Come work with me on the William & Mary Anthropology Collections! We're looking for a postdoc in North American archaeology, preferably with experience on collections. Apply by April 2 for full consideration. 🏺🗃️ #academicsky

The ACHA is now accepting submissions for several of our awards, including the John Gilmary Shea Prize, the John Tracy Ellis Dissertation Award, and more! For more information and submission rules, visit achahistory.org/awards/.

Seeking roundtable panelist for late breaking session at #2026OAH in Philly on academic freedom and US history. Sponsored by Committee on Academic Freedom. Please repost! DM if interested. ##skystorians 🗃

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CFP: USIH-IU Community Scholars Program | Society for US Intellectual History In partnership with the Institute for American Thought at Indiana University, the Society for U.S. Intellectual History is pleased to announce the continuation of a new opportunity to support continge...

🗃️ Psst, friends at #AHA26 #MLA26 and beyond, please share word of the @susih.bsky.social Community Scholars Program, which unlocks library resources for 3 years (onsite + remote) for #contingent faculty & historians at work beyond the traditional academy, due 2/1 s-usih.org/2025/12/cfp-...

Supporting Historians Under Threat This guide is intended to provide resources for historians working in a range of different environments to support themselves and colleagues if faced with threats, punitive restrictions, and harassmen...

Historians have the right to expect that discussion of their historical work will be conducted in a civil manner, free from harassment and intimidation. The AHA provides resources for historians to support themselves and colleagues if faced with threats, punitive restrictions, and harassment.

Are you trying to decide which panels you want to attend next week at our Annual Meeting in Chicago? Then look no further than the ACHA Program available via our website or by scanning the QR code! To view it, go to achahistory.org/chicago2026/.

Archdiocese announces new initiative ‘Honoring Those Who Were Enslaved’ - Catholic Standard

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Fantastic resource for historians: a spreadsheet of NARA's digitized microfilm, with links to the files in the Archives catalog. May it help you as much as it has helped me.

www.archives.gov/files/colleg...

Museums at Indian Boarding Schools Are Shining Light on Their Survivors Inside the effort to map out more than 500 Indian boarding schools across the US—and memorialize a painful era of history that remains unknown to too many Americans.

"Their resilience is why these sites still exist today to offer a fuller account of American history—and as a visitor, it is a privilege to hear their stories, on their own terms." 🗃️ www.cntraveler.com/story/museum...

I stopped being able to drink grape Koolaid because of Dimetapp.

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The Death of the Student Essay—and the Future of Cognition One professor's reflections on the end of an era, as AI tools such as ChatGPT have murdered the student essay (RIP). Here's why that threatens the future of human cognition—and how to save ourselves.

After the latest round of grading papers, I wrote about AI, ChatGPT, the death of the student essay, and what it means for the future of human cognition.

Contingent history peeps, check this out 🗃️

Guide for Dealing with Online Harassment - AHA Guidelines to AHA members and historians who fear that they may become or have become targets of online harassment.

Historians have the right to expect that discussion of their work be conducted in a civil manner—but that right can be violated by hate speech and online threats. The AHA has developed a guide for historians encountering harassment on social media. 🗃️

Virginia Conference on Introductory History Courses – AHA The American Historical Association will hold the inaugural Virginia Conference on Introductory History Courses on Friday, March 28 and Saturday, March 29, 2025, at the Virginia Museum of History and ...

Registration for our free Virginia Conference on Introductory History Courses, March 28-29, at Virginia Museum of History and Culture (VMHC) in Richmond is open now. Join us for thought-provoking discussions and engaging sessions! 🗃️

🗃️ Newspapers.com has a free access weekend. Perfect time to grab any primary source newspapers you need for your research.

📚 Here is how to donate to the Huntington Library’s Disaster Relief Fund, which will aid impacted staff + collections. Please share, #skystorians #library #booksky friends, thank you! 🗃️ shorturl.at/TVPPE

America’s Decline & Fall The founders anticipated someone like Trump partly because they’d been reading Edward Gibbon’s 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.'

The founders anticipated someone like Trump partly because they’d been reading Edward Gibbon’s ‘Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.’

Jim Sleeper on America's rise and fall:
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This article editing workshop from @globalhistjnl.bsky.social looks like a great opportunity: networks.h-net.org/group/announ... 🗃️

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The great @anthonyb1939.bsky.social with Martin Scorsese at the Basilica of Old St. Patrick’s Cathedral @achahistory.bsky.social #ACHA2025 #ACHA25 #AHA2025 #AHA25

Ok you all just convinced me. Masks are coming too!

This does look like a great session. I wish I could attend but I am giving a paper in the same time slot.

Book cover with various kinds of evidence of family history arrayed around the author and title, the latter is _Lineage: Genealogy and the Power of Connection in Early America_. The kinds of materials include printed texts, manuscripts, a red book (shhhhh that figures largely in the Introduction!), a watercolor family record, Fraktur, gravestone, and a sampler. One repeated text says "born free, born free (etc)"

It’s been a long time coming… so thrilled to share the cover (and Oxford UP website last in 🧵) for my book, _Lineage: Genealogy and the Power of Connection in Early America_, pub date 7.2.25 (but will ship, so they say very enticingly, mid-June. 1/ #VastEarlyAmerica 🗃️

#Skystorians coming to #AHA2025!

Join me, Tanisha Ford, @chadwilliams.bsky.social @profgabriele.com @lollardfish.bsky.social & @adapalmer.bsky.social as we discuss the nuts, bolts, and FUN of writing narrative histories for trade publishers.

Sun., Jan. 5, 3:30 p.m.
Sheraton Empire Ballroom West.

The ACHA is honored to announce the 2024 Presidential Travel Grant recipients Meghan Lescault and Sierra Lawson. Mark your calendars for their presentations next week!

breathtaking. #skystorians