CW is hiring a historian! My digital content team works closely with the research historian team, so come work with us. It's a job with meaning and worth, helping hundreds of thousands of onsite visitors connect with the past. recruiting.ultipro.com/COL1030CWF/J...

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Working CW for July 4. Already coated in sweat. For history.

🧵 This month on AskHistorians, we're hosting a few AMAs to mark the U.S. 250th with better content than a UFC Fight! We have a fantastic lineup over the next few weeks. Starting Monday we have Marc Stein for Bicentennial: A Revolutionary History of the 1970s, new from @uchicagopress.bsky.social!

🗃️ Twas a great conversation tonight @mhs1791.bsky.social 👏 I was in the reading room where it happened, buy + cite their books! #250 #JuntoPride @michaelhattem.bsky.social @publiusorperish.bsky.social

Michael Hattem@michaelhattem.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Looking forward to talking about how and why remember the American Revolution tonight at the Massachusetts Historical Society! www.masshist.org/events/revol...

Join us for a program on May 18 as @publiusorperish.bsky.social and @michaelhattem.bsky.social examine how disinformation and shifting ideologies influenced understanding of the American Revolution. Register: www.masshist.org/events/revol...

I'm hiring! 🏛️ This is a VA-based, hybrid 3-year position for a historian working on digital projects related to religious history. We'll also be hiring a historian working on onsite programming and training related to religious history. Feel free to reach out! www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...

It is a truth universally acknowledged that an early American historian, in possession of good research, must be in want of a commemoration.

Joseph Rezek@rezekjoe.bsky.social · 8mo ago

When the New Year turns, all the Jane Austen 250 birthday people will limp to the finish line, absolutely exhausted, and hand the baton to the America 250 birthday people, all little babies ready to run.

My book The Contagion of Liberty, which, among other things, explains the enthusiasm early Americans had for public health and inoculations. Is coming soon to paperback and can be preordered for 40% off with code HHOL25 www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

The Contagion of Liberty

The Politics of Smallpox in the American Revolution

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David M. Perry@lollardfish.bsky.social · 9mo ago

PROMOTE YOUR BOOKS! EVERYONE WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR PUBLISHED BOOKS! Do not ask me how my writing is going.

Today is the 250th anniversary of the signing of Dunmore’s Proclamation. Some of my amazing colleagues at CW have told a powerful story set in that historical moment. I highly recommend it. youtu.be/l5OYpv1HSOk?...

Promise of Freedom: A Story of Dunmore's Proclamation

YouTube video by Colonial Williamsburg

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If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.

CFP: A Time of Monsters

The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...

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thrilled to announced that a LinkedIn scambot has selected me to be featured in "Influential Women Magazine." tempted to let them scam me just to see what happens...

The OAH strongly endorses the National Humanities Alliance’s statement opposing the proposed cuts to the NEH. These cuts threaten critical funding for historical research, education, and public programs that connect communities to their past. ow.ly/Wz0b50VtxIv

SHEAR offers fellowships to scholars examining African diasporic, Latinx, Indigenous, Asian American, and/or Pacific Island history from 1776 to 1861. Scholars from underrepresented backgrounds, early career, contingent faculty encouraged to apply. shear.org/about-us/she...

So pleased to see people registering for my upcoming series of virtual workshops on the history of the #DeclarationofIndependence for #America250 planning. Please spread the word! Register 👉 www.declarationstories.org/workshops

Virtual Workshops for the 250th — Declaration Stories

Join Dr. Emily Sneff to learn the history of the Declaration of Independence before the 250th anniversary in 2026

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I’ve been thinking about media literacy a lot. I think about how it has always been a problem in early America and the new United States and about how it is a problem today. I also think about how a lack of media literacy and expertise pervades our digital tools and publishing systems.

Despite getting a Ph.D. in early American history, James (La) Fayette's story passed me by. I only learned it after coming to work for Colonial Williamsburg. Here's a video I got to work on. I think every American ought to know his story. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSoO...

5 Things You Should Know About James Armistead Lafayette

YouTube video by Colonial Williamsburg

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It's a new dawn, it's a new day, Vast Early America. Excited to be here.

a sunset sky with a lot of clouds

Alt: Dawn of a new day

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"If history has its eyes on journalism, it feels like a death stare....fact-checking...holds the line on reality for history’s sake." In other words, we need the full complement of expertise inc copyediting and fact checking in journalism *and scholarly publishing.* niemanreports.org/fact-checkin...

The Case for Facts - Nieman Reports

Verifiable evidence remains journalism’s foundation, despite mounting attacks on the press. Story by Angie Holan, director of the International Fact-Checking Network.

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I’m putting together the latest History Behind the Headlines newsletter. This week the focus is the origin of the Executive Order. I’m being very careful to vet and verify internet sources. Fortunately, this article was written by @lmchervinsky.bsky.social so I know it is accurate.

The Executive Order: A History of Its Rise and Slow Decline

President George Washington was the first to issue proclamations or executive orders. Their use peaked under Franklin Roosevelt, but they have been used fewer times in recent presidencies. Will Biden ...

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Took a social media break, which lingered for 2-3 business years. I'm delighted to rejoin the land of the digital and hear about all the history things y'all are up to! If you need editing, fact-checking, or transcription services to help make your media clear, accurate, & accessible, let’s talk.

Just put on Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace. Time to take a big sip of coffee and check the news.

1 JANUARY 1775, BOSTON: This account echoes merchant John Andrews “With wishing you a happy new year. … I must add my wishes that we may have a less troublesome year than the last, and that Great Britain may see her error in distressing the Colonies,

We have one last piece up this year at Commonplace. Isaac Kolding tells the tough, relentless and often disappointing work of activism in a story about David Ruggles and his resistance to a Portuguese slave ship docked in NYC:🗃️ commonplace.online/article/the-...

The Tedious Heroism of David Ruggles - Commonplace

History also changes because of strange, flawed, deeply human people doing unremarkable, tedious, and often boring work.

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The AHA seeks to collect information about the working conditions of historians employed as contingent faculty. We hope the survey results will empower faculty to engage in evidence-based negotiations about their working conditions. 🗃️

AHA Surveys: Historians Teaching Off the Tenure Track - AHA

Goals of the Surveys The Professional Division of the American Historical Association seeks to collect and collate information about the working conditions of historians employed as contingent faculty...

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It’s not my favorite part of working at Colonial Williamsburg, but seeing this sign every time I go to the bathroom is up there.

spent this afternoon reading some early US history (as one does) and was reminded of the important fact that these people were almost constantly drunk as hell

My review of Katlyn Carter's wonderful Democracy in Darkness is out! academic.oup.com/jah/article-...

Democracy in Darkness: Secrecy and Transparency in the Age of Revolutions

One of the paradoxes of representative government is that it needs transparency for legitimacy, but secrecy to govern. In her important book Democracy in D

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Sharing some professional news: I've sadly stepped away from my role as Production Editor of @commonplacejrnl.bsky.social. With my new job at CW, and my rambunctious two-year-old, I just couldn't balance everything anymore.

I’ve got a very preliminary Media History going: go.bsky.app/EzAZ2Hh

As a teenager, I read Ron Chernow’s bio of Hamilton on vacation in Florida. Lin-Manuel Miranda and I did very different things with that experience.

Lucas Haasis@lhaasis.bsky.social · 2y ago

Dear fellow historians: I recently asked my undergraduate students what sparked their interest in studying history. Two of them mentioned the film Titanic! Now I'm curious (and will let them know): What sparked your interest in studying #history?