I am filling out my cover design questionnaire and I have to give them 6 book covers that I like for inspiration. What is your favorite book cover and why? Please include alt text for images!

May 2026, Vol 106, no. 2, edition of Hispanic American Historical Review with an image of a Lima telefonista on the cover.

Image of the article: "The Lima Phone Operators' Strike of 1931: The Possibilities and Limits of Women's Labor Action in Peru" by Sofía Pachas Maceda and Mark Rice

It's always great when you see your @hahr21.bsky.social article in print. Even better when they put your article's image on the cover! Sofía Pachas Maceda and I wrote the article to be accessible - please consider using it in LatAm history, gender history, labor history, history of tech.

Help us explain D.C. At The 51st, we aim to make living in the District easier for the residents who call it home. To that end, one of our editorial focus areas is explainers: stories that demystify opaque city services…

One of our main goals at The 51st is to make D.C. an easier place to live.

One way to do that is by explaining stuff that is otherwise confusing, mystifying, or intentionally opaque!

What do you want to know more about? What can we help you understand? Let us know:

I use Reclaim Hosting (www.reclaimhosting.com) and Wordpress—bit of a learning curve but might be worth a look.

literally every day my wife or I go outside with our daughter people go out of their way to be friendly, offer aid or a kind word, no matter where we've traveled. it's nice to remember that hostility as default mode of interaction is not destiny, much as it benefits some to pretend it is

Boy do we have some news for you …

www.propublica.org/series/the-r...

Anyone have a good ethnography/history of private equity (or family offices or similar) intra-organizational dynamics as distinct from the big banks? Obviously love Liquidated for the latter. Have Applebaum & Batt for the former but want more.

Happy to support Blood Cancer United today! pages.lls.org/voy/nca/dcme...

Is there a classic rederence for thinking about military history from a labor history perspective? "War workers" and so on? 🗃️

🇬🇧#PortfolioDay I'm Rafael Mena, Mexican archaeologist and illustrator doing Mesoamerican stuff, among others.

🇲🇽#PortfolioDay Soy Rafael Mena, arqueólogo mexicano e ilustrador de cosas mesoamericanas, entre otras.

📧 rafaelmena432@gmail.com
#art #Painting #indigenous

Hampshire College to close after years of financial struggles Hampshire College will close after fall 2026 due to ongoing financial and enrollment struggles.

I’m absolutely heartbroken to learn that my alma mater is shutting down after nearly six decades. Hampshire College was one of the most innovative institutions in higher education.😢

and neither can the private sector & private foundations

For social science: *63 percent* of all social and behavioral science research in the United States is funded by the NSF through the social, behavioral, and economic sciences directorate.

the footnote or in-text citation is a rhetorical device giving your argument credence. If you can’t be sure of the citation, it isn’t rhetorically useful.

Cover of Anna Law's Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship with a US flag and a man behind the flag as if the stripes are bars

📣 📣You can read the first chapter of my book for FREE until May 10 here: academic.oup.com/book/62224/c...

Propublica is one of the best news organizations in the world, I'm a proud supporter of their... and that means supporting their workers in this strike.

Don't visit propublica -dot- org today.

Hey historians 🗃️ : what's your favorite microhistory, and why?

Resonance | University of California Press

Resonance (UC Press) is looking for humanities research across the following topics: Sound in Political Crisis, Sound and Social Justice, Experiments in Sound, Sound Archives and Preservation, and we're convening a permanent series that'll examine "Film and Cinema Sound" this Fall. Please circulate!

Congratulations! Very much looking forward to this one.

Book cover shows an alleyway in a Rio favela, the black and white photo has been given a bluish tinge; my name is upper left, the title of the book "Poverty of the Imagination" is at lower left and at right, in reddish text is the subtitle "The Cold War and the Social Science of Development in Latin America"

Your humble servant has a written a book about the social science of poverty in Cold War Latin America and the contexts that shaped its creation, from international sources like the Ford Foundation to dictatorships across the region. The book is in production and will be ready at the end of 2026

Just recorded an interview for @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social & feeling a lot of appreciation for this space to read, chat, and share books that mean a lot to me. Yay for NBN!

