Ben Wright
@ben-wright.bsky.social
Historian. Teacher. Author. Cheesehead. Springnut.
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I'll be joining Refusing to Forget for this important and timely panel on the ongoing battle for historical truth in Texas
Our virtual event is just one week away! Join us as we bring together these powerful voices to reflect on this urgent moment & the ongoing struggle to protect truthful history.
@stevanzetti.bsky.social @drmphillipsut.bsky.social
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Access this event on our Patreon:
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November 12, 2025 at 6:59 PM
I'll be joining Refusing to Forget for this important and timely panel on the ongoing battle for historical truth in Texas
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Whatever strategy you’re about to suggest, we’ve thought about it. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
ChatGPT Harm Reduction for Writing Assignments
ChatGPT Harm Reduction for Writing Assignments Because this document has escaped containment, a couple points of explanation. I wrote this for myself and a few colleagues as we work out how to handle...
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October 28, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Whatever strategy you’re about to suggest, we’ve thought about it. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Due to the government shutdown, this briefing on Wednesday is moving online. But silver lining—that means you folks can attend! 🗃️
On October 29, the AHA will host a Congressional Briefing offering historical perspectives on artificial intelligence. With moderator Kathryn Cramer Brownell and panelists Sarah Igo (Vanderbilt Univ.), Aaron Mendon-Plasek (Purdue Univ.), and Rebecca Slayton (Cornell Univ.). 🗃️
History of Artificial Intelligence, Privacy, & Security – AHA
The American Historical Association (AHA) will host a Congressional Briefing offering historical perspectives on artificial intelligence. The briefing will take place on Wednesday, October 29, at 9:00...
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October 27, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Due to the government shutdown, this briefing on Wednesday is moving online. But silver lining—that means you folks can attend! 🗃️
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Undergraduates: submit to #AHA26's Undergraduate Poster Session by October 22. The Poster Session is an opportunity for undergraduates to share their research with peers and established scholars in a visual format. 🗃️
Presenting Undergraduate Research at the Annual Meeting - AHA
Learn how to submit a proposal to present your undergraduate thesis or research at the AHA annual meeting.
www.historians.org
October 16, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Undergraduates: submit to #AHA26's Undergraduate Poster Session by October 22. The Poster Session is an opportunity for undergraduates to share their research with peers and established scholars in a visual format. 🗃️
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This January, @danieljstory.bsky.social, Alexandra Levy, and I are once again co-leading @historians.org's Sinclair Podcast Workshops.
Do you have a history pod idea you want to vet with a small group? Pitch us for Developmental Conversations! Deadline 12/1/25.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Do you have a history pod idea you want to vet with a small group? Pitch us for Developmental Conversations! Deadline 12/1/25.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
September 17, 2025 at 6:48 PM
This January, @danieljstory.bsky.social, Alexandra Levy, and I are once again co-leading @historians.org's Sinclair Podcast Workshops.
Do you have a history pod idea you want to vet with a small group? Pitch us for Developmental Conversations! Deadline 12/1/25.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Do you have a history pod idea you want to vet with a small group? Pitch us for Developmental Conversations! Deadline 12/1/25.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Who gets to be called a revolutionary?
This #JERPano lesson by Shannan Mason challenges students to rethink political participation by centering the ways women labored, resisted, and survived throughout the Revolutionary era.
Explore it on The Panorama:
thepanorama.shear.org/2025/09/08/l...
This #JERPano lesson by Shannan Mason challenges students to rethink political participation by centering the ways women labored, resisted, and survived throughout the Revolutionary era.
Explore it on The Panorama:
thepanorama.shear.org/2025/09/08/l...
Lesson Plan: Women’s Varied Experiences in Revolutionary America
Shannan Mason offers a complete, two day lesson plan on women and the American Revolution featuring Lauren Duval’s recent article from The Pano.
thepanorama.shear.org
September 15, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Who gets to be called a revolutionary?
This #JERPano lesson by Shannan Mason challenges students to rethink political participation by centering the ways women labored, resisted, and survived throughout the Revolutionary era.
Explore it on The Panorama:
thepanorama.shear.org/2025/09/08/l...
This #JERPano lesson by Shannan Mason challenges students to rethink political participation by centering the ways women labored, resisted, and survived throughout the Revolutionary era.
Explore it on The Panorama:
thepanorama.shear.org/2025/09/08/l...
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Lost in the Texas A&M news is that the entire crusade is the product of a former labradoodle breeder turned State Rep whose stunts and grandstanding are so insufferably transparent that even his Republican colleagues despise him. Meet Brian Harrison, winner of Texas Monthly’s 2025 Cockroach award:
“Studio Makeup and Narcissism”: The Texas’s Lege’s Least Favorite Lawmaker
"Cockroach" is an old Lege term for a figure who mucks up lawmaking. In 2025 the title goes to Brian Harrison.
www.texasmonthly.com
September 10, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Lost in the Texas A&M news is that the entire crusade is the product of a former labradoodle breeder turned State Rep whose stunts and grandstanding are so insufferably transparent that even his Republican colleagues despise him. Meet Brian Harrison, winner of Texas Monthly’s 2025 Cockroach award:
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Remember your favorite day of US history class? K–12 teachers have their favorites too. Check in with the AHA’s American Lesson Plan to see what teachers love to teach, what they find challenging, and what they want their students to walk away with.
