Grace Mallon
@gracemallon.bsky.social
British historian of the United States. Clive Holmes Fellow in History at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. Obsessed with American federalism.
If you are working on constitutionalism in early America or the British Empire, you should definitely submit a proposal for this exciting conference ⬇️
Liz Covart@lizcovart.bsky.social · last wk.Its Constitutions, Everywhere! A great conference about a fascinating topic! The CFP has been extended, so you still have time to submit your panels and papers. #Skystorians, please share with your networks.
It’s here and it’s real!!! I’m so excited for @noraslonimsky.bsky.social and I can’t wait to read it next week ahead of our podcast conversation!!!
I'm delighted to be part of the organizing committee (with Liz, @tannerallread.bsky.social, Jess Roney, Justin Roberts, Sally Gordon, & @quilldir.bsky.social) for this conference to be held next April in Philly. If you're at all interested in constitutions, broadly construed, check out our CfP:
Liz Covart@lizcovart.bsky.social · last wk.Its Constitutions, Everywhere! A great conference about a fascinating topic! The CFP has been extended, so you still have time to submit your panels and papers. #Skystorians, please share with your networks.
Are you a student interested in public policy? You’ll need to understand how state courts and constitutions confer different rights to Americans depending on where they live. That’s easier than ever with State Court Report EDU, a free new resource for students: statecourtreport.org
Lawyers sometimes have a funny way of thinking about time. They can be very teleological, and when they read constitutional text, they can sometimes imagine that a certain meaning was simply lying dormant in the words, waiting to be unearthed by some ingenious judge. Learning history might help.
John Harris@drjohnaeharris.bsky.social · 2mo agoBluesky history folks, help me make the strongest case for including both parts of the U.S. history survey in our pre-law undergraduate program
I think the class of school administrators (not just in higher ed) who act fast to insulate core pedagogical functions from AI will reap major rewards for their trouble. In a few years, there will be an extremely stark difference between people who used AI in school and people who are competent
Anna Kornbluh@annakornbluh.bsky.social · 2mo agocognitive sabotage, you can ban it extra credit to U Chicago for bans on professional AND undergrad programs; smart SLACs are going to market AI free campuses soon chicagomaroon.com/53262/news/s...
New article out. First for the latest project on debt default in the Americas.
American Nineteenth Century History Journal@anchistjournal.bsky.social · 3mo agoNew article out early on our website from @davidthomson.bsky.social: '“American insecurities”: debt default and foreign banking intervention in antebellum Pennsylvania' - check it via the link below: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Life behind bars in Britain’s surviving Victorian prisons – photo essay
Photographer Andy Aitchison’s book Incarcerated explores how Victorian prison infrastructure has persisted and what these old buildings mean for the people who live and work inside
theguardian.com
I hear your boyfriend is suffering from eclipse blindness (stabbed himself in the eye with the corner of a Cheerios box he was attempting to use as a pinhole camera)
absolutely huge evening for people who like to wander around with colanders
Preserved Fish is #nineteenthcenturynameoftheday and probably the year
“Oxford academic Prof George Garnett counted 93 penises in 2018 – with 88 belonging to horses and another five to men. But Dr Christopher Monk said he had counted one more on another man.” bbc.com/news/article...
Penis count debate rages over Bayeux Tapestry
A podcast has again investigated the penises on the embroidery, which has a replica in Reading.
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The issue is out! Once it’s available online (it’ll be open access for thirty days!), I’ll post about the forum on the Dickinson documents discovery that I was so excited to help organize.
Gautham Rao (pronounced: Knicks in 5)@gauthamrao.bsky.social · 3mo agoAn incredible forum in the latest William and Mary Quarterly, spearheaded by Jane E. Calvert and @jgienapp.bsky.social. The contingency of the revolutionary moment can’t be clearer.
Eighteenth-century names of the day: Magdalen Devine, Peacock Major, and Abraham Lincoln (no, not that one)
I've now been in America long enough (4 days) that my own accent has started to sound fake. Nineteenth-century name of the day, courtesy of the PA State Library: 'a certain Arnold Custard'
JUST IN: A federal judge in Minnesota — Trump appointed chief judge Eric Tostrud — has rejected the administation's effort to force Minnesota to cooperate in enforcing federal immigration law. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Congratulations to Richard Bell the first winner of the SHEAR Book Prize for The American Revolution and the Fate of the World. (@riverheadbooks.bsky.social).
Thrilled to be commenting on these outstanding, provocative papers about emergency powers and the early American state at #shear2026!
What a(nother) great event! One slide 3 minutes. 😀 Ten (More) Things to Know about the American Revolution @ #SHEAR2026, following Ten Things in Providence in 2025. Co-sponsored by HSP, ITPS, & @jcblibrary.bsky.social (logo not appearing!) w super thanks to presenters & @noraslonimsky.bsky.social!
Greatly looking forward to taking part in this public-facing event at @historicalpa.bsky.social on Friday. If you'll be in Philly, sign up here! hsp.org/calendar/ten...
Ten (More) Things To Know About the American Revolution
hsp.org
Don’t know who to credit for this. But it is how I feel.
I’ve had the iciest of martinis and a couple of packets of salt and vinegar hula hoops to bolster me for the second half. I just hope it’s enough.
"Thomas Tuchel looks like Nosferatu on a golf weekend"
Gonna tell my kids Jude of Bellingham was a medieval anchorite and mystic
