Quyaana for the podcast interview @herberthistory.bsky.social ! I had a blast during this interview chatting about Alaska, Indigenous history, and war 🗃️ #Alaskasky #skystorians

Una noticia terrible. Nunca tuve el gusto de conocerlo en vivo pero aprendí mucho de lo que compartió él en Twitter, aquí y en su sitio web (www.raulpacheco.org/resources/). QEPD.

#TBT to a viral tweet on this matter. The reply thread had some great (if mortifying) stories.

We are deeply sorry to learn of the death of anthropologist and poet Renato Rosaldo, author of "The Day of Shelly's Death" and "The Chasers." buff.ly/dX7W4ZH

Congrats, Rachel! Looking forward to reading—and #OpenAccess to boot! 🗃📚🇲🇽

Near-record heat is surging into the D.C. area 🌡️ Highs hit the 90s today (Monday) through Wednesday — likely mid- to upper 90s Tuesday with record highs in jeopardy. Humidity also creeping up. Then? A dramatic cooldown. Latest forecast + timing: cwg.live Photo by Jeanne Stuart McVey

I had an article out recently on the complex ways in which ‘post-colonial’ (archaeological) knowledge moved, the conditions that allowed it, and why it’s important to finally move beyond that old Bruce Trigger article characterising types of archaeological work: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

AHHH still in disbelief... I'm on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social as GUEST talking about my BOOK from @ucpress.bsky.social! Take a listen to my conversation with the venerable Dr. Miranda Melcher for a sneak preview before official publication day next week! newbooksnetwork.com/the-future-i...

Thank you for featuring! This book with @ucpress.bsky.social officially launches in less than one week on 19 May! When it does, you can read for free thanks to Luminos Open Access!

Students, if you’re thinking about dropping a note to that teacher or professor about what their class/project/mentorship has meant to you, but you worry it will be cringe or cheesy, let me just tell you they will coast on the fuzzy feelings prompted by that note for months, if not years

Every time I teach the MOVE bombing, students are shocked. And when I teach the aftermath involving an anthropologist who hoarded some of the remains and used them as teaching tools, they are even more shocked. And I teach in Pennsylvania. Even some students from Philly are unaware of this history

FWIW this isn’t about effects on scholarship so much as ppl. It’s ridiculous to req scholars to generate a book-length argument that other scholars say makes an original contribution to a specialized field AND is deemed marketable enough to whomever to merit publication w/in a set window of time.

lamenting that i have to cut this paragraph. such drama!!! who needs "net-flix" when you have administrative correspondence???

Nika! Now this is why you support the @acls1919.bsky.social, @historians.org and MLA! Hell yeah. Judgement (all 143 pages) here: www.acls.org/wp-content/u...

I post a lot about my own writing, but I hope folks know I'm also the senior acquiring editor for Lever Press, an open access publisher funded by 50+ universities across the US, UK, and Europe. All our books are OA, no author fees, $1000 honorarium for your book, born digital, affordable print.

You may not immediately associate Reddit with academic rigor, but @askhistorians.bsky.social is changing that 🔥 We sat down with @dhowlett1692.bsky.social to talk about the subreddit, AMA's, public scholarship, combating misinformation online, and more! 👇 open.substack.com/pub/uncpress...

New publication from the BHA! Check out Tim Murray's "The Historiography of Prehistoric Archaeology in Britain: A Brief Outline," just published online and #OpenAccess: archaeologybulletin.org/articles/10....

In honor of me reading all of these thesis proposals, what was *your* senior thesis about?

It's always great when you see your @hahr21.bsky.social article in print. Even better when they put your article's image on the cover! Sofía Pachas Maceda and I wrote the article to be accessible - please consider using it in LatAm history, gender history, labor history, history of tech.

One of our main goals at The 51st is to make D.C. an easier place to live. One way to do that is by explaining stuff that is otherwise confusing, mystifying, or intentionally opaque! What do you want to know more about? What can we help you understand? Let us know:

literally every day my wife or I go outside with our daughter people go out of their way to be friendly, offer aid or a kind word, no matter where we've traveled. it's nice to remember that hostility as default mode of interaction is not destiny, much as it benefits some to pretend it is

Anyone have a good ethnography/history of private equity (or family offices or similar) intra-organizational dynamics as distinct from the big banks? Obviously love Liquidated for the latter. Have Applebaum & Batt for the former but want more.

Happy to support Blood Cancer United today! pages.lls.org/voy/nca/dcme...

