Honestly I need historians to be the plaintiffs in every case I cover because if they make it to discovery you just KNOW those primary sources are going public.
Exhibit A: The American Historical Association uploading video depos of the DOGE bros to YouTube.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkCz...
Perceptive summary and appreciation of my book at the blog surmisesandsuspicions.wordpress.com. Thanks to the blogger, lfc2014!
A chart showing how the relative sizes of federal grant funding in the US, with arts and humanities getting an infinitesimal portion.
To offer some context, here's a graphic our fabulous intern Aidan Nuttall put together in 2023.
When we compared our per capita humanities research funding against 42 other countries, there was only a single country that spent less (South Africa), and most countries spent 10x-250x more.
NEH's budget is tiny—not just compared to NSF/NIH, but compared to humanities funding in every other wealthy nation. What little was there was largely rescinded and several programs were cut in full last year. It decimated not merely individual projects but whole corners of the humanities in the US.
Please let me know if there’s anything I can do
Keanu, I'm so sorry to hear this. I'm hoping you're able to communicate soon, and that they stay safe
I don’t know À la Marge! Thank you! Bummer about le pont du jour- I didn’t know it closed. I loved that one
Awesome! I know her work, but I don’t think we’ve ever met. Do you happen to have her contact info?
Picture of DOGE guy Nate Cavanaugh
Screenshot of my DOGE letter “Dr. Joseph Rezek Dear NEH Grantee, This letter provides notice that the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is terminating your federal grant (Grant Application No. FEL29509824) effective April 3, 2025, in accordance with the termination clause in your Grant Agreement. Your grant no longer effectuates the agency's needs and priorities and conditions of the Grant Agreement and is subject to termination due to several reasonable causes, as outlined in 2CFR§200.340. For instance, NEH has reasonable cause to terminate your grant in light of the fact that the NEH is repurposing its funding allocations in a new direction in furtherance of the President's agenda. The President's February 19, 2025 executive order mandates that the NEH eliminate all non-statutorily required activities and functions. See Commencing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy, E.O. 14217 (Feb. 19, 2025). Your grant's immediate termination is necessary to safeguard the interests of the federal government, including its fiscal priorities. Any objections or appeals to this termination will be managed in strict accordance with the President's Executive Orders,
Last year, this guy (left) from DOGE used ChatGPT to find NEH grants that were too “DEI” for Trump, and canceled them, including mine, as shown by the letter I received last April (right). Huge new NYT article on the back story link below
Yes! Thank you!
I’m also looking for playground recs for my 7year old (or potential playmates!)
And let me know if anyone will be in town March 20- April 15. I’ll mostly be at the AIU archives and La Courneuve
Heading to Paris after too many years away and need to refresh my recs- best bookstores?
Seems about as effective as injecting bleach
I'm so sorry to hear this, Tiffany. FWIW, my students are reading your "Distant Ties"chapter on May Ayim, and it's consistently one of their favorite readings of the term. You've done such an important service to us all in your work, and I want to thank you. Please take care of yourself
Link to print version here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Congratulations!
It’s officially pub day for this incredible work! Thank you to Oscar de la Torre for making this possible!!
And thank you to CUNY DSI for research consults and permission to use your images in my work!!
www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978088...
If I could change one piece of the discourse-that-drives-policy it’d be to underscore that higher education is not only a benefit to the individual but to all of us. It’s a collective good.
Thank you!
The cover of the forthcoming book Colonial Negatives: Picturing History and Identity in Morocco by Patricia Goldsworthy. Bottom half of the image has an image of an oil seller in Fez surrounded by Muslim and Jewish Moroccans. The image highlights the religious diversity of the crowd, and demonstrates the dynamic nature of the Jewish district
I just got a copy of my cover for my forthcoming book! It features a postcard from Fez by the Moroccan Jewish photographer Joseph Bouhsira. Bouhsira was the first Moroccan to establish his own commercial photography studio, and many of his images featured the Jewish community in Fez.
Congratulations! It looks great!
Hardback copy of the book 'Make Cheese Not War'
My new book arrived in the post from @manchesterup.bsky.social! Pleased to see it for real!
Make cheese not war: Transnational resistance and the Larzac in Modern France
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526175878/
🗃 #skystorians
I feel like Bob Blackman would be a great person to ask this (I know he was on twitter, but I can't seem to figure out if he's on bluesky)
Asking on behalf of a student: what is the best/any scholarship to read *in English* on the constitutional debates, and generally the legislative work of the Convention, in France in 1792? 🗃️
This is an incredible work of trans-imperial history, which puts ideas of honour and revenge at the centre of a highly original analysis of colonial violence. I can't recommend @mark-condos.bsky.social' work too highly...
👇🏻🔥👇🏻🔥👇🏻
Congratulations!
picture of People without History Are Dust with the JBC logo
I am thrilled to have received the @jewishbookcouncil.bsky.social in category "Holocaust" for People without History Are Dust. My book was shortlisted alongside books by colleagues whom I respect and whom I have been reading since I was a young student.
Congratulations!
It's Publication Day! It was such a genuine pleasure to work on this important & timely volume w/ Bryan Banks & every one of our contributing authors. Amazing group of people, & I am just so pleased.
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