Creative and unexpected angles from historians are particularly welcome.
If you have early inklings of an idea, we'd love to help you shape it into a pitch.
#Skystorians: Contact us! #writingsky
We welcome new authors!
Send us your pitch about historically significant anniversaries or forgotten events that deserve more attention. 🗃️#academicsky
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Anyone else seeing ads on social media about the value #GRE for prospective college students lately? Just us?
Looking for #skystorians interested in writing about the history of standardized testing, higher ed admissions, and related topics. The #SAT turns 100 on June 23.
#NoKings, but lots of badass public scholars in my 269th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, please share as widely as possible, & enjoy! 🗃️ +
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I want to give mega thanks to @cliocontemporary.bsky.social for publishing this, especially the wonderful editing!
And huge thanks to @sncclegacy.bsky.social, the @zinnedproject.bsky.social and the State Library & Archives of Florida for digitizing important primary source material.
Excited to share that @cliocontemporary.bsky.social has published my first piece based on my new research on the many ways that the state repressed the civil rights and Black Power movements through the courts — and how activists resisted this repression.🧵
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As @sayburgin.bsky.social argues, the contemporary resonances of the history of Jail, No Bail, are significant 🗃️. #academicsky
This piece by @sayburgin.bsky.social caused me to rethink what I thought I knew about the early 1960s. I'll be updating some of my course materials as a result. 🗃️ #academicsky
@sayburgin.bsky.social argues that today’s activists know what those in the Black freedom movement knew: Jail, No Bail was a critique of an entire system of unjust laws and courts. Then and now, they understand that power concedes nothing without a fight.🗃️
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“Who are you citing tonight?” Roll out the red carpet for the phenomenal public scholars in today’s thread, & share widely so we’re all winners, thanks! 🗃️ @hcrichardson.bsky.social
Before the Oscars, I’m nominating myself for Best Supporting Scholar with my 267th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing, podcasts, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, share widely, & the winner will be … all of us! 🗃️
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+ featuring contributions from @themerl.bsky.social @urbanhistorya.bsky.social @hyres376.bsky.social @smashfizzle.bsky.social @roxanegay.bsky.social @oaverettephillips.bsky.social @cliocontemporary.bsky.social @rosasparks.blacksky.app @michael-berube.bsky.social @publicbooks.bsky.social +
Apply by March 15! We are excited to expand our team!
Anyone interested in watching the new FX anthology “Love Story” and writing a review? The season focuses on the romantic relationship between John F Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette.
Really really wish I could assign this film (and this reading) in my US history in film course, but alas, it's much too R-rated. (I usually have high school dual-enrollment students who are likely under 18.)
#skystorians teaching this film should assign @oaverettephillips.bsky.social and Taylor Black’s analysis. Check it out.
With the Oscars right around the corner, @oaverettephillips.bsky.social and Taylor Black explain how Ryan Coogler's Sinners forces audiences to confront much larger themes in Black American history such as conflicting visions of liberation and various interpretations of Black American religion. 🗃️
Not ready to emerge into the “daylight” yet? Check out my super-sized 266th #ScholarSunday thread, chock-full o’ public scholarly writing, podcasts, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ +
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+ @kevintmorris.bsky.social @brennancenter.org @zeblarson.bsky.social @damemagazine.bsky.social @keanuheydari.bsky.social @guategamerphd.bsky.social @sibylline.bsky.social @cliocontemporary.bsky.social @draftingthepast.bsky.social @rickbell.bsky.social @jmadelman.bsky.social +
It's been 100 years since the first Negro History Week in 1926. @sibyllan.bsky.social urges the United States to continue to confront the truth about its history in classrooms and in public—parks, museums, and government websites. 🗃️ #blackhistory clioandthecontemporary.com/2026/03/07/b...
I wrote my first piece for @cliocontemporary.bsky.social!
Check out this fascinating and timely analysis from @guategamerphd.bsky.social. 🗃️#academicsky
@keanuheydari.bsky.social offers an important analysis into the long history of protest within Iran since the 1979 Revolution. It was a pleasure to edit this piece, especially with the changing events in the region. As the war rages on, let’s think of the Iranian people’s goals and agency too. 🗃️
@guategamerphd.bsky.social uses "Mayor Mamdani’s use of a Quran from Schomburg’s collection" to highlight an embrace of "the Afro-diasporic history and identity that Arturo Schomburg strove to create through his archive-building and auto/biographical writing."
Academic history colleagues, list all the different courses you teach. 🗃️
Mine are:
1. Reformation
2. Renaissance
3. Early Modern Low Countries
4. Women in Early Modern Europe
5. Europe and the World 1400-1700
6. Early Modern Europe
7. Western Civilization to 1500
8. Grad Seminar in Ren and Ref
As war rages in the Middle East, @keanuheydari.bsky.social refocuses our attention to Iran’s late 2025 protests. The protests, triggered by economic collapse, were met with mass killing and an internet blackout that made casualty verification a central political struggle. 🗃️
Check it out!! #academicsky 🗃️