I'm excited to share that we've made a collection of historic Supreme Court Records and Briefs available via
@archive.org

I've written a blog post where I go into detail about the importance of this collection.

blog.archive.org/2026/04/20/u...

@larryglickman.bsky.social have you seen this? Looks excellent

Thank you, Julia!

Congratulations, @ithacamcg.bsky.social! This is so richly deserved. An outstanding scholar, phenomenal mentor, and incredible leader. @iehs.bsky.social is what it is today because of what you started during your tenure as president.

Photos from our Annual IEHS Banquet and Awards Ceremony

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Thank you, Maddalena!

Thank you, Anna!

Why are Harvard’s slavery researchers quitting or being fired? The school’s $100m project to examine its slave ownership in Antigua is mired with controversy as academics allege obstruction

www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient

Maria Cristina Garcia (Cornell University)

#OAH26

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Thank you, Nathan!

Outstanding Dissertation Award

Sarah Meiners (Cornell University), “Asylum Archipelago: Migration in the Borders of Empire in the Caribbean and the Pacific”

#OAH26

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An NYT headline reading: Homeland Security Expands Deportation Fleet With High-End Jets

My headline from April 15 reading: Water is wet, and DHS's 'deportation fleet' boondoggle expands under Markwayne

The hed and dek of my story from February reading: ICE FLIGHTS Noem's luxury 'deportation' jet is the tip of the ICE-berg Kristi Noem's DHS has acquired at least nine new aircraft in recent weeks, with another one on the way. Half are luxury jets. Gillian Brockell 26 Feb 2026 - 9 min read

Hey @nytimes.com, I already reported this earlier this week.

And the G650s you mention? I reported on those in FEBRUARY.

You credit NBC News and WSJ for first reporting parts of your story. Please credit me, too.

Happening in five minutes! Come learn!

I get to be on a panel with @daralind.bsky.social and @carlygoodman.bsky.social and very cool other historians about immigration history and policy! Stoked. Come by!

Typhoon Sinlaku devastates Northern Mariana Islands; relief supplies to be airlifted from Greensboro Typhoon Sinlaku, the strongest tropical cyclone of the year, caused widespread damage across the Northern Mariana Islands this week, leaving residents on Saipan and Tinian facing extensive destruction...

Typhoon Sinlaku wreaks havoc in the Northern Mariana Islands, prompting urgent relief efforts to aid affected communities.
www.yahoo.com/news/article...

The idea that universities ”tend to exclude conservative intellectual traditions” is off base on two fronts: 1) how are “conservative intellectual traditions” relevant to the most of the popular majors and faculty research areas, such as computer science, engineering, the natural sciences?/1

House defies Trump on immigration with move to shield Haitians The vote to advance a bill extending protections for Haitians marks the first time Republican lawmakers have voted this term to oppose Trump’s immigration policy.

6 Republicans cross aisle to advance House bill to let 350K Haitians keep their temporary protective status. 1st time Republicans have opposed Trump on immigration policy. (SCOTUS argument 4/29 on legality of Noem's termination of Haitians' & Syrians' TPS.) www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Who will be at the OAH historians conference in Philly? Hope to cross paths!

On Friday at 10:30am — we have some dynamic scholars talking about labor and empire…

Bingo.
People need to just look at the most recent immigration law— which will be 30 years old next year— for the root of pretty much every authority the Trump admin is using and misusing right now

BREAKING: The U.S. bishops’ Committee on Doctrine just issued a formal statement defending Pope Leo XIV's teaching authority on just war doctrine — less than twelve hours after JD Vance told a Turning Point USA crowd the pope should “be careful” talking theology.

This is a serious escalation.

Dear god. Very, very serious allegations of mass civil rights violations at the State of Florida's Everglades immigration detention center (officially known as "Alligator Alcatraz").

TUESDAY WRAP-UP: Super Typhoon Sinlaku knocks out power, topples trees on Guam before heading to Saipan, Tinian Guam was pounded by damaging winds and heavy rain from Super Typhoon Sinlaku on Tuesday, nearly three years after the island also got a pummeling from Typhoon Mawar.

Super Typhoon Sinlaku has caused significant damage in Guam, with power outages and downed trees as it approaches Saipan and Tinian.

what does one even wear to a 90 degree OAH?

"Leo should get his act together as Pope" imagine bringing this message to Leo
"your holiness I bring news"

"Pope Leo is WEAK on Crime" is so fucking funny I'm sorry everything is terrible but calling the literal Pope weak on crime is sending me into space

Mayor Zohran Mamdani behind the counter of a bodega in The Bronx, flanked by various people. A journalist with a microphone labeled “Shop Cats” is standing in front of the sales counter, and holding the mic up to a black and white cat sitting on the counter next to bananas. The cat has an expression like in the famous “Sir, are you aware that you are a cat” meme

“Sir, are you aware that you are a cat, and Mayor Zohran Mamdani is standing right behind you?”

“Front porch” is such an endearing way to describe the attachable raft.

I'm moonscrolling

Imagine being in space 30 min ago and now you’re about an hour from In n Out

Honestly still in shock by its placement, but my article (and job talk paper), “Indigenous Constitutionalism,” is officially out in the Harvard Law Review. A brief thread on this project🧵

harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-13...