Don’t keep swimmin’
29.01.2026 21:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Blueskis. There is now a video.
🐝🐝🐝
25.01.2026 22:37 — 👍 59 🔁 11 💬 2 📌 1
We’ve Never Agreed About George Washington and Slavery
Removing a slavery exhibit in Philadelphia revives a 250-year-old American debate.
The removal of the slavery exhibit from the President's House site might feel unprecedented, but nothing could be further from the truth. We've been fighting over slavery's place in George Washington's legacy for 250 years. I wrote about it for @time.com.
Book info here
time.com/7357382/geor...
23.01.2026 18:00 — 👍 231 🔁 88 💬 4 📌 6
There’s a lot being said about ICE paralleling fugitive slave patrols. As a historian of slavery, I think it’s far more complicated than most are articulating. A lot of historical context and power dynamics are being mashed up in the process.
23.01.2026 16:09 — 👍 709 🔁 140 💬 5 📌 10
I’d start them with the 2021 EAS special issue on food in early America ed. Jennifer Anderson and Anya Zilberstein, and add @joshspecht.bsky.social’s Red Meat Republic, @veghistory.bsky.social’s Vegetarian Crusade, and (tho I’ve not yet read it!) Michelle McDonald’s Coffee Nation
24.01.2026 14:58 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Reminder - this salty maritime MA scholarship is open for applications: www.uea.ac.uk/study/fees-a...
22.01.2026 09:05 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
I’m organising a graduate conference in July on Early America! Please see the CfP and circulate wherever you can 🥳
15.01.2026 18:14 — 👍 18 🔁 17 💬 1 📌 1
RT if you would sooner dig your brain out with a fork than open a ChatGPT tab.
22.01.2026 09:47 — 👍 107 🔁 53 💬 3 📌 2
It’s that fun time in Texas again, where our collective trauma from the grid failure rears its ugly head as we prep for a cold snap. Everyone crossing their fingers that the infrastructure doesn’t completely fail us again.
21.01.2026 14:34 — 👍 55 🔁 16 💬 3 📌 1
Enhorabuena!
20.01.2026 12:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Vest wishes, Karin!
20.01.2026 06:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The crisis is real, and this is part of our effort at new approaches to supporting scholars and advancing scholarship in the (vast!) early Americas.
Sharing again and would appreciate your sharing, too. More info in the thread. 🧵⬇️
15.01.2026 12:08 — 👍 134 🔁 78 💬 2 📌 5
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorial-cartoons/theo-moudakis-tweedle-dumb-and-tweedle-dee/article_bd021f53-2ac0-4005-b1cf-9e9006bfa625.html
It’s a good time for nineteenth-century style political cartoons.
This one from the Toronto Star
07.01.2026 13:26 — 👍 35 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 1
If anyone can do it, you can!
13.01.2026 18:48 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
CAN YOU IMAGINE Sap Concur dealing with that one?
13.01.2026 18:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Discount flyer for purchase of Claiming Land, Claiming Water, with the discount code of 30% with code PENN-CLAIMING30 for orders in the United States, and code CSPENN30 for orders outside the Americas
The only thing better than having your publication date moved up? Having your publication date moved up to your birthday! Claiming Land, Claiming Water is now due out on March 17th, and the kind folks at @pennpress.bsky.social have gifted us this discount code at www.pennpress.org/978151282925...
13.01.2026 15:22 — 👍 34 🔁 18 💬 3 📌 1
The Globe and Mail
12.01.2026 14:53 — 👍 4536 🔁 1877 💬 78 📌 84
Hallo new Bluskis! If you're interested in the early modern world (c.1300-1700-ish) there are a bunch of starter packs brimming with historians, historians of science, art historians, and literary scholars. Check them out and find your frens - or some nerds who post things you like!
#earlymodern 🗃
10.01.2026 15:27 — 👍 30 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 1
Second proofs returned for this: keep an eye out for it in the EHR shortly!
06.01.2026 09:51 — 👍 14 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Book cover of In the Eagle's Shadow
Looking to understand the long history behind the US attack on Venezuela? Here are a few introductory-level reading recommendations from a professor and historian of US-Latin American Relations: (1/5)
🗃️ #history
1. Kyle Longley's "In the Eagle's Shadow: The United States and Latin America"
04.01.2026 17:20 — 👍 123 🔁 64 💬 4 📌 7
We've published deeply on Cuba, Venezuela, and US policy toward Latin America, and as these issues return to the headlines, history matters more than ever. Authors: if you’ve written on this topic, drop your book title + link below and let's build a thread that helps make sense of this moment.
