This is such a good idea! Same here!

honor sachs@drhonor.bsky.social · 2w ago

If you were at #shear2026 and I don’t yet follow you, like this and I’ll follow you back! This was an exceptionally good SHEAR for new faces and a new generation of scholars. Let’s stay connected 😃🤝

Registration is now open for my "Bookworm" webinar with @clementslibrary.bsky.social on September 18, 10-11:30 AM. I can't wait to discuss "Canal Dreamers" with the good folks at the University of Michigan! Registration is free: events.umich.edu/event/149188 @uncpress.bsky.social #skystorians 🗃️

Bookworm #95 - Author Conversation with Jessica M. Lepler, "Canal Dreamers: The Epic Quest to Connect the Atlantic and Pacific in the Age of Revolutions" | Happening @ Michigan

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Even if you can't taste them, the sight of the enormous number of raspberries I harvested today from my yard might make your evening a bit sweeter.

Excited to share some seeds from my garden with @drhonor.bsky.social and other @shearites.bsky.social! My lupines bloomed earlier this month. I'm now gathering seeds. I hope to also bring some of last year's bean seeds. What seeds might you share?

honor sachs@drhonor.bsky.social · last mo.

Packing to head out of town for July and taking my seed archive box with me. If any @shearites.bsky.social heading to Philly for #shear2026 want to talk gardening and exchange seeds with me and @jlepler.bsky.social, let me know!

"Lepler does a wonderful job," Aaron W. Marrs writes in his new review of Canal Dreamers in the Journal of the Early Republic, suggesting that its historiographical contribution gives us "much to ponder." 🗃️ @uncpress.bsky.social @shearites.bsky.social #skystorians muse.jhu.edu/article/991497

I’m thinking you might need this lupine loveliness today.

Perhaps we could all use a little bit of lupine beauty.

In some sort of secret sale, Amazon is selling the hardback of Canal Dreamers at less than half the retail price of the paperback. I wonder if this is algorithm specific to my account. Weird! a.co/d/0ctzDVO2 @uncpress.bsky.social

I was walking through town today and stopped in my local bookstore. It was so heartwarming to see Canal Dreamers facing out at the top of the "American History" shelves. @uncpress.bsky.social 🗃️

PSA for students. Even if you plan to do all your advisor’s suggestions, DO NOT “ACCEPT ALL CHANGES.” We might have queries like “do you mean this?” & now you’ve got a weird ass “final draft” with this stuff in the middle of sentences. 😬😬 re-read (ideally printed!) before handing in!

New book review: Choe on Lepler, Jessica M.: _Canal Dreamers: The Epic Quest to Connect the Atlantic and Pacific in the Age of Revolutions_. University of North Carolina Press, 2025. Published by H-Environment. Read here: networks.h-net.org/node/20149098

@econroykrutz.bsky.social and I founded the SHEAR 2BWW a decade ago to offer grassroots support to mid-career scholars. I found it very helpful in writing "Canal Dreamers," and I will miss it now that the book's done. Apply! 🗃️ #skystorians @shearites.bsky.social networks.h-net.org/group/blog/2...

So grateful for this very kind review of Canal Dreamers! 🗃️ #skystorians @uncpress.bsky.social

Daniella M.@farsouthhistory.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Check out Chris Choe's review of Jessica M. Lepler's "Canal Dreamers: The Epic Quest to Connect the Atlantic and Pacific in the Age of Revolutions," published in 2025 by @uncpress.bsky.social; review available @hnetreviews.bsky.social; #envhum #envhist www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

Check out Chris Choe's review of Jessica M. Lepler's "Canal Dreamers: The Epic Quest to Connect the Atlantic and Pacific in the Age of Revolutions," published in 2025 by @uncpress.bsky.social; review available @hnetreviews.bsky.social; #envhum #envhist www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

Canal Dreamers looks good large! How fun to celebrate books with the team at @uncpress.bsky.social in their booth @oah.org. If you are at the conference, check out the small version that you can actually open and read. 🗃️ #skystorians @sonyabonczek.bsky.social

So excited about this talk. It's only two days away! If you are in Philadelphia, click the link, register, and come on over to the Library Company at 5PM.

Dr. Jessica Lepler@jlepler.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Hey Philly Folks! I will be talking about my new book Canal Dreamers at the Library Company on April 15 at 5 PM (night before the OAH). It's an in person event. Register here: support.librarycompany.org/event/canal-... 🗃️ #skystorians #history @uncpress.bsky.social @mcneilcenter.bsky.social @oah.org

I am so looking forward to listening to this episode! But first, I must read my students' essay drafts. They've been listening to @draftingthepast.bsky.social all term (including the first interview with @mkn.bsky.social). Curious to see what writing, research, and time management tips rubbed off.

Kate Carpenter@katecarp.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Perhaps you need a distraction? Listen to this incredible new interview with @mkn.bsky.social: draftingthepast.com/podcast-epis... 🗃️ #skystorians Unless you are a member of Congress. Then please go do something useful.

