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melanie newport @melanienewport.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

apropos of recent events, there is a VAST scholarship on the death penalty and this list can get you started www.oah.org/process/capi...

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Timothy J Lombardo @timothyjlombardo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"The United States has been a rootless, restless country, lunging between 'Make everything squares' and 'Screw squares, we’re doing circles.' Such crudely geometric thinking prevailed because the unfamiliar land seemed unmarked by history. " www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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Why America Looks the Way It Does

From vast grids to winding suburbs, Americans have spent two centuries remaking the landscape around property.

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Dan Berger @dnbrgr.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I am humbled and ecstatic to share an early blurb for PRISON: Incarceration and the Making of America, coming from @basicbooksgroup.bsky.social in March 2027 and available for preorder now: 1/ www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/dan-b...

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Prison

A sweeping history of American prisons, showing how they have shaped the US from the founding to the present.The land of the free is the home of the pr...

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Ansley Erickson @ansleyerickson.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

We’ve been here before: US highway construction destroyed livability & value for hundreds of thousands of (urban, many Black) Americans who lived not IN, but NEAR, the path of the road. Largely uncompensated. And, of course, highways > cars > pollution > climate crisis.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

If you haven't already, share this with every Philadelphian you know. I want to raise enough hell that Drexel will have no choice but to continue supporting the museum.

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𝔾𝕆ℝ𝔸ℕ @gorangligovic.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

A rare occurence whereby literally no one cool is inconvenienced at all

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Timothy J Lombardo @timothyjlombardo.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

My department is hiring! Come work with me or help spread the word to those who might be interested in doing so networks.h-net.org/jobs/70266/u...

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University of South Alabama - Assistant Professor in Early U.S./Public History | H-Net

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melanie newport @melanienewport.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

the story about faculty speech isn’t at private SLACs in Maine. it’s at publics in states like Alabama dissolving all of their faculty senates to follow new state laws

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Philadelphia is America's Greatest City

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The Onion lighting up the Phillies' team bus.

Phillis' Chris Sanchez holding up Onion post on his phone that says "No One Translated to Foreign Players Why They Currently in Cornfield"

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Timothy J Lombardo @timothyjlombardo.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

"Against the forces of anti-intellectual fascists and AI tech lords, self-flagellating academics and immediacy fetishists alike, we need to champion the difficulties and pleasures of humanities scholarship with our whole chests." defector.com/humanists-ha...

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Humanists Have Done Nothing Wrong | Defector

For many years, I’ve held a pet theory that cultural consumers can be grouped into two broad categories: Primary Source People and Secondary Source People. The former are the book lovers, cinephiles, ...

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Timothy J Lombardo @timothyjlombardo.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I'm on the verge of writing two versions of the same syllabus, one with a ban and the other without, and mulling it over until classes begin on....Tuesday? Wait, that can't be right.

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Timothy J Lombardo @timothyjlombardo.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Help me out, academic Bluesky: lap top and tech bans in the classroom, yea or nay? Why? What's worked for you? What hasn't? I've long resisted any kind of outright ban, but I'm seriously considering it this semester and could use some feedback.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

"History involves sorting and organizing hundreds of thousands of facts" I remain astounded by how loud and wrong people are about what history actually is.

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I did an OCR conversion of all my PDFs to make text files, built a semantic search index, and can just let my agents roam free to answer questions, fact-check, dig up interesting stories, quotes, etc. It takes a lot of the hard work out, as well as a lot of the human error. 2/2

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Derek Hill!!!!!

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Timothy J Lombardo @timothyjlombardo.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Course prep/syllabus writing for my American Urban History course is getting exciting!

Prepping for an American urban history course. Background: laptop with syllabus draft. Foreground: a few assigned books: Carp’s Rebels Rising; Guariglia’s Police & the Empire City; Amezcua’s Making Mexican Chicago; Ansfield’s Born in Flames; and Horowitz’s Katrina

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

"Why should I major in History?"

