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Historian A.K. Pertilla: Researching financial history, the history of migration, and the history of knowledge at GHI Washington. All thoughts expressed are my own. | he/him
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CFP: 'Difficult Collections' Special issue of 'Paper Trails' @uclpress.bsky.social. Focus on challenges of working with troubling heritage collections (colonialism, eugenics, representation, etc). Proposals: 31/01/26; Submissions: 31/05/26. Details: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/special-coll... #GLAM ##HistorySky
Call for Papers: Difficult Collections | UCL UCL Special Collections
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December 2, 2025 at 9:54 AM
CFP: 'Difficult Collections' Special issue of 'Paper Trails' @uclpress.bsky.social. Focus on challenges of working with troubling heritage collections (colonialism, eugenics, representation, etc). Proposals: 31/01/26; Submissions: 31/05/26. Details: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/special-coll... #GLAM ##HistorySky
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CFP: Doing Migration History with Digital Methods.
🔥Come and join us in Paris next year for the sommer school at the @dhiparis from June 22-26, 2026.
🖥️Rethink how digital sources reshape migration history, from research questions to methods and narratives, while tackling bias and meeting legal […]
🔥Come and join us in Paris next year for the sommer school at the @dhiparis from June 22-26, 2026.
🖥️Rethink how digital sources reshape migration history, from research questions to methods and narratives, while tackling bias and meeting legal […]
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November 12, 2025 at 10:29 AM
CFP: Doing Migration History with Digital Methods.
🔥Come and join us in Paris next year for the sommer school at the @dhiparis from June 22-26, 2026.
🖥️Rethink how digital sources reshape migration history, from research questions to methods and narratives, while tackling bias and meeting legal […]
🔥Come and join us in Paris next year for the sommer school at the @dhiparis from June 22-26, 2026.
🖥️Rethink how digital sources reshape migration history, from research questions to methods and narratives, while tackling bias and meeting legal […]
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CRDH Vol. 8: New research from Fabio Gigone, Natacha Klein Käfer, Natália da Silva Perez, Nadav Borenstein, Miara Fraikin, Sanne Maekelberg, and Anna McGee explores topics from royal iconography to AI-powered print analysis, midwifery education to palace networks.
Read here: https://crdh.rrchnm.org
Read here: https://crdh.rrchnm.org
Current Research in Digital History
Hosted by the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, Current Research in Digital History is an open-access, peer-reviewed, online publication. Its primary aim is to encourage and publish scholarship in digital history that offers discipline-specific arguments and interpretations.
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November 3, 2025 at 4:35 PM
CRDH Vol. 8: New research from Fabio Gigone, Natacha Klein Käfer, Natália da Silva Perez, Nadav Borenstein, Miara Fraikin, Sanne Maekelberg, and Anna McGee explores topics from royal iconography to AI-powered print analysis, midwifery education to palace networks.
Read here: https://crdh.rrchnm.org
Read here: https://crdh.rrchnm.org
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Happening TODAY—3pm ET: Why NARA matters + how you can act to protect access to America’s records. The "history of NOW" is no longer being safeguarded. Learn what you can do to advocate for our nation's archives.
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October 7, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Happening TODAY—3pm ET: Why NARA matters + how you can act to protect access to America’s records. The "history of NOW" is no longer being safeguarded. Learn what you can do to advocate for our nation's archives.
🔗 https://ow.ly/P0tc50X5P8H
🔗 https://ow.ly/P0tc50X5P8H
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October 2, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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🚨🚨📢📢 New open-access article (co-authored w/ @nuriatargarona.bsky.social & @mirandalubbers.bsky.social), just out in American Behavioral Scientist:
“The Relational Toll of Political Involvement in Polarized Times: Relationship Decay Within Activists’ Personal Networks” doi.org/10.1177/0002...
“The Relational Toll of Political Involvement in Polarized Times: Relationship Decay Within Activists’ Personal Networks” doi.org/10.1177/0002...