American Lesson Plan, Part 4: Curricular Content
A nine-state examination of topics and themes in US history classes, including Native American history; the Founding Era; Westward Expansion; Slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction; Industry, Capi...
www.historians.org
September 2, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Remember your favorite day of US history class? K–12 teachers have their favorites too. Check in with the AHA’s American Lesson Plan to see what teachers love to teach, what they find challenging, and what they want their students to walk away with.
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The #AHR is seeking proposals for a special issue on methodological approaches to archival silences in early history. Visit our website to read the full call for proposals and learn more about the guidelines for submission. Proposals are due September 16.
Special Issue Submissions - AHA
Natural light and processed MSI images of the HMML Palimpsest Project Methods for Archival Silence in Early History The American Historical Review seeks proposals for a special issue illustrating a ra...
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August 22, 2025 at 7:54 PM
The #AHR is seeking proposals for a special issue on methodological approaches to archival silences in early history. Visit our website to read the full call for proposals and learn more about the guidelines for submission. Proposals are due September 16.
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Save the date for this fantastic conference at Princeton: October 3-4, 2025.
*In the Flow: Religious Movements Through Space, Time and Power,* organized by Professor Nicole Myers Turner.
Free and open to the public. Registration required.
*In the Flow: Religious Movements Through Space, Time and Power,* organized by Professor Nicole Myers Turner.
Free and open to the public. Registration required.
In the Flow: Religious Movements Through Space, Time and Power
intheflow.religion.princeton.edu
August 25, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Save the date for this fantastic conference at Princeton: October 3-4, 2025.
*In the Flow: Religious Movements Through Space, Time and Power,* organized by Professor Nicole Myers Turner.
Free and open to the public. Registration required.
*In the Flow: Religious Movements Through Space, Time and Power,* organized by Professor Nicole Myers Turner.
Free and open to the public. Registration required.
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Took my family to New York and saw Mrs. van Rhijn taking luncheon with a divorcee, you can’t convince me that crime isn’t up
August 12, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Took my family to New York and saw Mrs. van Rhijn taking luncheon with a divorcee, you can’t convince me that crime isn’t up
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Were you also disturbed but unsurprised to see this old #JohnGast painting shared on US Homeland Security’s social media? Sara Moslener offers a great response and insights from her work on US white evangelical purity culture.
religiondispatches.org/dhss-homelan...
religiondispatches.org/dhss-homelan...
DHS's 'Homeland Heritage' Campaign Highlights Danger of Innocence Myths of a White Christian America
As a habit I don’t follow the social media of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). It’s a scroll of nationalistic propaganda and exaggerated warnings about criminal aliens, a set of lies that at...
religiondispatches.org
August 1, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Were you also disturbed but unsurprised to see this old #JohnGast painting shared on US Homeland Security’s social media? Sara Moslener offers a great response and insights from her work on US white evangelical purity culture.
religiondispatches.org/dhss-homelan...
religiondispatches.org/dhss-homelan...
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The deadline for the @iehs.bsky.social digital history grants is this Friday! If you’re interested in applying, check out the guidelines below 👇🏽
***IEHS Grant Highlight***
The deadline to apply for a digital history seed grant is THIS FRIDAY, August 1.
Members can find more details about this opportunity on the IEHS website:
iehs.org/awards/seed_...
The deadline to apply for a digital history seed grant is THIS FRIDAY, August 1.
Members can find more details about this opportunity on the IEHS website:
iehs.org/awards/seed_...
Digital History Seed Grants
Visit the post for more.
iehs.org
July 31, 2025 at 2:14 AM
The deadline for the @iehs.bsky.social digital history grants is this Friday! If you’re interested in applying, check out the guidelines below 👇🏽
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Wondering about the financial security of a registered nonprofit - be it a charity, a private school, or the like? Be aware that to maintain nonprofit status, they have to file detailed financial declarations with the IRS. Propublica has an easy tool for that - projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/
Nonprofit Explorer - ProPublica
Since 2013, the IRS has released data culled from millions of nonprofit tax filings. Use this database to find organizations and see details like their executive compensation, revenue and expenses, as...
projects.propublica.org
July 27, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Wondering about the financial security of a registered nonprofit - be it a charity, a private school, or the like? Be aware that to maintain nonprofit status, they have to file detailed financial declarations with the IRS. Propublica has an easy tool for that - projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/
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SHEAR is pleased to announce and congratulate the winners of the SHEAR prizes which will be announced here in this 🧵.
July 19, 2025 at 11:24 PM
SHEAR is pleased to announce and congratulate the winners of the SHEAR prizes which will be announced here in this 🧵.
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NEW piece @commonplacejrnl.bsky.social this week! From Lisa Roney, a meditation on the personal stakes of family history.
