Rachel Herrmann
@raherrmann.bsky.social
Migrant. Historian. Eater. Co-Editor, Global Food History. Author of No Useless Mouth: Waging War and Fighting Hunger in the American Revolution; Editor of Claiming Land, Claiming Water & To Feast on Us as Their Prey. More: rachelbherrmann.com
📢PROJECT UPDATE📢 You may have seen the news that the University of Exeter, home of the wills project, has placed 500 academics at risk of redundancy. The project leader Prof. Jane Whittle & project co-investigator Dr Laura Sangha are both at risk, alongside almost all of the History department. 1/
@mwpalen.bsky.social vindication press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Pax Economica
The forgotten history of the liberal radicals, socialist internationalists, feminists, and Christians who envisioned free trade as the necessary prerequisite for anti-imperialism and peace
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Joey Politano🏳️🌈@josephpolitano.bsky.social · 2d agoDSA-aligned Democrats are now the most pro-free-trade voting bloc in the United States, in an incredible turn of events www.theargumentmag.com/p/who-suppor...
CFP: edited volume: Water in Culture and Nature: Tangibility, Intangibility, Liminality, Confluence in Heritage networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
Water in Culture and Nature: Tangibility, Intangibility, Liminality, Confluence in Heritage | H-Net
Water in Culture and Nature: Tangibility, Intangibility, Liminality, Confluence in Heritage
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The third round of formal reflection for for Karin and I (along with a lifetime of constantly talking about it)! Please share widely. Please circulate widely to anyone who might be interested. We will be welcoming people who would like to attend and join the dialogue as well as paper givers.
John Carter Brown Library@jcblibrary.bsky.social · 3d agoCall For Proposals: Conference on Families in Early American and Atlantic Worlds April 15-17, 2027 Hosted by the John Carter Brown Library (Co-chairs Julie Hardwick and Karin Wulf) Details at: forms.gle/QWcB23XGbwu6...
I would like to propose the Taco Bell Principle When a person/institution Did A Problem, & IMMEDIATELY fesses up & takes proactive steps to solve it That's exactly what we want them to do? So how bout we let them live ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Sarah Taber@sarahtaber.bsky.social · 3w agoA quick word on Taco Bell: That's where we found the suspected lettuce, and it's not bc Taco Bell is gross. It's bc Taco Bell is REALLY GOOD at tracing product! Keeping track of exactly where they got their ingredients, & exactly what restaurants each shipment of ingredients went to!
TV appearance coming up on Drive By History. It airs on WLIW on Sat., 8/8 at 7pm, and then other PBS stations may rerun it. By Monday it'll be online here (in the meantime you can check out newly minted CUNY PhD Blake McGready in an episode about the 1779-80 winter) www.pbs.org/show/drive-h...
Drive By History
Drive By History investigates the stories behind roadside history markers in NJ and NY.
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I love teaching students about the rise of steamboats in the 19c, because Americans decided to build them fast and cheap without any safeguards. And then America developed an exploding steamboat problem. That’s the pattern with genAI. Whatever benefits it holds, we’re just blowing lots of stuff up.
Opinion | I Helped Run Lululemon. The A.I. Revolution Is a Hot Mess. (Gift Article)
The A.I. revolution is stalling because companies don’t want to admit that integrating the technology is expensive and slow and requires human effort.
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This is your annual reminder that if you inadvertently write on a whiteboard with a Sharpie, you can trace over that with a whiteboard pen and then the whole thing will come off.
Behind the bewildering transformation of British universities, are management consultants being paid millions Really proud to have this vital piece on our unis are being gutted from the inside by @jheathershaw.bsky.social on Democracy for Sale. Do read democracyforsale.substack.com/p/inside-bri...
Inside Britain's university crisis
As teaching staff face job loss, their bosses have netted pay rises and bought advice from a “vampiric” management consultancy, writes Prof. John Heathershaw of the University of Exeter
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Historian of wine & climate here maybe they are planting Syrah because it is getting too hot for Cabernet to shine. This is happening in Bordeaux. Also wine consumer's tastes have changed so rather then regional expression it is consumer demand.
Decanter@decanter.com · 7d agoCabernet has led Washington State for decades. Syrah, planted here just 40 years ago, is closing the gap fast. No strict rulebook means winemakers can let it express pure regional character🍷 www.decanter.com/wine/washing...
FFS. *Now* can universities get their crap together and mount resistance to this onslaught on knowledge and cultural heritage? Starting, ideally and logically, with history departments
Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele@drdragases.bsky.social · last wk.No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.
