Bobby Lee

A green and gold book cover with the title Beer Ghosts: In Search of Lost Hops and the Women Who Grew Them, with a ghostly photo of hop pickers in the background.

Beer Ghosts has a cover! Pageproofs and index almost done, coming your way in October. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Grammarly Is Facing a Class Action Lawsuit Over Its AI ‘Expert Review’ Feature The feature, which Grammarly shut down Wednesday, presented editing suggestions as if they came from established authors and academics—without their consent.

I have some good news:

Mortgage rates rise and deals pulled over Iran war turmoil Average mortgage rates hit highest since last August in the biggest upheaval since the mini-Budget.

Trump’s war in Iran is raising mortgage rates in the UK
www.bbc.com/news/article...

I definitely did something right this week because I’m getting a bunch of whale videos in my feed

The Drop in International Students Last Year Was Worse Than We Thought Visa issuances nosedived 36 percent, possibly reflecting weakening global interest in studying in the United States.

Well this is not surprising
www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

Call for Applications for the SHEAR DEI Fellowships! SHEAR will offer at least 2 research fellowships to scholars examining African diasporic, Latinx, Indigenous, Asian American, and/or Pacific Island history from 1776 to 1861. Application deadline is May 1. Details here: shear.org/about-us/she....

Oil surges to its highest price since 2023, and stocks drop after U.S. jobs report Stocks fell Friday on worries that the economy could become stuck in a worst-case scenario of stagnating growth and high inflation. Oil prices touched their highest levels since 2023 after surging aga...

Reporters dusting off the definition of stagflation for readers
www.npr.org/2026/03/06/g...

All eyes on the Kennedy School

British American Nineteenth American Historians (BrANCH) BrANCH, the association of British American Nineteen Century Historians, is a UK-based group of historians interested in US history across the long nineteenth-century.

Thrilled/nervous to be taking over as Chair of BrANCH (@branchuk.bsky.social) from October. Emily has left some enormous shoes to fill (figuratively...), but this is the first organization I joined back in the mists of PhD time, and it's an enormous honor to step up here. www.branch.org.uk

What You Need to Read, March 2026 Alves, Alexandre Guilherme da Cruz, “The Alcatraz Occupation and the American Indian Movement, 1969-1971,” Journal of American History, 111 (March 2025), 735-749. Beyreis, David. “`The Lawless Whit…

Your quarterly bibliography of new and interesting scholarship in Native American History and Indigenous studies.

michaelleroyoberg.com/new-publicat...

This is so foul

Leaked Interior Department database reveals US plans to revise historical information The U.S. Interior Department said a database revealing how President Donald Trump's administration planned to revise information on key phases of ​American history at national park sites was deliberat...

More of this nonsense
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Image of a book jacket for Beyond the Ocean: France and the Atlantic World from the Crusades to the Age of Revolutions by Christopher Hodson and Brett Rushforth.

Full book jacket just dropped, and we're pretty happy with it. Huge thanks to @cecilefromont.bsky.social, @soccerpolitics.bsky.social, Alice, and Andrés for your generous words! #earlymodern #BeyondTheOcean global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Curator or Associate Curator of Maps & Geography - Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library

This is a really special map curator JOB working w/@en-dash.bsky.social at @bplmaps.bsky.social. Apply by March 30th. #glam #maps 🗃️

www.leventhalmap.org/about/jobs/c...

Re-reading Custer Died for Your Sins this weekend. Easy to forget about all the jokes and zingers in here

From abolitionists to fundamentalists: the transformation of the Wesleyan Methodists in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries This article analyzes the cultural trajectory of a small, but influential denomination that formed in 1843. Wesleyan Methodism first emerged as an abolitionist protest against the Methodist comprom...

On this day in US history (1784), John Wesley chartered the first Methodist church in the United States. For more on how Wesleyan Methodism developed in the long nineteenth century, why not check out this OPEN ACCESS article by @randalljstephens.bsky.social: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Discussed in this excellent book

"Custer" US TV series (1967) intro / lead-in YouTube video by Rick Davi

ABC’s Custer series from 1967, which the Tribal Indians Land Rights Association and NCAI protested for promoting stereotypes, is on YouTube. Gives a pretty clear picture of what organizers were dealing with back then. Went on for 17 episodes before getting cancelled
m.youtube.com/watch?v=AmnA...

This has been the longest year. This app used to be a bunch of nice little waterfall pics

Congrats!!!

More than 900 companies sue US over Donald Trump’s tariff regime Also in today’s newsletter, the US president offers first glimpses of how Washington would justify an attack on Iran

Are class actions on behalf of corporations a thing? If not, they might be soon
www.ft.com/content/15a4...

Well worth a read. It seems there are a few database projects trying to document Indigenous slavery - saw this one about a project at Brown last year
www.wbur.org/news/2025/05...

Is there a more disappointing historical site than Plymouth Rock?

Never heard of em

Is the plural of hydrox hydrox or hydroxes?

🎧🎤 The season finale of Western Edition Season 5 is live!

Our last episode considers the future of the Colorado River and how our predictions and priorities for water management, specifically in Southern California, must shift in an era of climate change.

www.buzzsprout.com/1837352/epis...

Less than a week left to apply for this 🗃️

Didn’t know this database existed

Interesting story lurking here

Last slave ship to arrive in the US, deliberately sunk, has been rebuilt The last slave ship, Clotilda, resurfaces in 3D in New York after more than a century sunk and hidden underwater.

The Clotilda deserves a Vasa-style museum
www.earth.com/news/clotild...