NEW on Commonplace: A reflection on the work of family history and the stakes involved in facing your family's past. Lisa Roney shares an essay and original poems excavating her family's Confederate forbearer and the corrective potential of genealogical work. commonplace.online/article/hot-...
Hot Tennessee Sun - Commonplace
Silence is never something I manage very well.
commonplace.online
July 15, 2025 at 6:06 PM
NEW piece @commonplacejrnl.bsky.social this week! From Lisa Roney, a meditation on the personal stakes of family history.
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“Arts and Crafts Day in the Research Seminar”
In the latest installment of the "Teaching the Early Republic" series for the #JERPano, Robert Smith demonstrates the power of material culture to engage students in the classroom.
Read on The Panorama thepanorama.shear.org/2025/07/14/a...
In the latest installment of the "Teaching the Early Republic" series for the #JERPano, Robert Smith demonstrates the power of material culture to engage students in the classroom.
Read on The Panorama thepanorama.shear.org/2025/07/14/a...
Arts and Crafts Day in the Research Seminar
In the latest installment of our “Teaching the Early Republic” series, Robert Smith demonstrates the power of material culture to engage students in the classroom.
thepanorama.shear.org
July 15, 2025 at 7:30 PM
“Arts and Crafts Day in the Research Seminar”
In the latest installment of the "Teaching the Early Republic" series for the #JERPano, Robert Smith demonstrates the power of material culture to engage students in the classroom.
Read on The Panorama thepanorama.shear.org/2025/07/14/a...
In the latest installment of the "Teaching the Early Republic" series for the #JERPano, Robert Smith demonstrates the power of material culture to engage students in the classroom.
Read on The Panorama thepanorama.shear.org/2025/07/14/a...
Dallas Morning News or The Onion?
July 14, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Dallas Morning News or The Onion?
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This event is going to be so cool! And the idea, cooked up with @noraslonimsky.bsky.social, is to do this format again in 2026. We're excited about it! And super grateful to this awesome line-up of scholars.
July 14, 2025 at 3:36 PM
This event is going to be so cool! And the idea, cooked up with @noraslonimsky.bsky.social, is to do this format again in 2026. We're excited about it! And super grateful to this awesome line-up of scholars.
I'm excited to moderate this Zoom conversation tomorrow with @profhyman.bsky.social and Marcus Nevius. Join us by registering here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
July 8, 2025 at 12:32 PM
I'm excited to moderate this Zoom conversation tomorrow with @profhyman.bsky.social and Marcus Nevius. Join us by registering here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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***Digital History Seed Grants***
The IEHS invites submissions for awards, up to $2,000 each, to support graduate students and early-career scholars seeking to develop or engage with digital history work connected to migration history and related fields.
Deadline: 8/1/25
iehs.org/awards/seed_...
The IEHS invites submissions for awards, up to $2,000 each, to support graduate students and early-career scholars seeking to develop or engage with digital history work connected to migration history and related fields.
Deadline: 8/1/25
iehs.org/awards/seed_...
Digital History Seed Grants
Visit the post for more.
iehs.org
July 8, 2025 at 12:53 AM
***Digital History Seed Grants***
The IEHS invites submissions for awards, up to $2,000 each, to support graduate students and early-career scholars seeking to develop or engage with digital history work connected to migration history and related fields.
Deadline: 8/1/25
iehs.org/awards/seed_...
The IEHS invites submissions for awards, up to $2,000 each, to support graduate students and early-career scholars seeking to develop or engage with digital history work connected to migration history and related fields.
Deadline: 8/1/25
iehs.org/awards/seed_...
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From #AHAPerspectives in 2024: After SB 17 banned DEI in Texas public higher education, Anne Gray Fischer argues that it’s more essential than ever “to prioritize teaching LGBTQ+ histories that foster community in places that are both hostile and home.” 🗃️
Teaching LGBTQ+ History – AHA
As states pass legislation targeting DEI efforts, one historian offers her experience teaching LGBTQ+ history in these challenging times.
www.historians.org
June 30, 2025 at 4:08 PM
From #AHAPerspectives in 2024: After SB 17 banned DEI in Texas public higher education, Anne Gray Fischer argues that it’s more essential than ever “to prioritize teaching LGBTQ+ histories that foster community in places that are both hostile and home.” 🗃️
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Many people don’t know that there are #oralhistory collections that provide firsthand accounts of the experiences of Black Texans. Take a moment to explore them today. Here’s one collection:
#Juneteenth #TexasHistory #BlackTexans #BlackTexasHistory
bn.web.baylor.edu/news/story/2...
#Juneteenth #TexasHistory #BlackTexans #BlackTexasHistory
bn.web.baylor.edu/news/story/2...
Juneteenth memories from Baylor’s oral history archives
bn.web.baylor.edu
June 19, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Many people don’t know that there are #oralhistory collections that provide firsthand accounts of the experiences of Black Texans. Take a moment to explore them today. Here’s one collection:
#Juneteenth #TexasHistory #BlackTexans #BlackTexasHistory
bn.web.baylor.edu/news/story/2...
#Juneteenth #TexasHistory #BlackTexans #BlackTexasHistory
bn.web.baylor.edu/news/story/2...