Kristen Epps

Question for #envhist and humanities peeps: I’m working on an outreach plan supporting a wetland restoration project. Does anybody have recommendations of authors or projects using history to increase public awareness on restoration projects?

I love this design!

Counterpoint | Minnesota humanities graduates thrive in meaningful careers "The stereotype of the underemployed history major is simply not true," professor Andrea Kaston Tange writes.

My latest: "Numerous studies show that majors in the humanities—typically, in departments of English, history, philosophy, religious studies, classics and languages—lead students to employment and life satisfaction outcomes as positive as those for majors traditionally championed as 'practical.'”

As I was reading, I thought, "you don't need to 'move to the margins' to experience this kind of fulfillment from working with students!" Go teach at a school that is an HSI, or attracts a lot of first-generation students, or what have you. Those jobs are amazing 😀

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

Guide for Contending with Online Harassment - AHA Guidelines to AHA members and historians who fear that they may become or have become targets of online harassment.

The AHA has updated our Guide for Contending with Online Harassment, offering recs to support members who are targets of online harassment. "Historians have the right to expect that discussion of their historical work will be conducted in a civil manner, free from harassment and intimidation." 🗃️

Also, there is one of Civil War historians, but I’m not sure who made it, so here are a few more folks:

@profmsinha.bsky.social
@adamrothman.bsky.social
@thetattooedprof.bsky.social @sethcotlar.bsky.social @kkdumez.bsky.social @gauthamrao.bsky.social @unlawfulentries.bsky.social

go.bsky.app/BanDTur

I teach at KState, and I have a starter pack of Kansas academics, all disciplines.

That was the cherry on top for me.

My book is on the Anthropic AI settlement list! Is yours?

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She fell into being a Tiktoker after her video about eating tacos on a date went viral. But if the requirement is someone who intentionally sells products, she is more about “influencing” people to be themselves and not trying to shill for money.

This is the truth.

Elyse Myers. She is awesome and down to earth. You would like her!

Publishing with University Presses Webinar Series: Turning Your Dissertation into a Book - Association of University Presses Co-sponsored webinar series in university publishing

If you want to hear me and a couple of my esteemed colleagues at Columbia University Press and University of North Carolina Press talk about how to turn a dissertation into a book, you can register at the link below for a webinar taking place on October 9 at 1pm ET.
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Unbelievable.

Fellow #skystorians, I am interested in putting together a panel for the 2026 Alliance for Texas History conference. My paper touches on topics including convict labor, Reconstruction, white and Native identities, railroads, and agency. Please reach out if interested!

If you've done in-person research at any of the following presidential libraries in the last 8 months, can you please follow me/contact me—soon—for a story I'm working on (can be off the record)?

Hoover
FDR
Truman
Eisenhower
JFK
LBJ
Ford
Carter

And either way, can you please share this request? 🙏

H-Material Culture seeks applications for a Book Reviews editor, to start in November 2025. Interested applicants should send a CV and short letter of interest to editorial-Material-Culture@mail.h-net.org #MaterialCulture

(solemnly) You've had mail.

Finishing a Ph.D. on slavery in early American or Atlantic history this year? Consider applying for the University of California's President's Postdoc program. I'd love to sponsor at applicant if working with me @ucsantacruz.bsky.social might be a good fit!
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They have this opportunity here at KSU!

As they should.

Yes. There ended up being six years between my graduation and its publication. Most of my revisions were in the central chapters, but I definitely refined and fleshed out parts of the other chapters as well.

George Hardy, last of the Tuskegee Airmen's World War II combat pilots, dies at 100 Hardy, a lieutenant colonel, became the youngest Tuskegee fighter pilot at 19, and was among the first Black military pilots in the United States.

George Hardy, last of the Tuskegee Airmen's World War II combat pilots, dies at 100

Dozens of Indigenous warriors, women, and others stand gathered outside on an open prairie, posing for the camera.

This is Big Foot’s band of Lakota, taken a few months before the massacre.

Yes, Medal of Honor to some of the 7th Cavalry. There was an effort recently to consider rescinding the medals, and the committee’s report decided not to. This is not solely Hegseth’s decision, but his statements—glorifying the recipients and calling it a “battle”—make clear his position.

It’s horrifying. At least 250-300 died. Even in 1890, people recognized the horror.

YEP

To call this a massacre, according to Hegseth, is just another example of “woke” history.