Black women shouldn't have to fear for their lives when they're bringing life into the world. But we're 3x more likely to die from pregnancy-related complications. Black Maternal Health Week is a reminder: this crisis is preventable. Black moms deserve quality care, respect & the chance to thrive.

Me: I spoke to the New York Times about the Trump triumphal arch plans today. Husband: What did you tell them? Me: That I am the structure’s Arch Nemesis. Husband: Puns? To the NYT? Me: It’s a good pun. 10/10 Cicero would support this. Husband: *exasperated sigh*

Woohoo, here's my essay with my fav co-author on 30,000 fellowship wins across the Guggenheim, Stanford CASBS, NAEd, National Humanities Center, RSF visiting scholar, and Harvard Radcliffe. Spoiler: it's the people working at prestigious universities www.publicbooks.org/who-gets-gug...

I’m offering a lightly used set of regalia in UC Berkeley colors to a junior faculty member, preference for a mom and 1st gen scholar. DM me your details— I’ll ship for free.

I had the privilege of guest editing the spring issue of Frank Lloyd Wright Quarterly. Entitled "The Architecture of Continuance: The Act of Understanding, Preserving, and Conserving," this issue includes phenomenal pieces by Magdalena Novoa and Daisy Ocampo Diaz, among others.

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.

I chat with people who think they’re so far removed from what’s going on today with ICE and I always hit them with the “my grandma was 6 when they put her in an incarceration camp.”

Our workshop "Consulting in a Changing Landscape" was accepted into the 2026 conference for @ncph.bsky.social and the @aaslh.org! This workshop focuses on consulting in public history, archives, museums, and historic preservation for those currently in the field, or looking to make a career change.

Is the Chronicle still bothering to collect salary information on adjuncts or do we need to do another Google spreadsheet?

🎉 FSU is hiring a 2-year postdoc in Public History!! 🎉 Apps (cover letter + cv) due March 11, finalists will submit additional materials (letters + writing sample) More info available here: careers.historians.org/jobs/2201954...

So important. What they say is not the story. That is never the story. What happened is the story. Write what happened.

***DEEP SIGH*** This is just the latest in our centuries-long fight over how to commemorate George Washington's involvement in slavery. It began while he was still alive, and continued immediately after his death, in the lead-up to Civil War, through Jim Crow, Civil Rights, and Black Lives Matter.

Americans will use anything except the metric system

challenge for chicago architecture bsky that i've come up completely blank one: who was the lighting designer/illumination engineer for the merchandise mart? the illumination scheme is so key to the building's appearance, but as far as i can tell, the lighting designer is unknown

“This all had me wondering: what’s Indian food without the heat? The historian in me has an answer: spiciness is historically contingent.”

I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.

The losses to my field have been tremendous. Every brilliant scholar-teacher I know who didn’t get a chance to grow our knowledge about the past and help young people learn historical thinking skills is a loss. But it should never be “me instead of you,” but always “both of us, together.”

"I had not touched a cat in 15 years when an orange kitten wandered over to sit with me in the grass one day. I was left without adequate words to describe that experience. It reminded me that I am alive."

My premature son was brought to the NICU. I cannot convey the depths of my despair when they told me wouldn’t be allowed to see him for at least 24 hrs because I was still on an IV. The hospital could have had a setup to enable me and other patients with IVs to visit the NICU, but chose not to.

This is actually a good example of why the customer model is wrong. I wouldn't have chosen poetry writing, but UNC made me take a class. And it absolutely made me become a much better writer, with an eye to concision and an ear now trained to the rhythm of words. I'm a better historian as a result.

Last week the @historians.org Council decided to deny its members the opportunity to vote on two resolutions—one in solidarity with Gaza and one condemning the sustained assault on “core principles of education” in the US and abroad—at the organization’s conference next month. 1/ 🗃️

My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.

The deadline to submit session proposals for next year's conference is at the end of this week. Share your knowledge with the field at the first-ever joint conference with the National Council on Public History. Learn more and submit a proposal at tinyurl.com/AASLH2026.

The vast body of research that Ken Burns relied upon to make his new documentary on the American Revolution would be practically impossible to be produced today, what with the defunding of humanistic scholarship, the collapse of stable academic jobs, the attack on public history & academic freedom.🗃️

Doggo on the Loose! Ate all the Pecan Pie!