The William and Mary Quarterly forum on the recently discovered John Dickinson documents, revealing his previously unknown secret attempt to prevent the American Revolution, is now available online! The WMQ has generously made the issue open access for the next month. muse.jhu.edu/issue/57168
One of the nicest and most unexpected pleasures of having worked on a book for so long is that all of the friends you make along the way, who have also been working on their books for so long, eventually finish those books--all at the same time! I am feeling so much vicarious pride in 1/
I am doing an AMA (ask-me-anything) on the AskHistorians subreddit this morning. Ack! Pretty nervous about it, but should be an interesting experience. Here's a link if anyone's curious: www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...
From the AskHistorians community on Reddit: I am Rachel Hope Cleves, a historian of sexuality. Ask me anything!
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Once more: Mamdani understands that you can't just do things in politics and expect voters will notice on their own and thank you for it. You've got to work just as hard selling yourself to voters once you're in office as you did selling yourself to them to get into office. This is the way.
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · last wk.Now serving: a new era for small business.
When the story of why humanity didn't stop climate change is written, it will feature front pages like this. Even as the skies blacken with climate change-induced wildfires, right wing media continue their relentless crusade against measures to tackle it.
If anyone is considering editing something from our collections, we will happily supply a digital copy at no cost. Please contact Kate (archives at ucd dot ie).
Irish Manuscripts Commission@irishmanuscripts.bsky.social · 2w agoClosing date: Wed 29 July The IMC student prize of €1,000 is awarded to a postgraduate student for editing a short historical document, which will also be considered for publication in Analecta Hibernica. Learn more at: irishmanuscripts.ie/imc-student-prize-2026/
24 JULY 1776, NEW YORK: Though he “feels an unwillingness to recommend, much more to order, any kind of Uniform,” Washington wants Continental soldiers dressed in “Hunting Shirts, with long Breeches, made of the same Cloth, Gaiter fashion about the Legs.” founders.archives.gov/documents/Wa...
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Please share! A rare PhD studentship @kingshistory.bsky.social *fully* funded by @slaveryinwar.bsky.social to work with myself and Maeve Ryan, supported by a broader community of experts in Caribbean history, transatlantic slavery, and the history of war. www.kcl.ac.uk/study/fundin... 🗃️
AHRC Studentship: Slavery and the Seven Years’ War within and across the Caribbean Archipelago | King's College London
The Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War (CRSW) is pleased to announce the availability of a fully funded AHRC doctoral studentship, to be jointly supervised across History and War Studies
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📘From our latest issue! Keir Waddington @keirwaddington.bsky.social (Cardiff University) on 'Living with Drought in the Long Nineteenth Century' #Water #Environment #Climate #Rural #Weather 👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
![The 1893 drought will, according to the science journal Nature in July, ‘unquestionably take its place among the recorded events of history, if regard be had to its intensity [and] the length of time during which it has lasted’. Communities reported being stretched beyond endurance. Rivers ran dry, reservoirs dropped to record lows, wells failed, and domestic water supplies were restricted to a few hours per day. But while the 1893 drought was severe, it was not unusual. As this article reveals, urban and rural communities faced regular droughts of varying intensity and duration during the long nineteenth century. What did this mean for them? Where previous interest in extreme weather events has focused on recovering historic patterns, or examined resilience or adaption, this article explores the lived experiences of drought to offer a new perspective on the impact of weather shocks and water scarcity on people’s lives. By combining evidence from meteorological reports, newspapers, official reports, and local government archives, the article undercovers the fragility of urban and rural water supplies and examines how behaviours were adapted in response to water scarcity and precarity.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mvpup65ek2edpkpehxkb7mng/bafkreibwxt4p74hrfvn6jfhajqbew2xpthsyfdla5ynq5uhtcgthg4xccu)
Last week, about a third of the History department were able to gather together on graduation day. Rather than lend our intellectual authority to the official procession and ceremony we invited our students to come and celebrate their achievements with us in a shady courtyard. They came. 1/
undoubtedly, these 'claims' included for 'lost property' a/k/a people escaping enslavement from SC for 150 years (Carolinians pursued conquest/annexation of Florida from mid-1680s) @actualkatherine.bsky.social
This Many Years Ago@thismanyyearsago.bsky.social · 3w ago205 years ago, on the 17th of July 1821, the United States took possession of Florida from the Spanish after the Adams-Onis Treaty which was signed in 1819. The treaty also included a 5 million settlement by the US of claims against the Spanish government. #otd #history 🗃️
We've got a new shiny submission site, too, and we welcome original submissions relating to American history in the (long) 19th C. We welcome standard research articles, roundtables, conversational pieces, historiographical, theoretical, methodological, or pedagogical interventions.
