JOB: Associate Editor, The John Dickinson Writings Project
Looking for someone with a PhD in early American history, ideally with previous experience working on a similar project
Presented with the usual caveat about staff salaries here....
Happy 420. Here’s an article I wrote on cannabis in Sanskrit medical literature, with a little sidebar on jazz terms for the gañj. www.academia.edu/119332545/Ca...
Umm, this is NOT what I mean when I say that I LOVE LIBRARIANS! But if any #skystorians want to watch a Hallmark channel meet-cute romcom (crossed with Tom Stoppard's Arcadia) between a historian & archivist - in Philly, just in time for the 250th! - please report back.👀
decider.com/2026/04/18/t...
"In a country without the NEA, NEH and IMLS, hundreds of small local #arts groups would likely cease to exist entirely — and with them, the community, education and enlightenment that underpin our increasingly fragile, fractured society." @jessicagelt.bsky.social in @latimes.com
Always such a restorative gathering of excellent people!
And October cannot come soon enough @universitypress.cambridge.org www.cambridge.org/gb/universit... #earlymodern
It has been really disturbing to see some people pay tribute to Dr. Cerina Fairfax’s killer without even mentioning her. The victims of domestic violence matter more than their husband’s political careers.
www.13newsnow.com/article/news...
Dream positions: 3 (!!) PhD placements at the Prize Papers with emphasis on finding students with the following language skills: French, Spanish, Dutch, and Scandinavian languages. (Of course, I emphasize the Dutch language!)
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/professional...
Happy Friday to all, but especially to the new Journal of Mughal Studies.
500 years after the empire dawned... first issue coming soon.
escholarship.org/uc/journalof... #Mughals #India #history #scholarship #highered
New reporting reveals Trump will finance his arch by taking $15 million in taxpayer funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Workshop Announcement: Practical Archival Skills Training (PAST) Workshop on English High Court of Admiralty Records. 18 June 2026 at the UK National Archives. Banner with an archive image in the background.
Our colleague, Dr Oliver Finnegan, records specialist for the Prize Papers at @nationalarchivesuk, holds a workshop on 'Practical Archival Skills Training (PAST) Workshop on English High Court of Admiralty Records', more info below & tickets can be booked here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/practical-...
The window blinds are drawn at CBS Chicago News station near Daley Plaza as the march passes by.
Coverage of the Artemis II mission is playing on the news screen.
More than 2 million low-income Americans, overwhelmingly women, access birth control and STD screening through Title X programs.
NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has taken steps to block or delay promotions for more than a dozen Black and female senior officers across all four branches of the military, according to nine U.S. officials familiar with the process.
“The last night I was a pediatric resident, a child came in with Hib and promptly died by the next day. I didn’t work for 50 years to have everything destroyed by one man.”
-Dr. Kathryn Edwards, Vanderbilt University
This is what RFK Jr. and the anti-vaxxers have wrought.
Fluffy gray and white cat on a white armchair next to a monstera plant. He is grumpy because he’s only eaten two of his dinners.
Timeline cleanse
Photo of a bombed-out facility
US-Israeli bombing destroys the Pasteur Institute
“Established in 1920, the institute is the first and oldest public health center in Iran—where staffers pioneered vaccine development and research on the prevention of infectious diseases.”
www.cnn.com/2026/04/02/w...
Sauer just had to say that slaves had an "intent to remain" in the US.
Motherfucker WHAT??
A new statue, a toilet spray painted gold and set on a faux-marble pedestal, is the latest in a series of protest artworks and installations taking aim at President Trump and his administration that have popped up in Washington, D.C. https://wapo.st/484QCUB
NEW REPUBLIC: “Republicans are eyeing massive cuts to health care spending in order to scrounge up $200 billion for Donald Trump’s reckless war in Iran.” newrepublic.com/post/208342/...
Hi, here's a CFP for anyone interested in talking about the "After Lives and Other Lives of South Asian Images" at the Annual Conference on South Asia in Madison WI, this October.
Deadline for abstracts: 3rd April, 9pm PDT.
forms.gle/cEJ1dgZxxA6s...
A photo of Ali and Fatima in their press vests and hats, smiling at the camera with Lebanon in the background
Two of the journalists assassinated in South Lebanon this morning by Israel were Lebanese correspondents Ali Shoeib and Fatima Ftouni.
They become the 252nd and 253rd journalists killed by Israel in the last two years.
Unprecedented.
(📸 Cradle Media)
As of this fall you’ll be able to major in English at UNT, but it will no longer exist as a dept. Its faculty will be split across 3 different “schools.” There will be no more department chairs. Interdisciplinarity at its worst: mush. No real exp as to how any of this addresses the deficit, ofc.
HBD to the DC Metro! In its honor I will revive an old favorite from Curbed web.archive.org/web/20240302...
@profchrisadams.bsky.social and I remember two remarkable scholars, Elborg Forster and Patricia Ranum, "faculty wives" who never held formal positions but their generative scholarship made contributions to the field of French history. www.societyforfrenchhistoricalstudies.net/in-memoriam
Share of commuters using transit to get to work, among select big cities
Share of commuters driving to get to work, among select big cities
Since the Metro opened in 1976, DC has consistently had some of the highest transit use among any big US city—higher than Chicago, Philly, or SF.
The share of residents using cars to get to work is the lowest in the country outside of NYC.
That's been made possible thanks to Metro.
The DC Metro
Happy birthday to the Washington Metro, which opened 50 years ago today with service on 4.6 mi of Red Line between Rhode Is. Ave & Farragut N. System now serves 130 mi.
The DC Metro shows that, with good planning & enough investment, the public sector can succeed & build something extraordinary.
Biggest comeback of the year just dropped
Some very disturbing questions from the Republican-appointed justices in today's Supreme Court arguments—definitely several votes to strike down laws in 30 states which count mail ballots that arrive shortly after Election Day, as long as they're cast by Election Day. Not what I was hoping to hear.
Here's a news clip about it.
youtu.be/a81l1CwBwiI?...
