"However the court decides, history shows that Mr. Trump is wrong," write @marthasjones.bsky.social & Historians Council Member @katemasur.bsky.social in @nytimes.com ahead of oral arguments in the SCOTUS case challenging Pres. Trump’s birthright citizenship order.
Promotional flyer for the QPL program A Legacy of Learning: The Life and Impact of Mary Shaw.
Reminder: Join us and historian @hopemcc.bsky.social at Flushing Library on Friday, March 27 at 4PM for an in-depth look at Mary Shaw, an activist, philanthropist, and school principal who lived in Flushing in the mid-late 19th century.
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Promotional flyer for the QPL program A Legacy of Learning: The Life and Impact of Mary Shaw.
Join us and historian Hope McCaffrey at Flushing Library on Friday, March 27 at 4PM for an in-depth look at Mary Shaw, an activist, philanthropist, and school principal who lived in Flushing in the mid-late 19th century.
Register for an In-Person Seat: m27.eventbrite.com?aff=social
The @richardscenter.bsky.social and @jcwe.bsky.social announce a journal article workshop for advanced graduate students, recent PhDs, assistant professors, and independent scholars.
Application materials should be sent to RichardsCenter@psu.edu by April 15, 2026!
DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MARCH 15!!
Apply TODAY for one of the 2026-2027 Predoctoral Fellowships!
Please help share this amazing opportunity to be a part of the Richards Center Community!!
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Pod Drop!
I had a great conversion with Kelly Marino about the suffrage activism of college students- people angry about protesting college students has a long history, but college students fighting to make the world better also has a history!
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Now available for free! Please check out this important special issue. Now more than ever, the Civil War era provides us with important lessons for our harrowing current moment
The Richards Center invites applications for the Mark & Ann Persun Visiting Scholars Program for tenured history faculty at the rank of Assoc Prof. For the 2026-27 academic year, the fellowship is open to scholars of the Civil War Era, broadly conceived, who study military or political history.
The Richards Civil War Era Center invites applications for the Mark and Ann Persun Visiting Scholars Program for tenured faculty in history at the rank of Associate Professor. Deadline is March 1! Learn more: richardscenter.la.psu.edu/fellowships/...
Call for applications - predoctoral scholars
The @richardscenter.bsky.social invites applications for two 2026-27 predoctoral dissertation fellowships in the history of the Civil War Era. One-year fellowship to work on their research - NO teaching or admin responsibilities! More info: richardscenter.la.psu.edu/fellowships/...
Call for Applications: 2026-27 Predoctoral Fellows, History of the Civil War Era
This is a limited-term fellowship for advanced graduate students who are in the writing stage of their dissertation. Review of app materials will begin March 1.
Learn more: richardscenter.la.psu.edu/fellowships/...
In today's Muster, we are announcing a call for gradate student submissions www.journalofthecivilwarera.org/2026/01/must...
The Richards Civil War Era Center invites applications for the Mark and Ann Persun Visiting Scholars Program for tenured faculty in history at the rank of Associate Professor. Deadline is March 1! Learn more: richardscenter.la.psu.edu/fellowships/...
state-sponsored child trafficking
Thanks to @talkingpointsmemo.com for the terrific suite of articles on what Jan. 6 really was. Here's the report Greg Downs and I wrote for the J6 committee, in which we cast that day's events -- and the response to them -- as part of a very long struggle over democracy in the United States
Richards Center CFA for the Mark & Ann Persun Visiting Scholars Program for tenured faculty in history at the rank of Associate Professor. For the 2026-27 academic year, the fellowship is open to scholars of the Civil War Era, broadly conceived, who study military or political history.
One of the reasons I think it’s also essential to not call the boat strikes “war crimes” but “crimes against humanity,” is that it emphasizes that Trump and Hegseth are acting extra-constitutionally and are not entitled to any shield from the courts. This systematic murder of civilians is illegal.
And one more other thing I’m seeing now, that Northwestern unsurprisingly didn’t mention in its statement, effectively banning gender affirming care at NU school of medicine
Trump’s extortion campaign continues. This time with Northwestern University reportedly capitulating to the tune of $75 million.
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After Tierra Walker died, her family was confused by her medical care.
“They didn’t want to offer to end the pregnancy, because the government or someone says you can’t?” her aunt said. “So you’d rather let somebody die?”
Insane
in the actual real world secret police are disappearing americans on behalf of an openly white nationalist government but george packer’s latest is a novel about a world beset by woke totalitarianism
Ah - the Kavanaugh stops continue.
(h/t @akalhan.bsky.social for the name!)
Next Monday's "One First" was going to be about how we should stop covering new #SCOTUS terms through the "big" cases the Court will hear; and instead focus on how the Court is behaving.
Fortunately for me (and you), @dahlialithwick.bsky.social and @mjsdc.bsky.social did it first—and *way* better:
