Explore the origins of true crime through early modern Europe. Amanda Madden's curriculum uses pamphlets, murder ballads, and digital tools to engage students with the history of crime. Learn more: https://ow.ly/58mn50ZqQvo

Exploring True Crime in Early Modern Europe in the Classroom

This semester I’m using my expertise on crime and violence in a new way: I’m teaching an upper-level undergraduate course “True Crime in Early Modern Europe.” When we think of the true crime genre, we …

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Congratulations to John Turner, Professor of Religious Studies and History at George Mason University, whose book Joseph Smith: The Rise and Fall of an American Prophet, has won the 2026 Evans Biography Award. Read more: https://ow.ly/ixWn50Zz0uq

Mountain West Center for Regional Studies Announces 2026 Evans Biography Award Winners

The  Mountain West Center for Regional Studies at USU awarded the Evans Awards to authors whose selected works focused on the importance of documenting individual lives and their impact.

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Explore Governing Ground, an ongoing digital history project examining the politics of public lands in the American West through narrative history, interactive maps, and network visualizations. Explore the project: https://governingground.org/

Governing Ground

A history of the sagebrush rebellions---recurring fights over land, power, and federal authority in the American West from the 1930s through 2016.

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Spiritualism became one of the fastest-growing religious movements in 19th-century America. Caroline Greer explores the Fox sisters and how Spiritualist denominations were documented in the 1926 Census of Religious Bodies. https://rrchnm.org/blog/talking-to-the-dead-spiritualists-and-seances/

Talking to the Dead: Spiritualists and Seances

During my time working on the American Religious Ecologies project I became focused on female ministers and other types of religious leadership that appear in the Census. This interest aligns well …

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Want to make your research more accessible? Shae Corey shares how academic zines can help translate scholarship for public audiences through thoughtful design and storytelling. Read more: https://rrchnm.org/blog/how-to-make-an-academic-zine-for-a-public-audience/

How To Make an Academic Zine for a Public Audience

Zines offer academics a creative and accessible way to share research with broader audiences. This guide introduces the basics of creating an academic zine, from planning your content to designing an …

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Museum data can reveal more than what's on display. Deepthi Murali explores The Met's South Asia collection using computational methods to uncover new perspectives on collecting history and representation. Read more: https://rrchnm.org/blog/exploring-south-asia-at-the-met-through-data/

South Asia Collections at The Met: A Preliminary Computational Look

A preliminary computational analysis of 5,000+ MET objects reveals how South Asian art entered the collection — who donated it, when, and what happens to it now.

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Stephen Robertson joins Kishauna Soljour to discuss Harlem in Disorder, a digital monograph exploring the 1935 Harlem uprising through spatial history. Listen here: https://newbooksnetwork.com/harlem-in-disorder-a-spatial-history-of-how-racial-violence-changed-in-1935

Dr. Jessica Otis and Katherine Kania published "The Monarchs' Bills of Mortality," analyzing 17th-century London death records to reveal connections between epidemic outbreaks, socioeconomic trends, and environmental factors. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03058034.2025.2572138

The Monarchs’ Bills of Mortality: A Geographical Analysis of Death in Seventeenth-Century London

The London bills of mortality are most well known as printed broadsides produced for public consumption in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, which informed early modern Londoners of mortali...

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CRDH Vol. 8: New research from Fabio Gigone, Natacha Klein Käfer, Natália da Silva Perez, Nadav Borenstein, Miara Fraikin, Sanne Maekelberg, and Anna McGee explores topics from royal iconography to AI-powered print analysis, midwifery education to palace networks. Read here: https://crdh.rrchnm.org

Current Research in Digital History

Hosted by the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, Current Research in Digital History is an open-access, peer-reviewed, online publication. Its primary aim is to encourage and publish scholarship in digital history that offers discipline-specific arguments and interpretations.

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Ahead of #AHA26 in Chicago, check out our Resources & Guides to learn about our annual meeting policies, accessibility, travel, resources for speakers and undergraduates, and much more. 🗃️

Resources and Guides - AHA

Getting Ready for the Meeting Making Your Case Get advice on presenting your case for departmental funding or paid leave to come to the meeting. Learn More Social Media Logos Spread the word about you...

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The AHA offers travel and childcare grants to help graduate students, early career historians, un/underemployed historians, and community college and public high school teachers attend #AHA26. Check out the full list of available grants at the link. 🗃️

Annual Meeting Funding - AHA

The AHA offers several grants and fellowships to assist graduate students and early career historians with childcare and travel costs for the annual meeting.