It is April in New Hampshire!

I was a dissertation fellow at the Library Company of Philadelphia 20 years ago. I'm thrilled to return next week to discuss my book "Canal Dreamers." I might even talk about sharks! Join me on April 15 at 5 PM. support.librarycompany.org/event/canal-... 🗃️ #oceanhist #histsci #envhist #coastalhist

Dr. Jessica Lepler@jlepler.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Hey Philly Folks! I will be talking about my new book Canal Dreamers at the Library Company on April 15 at 5 PM (night before the OAH). It's an in person event. Register here: support.librarycompany.org/event/canal-... 🗃️ #skystorians #history @uncpress.bsky.social @mcneilcenter.bsky.social @oah.org

Marla Miller bringing gender & labor (and a hint of imperialism) to the Betsy Ross legend of the "first flag," which is "usually framed as a story of design, but it’s not: It’s a story of production." theconversation.com/what-betsy-r... 🗃️ #skystorians @shearites.bsky.social @ncph.bsky.social

What Betsy Ross’ real story tells us about women’s work in the Revolution − and why it still matters 250 years later

Betsy Ross probably did not sew the first American flag, but she was one of many craftswomen whose wartime labor helped build a nation.

theconversation.com

Hey Philly Folks! I will be talking about my new book Canal Dreamers at the Library Company on April 15 at 5 PM (night before the OAH). It's an in person event. Register here: support.librarycompany.org/event/canal-... 🗃️ #skystorians #history @uncpress.bsky.social @mcneilcenter.bsky.social @oah.org

In the 1820s, Americans thought a canal across Nicaragua was inevitable. They were wrong. Canal dreamers, revolutions, and rainforest disasters—this story has it all. 🎧 @lizcovart.bsky.social dives in with historian Jessica Lepler 🔗 www.benfranklinsworld.com/428 #history #EarlyAmerica #BFWpod

Episode 428: Jessica Lepler, America’s Forgotten Quest to Link Two Oceans

In the 1820s, Americans dared to dream big. They believed they could cut a canal through the wild, rain-soaked terrain of Nicaragua. This is their story.

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What would happen if snakes disappeared like in Zootopia 2? An investigation

What would happen if snakes disappeared like in Zootopia 2? An investigation

Snakes are key members of their ecosystems. Here’s what would happen if they suddenly vanished just like in the Oscar-nominated film Zootopia 2

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This evening, my amazing UNH students churned butter with hundreds of elementary school students. This is our second year bringing humanities to STEAM night. Full SHTEAM ahead! Read about last year's event here: www.historians.org/perspectives... 🧈👶💪 🗃️ #skystorians

My morning reading just won a Bancroft! Go Emilie Connolly! Eager to read Beth Lew-Williams’s winner too! 🗃️ #skystorians

My talk at the @amantiquarian.bsky.social is available on YouTube. Please excuse the production error which lost the first few minutes of introduction. It jumps right into my first clue about this topic, the signature of Aaron H. Palmer in the Rothschild Archives. 🗃️ www.youtube.com/live/VzuMvcp...

Canal Dreamers: The Epic Quest to Connect the Atlantic and Pacific in the Age of Revolutions

YouTube video by AmericanAntiquarian

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This hybrid talk is tonight at 7 PM! Can't wait to share my work under the generous dome! 🗃️ #skystorians @uncpress.bsky.social

American Antiquarian Society @amantiquarian.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Join us Thursday, March 5, 2026 for a hybrid public program with Jessica M.Lepler. “Canal Dreamers: The Epic 1820s Quest to Connect the Atlantic and Pacific,” will begin at 7:00 pm ET. Register at americanantiquarian.org/programs-events/epic-1820s-quest-connect-atlantic-and-pacific

Join us Thursday, March 5, 2026 for a hybrid public program with Jessica M.Lepler. “Canal Dreamers: The Epic 1820s Quest to Connect the Atlantic and Pacific,” will begin at 7:00 pm ET. Register at americanantiquarian.org/programs-events/epic-1820s-quest-connect-atlantic-and-pacific

We need dreams! Dreams make history, even big ones that don’t come true. I’ll be talking about world-changing dreams at @amantiquarian.bsky.social on Thursday (3/5) @ 7 ET. Register for this free hybrid event here: www.americanantiquarian.org/programs-eve... 🗃️ #skystorians

I just wrote a book about a bunch of people whose unfulfilled dreams shaped history. Among the many reasons that we need to study dreams, especially ones that don't come true, is that we need to empower ourselves to dream regardless of the outcome. @adapalmer.bsky.social

Megan Gallagher@megangallagher.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I keep coming back to this passage by @adapalmer.bsky.social. I'm teaching a class on utopianism in the fall and I've decided to leave dystopias off the syllabus altogether. There's enough of that shit in the air we breathe.