Congratulations again to our 2024 Award and Grant winners! These award and grant winners are being honored at the Presidential Luncheon starting now. #acha2025

Day 2 of the ACHA Annual Meeting is a wrap! Here are photos from the ACHA Social this evening. #ACHA2025 #AHA25

Congratulations again to our 2024 Award and Grant winners! These award and grant winners are being honored at the Presidential Luncheon starting now. #acha2025 #AHA25

The American Catholic Historical Association is accepting paper and panel proposals for its spring meeting at St. Norbert College in De Pere, Wisconsin. Consider applying and spread the word! #CRGC #SLU #proposals

Do you want to put a panel together for next year's ACHA Annual Meeting in Chicago? Our program committee has created a 'Panel Connections' Google Sheet for you! For more information and to submit your panel, go to achahistory.org/chicago2026/.

The ACHA Annual Meeting is a great place for graduate students, contingent faculty, public historians, curators, librarians and archivists, & independent scholars studying Catholicism! To get more information and submit, go to achahistory.org/chicago2026/.

Maybe I'm overly sensitive bc of my line of work, but why does *every single part* of this economy feel like an obstacle course? Booking a flight, seeing a doctor, getting insurance, finding housing, taking your animal to the vet... Are people just numb to all this?

The ACHA writes to express its strong opposition to the recommended termination of tenured faculty in the departments of theology and religious studies, history, and other core areas of the humanities at St. Norbert College. achahistory.org/stnorbert

"Using AI to create art and scholarship adds another layer of insidious censorship. In a way, it’s almost worse — people think they are writing and thinking and making, but in many cases, they are generating something obvious and pre-controlled." irinadumitrescu.substack.com/p/the-world-is…

For those who study Catholics in conflict, did you hear about this upcoming conference? It is being put together by previous Presidential Travel Grant recipient Joshua Madrid! The submission deadline is March 14.

It’s time for Democrats to throw off the dead hand of Clintonism! So argues Lily Geismer in this excavation of the enduring influence of Clinton-era politics on today’s Dem Party. If you want to understand why they’re flailing so badly, this explains a lot. bit.ly/4aYTXoq

A University of Dayton story of my ACHA interview with Martin Scorsese at St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral. UD historian honors, interviews Martin Scorsese at NYC’s Old St. Patrick’s Cathedral : University of Dayton, Ohio udayton.edu/blogs/artsscie…

What is this? It looks like Trump is hearing Zelensky's confession. Who staged this?

On the occasion of Karl Marx's birthday, I will send a free, signed copy of my new book, "Karl Marx in America," to a randomly selected person. To be entered in the drawing, simply retweet. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book…

Those Catholics are worthy of all praise...who.. have striven...to better the condition of the working class by rightful means. They have taken up the cause of the working man... to infuse a spirit of equity into the mutual relations of employers and employed- Leo XIII

Before becoming the first US-born pope, Robert Francis Prevost publicly criticized J. D. Vance for his anti-immigrant interpretation of scripture. 📰 Read: jacobin.com/2025/05/pope-l…

"Leo XIV said the Church must now take the lead in facing newer threats to workers, such as artificial intelligence. He said AI posed "new challenges for the defence of human dignity, justice and labour." reuters.com/world/pope-leo…

A really excellent episode too! Matthew Sitman Sam Adler-Bell

Public radio in Dayton WYSO Public Radio | 91.3 FM interviewed me about the new pope--UD professor on Pope Leo: 'He's an American, but I think he may surprise us in what that means' wyso.org/arts-culture/2…