I’ll be giving a virtual talk on “The Midwestern Roots of Forestry: Industrialization, Indigenous Lands, and the Environment, 1867-1933” on April 22 from 12:00pm-1:15pm (eastern) for the Grey Towers Heritage Association.

For more info and to register:

Community gathering in the Nature Center of St John's Woods, Bowling Green, Ohio.

I wrote this blog post after spending the last couple of days with the staff of the Wyandotte Nation Cultural Division. History is a pursuit of knowledge, but history vibe when it helps rekindle the love for people, place and the world. blogs.bgsu.edu/achallu/2026...

#envhist and environmental humanities folk near Lake Erie, this event may be of interest to you!

Wyandotte storytellers will narrate their stories inspired in their ancestral homelands in northern Ohio.

Sat. Feb. 21st, 2–3pm in Wintergarden Woods Nature Preserve, Bowling Green, Ohio.

Archaeologists find a supersized medieval shipwreck in Denmark The sunken ship reveals that the medieval European economy was growing fast.

Discovery of a shipwreck in Denmark

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arstechnica.com/science/2026...

#MaritimeHistory #Shipwreck

Give men5 games to get to know you:
- UNO
- Truco
- Civilization saga
- Space invaders
- Risk

Tribal economic principles

Remington Schneider

Having a blast in this talk by Remington Schneider, Alliance for Tribal Clean Energy, about traditional ecological and economic knowledge. Part of our programming centered on Braiding Sweetgras at BGSU. www.bgsu.edu/the-arts/in-...

Día de Muertos is coming and we have a beautiful tradition on campus to make altars in different buildings. Here’s Theater’s. We’ll make ours in history on Thursday.

We have some fantastic programming leading to Robin Kimmerer’s visit to campus in spring. My colleagues in the water center are leading the next seminar. Some #envhist coming down the road too.

Thanks!!!

Question for #envhist and humanities peeps: I’m working on an outreach plan supporting a wetland restoration project. Does anybody have recommendations of authors or projects using history to increase public awareness on restoration projects?

Next Monday (Oct 6) the two-days conference "Inequality & History" will begin, hosted by @dondenacentre.bsky.social at Bocconi University (Milan). Join us to explore & debate inequality across history, from Classical Antiquity until today! Remote attendance possible; QR code in the program below👇

My kids did it. I profoundly disagree.

Inequality, economic stress, and demographic response: Introduction

With the publication of our introduction, the special issue that Tommy Bengtsson and I edited for Explorations in Economic History "Inequality, economic stress, and demographic response" is now complete! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/4

Professor Emeritus Peter Temin, influential and prolific economic historian, dies at 87 MIT Professor Emeritus Peter Temin, a highly influential and prolific economic historian, has died at 87. The longtime MIT scholar and former department head used the tools of economics to shed new li...

Great loss in #Econhist. We were just talking about Temin with some colleagues in
#wehc2025. He was a regular in the Boston-area Econ hist workshop and always insightful. news.mit.edu/2025/profess...

Great time in Lund for the #WEHC2025

Do you have any recommendation about the Lorenz curve of the distribution of slave ownership in the US?

Nixtla | State of the Art Forecasting Nixtla democratizes access to state-of-the-art predictive insights. With Nixtla, you can implement cutting-edge forecasting and advanced anomaly detection, irrespective of your team's si...

The students and I learned a lot from the activities but also from interacting with cutting-age technology in @hf.co, nixtla.io and humy.ai

Bowling Green plans to offer a new major next school year: AI + X A new major at Bowling Green State is hoping to teach students how to make artificial intelligence – and how to use it responsibly.

So happy to be part of this initiative. I piloted the new History in the Age of AI course this past spring, focusing on text recognition models (and more broadly on AI literacy). It was a very rewarding experience.

www.statenews.org/section/the-...

Last year Matt Emberg developed a board game about the conquest of Tenochtitlan. Today we got to play the finalized version. I loved the process of helping Matt design the game and now seeing the outcome. Another reason why I love my job.

I bumped into the Lorax in our park’s native plants sale.

This sounds amazing. I look forward to reading it.

Impressive.

The History of Inequality For the last few decades, a strong consensus has held that Latin America is not only the most economically unequal region in the world, but also one where inequality has become structurally entrenched...

So happy to share this byline with John Coatsworth. revista.drclas.harvard.edu/the-history-...

Trump Calmly Reminds Nation That Desire The Root Of All Suffering WASHINGTON—Seeking to reassure the public after his latest tariffs sent both U.S. and international markets into free fall, President Donald Trump calmly reminded the nation Thursday that desire is th...

This explains it all. theonion.com/trump-calmly...

Love it. Congrats on the publication

"Caring About Care", Jane Humphries, 27.02.2025 YouTube video by CEPH

Last month, Prof. Jane Humphries (@ox.ac.uk) delivered the Alice Murray Distinguished Scholar Lecture titled "Caring About Care: The Economic History of Caring Labour"
The lecture is available here, but we'd like to highlight some of the research that supported it:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BoY...

Transkribus hasn’t worked that well for me. My students report good results for easy handwriting. But I haven’t been able to crack the nut for structured info.

What tools do you use for transcribing?

A simple hack to ChatGPT-proof assignments using Google Drive What if there was a way to maintain the essay in all its three constituent parts – reading, thinking, writing – in the age of ChatGPT? Dave Sayers thinks he has an answer

If you want to prevent use of AI in student assignments, try this method of mine. It works really nicely. In the process, it also gives students transparent tools to prove they did their own work (to me and to future employers).
www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/simpl...

Very clever