Amy Froide

NEW EPISODE - The #Moscow Playbook: How #Sovietunion & #Russia Used, #Abused, and Transformed #Sports in the Hunt for #Power

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#olympics #doping #sportsscience #Coldwar

What can you do with a history degree?

Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.

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I call this ‘weird trick’ intentional patriarchy.

I call this ‘weird trick’ intentional patriarchy.

We cannot escape the fact that George Washington enslaved people, and he knew he could not escape that fact either. Signs may come down (for now), but good history is out there, starting with: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

Yes we’ve been studying for 2 decades

Friends, I hope you’ll share this widely. The @jcblibrary.bsky.social is hiring 2 3-yr research associates for collaborative work on religions and freedoms in the early Americas. Info is here and I’m happy to take questions offline: brown.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/staff-...

I'd love to talk to you about these. I am a historian of never-married women. Are you studying the crowns?

Here's the moment slowed down.

Watch the men in front of the car.

January 5, 2026 (Monday) Five years ago, on January 6, 2021, more than 2,000 rioters stormed the U.S.

A big reason we can’t just let the events and insurrection of January 6, 2021 go? Because it wasn’t an isolated event; it was part of an anti-democracy onslaught that is still happening. Please read this excellent contextualization from @hcrichardson.bsky.social.

open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

it is fairly amazing how clear it was, at the time, what was happening. so much chaff has been thrown into the air since then, of course, that most coverage takes a "whomst amongst us can say what happened that day?" approach

(stole this image from @joshsternberg.com's post)

CARTOON OF THE DAY 🇺🇸

"Like Amazon Prime, but with human beings."

When I'm feeling particularly hopeless about the future of professoring as a profession, I try to remind myself: That's what they want. They want us to not want to be professors anymore.

The anti-Semitic mass shooting in Australia will cause a national conversation and policy change. We know this because the 1996 Port Arthur massacre led to significant restrictions on guns.
The shooting at Brown will do nothing. We know this because it occurred on the anniversary of Sandy Hook.

15 Historians File Amicus Brief in Trump v. US Debunking Immunity Claim Historians show that history doesn’t support presidential immunity from criminal prosecution.

Having read through those ratification debates when preparing our amicus brief in the immunity case, the unanimity over the question of presidential accountability was striking.
No one. Not one. Not in newspapers or manuscript discussions, argued for immunity.

www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...

Give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day.

Teach a man to fish, he'll eat for a lifetime.

Teach a man the best AI prompts to get a fish, and he'll always depend on an algorithm someone else has written to decide whether the statistically most probable response is to give him a fish.

As a historian of the 18th c and an American, I've always known 2026 would be a critical moment. This doc is worth watching, and thinking through. Begins and ends w Indigenous contexts, conveys the horrors of a civil war wrought w racism + the ideals of liberty and equality we keep reaching for. 1/

Thanks for this context!

Looking forward to our panel!

The #1 lesson from yesterday’s blowout:
Humanities majors killed on the job market
1) Mamdani- Africana Studies
2) Spanberger -French
3) Sherill - Global History

IHR London Summer School 2026: Sickness and Health From the Black Death to the Covid-19 pandemic, from medieval medicine to public health across the centuries, from hospitals to archives & collections. Join us to discover Londo...

The Institute of Historical Research's 2026 June summer school in Bloomsbury is on Sickness and Health, from London's medieval history to the present. Suitable for the History-curious over the age of 16.

But where says some is the King of America? I'll tell you Friend, he reigns above, and doth not make havoc of mankind like the Royal Brute of Britain. Yet that we may not appear to be defective even in earthly honors, let a day be solemnly set apart for proclaiming the charter; let it be brought forth placed on the divine law, the word of God; let a crown be placed thereon, by which the world may know, that so far as we approve of monarchy, that in America the law is king. For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ought to be King; and there ought to be no other.

Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776).
In America, the law is king.

Latinx Shakespeares of the 20th century | Folger Shakespeare Library Folger Shakespeare Library is the world's largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world. Shakespeare belongs to you. His world is vast. Come explore. Jo...

For the final days of Hispanic/Latinx Heritage Month, scholar Carla Della Gatta looks at the growth of Latinx-inspired Shakespeare productions in the US beginning with "West Side Story" on Broadway in 1957.

www.folger.edu/blogs/shakes...

***UCLA Mapping Deportations Project***

Mapping Deportations, an educational resource uses maps, data, and a timeline to unmask the relationship between race and immigration enforcement throughout U.S. history.

mappingdeportations.com