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may I just please never hear about ChatGPT or LLMs ever again, is that an option

submitted 33 days ago • 21 comments

This is absolutely terrible. People constantly say that they want to support "alternatives" to policing but they absolutely DO NOT WANT TO RESOURCE THEM. EVER. Cahoots is a gold-standard for non-police community response. 30 YEARS OF PROVEN SUCCESS. www.registerguard.com/story/news/l...

submitted 33 days ago • 20 comments

"You know, as an example, red lead was used to make cheddar... A can of coffee could be coffee, but it could be ground bone, or charred shells, or dirt." Deborah Blum on our bad food past -- and how to avoid it being our future: buttondown.com/theswordandt...

submitted 34 days ago • 72 comments

Come present! The MHS offers great and helpful seminars. #Skystorians

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond. I hope you’ll read and share the piece. stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...

submitted 42 days ago • 16 comments

I also really appreciate that Hahn takes mass incarceration seriously as a form of "disappearance" in U.S. history. The podcast episode is well worth listening to: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

submitted 41 days ago • 3 comments

When I left the Washington Post in 2023, my colleagues and I were worried AI would hoover up our work and enable "zombies" to churn out stories based on our reporting and writing styles. Today WaPo announced a partnership with OpenAI. And here it is: Zombie Gillian Brockell. I DID NOT WRITE THIS.

submitted 42 days ago • 268 comments

“The Trump administration’s illegal campaign against universities isn’t just an attack on the people who work and study at them. It’s an attack on the local communities that thrive alongside them.” – Nikolas Bowie, Harvard law professor and Harvard AAUP member

submitted 53 days ago • 1 comment

If you don’t know what fierce and visionary freedom fighter Coretta Scott King was, you need to! www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 56 days ago • 1 comment

#NationalLibraryWeek #LiteracyMatters

submitted 55 days ago • 281 comments

AHA exec director @jgrossman.bsky.social & OAH exec Beth English joined the New Books Network podcast Postscript: Conversations on Politics and Political Science to discuss “the effects of historical censorship, data shredding, meaningful public education–and what everyone can do to fight back.”🗃️

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

Detailing some of the NEH cuts in Massachusetts includibg the state humanities council, AAS, museums, historical documentaries and more. #NEH www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/04/n...

submitted 56 days ago • 3 comments

here’s a curse word free version of “look it up” as requested by countless teachers and librarians 🥰😘

submitted 57 days ago • 422 comments

“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...

submitted 57 days ago • 1 comment

The AHA’s report "American Lesson Plan: Teaching US History in Secondary Schools" was featured in an Education Week article on a legislation aiming to ban DEI in public schools. Despite these bills’ claims, the AHA found little evidence that partisan or ideological teaching is a widespread problem.🗃️

submitted 60 days ago • 6 comments

I haven't had a chance to read any of it, but this looks like a wonderful resource for teachers and anyone else interested in the history and memory of the American Revolution. 🗃️ apps.bostonglobe.com/opinion/idea...

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

In #AHAPerspectives, read a Long Overdue tribute to Lulu Merle Johnson, a historian and the first African American woman to earn a doctorate in Iowa, who died in 1995. 🗃️

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

On the latest episode #HistoryinFocus, @danieljstory.bsky.social and @syrussolojin.bsky.social speak with the four contributors from the AHR's March 2025 forum "The Vietnam War Fifty Years On," and pay a visit to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. 🗃️

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

The @humanitiesall.bsky.social has a resource, NEH for All, w data about the impact of the NEH locally and nationally. Yes, it is important to right now use the contact and advocacy resources, but it's also critical, imho, to read, gather, & share this info w family &community. www.nehforall.org

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

Scholarly authors in the humanities and social sciences, apply for this incredible grant from Princeton University Press! Work with writing coaches like me to craft a solid book proposal. Proud to be part of a program centering the voices of diverse scholars. press.princeton.edu/book-proposa...

submitted 63 days ago • 1 comment

This piece highlights a number of academic and independent archives that contain incredible zines that document and preserve trans history, community, survival and storytelling 🗃️ #TransDayOfVisibility 🏳️‍⚧️ via @atlasobscura.com: www.atlasobscura.com/articles/que...

