Tuna fish is an underrated pizza topping

Happy to share a trio of MNopedia articles that I wrote. They trace the rise of commercial logging, industrial logging’s discontents, and the end of commercial logging in MN, covering more than a century. Since I can’t share three separate links, here’s my author page:

Search results | MNopedia | Hayden Nelson

Hayden L. Nelson is a Gale Scholar and research historian at the Minnesota Historical Society. He earned his PhD in history in 2025 from the University of Kansas, specializing in environmental and Ind...

mnhs.org

Every time I hear about the MOVE bombing I’m shocked that I never learned about it in school www.theroot.com/the-move-bom...

I hope the buzz around The Odyssey keeps up. Got plans to see it on a flight in 8 to 10 months

Gift article. The pre-1492 Americas were more populous, advanced, and far older than Europeans once claimed—and every “wilderness” was inhabited. The geoglyphs contradict “the depiction of the Amazon as a largely untouched expanse before the arrival of Europeans.” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/w...

Archaeologists Find Hundreds of Ancient Glyphs in the Amazon (Gift Article)

The geometric earthwork structures, carved into the ground with embankments and ditches, are in some cases more than 2,500 years old, researchers said.

nytimes.com

To the risk of being cancelled here on Bluesky, I'm sharing an interview with @leotranscribes.bsky.social on using LLMs in historical research. I hope to have sufficiently highlighted the necessary precautions. Glad to read your thoughts on the matter!

Thiago Krause on HTR, AI Agents and Archival Discovery

A historian working across 100+ archives on how HTR and AI agents surface documents no catalogue indexes — and why he now reads more manuscripts, not fewer.

tryleo.ai

Please give this page a follow! It's a public history project by debbielinsleyliles.bsky.social mapping the migration of enslaved people into TX in the 19th century. & if you know anything about the Civil War, you know that's a lot of enslaved people especially from 1860-65, as slavery spread west 🗃️

enslavedtexas.bsky.social@enslavedtexas.bsky.social · 7d ago

Working hard creating an interactive map of Texas that visualizes the forced migration of enslaved people into Texas from 1800 to 1865. Check us out at enslavedtexas.org We are about halfway in this initial stage, so visit us often for updates! debbie@enslavedtexas.org

Cundhill History Prize long list 🗃️ publishingperspectives.com/2026/07/long...

Longlist Announced for the 2026 Cundill History Prize - Publishing Perspectives

The world’s leading prize for a work of history written or translated into English, the Cundill History Prize today announced its 2026 longlist of 15 books, chosen from almost 400 submissions from acr...

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www.smithsonianmag.com/history/this...

This 1863 Massacre Was the Deadliest Slaughter of Native Americans in U.S. History. Now, the Shoshone Are Restoring the Site of the Attack

Amid mounting tensions between white settlers and the Shoshone, Union soldiers killed an estimated 250 to 500 Shoshone. Today, the Indigenous nation is working to bring "nature back into balance"

smithsonianmag.com

People are writing reviews of the reviews. Congrats to the marketing team

“California’s most populous Indigenous nation works to reclaim its homelands, a mission inscribed in its constitution. The Yurok Tribe has so far regained 60,000 acres — about 12% — of its 500,000-acre ancestral territory, which stretches along the North Coast and the Klamath River.”

Los Angeles Times@latimes.com · last wk.

California redwoods gateway is returned to Indigenous tribe. 'That's healing our people too'

New little side project: Westward, an endless scroll of 1,000+ public-domain photographs of the American West from the Library of Congress, the Portal to Texas History, and SMU’s DeGolyer Library.

Politicized lawn signs www.artforum.com/news/trump-o...

Trump Administration Issues Demand for Politicized Lawn Signs at Smithsonian

President Trump has ordered the Smithsonian Institution to place signs outside the Washington, DC, museum warning of “inaccurate information” within.

artforum.com

Pub at the corner is playing Cyndi Lauper and everyone’s singing. Hard to imagine pubs in the 80s blasting hits from the 40s

I don’t think a gauntlet of unhinged signage outside the Smithsonian is going to have the effect they think it will www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Restoring Trust in the Smithsonian Institution

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Policy. On

whitehouse.gov

My fellow historians, which single academic article of yours do you think 'teaches best', i.e. for both staff and students it's doing work that leads to a strong class discussion + students remember it? I am interested in how people see their own work. I'll go first. Hit reply and link your pick!

Why Regional Branches of the National Archives Matter 🗃️: https://updates.wcaleb.org/2026/07/23/why-regional-branches-of-the.html

Anthea Hartig is a brilliant professional and a stellar public historian. She does not deserve this smear job and we must stand up for her, Lonnie Bunch and the Smithsonian.

NPR@npr.org · 2w ago

In a House DOGE subcommittee hearing, GOP representatives excoriated the director of the National Museum of American History, following a White House report earlier this month that also criticized her. n.pr/44GtxWs

One has to admire the hubris! I find @leotranscribes.bsky.social‘s idea of creating a huge and free-repository of transcribed documents, and I’m proud to be a part of it. Expect about 80,000 images/transcriptions from 30 or so archives by the end of next year (and that’s just me!).

Leo Collections: Our Plan to Build a Universal Archive

Leo Collections is a crowdsourced, machine-readable archive of the world's textual past—gathering, transcribing, and connecting scattered documentary heritage.

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“While the report stops short of praising Indian boarding schools, it dismisses the Smithsonian’s emphasis on the documented harms they inflicted on Native children” nativenewsonline.net/opinion/hist...

History Can’t Be Patriotic if It Requires Silence

Opinion The first lesson of Indian boarding schools wasn’t reading or writing.  It was silence.  I was reminded of that during Labor Day weekend 2022 while talking with a tribal leader at a protest ag...

nativenewsonline.net

Seems like a different world where this Congressional resolution was possible, and it was still Trump I

Reading the Archive by Machine: An OCR Benchmark for Historians, 1612–1921 Here is version 1 of a working paper on the new OCR tools that are transforming digital history. working-papers-in-critical-search.github.io/paper-004-oc...

Excited to share the website for the Virginia Folklore Society. We are slowly building an archive directory, community connections page, & encourage people to submit upcoming events. Hoping to help foster community between folklore lovers & professionals. Journal & online events on the way!

Virginia Folklore Society

virginiafolkloresociety.org

Do you think McConnell’s office will put out a statement about Graham?

Made some bbq chicken on the grill

More land back for the Rappahannock Tribe and the sacred Fones Cliffs site. ❤️‍🔥

Rappahannock Tribe secures 700 more acres at Fones Cliffs

The Rappahannock Tribe on June 12 reclaimed 704 acres of its ancestral lands at Fones Cliff along on its namesake river in Virginia.

bayjournal.com

It’s now the weekend, so I’ll be sweltering at home instead of sweltering at the office

The 1776 report 2.0 studied the National Museum of American History “for months” but apparently forgot to visit the museum. newrepublic.com/article/2128...

I Fact-Checked Trump’s Anti-Woke Report on the American History Museum

The document is notably short on evidence—and at odds with what I witnessed during a visit to the museum this week.

newrepublic.com

Summer issue of the Journal of the Early Republic is up. Interesting article on Cherokee expulsion from Texas, among other things 🗃️ muse.jhu.edu/issue/56958