September 4, 2025 at 9:14 AM
🚨🚨📢📢 New open-access article (co-authored w/ @nuriatargarona.bsky.social & @mirandalubbers.bsky.social), just out in American Behavioral Scientist:
“The Relational Toll of Political Involvement in Polarized Times: Relationship Decay Within Activists’ Personal Networks” doi.org/10.1177/0002...
“The Relational Toll of Political Involvement in Polarized Times: Relationship Decay Within Activists’ Personal Networks” doi.org/10.1177/0002...
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Watch the AHA’s Congressional Briefing on the history of tariffs on C-SPAN. Panelists @douglasirwin.bsky.social, @sharonannmurphy.bsky.social, & @rauchway.bsky.social discussed how the government has implemented tariffs in the past & how they have impacted the economy. 🗃️
History of Tariffs
Professors Douglas Irwin (Dartmouth College), Sharon Ann Murphy (Providence College), and Eric Rauchway (University of California, Davis) discussed how the federal government historically has implemen...
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September 4, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Watch the AHA’s Congressional Briefing on the history of tariffs on C-SPAN. Panelists @douglasirwin.bsky.social, @sharonannmurphy.bsky.social, & @rauchway.bsky.social discussed how the government has implemented tariffs in the past & how they have impacted the economy. 🗃️
Earlier this spring someone reached out to the Migrant Connections project about a collection of German letters, photographs, and other documents he had salvaged from an abandoned apartment building in Newark, Delaware…
July 25, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Earlier this spring someone reached out to the Migrant Connections project about a collection of German letters, photographs, and other documents he had salvaged from an abandoned apartment building in Newark, Delaware…
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Here's a write-up of my keynote from #DH2025, since academic publishing is slow and this was written for right now. roopikarisam.com/talks-cat/dh...
July 19, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Here's a write-up of my keynote from #DH2025, since academic publishing is slow and this was written for right now. roopikarisam.com/talks-cat/dh...
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Take our survey! We want to know what historians are experiencing as they use brick-and-mortar libraries & archives, as well as digital collections this summer.
Your feedback will help us assess what is happening at the grassroots.
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Your feedback will help us assess what is happening at the grassroots.
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June 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Take our survey! We want to know what historians are experiencing as they use brick-and-mortar libraries & archives, as well as digital collections this summer.
Your feedback will help us assess what is happening at the grassroots.
ow.ly/X0Xp50W7wiX
Your feedback will help us assess what is happening at the grassroots.
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In the June issue of the #AHR, @danieljstory.bsky.social teams up with @katecarp.bsky.social, host and producer of @draftingthepast.bsky.social, to discuss the craft of writing history, while unpacking the minutiae of both the writing process and podcast interviews. #HistoryinFocus 🗃️
The Craft of Writing History with Drafting the Past: An Interview with Kate Carpenter
The American Historical Review is pleased to present this conversation with historian and history podcaster Kate Carpenter about her innovative podcast Dra
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June 24, 2025 at 2:47 PM
In the June issue of the #AHR, @danieljstory.bsky.social teams up with @katecarp.bsky.social, host and producer of @draftingthepast.bsky.social, to discuss the craft of writing history, while unpacking the minutiae of both the writing process and podcast interviews. #HistoryinFocus 🗃️
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Lots of commentary on this piece already, all of which I agree with.
For historians, research is a fundamental part of writing.
To farm it out to AI changes the nature of this intellectual process in fundamental ways.
And as Stacy Schiff points out, it also takes all the fun out of it.
For historians, research is a fundamental part of writing.
To farm it out to AI changes the nature of this intellectual process in fundamental ways.
And as Stacy Schiff points out, it also takes all the fun out of it.
A.I. Is Poised to Rewrite History. Literally.
www.nytimes.com
June 16, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Lots of commentary on this piece already, all of which I agree with.
For historians, research is a fundamental part of writing.
To farm it out to AI changes the nature of this intellectual process in fundamental ways.
