William G. Thomas III
@wgthomas3.bsky.social
Historian of the early U.S. | Dean of the College of Letters and Science and Professor of History, Montana State University
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The American Historical Association promotes the critical role of historical thinking in public life, defends academic freedom, develops professional standards, and supports scholarship and teaching. Learn about our recent advocacy actions on our website. 🗃️
AHA Advocacy | American Historical Association
The American Historical Association is unique among history organizations with the breadth and depth of our advocacy efforts.
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September 16, 2025 at 8:40 PM
The American Historical Association promotes the critical role of historical thinking in public life, defends academic freedom, develops professional standards, and supports scholarship and teaching. Learn about our recent advocacy actions on our website. 🗃️
We are pleased to announce a search for The Wallace Stegner Chair of Western American Studies in the Department of History at Montana State University-Bozeman. This is an exciting moment at MSU. Join us.
jobs.montana.edu/postings/48151
jobs.montana.edu/postings/48151
Associate or Full Professor of History and The Wallace Stegner Chair of Western American Studies
The Department of History and Philosophy at Montana State University invites applications for a tenure-track position at the level of Associate or Full Professor with expertise in the history of the N...
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September 8, 2025 at 4:13 PM
We are pleased to announce a search for The Wallace Stegner Chair of Western American Studies in the Department of History at Montana State University-Bozeman. This is an exciting moment at MSU. Join us.
jobs.montana.edu/postings/48151
jobs.montana.edu/postings/48151
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"Black Patriots and Black Loyalists of the American Revolution exhibit" #America250 #VA250 va250.org/event-detail...
September 3, 2025 at 1:32 PM
"Black Patriots and Black Loyalists of the American Revolution exhibit" #America250 #VA250 va250.org/event-detail...
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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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For anyone teaching the slave trade and slavery this fall: check out my documentary film, *Ghosts of Amistad*, about the memory of the 1839 uprising in contemporary Sierra Leone, w/ French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish subtitles. Study guides for teachers and students too.
www.ghostsofamistad.com
www.ghostsofamistad.com
Ghosts of Amistad: In the Footsteps of the Rebels
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Ghosts of Amistad chronicles a trip to Sierra Leone to visit the home villages of the people who seized the slave schooner Amistad...
www.ghostsofamistad.com
August 19, 2025 at 1:38 PM
For anyone teaching the slave trade and slavery this fall: check out my documentary film, *Ghosts of Amistad*, about the memory of the 1839 uprising in contemporary Sierra Leone, w/ French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish subtitles. Study guides for teachers and students too.
www.ghostsofamistad.com
www.ghostsofamistad.com
Our team has been working on a major Open Education Resource (OER) about U.S. legal history for teaching and learning. If you are teaching U.S. legal history, we hope that EQUALITY BEFORE THE LAW will help you and your students. Check out our initial launch site at: teachinglegalhistory.unl.edu
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August 19, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Our team has been working on a major Open Education Resource (OER) about U.S. legal history for teaching and learning. If you are teaching U.S. legal history, we hope that EQUALITY BEFORE THE LAW will help you and your students. Check out our initial launch site at: teachinglegalhistory.unl.edu
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Congratulations to AHA members Merle Eisenberg, James Illingworth, James P. McClure, Christopher F. Minty, Michael L. Satlow, and Jennifer Stertzer, as well as all the other historians who were awarded grants by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for humanities projects in 2025. 🗃️
NEH Announces $34.79 Million for 97 Humanities Projects
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August 19, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Congratulations to AHA members Merle Eisenberg, James Illingworth, James P. McClure, Christopher F. Minty, Michael L. Satlow, and Jennifer Stertzer, as well as all the other historians who were awarded grants by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for humanities projects in 2025. 🗃️
When your team brings fresh huckleberries to the office, there’s only one thing to do! Montana State, Bobcats, Montana!
July 29, 2025 at 2:57 PM
When your team brings fresh huckleberries to the office, there’s only one thing to do! Montana State, Bobcats, Montana!
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We have a terrific opening. Please repost! Join our team at the College of Letters and Science at Montana State University in Bozeman. careers.insidehighered.com/job/3374448/...
