Brian Luskey

Shout out to @drzara.bsky.social and Jo Cohen for their wonderful podcast Thing4Things. I binge-listened to three episodes on my very long drive to work and I loved it!

What a great feeling to take them out of the box! Congratulations!

"Academics literally cannot make genAI go away" we also can't make underage drinking go away and we're not advocating for installing bar carts in every classroom.

Congratulations, Rachel!

Universities: investing millions so students ”develop literacy in the language of AI”

Also universities: defunding the humanities so students are illiterate in ordinary languages

Good mail day. Emilie Connolly’s new book that I am excited to read. 🗃️

A wonderful essay about what we and our students can accomplish through close reading.

Congratulations, Gautham!

White Power Beginning in the colonial era and growing through the American Revolution and the Southern plantation system, slaveholders’ violent police regime continued...

The publication date for my book on the history of policing American slavery has been moved up a month! Now available May 12, 2026! Thanks so much to those who have preordered! The Press is offering 30% off with the code, 01UNCP30

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Emilie Connolly's book about native dispossession and public is coming out next week. She's not on here to be embarrassed by me saying this is the proverbial "highly anticipated" book but at it is, at least by me.

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joys of jell-o cover

Need a little midday distraction? I know I do, so I present to you JOYS OF JELL-O (1967), found in my grandmother's house.

Happy news: My new book -- Humanitarianism: A Very Short Introduction -- now has a cover and is available for preorder! The book is a concise history of humanitarianism in an international and global perspective, from the 18th century to the present. More info here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Teaching a favorite session today on #FrederickDouglass #Narrative — after decades of scrounging cheap original printings (1799 - 1832) of the #ColumbianOrator … I finally have enough to give one to each student & say, DISCUSS: What kinds of things could an enslaved teenager learn with this book?

There is an incredible amount of good history being done at the local level and in small museums--the folks who will actually engage the public during this anniversary

I always thought he was gesturing to the grocery, where he and his friend could by whiskey by the dram.

Image of the cover of a book titled Beyond the Ocean: France and the Atlantic World from the Crusades to the Age of Revolutions, by Christopher Hodson and Brett Rushforth. The background image is an eighteenth-century ink and watercolor rendition of the harbor of Le Cap in modern Haiti, with three ships and one small boat foregrounded in the bay and a handful of buildings scattered on the shore in the background.

Not available until June 2026, but we have a cover! #earlymodern #skystorians

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Want to learn more about early American history from the 25 years of articles and reviews on Commonplace? Select a topic on our Subject page that you want to know more about, such as Slavery and Abolition. Click on the tag and it creates a new subject page: 🗃️

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Congratulations, Austin!

I'm sitting and holding an advanced copy of my book, Living in a DAISY Age.

This picture is a copy of my book, Living in a DAISY Age, sitting in front of Hello Kitty.

Got my advance reader copies of Living in a DAISY Age yesterday! They look amazing! It’s hard to put into words how I feel holding a physical copy of my book 🤯

Preorder: www.simonandschuster.com/books/Living...

MORE SHOCKING HAY FRAUDS!!!

On the arrest of Captain Ferguson at his office in the Alexandria depot, a Mr. Rowland (a clerk and also Ferguson's brother in law) "abstracted" (i.e., took) a package containing $18,500 worth of federal bonds--equivalent to about half a million dollars today!

lincoln-institute.org/scholarship-... The Abraham Lincoln Institute announces a travel grant of $1,000.00 (one thousand dollars) for graduate students in the Civil War field. #Skystorians #CivilWarHistory

I did! I hope you did, too. I'm sorry we didn't have time to catch up but we'll do so the next time!

Congratulations, Jess!

Last week, a very special package from @uncpress.bsky.social arrived! I was traveling and eager to touch the Word files turned into PDF files transformed into real paper between glossy covers. Canal Dreamers is a dream come true for me! My nine-year-old son snapped a perfect memory of the moment. 🗃️

Thank you so much for sharing these questions!

So exciting!

Indiana public colleges cut almost 20% of degrees Public Indiana colleges and universities have eliminated 19 percent of their degree programs to meet requirements added to the state’s budget, according to the Commission for Higher Education.

So, here it is. Thanks to a new state law that was NEVER DEBATED, Indiana University has committed itself to abolishing majors in African-American/African Diaspora Studies: American Studies; Art History; French; Italian; Religious Studies etc. DOZENS of majors. www.ipm.org/news-section...

If AI can do your classwork, why go to college? Podcast Episode · The Gray Area with Sean Illing · 06/30/2025 · 59m

Interesting conversation here about AI and higher ed. One small moment stood out to me. It's possible that LLM's know how to create watermarks in everything they produce that would make AI generated text easy to detect. But of course, they're choosing not to do it. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

Congratulations, Austin!

Very pleased to announce preorders for my forthcoming book, Living in the D.A.I.S.Y. Age: The Music, Culture, and World De La Soul Made (Atria/One Signal), is available wherever you buy your books. Coming out January 2026! The preorder link is in the comments.

I can't wait for you all to read!