Our building is being renovated over summer and fall. Just after we input final grades, we have to relocate to temporary offices. It is chaos.

“Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation” @cornellupress.bsky.social featured in the Guardian! 🥹 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

I have never liked mechanical pencils. Gen Z seems to love them.

Jim Crow Didn't Die. It Went to Law School. #CivilWarMemory open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

"The humanities are the moat [against AI] because they train the one capability AI cannot simulate: the ability to evaluate whether an output is worth anything." theslowai.substack.com/p/why-humani...

Meet the editors! Dr. Paul Bjerk and Dr. Andrew N. Wegmann are the new editors for History in Africa: https://ow.ly/RUMQ50YS1sA #AfricanStudies #HistoryInAfrica #ASA #Historians

When did a "B" become a bad grade? When I was young, my family, friends, and school lauded As *and* Bs.

And get @linford.bsky.social's new book here: amzn.to/41ZFyox

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Last night, I received the Award for Excellence in Research & Scholarship. I am incredibly honored (and still a little bit in disbelief).

Hugo Chávez claimed to rule in the name of democracy—but what happens when law itself is used to entrench authoritarian power? This piece explores how Venezuela’s legal and constitutional changes helped normalize dictatorship rather than prevent it. 👉 Read more: ageofrevolutions.com/2026/04/20/h...

🚨Announcing the 2026 Kimberly S. Hanger Article Prize Contest for scholars working in Latin American, Caribbean, Atlantic, and Borderlands History🚨 Please share!

🚨Announcing the 2026 Contest for the Richmond Brown Dissertation Prize🚨We invite submissions from scholars who defended in 2025 and work on Latin America, the Atlantic World, the Borderlands, and the Caribbean; time frame of study is open.

🚨Announcing the 2026 Contest for the Murdo J. Macleod Book Prize. Submissions may include books published between Jan. 1 2025 and Dec. 31 2025 on any areas of Latin American, Atlantic, Borderlands, and Caribbean history; the time frame of study is open🚨

Universities Studying Slavery has a new website! www.universitiesstudyingslavery.org/en/

📜Read the new issue of History Now! This issue has five scholarly essays on the origins of the Declaration of Independence, including Carli N. Conklin's "'The Harmonizing Sentiments of the Day': The Declaration of Independence and the Pursuit of Happiness." Read it here: https://ow.ly/VOKt50YHgL4

As I have lifted weights, my legs have definitely become stronger. They have also become heavier. I now call them logs, not legs.

This new Age of Revolutions essay examines Iran as a contemporary case to rethink long-standing revolutionary theory—and the costs of withdrawn support.
Read more: ageofrevolutions.com/2026/04/13/w...

A student from my first year of teaching just followed me on LinkedIn and I was... so absurdly excited and pleased to see what he's been up to. Students, your teachers really do like you.

How might the American Revolution look if a few small moments had gone differently? In “For All the Nails,” Robert Sobel reimagines the Revolution through the lens of contingency and consequence. A thought‑provoking reflection by M.A. Davis : 🔗 ageofrevolutions.com/2026/04/06/f...

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How long do you wait in an empty Zoom meeting before logging out? 10 minutes? 15 minutes? I am the only committee member who remembered the meeting, I suspect.

This semester has been one hell of a decade. 😫

Our building is being renovated over summer and fall, so my chair ordered some bubble wrap for packing our belongings. I am not sure he got enough.

A thoughtful historical read on U.S. foreign policy: this piece explores the legacy of the Roosevelt Corollary and how its assumptions have shaped—and distorted—justifications for intervention. Worth a look for anyone interested in the long arc of American power. ageofrevolutions.com/2026/03/23/t...

Age of Revolutions has had the same look for a decade. It was time for a refresh. New Design! Same Revolutionary Content! ageofrevolutions.com

Images don’t just document history—they create it. In “Maduro Captured: On Film and Mythmaking” @danielrunnels.bsky.social examines photography, mythmaking, and the construction of public authority. ageofrevolutions.com/2026/03/16/m...

I am officially published in German! “Katholizismus im revolutionären französischen Atlantik des 18. Jahrhunderts: Haiti und Französisch-Guayana‚” Revolution. Reaktion. Religion. Geschichte und Gegenwart eines komplexen Verhältnisses (Campus Verlag, 2025): 63-84. www.campus.de/buecher-camp...

A tip for my fellow men: you can say “I’m not the best fit for this, have you considered my colleague?” And a tip for museums/reporters/etc. looking for speakers and commenters: don’t know whom to ask? Try Women Also Know History, a great database of historical experts. womenalsoknowhistory.com

Enter by 11:59 PM EDT on Friday, March 13 for your chance to win a copy of Carl P. Borick's Backcountry Resistance: South Carolina's Militia and the Fight for American Independence! ageofrevolutions.com/2026/03/09/b...

I am starting to think that there will be books that "stalk" me during different stages in my career. I seem to somehow acquire multiple copies of a singular book at one time. In graduate school, it was Laurent Dubois's Avengers of the New World. Right now, it is Brandon Byrd's The Black Republic.

Tonight at 7:30pm watch me give the Society of the Cincinnati lecture at Hampden-Sydney College entitled: "The First Precedent: George Washington and Civic Virtue" Live stream it here: boxcast.tv/view/society...

Pick up your Age Of Revolutions companion collection! Great essays drawn from essays that first appeared on the site and others unique to the book! upress.virginia.edu/title/10176/

Anyone else just exhausted? This week felt like it was 45 days long.

PSA: We are all very busy. Please take a beat before saying "I am too busy" to do something. Think about framing it in terms of your priorities at the time. Be considerate of colleagues while maintaining your boundaries.

For genealogical research, how can individuals locate records (such as wills, land records, etc.) that may have survived fires set at courthouses during Sherman's March?

Are you a public historian? Join us next week to learn how to set up your pricing structure when you consult! This event is open to anyone, from grad students to experience professionals. Sponsored by @ncph.bsky.social ‘s Consultants Committee and Labor Task Force.

Companion site to my upcoming book: This digital poster tracks the way Black literary movements and Black little magazines influenced canon development, as represented in the Norton Anthology of Am Lit. #DH #digitalhumanities #BlackStudies #Periodicals and #Modernism. blackmodernism.com

Today, in honour of WEB DuBois's birthday in 1868, the @publicdomainrev.bsky.social features the hand-drawn infographics DuBois made with his students to depict the conditions of African-American life in 1900. Arts-based pedagogy all those years ago! buff.ly/3kdWqRD

Here’s the 60 Minutes report on “white genocide” in South Africa. It demonstrates it’s a lie, shows what’s really happening, debunks the specific claims made by Trump and ends with an Afrikaner saying it’s racist for the US to welcome his people rather than genuine refugees from around the world.

Please submit a proposal or panel by February 27!

Strongly reminiscent of this infamous diagram of a slaver ship. We are repeating our evils.

I know it isn't even midterm, but my answer for now on is "no." My plate is overflowing. No.

I am fighting for my life trying to review a book in 650 words.

What Is To Be Done? Historians of Crisis in a Moment of Crisis a special Issue of @jcwe.bsky.social is available to READ FOR FREE now on @projectmuse.bsky.social. 18 Civil War–era historians reflect on scholarship, teaching & today’s political crisis. Read it now👇 muse.jhu.edu/journal/516

“Jefferson’s life and legacies cannot be fully understood without understanding American chattel slavery, nor can it be understood without understanding the lives of the hundreds of enslaved individuals that lived and labored at Monticello,” ~Andrew Davenport www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2026...

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