Lots of folks captioning aurora photos like "for a few minutes we didn't think about politics" guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation

Today is the 9th anniversary of the day Maggie stole an entire pecan pie and got drunk from all the sugar. Happy Purloined Pecan Pie Day from our family to yours!

Aurora borealis in….. Florida! Can’t believe you can see the northern lights this far south.

It’s visible even in Tallahassee, Florida!

Applications for these TT history positions in US post 1865 and sub-Saharan Africa are due today!

Paxlovid from Pfizer costs $15 to make and now retails for $1500. Insane

I am interested in starting to hear from care workers on SNAP about your concerns. I'm @motherjones.com's disability reporter. Please be in touch. My email is [email protected] and my Signal is juliametraux.49. Reposts are appreciated.

Do you have a great public history or historic preservation project that you wish more people knew about? Are you looking to find more clients and professional connections? The NCPH Consultants' Committee is sponsoring a session at the 2026 @ncph.bsky.social conference

In Florida, the Northwest Regional Library System, which covers libraries in Bay, Gulf and Liberty counties, has ended its interlibrary loan program because of a loss of federal funding. ***There's no more interlibrary loans in these counties, y'all.*** www.newsherald.com/story/news/l...

We're hiring 2 tenure-track positions this year at FSU's History dept, one in US post 1865 and the other in sub-Saharan Africa -- just CV, letter, and online app to apply by Nov 3. I'm not on either search committee (I'm on research leave in the spring) but am happy to answer any questions!

We're hiring 2 tenure-track positions this year at FSU's History dept, one in US post 1865 and the other in sub-Saharan Africa -- just CV, letter, and online app to apply by Nov 3. I'm not on either search committee (I'm on research leave in the spring) but am happy to answer any questions!

I just deleted my academia.edu account because their new terms force you to agree to let them use "your name, voice, signature, photograph, likeness, city, institutional affiliations, citations, mentions, publications, and areas of interest in any manner."

“... the school security industry is now worth as much as $4 billion, and it's projected to keep growing.” Hardening schools won’t stop gun violence—it just turns classrooms into fortresses. Real safety comes from common-sense gun laws that prevent violence before it enters our schools.

We have forgotten all the ways people used to get toxins out of their food before federal regulation. It's not that food and water used to be cleaner -- it's that domestic work used to include detoxing everything we put in our mouths!

Here we go. <Elimination> of all IFLE funding. No FLAS fellowships or NRC area studies centers nationwide. Might be nice of even a single university president was willing to speak up about this disaster for R1 universities & their students. democrats-appropriations.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

Another Public History Grumpy Hour is coming! Join the National Council on Public History and the Consultants Committee for a virtual night of connection and support. Register: community.ncph.org/event/Spooky... @ncph.bsky.social

Do you work in historic preservation? Sign up to chat with one of my students on zoom for an hour in September-- we pair them with people in their prospective career field so they can ask questions and learn more all the great paths and opportunities working in HP: forms.gle/fT5tPhzxAaaJ...

I'm honored to share that I received a statewide teaching award! Last week, I received the Roy E. Graham Award for Excellence in Historic Preservation Education at the Secretary of State awards dinner on Amelia Island. artsandsciences.fsu.edu/article/fsu-...

Do you have a passion for historic buildings, preservation, and telling the stories behind our built environment? The NDN Companies is hiring an architectural historian to be based in their Jacksonville, FL office.

NCPH is hosting "This is a Place We Made: Centering Place in Disability History" on July 24, 1pm ET on zoom, register here: community.ncph.org/event/Disabi... This is a wonderful program, and hope to see you there! @ncph.bsky.social

Pro tip: say no to at least 50% of requests and, whenever you decline, provide the names of two male colleagues who are shirking their share of service. (Gold star for BCCing the dean when you do so.)

Dear anxious parents of high school seniors, Are any of you wanting your senior to get a head start on their college essay? I’m a professor in the English department at William & Mary & my Summer 2 class got cancelled so I’m looking to add structure to my days these next two months.

Just heard a high-ranking administrator refer to our university as a "business." 🫠 🗃️

Graduation is always meaningful, but especially so this year after the recent tragedy at FSU. I am so glad we got to come together to celebrate these newly-minted MA graduates, and I cannot wait to see what these historians and historic preservationists will do next! @renfro.bsky.social