Federal Triangle will get you there in about 20 minutes. You can also catch the D50!

The March 2026 issue of the American Historical Review is live: academic.oup.com/ahr

The registration deadline for the annual AHA department chairs workshop is approaching: www.historians.org/opportunity/...

Everyday I see cool book related things, but this is probably one of the coolest things I've seen?! wow

The 2026 SMH Conference is almost here! I’m looking forward to another insightful and engaging gathering as we return to Arlington, VA. Excited to connect, learn, and share with colleagues from across the field. Check out the 2026 SMH Conference program here: smh-hq.org/docs/SMH2026...

The JCB invites tribal communities and community members to apply to its Research Fellowship for Indigenous Communities. This fellowship supports community-prioritized and community-based research that would benefit from research time in the JCB’s collections. More at jcblibrary.org/fellowships/...

Please share! EHR is hosting a free one-day symposium at St John's College, Oxford, on Friday 17 April, 10-6, on the theme 'When there are no sources'. Further details and how to sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/when-there...

Me yesterday vs me today.

How much coffee is too much? Today I might find out.

On 2/11, the AHA will host a Congressional Briefing offering historical perspectives on vaccines. Panelists Elena Conis, David M. Oshinsky, Michael Willrich, & moderator Sarah Weicksel will discuss how public perception & the role of the federal government in vaccination has changed over time. 🗃️

Todays is #BadBunnyDay and a good moment to read my book review in the @historians.org’s AHR!!! It contrasts Bad 🐰’s #Dtmf album with a legal history of #PuertoRico book:

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.