This is a really amazing piece worth reading from a grad school friend and director of publications at the AHA, @lmansley.bsky.social!

When director of publications @lmansley.bsky.social left her graduate program, she gave up her dream of publishing her dissertation as a book. In #AHAPerspectives, she shares how she found ways to continue her historical work outside academia and fulfill her publishing goals. 🗃️

Grading essays in the age of AI is truly gutting. Before you ask, yes, I did all the recommended things to prevent AI use and yet... What does it mean when we can no longer teach critical thought through writing?

Spread the word to your colleagues! 2 weeks left to send in your applications.

"The coursework and ideas at the heart of a humanities-based education provides leaders with the raw materials we use under pressure: judgment, ethics, story, listening, resilience and the craft of clear communication." bit.ly/4nsS7ko

The government of Jamaica has set up a portal for contributing to official relief efforts. I will update this thread if anything analogous opens up for Haiti, Cuba, or the DR supportjamaica.gov.jm

Applications for FEEGI's April 2026 at Rutgers University are due in two days, on 10/30! Don't sleep on the deadline. See you in the spring! @csschmitt.bsky.social #earlymodern #EarlyAmerica #historians

I know it's a silly algorithm run by a terrible, evil corporation, but what an incredible cohort of books for the "customers also bought" alongside The Predatory Sea! Gobsmacked is putting it lightly...

Bodleian Library, Sassoon Visiting Fellowship in South Asian and Black History for the 2026-2027 academic year. It's a great scheme, with a deadline of 28 November 2025. Check it and Bodley's other visiting fellowships out here.

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Share widely! We are now accepting paper and panel proposals for our 2026 Annual Conference in Ireland at Maynooth University taking place 25-27 June 2026! The submission deadline is 14 November 2025, and you can read more information on our website! frenchcolonial.org/annual-meeti...

If you're bored tonight around 7pm EST, join Jessica Chopin Roney and I for a conversation about The Predatory Sea! 🗃️ librarycompany.org/events/fires...

Next week! librarycompany.org/upcoming-fir...

The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Notre Dame seeks a tenure-track assistant professor who specializes in Afro Latin America. joblist.mla.org/job/2000392/...

Very excited for this book! Congratulations @mbarcia24.bsky.social !!!

Read an excerpt from “The Predatory Sea: Human Trafficking and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean” by @csschmitt.bsky.social. @pennpress.bsky.social www.hnn.us/article/free...

THIS is going to be a game changer! 🎉🎉🎉 June 2026 can't come fast enough! 🗃️

ACH meeting location announced for this summer!!! All you Caribbean historians, I'll see you in Jamaica soon! 🗃️

What's more fun than reading several hundred pages of this? 🫣

Louisiana has to build three new natural gas power plants to accommodate the "AI" data center that Meta just crammed through because said center will use *Three Times* as much electricity (and, thus, attendant resources) as the *Entire City Of New Orleans*, every year. Y'all this isn't sustainable.

My department is hiring! We seek to hire an Assistant Professor in Global Black Geographies whose work engages "with the spatial dimensions of life in African and/or Black diasporic communities in the Global South". Job ad with more details: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05026

A nice cocktail to celebrate the end of a long road! 🗃️

Now updated with more links (thanks to everyone who suggested new material!) and with the years that each article was published. catherinedenial.org/blog/uncateg...

As promised, the NNI Seminar schedule is here! Visit www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/programs/sch... for all of the details. Please remember that we're happy to see you whenever it fits into your schedule to attend.

Studying the sixteenth century is fun... 😭 🗃️

My Far Side calendar struck a little close to the bone today... 😂

#PublishingJob Acquisitions Editor University of Tennessee Press Knoxville, TN salary band: $50K-$90K 👇

This is actually happening! 😊 The Predatory Sea featured alongside some great titles, like Jordan Smith's The Invention of Rum. Thank you, @pennpress.bsky.social! 🗃️

Fantastic news out of Tucson! None of this is inevitable. Not "AI", not data centers, not the surrendering of public water resources, not the handing over of electrical grid priorities to big tech. azluminaria.org/2025/08/06/t...

I for one welcome the clarity that the new AHA guidance on GenAI has brought to the debate.

We're recruiting for a new role in the Early Modern team at TNA to help us integrate the Parliamentary Archives. I'm looking for someone with an expertise in pre-modern Westminster Parliament so we can join the executive, legislative and judicial collections www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOD893/r...

There's a discount code for pre-orders! If you've always wanted to read about sixteenth- and seventeenth-century smuggling, piracy, and human trafficking in the Caribbean AND you love a good deal, use: PENN-CSCHMITT30 for 30% off. 🗃️ www.pennpress.org/978151282814...

Don't experiment with LLM-based so-called AI. People are losing work & the infoscape is being poisoned. Don't help subsidize that, even indirectly, by adding to the user numbers that help these companies raise venture capital to make the world worse. @sathnam.bsky.social writes: 1/n

PUBLICATION DAY! _I Have Avenged America: Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Haiti's Fight for Freedom_ is now available from @yalepress.bsky.social To celebrate, I am going to post some of the most extraordinary Dessalines quotations below! yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

To help you clear the bases (and your wish list), we've compiled this #readinglist of recently published baseball books and forever best sellers. Save 40% on these titles and more during our Baseball Sale!

This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?

Insurrect! is soliciting writers for Imagining Survival, which will examine the emotions of survival in our present through pre-1900 contexts in the Americas and Atlantic. We invite nuanced and accessible reflections on communal care, solidarity, and courage amidst violence. Submit by June 20th!

NEW: After a Brown doctor was deported, university officials advise students, staff to postpone international travel via @bostonglobe.com www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/17/m...

About that part where it’s not a constitutional crisis until the government disobeys a court order…

It has a cover! I am so excited to have The Predatory Sea: Human Trafficking and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean coming out September 2025 with @pennpress.bsky.social! 🗃️

Civil War historians! The deadline for the Center for Civil War Research's Wiley-Silver Prize (Friday, 2/21) approaches! If you published your first book this year on a topic related to the CW, please submit! As @mkn.bsky.social reminds us all, authors, make sure your press has nominated you!

The AHA & the @oah.org have released a joint statement on the presidential executive order “Ending Radical Indoctrination in K–12 Schooling.” “We reject the premise that it is ‘anti-American’ or ‘subversive’ to learn the full history of the United States.” 🗃️

Neither the public or the tech giants pushing artificial intelligence understand its long-term implications, warns former Google CEO Eric Schmidt.

Hey early Americanists/Caribbeanists/Atlanticists! If you're in the Philadelphia area this weekend, join PEAES for a discussion of where the field has been and where it's going! 🗃️ Please share widely: librarycompany.org/academic-pro...

Watch AHA President Thavolia Glymph (Duke Univ.) deliver her presidential address, "Paper Tracings in the Spectacularly Boisterous Archive of Slavery,” at #AHA25. 🗃️

ME: *writing in my journal with the sole aim of pissing off future historians and archaeologists* I returned to my home - which is built in the usual style - by the normal way, and prepared and ate dinner in the way I often but not always do

Hey early Americanists/Caribbeanists/Atlanticists! If you're in the Philadelphia area Feb. 7-8, join PEAES for a discussion of where the field has been and where it's going! 🗃️ Please share widely: librarycompany.org/academic-pro...