Throwing this out into the universe…anyone have recommendations for history monographs re: history of self harm/end of life. I don’t want to use term here, due to algorithms, but think historians will get the point.

An opportunity for Art & Architectural History undergrads & recent BA's ! CFP: 8th annual SUNY New Paltz Undergraduate Art History Symposium, a virtual event on April 8-12, 2026. Papers are welcome on topics in #ArtHistory and other closely related disciplines. Deadline Jan 31.

My Element is out out featuring several #earlymodern mobile lives and open access too. Let me know if you use it in your teaching and if you like it. Woohoo! 🎉 www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Writing Mobile Lives, 1500–1700

Cambridge Core - Literary Theory - Writing Mobile Lives, 1500–1700

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A new website w/database on the 1680s Scottish migration to East New Jersey is 'live' #earlymodern #VastEarlyAmerica eastjerseybound.scot

Home - East Jersey Bound

Home page: Scots emigrants to East New Jersey in the 1680s: why did they come, who were they and what became of them?

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A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.

Now they have come for the NEH, and with it my beloved Humanities Tennessee and Chapter 16, where I spent 10 years of my professional life. The fact that it was inevitable in this Orwellian year of 2025 doesn’t make it any less heartbreaking. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/o...

Opinion | Why DOGE Slashed the National Endowment for the Humanities (Gift Article)

Eliminating federal funding for the humanities saves next to no money, but it will cost the American people something precious.

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For no particular reason, an old blog post of mine about "Barefoot Running and Goatmeat" (and yes, I am vegetarian)! tentsmuir.wordpress.com/2013/12/30/b... #Running #Barefoot #RunChat #Privateer #Run #Runner #LowCarb #LowSalt @barefootrunning.bsky.social

Barefoot Running and Goat Meat

As some of you are aware, in my other life I am a historian working at the moment on a project on maritime history and the role of privateers. It is not often that my love of history and running co…

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“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...

Opinion | Why DOGE Slashed the National Endowment for the Humanities (Gift Article)

Eliminating federal funding for the humanities saves next to no money, but it will cost the American people something precious.

nytimes.com

NEH funding terminated. Here are some talking points, links, for those in SC but also federal resources. I’m proud to serve on SC Hum Board. Contact any and all to advocate. What impacts one, impacts us all #NEH schumanities.org/advocacy-act...

URGENT: Save the NEH

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Parallel map for NEH funding to states. NB that 40% of NEH funding goes directly to the state humanities councils, which do critical community work and which benefits people --culturally and economically-- all across the country. www.neh.gov/impact/states

Impact in States & Jurisdictions

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Karin Wulf@kawulf.bsky.social · last yr.

An interactive map shows where IMLS funding is / was by state. I found this info very helpful for sharing locally about what such "invisible" support infrastructure provides for our communities. 2// www.imls.gov/map

These rumors have been confirmed, Blueskis. I am enraged.

Megan Kate Nelson 📚@mkn.bsky.social · last yr.

Blueskis, I am hearing rumors that DOGE is at the NEH building. - They will fire 50-70% of staff. - Almost all open grants since 2021 will be closed. - Almost all NEH Grant programs will be eliminated. Note: this has not yet been confirmed. What is confirmed: DOGE CAN GO FUCK THEMSELVES.

How did people conceptualize disability in the past? In the latest for Broadsides, Anna Conner explores disability and identity in C17 naval petitions. #skystorians #histmed www.nacbs.org/post/shiftin...

Shifting and Permanent States: Experiencing Disability in the Seventeenth-Century British Navy

"For the men and boys of the late seventeenth-century British navy, disability was a category of self-definition..."

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Gently, respectfully, placing this posthumously published 1949 view from Bloch…here…

So happy to be connected together again, Annika! @mouseemperor.bsky.social

I know I am a nobody grad student but I’m also a museum worker of ~a decade, & I’m really imploring Big Name historians who will write op-eds & go on msnbc to rail against this EO to be as loud & clear about the people whose lives & work are at stake here as you will abt the ideological warfare

Please join the Department of History for “State of the Field: A Conversation About US History” on April 16 at 4:30 in the John Hope Franklin Room (SSRB 224). The event will feature Sven Beckert, Martha Jones, and David Waldstreicher.

Be kind to newly minted PhDs of US History. How could they foresee the obstacles they now face? I am so pleased that advisors pointed me towards Atlantic topics. Buy these new US PhD folk their choice from the top shelf. They will need it.

a group of men in tuxedos and bow ties are drinking and smoking

ALT: a group of men in tuxedos and bow ties are drinking and smoking

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The new issue of the 'Journal of the British Academy' offers a range of perspectives 'On recent closures and threats of closure in the Humanities and Social Sciences' bit.ly/3FGuPHE These include "Reflections on History closures' bit.ly/4iIJsc9 by @eicathomefinn.bsky.social #Skystorians

taking the long way from eastern market to tenleytown part 1(?) 📍USHMM

Given that it is #WomensHistoryMonth & I'm settled into Bsky here's a bit of info on my research. Almost 327 yrs ago ships left #Scotland for Panama. This map from @uofglasgowasc.bsky.social Darien; Spencer Col is a ship-view that travelers saw. It’s the closest we have to understanding their view.

We had the good fortune to talk with Dr. Marjoleine Kars this afternoon about North Carolina’s Regulator Rebellion for an upcoming episode of Worlds Turned Upside Down. Look for Kars soon in Episode 14: “The Corruption” and check out her book, Breaking Loose Together, from @uncpress.bsky.social.

I don't publish much, but are some of my articles... History: The Truth Behind My Lai - www.nytimes.com/2018/03/16/o... Teaching Colonization and Decolonization During the “CRT” Panic - activisthistory.com/2022/02/11/t...

Teaching Colonization and Decolonization During the “CRT” Panic

We have the tools we need to teach anticolonial history. The anti-“CRT” erasure movement shows why we must.

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AHA–OAH Joint Statement on Federal Censorship of American History www.historians.org/news/aha-oah... #skystorians 🗃️

Doing a little fact finding, #skystorians Do US faculty at your Uni have representation w/in the Board of Trustees? Thx for sharing for broader reach & thx for responding 😉 @roperlou.bsky.social @phdrachel.bsky.social #HATM @tadstoermer.bsky.social

a man is sitting in a chair with the words `` i am the senate '' written on his face .

ALT: a man is sitting in a chair with the words `` i am the senate '' written on his face .

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For anyone interested in #c18th political or electoral history & for students researching EPQs, special subjects &/or final year dissertations, do check out the wealth of data & information available on our Political Participation & Electoral Culture (ECPPEC) website #skystorians 🗃️ecppec.ncl.ac.uk

Eighteenth-Century Political Participation & Electoral Culture

18th-century Britain is notorious for corrupt and restrictive politics, when few could vote, bribery and debauchery were commonplace. But it was also an age when modern democracy was being shaped.

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The Call for Papers for NACBS 2025 is now open! Join us in Montreal! www.nacbs.org/call-for-pap...

CFP | NACBS

We will meet in Montreal, Canada from November 14-16, 2025.

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My book The Gift was reviewed in the Hispanic American Historical Review by. The review summarizes the book and is below if you are curious. Hope it encourages you to ask your library to get it and to possibly assign it. It's 20 % off on Amazon www.amazon.com/Gift-Prestig... #slaveryarchive