Recording of my webinar on how I use (or avoid) AI to edit historic account books. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtZZ...

Editing Historic Account Books: When and Whether to Use AI

YouTube video by fromthepage

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Happy Star Trek Day! 🖖🏽 If you haven’t already, check out my recent essay about Star Trek IV, Moby-Dick and Cetacean Ops in @orionmagazine.bsky.social! orionmagazine.org/article/plan...

Planetary Kin - Orion Magazine

Learning from Star Trek’s space whales

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Congratulations to you, Daniel, for all the terrific work you've done these past few years. I'm excited to see what comes next and equally excited for our final Sinclair Podcast Workshop in New Orleans in just a few months!

Daniel J. Story, PhD 🚴🏻‍♂️🎙️🗺️@danieljstory.bsky.social · last wk.

Tap, tap...is this thing on? After 4 seasons of History in Focus, and nearly a decade working for the AHR, I'm hanging up my microphone. It's bittersweet. I'm excited for new audio projects on the horizon. Sad to move on from this work that has meant so much to me. 🙏🎙️✊ @historians.org

Happy to say that the @inpursuitusa.bsky.social podcast is now fully integrated into the In Pursuit Substack. Here's your one stop shop for both the audio and video version of the pod. Happy listening/watching! inpursuit.substack.com/podcast

Let’s try again: I’d like to hear about new research from Scottish historians. Especially ECRs whose work may not get much attention. This is because I have a newspaper column where I publicise new work by Scottish historians! Tell me about your research!

New at Can We Still Govern? Molly Hardy was the Employee of the Year at the National Endowment for the Humanities in 2024. She was fired as a result of DOGE cuts in 2025. Here, she writes about why, when given a chance to return, she chose not to do so. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/castles-ma...

Castles Made of Sand

Why I Did Not Return to the Government Job I Loved

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You've seen David Blight defend history education before Congress, now watch him unpack the disastrous presidency of Franklin Pierce on In Pursuit with Colleen Shogan: "Franklin Pierce Fails to Read the Room" is now playing: youtu.be/9LnQCrl8mog

The really interesting revelation to me in the “Worlds Turned Upside Down” podcast (thanks @jimambuske.bsky.social) was that the colonial legislatures were not “parties” to the 1689 Glorious Revolution the same way as Westminster, and that created a constitutional problem that neither could solve

And you should watch!

OIEAHC (Omohundro Institute)@oieahc.bsky.social · 3w ago

The recording of our May 12 OI Digital Projects Coffeehouse is available: vastearly.am/4fZ8moU In “Benedict Arnold and Memory (a work in progress)", Laura A. Macaluso joins Christine Peffer to discuss 𝑂𝑏𝑗𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑓𝑦𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐵𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑐𝑡 𝐴𝑟𝑛𝑜𝑙𝑑.

@apnews.com takes a look at @inpursuitusa.bsky.social, More Perfect’s series of essays exploring lessons from American presidents and first ladies, with contributions from George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Michelle Obama, Chief Justice John Roberts and Ken Burns: apnews.com/article/arch...

PBS: Public Broadcasting Service

Watch full episodes of your favorite PBS dramas, find in-depth news analysis and explore documentaries on history, science, art and more!

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Preview of the Declaration’s red lines with @rparkinson.bsky.social.

Jim Ambuske@jimambuske.bsky.social · last mo.

Posting from just down the road from where the British Redcoats involved in the Boston Massacre embarked for America, check out my chat with Rob Parkinson about the Tyrants and Rogues who were responsible for the 27 grievances listed in the Declaration of Independence. youtu.be/ZEsCqY_LVVA?...

Posting from just down the road from where the British Redcoats involved in the Boston Massacre embarked for America, check out my chat with Rob Parkinson about the Tyrants and Rogues who were responsible for the 27 grievances listed in the Declaration of Independence. youtu.be/ZEsCqY_LVVA?...

Tyrants and Rogues with Robert Parkinson I Revolutions In Retrospect

YouTube video by Primary Source Media

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"History involves sorting and organizing hundreds of thousands of facts" I remain astounded by how loud and wrong people are about what history actually is.

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.

Michael Hattem considers American history and the Revolution the nation’s new origin myth and created a new civic identity. Read our entire Q&A celebrating #America250 here:

America at 250: Revolutionary Questions for a Revolutionary Country - Yale University Press

A Q&A with Yale University Press authors about the foundings of America, offering historical insights into people, ideas, and events

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Folks: Tomorrow night (7/23) at 7 pm ET, I'll be talking with historians Christopher J. Leahy and Sharon Williams Leahy about their new book, "Presidentess: The Life of First Lady Julia Gardiner Tyler" for @inpursuitusa.bsky.social I learned a lot and you will too! www.youtube.com/live/wtfTfzh...

Presidentess: First Lady Julia Gardiner Tyler with Christopher & Sharon Leahy

YouTube video by In Pursuit USA

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It would be neat if the people who have oversight of museums actually went to them.

If there were Historian trading cards, I bet the Blight Rookie card would be a keeper

An excellent and powerful opening statement that does not pull punches. Also, historians rock. Protect the work of the Smithsonian.

Jim Ambuske@jimambuske.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"Ours is a beautiful, ancient craft essential for any society's needs for self-understanding. We are equipped with a host of modern methods, but guided ethically by very old rules that no authoritarian political project ought to be allowed to profane." www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbz2...

"Ours is a beautiful, ancient craft essential for any society's needs for self-understanding. We are equipped with a host of modern methods, but guided ethically by very old rules that no authoritarian political project ought to be allowed to profane." www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbz2...

WATCH: David Blight makes opening statement in hearing on how Smithsonian presents history

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour

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. #SHEAR2026 may be over, but the 40% discount code still lives . . . until August 15! Good to see you @stevesarson.bsky.social, @adamxmcneil.bsky.social@frankcogliano.bsky.social, @matthewmason.bsky.social, Christopher Pearl, Susan Stearns (And many more)! www.upress.virginia.edu/exhibits/she...

A rare social media appearance (with her blessing) of my nonpareil editor, Nadine Zimmerli, and the book we did together for @uvapress.bsky.social (with 24 amazing colleagues). Taken at #SHEAR2026

We are here at #SHEAR2026! Stop by the booth, chat with an editor, browse our books, and take advantage of the conference discount! Or, if you're not in Philadelphia, visit our virtual exhibit and use promo code <10SHEAR26> valid until August 15! www.upress.virginia.edu/exhibits/she...

Alright, let’s see if Lord Bute will negotiate a treaty that will satisfy Pitt this time. #sevenyearswarjokes #worldcup

Possible Spain-England final. El Draque awakens.

Team: This Friday at SHEAR join me, @kathleenduval.bsky.social, Jennifer Tucker, and Daniel Preston for Historians on Camera. We'll talk about making documentary films, interpreting history on camera, and the mediation of memory. Can't join in person? Watch here: tinyurl.com/histdocfilms

As a historian, I’m aware that societal norms of morality change over time. I feel like we should all be able to agree that murdering a father in front of his pajama-clad 3yo is morally repugnant yesterday, today, and forever.

I’m a historian who stands with Lonnie Bunch. Let’s hear from more of us!

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 2mo ago

Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III issued a defense of the National Museum of American History to staffers, in response to a caustic White House report accusing the museum of pushing “extreme political activism.”

It took Odysseus ten years to get home and Moses forty years to cross Sinai. That is what happens when dudes refuse to stop and ask directions.

England hasn't done this well in America since Bladensburg.