If your most diverse departments are your lowest-paid departments (interpreters, security, custodial, museum store, etc.), then you are not an inclusive institution no matter what you posted on social media in the summer of 2020

It should be a bigger news story that a college is having to close its doors for the week due to threats of violence incited by the Republican nominee for president.

Reminder: Call for Papers is out for MHA 2025 in Iowa. We can’t wait to see old friends and new faces as we explore “New Directions in Midwest History”

Having the police give out little cards for family and friends to break the law feels like an fake example of corruption you'd teach schoolchildren because it's so egregious it can't possibly be real, and yet.

Omg they’re really going with this argument. Also, it’s false.

Tune in tomorrow as we talk to Thomas Lecaque about the Crusades and why the right just loves losers so much. Also, John delivers bad news about ciabatta and Thomas and Kelly play a round of our brand new game "What The Hell Was He Talking About?"

First planning meeting for a Scouting high adventure doing Boundary Waters next summer. I am absurdly excited.

BREAKING: The Des Moines City Council just passed a heartless ordinance that criminalizes people for sleeping in public when they have nowhere else to go.

This week, Thomas Lecaque joins John Brooks 🥥🌴/🍺🎣 and Dr. Kelly J. Baker (she/her) to talk about the Crusades and why the right just loves losers so much. Also, a round of our brand new game "What The Hell Was He Talking About?" SPOTIFY: bit.ly/4d6IjY5 APPLE: bit.ly/3zipIup

Have you registered??? Have you told someone in the Boston area??? Details on flyer and at: bit.ly/ClayBU Please spread the word!

The call for proposals is out for the 2025 New York State History Conference in Albany, June 5-6, 2025! The theme is "Constructing the Empire State: Innovation, Environment, and Imagination in New York History." For more information, visit nysm.nysed.gov/research-colle…

Coming soon from Cambridge University Press! Thanks to Cecelia Cancellaro!

I have not heard this discussed much, but this point is spot on. Colleges and universities cannot sell themselves as bastions of environmental sustainability while also encouraging students and faculty to see ChatGPT as a learning tool they should integrate into their work.

Shadow King.

The day Vance first posted about Springfield, his staff member asked Springfield’s city manager if the claim was true. The city manager says he said it was baseless. Vance left the post up, then Trump said it at the debate anyway. (Via The Wall Street Journal)