I had such a great time in Warsaw hearing about my colleagues’ fascinating research & also getting to give a paper talking about immigrants, money, and border guards!

Join #OAHLecturer Julia Ott tomorrow for her virtual talk "Rethinking the Great Crash of 1929" at 1pm ET. She'll explore why the prices of assets fluctuate, where does financial value comes from, and more. Hosted by Master the Possibilities Education Center. Register: https://ow.ly/HP1O50YQKnZ

Interesting/disturbing story about the materiality of money — in this case, the laundering of illegally-mined gold

A new piece by me on postal savings and financial citizenship has just been published in the Journal of the Gilded Age & Progressive Era as part of a forum on immigration & consumption… www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

This Thursday, April 9, we’re excited to host "Rethinking the History of Capitalism," a conversation with @svenbeckert.bsky.social and Diana Kim (Georgetown University) about writing the history of capitalism on a global scale. Register here to watch the livestream: www.ghi-dc.org/events/event...

Looking forward to co-convening the workshop “Listening to the Past” in a couple of days at @ghiwashington.bsky.social, generously supported by @volkswagenstiftung.de — should be two days of interesting discussions! ghiworkshops.hypotheses.org/listening-to...

SCOTUS ruled today against President Trump’s tariffs. How have tariffs shaped American history? Find out at our March 5 webinar, Tariffs in Historical Perspective. Register: https://ow.ly/Cmcp50YiWKh

Our @germanhistorydocs.bsky.social colleague Insa Kummer was recently interviewed about her role managing the German History in Documents and Images project — check out the conversation here: www.historischer-augenblick.de/dhi-washingt...

Together with our partners at @c2dh.uni.lu we are happy to share the CfP for our 2026 Digital Humanities and Digital History conference: "AI through History, History through AI," taking place this June in Luxembourg. Proposals due March 1! www.uni.lu/c2dh-en/news...

Librarians are amazing 🙌

Today is International Migrants Day! To celebrate, read Heather Ruth Lee’s piece from 2022, “In Pursuit of Merchant Status: The Migration Strategy of Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Restaurant Owners under Chinese Exclusion.” https://tinyurl.com/4zk8y9ca

CFP: 'Difficult Collections' Special issue of 'Paper Trails' @uclpress.bsky.social. Focus on challenges of working with troubling heritage collections (colonialism, eugenics, representation, etc). Proposals: 31/01/26; Submissions: 31/05/26. Details: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/special-coll... #GLAM ##HistorySky

CFP: Doing Migration History with Digital Methods. 🔥Come and join us in Paris next year for the sommer school at the @dhiparis from June 22-26, 2026. 🖥️Rethink how digital sources reshape migration history, from research questions to methods and narratives, while tackling bias and meeting legal […]

CRDH Vol. 8: New research from Fabio Gigone, Natacha Klein Käfer, Natália da Silva Perez, Nadav Borenstein, Miara Fraikin, Sanne Maekelberg, and Anna McGee explores topics from royal iconography to AI-powered print analysis, midwifery education to palace networks. Read here: https://crdh.rrchnm.org

Happening TODAY—3pm ET: Why NARA matters + how you can act to protect access to America’s records. The "history of NOW" is no longer being safeguarded. Learn what you can do to advocate for our nation's archives. 🔗 https://ow.ly/P0tc50X5P8H

The October 2025 issue of The Exchange is now out! #BHC #BHC2026 #bizhis mailchi.mp/thebhc/the-e...

🚨🚨📢📢 New open-access article (co-authored w/ @nuriatargarona.bsky.social & @mirandalubbers.bsky.social), just out in American Behavioral Scientist: “The Relational Toll of Political Involvement in Polarized Times: Relationship Decay Within Activists’ Personal Networks” doi.org/10.1177/0002...

Watch the AHA’s Congressional Briefing on the history of tariffs on C-SPAN. Panelists @douglasirwin.bsky.social, @sharonannmurphy.bsky.social, & @rauchway.bsky.social discussed how the government has implemented tariffs in the past & how they have impacted the economy. 🗃️

Earlier this spring someone reached out to the Migrant Connections project about a collection of German letters, photographs, and other documents he had salvaged from an abandoned apartment building in Newark, Delaware…

Here's a write-up of my keynote from #DH2025, since academic publishing is slow and this was written for right now. roopikarisam.com/talks-cat/dh...

Take our survey! We want to know what historians are experiencing as they use brick-and-mortar libraries & archives, as well as digital collections this summer. Your feedback will help us assess what is happening at the grassroots. ow.ly/X0Xp50W7wiX

In the June issue of the #AHR, @danieljstory.bsky.social teams up with @katecarp.bsky.social, host and producer of @draftingthepast.bsky.social, to discuss the craft of writing history, while unpacking the minutiae of both the writing process and podcast interviews. #HistoryinFocus 🗃️

Lots of commentary on this piece already, all of which I agree with. For historians, research is a fundamental part of writing. To farm it out to AI changes the nature of this intellectual process in fundamental ways. And as Stacy Schiff points out, it also takes all the fun out of it.