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

Can’t wait till the semester is over so I can read this!

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

Today is my lecture on the Gettysburg Address and I just might cry.

submitted 64 days ago • 1 comment

Creek Wood High School student Allysa Crum produced this video for a class assignment. She writes, “I want to show that historians and the study of history are needed, and organizations like the AHA are key in helping people continue to do the important work of sharing the past with the world." 🗃️

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

Submit nominations for the AHA’s awards and prizes by May 15. The AHA recognizes outstanding historical work of many types, including exceptional books, distinguished teaching and mentoring, film, and digital projects and resources. 🗃️

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

Exciting news! My article, "Quarantine Scenes in Staten Island History," is now live on the Gotham Center for NYC History Blog! From yellow fever in the 1700s to COVID, S.I. has long been at the center of NYC’s quarantine battles, which sometimes sparked rebellion. Read & share! #publichistory #nyc

submitted 76 days ago • 6 comments

A really interesting read on how the history of justice movements—and attacks on them—is intertwined with the history of the postal service in the United States 🗃️ daily.jstor.org/how-mail-del...

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

Please share. The @oah.org is "seeking information related to the accessibility or interpretation of historical sources or information on federal websites and digital collections." Use their form to report alterations to and deletions of digital content. 🗃️ www.oah.org/2025/03/12/r...

submitted 83 days ago • 5 comments

On the latest episode of #HistoryinFocus, Lily Pearl Balloffet explores the human relationships we form in the process of doing historical work and how, for her, those vital connections were decisively disrupted in the years of the Covid-19 pandemic. 🗃️

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

The AHA has submitted testimony to the Ohio House Workforce and Higher Education Committee opposing Senate Bill 1, which would undermine the quality of public higher education in Ohio.

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

In the 1790s a London woman named Eliza Denyer developed a modest reputation as a restorer of medieval manuscripts. She was forgotten by scholars and, in one case, her restorations were deliberately replaced by a man’s. I recovered her story & tracked all her known work here: tinyurl.com/2ktztx2e

submitted 86 days ago • 17 comments

In 2022, the AHA launched the most comprehensive study of the national US history teaching landscape undertaken in the 21st century. We wanted to know what is actually happening in public school classrooms across the country. Find out what we learned. 🗃️

submitted 91 days ago • 5 comments

Remembered that I wrote about how awful Woodrow Wilson's historic segregationist purge of Black workers from federal government jobs was last year.... www.thedailybeast.com/woodrow-wils...

submitted 101 days ago • 14 comments

A reminder of the important work that our National Park Service does every day to interpret some of the most difficult history for the general public.

submitted 101 days ago • 4 comments

Y’all need to read this amazing new work by @calscherm.bsky.social! So happy it’s out in the world.

submitted 104 days ago • 1 comment

Hey, we're going to start looking at applications in a few weeks! Check out the fellow/ Senior fellow positions (yep there will be 2) at Brown Univ for #Brown2026. apply.interfolio.com/159128

submitted 119 days ago • 1 comment

“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.” - Dr. Martin Luther King

submitted 134 days ago • 465 comments

I'm pleased to announce that my article on how the Reconstruction era was remembered and misremembered in the Civil Rights era has just been published in @modamhist.bsky.social. Very grateful to the editors and anonymous readers for their generous help./1 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

submitted 137 days ago • 49 comments

sometimes i despair at the cadre of chuds, liars and degenerates who are about to take power in washington and then i remember that even 160 years ago this was a country where people would shake off accusations of serial child rape and elect a guy to the senate en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_H...

submitted 140 days ago • 185 comments

Been devouring this the last few weeks and I cannot believe how essential it feels for understanding our current moment susanfaludi.com/backlash-cha...

submitted 143 days ago • 209 comments

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/11/u...

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