I think a lot of people will read 3000 words, but I don’t think everyone who writes 3000 words needed 3000 words to write the thing they were writing. Those are the pieces that people won’t read to the end.
I've been thinking about some sort of content collective idea for a while but never have the time or energy to make progress beyond this draft pitch. It felt like it could work quite well, though.
Feel free to take it / adapt it / improve it /share it / generally make use of this.
it feels like a small thing in context of all of the other things but it is a piece of the larger authoritarian project that there are fewer places to publish essays now and the carefully edited essay as a public form for thinking and responding and criticizing and analyzing is in trouble, i think
Page of forever stamps with a picture of Alex Trebek and a jeopardy style Answer reading “this naturalized US citizen hosted the quiz show Jeopardy! For 37 seasons”
Spouse who is an immigration lawyer just got the world’s greatest USPS forever stamps for his mail
My listener brain says two parts.
My producer/editor brain wants to ask how well it would divide in half(ish).
Call for Applications for the SHEAR DEI Fellowships! SHEAR will offer at least 2 research fellowships to scholars examining African diasporic, Latinx, Indigenous, Asian American, and/or Pacific Island history from 1776 to 1861. Application deadline is May 1. Details here: shear.org/about-us/she....
there's a thing I like to call "load-bearing assumptions", that you don't notice until they're suddenly gone (e.g the air you breath has oxygen in it).
the post-ww2 order is a load-bearing assumption for basically the entirety of american life. trump took a sledgehammer to it in the last 90 days.
This thread!
THE WESTERNERS is out in 3 1/2 weeks, and I will be posting about it quite a lot between now and then.
Vigorous self-promotion is expected now, and is pretty much a part-time job for all nonfiction authors closing in on pub day.
So please like and repost, and help spread the word! 🐝
She's very bright, but she extrapolated it from me being funny trying to explain to her and her siblings about eighteenth-century paper 😂
My daughter apparently told all her friends before I arrived that 18c paper was made from underwear. 🤣
There are people who went to Harvard and have gone on to do amazing things.
And then there are people of whom my only memory is that they walked around in popped collars and docksiders like they were at a country club and they're doing exactly what I could have predicted they would be doing.
Yesterday I did a presentation on colonial newspapers for working journalists, which was a lot of fun.
Today I'm doing a similar presentation for a much tougher audience: my daughter and her 3rd-grade classmates.
“All the kids were just silent for a few minutes,” Landry said. “I was just really kind of humbled by how somber and seriously they took the situation. I’ve been teaching kindergarten for seven years and I have never seen them quite so empathetic.” @wbur.org www.wbur.org/news/2026/03...
Oh, I get it all too well...
Almost a cliche that a story about a redhead involves a sunburn.
Your quarterly bibliography of new and interesting scholarship in Native American History and Indigenous studies.
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It's now part of my regular beginning-of-semester shpiel to tell students that they should not email me from the ER ... because I've had students email me from the ER to apologize for missing class.
And glad your daughter is doing well!
The academic and publishing landscapes have changed a lot since we started this magazine. We've stuck to the same principles we started with:
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Every way of doing history is worthwhile.
Historians should be paid for their work.
We are looking for middle and high school History, Social Studies, and Ethnic Studies teachers throughout the country to participate in a collaborative local history project for the 2026-27 school year. Curriculum, instruction, and professional development will be supported throughout this program with funding from the Library of Congress. Stipend for completing the program: $2,500 INTERESTED? APPLY HERE(link is external) by April 17, 2026 TEACHER OPPORTUNITY - LEARN MORE Program Components - Teachers will: Participate in a 3-Day summer institute June 29-July 1, 2026. Participate in 3 Saturday planning workshops: 2026-2027 school year (dates tbd). Develop and teach an approximately two-week long collaborative local history unit or lesson set. Participate in planning sessions with your partner teacher as needed. Participate in 2 coaching sessions during the 2026-27 school year. Participate in one follow-up session to debrief and reflect upon work and plan for possible future collaboration. Overall estimated time commitment beyond classroom teaching: approximately 35-40 hours.
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I have to say the Post chose a hell of a moment to lay off all their foreign correspondents
hey #nutmegsky, @uconnhistory.bsky.social is hosting Ned Blackhawk on March 2 for a talk, “The Indigenous Origins of the American Revolution.” events.uconn.edu/history-depa...
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Please join CLA Board Vice-Chair Sara Georgini on Wednesday, March 4th at 7 pm EST for "Defending Democracy in the Stacks," a fantastic conversation organized by the Ellsberg Initiative for Peace and Democracy.
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Took a look at this winter's snow totals vs. 2014-2015's "Snowmageddon".
Boston is pacing the highest snow totals since that winter, but is still 40" short of that record-setting season!
Providence is on pace to beat it!
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Just a reminder that @contingent-mag.bsky.social would absolutely love to run a mailbag on the dumbass arguments about "low enrollment majors" and other things contained in this nested thread if there's a NTT historian out there who wants to pitch it.
“Just in case a real person won’t read this, how do I convince an AI robot that my student should be accepted to this graduate program?” is not an inspiring way to have to write a letter of recommendation.
Wars famously last exactly as long as predicted by the people who start them.
Today marks 15 years for me as MLB's official historian; the 16th year commences. For its Weekly Notes (and Our Game), I have in mind to write 20 stories or so about how America and MLB's traditions intersect.
Catherine Beecher is the perfect choice to juxtapose with Charlie Kirk. In the era when American women began advocating for suffrage, Beecher was a prominent anti-suffragist.
