Perhaps instead of Columbus Day we can celebrate Columbian Exchange Day where we celebrate the food pairings that had never been possible before, peppers and onions, chocolate and coffee, basil and tomatoes.

NEWS: Next Tuesday @chenderson.bsky.social will introduce an emergency bill to let @mayorbowser.dc.gov issue marriage licenses, since the federal shutdown has closed D.C. Superior Court's Marriage Bureau. (We can agree it's silly that a spending standoff means no legal unions in D.C., right?)

Registration for our free Texas Conference on Introductory History Courses, October 24–25, at the University of Texas at Dallas, is open now. Join us for thought-provoking discussions about introductory history courses and student success in Texas. 🗃️

BREAKING: The director of the presidential library and museum in Abilene, Kansas, said he was suddenly told to resign or be fired. He refused to give the Trump administration a historic sword from the museum’s collection.

One day someone will let me write about this lady's scam or have me as an expert on their podcast/documentary and I will finally unleash all my research

Of interest to #skystorians Link to a CBS story below.

“We may be past the point of no return, but at a minimum we ought to … assess where we are, and what we’re losing when we fully cashier robust support for Humanities research. The Humanities are us.” Feels like a(nother) good day to share this. scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/04/02/t...

Do feelings of fraud & self-doubt feel like they're creeping into your #UMich #GradSchool experience? This week's episodes of GradWell explore Impostor Phenomenon w/ two Developmental Psychology Ph.D. candidates: Danielle Rosenscruggs & Dianna Alvarado. 🎧 Listen now: myumi.ch/mRJZG #WeAreRackham

This is one of the saddest photos I have because of the writing on the back, “Bob due to leave for Army, watching TV”. 1967. No further info.

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Today from #HistoryInFocus — We revisit one my favorite episodes, "Soil and Memory," a look at the collaboration between historian Alexis Dudden and graphic artist Kim Inthavong as they explore history, memory, and activism in Okinawa, Japan. @historians.org

I love otters. Here you go.

If you've done in-person research at any of the following presidential libraries in the last 8 months, can you please follow me/contact me—soon—for a story I'm working on (can be off the record)? Hoover FDR Truman Eisenhower JFK LBJ Ford Carter And either way, can you please share this request? 🙏

This 1976 picture of swine flu vaccine stockpile will never not crack me up because of this guy.

Guys, Reading Rainbow is BACK. 📚🌈🦋 youtu.be/e7es7qdWVnU

I held one of these as a newly-minted PhD. Definitely recommend the opportunity for any who are eligible.

Finally, applications for our binational Tandem Program, which provides a two-year research fellowship based at our Pacific Office in Berkeley @ucberkeleyies.bsky.social, are due on October 15: www.ghi-dc.org/programs/pac...

The next event at the Christchurch nurse’s memorial chapel museum- a slot by yours truly in the mix - free do pop in if you are in town & our WW2 display will still be out

NEWS: In a case he called “perhaps the most important ever to fall within the jurisdiction of this district court," a federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration's efforts to deport pro-Palestinian protesters violates the First Amendment www.chronicle.com/article/stud...

The Rackham Doctoral Intern Fellowship Program allows doctoral students to pursue a fully supported internship during their graduate training. Internships offer students a mentored professional learning experience in diverse career settings. Learn more: https://myumi.ch/gR9PG #UMich #GradSchool

The AHA’s Careers for History Majors booklet provides data about the professional prospects of history majors, practical advice about jobs and employment, & essays on how studying history prepares students for a range of exciting and fulfilling career paths. Recruit and engage history majors today!🗃️

Good history helps us avoid nostalgia. The great article “Economic History and the Historians” (2020) by Anne McCants reminds me why nostalgia can get us in trouble. Two of her examples are very relevant to today: vaccinations and the popular narrative of some economic “good old days.”

Red-tailed hawk traffic enforcement 👮‍♂️ #birds #raptors

I mean listen it was a big bean burrito ok.

Guys, Reading Rainbow is BACK. 📚🌈🦋 youtu.be/e7es7qdWVnU

Very interesting reading in the NY Times. Ta Nehisi Coates’s conversation with Ezra Klein and Nikole Hannah-Jones’s piece show, once again, that African-Americans have had very different experiences with and, thus, different perspectives on the basic nature of the United States.

Drinking a beer on the patio, watching a chipmunk run back and forth, his cheeks stuffed full, clearly making a killing for his seed and nut cache. Not a bad way to end a Sunday. 🍂🐿️🥰

Continuing our year of live music, mostly at Hill Auditorium. Tonight features @detroitsymphony.bsky.social and the UMS Choral Union. 😍

So enjoyed attending this event on Monday, featuring Patrick Awuah’s work at Asheshi University. It’s a delayed post, but I’m still inspired by the idea that we can create a university dedicated to creating a world we want to live in. 🌍🫶

Love pumpkin displays like this—all the colors and textures, like an old master’s painting. There is a house on Capitol Hill in DC that does the same thing. Maybe one day my own porch will be so lovely… #lifegoals

Strongly recommend the “Two Georges” exhibition at the Library of Congress. It includes original material on loan from the Royal Archives. Here George III writing in response to the act of association from Congress, September 11, 1774: “The dye is now cast.”

Learn more from Juanita Tookes & others across the U-M campus at Exploring Well-Being in Graduate Education: A Rackham Symposium on Wednesday, October 22 & Thursday, October 23, in the Rackham Building. Learn more & register: myumi.ch/QwmQz #MentalHealth #WellBeing #HigherEd #UMich #GradSchool

Sitting in an Adirondack chair, watching birds fight over the black walnuts in my neighbors’ tree and knock them to the ground like tiny organic cannonballs.

lake forever problems for now

The cute and science you needed today.

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

Ok, read this whole thread and learn something new about dinosaurs. (If you’re me!)

Ok, but I thought dinosaurs were supposed to have feathers now? Because birds are actually dinosaurs??

Wake up babe a new dinosaur just dropped.

Senegal just introduced a single shot hexavalent vaccine which covers: Tetanus, diphtheria, whooping cough, polio, hepatitis B, and Haemophilus influenzae type b www.gavi.org/vaccineswork...

Four years ago, I asked historians about their most bizarre and profound archival finds and wrote this for The Conversation, which seemed to be a popular piece! theconversation.com/i-asked-hist...

Literally rolling back history on this one! Beth Bailey once again wrote the book on this. Military history is social history! uncpress.org/978146967326...

RIP, Robert Redford, and congrats — your obituary in the WaPo is the horniest obit I’ve ever read.

🗓️ Reminder: The next deadline for our short-term research fellowships is coming up on October 1! Learn more about our focus areas and how to apply from our website www.ghi-dc.org/programs/doc...

A very happy Pythagorean Triple Square Day to all www.npr.org/2025/09/16/n...

My favourite Robert Redford story is the one about why he got rejected for the lead role in The Graduate. RIP to a real one.

Bastet: I’m still right here guys but thanks for admiring my work

We have a job opening in Cambridge for a Communications Specialist (replacing a public humanities graduate): bit.ly/47IEnxU

I believe this 1000% Showing students how we got here. Teaching them how to evaluate evidence for themselves. Enabling them to evaluate the present for themselves. SO important right now. Understanding the past is our future.

With everything going on, looking forward to #SomethingBeautiful this evening. Thanks, #A2SO !