Excited to hear that Jeff Hiller won an Emmy for his work in Somebody, Somewhere. He was so fantastic in that show. What a charmer, too. A beautiful show that was all about small stuff and small moments in a small town that felt real and lived in.

If Jeff Hiller's charming Emmy acceptance speech is the first you're hearing about SOMEBODY SOMEWHERE, you really owe yourself to check it out. It's been my show of the year two years running: newrepublic.com/article/1875...

That trip turned into this photoessay: emergencemagazine.org/essay/of-wan...

www.npr.org/2025/09/06/g... Drum rolls and fanfares for Lt. James Reese Europe and his Harlem Hellfighters Band, which I learned all about in the amazing book Stomp & Swerve by @davidwondrich.bsky.social 🎶🎺🪕🥁🎷🎵

Tomorrow morning on my live podcast, “History Matters:” Standing Up Matters! We’ve seen a lot of push back this week from people in high places. And it matters—more than you might think. Join us for some reckoning. Friday 10AM ET NCHEteach.org/conversations

This Is Not How You Support the National Park Service #NationalParks open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

That’s exactly the point why faculty claim syllabi are their intellectual work. If you need AI to build a syllabus for you, you shouldn’t be teaching a class. Syllabi represent YOUR pedagogical approach (or one built *hopefully* by your department with thought to building student knowledge). 6/🧵

So I'm doing a commonplace book assignment with the students in my #earlymodern women's history course this semester. Big thank you to everyone who shared resources and ideas! Watch this space for updates and reflections. #teaching #pedagogy

I am assigning this in my grad seminar. Such a wonderful article and technique!

Such a good essay. Highly recommended.

This is great!

Young adults do also like notebooks! I think analog, assign them to purchase a notebook they *like* and a pen they like writing with. That part of the assignment alone is valuable.

I'm doing the same thing--basing mine on Joseph Adelman's assignment here josephadelman.com/2014/09/04/c... There was a thread a month or so ago with some good suggestions.

The oldest Aldabaran tortoise at Blank Park Zoo is currently... in time out. For climbing the fence in an escape attempt. Love it.

You would not believe the amount of calories I burn each day just restraining myself from posting responses to all the bad political news. The effort has been working lately, but it dawns on me how much work it is just to remain sufferable online.

PLEASE REPOST 🥺🙏 The Canadian Letters & Images Project is an online digital archive of Canadians’ experience during wartime at home & in battle. It contains thousands of personal letters & photos that reveal people’s experience through their own words & eyes. www.canadianletters.ca/content/abou...

Today in educational dystopia... Check out the truly incredible rationalizations and unstated assumptions!

But I also think it's a mark of privilege to think that this is a world-historical injustice that no one else has experienced since we stopped burning witches, instead of what people who are in the minority experience every single day.

Tis the season to make plans to reclaim and cherish your book-life balance! See my 10-step handout “How to Read a Book” @commonplacejrnl.bsky.social #skystorians #gradstudents #howtoreadabook #bibliophiles #selfcare commonplace.online/article/how-...

Pub day! My new book, Authoritarians in the Academy at @hopkinspress.bsky.social, is now officially out and available for purchase. www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

This month my beloved and I are celebrating our 25th wedding anniversary on the same day our firstborn heads off to college. Life comes at you fast!

Watch OAH President Annette Gordon-Reed on Democracy Now talking about Trump’s Targeting of School Curricula, Smithsonian 👉 ow.ly/8HjP50WHIUI

25 years ago today, I first met my husband on a blind date for breakfast at a Pittsburgh diner. It’s still going strong, and so are we. Just had breakfast there to celebrate! ❤️ 🏳️‍🌈☕️🍳

lincoln-institute.org/scholarship-... The Abraham Lincoln Institute announces a travel grant of $1,000.00 (one thousand dollars) for graduate students in the Civil War field. #Skystorians #CivilWarHistory

lincoln-institute.org/scholarship-... The Abraham Lincoln Institute announces a travel grant of $1,000.00 (one thousand dollars) for graduate students in the Civil War field. #Skystorians #CivilWarHistory

Get your copy of *Fearless Benjamin: The Quaker Dwarf who Fought Slavery*, a children’s book I co-wrote with Michelle Markel, gorgeously illustrated by Sarah Bachman, coming Oct. 14, 2025 from @PMPress. Get signed copies of my other books on Benjamin Lay too! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ww3...

My university has announced a fund to essentially poach doctoral students from US institutions. DM me if you do work on the history/social impacts of AI and are interested in being poached 😂

To add to this: Those who argued for a more just, more *moral* Constitution did exist. But they were called "fanatics," "radicals." They were threatened and assaulted, even killed. The government actively tried to silence them. But they did not accept the status quo, and neither do we.

"It worries faculty and scholarly groups, who stress that the number of majors in a program isn’t the only or best way to gauge its worth." bit.ly/4lVU2gU

Tyranny

"Lawmakers whose ancestors enslaved 16+ ppl have a net worth that is, on average, $3.9 mill higher than their peers. This held true even after controlling for factors like age, race, gender, ethnicity, & education level." www.psypost.org/descendants-...

I’m so impressed with my UVA faculty colleagues, especially our Faculty Senate, for so quickly and loudly articulating how Trump, Youngkin, and the Board of Visitors are trying to destroy UVA and its values of free and open inquiry.

I rarely comment on these things, but these are unusual times. 249 years ago the Declaration called Natives "Merciless Indian Savages.," and the Constitution excluded us from protection while enabling our dispossession. We remember this history not to cause harm, but to grasp the consequences./1

More People Really Should Know About: Logan Ledger @loganledger @rounderrecords

I heard from someone who works there that management needs better messaging skills - I mean, that: the research rooms are still open to researchers, no change in that policy buses and cars will no longer be able to drive up right to the building, that is the change in policy

@steveinskeep.bsky.social, do you have a “legitimate business need” to access the National Achives? Don’t count in getting in.

Good question. ⬇️

One of the best signs from today's No Kings march in NOLA: if Kamala were president, we'd all be at brunch

Well I do declare.The cashier at Wegman’s asked politely for my ID, as I was purchasing a wine. “Gladly,” I said, “make my day. Nobody has asked me for my ID since Moby Dick was a minnow.” But then again, a whale can’t have been a minnow. Anyhow, I strutted on out of the store like a spring 🐓.

So sorry to hear this. Deep condolences to all who loved her. 💔

Sad news. I met Amy when she and I were research fellows at Winterthur and before she began her career at Clark. Astounding and witty mind, loving heart.

Terrible tragedy. Knew she and Jim well around the time she started at Clark. Just a brilliant, genuine, good person.

Just such awful news. She was a wonderful colleague.

www.clarku.edu/news/2025/06... #Skystorians we’ve lost a friend and a great scholar, Amy Richter of Clark University. Please repost.

The Trump Administration's pause on student visas means that hundreds of newly-minted M.D.'s likely won't be able to start their residencies--leaving hospitals with a critical shortage of doctors. www.forbes.com/sites/emmawh...

Academics already know about this problem. They’ve seen imaginary articles and books by them listed in AI generated “reports.” The author’s names are real. The rest isn’t.

A contributor has had to withdraw from something I'm editing, late in the day. I'm looking for a sprightly 10,000 book historical words on the broad theme of 'consumers/consumption' and the period 1450-1650 (not necessarily all of it).