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Annual summer socials break! 👋

Hey this is tomorrow and you don’t need prediction markets to know it’s going to be stupendous. Info w Registration link: jcblibrary.org/events/chris...

You've finished the manuscript. Now what? Join our AHA Online webinar on July 28 at 12 p.m. ET exploring the nuts and bolts of book publishing, from acquisitions and contracts to marketing. With Mike Baccam, Levi Stahl, and Elizabeth Townsend Gard. Register now.

Liking just to concur! 😁

Congratulations to Lauren Duval the second winner (not finalist!) for The SHEAR Book Prize for The Home Front: Revolutionary Households, Military Occupation, and the Making of American Independence. (@uncpress.bsky.social)

And to the generous G, E, and H for initiating the award. 😊🏆

So many high points in those @shearites.bsky.social awards! Super congrats to @caycarbs.bsky.social for her brilliant essay on materials and archives of household.

Agree with this. My former students work in all kinds of places and I always want to hear about what they're doing, publications included! They're all such interesting, smart people and I'd be sorry not to be in touch.

Do you remember the brilliance of Courtney Thompson’s archival kismet project?! I think we need more of this!!

Megan I am at a conference right now and honestly at its best it’s …

Are you unable to attend the tonight's (6:15pm) SHEAR Presidential Address? Well, President Carolyn Eastman’s address on “What They Talked About When They Talked About Demagogues in the Early American Republic,” will be livestreamed to our YouTube channel. Link here: www.youtube.com/live/0izEG4S...

Vast, I tell you.

I'm delighted & proud that this article, based on my Historical Research Lecture 2025, is now published in its final form in the @ihr.bsky.social journal Historical Research. It's the 'Editor's Choice' (thanks, @saracharles.bsky.social!), so open access for 6 months. academic.oup.com/histres/arti...

What a(nother) great event! One slide 3 minutes. 😀 Ten (More) Things to Know about the American Revolution @ #SHEAR2026, following Ten Things in Providence in 2025. Co-sponsored by HSP, ITPS, & @jcblibrary.bsky.social (logo not appearing!) w super thanks to presenters & @noraslonimsky.bsky.social!

There is a massive amount of research and literature on needed reforms to universities that nobody at The Atlantic, New York Times, New Yorker, or in the "thought industry" want to talk about or even pretend exists. Wonder why! www.press.jhu.edu/books/series...

Today is World Emoji Day! Did you know that Alice Thornton used an early form of emoji in her writing? She often used a ❤ instead of writing the word heart. In the image, see seven lines up on the right: 'Oh that our soules, my mind & ♥' Image: Book of Remembrances, 109. Photo by Derek Beattie. 📜

Join us Tuesday, July 21 for the next installment of The Revolution Is News! Christopher Bonner (University of Maryland) will discuss the Memory of the American Revolution in Black Politics. Details at jcblibrary.org!

The per student cost of (almost all of) these centers is staggering.

The history itself has not gone anywhere. The administration is simply betting that if visitors are not asked to confront it, most never will. Proving that bet wrong is now the work in front of all of us. #America250 #publichistory 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...