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When you don't receive the email you want, but Google Scholar slides in twice in one week to validate you

What’s the Navy equivalent of an army marches on its stomach?

Popping into #OAH26 tomorrow for some meetings and looking forward to the #SHAFR meet-up!

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Right?!?

From Marshall's 1947 Harvard address to the realities of $13.3 billion in aid on the ground, it's a powerful reminder of the ERP's global impact. Timely, too, as we begin thinking ahead to the 80th anniversary next spring ... more soon from @cphatsmu.bsky.social!

The George C. Marshall Foundation has put together an outstanding new multimedia guide to the Marshall Plan--rich with primary sources, photographs, posters, and audio. A terrific resource for anyone working on postwar reconstruction or US foreign relations
www.marshallfoundation.org/articles-and...

Fell down a very cool rabbit hole exploring 'Mapping Victory,' a collection of WWII souvenir maps made by US Army units, showing the war through soldiers’ eyes, from combat to liberation to the aftermath: mappingvictory.org/index.html

cc: @smh-historians.bsky.social @tamu.bsky.social

Are you headed to Philadelphia for the @oah.org annual meeting later this month? Join #SHAFR members for an informal meet-up.

Friday, April 17, 2026
5–7:30 PM

Loews Philadelphia Hotel Bar
1200 Market St

Also kinda cool to put the finalists for the organization’s diss prize on a special panel.
cc: @shafrhistorians.bsky.social

Looks like #foodhist is having a moment! 🤩 Check out the finalists for @businesshistoryc.bsky.social Kroos Dissertation Prize.

Flying to the UK this week for my first @businesshistoryc.bsky.social and trying to calculate just how much extra time I need for TSA at EWR...

And really, I'd welcome ANY photos you have from SHAFR conferences, meet-ups, institutes, awards, etc. The number of creepy stock images are killing me.

Hey #SHAFR friends, I'm working to improve our ugly website. Anyone have a photo of a cart from NARA filled with boxes that happens to be aesthetically pleasing and screams 'research' that they would be willing to share?

A new book draws on the Wiener Holocaust Library's family letters collections - The Wiener Holocaust Library Throughout the Holocaust, letters were sent in their millions, in a variety of different contexts and for a range of differing purposes. Launching this month, Holocaust Letters: Methodologies, Cases…

Throughout the Holocaust, letters were sent in their millions.

A new book, Holocaust Letters: Methodologies, Cases and Reflections marks the first volume of its kind to examine collectively letter writing during this period and draws on evidence from our archive.

Find out more:

Calling all K-12 History educators! Applications are DUE MARCH 6 for our Summer 2026 Seminar on the Declaration of Independence!
Join us & 100 teachers at SMU in Dallas, all expenses paid.
You can find all application info at www.smu.edu/cph/A250

Myrna F. Bernath Book Award deadline extended to March 15! SHAFR members apply/nominate books published in 2024/2025 and written by a woman, non-binary, and/or trans scholar in the field. Instructions for submission can be found here: www.shafr.org/myrna-f--ber...

Still time to join us tonight for this event with @renfro.bsky.social! SMU, Dallas Hall, 6pm.

Congratulations @oscarwinberg.bsky.social 🎉👏

Applications are now open for our American History & Civics Summer Seminar for K-12 educators.
Topic: The Declaration of Independence:
Info: Summer 2026, SMU, Dallas, TX!

We welcome applications from educators across the country!

Deadline: March 6
Details & application: smu.edu/cph/A250

SAVE THE DATE 🇳🇱
#SHAFR2028
cc: @dariofazzi.bsky.social

The 10 Best and 10 Worst U.S. Foreign Policy Decisions For two-and-a-half centuries, the United States has faced a challenging world. Some of its responses have advanced U.S. interests and values. Others have not. We asked members of the Society for Histo...

No. 1 Best? The Marshall Plan.

Just sit with that for a moment.
www.cfr.org/ten-best-ten...

Don't forget, the deadline for several #SHAFR prizes is February 1!
Click here for more info: www.shafr.org/prizes

SHAFR is pleased to announce the launch of the William Burr Prize in Nuclear History with @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social
Deadline is April 1
More info: www.shafr.org/burr-prize

Food power is real and it’s essential to understanding our current moment

The 10 Best and 10 Worst U.S. Foreign Policy Decisions For two-and-a-half centuries, the United States has faced a challenging world. Some of its responses have made Americans proud. Others have not. We asked members of the Society for Historians of Ameri...

CFR expert James Lindsay asked hundreds of historians what they considered to be the 10 best and worst foreign policy decisions in U.S. history.

Here is what they said:

Working hard to create a forum where we can celebrate our members, share opportunities, and advance forward-thinking scholarship without sacrificing the past. If you have feedback or ideas, please reach out!

Come on out tomorrow morning for a great panel on food, power, and policy #AHA26

That vision shaped how Americans imagined food, security, and global responsibility during and after #WWII. Those ideas are at the heart of my book, Recipe for Democracy, out later this year with UVA Press! #foodhist

But it's a bizarre painting, aside from the turkey, there's barely any food (celery!?). The emphasis isn't abundance but community. The family matters more than the feast.

In 1943, Norman Rockwell brought the Four Freedoms to life in a series of covers for the Saturday Evening Post that were later used to sell war bonds. His painting for Freedom from Want, a family gathered for a turkey dinner, became iconic.