“We are all migrants through time.” - Mohsin Hamid

“Location, location, location., the realtors say. Geography is destiny, respond the historians.” - Mohsin Hamid, “Exit West”

Some kids on my block apparently just summoned a one-eyed lion.

Hat’s off to the curator of the John James Audubon Museum who installed this panel to the people Audubon enslaved while living in KY. It is the first post acknowledging this history, and the curator says it will not be the last.

The dehydration headaches of archival research are real.

Appreciate this curatorial nod to silence in the @kyhistsoc.bsky.social‘s exhibit on the state, and our nation’s founding.

Public 🗃️ & #DH question for folks. Any recommendations for a methods book on text mining, topic modeling, etc. for a #digitalhumanities grad class? I've used Morretti, Jockers, & Rockwell & Sinclair before. Curious if there are more recent texts folks have liked. Thanks!

My throat and eyes are burning from the wildfire smoke. This feels worse than what came through a few years ago.

Look out, guys. I am ON THE RISE.

I should add what I call “porch readin’ season” only last like 6 weeks on MKE so you gotta get it in.

Chris Cantwell@cdc29.bsky.social · 4w ago

On my porch reading, I’ve heard both the neighborhood Merlin & the local Cooper’s hawk fly by. Both times the songbirds just go SILENT after their call. It’s like my own little nature show.

On my porch reading, I’ve heard both the neighborhood Merlin & the local Cooper’s hawk fly by. Both times the songbirds just go SILENT after their call. It’s like my own little nature show.

Here, here.

National Council on Public History@ncph.bsky.social · 4w ago

The National Council on Public History unequivocally rejects the findings of the White House's report on the National Museum of American History. Read the reasons why at ncph.org/news/ncph-st....

Watching Seinfeld for the umpteenth town and am just now realizing that both Jerry and George are both left handed.

I am a modern American historian about to conduct some research into materials from the early Republic. Anyone have any advice on how to read or go through papers with handwriting from the early 1800s? I will miss my ability to skim printed records... 🗃️

Grateful for my longtime friend and collaborator @janinegiordano.bsky.social, who gave me this space to reflect on my first book. It's even more meaningful that it's in LAWCHA's blog, as my first article was in their journal & my roots are in labor history. lawcha.org/2026/06/27/c...

Chris Cantwell on his new book, The Gospel According to Frank Wood | LAWCHA

Christopher Cantwell’s The Gospel According to Frank Wood: Memory and the Making of White American Evangelicalism offers an intimate look at Frank Wood,

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I’m honestly still figuring out how to approach the use of LLM agents as an instructor, so I am by no means the final word. But I can’t help but feel the continual framing of this issue as “cheating” is unhelpful & kinda cruel. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

Brown Professor Suspects Most of His Class Used AI to Cheat

Brown University leaders’ response to the alleged cheating incident has been “meek,” the professor said.

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Excited for this new project from @petermanseau.bsky.social & friends at the Smithsonian's Center for Understanding Religion & American History. It's 25 essays from a wonderful set of authors on the many ways religion has shaped the US over the last 250 years. www.undergods.org

Home | Under Gods

New stories about the plural and powerful nature of religion in the United States, past and present.

undergods.org

Are you aware that OMB's proposed new rule for research grants gives political appointees final say on federally funded research? @ncph.bsky.social's Advocacy Committee has organized a comment-a-thon to give public historians a unified voice against the new rule. community.ncph.org/event/JulyCo...

White men in glasses lecturing you about things on instagram is the new podcasting.

Give me a John James Audubon biopic in the style of "Marty Supreme," because I've come to think of JJA as a verbose, bumbling hustler who succeeds in spite of his talents as much as because of them. Also the benefiting from and engaging in the misogyny and racism of his time.

for some reason, the autocorrect in this program i'm using is turning "Lucy" into "Love youcy" constantly. befuddled by this.

Today is the first day of the rest of my tenured life.

I just noticed that eBird has a live map of all incoming submissions and I am now going to turn to it in moments of despair. ebird.org/livesubs

A reminder that submissions for @ncph.bsky.social's April 2027 conference in St. Louis are due Wednesday! The theme asks how our field has, currently is, or should "Hold the Line" at a time when history is under attack. Please share widely! 🗃️ ncph.org/conference/n...

“We live in a forest of a grandparent’s choices: a changing climate, unjust institutions, a broken, bleeding world.” - Ethan Tapper

There is a merlin that lives somewhere in our neighborhood. I hear it occasional. But it is absolute screeching right now. I’ve actually never seen it and I just wish it would fly by.

I did a thing today! And I’m way too excited about it.

Excited to share the result of a history harvest my students & I did w/ the Immaculata High School Alumnae Association. "The Mac," as its locally known, was in the news recently as the almamater of Pope Leo XIV's mom. The school closed in 1981, so it was now or never to save stuff/1 macmemories.org

Great story in the Christian Science Monitor on the Obama Presidential Library that features @loyolachicago.bsky.social history PhD student Shannon Honl, who is studying how these institutions have changed over time. 🗃️ www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics...

A presidential library that’s not a library. Obama Center pilots a community model.

As the Obama Presidential Center opens its doors to the public this week, its vision of transforming a traditional presidential library into a modern community center will be put to the test.

csmonitor.com

Sad to learn of Carlo Ginzburg's passing. His work very much inspired my own, from the selection of subjects to the attention to detail. 🗃️ www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/b...

Carlo Ginzburg, Who Told the History of the Obscure, Dies at 87

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