People aren't really thinking about you as much as you are worried that they are.

Sex and the City meme, "And I couldn't help but wonder who assigned so many things to grade?"

CATCHING HELL FROM ALL QUARTERS: Anti-Klan Activists in Interwar Missouri by Sean Rost is an honorable mention in the 2026 Society of Midland Authors Awards for the History category. Congratulations to Dr. Rost!

Find a full list of award winners here:

midlandauthors.org/contest-winn...

Me in 1775:

Wait. Wait. Wait. Is it one over land? Or one over sea?

Oh. Ok. Got it.

*climbs into the steeple*

So, it’s two over land? Right? Damn it.

*climbs back down*

Hey, guys, remind me again?

Does anyone use Canva for their lecture slides? If so, pros-cons?

This is more broadly generalizable: If you don't do the research yourself, you have no idea if AI is making stuff up. And if you do the research yourself, then AI isn't saving you much labor, if any.

Exploring the Prize Papers, a global early modern archive Using language skills, examine previously unknown records from the Prize Papers collection and produce descriptions to support digitisation.

Dream positions: 3 (!!) PhD placements at the Prize Papers with emphasis on finding students with the following language skills: French, Spanish, Dutch, and Scandinavian languages. (Of course, I emphasize the Dutch language!)
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/professional...

Author holding her book in front of a poster depicting her book and several others.

Canal Dreamers looks good large! How fun to celebrate books with the team at @uncpress.bsky.social in their booth @oah.org. If you are at the conference, check out the small version that you can actually open and read.
🗃️ #skystorians @sonyabonczek.bsky.social

I use Libib. It’s been a great option for me.

No more subscriptions for software we used to buy once and download into our PCs. I'm looking at you Adobe

One of our children went to UTC for a year. Parts of the campus were great visually, but there were definitely some places that were not worth looking at.

That’s a fair point.

From the photos I saw, the seats are not oriented to give a river view, right? That seemed like a missed opportunity.

Hello #skystorians! I am trying to get hold of the 21st April 1962 edition of the Saturday Evening Post – specifically an article titled "Ike Takes a Look at the GOP."

Can any helpful person be of assistance? I have an incomplete draft version from the archives so far... 🗃️

I’m excited to share that I’m working on a new book- KINGDOM NOW: CHRISTIAN ZIONISM FROM THE PURITANS TO MAGA.

The genocide in Gaza and the war on Iran and Lebanon have reshaped the political order in the Middle East and around the world.

a man in a suit and tie covering his mouth with his hand and the words it 's in the transcripts below him ALT: a man in a suit and tie covering his mouth with his hand and the words it 's in the transcripts below him

Anyone have a recording and transcription app they like? There are a few out there, but I'd love a recommendation.

Friends, for a student:

does anyone know where a student might find digitized commonplace books & scrapbooks? All collections/suggestions welcome—she just needs more examples for a project she’s working on

🗃️ Has anyone written/is anyone working on the way that LLM use is impacting historical memory?

'... et dicti sui compurgatores iuraverunt de credilitate ([?] [?]) dominus ipsum purgatum declaravit '. LAO/Cj.4/fol21r.

Some help with these two words would be much appreciated. TIA #PalaeographyChallenge Text in the Alt text.

Very pleased to have been awarded the Society for the Study of Nineteenth Century Ireland Essay Prize for my 2024 Irish Historical Studies article 'The Irish-American press, the Franco-Prussian War and Irish-American identity in the postbellum United States, 1870–71’ doi.org/10.1017/ihs....

Despite everything terrible going on, I have something very nice to report: starting this summer, I will be moving out west to become the new curator of the John L. Wehle Gallery at Genesee Country Village & Museum! www.gcv.org/the-john-l-w...

Congratulations to Nicole Viglini, Asst. Professor of History, UNC-Charlotte and former Richards Center postdoc fellow, who has received a John L. Nau III Center for Civil War History short-term fellowship to conduct research on the U.S. Civil War era!

I was a dissertation fellow at the Library Company of Philadelphia 20 years ago. I'm thrilled to return next week to discuss my book "Canal Dreamers." I might even talk about sharks! Join me on April 15 at 5 PM.
support.librarycompany.org/event/canal-...
🗃️ #oceanhist #histsci #envhist #coastalhist

I think university press landing pages for edited volumes should provide chapter titles with contributing authors' names, and I'm not afraid to say it.

This book identifies several understudied areas of U.S. presidential politics & helps explain the origins of presidential campaigning, e.g., campaign biographies, political cartoons, material culture, political music, political rallies, women's contributions, etc.

www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

So excited to read my copy of @carolinesharples.bsky.social book The Long Death of Hitler (need to come back from a trip & finish grading but then it’s time to read)! She’ll be speaking in Leicester this week for anyone local #skystorians 🗃️

yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

I think the reason AI propagandists are so flustered by the fact that no real writer wants to use their idiotic tools is that they themselves don't enjoy writing. They see it as a boring arduous chore to be avoided, while real writers actually enjoy writing and actually care about the quality of it.

You'll die full of ideas. If I threw myself 100% into just executing the stuff in my notebooks NOW, I'd never get through them in the 20-odd years I have left. Ideas are just boxes to hold the emotions you're trying to magically convey from your brain into strangers' brains.

Huzzah!

Sorry. Another ask. Historians of women: I'm interested in showing my bb US women's history the breadth of what our subfield makes possible. If you're moved, I'd love to hear the question that motivated (one of) your research project(s)