Sonya Donaldson

ACH 2026 CFP Submit a proposal: ACH 2026 ConfTool

ACH is holding our annual virtual conference, ACH 2026, from June 24 to 26, 2026. We are excited to announce that we have extended our call for papers to February 23, 2026: buff.ly/Rltfrcu

FT Column by Ed Luce: Second, adding Greenland to his column would be lucrative. Trump’s libertarian friends have been eyeing it for some time. Peter Thiel, who wants to set up crypto-empowered “network states” on undeveloped territory, has invested in Praxis, a start-up that aims to do just that and which has scouted Greenland. Trump’s ambassador to Denmark, Ken Howery, was a co-founder with Thiel and Elon Musk of PayPal. Silicon Valley is awash with billionaires invested in one kind of networked venture or another. Greenland is high on most lists. Unlike Mars, occupying Greenland is doable.

Why Greenland?

"Peter Thiel, who wants to set up crypto-empowered 'network states' on undeveloped territory, has invested in Praxis, a start-up that aims to do just that and which has scouted Greenland. Trump’s ambassador to Denmark, Ken Howery, was a co-founder with Thiel and Elon Musk of PayPal."

👀
Dude…🤣

Happy New Year, Robin. Ready to run. ❤️❤️❤️

When Adoption Promises Are Broken Many birth mothers hope to maintain contact with their child. But their agreements with adoptive parents can be fragile.

If you want to understand open adoption, it makes sense to start with birth parents—yet studies of them are few. 2+ yrs ago, I began talking w/ birth mothers to try to understand what living in an open adoption is like for them, and what rights or options they might have if challenges were to arise.

Submit your CFP for BGHRA's 2026 conference. This year's theme: Black Archives, Black Futures: Enfleshment. We are also hosting three new workshops on Digital Archives, Teaching Ethical Black German and European Cultural Studies, and Artistic Self-Expression. Join us! bghra.org/cfp2026/

150 years of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, overlooked icon of Black classical music The British composer was a generational success story before his death at 37 — yet keeping that legacy in view has always been a challenge, even during his lifetime.

150 years of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, overlooked icon of Black classical music
www.npr.org/2025/08/14/n...

Aug. 10, 1835: Destruction of Noyes Academy Nearly 500 white men destroyed the integrated Noyes Academy in Canaan, New Hampshire.

A piece of history I did not know.

www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/no...

In light of current events a large number of filmmakers have made their films about Palestine available online for free. Here’s the list my friend sent me:

@literaturegeek.bsky.social it finally arrived! Thank you so much for the gorgeous work of art:

I do. I’d have to look for it, though, as my stuff is in sabbatical boxes.

Thanks Amanda; really loved being with Scholars Lab folks—and seeing the beautiful new space. More to come!

Oooh! See you in a couple of weeks!

Here's Marco Rubio in 2014 explaining how the U.S. promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal after the Soviet Union collapsed:

Feminist Bookstore News Issues and Articles (1976-2000) – Post45 Data Collective This dataset contains metadata for all articles and issues of Feminist Bookstore News from 1976 to 2000.

Good news for feminist book history! A team led by Julie R. Enszer has built a dataset with metadata for all articles and issues of Feminist Bookstore News (FBN) from 1976 to 2000, published open access at the Post45 Data Collective data.post45.org/posts/femini...