Ben Wright

This January, @danieljstory.bsky.social, Alexandra Levy, and I are once again co-leading @historians.org's Sinclair Podcast Workshops.

Do you have a history pod idea you want to vet with a small group? Pitch us for Developmental Conversations! Deadline 12/1/25.

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Lesson Plan: Women’s Varied Experiences in Revolutionary America Shannan Mason offers a complete, two day lesson plan on women and the American Revolution featuring Lauren Duval’s recent article from The Pano.

Who gets to be called a revolutionary?

This #JERPano lesson by Shannan Mason challenges students to rethink political participation by centering the ways women labored, resisted, and survived throughout the Revolutionary era.

Explore it on The Panorama:
thepanorama.shear.org/2025/09/08/l...

“Studio Makeup and Narcissism”: The Texas’s Lege’s Least Favorite Lawmaker "Cockroach" is an old Lege term for a figure who mucks up lawmaking. In 2025 the title goes to Brian Harrison.

Lost in the Texas A&M news is that the entire crusade is the product of a former labradoodle breeder turned State Rep whose stunts and grandstanding are so insufferably transparent that even his Republican colleagues despise him. Meet Brian Harrison, winner of Texas Monthly’s 2025 Cockroach award:

American Lesson Plan, Part 4: Curricular Content A nine-state examination of topics and themes in US history classes, including Native American history; the Founding Era; Westward Expansion; Slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction; Industry, Capi...

Remember your favorite day of US history class? K–12 teachers have their favorites too. Check in with the AHA’s American Lesson Plan to see what teachers love to teach, what they find challenging, and what they want their students to walk away with.

Special Issue Submissions - AHA Natural light and processed MSI images of the HMML Palimpsest Project Methods for Archival Silence in Early History The American Historical Review seeks proposals for a special issue illustrating a ra...

The #AHR is seeking proposals for a special issue on methodological approaches to archival silences in early history. Visit our website to read the full call for proposals and learn more about the guidelines for submission. Proposals are due September 16.

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Save the date for this fantastic conference at Princeton: October 3-4, 2025.

*In the Flow: Religious Movements Through Space, Time and Power,* organized by Professor Nicole Myers Turner.

Free and open to the public. Registration required.

Took my family to New York and saw Mrs. van Rhijn taking luncheon with a divorcee, you can’t convince me that crime isn’t up

DHS's 'Homeland Heritage' Campaign Highlights Danger of Innocence Myths of a White Christian America As a habit I don’t follow the social media of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). It’s a scroll of nationalistic propaganda and exaggerated warnings about criminal aliens, a set of lies that at...

Were you also disturbed but unsurprised to see this old #JohnGast painting shared on US Homeland Security’s social media? Sara Moslener offers a great response and insights from her work on US white evangelical purity culture.
religiondispatches.org/dhss-homelan...

The deadline for the @iehs.bsky.social digital history grants is this Friday! If you’re interested in applying, check out the guidelines below 👇🏽

Nonprofit Explorer - ProPublica Since 2013, the IRS has released data culled from millions of nonprofit tax filings. Use this database to find organizations and see details like their executive compensation, revenue and expenses, as...

Wondering about the financial security of a registered nonprofit - be it a charity, a private school, or the like? Be aware that to maintain nonprofit status, they have to file detailed financial declarations with the IRS. Propublica has an easy tool for that - projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/

SHEAR is pleased to announce and congratulate the winners of the SHEAR prizes which will be announced here in this 🧵.

NEW piece @commonplacejrnl.bsky.social this week! From Lisa Roney, a meditation on the personal stakes of family history.

Arts and Crafts Day in the Research Seminar In the latest installment of our “Teaching the Early Republic” series, Robert Smith demonstrates the power of material culture to engage students in the classroom.

“Arts and Crafts Day in the Research Seminar”

In the latest installment of the "Teaching the Early Republic" series for the #JERPano, Robert Smith demonstrates the power of material culture to engage students in the classroom.

Read on The Panorama thepanorama.shear.org/2025/07/14/a...

Dallas Morning News or The Onion?

This event is going to be so cool! And the idea, cooked up with @noraslonimsky.bsky.social, is to do this format again in 2026. We're excited about it! And super grateful to this awesome line-up of scholars.

I'm excited to moderate this Zoom conversation tomorrow with ‪@profhyman.bsky.social‬ and Marcus Nevius. Join us by registering here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Digital History Seed Grants Visit the post for more.

***Digital History Seed Grants***

The IEHS invites submissions for awards, up to $2,000 each, to support graduate students and early-career scholars seeking to develop or engage with digital history work connected to migration history and related fields.

Deadline: 8/1/25

iehs.org/awards/seed_...

Teaching LGBTQ+ History – AHA As states pass legislation targeting DEI efforts, one historian offers her experience teaching LGBTQ+ history in these challenging times.

From #AHAPerspectives in 2024: After SB 17 banned DEI in Texas public higher education, Anne Gray Fischer argues that it’s more essential than ever “to prioritize teaching LGBTQ+ histories that foster community in places that are both hostile and home.” 🗃️

Juneteenth memories from Baylor’s oral history archives

Many people don’t know that there are #oralhistory collections that provide firsthand accounts of the experiences of Black Texans. Take a moment to explore them today. Here’s one collection:

#Juneteenth #TexasHistory #BlackTexans #BlackTexasHistory

bn.web.baylor.edu/news/story/2...

All history is revisionist history

The #JERPano seeks contributors for a new series, "Teaching the Early American Republic."

We invite reflections on classroom experiences, lesson plans, source reviews, or challenges in 500 to 1000 words by June 30th.

For posting guidelines, visit us at: thepanorama.shear.org/write-for-us/

Civil War spy Elizabeth Van Lew defined courage fighting for what she believed Elizabeth Van Lew, a Southern belle turned Union spymaster, exemplifies true heroism during the Civil War, challenging the diluted modern concept of a hero.

I get why publishers love the "untold story" framing, but I still really hate it.

Whether this book is a good re-telling of Elizabeth Van Lew's story, I don't know.

But the idea that it's "untold" is insulting to the historians who've told it many times before.🗃️

George E. Pozzetta Dissertation Award Visit the post for more.

***Attention graduate students***

Apply to the George E. Pozzetta Dissertation Award!

IEHS invites submissions for two awards of $3,500 each (up from $1,000) to help graduate students with their dissertations on U.S. immigration, emigration, or ethnic history.

iehs.org/awards/georg...

Dallas is so lucky to have Michael Phillips. His courageous, insightful truth-telling is urgently needed if we want to understand our city today. Read this post and subscribe

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Our friends @shearites.bsky.social are expanding a wonderful initiative around mentorship in honor of the late, great Jan Lewis, which kicks off this afternoon with a conversation about conferences with @carolyneastman.bsky.social @wmackintosh.bsky.social & @drhonor.bsky.social. Details⬇️

It’s sad how many Centers for Teaching and Learning have become AI propaganda agents. This is a helpful antidote: hedgehogreview.com/web-features...

Teaching the History of Civil Rights Through Digital Primary Sources New America recaps a webinar that explored why digital primary sources are important and how they can be used to enhance student learning about history, particularly the history of the civil rights mo...

Teaching the History of Civil Rights Through Digital Primary Sources: The 1939 Library Sit-In www.newamerica.org/education-po... “Bringing young people into close contact with these objects,” can give students a sense of “what it was like to be alive in a long past era in a very personal way.”

If you love poetry, I suggest trying to sell a car on Facebook Marketplace. Where else can you find bars like this?