Good morning from Buffalo!

If you've done in-person research at any of the following presidential libraries in the last 8 months, can you please follow me/contact me—soon—for a story I'm working on (can be off the record)?

Hoover
FDR
Truman
Eisenhower
JFK
LBJ
Ford
Carter

And either way, can you please share this request? 🙏

🧵 I am proud to announce our Erie County Dept of Health will be offering 3 COVID-19 vaccine clinics in October, available for any resident age 6 months and older.

Erie County is following the COVID-19 vaccine recommendations put forth in September 2025 by the NE Public Health Collaborative... 1/4

Are we calling this the third red scare, with all the caveats of how it differs from the first two?

In celebration of radical, intersectional histories of struggles for Latinx Liberation, we're offering 40% off all the books on our Latinx Liberation Reading List.

Looking forward to digging into this new book! If Korea is the forgotten war, then the protests against it are even more forgotten.

All of the lessons that The Biggest Loser taught—from disordered eating to ruthless self talk—all of that came because we culturally thought it was beneficial & entertaining to abuse fat people. Anti-fat bigotry was the spoonful of sugar that helped the medicine go down. It was a feature, not a bug.

this is the entire trajectory, as the history of ed-tech partnerships reveals.

grifter-welfare at mostly public expense is why faculty, staff, and students need to fight tooth and nail, through collective bargaining language and more, to make such deals subject to the community they must serve

Working on a short piece about civil defense protests in the 1950s. This Catholic Worker flyer (1955) spoke to me.

Every cut that the government makes to social services is effectively a tax on women. Because they're the ones who will be expected to fill in the gaps.

"The President’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 Budget proposes to terminate the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and provides $38 million to conduct an orderly shutdown of the Agency." bit.ly/4kEnEPo

Love and honor to Miss Geraldine.

“What happened to Geraldine Pointer and Martin Sostre reminds us never to underestimate the lengths to which the state will go to violently attack dreams of Black liberation and the power of everyday people.” hammerandhope.org/article/gera...

The AHA seeks to collect information about the working conditions of historians employed as contingent faculty. We hope the survey results will empower faculty to engage in evidence-based negotiations about their working conditions. 🗃️

Sometimes, a single moment captures everything we stand for. Tonight, at Niagara Falls, we are shouting with lights: DON’T TRUMP CANADA!

Join the movement >> act.gp/42pGl3b

The History Books Purged From the Naval Academy's Library 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

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I enjoyed posing as an intellectual historian to contribute to Michael Kramer's new project thecarryall.org/the-communal...

Devastating.

Teaching Mario Savio and the free speech movement in my Post-45 class today. Sadly relevant.

SO MANY STAND UP FOR SCIENCE EVENTS TO CHOOSE FROM—153 and COUNTING!

To get more information on our local events and to register your own, head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ ☀️⬇️🌎

Changes Our University Is Making to Pre-Comply with Possible Future Regulations www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/cha...

Its #AMA time for #Skystorians! We have the brilliant Dr. Jake Newsome on AskHistorians to discuss the Nazi Persecution of LGBTQ+ People, and answer all your questions on this important topic. Don’t miss out, come join in!

My book “Spiritual Criminals is the lead story in the National Catholic Reporter.” This is a fantastic review by religious journalist Renee Roden www.ncronline.org

Historians have the right to expect that discussion of their work be conducted in a civil manner—but that right can be violated by hate speech and online threats. The AHA has developed a guide for historians encountering harassment on social media. 🗃️