Assistant Dean for Student Success and Outreach - Bozeman, Montana job with Montana State University | 3374448
The College of Letters & Science at Montana State University is seeking a dedicated and collaborative leader to serve as the Assistant Dean for Stu...
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July 23, 2025 at 3:43 PM
We have a terrific opening. Please repost! Join our team at the College of Letters and Science at Montana State University in Bozeman. careers.insidehighered.com/job/3374448/...
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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...
www.historians.org
July 11, 2025 at 2:44 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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The Senate appropriations committee has voiced its intent to ignore the request by President Donald Trump to slash the budgets of the National Science Foundation and NASA science programs. scim.ag/4nW7XWi
Senate spending panel would rescue NSF and NASA science funding
Its support for a flat budget is a sign of congressional resistance to drastic cuts Trump has proposed
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July 10, 2025 at 8:41 PM
The Senate appropriations committee has voiced its intent to ignore the request by President Donald Trump to slash the budgets of the National Science Foundation and NASA science programs. scim.ag/4nW7XWi
Join Montana State University's College of Letters and Science! We are seeking a new assistant dean to advance and support the college's mission in undergraduate student success, recruitment, and retention. The full position description and posting are linked here: jobs.montana.edu/postings/47389
Assistant Dean for Student Success and Outreach
The College of Letters & Science is searching for a highly motivated and experienced leader to spearhead recruitment and retention efforts for the College via increased visibility, increased enrollmen...
jobs.montana.edu
July 9, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Join Montana State University's College of Letters and Science! We are seeking a new assistant dean to advance and support the college's mission in undergraduate student success, recruitment, and retention. The full position description and posting are linked here: jobs.montana.edu/postings/47389
Happy birthday to our special one today! 24!!
June 20, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Happy birthday to our special one today! 24!!
Six years since my Juneteenth 2019 tour through southern Maryland with Letitia Clark and Guilford Queen, descendants of the families who sued for freedom from slavery in the 1790s.
June 20, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Six years since my Juneteenth 2019 tour through southern Maryland with Letitia Clark and Guilford Queen, descendants of the families who sued for freedom from slavery in the 1790s.
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The AHA is pleased to announce this year's #AHAPerspectives summer columnists! Congratulations to Mary F. Casey (Univ. of California, Riverside), Alisa Kuzmina (Univ. of Minnesota), and Cecilia Slane (Univ. of Oklahoma), who will each write two columns. Learn about them and their upcoming work: 🗃️
Meet the 2025 Perspectives Daily Summer Columnists – AHA
Introducing the three graduate students who will write about teaching history writing as a former playwright, researching international marriages in a time of immigration uncertainty, and engaging wit...
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June 3, 2025 at 2:15 PM
The AHA is pleased to announce this year's #AHAPerspectives summer columnists! Congratulations to Mary F. Casey (Univ. of California, Riverside), Alisa Kuzmina (Univ. of Minnesota), and Cecilia Slane (Univ. of Oklahoma), who will each write two columns. Learn about them and their upcoming work: 🗃️
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Consultants, software developers, fundraisers, soldiers, human rights commissioners—read how history graduates say their degrees helped them in a variety of careers. www.historians.org/teaching-lea...
In Their Own Words: Testimonials from History Majors | American Historical Association
The history major provides both a stepping stone towards dynamic careers in many industries and preparation for ongoing contribution to civic life.
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June 3, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Consultants, software developers, fundraisers, soldiers, human rights commissioners—read how history graduates say their degrees helped them in a variety of careers. www.historians.org/teaching-lea...
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The American Society for Legal History runs a program to help scholars navigate the dissertation-to-book process. This year's group will be led by the brilliant Prof. Chris Schmidt of Chicago-Kent Law. A fantastic opportunity! To apply: aslh.net/award/wallac...
Wallace Johnson First Book Program | American Society for Legal History
The biennial Wallace Johnson Program for First Book Authors provides advice and support to scholars working toward the publication of first books in legal history, broadly defined. In conversation wit...
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June 2, 2025 at 8:07 PM
The American Society for Legal History runs a program to help scholars navigate the dissertation-to-book process. This year's group will be led by the brilliant Prof. Chris Schmidt of Chicago-Kent Law. A fantastic opportunity! To apply: aslh.net/award/wallac...
