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SAVE THE DATE DOUGLASS DAY | FEB 13, 2026 Featuring the Colored Conventions Project DouglassDay.Org

Every year, there is a transcribe-a-thon on Frederick Douglass’ birthday. This year, it is February 13, 2026. Sign up and get your own groups involved in transcribing documents for the public. douglassday.substack.com/p/douglass-d...

Brendan Fraser!

The Mummy. Watching it right now, coincidentally!

No! I am so very sorry.

Best of November From HigherEdJobs <p>Whether you're actively job searching or simply seeking to excel at your current institution, here are some editor's picks highligh

Today in fun news: "Don't Go It Alone! & Other Tips on How to Get Your 1st Book Pub'd," the piece I wrote w/ Alec Loganbill (fellow co-chair of the @aupresses.bsky.social Faculty Outreach Cmte) for UP Week, is part of the HigherEdJobs Best of the Month roundup:
www.higheredjobs.com/Articles/art...

Have you got a new book out about Irish America? Regardless of discipline, if it came out in 2025, you can submit it to the ACIS Lawrence McCaffrey Prize for Books on Irish America! You need to fill out the form on this website and the books need to be sent by 1 January!
acisweb.org/mccaffrey-pr...

Feel this hard.

Does anyone have a good sample of a letter of introduction to provide a student to use foreign archives? The AHA claims to have one but it is a broken link. We need one in Spanish, Italian, and German. C'mon, help a girl out, people!

I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking. "Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."

Historian here he is right and regrettably the AHA is wrong on AI and its classroom use www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...

Excellent advice here for first-time authors 👇🏻

Anne Lamott (@annelamott) Here is the official announcement of a new book and a great offer:

Here is the official announcement of the new writing book that my current husband and I have written, that will publish in March. You can get 3 chapters now if you preorder:
substack.com/@annelamott/...

Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out A new Gmail update may allow Google to use your private messages and attachments for AI training. Here's how to turn it off.

Google has started automatically opting you in to let it read your stuff to train AI. You need to turn this off in SEVERAL places in your settings (not just for Gmail), if you want to maintain privacy and confidentiality.
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...

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WHA 2026 Digital Scholarship Lightning Round - Expression of Interest Please complete the form below. Someone from the Digital Scholarship Committee will contact you to confirm your acceptance to the lightning round. Contact Sean Fraga, sfraga@usc.edu, with questions.

Western historians: consider this CFP for the digital history lightning round at the 2026 WHA conference in Portland! Great format for discussing work in progress with a supportive audience. Happy to answer any questions. Respond by Wed., Dec. 3. #AmWest 🗃️

James A. Garfield, 20th POTUS, was born in Ohio on this day 194 years ago: Nov. 19, 1831.

He’s enjoying a well-deserved resurgence right now with the @netflix.com series “Death by Lightning,” based on @candicemillard.bsky.social’s bestseller “Destiny of the Republic.”

Image: Library of Congress.

I am putting it on my list of books to order! Congratulations!

The American Revolution Thirteen colonies unite in rebellion, win their independence, and found the United States.

_The American Revolution_ offers a look at how complex and violent — and also inspiring— the American founding was. Getting huge coverage, it may give folks time to digest that complexity as 2026 commences. Premieres tonight + PBS has preview clips of all episodes. www.pbs.org/show/the-ame...

Still unbelievable. When I went on the market, my female mentors all warned me and explained how to navigate it.

Research Fellowships Submit an application for a research fellowship at the George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon.

The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon, Virginia welcomes applications from military historians researching broadly in Early American history.
For more information, see www.mountvernon.org/library/fell....

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This tracks.

Call for (post-PhD) historians and cultural scholars for the pod! We have a specific wishlist of scholarship we’re looking to add to the lineup:
- ancient & medieval history
and/or
- histories of anywhere other than the US and UK, preferably outside Europe

Pitches to: podcast@thisguysucked.com
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I have a whole shelf of classics to lend you!

The Radicalism of the American Revolution by Gordon Wood is a classic.

I just can’t even with this.

Blue books are back: The revival of pen and paper exams Blue books are seeing a revival at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and college campuses across the county as more professors grow concerned about online cheating with artificial intelligence tools...

“There's an underlying theme here about efficiency & inefficiency,” Senchyne said...": We have to get back to a world where there's room for inefficiency that lets us grow.”

So excited to celebrate my colleagues and their fantastic research. Manhattanites, please join us!

Last chance to turn it off.

On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.

To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.

A small treat once a week? THE HORROR.

I’ve taught at 4 different universities (West, South, and Midwest), and this is not at all my experience either.