I was at a conference last week where a recent military history diss from a big name department got glowing shout out. It did stand out as unusual

Autumn is here at the #JER#JERFall2024@uncpress.bsky.socialmuse.jhu.edu/issue/53214

“I took a bullet watching “Megalopolis” for you. An actual bullet would have been kinder.” Looking forward to watching this on a plane in a year or so www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...

'Megalopolis' is a piece of s—t

SFGATE columnist Drew Magary makes a very strong case for why you shouldn't see Francis Ford Coppola's newest film.

JOB: Assistant Professor of Modern British History, University of Cambridge www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/48371/

Great article. Had me nostalgic for new york. I spent loads of time on the much shorter aqueduct trail running north from the Bronx www.nytimes.com/2024/09/12/t...

Walking From Manhattan to the Catskills on the ‘Long Path’

Intrigued by a trail marker he spotted upstate, a photographer set out to follow a meandering — and little-known — hiking route north from New York City.

I just voted in the US elections from abroad. It was easy and all electronic. I used this link Votersabroad.org

Center for U.S. Voters Abroad

U.S. citizens 18 years and older are eligible to vote absentee from abroad. The first step is to register via a special process for overseas voters, and the Center for U.S. Voters Abroad is here to he...

A digital tsunami is coming and the National Archives desperately needs help—in funding, personnel, and infrastructure—to continue to do the amazing and democracy-fortifying work it does in maintaining and making publicly accessible our nation's records. wapo.st/47AEERp

Opinion | A digital tsunami is coming. The National Archives is in trouble.

The National Archives and Records Administration has been starved for resources for many years.

Walking steep hills = long life has some logic but should have raised a red flag

I totally got suckered into watching one of those documentaries about these places.

From the aha report on the state of US history k-12 teaching www.historians.org/teaching-lea...