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A tiny but wild snapshot of the current chaos
May 29, 2025 at 11:59 AM
A tiny but wild snapshot of the current chaos
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The new hire is possible through support from Report for America and CatchLight.
Montana Free Press bringing on photographer
The new hire is possible through support from Report for America and CatchLight, a San Francisco-based visual media organization that specializes in accessible image-based reporting.
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May 27, 2025 at 11:19 PM
The new hire is possible through support from Report for America and CatchLight.
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"Academic freedom-the ability to pursue the truth wherever it might lead, and to make publicly available what one believes is true ...[is] not the arcane privilege of an... intellectual guild, but a prerogative essential to the functioning of our Republic and the education of its citizenry."
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This, UVA’s 200th Commencement Address from Michael J. Suarez, SJ, University Professor and Director of the @rarebookschool, is very very good and something that needs more saying. Astonishing that we have to remind our higher ed leaders of that at this very moment. news.virginia.edu/content/fina...
May 22, 2025 at 4:41 PM
"Academic freedom-the ability to pursue the truth wherever it might lead, and to make publicly available what one believes is true ...[is] not the arcane privilege of an... intellectual guild, but a prerogative essential to the functioning of our Republic and the education of its citizenry."
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The AHA encourages members to contact their senators today through the Coalition for International Education & @humanitiesall.bsky.social's action alert, & urge them to sign on to Sen. Schatz's letter supporting robust funding for international education & foreign language infrastructure in FY26. 🗃️
Take Action for International Education!
I just took action to increase funding for Title VI and Fulbright-Hays! Join me and take action here.
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May 22, 2025 at 8:25 PM
The AHA encourages members to contact their senators today through the Coalition for International Education & @humanitiesall.bsky.social's action alert, & urge them to sign on to Sen. Schatz's letter supporting robust funding for international education & foreign language infrastructure in FY26. 🗃️
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NSF Physics was cut by 85%, basically wiping out most of its capacity for supporting research.
NSF Astronomy was cut by 53%
Undergrad education was cut by 71% and research on learning by 79%
Graduate education was cut by 100% to ZERO.
#GiftLink ⚛️🔭
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NSF Astronomy was cut by 53%
Undergrad education was cut by 71% and research on learning by 79%
Graduate education was cut by 100% to ZERO.
#GiftLink ⚛️🔭
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Trump Has Cut Science Funding to Its Lowest Level in Decades (Gift Article)
The lag in funding extends far beyond D.E.I. initiatives, affecting almost every area of science: chemistry, computing, engineering, materials and more.
www.nytimes.com
May 22, 2025 at 3:34 PM
NSF Physics was cut by 85%, basically wiping out most of its capacity for supporting research.
NSF Astronomy was cut by 53%
Undergrad education was cut by 71% and research on learning by 79%
Graduate education was cut by 100% to ZERO.
#GiftLink ⚛️🔭
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
NSF Astronomy was cut by 53%
Undergrad education was cut by 71% and research on learning by 79%
Graduate education was cut by 100% to ZERO.
#GiftLink ⚛️🔭
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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From #AHAPerspectives in 2024: As a new department chair presiding over end of year celebrations, @bryanbanksphd.bsky.social “felt compelled to draw together the reasons we were in that room and in that community.” 🗃️
Guardians of the Tapestry of Time – AHA
As the academic year ends, one history department chair reflects on the work of history.
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May 19, 2025 at 7:00 PM
From #AHAPerspectives in 2024: As a new department chair presiding over end of year celebrations, @bryanbanksphd.bsky.social “felt compelled to draw together the reasons we were in that room and in that community.” 🗃️
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Decades after the release of his first feature film, Alexander Payne is preparing for a career first: a sequel. The Oscar-winning filmmaker from Omaha is in the early stages of a follow-up to his acclaimed 1999 comedy “Election.” It promises to be “a very, very Omaha movie.” 🔗 buff.ly/BL7UL3S
May 19, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Decades after the release of his first feature film, Alexander Payne is preparing for a career first: a sequel. The Oscar-winning filmmaker from Omaha is in the early stages of a follow-up to his acclaimed 1999 comedy “Election.” It promises to be “a very, very Omaha movie.” 🔗 buff.ly/BL7UL3S