Bobby Lee

Re-reading Custer Died for Your Sins this weekend. Easy to forget about all the jokes and zingers in here

From abolitionists to fundamentalists: the transformation of the Wesleyan Methodists in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries This article analyzes the cultural trajectory of a small, but influential denomination that formed in 1843. Wesleyan Methodism first emerged as an abolitionist protest against the Methodist comprom...

On this day in US history (1784), John Wesley chartered the first Methodist church in the United States. For more on how Wesleyan Methodism developed in the long nineteenth century, why not check out this OPEN ACCESS article by @randalljstephens.bsky.social: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Discussed in this excellent book

YouTube video by Rick Davi "Custer" US TV series (1967) intro / lead-in

ABC’s Custer series from 1967, which the Tribal Indians Land Rights Association and NCAI protested for promoting stereotypes, is on YouTube. Gives a pretty clear picture of what organizers were dealing with back then. Went on for 17 episodes before getting cancelled
m.youtube.com/watch?v=AmnA...

This has been the longest year. This app used to be a bunch of nice little waterfall pics

Get ready to see about a million screen shots of that confidently incorrect twitter guy on trump not sending people to die in wars in the Middle East

Congrats!!!

More than 900 companies sue US over Donald Trump’s tariff regime Also in today’s newsletter, the US president offers first glimpses of how Washington would justify an attack on Iran

Are class actions on behalf of corporations a thing? If not, they might be soon
www.ft.com/content/15a4...

Well worth a read. It seems there are a few database projects trying to document Indigenous slavery - saw this one about a project at Brown last year
www.wbur.org/news/2025/05...

Is there a more disappointing historical site than Plymouth Rock?

Never heard of em

Is the plural of hydrox hydrox or hydroxes?

🎧🎤 The season finale of Western Edition Season 5 is live!

Our last episode considers the future of the Colorado River and how our predictions and priorities for water management, specifically in Southern California, must shift in an era of climate change.

www.buzzsprout.com/1837352/epis...

Less than a week left to apply for this 🗃️

Didn’t know this database existed

Interesting story lurking here

Last slave ship to arrive in the US, deliberately sunk, has been rebuilt The last slave ship, Clotilda, resurfaces in 3D in New York after more than a century sunk and hidden underwater.

The Clotilda deserves a Vasa-style museum
www.earth.com/news/clotild...

This is great news!

Port Townsend historian appointed to Smithsonian board - Peninsula Daily News Woman brings underrepresented perspective, scholarly expertise

Susan Ferentinos, a specialist in LGBTQ+ history, appointed to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History board
www.peninsuladailynews.com/2026/02/21/p...

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✈️ Calling international scholars! Apply by March 2 for APS short-term fellowships, including the David Center for the American Revolution Research Fellowships for International Scholars.

🔗 More info about fellowships: https://bit.ly/4rqmXwY

These look like great fellowships! Doesn't look like there is a residency requirement. 🗃️

Farmer explains turning down $15m from data center developers Mervin Raudabaugh was offered more than $15 million to sell his farm to developers, and refused.

Pairs well with this
www.newsweek.com/farmer-expla...

Very interesting article on the (new) financialization of farmland: “Today, however, farms are becoming assets swept up into global financial channels—converting from repositories of agrarian ideals into paper playthings for the very rich.”
yalelawjournal.org/article/trad...

Happy to be on this list!

@uncpress.bsky.social

Job posting for a lecturer position at Harvard Hist & Lit--please share! histlit.fas.harvard.edu/lecturer-pos...

Wow. Congrats to Jess Roney!

How White Elites Drained Ancient Art of Its Color The publication of “Chroma” represents an important shift by museums toward recognizing polychromy and its entanglement with white supremacy.

@sarahebond.bsky.social reviewed a new book about The Met’s 2022 polychromy exhibition that highlights the foremost scholars studying polychromy today. It marks an important shift by museums toward recognizing polychromy and its entanglement with white supremacy.

Has any one come up with a way to mute all screenshots from Twitter? Asking for all of my friends.

I personally think the way democratic institutions successfully blocked a push toward military dictatorship in South Korea is a lot more noteworthy than the arrest of a powerless royal whose family seems happy to cut him off.