Some fascinating research here

Update: my chapter on #gossip and @gothamscholar.bsky.social 's chapter on financial knowledge of immigrants are now #openaccess

We’ve extended our “Listening to the Past” workshop #CallForPapers to June 8 — please share with colleagues interested in the history of sound, of language, and potential AI-based applications to the same… www.ghi-dc.org/events/event...

🎙️ New Episode: Who Makes Two Cents? Live @ BHC 2025 "If you want to write about class and power, how can you not write about businesses?" (Caitlin Rosenthal in Atlanta at the BHC 2025 annual meeting) 🎧 Listen more BHC voices on the history of capitalism here: open.spotify.com/episode/3cNb...

Many of our members have had grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities abruptly terminated. In response, the AHA, @modernlanguage.bsky.social, & @ach.bsky.social are convening an Information Exchange about the NEH Appeal Process on Wednesday, April 30th at 11am ET on Zoom. Register now 🗃️

Co-organizing this workshop next spring (which seems very far, far off)…

CFP: "Rebuild or Retreat? Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Climate Migration and Mobility in the Global North," conference at the GHI Washington in April 2026, proposals due June 16: www.ghi-dc.org/events/event...

CFP: "Imperial Legacies? (Dis)continuities and Comparisons between Colonialism and Nazi Rule," conference at the GHI Washington in May 2025, proposals due July 1: www.ghi-dc.org/events/event...

Join us this Thursday for Felix Krämer's lecture on "Credit's Histories." His book "Menschen, Macht und Schulden in den USA" was awarded honorable mention for the 2025 @oah.org Willi Paul Adams Award, recognizing the best book on American history published in a language other than English…

Really excited to have a chapter in this volume, rooted in an excellent conference that unfortunately had to take place in cyberspace back in 2021…

Over the years, @georgemasonu.bsky.social has won 157 National Endowment for the Humanities awards. Over half of these awards were awarded to the Department of History and Art History. During the next few weeks, we will be highlighting the excellent work the #NEHfunded.

Really enjoyed my first-ever OAH but randomly one of the things I couldn’t help noticing was the lovely carpets at the conference hotel, as you might spot in these photos…

Absolutely incredible: the Feds totally folded on Congestion Pricing, thanks to the MTA just...refusing to abide by their demands www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...

Want to see the scope of what the NEH grant terminations is? The ACH ( @ach.bsky.social ) has compiled a database: impact.ach.org

Looking forward to being part of this panel at OAH!

The March issue includes the AHR’s first playlist. Jason Gibbs, a leading expert on late 20th Vietnamese popular music, has created a playlist of 12 songs that introduce listeners to Vietnamese soundscapes of the wartime era. 🗃️

Join us for our next event on Tuesday, March 25: “A Day in the Life of a Cultural Heritage Practitioner” meetu.ps/e/NXM92/bCB6...

Our spring lecture series on "Poverty in the 20th Century" continues Thursday, March 27, when Prof. Claire Dunning @umdpublicpolicy.bsky.social presents "Nonprofit Neighborhoods: How the U.S. Privatized the Fight against Urban Inequality." Info on attending: www.ghi-dc.org/events/event...

“History is a reasoned reconstruction of the past, rooted in the deepest evidence we can find, crafted into narratives… through training in research, critical thinking, humility, respect for sources, an ethics about documentation, & in the integrity of debate.” THIS 📢 newrepublic.com/article/1912...

I love @tropy.bsky.social but sometimes using it does feel a bit like doing Macro Data Refinement

🎉 The 2025 BHC Program is Now Available! 🎉 📅 Event Date: March 13–15, 2025 📍 Location: Atlanta, Georgia 🌐 Program: https://thebhc.org/index.php/2025-bhc-meeting #BHC2025 #BizHis

Looking forward to this lecture series I co-organized with my colleague Raphael Roessel kicking off in just a few weeks—

My semi-annual request for nominations for the digital history reviews section. Self-nominations welcome. www.oah.org/publications...

Come join us January 14 for a DCHDC New Year Happy Hour at Crimson in downtown DC (Gallery Place/Chinatown)! We’ll be talking about things we're looking forward to in 2025 and things we wish to leave behind. meetu.ps/e/NMswT/bCB6...

History friends! I'll be at the American Historical Association annual meeting this weekend in New York—if your research involves New York City history and you're interested in reaching public audiences, we'd love to feature your work on our blog at the Gotham Center for New York City History…