Joanna Grisinger

I think of this as law professor brain.

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...

Submit for all the dissertation and book and article prizes you might be eligible for. Even if you don’t win, you’re getting your work in front of people who should know about it.

good morning new followers here are some resources for humanities classrooms

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Friends, I am hiring two scholar-advisors this year! Come join the best advising team in the country (for real). Please help me spread the news about this great opportunity! This is a permanent, non-time limited instructional staff position, and I will be happy to answer questions!

If you're interested in developing a pre-conference symposium during the American Society for Legal History conference in Banff in November, please send your proposal to the Program Committee co-chairs by this Friday, 2/27! (Other proposals are due 3/24) #legalhistory #ASLH

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I’m gonna salute every snowplow that passes me.

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So there's a black girl scout troop trying to raise money to to to Europe but they aren't close to their goal as of yet. Please share this and buy some cookies if you can

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Job posting for a lecturer position at Harvard Hist & Lit--please share! histlit.fas.harvard.edu/lecturer-pos...

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My experience is - I see the title in the library catalog, grab the book, realize "oh, it's one of these," flip through to see if there's anything interesting I could pursue further, and then move on.

Community meme: I CAN EXCUSE FASCISM. BUTI DRAW THE LINE AT MERCANTILISM.

The Supreme Court:

This is François Furstenberg's laughing/crying essay on the absurdities of the present-day research university-- from atriums to AI... and sometimes AI with atriums.

Scroll to the bottom for discussion of AI fostering administrators' fantasies while obliterating the core purposes of higher ed.

Cast Away. Still mad Helen Hunt’s character never turned in her dissertation.

Know a promising undergrad who wants more time before applying to grad school? Pitt has a funded postbac program for students from underrepresented groups.

This year, my lab will consider applications for solo supervision or to be co-supervised by @mehrgol.bsky.social!

App deadline is March 15!

A red flower and a blue flower, in the middle a cover of the Church Committee Report. Caption is: roses are red, violets are blue, j. edgar hoover will spy on you.

Today is false spring in Chicago, folks were out in t shirts.

An assortment of city names and dates written in cursive. If you can read this and can visit New Haven, CT on my behalf, please reach out!

Can someone recommend an independent researcher that can visit an archive in New Haven, CT? I really need someone ASAP. I would prefer someone experienced, but in theory anyone that can read these city names and dates in cursive could be fine. It should take 4-6 hours. 🗃️

“If these fuckers think” has set a new bar for how politicians should begin their statements about these fuckers.

Meet it or get left behind.

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What in the Charles River Bridge?

Adjunct pay/working conditions AY25-26 This form is part of a project to crowd-source pay and working conditions for people who teach and research in colleges and universities during AY2025-2026. This form is for people paid by the course ...

Well, let's give it a shot again and see what we get.

Pop star Bad Bunny needed a Puerto Rican history scholar. UW–Madison had just the one. Bad Bunny collaborated with UW–Madison history professor Jorell Meléndez-Badillo on Puerto Rican narratives that accompany the new album “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS.”

Pretty sure one was consulted, definitely was for the album

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We do ask that you give us your whole order now, and the kitchen will course out your meats and ferments.

I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what

Morris & Co. x HOFF

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Have you seen the sneakers?

They’ll be hearing from his father

Long Overdue - AHA About the Project Perspectives on History launched the Long Overdue project in 2023 as part of the Racist Histories and the AHA initiative. Long Overdue aims to publish obituaries for historians of co...

The Long Overdue Project at #AHAPerspectives aims to publish obituaries for historians of color whose passing the AHA did not mark. Learn more about the project, read the tributes, and contact us if you'd like to contribute 🗃️:

Legal history people: the ASLH conference will be in the Canadian Rockies in Nov.2026! Panel proposals are due March 24, 2026. The Call links to google sheets where you can find co-panelists & chair-commentators 👇 You can @ me if you're looking for fellow panelists, too.