Ugh, sorry you went through that! I have a feeling this is going to clear up a LOT, so better now that never!

Thanks! Do not recommend

Welp, my gallbladder did its best to kill me this weekend—one emergency surgery later, I am much better aside from being sore and exhausted. I’m looking forward to some uneventful weeks after the last several days!! 🫠

Thanks, Kevin. I don't think I would ever have had the guts to do it if not for the encouragement of my friends, online people, and readers. It really is so exciting for me!

a woman is screaming at a man in a suit while he looks on . Alt: A blond man in a blue suit holds on to the arms of a brown-haired woman with a headband and sweatshirt. She is sob-screaming "I'm so excited, I'm so excited, I'm so...scared." Don't get hooked on caffeine pills, kidz

I just wanted to thank all of you for celebrating with me. I'm having the predictable "ZOMG LAST TIME I WAS IN SCHOOL IT WAS THE LITERAL DARK AGES, CAN I DO THIS" freakout and *~loving~* it.

Thank you, how nice of you!

Sorry, bluesky ate my last response. Not a mistake at all! And I will definitely reach out. Hope you're enjoying this lovely spring day before all of the much-needed moisture hits!

Aww, thank you! I am pinching myself. I fully realize this is the craziest time ever to enter academia but whatever, better late than never!

Thank you! Luckily I already live here in Boulder so I don't have to factor in a cross-country move. I have a HUGE smile on my face today.

Thank you, that's so kind of you! I really feel like it is ideal for the person I am now—I'm much more stable and feel better equipped for the workload and pressure these days than the first time around.

I'm a first-gen college graduate. I had to abandon my hopes of grad school in my early twenties because I couldn't get funding.

I've been a "real" historian all this time, but have always felt locked out of academia. Now I get to do it at 45. I'm just so excited.

Of course bsky is on the fritz the day I have huge-to-me personal news.

YOU GUYS, I'M GETTING MY DOCTORATE!

I just accepted a fully-funded Ph.D slot at the University of Colorado, Boulder. I'll begin my studies in American history there this fall! 😭😭😭😭

I'm really looking forward to reading @mkn.bsky.social's THE WESTERNERS as a companion piece. I also highly recommend Christine Woodside's LIBERTARIANS ON THE PRAIRIE.

Random book recommendation: I'm re-reading Caroline Fraser's PRAIRIE FIRES and it is an opus that absolutely deserved its Pulitzer. Fraser doesn't just contextualize Laura Ingalls Wilder; she demolishes the entire premise of the ever-Westward Manifest Destiny myth Wilder helped create/perpetuate.

Ancient Humans Mastered Fire. Now, Burning Fossil Fuels and Blazing Landscapes Threaten to ‘Undo the World’ Intensifying wildfires across the continent are spewing air pollution, putting human health at risk, particularly Americans living with chronic illnesses

Sneak peak of "Body Weather" is out today in @smithsonianmag.bsky.social! You get an adapted excerpt from the last part of the book: www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...

It really is Mad-Libsesque at this point!!

Popespreading the gospel

Good gravy that is wild

They really need to work on their acceptance muscles

I would also accept Agnes Moorhead or Fred Schneider.

Jeff Bridges, duh

question: are there historians working at the intersection of science, med, and enviro centering the study of allergies? like a burgeoning field of critical allergy studies?

I've been wanting to write on plantation forestry in postwar Japan and the hist of hay fever, and I'm looking for inspiration

The health and economic repercussions of declining MMR coverage in the United States | PNAS The resurgence of measles in the United States, driven by declining childhood vaccination coverage, poses a substantial public health and economic ...

New paper in PNAS just out: Measles cases in the US in 2025 imposed a societal financial cost of $244.2 million.

A scenario where vaccination rates in young kids falls by 1% per year for 5 years would cost us all $7.77 billion over those years, while hospitalizing 4k+ people and killing dozens.

Authoritarianism 101 - AHA Authoritarianism 101 A Global History About Authoritarianism 101: A Global History is a set of 30 primary source-driven teaching modules designed to offer teachers and students a broad perspective on ...

The AHR has launched a new project, Authoritarianism 101: A Global History, as part of the #AHRSyllabus series.

Explore 30 modules from different contributors and key questions on authoritarianism—each paired with primary sources and teaching resources. The first twelve modules are now live.

WOW. End of an era. Thinking about all of the "five colleges" materials that will need to be changed...

Whoa, core childhood memory unlocked. Sigh.

Seven years since I wrote a piece about the ways in which Black Americans were shut out of the GI Bill after WWII and it's still generating email. It's definitely in my top five of "most reader response ever" stories. Wish it wasn't still relevant to those whose fathers never got their due.

I feel like MM is a book about ideas while BB is a book about people, if that makes sense.