Great essay on 19th c. women's rights activist Amelia Bloomer, in @contingent-mag.bsky.social. contingentmagazine.org/2025/09/09/d...

A reminder that we're collecting for our 2025 contingent publication lists!

"Bloomer was many things: a writer, editor, lecturer, temperance activist, and even deputy postmaster. But a fashion rebel she was not." Excellent @contingent-mag.bsky.social review by @hottycouture.bsky.social of @scatterall.bsky.social recent Bloomer bio. contingentmagazine.org/2025/09/09/d...

A reminder that we're collecting for our 2025 contingent publication lists!

"The 'feminist killjoy' stereotype is as timely—and misleading—now as it was then." A review of Sara Catterall's new biography of Amelia Bloomer by @hottycouture.bsky.social

"The 'feminist killjoy' stereotype is as timely—and misleading—now as it was then." A review of Sara Catterall's new biography of Amelia Bloomer by @hottycouture.bsky.social

It's been a while folks but @contingent-mag.bsky.social has a new postcard! Read about Ashley Steenson's recent visit to the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. contingentmagazine.org/2025/08/26/p...

"Rosenberg suggests that historians must be able to make predictions about the future, in the manner of natural scientists, in order to claim that their work provides reliable knowledge about the past or has any significance for the present." Today's discourse reminded us of this piece.

"Rosenberg suggests that historians must be able to make predictions about the future, in the manner of natural scientists, in order to claim that their work provides reliable knowledge about the past or has any significance for the present." Today's discourse reminded us of this piece.

A new research postcard from a scholar on the trail of Fredi Washington.

Each year, we publish lists of books, journal articles, and chapters published by historians working off the tenure track. It's never too early to start collecting, so if you or someone you know has something with a 2025 publication date to submit, have at it!

As someone who thinks A LOT about the Jurassic Park franchise, I was delighted to see this @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social review of JW: Rebirth. Even better is that it is by my amazing @contingent-mag.bsky.social colleague @dinostalgia.bsky.social #ScholarSunday lareviewofbooks.org/article/natu...

Each year, we publish lists of books, journal articles, and chapters published by historians working off the tenure track. It's never too early to start collecting, so if you or someone you know has something with a 2025 publication date to submit, have at it!

In a wonderful training with my coworkers and sometimes I can’t believe one of the first pieces I edited for @contingent-mag.bsky.social is still so relevant and helpful in my work. contingentmagazine.org/2019/03/20/i...

I was a trailing spouse at an R1 where the dean had APPROVED my spousal hire but two assholes in the department (who didn't specialize in my field but taught it) managed to veto it.

“Academic couples, however, still need institutions to play ball. And institutions overwhelmingly have neither the funding nor the desire to make spousal hires happen.”

The latest @contingent-mag.bsky.social essay is my review of @paulmcgarr.bsky.social's excellent book, Spying in South Asia @universitypress.cambridge.org The book is a MUST READ especially for @shafrhistorians.bsky.social #india #coldwar #skystorians contingentmagazine.org/2025/08/12/t...

"The period between 1945 and 1991 saw arms, space, and foreign aid races, but also an intelligence race." A new review from our editor @marcus1984.bsky.social

"The period between 1945 and 1991 saw arms, space, and foreign aid races, but also an intelligence race." A new review from our editor @marcus1984.bsky.social

August is here, and with it my 236th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, share widely, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ + americanstudier.substack.com/p/scholarsun...

"Our natural history is held in these archives, a history which can only be discovered through support for both the collection and its stewards."

"Our natural history is held in these archives, a history which can only be discovered through support for both the collection and its stewards."

New on Contingent! @cladist-magpie.bsky.social offers insight into the careful labor of curating natural history, especially urgent work amidst global pollinator population decline 🐝

For the next entry in our Losses series, A’liya Spinner takes us into an NSF-funded project threatened by government cuts. "These ambassadors for entomology have already taught us so much about evolution, phylogeny, and climate change by acting as miniature windows into natural history."

