Joseph M. Adelman

It's now part of my regular beginning-of-semester shpiel to tell students that they should not email me from the ER ... because I've had students email me from the ER to apologize for missing class.

And glad your daughter is doing well!

The academic and publishing landscapes have changed a lot since we started this magazine. We've stuck to the same principles we started with:

History is for everyone.

Every way of doing history is worthwhile.

Historians should be paid for their work.

We are looking for middle and high school History, Social Studies, and Ethnic Studies teachers throughout the country to participate in a collaborative local history project for the 2026-27 school year. Curriculum, instruction, and professional development will be supported throughout this program with funding from the Library of Congress. Stipend for completing the program: $2,500 INTERESTED? APPLY HERE(link is external) by April 17, 2026 TEACHER OPPORTUNITY - LEARN MORE Program Components - Teachers will: Participate in a 3-Day summer institute June 29-July 1, 2026. Participate in 3 Saturday planning workshops: 2026-2027 school year (dates tbd). Develop and teach an approximately two-week long collaborative local history unit or lesson set. Participate in planning sessions with your partner teacher as needed. Participate in 2 coaching sessions during the 2026-27 school year. Participate in one follow-up session to debrief and reflect upon work and plan for possible future collaboration. Overall estimated time commitment beyond classroom teaching: approximately 35-40 hours.

Social studies teachers (anywhere in the U.S.)! Want to participate in a Library of Congress workshop where you will create units on local history and get paid $2,500? APPLY HERE: iacp.berkeley.edu/node/67 #sschat #edusky

It's NEW Episode Release Day! Join @jmadelman.bsky.social & @theitps.bsky.social for a journey to Lewes, England & our 1st LIVE recorded podcast from the Common Sense at 250 Conference. Our panelists talk Tom Paine's civic & family life & his lasting impact on democracy
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I have to say the Post chose a hell of a moment to lay off all their foreign correspondents

FUSCO Lecture with Ned Blackhawk of Yale University “The Indigenous Origins of the American Revolution” The UConn History Department’s Spring 2026 FUSCO lecture guest is Ned Blackhawk (Western Shoshone). He is the Howard R. Lamar Professor of Histor...

hey #nutmegsky, @uconnhistory.bsky.social is hosting Ned Blackhawk on March 2 for a talk, “The Indigenous Origins of the American Revolution.” events.uconn.edu/history-depa...

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Please join CLA Board Vice-Chair Sara Georgini on Wednesday, March 4th at 7 pm EST for "Defending Democracy in the Stacks," a fantastic conversation organized by the Ellsberg Initiative for Peace and Democracy.

Registration is free via Zoom: bit.ly/4ruKgFZ

Took a look at this winter's snow totals vs. 2014-2015's "Snowmageddon".

Boston is pacing the highest snow totals since that winter, but is still 40" short of that record-setting season!

Providence is on pace to beat it!

#mawx #riwx #boston @bostonglobe.com

www.bostonglobe.com/2026/03/02/m...

Just a reminder that @contingent-mag.bsky.social would absolutely love to run a mailbag on the dumbass arguments about "low enrollment majors" and other things contained in this nested thread if there's a NTT historian out there who wants to pitch it.

“Just in case a real person won’t read this, how do I convince an AI robot that my student should be accepted to this graduate program?” is not an inspiring way to have to write a letter of recommendation.

Wars famously last exactly as long as predicted by the people who start them.

Today marks 15 years for me as MLB's official historian; the 16th year commences. For its Weekly Notes (and Our Game), I have in mind to write 20 stories or so about how America and MLB's traditions intersect.

Catherine Beecher is the perfect choice to juxtapose with Charlie Kirk. In the era when American women began advocating for suffrage, Beecher was a prominent anti-suffragist.

How Many Women Teach in FAS? Harvard Won’t Say. | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson Nothing has changed in the composition of Harvard’s faculty to justify abandoning our commitment to racial diversity. The gender ratio in FAS does not suddenly warrant eliminating a modest seminar pre...

Very much appreciate this from my colleague @visualizingbroadway.com

www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

Why Write Historical Fiction? I wanted to understand a hidden part of my own family’s history.

