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Between the 12th and 15th centuries, crusading armies unleashed a relentless holy war against the last pagan societies in northern Europe. Aleksander Pluskowski, author of The Black Cross: A History of the Baltic Crusades, shares some photographs from the region.
yalebooks.co.uk/the-baltic-c...
PSA for #skystorians: If you write for blogs/popular pubs that use Wordpress as a CMS, be advised that all of your posts (unless the publisher has created author accounts) are being published under an editor's name. If you rely on citation managers (i.e., @zotero.org) it could be a problem. 🗃️
Reminder: this afternoon at 4pm on Zoom and in-person at GROW in Columbia. Program will allow for Q&A at the end #HistoryMatters
“The Unwillingness to Call This Illegal Is a Terrible Mistake”
Five Questions to Oona A. Hathaway
Read it in English here:
verfassungsblog.de/the-unwillin...
And in German here:
verfassungsblog.de/die-weigerun...
I was procastinating a while back and listed all archives I've worked in person.
I think my favorite archives are the Archives nationales de France, the British National Archives, and the Torre do Tombo (but I still need to visit a few more).
What are yours, #skystorians?
Professional jealousy in overdrive today, congrats to all my friends absolutely killing it lately.
Not only will they steal my work, but they’ll steal my skills as well?
Registration for #SHAFR2026 is open on the website.
www.shafr.org/shafr2026
Genuinely incredible that the U.S. will celebrate the 250th without an Archivist of the United States.
I spoke with the European Center for Populism Studies about this moment of extreme peril for the international legal order--and the opportunity to reimagine what is possible.
www.populismstudies.org/prof-hathawa...
Today’s Women’s History Month interview: Anya Jabour on Progressive Era reformers, “researching around” your subject, and why librarians deserve capes.
Also: a question for me about my chaotic TBR habits.
Read here: https://tinyurl.com/3wrf4jvt
More tomorrow. 🗃️
Proud to announce the opening of the Emmet Bondurant Center for Constitutional Law, Practice & Democracy. With @anthonymkreis.bsky.social, @andrewwillinger.bsky.social, and Neil Kinkopf, we’ll fight for the rule of law and democracy as Emmet has done for over 60 years.
news.gsu.edu/2026/02/26/n...
Graphic reading New Books out this month with covers of Protein, unrest in the nebulae, Breaking the World, The Climate Trial, Abolition Archives, Feminist Futures, Tension, and Matterphorics arranged in a 3x4 grid.
Grab some Spring Break reading from our March new releases! We've got some really great new books this month.
buff.ly/vFg3kgR
I think it's probably time to announce that me and @colinhoag.bsky.social are the incoming Editors of Environmental Humanities journal, published by @dukepress.bsky.social . Huge thanks to Franklin Ginn & @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social for all their work as Eds, & for patiently showing us the ropes!
#earlymodern historians of #trade & #merchants ! I am trying to take stock of the historiography on long-distance merchant guilds/nations/consulates of the past 10-20 years. 1/*
Our friends at the Columbia History Lab are looking to recruit SHAFR members to participate in an IARPA-funded research project: Can AI Reveal National Security Secrets?
Review of applicants begins March 1.
Click here for more info: tinyurl.com/mrszdd9a
“Maybe the leaders of our nation’s wealthiest universities can’t think a generation ahead anymore, beholden as they are to board members who think in terms of the next quarter….” - François Furstenberg @publicbooks.bsky.social
www.publicbooks.org/the-misuses-...
ATTN: advanced grad students, early career, and intl scholars
Library Catalogues and / as Research Data: the hidden voices of early printed books in the John Rylands
Free and online via Teams. Booking essential via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/john-rylands-research-institute-and-library-17289731815
I have been waiting to post about this new essay until the symposium on my book of which it is a part is published (should be very soon!), but until then, you can check out what I have to say in response to some thoughtful esays.
Deep thanks to @evanbernick.bsky.social for this generous promotion.
Over three years, we recorded interviews with more than 450 officials, organizers, activists, and extraordinary people from all walks of life to put together the most expansive presidential oral history in existence.
The Obama Presidency Oral History is now live!! obamaoralhistory.columbia.edu
Zotero screenshot
I would very much like to print out the attachments from a Zotero collection... does anyone know if there is a way to do this efficiently?
The increasingly nonsensical invocation of decolonization (when often people just mean democratization) in western academia piqued me so much I designed and have taught an entire class because of it for years lol.
Two weeks left! The deadline for ACH 2026 proposals is February 23, 2025.
We welcome submissions on all topics related to digital humanities, computing, and the humanities. Short papers, long papers, posters, panels, and workshops all encouraged!
Submit here:
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#SHAFR2028
cc: @dariofazzi.bsky.social
THINGS YOU CAN DO WITH A HISTORY MAJOR
That was art.