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If you're at #WHA2025 I hope you'll join @cblevins.bsky.social, @regan008.bsky.social, Rachel Birch, Sean Fraga and myself on Friday at 8:15 to talk with us about generative AI and History. I have a strong feeling I might be quite curmudgeonly, so come join us!

Congratulations to the winners of the Roy Rosenzweig Prize for Creativity in Digital History, Gergely Baics, Meredith Linn, Leah Meisterlin, and Myles Zhang, for their project Envisioning Seneca Village! Explore the project: envisioningsenecavillage.github.io

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The AHA is pleased to announce the winners of its 2025 prizes, which honor exceptional books, distinguished teaching and mentoring in the classroom, public history, and other historical projects. Congratulations to the 2025 awardees! #AHAPerspectives🗃️

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

Miss Polly or Myra — Declaration Stories

Copies of the Declaration that no longer survive still have stories to tell

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📖We’re now accepting nominations for the NCPH #BookAward through November 1! Books published in 2024 or 2025 are eligible for the $1,000 prize. The winner will be honored by NCPH at the joint NCPH-AASLH conference in Providence, RI, next September. https://ncph.org/about/awards/book-award/

Why does having a cover for your book make it feel more official? Thrilled to share mine for Civil Blood: Vendetta Violence and the Civic Elites in Early Modern Italy out Nov 15 with @cornellupress.bsky.social This book has some things to say about the intersections between violence and statecraft.

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1) Finally back in the research trenches and working on the next book (and the project Mapping Violence) and the Venetian material I've collected continues to delight. Today's find from the archives of the Council of Ten: An investigation of a 'cartello' of a treasonous poem from Verona.

Undergraduates: submit to #AHA26's Undergraduate Poster Session by October 15. The Poster Session is an opportunity for undergraduates to share their research with peers and established scholars in a visual format.

Presenting Undergraduate Research at the Annual Meeting - AHA

Learn how to submit a proposal to present your undergraduate thesis or research at the AHA annual meeting.

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Want to learn more about our Omeka Intensive Courses? Join us for an info session on Wednesday, August 27th at 7:30 PM EDT. Instructor Dani Willcutt will provide a brief overview of the Classic and S courses and address audience questions. Register now:

Omeka Intensive Course Info Session

Sign up to join us for the Omeka Intensive Course Info Session on Wednesday, August 27th at 7:30 PM EDT. We will circulate the Zoom link the day of the event.

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It' that time again! Registration is now open for our Fall intensive trainings. Sign up to reserve your spot in our Classic or S course today:

Today I’m working on some experimentation with a local LLM and OCR to see how well I can get an LLM to understand historical documents, identify themes, potential linkages between documents, extract indexes of people, places, or events, and other document metadata.

Hearing from Jessica Otis at @rrchnm.bsky.social about their monumental effort to reduce technical debt and figure out what to do with several DH projects since 2014. Similar situation was faced by MITH and @kingsdigitallab.bsky.social among others. #dh2025

We’re hiring! Join AIP’s research team as an Archives Fellow or Intern to help highlight women’s contributions to the physical sciences. Great part time opportunities for grad students. Apply here: - Fellow: workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/defau... - Intern: workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/defau...

The JCB is seeking a senior leader for its ambitious digital programs. Our Associate Director for Digital Asset Management will guide the continuing development of our innovative platform, Americana, and oversee the digitization of library collections. 1/3

If you're attending #DH2025 make sure to check out @jmotis.bsky.social's panel Revitalizing, Maintaining, & Sunsetting the Digital Humanities on Friday and @deepthimurali.bsky.social & @jasonheppler.org's session Participatory Platforms, Open Scholarship and Advanced OCR on Thursday.

Coming in October 2025. A new, three-volume history of Greater Philadelphia. Look for my entry on the 1844 nativist riots in volume 3: Greater Philadelphia and the World www.pennpress.org/978151282935...

Greater Philadelphia – Penn Press

Informed by current scholarship and richly illustrated with full-color photographs and maps, Greater Philadelphia: A New History for the Twenty-First Century...

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Heads up! The new series I'm editing for @unmpress.bsky.social has been renamed to "The West in Context" (less generic than the original). Flyer attached. Please message me if you want to pitch a manuscript or otherwise talk shop!

"One of many!" How did the East India Company get its start on the Indian sub-continent? Contributing expert @deepthimurali.bsky.social of George Mason University takes us back to the reign of Elizabeth I in this clip from Episode 16: The Tea.

The Rebellion is now in progress.