Green "poison" book cake
Edible Books!
I don't have any real books to share today, so here is the glorious lineup of faux-folios from April 1! Most photos were by Ben Greer, and featured on @newberrylibrary.bsky.social instagram. First up, The Poison Princess, by Conservation, a Swedish Princess cake with a dire twist! 1/?
Author holding her book in front of a poster depicting her book and several others.
Canal Dreamers looks good large! How fun to celebrate books with the team at @uncpress.bsky.social in their booth @oah.org. If you are at the conference, check out the small version that you can actually open and read.
🗃️ #skystorians @sonyabonczek.bsky.social
Exactly one year ago today:
This strikes me as correct, and I think Eliga Gould’s characterization of the early US - that it struggled to become a polity that was “treaty-worthy” - is useful for analyzing things now.
My fellow Brits: letters for us to write, too, to ensure they hold the line on this.
Obviously this is part of the Hegseth/Trump story—pardoning the few soldiers who have been prosecuted for war crimes—but it is also part of a longer history and broader refusal to abide by international law (international law that the U.S. helped create!)
I’m writing about the (very few) courts martial following the My Lai massacre, and a robust majority of Americans said the soldiers involved should not be prosecuted if they were following orders. I’m not sure there’s ever been a domestic consensus that Americans should be prosecuted for war crimes.
We have a constitution for a reason.
First FIFA Peace Prize winner to declare he's ending a whole civilisation.
Downloadable paper links for Chris Parsons, “The Ordeal of the Longhouse on Trial: Early America, Canadian Courts, and the Articulation of Aboriginal Rights in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries” and Rachel Herrmann, “Rivers and Bays and Swamps, Oh My!: Thinking about Waterways in Creek and Seminole Homelands”
If you’re headed to the OAH next week and have copious spare time, pre-circulated papers for our Early America session (feat. me and @chrisparsons.bsky.social) are now available to read: portal.oah.org/oah26/sessio... Come help @jlhill.bsky.social and Drew Lipman to ask good questions!
We're really cooking now.
Yes!
Early modernists in NYC/NJ--join us next week at Rutgers for FEEGI's 2026 conference! FEEGI is entirely DIY-no institutional base or $$ support, just a committed membership. All sessions are plenary. Oh, and it's crazy affordable (FREE for grads, postdocs and IS!) #earlymodern
feegi.org/index.html
I've written a short piece for History Today on ships' surgeons and emotional lives at sea. Enjoy!
Did they see all of us complaining about how hard writing was and think this was the solution we wanted when what we really wanted was robust funding for the arts and humanities and comments in MS Word footnotes?
Happy #pubday to "The American Revolution at 250: Twenty-Four Historians Reflect on the Founding," edited by Francis D. Cogliano!
The preeminent historians of the founding era speak their mind on the anniversary of the United States’ birth
www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10183/
#skystorians #readUP
12 English muffins with light browning lines on a barbecue with a dogwood, hydrangea, and rhododendron in the background
If you’re not barbecuing in the mizzle on a British holiday, you’re doing it wrong. I am making @smittenkitchen.bsky.social English muffins on the grill
There are scammers calling my mother asking her to take messages for me! Truly the depths, they are low
SO GOOD to see Australia ask questions about the harm done by the external consultants. It's some much money that's being leaked out of the public sector while making all decision making ever more obscure and turning each uni bland.
May #UKHE join this inquiry NOW rather than 2 years down the line
Tobias Funke would like a word
One week until our exciting event with Eliga Gould! Please do come along if you’re on campus!
Happy publication week to Claiming Land, Claiming Water: Borders and the People Who Crossed Them in the Early Modern Atlantic! Our @ukri.org -funded volume is now accessible in print and open access through @pennpress.bsky.social: penn.manifoldapp.org/projects/cla...
I have a US Constitution joke that I Maier may not ratify
I have a US constitution joke but people keep fighting over the meaning because they cherry pick historical facts.
Unboxing a book that took 16 years. What’s it about, who is it for? How to order? www.annaolaw.com/book-migrati... want 🎧 to Dahlia Lithwick interview me about it? Fresh podcast below 👇🏽/
My brain, it is always full of noodles
Wild garlic, parm, pepper, olive oil, whizzed in a food processor, smeared on Ritz crackers, and then speaking to no one for the remainder of the afternoon
Let me just say that having been there, the idea of being a Black woman in labor in America and having to go before a judge is terrorism.
If we can have pho for breakfast we should be able to have carbonara for breakfast. This looks great!
my name is PREZ
and wen im tired
(but coverup
is still required)
then all I want
is lyttle snooze
i drop the bombs
i lose Hormuz
