It's here! The most wonderful time of year! "I am learning so much from this year’s catalog about how to overthink coffee. My coffeepot doesn’t have a gooseneck-style spout. My coffeemaker certainly doesn’t include a stopwatch for bloom times..." defector.com/the-2025-hat...

Attention scholars: to mark the 20th anniversary of Patrick Wolfe's "Settler Colonialism and the Elimination of the Native," SETTLER COLONIAL STUDIES is soliciting reflections/ critiques for a special issue on Wolfe and his influence. Details below. Please circulate widely!

Such a joy to talk about The Predatory Sea with Karin Wulf as part of the JCB Reads series! 🗃️ youtu.be/Z6VZAD6BBuU?...

Do you do archival research? Do you know anyone who does? Our travel grant is a very easy application and we give $1,500 to come do research onsite in Storrs, CT. Apply! Repost! library.uconn.edu/location/asc...

Hey historians! How many of you have published something with the help of a literary agent? If you have, what did you think of the process? 🗃️

Job - please share widely! Canada Excellence Research Chair in Comparative Democratic Resilience in the Global South. Research focus - grassroots movements, Indigenous sovereignties, and racial justice campaigns contesting and transforming public institutions www.mun.ca/vpacademic/m...

Join us TODAY at 12 p.m. for a virtual discussion of Casey Schmitt's The Predatory Sea, part of JCB Reads. Details at jcblibrary.org/events/jcb-r...

Hey historians! If you need something to help you recover from all of the holiday gluttony tomorrow, I will be chatting about my new book with the incomparable Karin Wulf on Monday 12/1 at noon! 🗃️ jcblibrary.org/events/jcb-r...

Happy 10th birthday to @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social. Kudos to everyone who has worked on it and here's to the next decade!

The forum on Catherine Hall's Lucky Valley comes from an important discussion at the AHA and will be excellent for teaching and discussing this excellent book!

Curious about university press publishing? Want to publish with a university press? #AskUP! University press professionals answer frequently asked publishing questions here: https://bit.ly/3milXtt

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!