Check out Revolutions in Retrospect! Our new podcast that explores the revolutions that remade the Atlantic world, from the civil wars of 17th century Britain, the Jacobite Uprisings, & American Independence, to Revolutionary Haiti, the French Revolution, the Enlightenment, & everything in between.

Applications are open for the #AHA26 Sinclair Workshop on Historical Podcasting. This session, limited to 10 attendees following an application, will focus on the development process for producing historical podcast. Apply at the link by November 15. 🗃️

How do you tell the story of a copy of the Declaration of Independence that doesn't exist anymore? This week's newsletter focuses on Polly Palmer, with help from the @rrchnm.bsky.social podcast Your Most Obedient & Humble Servant declarationstories.org/stories/miss-polly-or-myra

I am sad to share that my position at George Mason University is being eliminated in October. Over the last four years, I've produced over 100 episodes that have explored many different topics and time periods, but always with the same goal: to bring the latest academic research to public audiences.

The Rebellion is now in progress.

One of the podcasts I produce is up for TWO People's Choice Podcast Awards! Worlds Turned Upside Down has been nominated for the People's Choice Award and Best History Podcast. I would really appreciate it if you would vote for Worlds Turned Upside Down! www.podcastawards.com

So much is alternately bananas and enraging and terrifying, but over in my lane I know this. Americans want, in fact crave, real, full, complex histories that reflect the kind of complexity they face daily. Pablum appeals to v few. That's why we do this work. Heading into #July4.

NOW PLAYING: Episode 16: The Tea A looming financial disaster for the East India Company leads to a new crisis in North America when seven tea-laden ships are sent to the colonies in 1773, inspiring Bostonians to dump much of the cargo in Boston Harbor. www.r2studios.org/show/worlds-...

Next week we're headed to India, making a stop in London, and then dumping some tea in Boston Harbor with @deepthimurali.bsky.social, @bencarp.bsky.social, James Fichter, and Mary Beth Norton. So put the kettle on and catch up on Worlds Turned Upside Down now: www.r2studios.org/show/worlds-...

Within 2 hours of breaking news and @askhistorians.bsky.social users ask about historical events to understand the present. If any #SkyStorians want to get involved with AH to help people with Breaking Historical Questions, reach out- we'd love to have you participate www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

Big news from the #ITPS! We are thrilled to share a new series with @uvapress.bsky.social! Here are more details about "From Pamphlets to Podcasts" and if you're working on relevant themes (this is an intentionally 'big tent' series), consider sending them our way upress.virginia.edu/news/new-boo...

I am so excited to share that I am the winner of the 2025 Women in Podcasting Best Producer Award! Thank you so much to all of you who voted for me, and especially for listening to the podcast series I produce.

NOW PLAYING: Episode 15: The Heavens Fall The detainment of a West African-born enslaved Virginian named James Somerset in London leads to a court case decided by England's most powerful judge that challenges the foundations of slavery in the British Empire. www.r2studios.org/show/worlds-...

Really good episode of Worlds Turned Upside Down podcast. Plan to use it for future classes. Chilling, powerful overview. #skystorians #academicsky #Caribbean #enslavement #18thc #18c www.r2studios.org/show/worlds-...

New episode out! I talked with Padraic Scanlan about his new book, Rot: An Imperial History of the Irish Famine. He makes the case for writing fast, messy first drafts and embracing editors. Listen now: draftingthepast.com/podcast-epis...

Just concluded a fantastic podcast interview with Ramin Ganeshram, Executive Director at the Westport Museum for History & Culture. We talked a lot about the current landscape of doing history work. This chat will be available on Apple Podcasts and Spotify on June 10. Mark your calendars!

I’m currently listening to worlds turned upside down by @jimambuske.bsky.social and enjoying it quite a lot. Still in season 1 and getting a much more in depth look at the pre war years than I ever got in grade school!

Are you a digital humanities scholar looking to sharpen your digital project-building skills, receive funding, and create an open access project on a supported platform? Apply now! Applications are open, and will close on July 1st at 11:59 p.m. U.S. EST. networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

NEW EPISODE ALERT!

Dig into my latest conversation with @emilyherring.bsky.social about her book, HERALD OF A RESTLESS WORLD! We talked about how she wrote an intellectual biography that is damn interesting, the quirks of French education, her shift from academia, and more! Listen: draftingthepast.com/podcast-epis...

Thanks to Neil McPhedran and Jennifer-lee Gunson from the Continuing Studies Podcast for inviting @jeanettepatrick.bsky.social and me to talk about R2 Studios, history podcasting, and connecting new audiences with the past. Have a listen! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofq8...

NEW EPISODE! In which Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson undertakes a fundraising campaign that is a smidge harder than just going door to door. www.r2studios.org/show/your-mo...

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.

We've extended the deadline for proposal submissions for the JCB institutional website to April 21! Details here: jcblibrary.org/news/jcb-req...

Last week we learned that 6 of our active NEH awards—totaling $789k in unspent funds—were immediately terminated by the so-called Department of Government Efficiency.This is obviously a blow, and a serious one, to our work.But we will carry on. To see our terminated grants rrchnm.org/news/carryin...

