So excited that Seminar week is here! If you can’t be with us in Deerfield this weekend, note that recordings for registrants are available on demand for the month following the Seminar! #AmRev250 #Publichistory

Getting so excited for the June 27-28 seminar on the #publichistory of the American Revolution. The keynote by @drzara.bsky.social is going to be 🔥! Register here for in-person or online (talks accesssible for a month)! www.historic-deerfield.org/events/dubli...

History & Policy will shortly be unveiling the first publicly-searchable database of historians with policy-relevant expertise. If you are a professional historian who would like to engage more with policymakers, there's still time to submit a profile. Register your interest here: bit.ly/3YMcsXu

Am thinking about historians who write about ways folks in the past have imagined the future. Published or work in progress — is that a thing out there?

So excited to see registration open for the June 2025 Dublin Seminar, “Recalling the Revolution in New England!” A deep #AmRev250 dive into #publichistory in the region! — www.historic-deerfield.org/events/dubli...

It's always exciting to see the winners of the @umasspress.bsky.social and UMass MFA for Poets and Writers announced. Where to start? Torn between Kirsten Kaschock's An Impossibility of Crows and Jason Bredle's Jason Bredle's I Love You But I Don’t Speak Your Language #booksky

My fab @umasshfa.bsky.social & History dept colleague Audrey Altstadt has launched a series of posts for History@Work in which she will explore the histories and significance of federal programs whose future is now in jeopardy. To read along, tune in here: umasshistory.wordpress.com/2025/04/09/s...

Many thanks to my publisher (Macmillan) for joining this important effort!

So happy to see our @umasspress.bsky.social series at the @ncph.bsky.social conference in Montreal! Very proud of the scholarship we have helped to bring out…. #booksky

Hey, for any particular thing you're furious about, one good way to channel that energy until April 1 is to do some phone banking to help Judge Susan Crawford beat the Trump henchman that Elon Musk has spent about $18 million to put on the WI Supreme Court WisDems.org/call

Delighted to convene a new series at Resonance: The Journal of Sound and Culture (UC Press), where I’m founding associate editor. Articles written by the giant national team who collaborates to research sound history through the Library of Congress RPTF. online.ucpress.edu/res/article/...

Wisconsin: Early voting starts today. Please vote for Susan Crawford for State Supreme Court.

🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave. Tell them: 1. Vote NO on Cloture AND 2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill. Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it. TODAY is the showdown. 🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121

So excited to see my issue of The Public Historian arrive, finally! Very excited about this scholarship on museums as landlords…..

So excited about “Branching Out,” a new title in our @umasspress.bsky.social series “Public History in Historical Perspective” www.umasspress.com/978162534832... #booksky

Boosting this one last time (I’m not on the committee but helping spread the word)—priority deadline is March 8 for this #UMassAmherst position at the intersection of public history and histories of enslavement in the north. Please do share with colleagues!

The same party that shouted that Obama was a liar and booed Biden during their formal addresses to Congress is now worried about people disrespecting the president with crossed arms.

A new $15 million jazz fellowship is granting 50 artists over the age of 62 a $100,000 grant, professional support and performance opportunities

POSTDOC ALERT! Postdoc in the history of modern medicine or public health at Wisconsin: details at the link below. 2 years, excellent conditions. #Skystorians #HistMed #medhum please repost widely! mhb.wisc.edu/2025/02/25/p...

Wait wait wait freaking WEST BEND? The very center of the heart of reactionary darkness that is Washington County? The place where Trump won 67% of the vote in 2025?!

Finding my people…. #Booksky

This seems like it would be of interest to #DHmakes folks! tatter.org/events/craft...

Three things that make the U.S. the envy of the world: 1) Professionalized military with strong norm of civilian control 2) Higher education and cutting-edge scientific research 3) Ability to welcome immigrants and attract the “best and the brightest” All three are under threat.

Public comment is now open for passport gender marker changes. You can go here to go to each of the three proposed passport rules, and submit comment. My suggestion: be unique, argue for trans-inclusive policies, against the constitutionality of the changes, etc. www.reddit.com/r/Passports/...

TFW a book you ordered arrives, and at first (when you see the title) you are excited because of how it’s going to inform one project (HealthHumanities!) and then (when you see the subtitle) you are excited because of how it’s going to support another project (History of Poetry!) #Throughlines

(1/2) A quick note to our community (re: 📬 ): As you pursue much-needed #advocacy work on behalf of history and historians, please do NOT email gov’t historians at their dot gov emails with advocacy-related or political messages.

Come be my #publichistory colleague! careers.umass.edu/en-us/job/52...

So happy to see @umasshfa.bsky.social on Bluesky! Humanities folks, please give my fab colleagues a follow!

I feel like I'm going insane every time I see a media story about DOGE that doesn't also mention the fact that the Government Accountability Office exists and performs the exact function that DOGE pretends to, only in a credibly constitutional, non-partisan, and conflict-of-interest-free manner

My heart is just breaking for our civil service sector—all these dedicated and skilled professionals being treated so shabbily, and with such dire consequences for the nation. Trying to help keep the pressure on, every way I can think of. Gratitude and care. #CivilServiceStrong

Yes—this is what I want to see, and nonstop.

YOU MAKE HISTORY! Tomorrow we will make Black history accessible together 🎂 211 groups 👥 8400+ participants 📚 10,800 pages to transcribe ...and counting! Still time to join our *largest* transcribe-a-thon ever at DouglassDay.org + #DouglassDay

Aspiration.

Public history/preservation folks: Historic New England (i.e., where I work!) offers PAID internships in a wide range of program areas--application deadline is Feb. 19 for summer and fall. Undergrads, grad students, new professionals welcome, but must be New England residents during the internship.

Friends, I’m heading into some new research territory….would love some hot tips on work that looks at the place of poetry in US culture in the 1930s/40s. Poetry readings, poetry in general magazines—that sort of thing.

UNC Charlotte is hiring an oral historian. Please share if you know someone who’s interested. 🗃️ jobs.charlotte.edu/postings/61064

Pssst #skystorians 🗃️

Looks like a good gig being advertised at CT Humanities….

Do me a kindness! Share this if you love and support your local library & librarians (and remember: that includes your school library & school librarian) 😊📚 Thank you libraries & library workers… for everything ✨💚

"in spite of perennial laments about the crisis in the humanities, they’re very much alive, especially if you look beyond dismal stats about funding cuts, threatened departments and declining majors." bit.ly/40dTqu6

Historians of early America, memory, & public history—the deadline is approaching to propose papers for the 2025 Dublin Seminar, exploring grassroots memory-making of the American Revolution. Give this a read if this sounds like you, and please circulate among your colleagues & networks!

Still spots open to meet with me at #mla25 next weekend and chat about your project’s fit with our list at @umasspress.bsky.social!

Setting (I hope) a good tone for the new year ahead. #booksky

If I could tell my younger self one thing, it would be about the joy of ending NYE before 10 pm in sweats and a tee catching up on Shetland with your loved one.

Some great #publichistory work unfolding in Milwaukee onmilwaukee.com/articles/lgb...

This. “while museums display contemporary artists who incorporate domestic textiles as raw materials into their work, thousands of handmade quilts and laces languish in their storage facilities. When will art institutions begin to pay respect to the legacies of our foremothers’ artistry?”

“a life of service and consequence”—yes, well said.