For the next entry in our Losses series, A’liya Spinner takes us into an NSF-funded project threatened by government cuts. "These ambassadors for entomology have already taught us so much about evolution, phylogeny, and climate change by acting as miniature windows into natural history."

"It can be easy to recognize a racist or orientalist policy, especially when they’re given monikers like the 'Muslim Ban.' But it’s harder to apply those same skills when reading a textbook, which is presented as an impartial repository of knowledge."

"It can be easy to recognize a racist or orientalist policy, especially when they’re given monikers like the 'Muslim Ban.' But it’s harder to apply those same skills when reading a textbook, which is presented as an impartial repository of knowledge."

Erin Bartram's piece came out 2.5 years ago, and I still think of it every day as the joys of my professional life are frequently crushed by the absolute demands imposed by institutions *refusing to hire people to do necessary work.*

"This 'burnout' that secure scholars are feeling is phantom pain where their colleagues should be."

Were you on #Twitter and then left? Are you still there and hate it? For @contingent-mag.bsky.social Kate Carpenter (@katecarp.bsky.social) reviewed Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter. If you read one thing today, READ THIS! #ScholarSunday contingentmagazine.org/2025/07/14/t...

Here it is, my 234th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more below, please share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ americanstudier.substack.com/p/scholarsun...

We've heard from so many fascinating people so far and we're going to start trying to find/make matches, but gee we'd love to have a political scientist or two in the mix.

Political scientists: They WANT to hear from us! Do you study the past? They might just have a new buddy for you!

Also documentary editors!

We've heard from so many fascinating people so far and we're going to start trying to find/make matches, but gee we'd love to have a political scientist or two in the mix.

"If the experience of reading a book can change so dramatically with the context of just a few months, what was the book missing in the first place?" Historian @katecarp.bsky.social takes on last year's Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter.

"If the experience of reading a book can change so dramatically with the context of just a few months, what was the book missing in the first place?" Historian @katecarp.bsky.social takes on last year's Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter.

This paragraph, these sentences, the description: an automatic nominee for the @contingent-mag.bsky.social Hall of Fame written by @katecarp.bsky.social Read the entire review of Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter contingentmagazine.org/2025/07/14/t...

On the 80th anniversary of the #Trinity test, today's required reading is Dhruva Jaishankar's 2023 @contingent-mag.bsky.social essay, "The Destroyer." Read about Oppenheimer and his obsession with Indian philosophy. #history #skystorians #bombhistory #S&T contingentmagazine.org/2023/07/21/t...

"Musk seems to have imagined that he could buy the candy factory and install himself as tech’s Willy Wonka, but in Conger and Mac’s telling he comes off as all four bratty golden ticket winners combined."

We're pairing up contingent historians with contingent scholars in other fields for a face off! Click through to learn more and let us know if you want to participate.

"I am less interested in what motivates Musk to inflict misery on so many other people. I want to understand how a person like Musk was able to inflict so much misery in the first place." Our latest, from @katecarp.bsky.social

"I am less interested in what motivates Musk to inflict misery on so many other people. I want to understand how a person like Musk was able to inflict so much misery in the first place." Our latest, from @katecarp.bsky.social

"Childhood carpools had meant no detours, not even for Don Knots, so I had never been to the homes I had glimpsed from the road."

@contingent-mag.bsky.social has a new piece coming this week. It's a review but we're trying something different. The review is not of a history monograph but a recent work by journalists. We are eager to see what you think.

"Childhood carpools had meant no detours, not even for Don Knots, so I had never been to the homes I had glimpsed from the road."

We've gotten a ton of fascinating submissions so far from people who research the past outside of the discipline of history, but we're looking for more! Share widely to help us get this project off the ground.

We've gotten a ton of fascinating submissions so far from people who research the past outside of the discipline of history, but we're looking for more! Share widely to help us get this project off the ground.

"This admittedly ridiculous rabbit hole is an illustration of the challenges historians face not only in formulating a well-supported argument, but also in competing with popular explanations for events."

"This admittedly ridiculous rabbit hole is an illustration of the challenges historians face not only in formulating a well-supported argument, but also in competing with popular explanations for events."