Were you rushing to get your ACHA Summer Research and Writing Grant application in? Good news, we have extended the deadline to March 15! For more information and to submit an application visit achahistory.org/summer-resea....
The Centre for Women’s Studies in Theology (KU Leuven) will host for International Women’s Day on 10 March 2026, 1-2pm CET, Prof. Catherine Cornille (Boston College) who will speak on “Women in Interreligious Dialogue and Theology.” To join online email cwst@kuleuven.be.
Ah, a new book has arrived. Congratulations to Joseph Mannard on his new book!
The Two Worlds of Ann Gertrude Wightt share.google/fbZIYqm5uggP...
Here is some Sunshine
youtu.be/2UQP6asc8CI?... The latest from Joan Hutton.
This is the old St. Joseph Cemetery in Manchester, NH.
Pilgrimage accomplished. Visited Old St. Joseph Cemetery and the Sisters of Mercy graves this afternoon. This included Mother Francis Xavier Warde's grave and those of the first Sisters of Mercy at Manchester, NH.
2-year postdoc opportunity: FCJ Postdoctoral Research Associate in the History of Catholicism at Durham University durham.taleo.net/careersectio...
"My father, an early and prominent computer scientist, passed away more than two years ago. Since then I’ve been trying to make sense of how rapidly the world that helped make him, and in turn the one he helped shape, is unraveling." 1/ scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/06/26/d...
A black and white photo of a toddler sitting next to a baby who is lying down, both looking curiously towards something out of frame.
26 June 1939 | Dutch Jewish girl, Helena Wilhelmina Polak, was born in Groningen.
In February 1943 she was deported to #Auschwitz from Westerbork and murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection together with her younger brother Abraham.
I get a lot from my professional memberships, like the AHA, ACHS, and of course the spectacular, all the cool kids should join, @achahistory.bsky.social but the CHWR is something more. Cannot wait until next time. 2/2
The Conference on the History of Women Religious at the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism ended just yesterday. I think I will be processing all that I saw, heard, and most importantly learned for a good while. 1/2
Check out the program: chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/cushwa.nd.edu/assets/620001/chwr2025_p...
#CHWR2025 1st full day! & we [really] begin! (Last night's keynote from Katharine Massam was super!] Today, 1st panels begin at 9am, I'm a chair. Later at 2pm I join @carmenmangion.bsky.social & Christopher Eads. Day ends w the work-in-progress film on Corita Kent! It is going to be #nuntastic.
In light of the Trump administration restricting access to trans-specific support on the national 988 suicide prevention hotline, I’m asking everyone to share this alternative loud and wide:
The Rainbow Youth Project is here.
There is always help.
Sr. Agatha O'Brien, Chicago RSMs to Sr. Elizabeth Strange, Pittsburgh RSMs, 1851.
"You need not caution me regarding any little remarks which you might make for to no one living [underlined in orig.] would I reveal them. I too have many things which I would like to speak to you of but yet it would not do to write about."
Oh, come on Mother Agatha! Spill! #nuntastic gossip.
I have a feeling that the assholes currently running Interior are going to regret this directive in the end. There are too many smart, vindictive supporters of national parks out there.
I just wish that park rangers were not caught in the cross-fire.
#supportNPS
Why, yes, I am having a fun morning doing #nuntastic research.
Recalling travel from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh in Dec 1843, w 1 leg a 2-night journey by stagecoach, a "heavy clumsy concern," that fit 9 people (7 sisters & 2 men) a Sister of Mercy reported: "Passing the night in it was quite a penitential exercise."
Oh, sister, tell me more. #nuntastic
I love this photo! Florence Barry was amazing - more on her here: map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/items/show/311 @lselibrary.bsky.social @gillianmurphy.bsky.social @ccshistorycatholic.bsky.social @ncronline.bsky.social @cushwa.bsky.social @mbfconnolly.bsky.social @achahistory.bsky.social
Tuesday, March 11, I will present for the Mercy Heritage Center.
My presentation is: "Willing to Engage in the American Mission": The Irish Sisters of Mercy in 1840s Pittsburgh and Chicago. This online presentation will be at 3pm Eastern/2pm Central. The Zoom link: us06web.zoom.us/j/810…
So, there is a pomodoro timer? Is this a thing people use when writing?
First day of @achahistory.bsky.social annual conference going quite well! #ACHA2025 must have had an awesome program coordinator @monicalmercado.bsky.social
Archivist and historians in conversation? Can they do that? Well, we do. Fun and helpful conversation had by all. #ACHA2025 #AHA25
Here we go, #ACHA2025 starting tomorrow! @achahistory.bsky.social
It is going to be, dare I say, #nuntastic? The program looks excellent!
Oh my stars, grades in. Wow.