Is there a classic rederence for thinking about military history from a labor history perspective? "War workers" and so on? 🗃️

🇬🇧#PortfolioDay I'm Rafael Mena, Mexican archaeologist and illustrator doing Mesoamerican stuff, among others. 🇲🇽#PortfolioDay Soy Rafael Mena, arqueólogo mexicano e ilustrador de cosas mesoamericanas, entre otras. 📧 [email protected] #art #Painting #indigenous

I’m absolutely heartbroken to learn that my alma mater is shutting down after nearly six decades. Hampshire College was one of the most innovative institutions in higher education.😢

the footnote or in-text citation is a rhetorical device giving your argument credence. If you can’t be sure of the citation, it isn’t rhetorically useful.

Hey historians 🗃️ : what's your favorite microhistory, and why?

Resonance (UC Press) is looking for humanities research across the following topics: Sound in Political Crisis, Sound and Social Justice, Experiments in Sound, Sound Archives and Preservation, and we're convening a permanent series that'll examine "Film and Cinema Sound" this Fall. Please circulate!

Your humble servant has a written a book about the social science of poverty in Cold War Latin America and the contexts that shaped its creation, from international sources like the Ford Foundation to dictatorships across the region. The book is in production and will be ready at the end of 2026

Just recorded an interview for @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social & feeling a lot of appreciation for this space to read, chat, and share books that mean a lot to me. Yay for NBN! If you've considered hosting podcasts for NBN & you want to know more about it from a host (since 2019), feel free to DM 💙

Here's a quick convo about my book Box 25: Archival Secrets, Caribbean Workers, and the Panama Canal from LaborOnline: lawcha.org/2026/03/11/j... The book works great in classes on historical method, Labor or Immigration history, etc.. LMK if you'd like me to join a class using the book, via Zoom!

Around 7 AM during the spring equinox, for instance, the sun rising over the Cerro illuminates the Pyramid of the Niches in a descending zig-zag pattern, body by body and minute by minute. For a moment, the Pyramid of the Niches is the only fully-illuminated building at the site. 9/10

This is an open-source journal for which I served as guest editor December 2025. Volume 48, Issue 3, 2025 Pyroepistemology: Reclaiming Knowledge, Histories, Lands, Relations Ihttps://escholarship.org/uc/aicrj

Ya mero! Por si les interese, saldrá en YouTube aquí: www.youtube.com/live/k_JoCn6...

I enjoyed this book as well--it was one of the first books I read to prep for a @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast! Sharing our conversation from 2019... newbooksnetwork.com/christina-ji...

If you aren't keeping up with the Iditarod this year, here is a good reason to: Four mushers are Alaskan Native: Kevin Hansen, Inupiaq; Ryan Redington, Inupiaq; Kaiser, Yup’ik; and Jody Potts-Joseph. Another, Jesse Terry, Anishinabe, is Indigenous from Canada. #Uglydogs ictnews.org/news/iditaro...

Estaré en el Colmex en la semana que entra para presentar mi libro, In the Shadow of El Tajín: The Political Economy of Archaeology in Modern Mexico. Será un honor contar con los comentarios de las Dras. Sandra Rozental y Miruna Achim.

Working with sensitive archives or difficult histories? Join us next week for a workshop on “Methodological Approaches to the Margins of Violence.” Book via the link here: www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...

Today my book (The Limits of Revolution: Worker Citizens in a Bolivian Mining City) comes out from the @utexaspress.bsky.social, so I thought I'd share a little snippet from my conclusion that I am very proud of.

+1 for academic writing. word's voice-to-text is also useful for this.

I am teaching Mexican political philosophy in six months time. I will be on the look out for primary texts, especially those with english translation available. If you have materials you are willing to share, please be in touch. Thanks!

Mexico has denounced the planned sale on eBay of 195 archaeological pieces and demanded that the auction by an eBay user in Orlando, Florida, identified as “Coins Artifacts,” return the objects to Mexico. mexiconewsdaily.com/news/culture...

My book has a cover! IN LATIN AMERICA YOU COULD BE FREE: AN AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY tells the story of the place and promise of Latin America in the political imagination of African Americans and of their movements to the region in the antebellum period. Out on Basic Books, November 11, 2026! 🥳

One good bit of advice I got in grad school: treat reviewers' comments as symptoms, and figure out how to best address the cause yourself.

Academic friends: I'm hosting a campus discussion today with real talk about the the scholarly publishing process/pipeline, and would love to share some "in the trenches" wisdom: what is something you know now about the process that you wish you'd known as a first-year/early-career academic?

It Only Tuesday https://theonion.com/it-only-tuesday-1819569397/

Hey skystorians and Native studies 👋 American Philosophical Society has an a fantastic grant funding program through the Phillips Fund for Native American research. This fund has supported me several times for Alaska oral history research I’m helping to get the word out to apply by March 2! 🗃️