This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

Friends, again with respect because this is a complex issue: children born to citizens of tribal governments do not have constitutional birthright citizenship under many, if not most forms of constitutional argument and authority (incl. Supreme Court precedent relied upon in this case)./1

It’s kinda hilarious how Trump killed April fool’s day. Everything is terrible. Every day a new horror. No one is in the mood and nobody is surprised by anything anymore.

Sorry. Another ask. Historians of women: I'm interested in showing my bb US women's history the breadth of what our subfield makes possible. If you're moved, I'd love to hear the question that motivated (one of) your research project(s)

🗃️ Happy #RTL Day! Glad to chat with @smithsonianmag.bsky.social about Abigail Adams’ words alongside many thoughtful scholars including @cgoodhistorian.bsky.social www.smithsonianmag.com/history/abig...

Nobody can hold a grudge for 70 years like a Brooklyn Dodgers fan can. www.newyorker.com/sports/sport...

US viewers: PBS will show this two-part doc on the American Revolution on April 7 & 14. (It will air on BBC later, too.) I acted as a consultant on it (and make a brief on-screen appearance). I met Lucy Worsley and the Stamp Act on the same day last summer. www.pbs.org/about/about-...

Blueskis, it’s publication day for THE WESTERNERS! I don’t have a photo or a fun video because I am a Very Bad Author and forgot to pack a copy for this trip to Montana. So if you have a copy of the book, please post a photo of it (with kiddos or pets, preferably) below! More to follow …. 📚🤓🤠

HAPPENING SOON! Tune into our discussion about Common Sense and more with Boston University Professor Joe Rezek, part of our new series The Revolution Is News! Today at 4 p.m. here: brown.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Right, simply entertaining this challenge as if it's remotely legitimate is already discrediting. If there's a single vote to end birthright citizenship, we need to take this Supreme Court apart with sledgehammers and start over.

The Admin wants you to forget the history of why birthright citizenship is in the Constitution. Here's the history of birthright citizenship and consequences for under-classes of people, particularly imported enslaved people, who lacked citizenship. By @garrettepps.bsky.social

Gemini completely fabricated the existence of a file and *case number* for a 1971 discrimination suit I’m researching. I know this isn’t news, but I wonder if archivists are seeing more requests for non-existent records?

Okay …… The American Revolution was a good thing.

Indications are that the thieves left no impression behind. www.nbcnews.com/world/europe...

I knew *exactly* which contract this piece would be about just from the description and preview pane in the skeet.

i think this is exactly right and it is part of what i was trying to get at last week when i wrote about the narcissism of the president and his allies. they fundamentally do not believe other people are real, and do not understand the decisions they make.

Next week "at" the JCB, we have two virtual events! First, Boston University Professor Joe Rezek will discuss Common Sense and more with JCB Director Karin Wulf on 3/31 at 4 p.m. And JCB Reads continues with a discussion of Katharine Gerber's book Archival Interruptions. More at jcblibrary.org!

With a foreword by Russell Shorto, FIRE AND FREEDOM, edited by Thomas S. Wermuth, Devin Lander and Robert Chiles, shows that events off the battlefield were just as meaningful as the fighting itself. #EarlyAmerica #History Order this book here: https://ow.ly/LlsF50XJsgY

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The humanities are absolutely vital to a functioning democratic society.

HOLY SHIT UCONN

CBS turned their news operation into propaganda, kicked Colbert off the air for making too much trouble, and all that just to have Charles Barkley go on the air on one of their most-watched telecasts of the year and say this lmao

Dammit, UConn. I’m *thisclose* to making an unlikely comeback in my bracket pool but I need your help.

Both Lindor and Soto made contact but unfortunately they hit the ball a combined distance of 80 feet.

