In honor of Juneteenth explore the Huntington Library's slavery and abolition collection. #history #earlymodern #huntingtonlibrary #juneteenth #abolition #slavery hdl.huntington.org/digital/coll...

Just a note that if your administrative staff are the ones who “really run the department/university” they should be paid more than you.

I am *thrilled* to share that we are hiring again! A tenure track job in early modern literature! I’ve found Wesleyan a terrific place to work—help us spread the word? wesleyan.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/career...

Over 730 words today, mostly dealing with "The Compleat Servant-Maid" which doesn't appear to be Hannah Wolley's work (despite widespread attribution). I appreciate the focus on preparing women for employment and domestic skills, including handwriting and accounting. In print for ages!

L’Italien Carlo Ginzburg, figure fondatrice de la microhistoire, est mort

Thanks! Link: arxiv.org/abs/2508.02740

This entire thread shows the self-immolation coming out of "working with GenAI".

I went down a history of wallpaper rabbit hole for half an hour. Still totally worthwhile, as the piecemeal papering described by Hannah Wolley in "A Supplement to the Queen-Like Closet" is quite distinct from the joined sheets starting to dominate. Also sounds a lot more creative!

Yes, I'm sure the work of a woman who [checks notes] wrote anti-HUAC pamphlets, had her husband jailed for refusing to testify before HUAC, & whose early US work grew out of having the FBI confiscate her passport to travel overseas was entirely NOT political. 🧐 🤔 www.history.utoronto.ca/node/4594

In case you missed it yesterday...

Look what came in the mail today! I'm excited to explore the worlds of Endearment.

I know the discourse is over and I already weighed in elsewhere but it is actually important to me that y’all know that Zotero isn’t AI. It just isn’t, even under an expansive definition.

I get why this seems great & on principle, I agree. I've seen the rampant phone addiction amongst kids & it's frankly jarring. And that's not even talking about the exploitation. But play that out - It would mean giving your ID to people notorious for dogshit infosec. It would be a nightmare!

Fake testimonials from fake doctors with stock footage from a company that produces news-slop? Approved by Ontario ✅ Also fittingly housed at a university tech incubator, which are gullible marks for this kind of thing.

782 words added to the chapter. 1468 words transcribed from a primary source. That's a good day's writing work on top of several complex advising emails (half in French). Time to move onto the second reader task? *Proofs materialize in my inbox*

Pippin's got it made in the shade.

b. gazing heavenward begging silently for death

if faculty don’t control curriculum, it’s not actually a university. it’s just expensive high school for adults

I understand that trade presses take different approaches in acknowledging the research that goes into history books, but I picked up a new book that contains no footnotes or endnotes, no bibliography or further reading, and no index. The publisher is asking me to engage in an act of faith. No thnx.

There’s been a lot of talk in this race about what makes a "real man." A man does what’s right when no one is watching. He upholds his commitments to his family and neighbors. He doesn’t lie, cheat, & steal his way through life. Real men serve others. Weak men serve themselves.

1/ The Liberal government might as well have called its AI strategy “All in for AI”. This is a document that's heavy on hype, but light on the right guardrails that we need to protect people – and to ensure that the benefits of the technology don’t just flow to a handful of tech giants & investors.

This has been something I've been meaning to write for quite some time and the Homer contretemps gave it the opportunity. The thing I most wanted to draw out is that it isn't one fool on Twitter with a helmet, but a radicalization pipeline designed to lead antiquity-curious young men into fascism.

This is how you serve both academic history (smart draft article upthread) and public history (counter widespread misinformation with clear points).

Job: The Huntington Library is hiring a curator of early printed books huntingtonlibrary.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Huntin...

Almost three hundred words added to the chapter today. Sure, tomorrow I'll probably remove seven hundred words which no longer serve any real purpose, but it's still progress in my books!

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This came across my IG feed and it's too good to not share here

It's that time of year when I'm swapping vacation coverage with colleagues. I think that I'll only be wearing two other hats (acting vice-dean; acting director) when I start my new role as history program coordinator on July 1.

Job alert! Postdoc position in late medieval history and literature @uvahumanities.bsky.social in #Amsterdam. Come and work with us on chivalric literature and tournament culture in the project ‘Vivre le mythe'. #medievalsky #skystorians www.academictransfer.com/nl/jobs/3614...

I laugh because it's so authentic.

Small steps: I added 250 words plus several footnotes, some taking me back to one of the first "background" books that I drew from: Teague, Frances N. and Margaret J. M. Ezell, eds. "Educating English Daughters: Late Seventeenth-Century Debates". ACMRS, 2016.

Give me all the vaccines that will benefit me, please.

Local ice cream: spring joys!

On this day in 2013, Henry Morgentaler died. He fought for abortion rights in Canada. His landmark Supreme court case ruled the abortion provision in the Criminal Code was unconstitutional. Learn more in my Deep Dive 👇 buff.ly/ELpDbkP 📸 CP

The National Science Foundation is terminating and suspending grants again, and at Grant Witness we need you to help to track them! 🧪 We can only identify research being suppressed by under-the-radar suspensions directly from researchers. Please report! grant-witness.us/posts/2026-0... #NSF

“Twenty years ago, UX researchers were already noting that in online reading, large sections of a text are skipped or scanned in accordance with digital scrolling habits. The eye, for example, tends to follow an F-shaped pattern across the screen” yalereview.org/article/shei...

You do have to marvel at how, after so many decades of the push-pull in feminist history between those who think feminism is about better treatment under patriarchy and those who want to fight for liberation, it culminates in what I can only call Middle Class Mommy Fascism.

First day back to work after a break. Finding my feet again with the book project and thinking a lot about the difficult & necessary work of justifying women's education, whether in the 1660s or the 2020s.

Erin's entire thread is thoughtful and worth a read as you look through this encyclical and prepare for the wave of ill-informed reactions to the pope's valuable text.

The papal encyclical released today is a more coherent defense of humanity in the AI era than you'll see elsewhere and well worth a read. www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

Canada should not be joining the war against information

Just learned the sad, enraging news that York University in Toronto plans to close its Glendon campus, one of Canada's handful of truly bilingual higher ed institutions yet another bit of bad higher ed news and a new blow to the status of French outside Québec

Happy Defenestration of Prague Day to all who observe. #earlymodern

I've seriously extended my southern Norman sites experienced with today's visit to Aci Castello in Sicily.

#skystorians 🗃️

Another example of how to lie with statistics: "AI Overviews are now used by more than 2.5 billion monthly users". No. These overviews are served up a lot but go unused by many.

Another normal day in the Up Front Towers

He could just ask Putin for a photocopy of the Kirov-class plans from the archives. Years of development work saved!