Becky West
@rebeccawest.bsky.social
history grad student | professional email sender for @historians.org
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Just loving this year's art, designed by our own @rebeccawest.bsky.social. You can read about how the design came together in #AHAPerspectives. 🗃️
Creating the Artwork for AHA26 – AHA
AHA marketing coordinator Rebecca L. West explains the creative process of designing this year’s annual meeting artwork.
www.historians.org
November 12, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Just loving this year's art, designed by our own @rebeccawest.bsky.social. You can read about how the design came together in #AHAPerspectives. 🗃️
Really pleased with how this year's cover art came out and excited to finally be holding the program in my hands!! Time to flip through and highlight more sessions than I will possibly be able to attend
Print program for #AHA26 has arrived at the townhouse and will be hitting members’ mailboxes any day now.
November 12, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Really pleased with how this year's cover art came out and excited to finally be holding the program in my hands!! Time to flip through and highlight more sessions than I will possibly be able to attend
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Reminds me of pro-slavery southern voices before the civil war, like John C Calhoun.
They worried about new “free states” joining the union, and losing their majority in the senate—
They worried about new “free states” joining the union, and losing their majority in the senate—
Trump: "They're gonna make DC a state and they're gonna make Puerto Rico a state. So now they pick up two states, four senators. They're gonna pick up electoral votes. It's gonna be a very, very bad situation. Now, if we do what I'm saying, they'll most likely never obtain power."
November 5, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Reminds me of pro-slavery southern voices before the civil war, like John C Calhoun.
They worried about new “free states” joining the union, and losing their majority in the senate—
They worried about new “free states” joining the union, and losing their majority in the senate—
Hey that's me!
The AHA annual meeting artwork is always a celebration of the host city. In #AHAPerspectives, Rebecca L. West shares how she incorporated a view of Chicago from Ohio Street Beach and a Frank Lloyd Wright mural concept in this year’s design. Check out the artwork and register for #AHA26 today! 🗃️
Creating the Artwork for AHA26 – AHA
AHA marketing coordinator Rebecca L. West explains the creative process of designing this year’s annual meeting artwork.
www.historians.org
September 23, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Hey that's me!
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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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#AHAReads is wrapping up for another summer. Thanks to all who participated. I always love hearing about what folks are reading and enjoying. 🗃️
AHA Reads 2025: Challenge Complete!
Find out what AHA members and staff have been reading to fulfill the fourth annual AHA Summer Reading Challenge.
www.historians.org
September 5, 2025 at 2:19 PM
#AHAReads is wrapping up for another summer. Thanks to all who participated. I always love hearing about what folks are reading and enjoying. 🗃️
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trains are such a great example of how the future is here, if we want it and are willing to subsidize it
It’s over 1,000km from Berlin to Paris
There’s now a direct daytime train between them, that takes 8 hours and costs just €59. Leave at 10am, arrive 6pm.
And… it’s just 1% the carbon emissions of the equivalent flight
www.euronews.com/travel/2024/...
There’s now a direct daytime train between them, that takes 8 hours and costs just €59. Leave at 10am, arrive 6pm.
And… it’s just 1% the carbon emissions of the equivalent flight
www.euronews.com/travel/2024/...
High-speed Paris-Berlin daily train service debuts
The route is the first directly linking the two capitals' city centres.
www.euronews.com
January 2, 2025 at 2:10 PM
trains are such a great example of how the future is here, if we want it and are willing to subsidize it
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@jasperjsmith.bsky.social and @katiemangan.bsky.social have been all over the George Mason U. DOJ investigations since they began. Today they broke some news @chronicle.com: GMU president Gregory Washington is digging his heels in and won't be apologizing for DEI work. #HigherEd #AcademicSky
GMU President Refuses to Apologize for Diversity Efforts, Lawyer Calls Ed. Dept. Claims ‘Absurd’
In a 10-page letter, Gregory Washington’s lawyer says the Trump administration conducted an incomplete and haphazard investigation full of “gross mischaracterizations.”
www.chronicle.com
August 25, 2025 at 8:46 PM
@jasperjsmith.bsky.social and @katiemangan.bsky.social have been all over the George Mason U. DOJ investigations since they began. Today they broke some news @chronicle.com: GMU president Gregory Washington is digging his heels in and won't be apologizing for DEI work. #HigherEd #AcademicSky
Fall 2025 semester let's goooooo
August 25, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Fall 2025 semester let's goooooo
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We talked to @igd.bsky.social about the ongoing resistance and mutual aid efforts happening in DC as the military and federal police occupy our city. Check it out! itsgoingdown.org/whole-city-f...
