Lauren Brand

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When the new books just keep on coming:

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

This January, @danieljstory.bsky.social, Alexandra Levy, and I are once again co-leading @historians.org's Sinclair Podcast Workshops.

Do you have a history pod idea you want to vet with a small group? Pitch us for Developmental Conversations! Deadline 12/1/25.

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Hey historians 🗃: have you published in the AHR? How was your experience? Is it worth the extra rigamarole? I have an article I'm working on that might be a good fit, and I'm no longer under the gun for tenure. What should I know about the process?

The September 2025 issue of the American Historical Review is live!
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Starting a new cross stitch pattern this weekend, based on a 17th century Norwegian wall hanging.

2025 Texas Conference on Introductory History Courses The 2025 Texas Conference on Introductory History Courses will take place Friday, October 24 and Saturday, October 25 at University of Texas at Dallas.

Registration for our free Texas Conference on Introductory History Courses, October 24–25, at the University of Texas at Dallas, is open now. Join us for thought-provoking discussions about introductory history courses and student success in Texas.

Beautiful day at Soldier's Delight

Letter | Bucknell University Press to Close This should alarm university presses nationwide, writes Aníbal González-Pérez.

very much saddened to learn that bucknell university press will be closing. they took a chance on my first book when other presses said it was too short or too narrowly focused on minor authors.

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Where the Humanities Majors Are

"The most popular new student choices of major reinforce the importance of foundational humanities disciplines, while the breadth of majors among all enrolled students seems to reflect a broadening of interests over time" bit.ly/4fFmCkZ

ACLS Launches New Doctoral Futures Initiative to Assess and Reimagine Humanities Graduate Education Three year collaboration with the AHA, MLA, and SBL aims to identify and introduce new approaches for humanities PhD programs

“The future of doctoral education in many humanities fields in the United States is bleak. We must find practical ways to fight austerity, help PhD students thrive when academic jobs are scarce, and engage them in the urgent mission of attracting the next generation of undergraduates” bit.ly/3JeNIDk

To me, this is Digital Humanities

It's fall catalog season! 🍂📚

Some really good lines in here: “Great works of history are transformative because they are neither predictable nor obvious; therefore, they cannot be replaced by a technology that simply reproduces existing patterns.”

Title and first paragraph of "Homeplace Politics on the New River: Rural Environmentalism in Southern Appalachia, 1962–1976," by Madison W. Cates, in Journal of Southern History, Vol. 91, August 2025.

New in the August 2025 JSH:

"Homeplace Politics on the New River: Rural Environmentalism in Southern Appalachia, 1962–1976," by Madison W. Cates

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#CFP: New Directions in Taiwan History – Taiwan at the Center and at the Margins, February 26-27, 2026 at University of Washington, Seattle. Submit paper abstracts for consideration by October 10, 2025.

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Explore JJS's Summer 2025 issue: online.ucpress.edu/jjs?searchre.... Discover new book reviews and articles by Reut Harari, Edwin Michielsen, Andre Haag, Melek Ortabasi, Brian Hurley, and Satoru Hashimoto’s timely Perspectives article “Repairing a Form of Life: Ritual in Ibuse Masuji’s Black Rain.”

Calling all chonky tomes

If you've published with Johns Hopkins University Press, this article is relevant to you.

JUST IN: A federal judge has blocked the cancelation of $175 million in National Endowment for the Humanities grants, mass terminated by DOGE in April. She says the effort was transparent viewpoint discrimination in violation of the First Amendment.

A group of snacks arranged on a bookshelf

Replenished the snack stash because this September issue isn’t going to publish itself!

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

Arts and Crafts Day in the Research Seminar In the latest installment of our “Teaching the Early Republic” series, Robert Smith demonstrates the power of material culture to engage students in the classroom.

“Arts and Crafts Day in the Research Seminar”

In the latest installment of the "Teaching the Early Republic" series for the #JERPano, Robert Smith demonstrates the power of material culture to engage students in the classroom.

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Call for Applications: Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop, 2025 History Workshop is advertising two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships in 2025, open to early career historians.

Join us! We are advertising two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop in 2025-27.

Our fellowships support early career historians to develop expertise in public, radical and digital history & to gain experience of working in an editorial team.
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It's very much summer outside today, but in my inbox, it's fall. The fall catalogs are HERE. 🍂

Really excited to list to this episode!

First, coffee. Then, proofs. So many proofs.

UCLA cuts funding, class credit status from undergraduate research journal 'Aleph' - Daily Bruin This post was updated July 6 at 7:49 p.m. Aleph, UCLA’s only official undergraduate research journal for the humanities, arts and social sciences, was two weeks away from printing its final volume of ...

"Aleph, UCLA’s only official undergraduate research journal for the humanities, arts and social sciences... would lose all of its funding from the university." bit.ly/3TWianA

Jeden Tag bis zum Historikertag eine Fachsektion! Heute:

Richtungsweisende Flaggschiffe? Macht und Ohnmacht geschichtswissenschaftlicher Zeitschriften im Wandel

mit: Julia Hillner, Andreas Fahrmeir und Sophie Wagenhofer (Sektionsleitung)

Wow this is so cool