And as Stacy Schiff points out, it also takes all the fun out of it.
For historians, research is a fundamental part of writing.
To farm it out to AI changes the nature of this intellectual process in fundamental ways.
And as Stacy Schiff points out, it also takes all the fun out of it.
Some fascinating research here
We Traced Pope Leo XIV’s Ancestry Back 500 Years. Here’s What We Found. (Gift Article)
Noblemen, enslaved people, freedom fighters, slaveowners: what the complex family tree of the first American pontiff reveals.
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June 17, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Some fascinating research here
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Update: my chapter on #gossip and @gothamscholar.bsky.social 's chapter on financial knowledge of immigrants are now #openaccess
Out now!
Speculative endeavors, Cultures of knowledge and capital in the long nineteenth century
By Selina Foltinek Karin Hoepker and @katrinhorn.bsky.social
Analyses insider information, rumour, gossip and slander in #C19th #AmericanSociety
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manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526182159/
Speculative endeavors, Cultures of knowledge and capital in the long nineteenth century
By Selina Foltinek Karin Hoepker and @katrinhorn.bsky.social
Analyses insider information, rumour, gossip and slander in #C19th #AmericanSociety
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manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526182159/
June 10, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Update: my chapter on #gossip and @gothamscholar.bsky.social 's chapter on financial knowledge of immigrants are now #openaccess
We’ve extended our “Listening to the Past” workshop #CallForPapers to June 8 — please share with colleagues interested in the history of sound, of language, and potential AI-based applications to the same… www.ghi-dc.org/events/event...
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May 29, 2025 at 3:58 PM
We’ve extended our “Listening to the Past” workshop #CallForPapers to June 8 — please share with colleagues interested in the history of sound, of language, and potential AI-based applications to the same… www.ghi-dc.org/events/event...
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🎙️ New Episode: Who Makes Two Cents? Live @ BHC 2025
"If you want to write about class and power, how can you not write about businesses?" (Caitlin Rosenthal in Atlanta at the BHC 2025 annual meeting) 🎧 Listen more BHC voices on the history of capitalism here: open.spotify.com/episode/3cNb...
"If you want to write about class and power, how can you not write about businesses?" (Caitlin Rosenthal in Atlanta at the BHC 2025 annual meeting) 🎧 Listen more BHC voices on the history of capitalism here: open.spotify.com/episode/3cNb...
LIVE! @ BHC 2025
Who Makes Cents · Episode
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May 8, 2025 at 10:02 AM
🎙️ New Episode: Who Makes Two Cents? Live @ BHC 2025
"If you want to write about class and power, how can you not write about businesses?" (Caitlin Rosenthal in Atlanta at the BHC 2025 annual meeting) 🎧 Listen more BHC voices on the history of capitalism here: open.spotify.com/episode/3cNb...
"If you want to write about class and power, how can you not write about businesses?" (Caitlin Rosenthal in Atlanta at the BHC 2025 annual meeting) 🎧 Listen more BHC voices on the history of capitalism here: open.spotify.com/episode/3cNb...
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Many of our members have had grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities abruptly terminated. In response, the AHA, @modernlanguage.bsky.social, & @ach.bsky.social are convening an Information Exchange about the NEH Appeal Process on Wednesday, April 30th at 11am ET on Zoom. Register now 🗃️
Information Exchange about the NEH Appeal Process - AHA
Many of our members have had grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities abruptly terminated. In response, the AHA and partner organizations are convening an Information Exchange about the N...
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April 29, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Many of our members have had grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities abruptly terminated. In response, the AHA, @modernlanguage.bsky.social, & @ach.bsky.social are convening an Information Exchange about the NEH Appeal Process on Wednesday, April 30th at 11am ET on Zoom. Register now 🗃️
Co-organizing this workshop next spring (which seems very far, far off)…
CFP: "Listening to the Past: Digital Approaches to the History of Sound and Language," workshop at the GHI in March 2026, proposals due May 28: www.ghi-dc.org/events/event...
