Had a blast writing this piece for @cliocontemporary.bsky.social!

On the 50th Anniversary of the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, Jerald Podair shares the broader significance of the tragedy, not just on the lives of those involved, but on the broader implications it represented for the post-WWII US economy. 🗃️ clioandthecontemporary.com/2025/11/10/w...

Check out Clio’s latest from our very own @oaverettephillips.bsky.social with fantastic advice for PhD students. Check it out!

Today!! 4pm EST in-person at @binghamtonu.bsky.social and on Zoom. Come let us tell you about the good archival trouble we’re getting into. 😇🗃️#academicsky

From @keanuheydari.bsky.social : “The comprehensive exam is a strange hybrid: part intellectual calisthenics, part memory sport, part existential reckoning.” This is so useful for current and prospective graduate students. 🗃️

Not that I’m rushing the snow, but I am so ready the for cozy, uninterrupted writing time that wintry January in Upstate NY can offer.

Let this help demystify this rite of grad school passage. We called it quals at UF, and whew, it was one of the toughest periods of my professional life.

The AHA, @socialstudies.org, and @oah.org encourage our members and other supporters of a full account of history to submit comments on the proposed patriotic education funding priority by October 17, 2025. Learn more and take action here 🗃️:

Police and carceral history from the margins. We’re building the ship as we sail it at @unyprc.bsky.social, & we love collaborating. Come see what we are up to, and join us. 🗃️ #academicsky

I'm pretty sure mentors tried to tell me many of these things, but seeing them written here makes them so real. Also, King captures something I had not thought of: how my undergrad at an enormous R1 shapes my perception of "what professors do," even now in mid career at a SLAC. #academicsky 🗃️

Add this to your Proseminars and Historians' Craft syllabi. #academicsky 🗃️

We have two rooms still available. Come write and commune with us. My favorite (optional) part: ending each day with a hot tub soak in the snow!

#academicsky 🗃️ For when you need something smart to read to distract you from the news.

Today! 🗃️ #academicsky Sign up to join our monthly workshop. We are filling spots for spring semester, so contact us to workshop your paper in progress. We’re a friendly and helpful group.

Buckle up. 🗃️

I feel obligated to keep trying to convince my students not to sacrifice their own skill development to AI while in college, but I think I come across as preachy and out of touch. @lornab.bsky.social and T-Pain send a much more compelling message that I plan to adopt into my classrooms.

This syllabus from Marcus Chatfield introduces the history of delinquency as a legal construct in the U.S. as well as antidelinquency efforts deployed by families, social workers, police departments, judges, clinicians, politicians, and legislators. clioandthecontemporary.com/2025/08/29/h...

This is delightful reading. 🗃️#academicsky

Our summer session was so productive. Folks advanced their article, book proposal, op ed, book manuscript, and memoir. Casual conversation about our progress each week facilitates real-time feedback from other writers, too. Fall session opens 9/16. Join us. 🗃️ #academicsky #amwriting

I share this syllabus bc I'm one of a tiny handful of university faculty in the UK who teach trans history at a specialist level, & I'd like there to be more of us! I learned the field from scratch post-PhD, bc at my prev institution it was politically necessary - which means that you can too!

What an amazing resource!! Sharing for all those grappling with how to handle AI in the classroom. Huge thanks to @annakornbluh.bsky.social @ehayot.bsky.social and the other contributors #History 🗃️

Contact us @cliocontemporary.bsky.social with your pitches. 🗃️ #academicsky

New version of the Slave Voyages website launched: www.slavevoyages.org/blog/slavevo... #History #EnslavedHistory 🗃️

Publication day for a book that Matthew and I spent six years on, anguished over, fought for, rewrote twice, and nearly abandoned. I hope it proves useful in continuing important conversations about the ancient world and about the societies we choose to build today. www.ucpress.edu/books/ancien...

Historians - as you think about the new semester, consider this first-day exercise as a way to get conversation going about what historians *actually* do, and the context within which we do it. catherinedenial.org/blog/uncateg...

Are y'all really organizing your inboxes with labels and folders? I recently learned that adults do this, and my pile of 18k emails is now looking like a middle school backpack full of loose papers.

