If you've ever wanted to get into treasure hunting at estate sales but felt intimidated by the unwritten rules and codes or wondered how people find such gems, Bring Cash is for you!
Cover design by @downpourdw.bsky.social
Releasing March 31st! Preorder here: beltpublishing.com/products/bri...
A tip for my fellow men: you can say “I’m not the best fit for this, have you considered my colleague?”
And a tip for museums/reporters/etc. looking for speakers and commenters: don’t know whom to ask? Try Women Also Know History, a great database of historical experts. womenalsoknowhistory.com
AND s2 of Man on the Inside.
instead of overruling civil rights cases what if we overruled The Civil Rights Cases
(this is a deep cut. for the real Reconstruction-heads, and potentially 1Ls taking con law)
ADAM
We're hiring a VAP in US Legal History. Please share widely: networks.h-net.org/jobs/69845/u...
I wrote about the Epstein files and what they tell us about men in academia.
In a field where climbing the career ladder is only possible through a combination of luck, mentorship and networking — the files show the ways sexism and misogyny still hold women back.
19thnews.org/2026/02/epst...
theonion.com/this-war-wil...
Job opening for a 2-year Postdoc in #OralHistory and Social Justice at Duke University: networks.h-net.org/jobs/69830/d...
I think of this as law professor brain.
« The historians’ brief — authored by Professor Martha S. Jones and Professor Kate Masur — centers on the pre–Civil War advocacy of free Black Americans for a broad and inclusive principle of birthright citizenship. » www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
Submit for all the dissertation and book and article prizes you might be eligible for. Even if you don’t win, you’re getting your work in front of people who should know about it.
good morning new followers here are some resources for humanities classrooms
against-a-i.com
Friends, I am hiring two scholar-advisors this year! Come join the best advising team in the country (for real). Please help me spread the news about this great opportunity! This is a permanent, non-time limited instructional staff position, and I will be happy to answer questions!
If you're interested in developing a pre-conference symposium during the American Society for Legal History conference in Banff in November, please send your proposal to the Program Committee co-chairs by this Friday, 2/27! (Other proposals are due 3/24) #legalhistory #ASLH
aslh.net/2026-annual-...
I’m gonna salute every snowplow that passes me.
So there's a black girl scout troop trying to raise money to to to Europe but they aren't close to their goal as of yet. Please share this and buy some cookies if you can
digitalcookie.girlscouts.org/scout/reagan...
Job posting for a lecturer position at Harvard Hist & Lit--please share! histlit.fas.harvard.edu/lecturer-pos...
harpers.org/archive/2017...
My experience is - I see the title in the library catalog, grab the book, realize "oh, it's one of these," flip through to see if there's anything interesting I could pursue further, and then move on.
Community meme: I CAN EXCUSE FASCISM. BUTI DRAW THE LINE AT MERCANTILISM.
The Supreme Court:
This is François Furstenberg's laughing/crying essay on the absurdities of the present-day research university-- from atriums to AI... and sometimes AI with atriums.
Scroll to the bottom for discussion of AI fostering administrators' fantasies while obliterating the core purposes of higher ed.
Cast Away. Still mad Helen Hunt’s character never turned in her dissertation.
Know a promising undergrad who wants more time before applying to grad school? Pitt has a funded postbac program for students from underrepresented groups.
This year, my lab will consider applications for solo supervision or to be co-supervised by @mehrgol.bsky.social!
App deadline is March 15!
A red flower and a blue flower, in the middle a cover of the Church Committee Report. Caption is: roses are red, violets are blue, j. edgar hoover will spy on you.
Today is false spring in Chicago, folks were out in t shirts.
An assortment of city names and dates written in cursive. If you can read this and can visit New Haven, CT on my behalf, please reach out!
Can someone recommend an independent researcher that can visit an archive in New Haven, CT? I really need someone ASAP. I would prefer someone experienced, but in theory anyone that can read these city names and dates in cursive could be fine. It should take 4-6 hours. 🗃️
“If these fuckers think” has set a new bar for how politicians should begin their statements about these fuckers.
Meet it or get left behind.
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