Featuring Julie Flavell, Mary Beth Norton, @michaelhattem.bsky.social, and @frankcogliano.bsky.social Super voice work by @gracemallon.bsky.social, Amber Pelham, Evan McCormick, @aipsmith.bsky.social, @kreggallagher.bsky.social, and @johntrterry.bsky.social

NOW PLAYING: Episode 19: The Gambit With British authority collapsing in North America, Britons on both sides of the Atlantic including Benjamin Franklin, Caroline Howe, and Lord Dartmouth engage in desperate and secret negotiations to avoid all the horrors of civil war. #podcast #history

I'm thrilled to serve as a judge for the 2026 PROSE Awards, which are given by the Association of American Publishers each year for scholarly excellence. I'm very much looking forward to reading some terrific books by talented authors! proseawards.com

Terrific "Taking Stock and Setting Agendas" meeting this past weekend @theitps.bsky.social centered on early American studies and digital history. Thanks to @noraslonimsky.bsky.social, @ben-wright.bsky.social, & Mark Boonshoft for the chance to present "Hard of Hearing: Podcasting Early America."

THIS IS IT! You have until 11.59pm TONIGHT to submit your proposals for #BSECS2026 Ease yourself into the New Year by joining us @pembrokeoxford.bsky.social, 7-9 January 2026 #skystorians #18thC 🗃️ www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...

The Atlantic Announces Free Digital Subscriptions for All U.S. Public High Schools www.theatlantic.com/press-releas...

It's national voter registration day today, and please register to vote. Today, as a new American I registered for the first time ever.

This January, @danieljstory.bsky.social, Alexandra Levy, and I are once again co-leading @historians.org's Sinclair Podcast Workshops. Do you have a history pod idea you want to vet with a small group? Pitch us for Developmental Conversations! Deadline 12/1/25. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Today is Constitution Day in the United States, marking the anniversary of its signing in Philadelphia on this date in 1787. Take a few moments today to read the document all the way through, and find a way to contribute yourself to a "more perfect union." constitutioncenter.org/the-constitu...

When in Ohio - buckeye ice cream in a puffle 🍽️

Exciting lineup for the upcoming Ireland and the American Revolution conference at Trinity College in Dublin!

Very happy surprise: my latest book, Plagues of the Heart: Crisis and covenanting in a seventeenth-century Scottish town, has been longlisted by the Saltire Society for Scotland's Research Book of the Year. I am honored to be in such great company! 🎉 @manchesterup.bsky.social www.thesaltires.org.uk

#OTD in 1759: British forces defeated the French at the Battle of Quebec, a victory made possible when the Six Nations Iroquois abandoned their neutral stance months earlier. Learn why in Episode 3: The Triumph. podcasts.rrchnm.org/show/worlds-...

@yalebooks.bsky.social are celebrating Jane Austen's 250th birthday by offering a 30% discount on their 'World of Jane Austen' books using discount code JA250 #skystorians #18thC yalebooks.co.uk/austen-250-t...

Yes, the great Christopher Duffy left a great deal of money to NTS, but even more valuable is his entire personal archive and research-in-progress, which the Trust currently holds and curates. We're still waiting to learn about how scholars and researchers might be able to access that material.

Picard management tip: You are a dignitary representing your organization, always.

If you're interested in learning about smallpox as germ warfare, the Continental Army, & Washington's inoculation mandate, you can still check out Forgotten America with The Great Courses Plus (or on Audible). bit.ly/4omm0oi 🗃️

Do you want to learn what happened to French North America after 1763? Or how the way French settlers were treated by their British conquerors had a direct impact on the American Revolution? Listen to this fantastic podcast episode. #FRhistory 🗃️ #history

Happy to share the book cover of our fourth and now officially forthcoming graphic novel *Black Schooner: Rebellion on the Amistad* by David Lester, Paul Buhle, and myself, to be published by @beaconpress.bsky.social in June 2026. More info available here: prhcomics.com/book/?isbn=9...

I’m neck-deep investigating the phrase “not worth a Continental.” It appears in no American source I’ve found until 1846. And then it’s not connected with “a Continental dollar.” Instead, the first use is “a Continental dime,” but even that looks like a winking reference to “a Continental damn.”

I'm really looking forward to this event TONIGHT at 8:00 ET. I hope that you will join us in the live chat! www.youtube.com/live/15jqVKA...

Team: I am sorry to report that RRCHNM is also eliminating Jeanette Patrick's position. We've worked together for six years and I can attest to her talents as a historian, project manager, and, of course, award-winning podcast producer. If you know of good opportunities, please reach out to her.