“The Whole City is Fighting Back”: Remora House on Grassroots Resistance to Military Occupation in DC
For the last several weeks, federal agents and National Guard troops have flooded the streets of Washington DC, setting up an authoritarian occupation of the city; harassing residents, dismantling hom...
itsgoingdown.org
August 25, 2025 at 3:31 PM
We talked to @igd.bsky.social about the ongoing resistance and mutual aid efforts happening in DC as the military and federal police occupy our city. Check it out! itsgoingdown.org/whole-city-f...
Another #AHAReads pick done! Despite the title of Charlie English’s “The CIA Book Club: The Secret Mission to Win the Cold War with Forbidden Literature,” the book really focuses on the Polish Solidarity movement, making it perfect for the “history of a resistance movement” task.
July 12, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Another #AHAReads pick done! Despite the title of Charlie English’s “The CIA Book Club: The Secret Mission to Win the Cold War with Forbidden Literature,” the book really focuses on the Polish Solidarity movement, making it perfect for the “history of a resistance movement” task.
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We’re almost halfway through this year’s AHA Summer Reading Challenge — but there’s still plenty of time to join in! Check out our roundup of what participants read in June for inspiration. #AHAReads 📚
AHA Reads 2025: First Month Complete!
Find out what AHA members, Council, and staff have been reading to fulfill the fourth annual AHA Summer Reading Challenge.
www.historians.org
July 11, 2025 at 5:06 PM
We’re almost halfway through this year’s AHA Summer Reading Challenge — but there’s still plenty of time to join in! Check out our roundup of what participants read in June for inspiration. #AHAReads 📚
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It’s appropriate that, on this especially fraught holiday weekend, my 232nd #ScholarSunday thread is my longest yet, full of so much public scholarly writing, podcasts, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more below, share widely, & enjoy! 🗃️
americanstudier.substack.com/p/scholarsun...
americanstudier.substack.com/p/scholarsun...
#ScholarSunday Thread 232
Published on July 6, 2025
americanstudier.substack.com
July 6, 2025 at 12:09 PM
It’s appropriate that, on this especially fraught holiday weekend, my 232nd #ScholarSunday thread is my longest yet, full of so much public scholarly writing, podcasts, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more below, share widely, & enjoy! 🗃️
americanstudier.substack.com/p/scholarsun...
americanstudier.substack.com/p/scholarsun...
I loved talking to the folks restoring and preserving some of the DC area's most iconic historic buildings for this piece. The Folklife Festival runs through July 7, make sure to go see these immensely talented craftspeople if you're attending! (And drink lots of water and wear sunscreen!)
AHA marketing coordinator @rebeccawest.bsky.social wrote about the intersection of historic preservation and traditional building trades for the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage ahead of their 2025 Folklife Festival, which will highlight craftspeople in those trades 🗃️:
The Monumental Work of Historic Preservation in the Building Trades
Their crafts, passed down through generations, seemed to me to be not only a set of skills but a type of historical knowledge.
festival.si.edu
July 3, 2025 at 3:08 PM
I loved talking to the folks restoring and preserving some of the DC area's most iconic historic buildings for this piece. The Folklife Festival runs through July 7, make sure to go see these immensely talented craftspeople if you're attending! (And drink lots of water and wear sunscreen!)
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LAURA IS SUCH A GREAT PERSON AND ALSO A CREDIT TO OUR PROFESSION AND ALSO AN AMAZING LEADER OF HISTORIANS AND ALSO HOORAY
Today I start a new position as Director of Publications at @historians.org.
When I joined the AHA in 2019, I did not imagine I'd still be here in 2025. I'm lucky to have colleagues who helped find ways for my role to grow with me, and I'm thrilled to continue working with our amazing pubs team.
When I joined the AHA in 2019, I did not imagine I'd still be here in 2025. I'm lucky to have colleagues who helped find ways for my role to grow with me, and I'm thrilled to continue working with our amazing pubs team.
July 1, 2025 at 10:43 PM
LAURA IS SUCH A GREAT PERSON AND ALSO A CREDIT TO OUR PROFESSION AND ALSO AN AMAZING LEADER OF HISTORIANS AND ALSO HOORAY
For the material culture task I read Skirts by Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell -- I loved learned about the "hemline wars" and the a lot of social and cultural forces behind what's in my closet! #AHAReads www.goodreads.com/book/show/59...
