For now, we're only filling requests at U.S. repositories -- but you can place a request from anywhere.

We hope to expand to Canadian archives shortly and then Europe after that.

Briefly Noted for April 6, 2026 Callable thinking; The problem with prediction markets; AI stock market takes; Craig Newmark on giving; Consciousness and William James; Helicopter parenting; Stephenson on the metaverse; and more.

New on my Substack: Callable thinking; The problem with prediction markets; AI stock market takes; Craig Newmark on giving; Consciousness and William James; Helicopter parenting; Stephenson on the metaverse; and more.

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#Tech #Humanities #HigherEd

Map of locations where users can request documents via Sourcery

Need some remote research assistance? Sourcery has help for you from coast to coast.

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Axiom: use of the term “slop” itself constitutes slop

I Asked 5 Social Media Managers for the Best Clickbait Headline—They All Said the Same Thing

Future Tokens and the Prospect of Callable Thinking Has a finance quant reverse engineered the history seminar?

Has a finance quant reverse engineered the history seminar?

No, but it’s good click bait. New blog post at Found History ICYMI.

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Future Tokens and the Prospect of Callable Thinking Has a finance quant reverse engineered the history seminar?

My latest post explores Jordan Rubin's Future Tokens project, which aims to make common analytical moves "callable" Claude Skills. They map surprisingly well onto moves historians have been teaching graduate students for generations.

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#AI #DigitalHumanities

Home - Sourcery Open Source Not for Profit Community Driven Reimagining Remote Research Get Started Request documents through Sourcery Need to see archival materials for your research but can’t make the trip? Want…

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A phone case with a picture of a troll that says “Don’t feed the trolls”

I need this

Briefly Noted for March 23, 2026 New England's accidental borders; AI reliability vs. trust; DOGE's ChatGPT humanities purge; Digital history after vibe coding; Musk's orbital data centers; and more.

New on my "Briefly Noted" Substack: DOGE's ChatGPT humanities purge; Digital history after vibe coding; Musk's orbital data centers; Testing and education; AI reliability vs. trust; and more. Go ahead and subscribe!

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#AI #Humanities #NEH #Education #DH

Contingency and the Cartographic Making of New England (Part 2) In Part I, we explored how Southern New England’s borders emerged from surveying errors and charter conflicts. These disputes over the Southwick Jog, the Merrimack Bend, the Horse’s Neck, and the…

New newsletter post! Part two in the series on New England's borders, including disputes over the northern border and two "what-might-have-been" maps. Please read and subscribe!

#NewEngland #Canda #maps #history

Briefly Noted for February 26, 2026 AI and disciplinary hierarchies; Mapping New England; Rethinking academic range; Ottoman archives unlocked; and more.”

New "Briefly Noted" post: AI and disciplinary hierarchies; Mapping New England; Rethinking academic range; Ottoman archives unlocked; and more.

AI Inverts the Disciplinary Hierarchy Maybe we should be more cautious about defunding fields just because we can't immediately see their application.

The "useless" has become essential, and the "practical" has become automated. Maybe we should be more cautious about defunding fields just because we can't immediately see their application.

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#HigherEd #AI

Contingency and the Cartographic Making of New England (Part I) New England's borders aren't natural. They're historical accidents.

I'm on sabbatical and supposed to be writing. But the thing I'm supposed to be writing isn't this. New at Found History:

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#NewEngland #Maps #Archives #History #America250

Briefly Noted for February 9, 2026 Trusting AI; Regional measles strategy; Moltbook’s agent ecologies; Why Socrates was right about AI; Knowledge-based literacy; and more.

Trusting AI; Regional measles strategy; Moltbook’s agent ecologies; Why Socrates was right about AI; Knowledge-based literacy; and more.

if you are wearing a mask, whether you are a federal agent or occupying a college quad, ordinary people are going to think you’re up to no good. We learned as toddlers that bad guys wear masks.

The Measles Crisis Is Regional—Let's Keep It That Way Measles is a national issue. It's not a national phenomenon.

The U.S. may lose its measles elimination status. But the surge isn't national. It's concentrated in a few states. The Southwest's rate is 15x the Northeast's.

Why this matters and why regional institutions should step up: foundhistory.org/the-measles-...

#Measles #PublicHealth #NewEngland

Have you had better luck with Transcribes?

@rlprm.bsky.social You're probably already doing this, but maybe there are some tweaks in here that could help.

It's important to use the paid version of Gemini 3 and Google AI Studio, which allows for much more granularity. There's a good tutorial here: generativehistory.substack.com/p/gemini-3-s...

I haven't benchmarked systematically myself, but I'm getting more like 90-95%. Others, who have done more systematic work have reported closer to 98-99%, including ledger books with complex abbreviations and tabular data (see generativelives.substack.com and generativehistory.substack.com).

Trust and AI: A Conversation with Claude How is trusting AI different than trusting people?

What does it mean to trust Gemini with document transcription? How is trusting an AI different than trusting a human? My thoughts and a conversation with Claude.

#AI #Archives #DigitalHumanities #Transcription #Trust #Philosophy

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Briefly Noted for January 28, 2026 The medieval roots of the university; Billionaires don't really believe in UBI; The myth of scientific 'discovery'; EnshittificationU; Lüften's OK but A/C isn't? and more.

Found History (Briefly Noted) is out!

🏛️ The medieval roots of the university
💰 Billionaires don't really believe in UBI
🔬 The myth of scientific "discovery"
📉 EnshittificationU
🪟 Lüften's OK but A/C isn't?

Read and subscribe: open.substack.com/pub/foundhis...

#HigherEd #AI #UBI #histsci #luften

Universities are medieval institutions—slow by design, optimized for consensus, built to last. We may never satisfy modern demands for efficiency, but we may outlive them.

#highered #academia #history

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Briefly Noted for January 7, 2026 Tech transfer's failings; Crypto kleptocracy; Springsteen's poetry; and more.

New Found History (Briefly Noted) post: Tech transfer's failings; Crypto kleptocracy; Springsteen's poetry; and more.

#AI #TechTransfer #Poetry #Crypto #Politics #HigherEd

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Check out @ncph.bsky.social's webinar series on the WWII Homefront, starting at the end of the month and including my brilliant colleague, @cjceglio.bsky.social!

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Gmail UI gripe: Why does the star appear on the left (in yellow) in the web app but on the right (in blue) in the mobile app? This is bad design.

Archivists/librarians please share the coolest thing in your collections that will never be digitized.

That's a good point. Big tent.

Socrates on Technology LiberalArtsOnline Vol. 1, No. 3Those who believe that technology will cause sweeping transformations in higher education are probably right. Technology tends to do that. The technology of writing and…

Read this.... And then look at the date. The more things change....

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