Kris Inwood

Look at what happens to male teacher salaries (blue line) v.s. female teacher salaries (red line) after collective bargaining laws expire.

There is still time! Proposals accepted through Sept 14 for this great workshop.

The 12th Australasian Cliometrics Workshop will be held 14 Nov 2025 at Monash Uni, Melbourne.
Proposals accepted thru 14 July, full papers due 31st Oct.
More info: Quoc-Anh Do (quoc-anh.do@monash.edu) & Laura Panza (lpanza@unimelb.edu.au)
ECR & grad students particularly encouraged
📉📈🗃📗 #AcademicSky

Cambridge University now has access to Latin American Newspapers Series 2, a comprehensive digital archive of historical newspapers published in Latin America and the Caribbean between 1822 and 1922. To find out more, check out this blog post!

https://loom.ly/NK1xrc4

Opinion | Thinking Is Becoming a Luxury Good

“Nearly half of Americans read zero books in 2023 ... The conversation no one is ready for, though, is how this may be creating yet another form of inequality.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/o...

Genji database homepage screenshot poems poem search characters chapters Sign In Discover the 795 exquisite poems that form the emotional heart of the world's first novel, Lady Murasaki's 11th century masterpiece The Tale of Genji. Welcome to genjipoems.org! Composed in the voices of dozens of characters, the poems in The Tale of Genji are the jewels on the thread out of which the author wove her tale. If the characters often converse through poems, the poems also speak to each other beyond any given exchange. Drawing on a vast network of imagery and allusion, the poems constitute an additional dimension, a poetic universe that arches across and through the narrative fabric of the tale. While the earliest readers of the Genji appreciated its poetic dimensions above all other aspects of the Tale, modern readers have focussed more on its plot and the complex psychology of its characters. This site allows today's readers to experience the power of these poems in the original Japanese and in five English translations spanning a century. Read the poems on their own or follow along as you read the Tale. Compare the translations and see how vastly and wonderfully different they can be. Search and learn more about the poems, visualize their distribution across the text, and discover connections among them. This is an ongoing project, and we continue to add new content and features. We invite Genji readers and scholars to participate and collaborate. Please sign in and join us! 795 POEMS WIVES OVERS + author 220,000+ sentences in original Japanese OVER 1017 YEARS ENGLISH 1 ST WORLD'S FIRST NOVEL 430 plus characters JARANESE 夫 54 CHAPTERS copyright

While I do not believe that 🖊️ the 11thC CE Tale of Genji is the “world’s first novel” (Chaereas and Callirhoe would like a word), I am amazed that around 150 undergrad students helped to digitize and publish the 795 poems in the new Genji database! Murasaki Shikibu! genjipoems.org genjipoems.org #DH

Frontline Union Army captains cut desertions and boosted cohesion through leading by example, earning postwar-wage gains and greater recognition, from @andyferrara.bsky.social, Christian Dippel, and Stephan Heblich https://www.nber.org/papers/w34057

“Wikipedia is this economic anomaly. In many ways, it’s sort of magical that people will just volunteer without explicit economic incentives to create artifacts that are meant to share knowledge with everyone in the world”

Hot off the press. A view of the Milky Way over Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park. Spectacular night last night, albeit a bit windy

Waterton National Park, Alberta, Canada.

#landscape #landscapephotography #nature #bluesky #blueskyphotography #naturephotography #Milkyway #Alberta #Astro

Really looking forward to the World Economic History Congress in Lund next week! Our session on mills is due on Thursday at eleven, but already from Monday onwards, many, many interesting sessions! wehc2025.com #WEHC2025

Records from AAHA’s Born Free and Emancipated database, 𝟏𝟕𝟓𝟐-𝟏𝟕𝟗𝟏.

✦ Each week we will post a selection of these records to feature the individuals listed, supporting our continuous #KnowTheirNames initiative.

✦ You can find our complete database at www.aahafauquier.org/free-emancip...

Fascinating reconstruction of the history of fire in the Gila wilderness area!

Any historians/political scientists want to write a piece on the history of gerrymandering and how the process has been revolutionized with the advent of computer mapping and precise voter data sets. I’d love to publish it @cliocontemporary.bsky.social. Message me if interested 🗃️

Could you do a reverse citation search to find works that use the archival land grant files?

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Puts 490,000 High-Res Images Online & Makes Them Free to Use Update: The Metropolitan Museum of Art has put online 492,000 high-resolution images of artistic works. Even better, the museum has placed the vast majority of these images into the public domain, mea...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Puts 490,000 High-Res Images Online & Makes Them Free to Use

Enlivening legal education through The Postal Museum The Postal Museum repository is alive. Image © Amanda Perry-Kessaris, 2025. How can we use archives to enliven legal education? We (Amanda Perry-Kessaris and Emily Allbon) are working in partnershi…

✨ How can we use archives to enliven legal education? Emily Allbon (@TheCityLawSchool.bsky.social) + I are partnering with The Postal Museum to find out.

Care to join us? Details on project website. Deadline 05.09.25.

amandaperrykessaris.org/2025/07/16/legal-education-through-the-postal-museum/

If anyone in Paris sees our new book at the big conference, would you please let me know? I'm wondering if it is part of the exhibit there or not. Enjoy the history! #GCFHSResist 🗃️

Join us on September 20, 2025, Saturday, 2:00 PM EST to discuss historian @juliagaffield.bsky.social's new book I Have Avenged America, get the book here yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300... and REGISTER here us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Hypothetically speaking, would anyone be interested in joining a #aas2026 panel on settler colonialism in the Japanese Empire? My thought is, emphasis on how (un)applicable(?) settler colonial/critical Indigenous studies theory is to different colonial spaces.

Apply for a Radcliffe Fellowship!
Applications in humanities, social sciences, & creative arts are due Sept 11, 2025
Applications in science, engineering, & math due Sept 30, 2025
www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/radcliffe-fe...
(I hear they'd especially welcome projects related to climate change)
#HPS ⚒️

Agreed that US$ may be more resilient than suggested here - for the near-term at any rate.
I like the article's clear and concise highlighting of an issue that is particularly important for the Canadian economy.

America is sinking, and Canada cannot go down with the ship Donald Trump is blaming other countries for his country’s large trade deficits when the U.S. should be looking at itself

".. close to two-thirds of global financial professionals expect that the greenback will lose its leading reserve-currency status in the next five to 15 years. The global selloff of American bonds last month suggests the U.S. administration’s chaotic actions may have accelerated this timeline."

The genius of Frederick Douglas on July 4

Medieval story time (that is actually about Alligator Alcatraz merch):

Let’s talk about Godwin Sturt and how he merchandized the death of his 12-year-old nephew in 1144.

#OTD 1505 the Surgeons and Barbers of Edinburgh united and were formally incorporated as a craft guild by the Town Council. Happy birthday to us, we’re 520 years old!

"For the first time since the Famine, the population of the island exceeds seven million."

How Do You Teach Computer Science in the A.I. Era?

Want to study computer science? Maybe study philosophy instead and learn to code on the side? I mean, if it's critical thinking and clear writing you're after.

#philsky

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/t...

Campop blog #56: >1 in 3 English men in the late 14th C were called John; in 2023 less than 1% of baby boys were given the most popular name, Muhammad. In today's blog Kevin Schurer charts the long evolution of British forenames
@camunicampop.bsky.social
www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/2025/07...

This includes an interesting article on the push to subject Native Americans to taxation in the early 20th c 🗃️

cepr.org/voxeu/column...