How can historical commissions get it right? Often, as @cirapalliaspero.bsky.social explains, well-intentioned efforts reproduce harm when they rely on unexamined disciplinary assumptions.🗃️#academicsky clioandthecontemporary.com/2025/08/04/m...

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Applications open for January 3-9, 2026 Retreat in Central NY. Start 2026 by making substantial progress on your writing project. We provide nourishing food and hot coffee. You bring the brain power and writing materials. #skystorians #AcademicSky uny-prc.org/writing-grou...

Hey all, I’m looking for grad students/historians to write advice pieces for @cliocontemporary.bsky.social ‬on comprehensive exams. Pieces could be on identifying a comps committee, prepping reading lists, what to do after comps, etc. Message me here if you’re interested.

Join our monthly UNY-PRC Writing Workshop. On Aug 8, 3-4:30pm EST, we'll discuss new work from Dr. Camilla Fojas, Foundation Professor in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University. Sign up to receive the paper & Zoom link. #AcademicSky #Skystorians uny-prc.org/writing-work...

Join me in Zoomland for some sacred Tuesday writing time. The summer is not over yet (telling myself this as much as I’m telling you). 🗃️

The UNY-PRC interns are crushing it.

Interested in the fate of domestic manufacturing? I wrote a piece discussing the history of an industry that remained onshore and what it took to survive doing so.

As historians, we rarely think about the ways that the tools we use to do our work affect the questions we ask and how we answer them. In this piece, Sam Frantz takes us through what we should think about when choosing digital tools for our research. clioandthecontemporary.com/2025/05/23/d...

The Trump administration calls for the return of domestic manufacturing, there is one industry that managed to resist the outsourcing process of the late 20th century. As @drchrisdeutsch.bsky.social explains, it only required the destruction of its labor unions and deeper exploitation of migrants.

I’m definitely going to need someone to review this for @cliocontemporary.bsky.social. Any Gilded Age scholars want to claim dibs?? @shgape.bsky.social 🗃️

As President Trump signs an executive order to defund public Broadcasting, keep in mind that it’s part of a longer history of conservatives taking aim at PBS/NPR as @abbywhitaker.bsky.social explains in her most recent piece (linked below).

This week marks 50 years since the end of the Vietnam War. Check out syllabi & assignments that focus on the #VietnamWar, a recent piece connecting the era to Trump's First #100Days, plus Vietnam-era film & TV reviews from our archive. Vietnam War #skystorians pls comment so we can follow you! 🗃️

In honor of May Day 🚩, we've scoured our archives to bring to you some of the best pieces that explore the history of labor struggles in the US. We've also linked to timeless advice pieces about how to find balance and joy in our work as academics. Give us a follow if you like what you see. 🗃️

Our miniseries on Trump 2.0 continues with @abbywhitaker.bsky.social historicizing the Republicans repeated attacks on public broadcasting and why this time they may actually succeed. 🗃️

Our analysis of Trump 2.0 continues with an assessment of the administration’s foreign policy written by @trithara.bsky.social.

Continuing with our Trump 2.0 series, @brettolmsted.bsky.social explores the impacts of Trump’s immigration regime and how it mirrors the Bracero program from the mid-20th century.

We're excited to launch a miniseries that contextualizes the first 100 days of the Trump 2.0 administration. Starting April 30th, we'll be posting pieces that cover everything from dissent and immigration to fights over PBS and tariffs. Please give us a follow so you don't miss out on these pieces!

Mike White’s White Lotus remains bona fide Watercooler TV, but the satire it has become known for falls flatter than ever in an uneven Season 3 that threatens to promote what it intends to criticize. Review by @smittermeier.bsky.social

@cliocontemporary.bsky.social is looking for scholars to contextualize the impacts from Trump's "First 100 Days" through a historical lens. Topics can include healthcare, labor rights, environmental policy, LGBTQ rights, immigration, media criticism, etc. Reply or message me directly if interested 🗃️

In 2022, the AHA launched the most comprehensive study of the national US history teaching landscape undertaken in the 21st century. We wanted to know what is actually happening in public school classrooms across the country. Find out what we learned. 🗃️

🗃️ @cliocontemporary.bsky.social is looking for scholars to write reviews for the current seasons of the White Lotus and Righteous Gemstones. If you or someone you know wants to dissect what either show reveals to us about US politics, culture, etc. Please reach out to me.