If you've considered hosting podcasts for NBN & you want to know more about it from a host (since 2019), feel free to DM 💙

"Even those few who were skeptical of eugenics accepted the basic premise of human inequality." From Jessica Riskin's book "The Power of Life," exploring the rise of eugenics principles among biologists: lareviewofbooks.org/article/eugenics-genetic...

‘The day the water died’: 37 years after Exxon Valdez, the damage still lingers On March 24, 1989, the tanker Exxon Valdez ran aground on Bligh Reef and spilled an estimated 11 million gallons of crude oil into Prince William Sound, unleashing one of the most consequential enviro...

‘The day the water died’: 37 years after Exxon Valdez, the damage still lingers.
Rick Steiner, who helped respond to the Exxon Valdez spill, says the ecosystem has not full recovered nearly four decades later.
www.alaskasnewssource.com/2026/03/25/d...

There are times I see some faculty member proudly offloading their job to AI and I really resent that these are the people who got jobs when so many of us didn’t.

Following barista strike, Starbucks agrees to bargain with union - union still calls on allies to delete Starbucks app and not buy any Starbucks until agreement is reached

Collective action matters. When we fight, we win. ✊

Still a few hours left to tell the Bureau of Livestock and Mining to please not restart its hideous program of ancient forest liquidation in SW Oregon.

morethanjustparks.com/oregon-old-g...

Canvas Unrolls AI Teaching Agent The new AI agent aims to save faculty time on “low-value tasks,” but stops short of fully automating grading. But some experts worry that the rise of agentic AI could lead to a dead classroom, where c...

Strong recommendation to teaching faculty to just say no to this stuff, even if you are AI curious/enthusiastic. This is meant to reduce faculty autonomy and capture human labor with automation. You're selling out your future self and the profession as a whole. www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...

Post from Andrew A.N. Deloucas @aandeloucas.com: In line with discussion about the job market, the latest majors being closed at Syracuse University: Nine majors "sunsetting": • Classical civilization • Classics (Greek and Latin) • Digital humanities • Fine arts • German • Latino-Latin American studies • Middle Eastern studies • Modern Jewish studies • Russian ALT

The First University in the Nation to Build a Center Dedicated to the Creator Economy Syracuse University is creating something that doesn't exist anywhere else in higher education. The Center for the Creator Economy is the first academic center of its kind on a U.S. college campus. Led jointly by the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and the Martin). Whitman School of Management, the center reinforces Syracuse University's commitment to bold, forward-looking academic leadership. By aligning strengths in entrepreneurship, media, communications, athletics and digital infrastructure, the University is charting how higher education can prepare students for the 21st-century economy.

Another university getting rid of things you could only ever do at a university and replacing them with stuff a 13-year-old can do on a phone

Syracuse is a private research university in a northern blue state. The attack on higher education transcends tidy public/private, regional, and partisan/political classifications.

Julie Greene on Her New Book, Box 25 | LAWCHA John Enyeart spoke with Julie Greene, editor of Labor: Studies in Working Class History, about her new book, Box 25, based on essays written in 1963 by

Here's a quick convo about my book Box 25: Archival Secrets, Caribbean Workers, and the Panama Canal from LaborOnline: lawcha.org/2026/03/11/j... The book works great in classes on historical method, Labor or Immigration history, etc.. LMK if you'd like me to join a class using the book, via Zoom!

Six photos illustrating the illumination of the Pyramid of the Niches during the spring equinox.

Around 7 AM during the spring equinox, for instance, the sun rising over the Cerro illuminates the Pyramid of the Niches in a descending zig-zag pattern, body by body and minute by minute. For a moment, the Pyramid of the Niches is the only fully-illuminated building at the site. 9/10