June 30, 2025 at 3:16 PM
For the material culture task I read Skirts by Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell -- I loved learned about the "hemline wars" and the a lot of social and cultural forces behind what's in my closet! #AHAReads www.goodreads.com/book/show/59...
Happy #AHAReads season!! My first pick this summer is Skirts: Fashioning Modern Femininity in the Twentieth Century by Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell for the "read a history that uses material culture" task 👗
June 6, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Happy #AHAReads season!! My first pick this summer is Skirts: Fashioning Modern Femininity in the Twentieth Century by Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell for the "read a history that uses material culture" task 👗
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What a beautiful May Day to launch the fight for the rights of our labor - #NEH staff and grantees alike - and for the #humanities.
Our work to preserve and make accessible #history and #culture for all people is NOT expendable. @paulakrebs.bsky.social @acls1919.bsky.social
Our work to preserve and make accessible #history and #culture for all people is NOT expendable. @paulakrebs.bsky.social @acls1919.bsky.social
May 1, 2025 at 8:39 PM
What a beautiful May Day to launch the fight for the rights of our labor - #NEH staff and grantees alike - and for the #humanities.
Our work to preserve and make accessible #history and #culture for all people is NOT expendable. @paulakrebs.bsky.social @acls1919.bsky.social
Our work to preserve and make accessible #history and #culture for all people is NOT expendable. @paulakrebs.bsky.social @acls1919.bsky.social
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#Skystorians, the best way you can support actions like this is to join @historians.org at historians.org/join.
You can also donate to the AHA’s advocacy fund to help support this lawsuit. historians.org/donate
You can also donate to the AHA’s advocacy fund to help support this lawsuit. historians.org/donate
May 1, 2025 at 8:37 PM
#Skystorians, the best way you can support actions like this is to join @historians.org at historians.org/join.
You can also donate to the AHA’s advocacy fund to help support this lawsuit. historians.org/donate
You can also donate to the AHA’s advocacy fund to help support this lawsuit. historians.org/donate
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@acls1919.bsky.social, the AHA, & @modernlanguage.bsky.social filed a lawsuit in federal district court today, seeking to reverse the recent actions of the NEH to devastate the agency, including the elimination of grant programs, staff, and entire divisions and programs. 🗃️
American Council of Learned Societies, American Historical Association, and Modern Language Association File Lawsuit Alleging Illegal Dismantling of National Endowment for the Humanities - AHA
Lawsuit aims to reinstate NEH grant programs, divisions, and staff. For Immediate Release / May 1, 2025 (New York, NY) — The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), the American Historical Assoc...
www.historians.org
May 1, 2025 at 7:28 PM
@acls1919.bsky.social, the AHA, & @modernlanguage.bsky.social filed a lawsuit in federal district court today, seeking to reverse the recent actions of the NEH to devastate the agency, including the elimination of grant programs, staff, and entire divisions and programs. 🗃️
Thrilled to find that someone has created my dream store: combination ice cream shop and bookshop! Shoutout the the Fountain Bookshop in Washington Heights for the NYE treats 📚🍦
December 31, 2024 at 8:47 PM
Thrilled to find that someone has created my dream store: combination ice cream shop and bookshop! Shoutout the the Fountain Bookshop in Washington Heights for the NYE treats 📚🍦
Is it really an AHA annual meeting if I don't get into town early to catch some hockey? Got to NYC and immediately hopped a train down to New Jersey for the afternoon, super glad to finally get to a PWHL game!
December 29, 2024 at 7:23 PM
Is it really an AHA annual meeting if I don't get into town early to catch some hockey? Got to NYC and immediately hopped a train down to New Jersey for the afternoon, super glad to finally get to a PWHL game!
Come see us in New York!!
The #AHA25 annual meeting is only 6 weeks & 4 days away. Which means @rebeccawest.bsky.social and I, keepers of the email at @ahahistorians.bsky.social, are running out of creative ways to remind you to register and book housing. Help us out by making your plans today. historians.org/annual-meeting
Annual Meeting - AHA
Join Us at the Annual Meeting Connect with Your Community Since 1884, the American Historical Association annual meeting has been the premier gathering for historians to come together to share researc...
historians.org
November 18, 2024 at 10:23 PM
Come see us in New York!!