If the estimates were right, there were about 9 million people at No Kings rallies today. That would mean this protest was THIRTY TIMES AS LARGE AS THE TEA PARTY PROTEST which we were told, over and over again, was a massively important sign that US politics had shifted dramatically to the right

Online leftists: It's just a bunch of wine moms. They aren't doing enough. Media: Bunch of wine moms. It's ineffective. Meanwhile: Wine moms out there creating community, gathering people together, exposing them to other orgs, giving them opportunities to hear about new ideas. Holding it down.

friends near pvd: join #Brown2026 and Discovery Through Dialogue for Cross Talk: A Whole Campus, Distinct Disciplines Approach @jcblibrary.bsky.social on Fri. April 3, 2026, at 5pm. this first Cross Talk is about Labor, moderated by @sethrockman.bsky.social docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

📣 New historical data visualization! "How Fast Was the Mail?" is an interactive map showing how long information took to travel across the US between 1882-1908: cblevins.github.io/mail-time/ +

My book, *In Dependence*, is newly out in paperback, and @nyupress.bsky.social is celebrating Women's History Month by offering 30% off related titles. That means you can snag a copy for only $21! (use code HOLIDAY at checkout) nyupress.org/978147984231...

6/5 Morning update: I think the Senate passage of partial funding is a good thing. Congress is taking responsibility for this, not letting Trump do it unilaterally. I hope the House will follow suit.

1/ It's not just that unilaterally paying TSA agents is illegal. It's that Trump has now repeatedly undermined the core of the congressional power of the purse. He's not spending money that has been appropriated by law (impoundments) and he's spending money that has not been appropriated.

I’ve already had my first colonoscopy and it still bothers me to learn that Jodie Sweetin is now the appropriately-aged spokesperson for colon cancer screening. Anyway, if you were the right age to have grown up with DJ and Stephanie, it’s time to get a colonoscopy.

All the quirks of a capital-E Event, even one that was streamed, would have been forgivable if, putting aside all the pomp and circumstance, the broadcaster had not been actively at war with the concept of showing a baseball game.

It’s infuriating, but also just so depressing. *No one* in charge of any part of our educational infrastructure seems to understand why it’s important for people to…read things that are difficult.

Carson Benge! #LGM

Holy shit the Mets drove Skenes out in the first inning.

Baseball is wild. The Mets signed big bats for the top of their lineup and start with: Walk Bloop single Sac fly Infield single (Yeah yeah, facing Paul Skenes that’s pretty good!)

They know there are other play-by-play guys than Matt Vasgersian, right? Or did he lose a bet about having to redeye from San Francisco to New York? #MLBOpeningDay

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Absolutely thrilled to report that the Board of Governors at @uncpress.bsky.social have approved my book THE RACIALIZATION OF PRINT for publication by @oieahc.bsky.social. Forthcoming, early 2027.

I had the pleasure of talking with @theotherrbg.bsky.social about 1776 and if you know me, you know that as soon as I closed the Zoom window I put the overture on.

My favorite part of this article is about halfway through when the reporter interviews Stephanie Coontz, renowned historian of families, presumably for context. And instead ends up with quotes about how she does exactly the same thing to her adult son. www.bustle.com/life/boomer-...

Elizabeth Banks

Why are there still three and a half hours before the first MLB games?! #OpeningDay

OPENING DAY!!! 🗣️🗣️🗣️

One year later, it’s another big box of books day (paperback edition)

Thanks to a generous grant from the Henry Luce Foundation, SHEAR is launching the SHEAR Civics Exchange initiative and seeking an outreach coordinator to serve as the point person for the project. Applications are due April 24. More information here: thepanorama.shear.org/2026/03/23/s....

What the original Polo Grounds looked like before its demolition, at the end of the 1888 season, to cut a street (111th) through? Diagram from the New York Sun, February 9, 1889.

With the MLB regular season upon us, I return to the age-old question: What's your favorite baseball podcast? I still have lots of driving to do this spring/summer and have never quite been satisfied with what I've found. So please share!

It was an honor to work with these contributors and our friends at The William and Mary Quarterly on this joint special issue. Early American historians and legal historians more generally will see how these essays offer a new methodological challenge to well-trod historiographical terrain.