Emily Conroy-Krutz

If you want to learn about married women’s dependent citizenship in the early 20th century & the birthright citizens who lost their citizenship by marrying an immigrant, check out “Forgotten America” on The Great Courses Plus or Audible. 🗃️

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To be truly on-theme, though, there would need to be a shark somewhere in the picture. (I'm so glad the rest of the world gets to read about the shark now!)

I hope you appreciate that I got the photo in front of the map wall! (None of Central America, alas)

Just got home from a few weeks away and I found the very best mail waiting for me. Congratulations again @jlepler.bsky.social

I heard such wonderful things about this panel--so sorry to have missed it in person, and very excited that your remarks will be available online!

All famines are man-made, all famines are political. Historians of empire and humanitarianism have known this forever. Gaza is not starving, Gaza is being starved, by Israel, and this starvation is enabled by our government and by every other government that does not step in to force food and aid.

That sounds amazing

Official publication day!

Meanwhile I was very smug about pre-ordering 😁

Congratulations Meg! Check out Meg’s article in the Journal of the Early Republic.

muse.jhu.edu/pub/12/artic...

Six book covers rotating clockwise: Plantation Goods; Promise to Pay; Freeman's Challenge; Banking on Slavery; The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots; Insatiable City.

#SHEAR2025 may be ending, but our virtual exhibit is still open! Browse our virtual exhibit and get 30% off and free domestic shipping using code EX58026: bit.ly/UCPEXSHEAR.

So thrilled to see Alison recognized by @shearites.bsky.social for her exceptional book, The Interbellum Constitution! 🗃️

So exciting to see this in the flesh at SHEAR! Congrats @jlepler.bsky.social!!

#OAH26 and #SHEAR26 are both in Philly next year?!

Are you in Providence for #SHEAR2025? Why not check out the Arcade, the nation’s first enclosed shopping mall. It also conveniently appears on this antebellum bank note from The Arcade Bank, Providence, RI, $1, 18–.🗃️

Congratulations! That's great news

Happy Publication Day to Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social and congratulations on Lineage: Genealogy and the Power of Connection in Early America! Wulf transforms “mostly-forgotten books into vibrant accounts of forgotten pasts,” says Laurel Thatcher Ulrich. Learn more:
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A light blue background. Text reads “Statement in Support of Trans Kids from the Advocacy Committee for Women and Gender Justice.” Logos for the PCUSA and the Advocacy Committee are in the top corners.

A light blue background. Text emphasizes the baptismal promise made to children to guide and nurture them with love and prayer. Logos for the PCUSA and the Advocacy Committee are in the top corners.

Text explains research that shows if a transgender young person has even one adult in their life who affirms their identity, the risk of death by suicide is reduced by 40%. It goes on to say that laws that block access to gender-affirming care impact the children we have vowed to guide.

Text invites Presbyterians to hold in prayer the transgender children in our country who are being denied the care they need. It emphasizes that everyone is made in God’s image with dignity and worth.

The PC(USA)'s Advocacy Committee for Women and Gender Justice has issued a statement of support for trans children.

#PCUSA #LGBTQIA #PrideMonth #TransRightsAreHumanRights

Thanks so much for letting me know--haven't seen my copy yet!

Early American Sex Scandals Check out this great listen on Audible.com. Sex scandals have been a part of the fabric of American society and politics from the very beginning. More than just salacious stories from the past or mora...

If you're looking for a distraction from the world around us, check out my Great Courses/Audible series Early American Sex Scandals. From the Reynolds Affair to the Beecher-Tilton trial, this is basically early America's hottest gossip (backed up by scholarship)
www.audible.com/pd/Early-Ame...
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Guest Post - Classification as Colonization: The Hidden Politics of Library Catalogs - The Scholarly Kitchen The renaming of "Mount Denali" and "Gulf of Mexico" to the politically loaded “Mount McKinley" and "Gulf of America" reveal the naked truth of what cataloging has always been: a battlefield where mean...

Classification as Colonization: The Hidden Politics of Library Catalogs / Mike Olson in @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/03/25/g... #scholarlykitchen #librarycatalogues #cataloguing #classification

Are you a grad student or early career scholar attending #SHAFR2025? Check out our careers workshop featuring mentors working in tenure track jobs in the US and UK, PMEs, DOD and State roles, Brookings, PBS, and countless research centers.
To register visit: forms.gle/ZwFa6hFsk2TR...

These historians oversee unbiased accounts of U.S. foreign policy. Trump fired them all. An advisory committee of historians helps ensure the record of America’s history remains unbiased, transparent and thorough. Trump just fired the entire panel.

Article in the @washingtonpost.com on the Historical Advisory Committee dismissals, incl. interviews w @melanimca.bsky.social @rimmerma.bsky.social and Sarah Snyder

www.washingtonpost.com/history/2025...

COVID-19 Vaccines and Pregnancy: Conversation Guide for Clinicians The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) recommends that pregnant individuals be vaccinated against COVID-19.

Do not listen to RFK Jr. on covid vaccines for pregnant people. Listen to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, which STRONGLY recommends a covid vaccine during pregnancy, for the health of the pregnant person and the fetus. 🧪 www.acog.org/covid-19/cov...

Happy birthday!

Again, as I’d said many times before, the US loses its historical edge globally to recruit the best and brightest globally and it also loses soft power. This is the ‘shoot yourself in the foot’ strategy.

Are there ways to depart a conference feeling happy rather than vaguely dissatisfied or alienated? Why yes there are! Join our webinar tomorrow (Wed., 5/28) at 4pm and find out!

Free and open to all -- please tell your grad students and colleagues. This is not oriented to any particular conference.