05.01.2026 18:53 — 👍 47 🔁 28 💬 4 📌 1
Thanks for asking! I shared them in this post here: bsky.app/profile/rahe...
05.01.2026 15:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
@aleczreichardt.bsky.social Rocky may be delighted to learn that he features in the Penn social media guide distributed to new authors
05.01.2026 14:28 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Meredith Constant’s post saying she read an ARC of THE CROWN’S SILENCE—“a must-read.”
Out in three weeks!! 😅👇 www.harpercollins.com/products/the...
05.01.2026 12:30 — 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Historian, writer, dad studying the cultural history of beer. Footnotes and pizza both Chicago style. He/him
Professor @ USC. I write about African American life in early national and antebellum Boston.
My posts are my own opinions and do not reflect those of my employer.
Historian at the University of Notre Dame, author of Red Meat Republic, a book about 🍖. Almost done with another book, still not sure what it's about.
PhD Candidate @UCL | History of ideas, print culture, & the American Revolution | Seminar convenor at the IHR
Historian of early America. Author of Rum Maniacs: Alcoholic Insanity in the Early American Republic, and Night Hawk: A Nineteenth-Century Superhero and the Dawn of American Mass Culture https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/N/bo271055968.html
Material Culture | Women’s History | Trade, Production & Consumption of Fashion 1500-1800 | Recreation & Making |📚 Shaping Femininity & Women who Clothed the Stuart Queens (Bloomsbury) |✍️ Embodied Experiences of Making (AUP) | sarahabendall.com
Historian at CCCU: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8378-4968
Recovering Course Director (22-25). RHS council; SHS; EHS.
Currently: "Dying Homeless, 1600-2013",
Soon: 'The Ends of Poverty in the British Atlantic'. He/him.
Historian of modern Japan, part time shepherd, clueless beekeeper, forensic cricket scorer.
Historian of #earlymodern mobility, cultural encounter, and global travel at Helsinki (although I live in Sussex, UK). Convener: IHR Society, Culture, & Belief, 1500-1800-seminar. She/her. https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/eva-johanna-holmberg
Senior Lecturer in Shakespeare and Early Modern Literature at Brunel University of London
🗃️ Early Modern History, Director @CREMS-York.bsky.social
✊🏼 Secretary for Advocacy & Public Engagement @royalhistsoc.org
🎶 Music & post-Reformation Catholicism
📚 Multilingualism & exiled English convents
👂 Listening to EM Travel Writing (CUP, Forthcoming)
Assistant Editorial Director at Cornell University Press acquiring in classics, ancient history, military history, European history, and medieval studies. Has a biology PhD. Likes books, Criterion, rye, history, science, everything in between, and donuts.
PhD. Fellow. Centre for Empire Studies. Universitat Munster. Germany.
He/Him
Political and legal cultures. Frontiers. Globality, locality, and their tensions. Early Modern Iberian Worlds.
Husband to @andrewgrana.bsky.social
Academy Research Fellow, University of Turku, Finland; Historian specializing in U.S. and Canadian history & Indigenous policy, settler colonialism, activism, solidarity, cultural appropriation; she/her.
Historian of health and disability c1600-1850 at Cardiff University. Dysgwr Cymraeg. Also keen on our garden, cat, and chickens.
https://profiles.cardiff.ac.uk/staff/cocke
Historian of science, environment, sound, and silence. Raising small kids through covid. Pie hobbyist. The Johnny Appleseed of googly-eyes.
Writing about land & memory. PhD in post-colonial stuff. Queer/bi/autistic. Shortlisted for the Nan Shepherd Prize 2023. Glasgow. Free 🇵🇸
On insta: @meg.berteraberwick
Newsletter: https://podbypod.substack.com/
Represented by @portyliterary.bsky.social
History & Digital Humanities @univie.ac.at | History of trade, labour, and migration in the Atlantic World
Cultural and environmental historian/geographer. Mountain and polar regions. Cryohistories. Indigenous knowledge. Island Studies.
PL AHRC 'Other Everests' network.
uclan.academia.edu/JonathanWestaway
