#academicsky let's celebrate the edited book chapter. What is an edited book chapter that you're particularly proud of or you think deserves more readers? #celebratebookchapter My essay here looks at the myth & reality of Andrew Jackson's hatred of the British. lsupress.org/978080716465...

The Battle of New Orleans in History and Memory

The Battle of New Orleans proved a critical victory for the United States, a young nation defending its nascent borders, but over the past two hundred years,...

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Joseph M. Adelman@jmadelman.bsky.social · 2d ago

#academicsky let's celebrate the edited book chapter. What is an edited book chapter that you're particularly proud of, or you think deserves more readers? #celebratebookchapter I’m quite pleased with my essay in this collection, which explores news anxiety in the Revolutionary era and now(ish).

What’s something that’s a banal observation in your field, but which really blows students’ minds the 1st time they encounter it? I’ll go 1st—when we talk about how technological history gets narrated & I say "no human being has ever lived in a historical period—they’ve only lived in the present"

Read more about Hooper and the saying here: vanburenpapers.org/it-easier-do...

It actually came from Van Buren Hooper Sr. (1897-1963), a Milwaukee sales manager and publisher, who often wrote under the pseudonym of "Martin Vanbee."

The quote “It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn’t” is often mistakenly attributed to Martin Van Buren.

I am including Jake's letter about generative AI as part of my syllabus, and I'm emphasizing the major points he makes with my students: generative AI is built on intellectual theft, is environmentally catastrophic, does not fulfill its promise, harms student learning, and is dehumanizing.

Jake Wright@bcnjake.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I just updated my explainer for why I don't allow generative AI in my classrooms with a new section and an expanded section. New: Generative AI has a literal body count Expanded: Generative AI is dehumanizing CETERUM AUTEM CENSEO INTELLIGENTIA ARTIFICIALIS ESSE DELENDAM

I'm proud to share the cover of my book, GOOD GIRLS AND ALPHA MALES: HOW CONSERVATIVE MEDIA IS TARGETING GEN Z, coming Feb '27. It's a culmination of years of on-the-ground reporting and thousands of hours of media monitoring. Now available for preorder: www.sourcebooks.com/978146425540...

Seems like a good time to share some news: this fall I will start as Librarian and Executive Director of the Lewis Walpole Library at Yale. The Walpole is such a special place; I'm honored and excited to help expand the library's scholarly programming and public outreach in #18thc British studies.

You never know what you’ll encounter in the archives. “How I got pregnant on the train.” buttondown.com/leftcoastdis... #cdnHist #bcHist

How I Got Pregnant On The Train

"This statement I am about to write concerning Fred and myself is the honest truth."

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What you are looking at, is evidence of one of the many ways historical data can get lost. 1/8

You may be wondering why our project is highlighting Gibbs's death. He was Martin Van Buren's great-great-grandson.

In his obituary of Gibbs, E.B. White (of Charlotte's Web fame) wrote, "Wolcott Gibbs was too high-strung to live at peace with the world; he exhausted himself fighting rear-guard actions in private, inescapable wars of the mind and spirit. He was a tortured man."👇

Yesterday, in 1958, notable New York writer, editor, theater critic, and humorist Wolcott Gibbs died at the age of fifty-six. 👇

This is a great example of the many choices that go into the creation of archives and that are made by researchers to arrive at an end product.

Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her)@drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · last wk.

I'm a former history prof turned freelance writer. Education is the opposite of using ecocide-plagiarism-psychosis-harassment-surveillance-IP-theft-radioactive-waste products. Students need to understand the actual things and their traces in the world. The slopification of education is a crime. 3/

I always drive my own car because when I’m ready to leave, I’m ready to leave

Does anyone have a good guide to reading academic history articles for new undergrads? I want to really drill down on reading skills this year but many students have never read anything longer than a page, and that's just alien to me. Help?

TIL: This October, Purdue University is finally going to send its expedition to Nikumaroro (Kiribati) in an effort to definitively learn what happened to Amelia Earhart and her plane, which have gone missing since 1937. She departed Oakland in May 1937. www.usatoday.com/story/graphi...

Amelia Earhart vanished in 1937. New evidence could find her plane.

Explorers and historians have searched for Amelia Earhart's plane since 1937. Could new expedition locate it?

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Great to see that the work & legacy of my late UVA History Department colleague, Reginald Butler, is being honored & celebrated. 👇🏽

UVA Press@uvapress.bsky.social · last wk.

if you traveled back to 1848 and asked someone "say, which living President's son do you think is most likely to become President in his own right?" , they almost certainly would say "oh my god a time-traveler!" but after that, their answer would be John Van Buren (1810-1866).

One of the best parts of being a historian? Changing my mind. Sometimes one letter or one newspaper article sends me back to rethink everything I thought I knew. That's not failure. That's good history. 🗃️

St Benedict's Church, Glastonbury at sunrise.

The Strange Career of Ben "Cooter" Jones (1941-2026) #CivilWarMemory 🗃️ kevinmlevin.substack.com/p/the-strang...

The Strange Career of Ben "Cooter" Jones

How the actor behind Dukes of Hazzard's Cooter became the country's most sincere defender of the Confederate battle flag.

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Fifty days to launch

University departments - I am begging you, please stop requesting THREE reference letters (up front!) for a session/adjunct position to teach a single class. It's a colossal waste of our collective time. And yes, I'm looking squarely at my own department! ⚒️🧪 #AcademicSky

I’m reading a book published in 1944 and this logo is so unbelievably tough. I’d absolutely wear a shirt with this exact design.

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... Great review of a book most @lrb.co.uk readers won’t read. The book is not really a conversion story and there is no spiritual intellectual journey unlike @sohrabahmari.bsky.social recent book. It is intellectually lite but politically engaged in Christian Nationalism

James Butler · Short Cuts: J.D. Vance’s Conversion

The most obvious question is not whether J.D. Vance believes what he claims to believe, but why, if he believes it, he...

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I was extremely honored to receive two book prizes from the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association! Huge thanks to the committees of the Tonous and Warda Johns Family Book Award for an outstanding book on US foreign relations, military history, or immigration history... (1/2)

#AHAPerspectives summer columnist Madalyn K. Shaw examines the genre UFO photography, using it to discuss what "photogenic" and "authentic" can really mean. 🗃️

Believing Is Seeing – AHA

Why don’t UFOs appear well in photographs? A graduate student explores the limits of photography and our belief in what we see.

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