“Imagination is a vital tool that any writer must deploy to access aspects of the past.”

Our latest, from Ben Nadler.

Lots of great advice in this thread! Other JOURNAL thoughts:
1) It's a long process: *at least* 2 years from 1st submission to publication
2) Not all journal editors are created equal: really good editors will assess the reader reports for you--pay attention, this is a pathway to publication!

Historians’ Amicus Brief in Trump v. Barbara Two historians and professors of legal history represented by Kendall Brill & Kelly LLP have filed a brief supporting a challenge to President Trump’s executive order purporting to end birthright citi...

« The historians’ brief — authored by Professor Martha S. Jones and Professor Kate Masur — centers on the pre–Civil War advocacy of free Black Americans for a broad and inclusive principle of birthright citizenship. » www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

The Century-Long Capture of U.S. Media | On the Media | WNYC Studios As media empires, from The Washington Post to CBS News, continue to be dealt significant blows, uncertainties abound about the remaining strength of a once robust American press lands...

From @onthemedia.bsky.social A rocking interview about media capture from mid-19th century to now. Clear, detailed, with helpful comparison to systems other than ours. Can't say enough about it. With @victorpickard.bsky.social, a brilliantly accessible expert.

www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

As the OP says below—this is about more than driving a car.

Voting.
Traveling.
Getting prescriptions filled.

All those MANY times in everyday life when you have to show your license?

You no longer have one.

Unless you erase yourself.

Part of what is great about college for a lot of people (and I know this is not something everybody wants to do or is able to do) is that not every class you take is taken for your major, or because it’s a requirement.

Great analogy.

These are “low enrollment” majors but the classes are regularly at capacity. They changed the funding structure a few years ago here, switching the allocation from course enrollments to majors then blamed these departments for a structural, top-down change. This is entirely a political choice.

Lifelong Learning Lecture: The Revolutionary Legacy of the Free Press Guest speaker: Dr. Joseph M. Adelman, Professor of History, Framingham State University Since the ratification of the First Amendment in 1791, the Constitution has promised to safeguard “freedom of the press.” The meaning of the phrase has changed significantly as news media has grown and expanded from the weekly newspapers of the 18th century to the international corporations that own television and internet today. Explore the origins of the “free press” in the American Revolution and how those principles can protect the press today. All Lifelong Learning mailing list recipients receive the Zoom link. If you have not joined our Lifelong Learning mailing list, go to bit.ly/Lifelong-Learning-Lectures.

Working this afternoon on the finishing touches for an online talk tomorrow evening for the Framingham Public Library on "The Revolutionary Legacy of the Free Press."

Want to listen in? Sign up here: bit.ly/Lifelong-Learning-Lectures

#America250 #FreePress #journalism

Amanda Herbert and Kevin Dawson debut a new HLQ article category called Early/Modern Connections: original #earlymodern research in service of the public good. The article and cover feature art by Ebony Iman Dallas. Open access: muse.jhu.edu/article/983132

The Historian and the Historian-ish: A Workshop with M.J. Rymsza-Pawlowska This workshop is the second part of a two-day visit by Dr. M.J. Rymsza-Pawlowska, associate professor of history at American University. With a PhD...

The Historian and the Historian-ish Workshop by @mjrp.bsky.social on Fri. Feb. 27th at 10am in the JNBC aka Nightingale-Brown aka "the mansion" events.brown.edu/2026/event/3... (3/4)

Cross Talk on Labor Panel moderated by @sethrockman.bsky.social et al on Fri. Feb. 27th at 5pm @jcblibrary.bsky.social (4/4) events.brown.edu/john-carter-...

The Historian and the Historian-ish In the contemporary, people are engaging in forms of historical practice that allow them to act in the role of the historian—whether that means a...

The Historian and the Historian-ish Lecture by @mjrp.bsky.social on Thurs. Feb. 26th at 6:30pm in Friedman Hall 102 events.brown.edu/history/even...

friends in Providence, Boston, or anywhere near Providence! Brown 2026 has several exceptional events during the last week of February aka next week. highlighting three here that I hope you'll consider attending 🐻🤎 (1/4)

Oy vey. We also got that clipper, but it started later and was just a dusting, so they're all safely tucked in at school.