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When I quit grad school and left academia, I assumed I would never publish a book. So The @nursingclio.bsky.social Reader is a literal dream come true. And now it gets to sit on my shelf with other publications that I have shepherded as an editor. www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/the-nursing-...

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So excited to read this, and to think about the ways I can integrate it into the next History course I teach

Join us (for free) online Wednesday. Tocqueville has a LOT to say about America -- past and present.

Reminder: The #SHEAR2026 CFP is open! During the semiquincentennial of American Independence the Program Committee invites proposals for sessions and papers considering this epochal event in the early American republic. Deadline: December 1. CFP details: shear.org/annual-meeti... 📸:Timothy Brown

Listeners to Worlds Turned Upside Down know that I enjoy an epic, often haunting score. No surprise then that I am really digging this documentary episode of @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social's Not Just the Tudors: "Oliver Cromwell v. Charles I" shows.acast.com/not-just-the...

Oh HELL yes

Gonna buy this one

The Society has today launched a new funding grant in honour of Dr Ryan Foster, supporting those who have come or returned to academia later in life.

Still one of the best titles out there: Dunmore’s New World: The Extraordinary Life of a Royal Governor in Revolutionary America -- with Jacobites, Counterfeiters, Land Schemes, Shipwrecks, Scalping, Indian Politics, Runaway Slaves, and Two Illegal Royal Weddings. @uvapress.bsky.social

One of the best pods and pod hosts out there. I’ve learned so much about history, philosophy, literature, and science from the really smart folks who have appeared on In Our Time with Melvyn Bragg at the helm. Will he take tea or coffee after stepping down? www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

If your collection is helping preserve intangible cultural heritage then we want to showcase it in our upcoming digital exhibition! Find out more and take part:

A really great podcast if anyone is interested. The first episodes do an amazing job of setting the stage for the revolution, going more in depth than the elementary school distillation of “Stamp Act bad, Boston Tea Party good”. It’s also very prescient about issues today w/r/t to executive power

Spotify fans of Worlds Turned Upside Down: The imperial crisis (at least this one) has been resolved and Episode 18: The Resurrection is now available on the Spotify platform: open.spotify.com/episode/0STR...

*Entangled Alliances* is available for PRE-ORDER from @cornellupress.bsky.social 📚 www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

The deadline for submitting proposals for #BSECS2026 is only two weeks away. Get scribbling! #skystorians #18thC 🗃️ This year's theme is 'Big and Small', 7-9 January, Pembroke College, Oxford. www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...

I loved the way that the episode’s focus on the Quebec Act brought out aspects of the lead-up to the Revolution that are easily overlooked. I particularly liked the points that Brad Jones made about how the Act became for many Americans a key to understanding growing British tyranny.

Attention #earlymodern @drjessecromwell.bsky.social has arrived (fashionably late? 😁) to this forum which provides opportunity to plug his fine (although #long17thcentury 😁) book to the unaware, viz. uncpress.org/978146963688...

Why does having a cover for your book make it feel more official? Thrilled to share mine for Civil Blood: Vendetta Violence and the Civic Elites in Early Modern Italy out Nov 15 with @cornellupress.bsky.social This book has some things to say about the intersections between violence and statecraft.

Go work at one of my favorite libraries!

The #AHR is seeking proposals for a special issue on methodological approaches to archival silences in early history. Visit our website to read the full call for proposals and learn more about the guidelines for submission. Proposals are due September 16.

1. Modeling data does not a historical argument make. 2. Lefebvre might have written an early classic, but his sources are not the complete 'archive' of Great Fear rumors. 1/n

Featuring: Katherine Carté, Christian Ayne Crouch, Brad Jones, and Jeffers Lennox. Voices by: Jan Hoffmann, @kreggallagher.bsky.social, @lafayettepodcast.com, @gracemallon.bsky.social, Bertrand van Ruymbeke, Adam Smith, @annefertig.bsky.social, Annabelle Spencer, & @patricklong.bsky.social.

Looks like a great opportunity!

[email protected] and @carrieanderson.bsky.social have their fantastic textiles project!

Definitely interested if the @stolenrelations.bsky.social project would appeal to folks.

Team: Martha Howard @oieahc.bsky.social & I are pleased to say that the Omohundro Institute Digital Projects Coffee House Series is returning this fall. If you are a scholar of #vastearlyamerica with a digital project to share, we want to hear from you! Reply or DM. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...