Still have room for one more panelist on this year's panel about public history in British Studies at #NACBS2026 in Pasadena, CA. @thenacbs.bsky.social @ncph.bsky.social

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Looking for participants for NACBS conference in Pasadena, CA this year. Panel will be about public historians. All public historians or those using public history concepts in their research within the British history subfield are welcome to contact me.
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The AI Takeover Is Not Inevitable: Now Is the Time to Resist "Studying history, we know that nothing is inevitable."

Over the next few weeks, the NACBS blog will feature a series of pieces on artificial intelligence. Check out the opening essay by @amywb.bsky.social and stay tuned for more!

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Important conversation happening right now at #nacbs2025 about effective ways to meet the current challenges & crises facing History as a discipline in HE. How we need to act now to ensure we can continue to engage in #doinghistory because #historymatters. @royalhistsoc.org

Thank you to all my panelists for making Public History and its Relevance to British Studies a huge success! Looking forward to doing it again next year! #nacbs2025 #10c

Join us tomorrow after the lunch break at #nacbs2025 for our panel and discussion on Public History and its Relevance to British Studies #10c. We encourage anyone using public history in their research or classrooms to attend and ask questions. Hope to see you there!

An interesting topic for the 10:15 session slot today at #nacbs2025 #5j

Super excited to presenting more of my #PhD research tomorrow at #nacbs2025 on Montréal 🇨🇦!
This time discussing how socialist-feminists conceptualised women's place in deindustrialising Britain.
Thanks to
@swwdtp.bsky.social for funding!

#PublicHistory Book Club is back! Join in at 6pm ET this Thursday, July 24 for a discussion of Caroline Fraser's book, Prairie Fires: The American Dream of Laura Ingalls Wilder. Register for Thursday and learn more about our upcoming August read at community.ncph.org/event/PHBook.... #virtualprogram

Reflecting on various talks at #DH2025 I'm struck by the number of projects here and elsewhere at the intersection of oral histories and community archives that don't realise they could draw on those fields and digital public history for ethics, workflows and other practices

Trump’s Rejection of America’s Founding Principles Steve Pincus warns that the US administration is repudiating the commitments celebrated each year on the Fourth of July.

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📍June 13, is the deadline to submit a proposal for the NCPH-sponsored Poster Session at the 2025 AASLH annual meeting in Cincinnati, Ohio. To learn more about the session and submit a proposal visit ncph.org/aaslh-poster....

@aaslh.org #AASLH2025 #PublicHistory

Museums and parks must remove some items related to race and gender: Executive order President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday aiming to eliminate what the it calls “anti-American” content from museums and parks, sources told ABC News.

Blatant censorship...this is getting ridiculous

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Come speak at our workshop!

Curzon, Contacts & Contexts: Engaging with Imperial Histories at Kedleston Hall at the University of Derby from 19-20 June, Supported by the @paulmelloncentr.bsky.social

Send us an abstract by 7 March - see the call for papers for more details.

Please share widely!

I have two more spots left on the #NACBS2025 roundtable for Public History. The topic is Public History and Its Relevance to British Studies. MA graduate students are welcome to submit for this roundtable. Contact me at alrumley@una.edu for more info. @thenacbs.bsky.social @ncph.bsky.social

Putting together a roundtable for #NACBS2025. Topic is Public History and Its Relevance to British Studies. MA graduate students are welcome to submit for this roundtable. Contact me for more info.
#NCPH #publichistory #publichistorians #britishstudies @thenacbs.bsky.social @ncph.bsky.social

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 🗃️

We've created a Starter Pack of #History societies and groups working to support promote our disciple and historians, in higher education and related professions go.bsky.app/68FsvjY

Mainly UK but also international, with selected societies from related humanities subjects. Please share #Skystorians

life as a historian

The Royal Historical Society is sponsoring this morning's roundtable at #nacbs24, chaired by the Society's incoming President Lucy Noakes.

Saying goodbye to #nacbs2024. It was a wonderful conference with very informative and interesting panels. Thank you to all that stopped to talk with me. I hope to see all of you next year if not to speak with you sooner!

Ready for the poster session at #nacbs2024

Great thread summary of the digital humanities panel!! #nacbs2024

Cholera in Buffalo, 1854 Collaborative mapping project by the students of History 390, "Plagues and Pandemics"

storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/d1e4.... Pedagogy panel #NACBS2024

DEIdea Exchange session at #nacbs2024. An important topic in today's political climate.

Enjoying bluer skies here in Denver at #nacbs2024! Excited for my poster presentation tomorrow.