Thankfully Costco stocks all the hurricane essentials — bottled water, snacks, and a giant stuffed raccoon.

OK since people seem interested in the Southern California Modernism class I'm finishing up teaching: I'll post four images from each lecture, one lecture per day (there are 18 lectures). Lecture 1

After a family member’s suicide attempt, United Healthcare called to ask me if they had tried yoga, as UC didn’t want to pay for the inpatient treatment that was saving their life.

matthew@pahuski.com · 2mo ago

The ads alone are worth the price of The Onion’s print edition

Currently reading the diary of a French 11 year old in 1793 & loving it Summary: Hate having my portrait done, so boring Went to the palace and saw a really mangy rabbit, YUCK My tutor tells me I've got to stop picking my nose Also Marat has been murdered

Join me in donating to your local bail fund and @nationalbailout.bsky.social — let’s bring home all the moms for Mother’s Day.

Apparently, journals, universities and publishers cannot do it but the Oscars can

DiscussingFilm@discussingfilm.net · 5mo ago

The Academy has banned AI from ever winning an Oscar. • Only roles “demonstrably performed by humans with their consent” can be nominated for acting Oscars • Screenplays “must be human-authored” to qualify for a nomination

Black women shouldn't have to fear for their lives when they're bringing life into the world. But we're 3x more likely to die from pregnancy-related complications. Black Maternal Health Week is a reminder: this crisis is preventable. Black moms deserve quality care, respect & the chance to thrive.

Me: I spoke to the New York Times about the Trump triumphal arch plans today. Husband: What did you tell them? Me: That I am the structure’s Arch Nemesis. Husband: Puns? To the NYT? Me: It’s a good pun. 10/10 Cicero would support this. Husband: *exasperated sigh*

Woohoo, here's my essay with my fav co-author on 30,000 fellowship wins across the Guggenheim, Stanford CASBS, NAEd, National Humanities Center, RSF visiting scholar, and Harvard Radcliffe. Spoiler: it's the people working at prestigious universities www.publicbooks.org/who-gets-gug...

Who Gets Guggenheims? - Public Books

Unfortunately, 100 years of data show that those whom such fellowships might represent the greatest departure from their everyday experience—that is, those not at elite institutions—are least likely t...

publicbooks.org

I’m offering a lightly used set of regalia in UC Berkeley colors to a junior faculty member, preference for a mom and 1st gen scholar. DM me your details— I’ll ship for free.

I had the privilege of guest editing the spring issue of Frank Lloyd Wright Quarterly. Entitled "The Architecture of Continuance: The Act of Understanding, Preserving, and Conserving," this issue includes phenomenal pieces by Magdalena Novoa and Daisy Ocampo Diaz, among others.

Are you a public historian? Join us next week to learn how to set up your pricing structure when you consult! This event is open to anyone, from grad students to experience professionals. Sponsored by @ncph.bsky.social ‘s Consultants Committee and Labor Task Force.

I chat with people who think they’re so far removed from what’s going on today with ICE and I always hit them with the “my grandma was 6 when they put her in an incarceration camp.”

Southern Poverty Law Center@splcenter.org · 8mo ago

#OTD in 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which cleared the way for the U.S. to incarcerate Japanese Americans in internment camps for the duration of World War II — and set a dangerous precedent for the future. #TheMarchContinues

Our workshop "Consulting in a Changing Landscape" was accepted into the 2026 conference for @ncph.bsky.social and the @aaslh.org! This workshop focuses on consulting in public history, archives, museums, and historic preservation for those currently in the field, or looking to make a career change.

Is the Chronicle still bothering to collect salary information on adjuncts or do we need to do another Google spreadsheet?

David Darmofal@daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 8mo ago

This headline in The Chronicle makes it sound like most adjuncts are independently wealthy when the reality is they have to hold second and third jobs just to make ends meet.

🎉 FSU is hiring a 2-year postdoc in Public History!! 🎉 Apps (cover letter + cv) due March 11, finalists will submit additional materials (letters + writing sample) More info available here: careers.historians.org/jobs/2201954...

So important. What they say is not the story. That is never the story. What happened is the story. Write what happened.

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Media: do not lead with the false government framing of what happened

***DEEP SIGH*** This is just the latest in our centuries-long fight over how to commemorate George Washington's involvement in slavery. It began while he was still alive, and continued immediately after his death, in the lead-up to Civil War, through Jim Crow, Civil Rights, and Black Lives Matter.

Stephanie Farr@farfarraway.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Signs about the history of slavery in the U.S. and the 9 people George Washington enslaved are being removed right now at the President’s House Site in Philadelphia, across from Independence Hall, months after the Trump administration threatend to do so. How far we have not come in 250 years.

Americans will use anything except the metric system

challenge for chicago architecture bsky that i've come up completely blank one: who was the lighting designer/illumination engineer for the merchandise mart? the illumination scheme is so key to the building's appearance, but as far as i can tell, the lighting designer is unknown

“This all had me wondering: what’s Indian food without the heat? The historian in me has an answer: spiciness is historically contingent.”

Curry Before Columbus

Well before there was heat, there was hing.

contingentmagazine.org

I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.

The losses to my field have been tremendous. Every brilliant scholar-teacher I know who didn’t get a chance to grow our knowledge about the past and help young people learn historical thinking skills is a loss. But it should never be “me instead of you,” but always “both of us, together.”

"I had not touched a cat in 15 years when an orange kitten wandered over to sit with me in the grass one day. I was left without adequate words to describe that experience. It reminded me that I am alive."

When Kittens Came to My Prison, I Had Not Petted One in 15 Years

I had not touched a cat in 15 years when an orange kitten wandered over to sit with me in the grass.

prisonjournalismproject.org

My premature son was brought to the NICU. I cannot convey the depths of my despair when they told me wouldn’t be allowed to see him for at least 24 hrs because I was still on an IV. The hospital could have had a setup to enable me and other patients with IVs to visit the NICU, but chose not to.

👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻@oldenoughtosay.com · 10mo ago

Exactly this. Science is focused on ‘outcomes’, ie parent and child surviving birth, and that is important and we’ve made incredible strides but what’s been neglected is the entire experience of pregnancy and giving birth

This is actually a good example of why the customer model is wrong. I wouldn't have chosen poetry writing, but UNC made me take a class. And it absolutely made me become a much better writer, with an eye to concision and an ear now trained to the rhythm of words. I'm a better historian as a result.

Last week the @historians.org Council decided to deny its members the opportunity to vote on two resolutions—one in solidarity with Gaza and one condemning the sustained assault on “core principles of education” in the US and abroad—at the organization’s conference next month. 1/ 🗃️

My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.

The deadline to submit session proposals for next year's conference is at the end of this week. Share your knowledge with the field at the first-ever joint conference with the National Council on Public History. Learn more and submit a proposal at tinyurl.com/AASLH2026.