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

Let's build a thread on what the cancellation of NEH grants is doing to state councils. Add yours here, I'll start:

“Americans really like book festivals and local history museums…We especially like it when such gifts are available to everyone, and not just to those who can afford the price of a ticket.” Excellent @margaretrenkl.bsky.social on the high ROI of the NEH. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/o...

Last week I hosted an @oieahc.bsky.social Coffeehouse featuring SlaveVoyages, one of the longest running & most transformative digital history projects ever. The project began with NEH funding. It is a concrete example of the power of public investment in our past. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIhr...

Tomorrow morning at 9:00 a.m. ET, the newest episode of my podcast drops on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Tune in to hear my chat with Kate Steir of @gunstonhall.bsky.social!

One woman. One letter. One moment in history. Kathryn Gehred’s podcast Your Most Obedient & Humble Servant shares the voices of 18th-century women—from gossipy sisters to sharp political observers.🗃️ Read more: tinyurl.com/37kkd4n9

A fun new episode of Your Most Obedient & Humble Servant! @katyghistory.bsky.social & @emilysneff.bsky.social look at one of the very few reactions from a woman about the Declaration of Independence in 1776. Listen on your favorite app or www.r2studios.org/show/your-mo...

On my way to Montréal for #NCPH2025, where I’m looking forward to, among other things, sessions on historical consulting. So I suppose this the right time to announce my next career step: I’m setting up my own consultancy!

Learn more about the Quartering Act in Episode 11: “The Resistance” www.r2studios.org/show/worlds-...

Writers, this essay is so good. What works one day might not work the next, and that's ok! lithub.com/the-first-st...

Don’t miss the last AskHistorians #Podcast! #Skystorians can listen in on Podcasts, Universities, and navigating public facing history with Jeanette Patrick of R2 Studios.

Had a blast working on this from @jimambuske.bsky.social and @jeanettepatrick.bsky.social. Please check out all of the content from R2 studios!

NOW PLAYING: Episode 13: "The Massacre" In response to rioting and protests over the Townshend Acts, the British deploy four regiments to Boston, leading to a deadly shooting on March 5, 1770, a massacre that wounds a family. With Serena Zabin and John McCurdy www.r2studios.org/show/worlds-...

At Women Also Know History, we know that women make history every day of the year. This Women's History Month, we want to take the opportunity to celebrate the women whose scholarship enriches the historical profession and expands our knowledge of the past. womenalsoknowhistory.com

New episode out! It was a delight to talk with @theotherrbg.bsky.social about her first book, DEAR MISS PERKINS, career shifts and nonexistent rules, and her strategies for marketing her book. Listen here: draftingthepast.com/podcast-epis... 🗃️

New Episode! @georgemasonu.bsky.social's Dr Cynthia Kierner and @katyghistory.bsky.social discuss why 18th-century widows who legally owned property had no say in how it was taxed. They also explore religious conversion, cohabitation, & inflation! Listen now on your fav podcast app #womenshistory

I'm halfway through the first episode of "Our Ancestors Were Messy: A Black History Comedy Podcast" and would encourage everyone to give it a listen! Amazing work by Nichole Hill and her team!

@jeanettepatrick.bsky.social & I had an excellent conversation with Brian Alberts (@brewedculture.org) this afternoon about the power of history podcasting & the possibilities of highly quaffable storytelling. Check out some of what Brian has been brewing: www.goodbeerhunting.com/gbh-podcast/...

Team: I'm happy to say that the Omohundro Institute's Digital Humanities Projects Coffeehouse returns on February 18, 2025 at Noon ET with Dr. Jane Landers of Vanderbilt University, Director of the Slave Societies Digital Archive. Join us! oieahc.wm.edu/events-overv...

New Episode: The Most Dreadful Of All Enemies Dr. Jacqueline Beatty joins host Kathryn Gehred to discuss The Petition of Belinda from 1783 by Belinda Sutton. Beatty and Gehred discuss Sutton’s use of poetic language to describe her kidnapping and enslavement. www.r2studios.org/show/your-mo...

Received my advance copy of Jane Austen’s Bookshelf from @simonandschuster.bsky.social. I am so far enjoying @rebeccaromney.com’s take on my favorite eighteenth century writers (and honestly, it’s making me want to reread Udolpho again)

One of the more rewarding aspects of making Worlds Turned Upside Down is reading past scholarship, diving into new works, and encountering primary sources that are new (to me), like Ukawsaw Gronniosaw's 1772 autobiography. Here's a 1790 edition, published in Edinburgh: archive.org/details/narr...

Hey museum folks: What museum do you work at??

Things are moving along with the Graffiti Houses Project! Here are some photos of the measuring and imaging processes used to document the historic graffiti. Photo credit: Matthew Kaiser, City of Fairfax, VA, taken January 17.

In today's episode @jmbeatty.bsky.social joins @katyghistory.bsky.social to discuss the poetic language Belinda Sutton uses when she petitions The Massachusetts General Court for the funds left to her by her enslaver Isaac Royall after he fled during the Rev War. www.r2studios.org/show/your-mo...