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Timothy J Lombardo @timothyjlombardo.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Yes, but also, when I was 17 I spent the summer in a hospital bed after a bad accident (long story). To pass the pre-internet time I quizzed myself on Trivial Pursuit cards. It was time well spent, but no one would play the game with me after I had "studied" the questions. I guess they had a point

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Kate Jewell @katejewell.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

It was a student journalist in college radio at Sacramento State that broke the story that Reagan had paid no income taxes...

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Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I’ve been rereading coverage of Peter Brimelow from 1995 and it is shockingly racist (and he was pulling from the same camp of the saints playbook)—and he too frequently got a pass, which tells us something about the invisibility of antiblackness to largely white institutions

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Timothy J Lombardo @timothyjlombardo.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I think a lot about how almost everything nativists say about Muslims and Latinos today, nativists said about Catholics and Italians a century ago. Every time I hear paranoia about "Sharia Law" coming to the US I think of these KKK cartoons from the 1920s

1920s cartoon of Klansman beating back the hand of "Rome" reaching for the USA with a club reading "The Ballot."

1920s KKK cartoon of a Klansmen chopping down the tree of Rome. Caption: "This Tree Must Come Down"

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Paul Renfro @renfro.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

While many US historians and ordinary folks have been fixated on the semiquincentennial this year, the upcoming twenty-fifth anniversary of 9/11 may very well be the more significant milestone—at least when it comes to understanding our present national crises. The past quarter-century has been 🗃️ 1/

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Timothy J Lombardo @timothyjlombardo.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I'm a humanities scholar and I do think the public hates me, but that has less to do with my work as a historian or professor and more to do with my general vibe

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

If you have taught online courses at all in the last couple years this is the least surprising chart you will ever see

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David M. P. Freund @mpeterf.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

This is good!

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Jeff Cowie goes big in calling for structural changes to build democracy. In the process, he reminds us of some painful history, including how tantalizingly close we came to getting rid of the Electoral College in 1969, when the House voted 338-70 to do so. democracyjournal.org/magazine/81/...

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What Real Democracy Might Look Like

Any post-MAGA renewal of democracy starts with a federal right to vote. But it hardly ends there.

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Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

To counter the feeling that entering the US as a refugee casts you as downtrodden, please accept this gift bag that affirms that your whiteness assures you higher status

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Paul Renfro @renfro.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

An interesting and encouraging piece. But it’s astonishing that professional political commentators still present Clinton’s “Sister Souljah” moment as an example of “tacking” to the “center,” rather than an appeal to the politics of white grievance. 🗃️ www.nytimes.com/2026/06/23/o...

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Eric Rauchway @rauchway.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

As a historian, I approve this message

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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

“How well the Cry for Liberty, and the reverse Disposition for the exercise of oppressive Power over others agree, I humbly think it does not require the Penetration of a Philosopher to determine,” Phillis Wheatley wrote archly, a few months after being emancipated from slavery.

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The Spirit of ’76

What is living and what is dead in our memory of the American Revolution.

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Mauricio Castro @castrohistorian.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

So, the Penn 40% off sale is extended through Monday! A lot of great books on there, including the ones in the thread I'm quoting.

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Timothy J Lombardo @timothyjlombardo.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

If you want even more analysis like this and a deeper examination of this history, boy have I got a book recommendation for you!

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Paul Renfro @renfro.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

If you truly wanted to understand the pressures facing humanities scholars in the US academy, you'd speak to folks working and teaching at public comprehensive regional universities—not three individuals from NYU and one well-known asshole from Princeton. 🗃️ www.chronicle.com/article/insi...

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Is a New Report About the Humanities ‘Diabolically Evil’? We Questioned Its Authors.

K. Anthony Appiah, Paul Boghossian, Katherine Fleming, and Sean Wilentz on what’s gone wrong in the humanities.

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