This article was in the pipeline for a long time but is finally out! 🗃️ #skystorians

The AHA encourages members to contact their senators today through the Coalition for International Education & @humanitiesall.bsky.social's action alert, & urge them to sign on to Sen. Schatz's letter supporting robust funding for international education & foreign language infrastructure in FY26. 🗃️

In honor of Eurovision - Laika Party wasn't exactly a party... 😢 #eurovision #esc

@womenshistnet.bsky.social @nursingclio.bsky.social @emwjournal.bsky.social @womenknowhistory.bsky.social @ifrwh.bsky.social @historians.org @histoirecoloniale.bsky.social @myhnn.bsky.social

Got my Ph.D. in 2008 - this spring, I finally broke down and bought my regalia. The timing is either completely right or completely wrong (but I do need it for commencement and I refuse to rent the sweaty, threadworn $74 version one more year...).

Dear Students - as of Wednesday, please, accept this free system that will a) come up with new ideas for you so you don't have to; b) write your outlines for your essays, and c) find the appropriate sources for said essays.

#StandWithUkraine #SlavaUkraini

March is here, and that means one thing: Women’s History Month!  All month long, I’ll be sharing stories of fascinating, trailblazing women you need to know about. Some you may recognize, others history tried to forget—but not on my watch. Subscribe now!  www.historyinthemargins.com 🗃️

🗃️ #skystorians

I have page proofs!

In When the Left Moves Right (@oxunipress.bsky.social, 2024), Maria Snegovaya asks why previously centre-left democratic parties have suffered electoral defeats, whilst populist parties have soared in post-Communist Central Europe. Read George Kordas' review. ceureviewofbooks.com/review/left-...

AHA members: The AHA is accepting applications for the 2025-26 research grants until February 15, 2025. Preference will be given to advanced doctoral students, nontenured faculty, and unaffiliated scholars and to those with specific research needs. 🗃️

If you are in London in April, do come to my lecture on my book #TheHourOfAbsinthe at the wonderful "Absinthe Parlour"! I really hope to meet some of you there! #DrinkingStudies #HistoryOfAlcohol #HistoryOfAbsinthe 🗃️🍸🧚 thelasttuesdaysociety.org/exhibition/t...

I didn't attend the AHA meeting this year. But these are important questions - who decides how political, and in which ways/areas, AHA should be? I agree with the role of the historian as a "disrupter". I'd also like a clear answer as to why this majority-approved resolution on Gaza was vetoed?

"The AHA's carefully researched American Lesson Plan thoroughly refutes the executive order’s cynical & unsubstantiated depiction of the landscape of American education." Read Exec director @jgrossman.bsky.social's commentary on the “Executive Order Ending Radical Indoctrination in K–12 Schooling” 🗃️

🗃️ They analyzed "grinding" stones and found they weren't used to grind grains. Further analysis showed they weren't grinding stones but pounding stones for pounding starches/nuts. Says they didn't make bread. They ate grains in forms like oatmeal or oatmeal cakes. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8Ax...

I'd like this for my birthday, please...

Café Bassam, San Diego

The AHA seeks to collect information about the working conditions of historians employed as contingent faculty. We hope the survey results will empower faculty to engage in evidence-based negotiations about their working conditions. 🗃️

Today in #AHAPerspectives, Alicia Gutierrez-Romine looks at the exceptions built into US abortion laws. 🗃️ (Spoiler alert: They often don't work well!)

A little too close for comfort...

📚 Here is how to donate to the Huntington Library’s Disaster Relief Fund, which will aid impacted staff + collections. Please share, #skystorians #library #booksky friends, thank you! 🗃️ shorturl.at/TVPPE

#GiftArticle #GiftLink for the NYTimes coverage of the AHA vote on Sunday. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/06/a...

Rest in Peace, Jimmy Carter! www.theguardian.com/us-news/vide...

Ah, I do love classic holiday movies! 🤣

It was great fun to write this essay on how I became an intellectual historian for H-Diplo. With shoutouts to @dominiquereill.bsky.social , @samuelmoyn.bsky.social , @orrosenboim.bsky.social , and many others. issforum.org/essays/h-dip...

Inspirational art project!!

Interesting and relevant!

The H-Diplo roundtable on @juliairwin.bsky.social's book, Catastrophic Diplomacy, is now available. I enjoyed reviewing this - not least being able to write about a character called 'Mr Catastrophe'... 🗃️ networks.h-net.org/group/discus...

#skystorians 🗃️

I got some good news this weekend! And early Christmas gift, one might say 😀🥳📚

Avhandlingen "Navigating Injustice. Responses to the Holocaust in the Swedish-Jewish Press, 1945–1967" handlar om hur judar i Sverige under den tidiga efterkrigstiden diskuterade och mindes Förintelsen. svenskhistoria.se/minnet-av-fo... #svhist

Proud to say that I know the author! And that I turned in my assigned time reports describing my productivity and dedication to my institution yesterday...

"Socialism and International Law: The Cold War and Its Legacies" is now available electronically from OUP and the hardback should be out on December 19! global.oup.com/academic/pro... Here is a thread on what we have put together:

"Green Danger" definitely sounds like a good Christmas gift/holiday read!

As lots of friends and colleagues continue to join Blueskey, you might find this ‘starter pack’ of people working in Holocaust and genocide studies useful. Put together by the indefatigable @waitmanwbeorn.com go.bsky.app/7mxC2NF

If we want better fashion culture in the US, we have to lower the cost of housing and commercial real estate, support independent craftspeople, build denser neighborhoods, improve walkability, and get rid of overly restrictive zoning laws. Let kook culture thrive.

I'm extremely happy that Jorts the Cat lives on this site as well. He and his news reporting was what I thought I'd truly miss at the Other Place when I left it...

Yet another unrealistic beauty standard for women... #c15th #rarebooks #medievalmanuscript #mermaid 📜 🗃️ 📚 From the Ortus Sanitatis by Jacobus Meydenbach, 1491

Snr Research Fellow with Digital Skills for Historical Research UCL - SELCS-CMII #skystorians 🗃️ www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKU346/s...

Our new co-edited collection Off White. Central and Eastern Europe and the Global History of Race (2024) is open access, free to download here: www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...

Senior Research Associate- University of Bristol - School of Humanities #skystorians 🗃️ www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKQ823/s...

Smuts Visiting Research Fellowship (Fixed Term)- University of Cambridge - Academic Division #skystorians 🗃️ www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKQ705/s...

If anyone here is a scholar who uses ebooks & mentors students, the kindle family plan, letting one share an ebook library, is an incredible way to help a young scholar access things easily #MedievalSky #earlymodern #skyhistorians #academicsky

Dear all: my book is now out in paperback for a very reasonable price! 📚 www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Friebe...

Historians have the right to expect that discussion of their work be conducted in a civil manner—but that right can be violated by hate speech and online threats. The AHA has developed a guide for historians encountering harassment on social media. 🗃️

Hey hey hey! My book is coming out in paperback soon! 😀