April 29, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Co-organizing this workshop next spring (which seems very far, far off)…
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CFP: "Rebuild or Retreat? Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Climate Migration and Mobility in the Global North," conference at the GHI Washington in April 2026, proposals due June 16: www.ghi-dc.org/events/event...
April 29, 2025 at 6:02 PM
CFP: "Rebuild or Retreat? Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Climate Migration and Mobility in the Global North," conference at the GHI Washington in April 2026, proposals due June 16: www.ghi-dc.org/events/event...
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CFP: "Imperial Legacies? (Dis)continuities and Comparisons between Colonialism and Nazi Rule," conference at the GHI Washington in May 2025, proposals due July 1: www.ghi-dc.org/events/event...
April 29, 2025 at 6:02 PM
CFP: "Imperial Legacies? (Dis)continuities and Comparisons between Colonialism and Nazi Rule," conference at the GHI Washington in May 2025, proposals due July 1: www.ghi-dc.org/events/event...
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Join us this Thursday for Felix Krämer's lecture on "Credit's Histories." His book "Menschen, Macht und Schulden in den USA" was awarded honorable mention for the 2025 @oah.org Willi Paul Adams Award, recognizing the best book on American history published in a language other than English…
Our spring lecture series continues on Thursday, May 1, when Felix Krämer from @unierfurt.bsky.social joins us to give a talk titled "Credit's Histories: Debt, Loans, and Welfare in the Twentieth-Century United States." Visit our website for details on attending: www.ghi-dc.org/events/event...
April 29, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Join us this Thursday for Felix Krämer's lecture on "Credit's Histories." His book "Menschen, Macht und Schulden in den USA" was awarded honorable mention for the 2025 @oah.org Willi Paul Adams Award, recognizing the best book on American history published in a language other than English…
Really excited to have a chapter in this volume, rooted in an excellent conference that unfortunately had to take place in cyberspace back in 2021…
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526182142/
Tadaaaa!!! Fresh off the press…
And with particularly timely cover art.
Tadaaaa!!! Fresh off the press…
And with particularly timely cover art.
Manchester University Press - Speculative endeavors
Speculative endeavors - Browse and buy the eBook edition of Speculative endeavors by Selina Foltinek
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April 24, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Really excited to have a chapter in this volume, rooted in an excellent conference that unfortunately had to take place in cyberspace back in 2021…
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Over the years, @georgemasonu.bsky.social has won 157 National Endowment for the Humanities awards. Over half of these awards were awarded to the Department of History and Art History. During the next few weeks, we will be highlighting the excellent work the #NEHfunded.
April 21, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Over the years, @georgemasonu.bsky.social has won 157 National Endowment for the Humanities awards. Over half of these awards were awarded to the Department of History and Art History. During the next few weeks, we will be highlighting the excellent work the #NEHfunded.
Really enjoyed my first-ever OAH but randomly one of the things I couldn’t help noticing was the lovely carpets at the conference hotel, as you might spot in these photos…
Our colleagues Axel Jansen, Atiba Pertilla, and Raphael Roessel took part in the 2025 @oah.org conference this past week in Chicago with two panels on migration & consumption and coercion & violence—a great opportunity to share research and connect with colleagues!
April 8, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Really enjoyed my first-ever OAH but randomly one of the things I couldn’t help noticing was the lovely carpets at the conference hotel, as you might spot in these photos…
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Absolutely incredible: the Feds totally folded on Congestion Pricing, thanks to the MTA just...refusing to abide by their demands
www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...
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MTA, feds agree to keep NYC congestion pricing tolls through October
The MTA and the Trump administration have reached an agreement to keep New York City congestion pricing through October.
www.cbsnews.com
April 8, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Absolutely incredible: the Feds totally folded on Congestion Pricing, thanks to the MTA just...refusing to abide by their demands
www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...
www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...