Zoe this is amazing! Congrats!!

Book cover of the book "Egypt's Mediterranean" by Zoe Griffith. It is an artist's rendition of a view from a balcony overlooking palm trees and boats.

Hi everyone! My book, Egypt's Mediterranean, came out with @ucpress.bsky.social on Tuesday 💙💛 It's a new look at how Egypt fit into the political economy of the Ottoman Empire and eastern Mediterranean.

Please enjoy the *beautiful* cover art by Mohamed Gohar (@mohamed.gohar on IG)

Job openings. Assistant/Associate Editors, Massachusetts Historical Society, Papers of John Adams.
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Triumph des Todes. Der Tod bestimmt das Bild, alles ist zerstört, vernichtet, nicht wieder aufzubauen.

Das bekannte Selbstbildnis von ihm. Er schaut aus dem Bild heraus uns an, trägt den Judenstern und den Ausweis als Jude.

„Wenn ich untergehe, laßt meine Bilder nicht sterben.“
Der Maler Felix Nussbaum beendete u.versteckte am 18. April 1944 sein letztes von ihm fertiggestelltes Bild in seinem Brüsseler Versteck.Kurz danach wurde er entdeckt und zusammen mit seiner Frau Felka Platek verhaftet, deportiert,ermordet



Cambridge is very flat except for these chalk pits

Obama meets Mamdani in New York City before reading to preschoolers Former President Barack Obama has met privately with New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani before joining together to read to preschoolers at a child care center in the Bronx.

Obama knows who’s got the juice
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Carlton C. Qualey Memorial Award

Lila Teeters Knolle, “Indians Now Taxed: Citizenship and Taxation in Settler-Colonial South Dakota”

#OAH26

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Tomorrow at OAH in Philadelphia, commenting on papers about crowd action and the Revolutionary era by VanJessica Gladney, Grant Stanton and @bencarp.bsky.social -- & thinking and talking about Ed Countryman whose subtle, dialectical take on crowds and politics entranced me and sent me on my journey.

Crazy stat from 1975: 5% of the population in the US owned nearly 2/3 of the privately held land. Wonder what it is today...

An in-depth analysis worth reading

Congratulations to our award winners at #OAH26!

We’re proud to recognize the outstanding scholarship, teaching, and service across our community.

See the full list of awardees here: https://ow.ly/R5nY50YLwkY

Very sad. Few places like this. Was like a northern New College before that one got destroyed by different means

An 'American story': Can Mammoth Cave's full history survive Trump? Mammoth Cave National Park, infused with Black history, is under order from the president to review how it tells stories of slavery and segregation.

They’re trying to clip out the fact that the early guides were slaves
eu.courier-journal.com/story/news/l...

The US used to have a federal balloon-school, now look at it

Federal ruling says no changes can be made to slavery exhibit at President's House in Old City A new ruling issued by a federal judge on Thursday orders that the Trump administration cannot remove or change any of the slavery exhibit again.

Some good news
www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/p...

The Author’s Corner with Tisa Wenger Tisa Wenger is Professor of American Religious History at Yale Divinity School. This interview is based on her new book, Spirits of Empire: How Settler Colonialism Made American Religion (Universit…

I’m delighted to have my new book featured on The Way of Improvement Leads Home!
@uncpress.bsky.social @emaisner.bsky.social @catehodorowicz.bsky.social
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New evidence indicates Native Americans were playing dice at least 12,000 years ago, many millennia before evidence of their appearance in the Middle East or Europe
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Immigration and Ethnic History Society

***Immigration and Ethnic History Society YouTube Channel***

Please visit the IEHS YouTube channel to watch clips from our past virtual events, including book talks, panel discussions, and more. These clips are great teaching tools!

www.youtube.com/@iehs_org

Frederick Jackson Turner’s Groundbreaking Frontier Thesis Was a Flop When He First Read It Chicago. July 1893. It was already warm when Mae Turner left the University of Chicago campus and joined some friends to spend the day at the Columbian Exposition (known more popularly as the World…

Want to read an excerpt from the Prologue of THE WESTERNERS before committing to the whole book?

If so, get thee to @literaryhub.bsky.social!

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This is a really important piece, which I would commend to anyone interested in the future of creativity under finance capitalism. The pressures on the art world are in some ways distinct from those encroaching on the humanities but there are also plenty of overlaps. doi.org/10.1162/OCTO...

Great feeling to open a library book and know you’ll never get a 404 error

The APS is hiring! We are seeking a special project fellow to assist with research on the Society’s Thomas Jefferson Garden, located just across the street from Independence Hall. Find more information and apply here: https://bit.ly/4sjEjv6

100 days from the release of my new book, Tarnished Promises: Indian Peace Medals in North America. Please feel free to reach out if you'd like to learn more or discuss a future speaking opportunity. upcolorado.com/university-p... #history #nonfiction #books #medals #NativeAmericanHistory #museums

Trying to appreciate the small things, like not having to wear gloves on my bike commute home today for the first time this year

There’s a long record of US leaders threatening to annihilate whole groups of people for refusing to bend the knee. In the revolutionary era the common threat leveled at Indigenous nations was “extirpation”. See
www.jstor.org/stable/10.53...

This is why I love footnotes

‘When the Declaration of Independence Was News’ Review: Breaking Story Broadside printing of the document commenced hours after it was approved. Copies were read aloud in town squares.

The WSJ book review for When the Declaration of Independence Was News called me "a careful academic who prefers sober analysis to intriguing speculation" and you know what, yeah. That's me.

🚨New Episode🚨

A conversation with BYU history prof. David-James Gonzales about his new book, "Breaking Down the Walls of Segregation: Mexican American Grassroots Politics and Civil Rights in Orange Country, California" (@academic.oup.com 2025).

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🗃️ Super excited to share that we’re hiring at the Adams Papers, come work with us! @mhs1791.bsky.social www.masshist.org/admin/upload...

Demystifying the doctorate. List of four things the Forum series does - Create advice, post essays by advanced graduate students and other early career scholars, address rules and paths and offer a thoughtful space for sharing and learning.

The #JERPano forum “Demystifying the Doctorate” is live on The Panorama!

Grad student & early career scholar submissions that offer wisdom, empathy, and practical guidance for navigating the PhD: thepanorama.shear.org/.../demystif...