Larry Cebula

Small town Facebook groups are one of my favorite follows. Topics include loose dogs, school schedules, and the occasional misplaced cremated remains.

#PublicHistory peeps, I cannot recommend this documentary enough! Just a superb look at how the sausage gets made at a southern heritage tourist destination with a dark history. Natchez | 2025 Documentary From Suzannah Herbert share.google/r1e6SPlSv4bE...

The volatility and corruption around 19th century railroad growth gets glossed over beneath a heroic narrative of sinewy workers and golden spikes. #HistorySky

“He’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened up a Cheesecake Factory” — Obama

No, LinkedIn Premium. Just forget it. I am not joining.

@historians.org You need to make a public statement about this article in the Chronicle of Higher Ed because it sure looks bad.

The American Historical Association has long been useless, but is now toxic. In response to some bad press, the leadership has launched a witch hunt against its own members, demanding loyalty oaths and bringing in lawyers to intimidate its own leadership. #AcademicSky #Skystorians archive.ph/se3uL

Stick with it!

Me: I'd like to stream this documentary in class. Librarian: We don't have access but let me see what I can do. *15 minutes later* Yeah it's outside our system but it looks like there's a way. *Hour later* We bought it here's a link. God I love librarians. #AcademicSky #libraries

Haven’t taught my Museums class since 2020 and, returning to Simon’s Participatory Museum (2010), I’m struck by how much of the work seems infused by the optimism associated with “web 2.0”/early social media/Arab Spring.

Admins, if you disrespect me with busywork I'll disrespect you with AI slop. And you won't notice, because the work never mattered in the first place. #AcademicSky

A haunted house where every room has an assistant dean for teaching excellence and vice chancellor for finance

Why not? There is no god.

My online girlfriend was so shocked by the Ukraine drone strike on the Russian data centre that she's been too upset to message me all day.

I am so energized after a regional history conference packed with former students, working and prospering in the field. Said goodnight to one at the closing reception. "Goodnight, Dr. Cebula," he answered. "You can call me Larry. You graduated years ago." "I cannot," he laughed. #AcademicSky

Dear Administrators: You laid off half the support staff and students can't get registered for classes they need, or access financial aid, or make appointments at the writing center. But you want faculty to fix our poor student retention rates? #AcademicSky

Types of history books ranked: 1. Books written by historians who can write like journalists or novelists. 2. History books written by journalists who do historical research and keep up with the secondary literature. 3. Historians who write like historians. 4. Pop histories by journalists or buffs.

To avoid morning meetings I blocked out my calendar with "Saving Kittens from Burning Buildings" every day from 8 to 10:15 a.m. My provost responded with a 7 a.m. meeting request. "This is violence!* I told him. #AcademicSky

I stopped on at my favorite brewery and they gave me a sticker! #Spokane #Whistlepunk

Former Special Counsel Jack Smith: I will not be silenced by threats of prosecution from the President. The rule of law will endure. Public servants have remained faithful to their oaths despite extraordinary pressure. While fear may be contagious, courage is as well.

Free book idea in a footnote in Laura McGrath's "Middlemen: Literary Agents and the Making of American Fiction": how the mid-20th century rise of the Xerox machine enabled the rise of simultaneous submissions and changed book publishing (among other shifts in communication technology).

This guy! Trans rights are human rights.

This article about scientists making a major discovery while surviving the chaos of Trump's attacks on science is honestly kinda inspiring. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/s...

QUESTION: What’s going on with Susan Collins and the bribery scandal? But explain it to me like I’m five. ANSWER: Here you go 👇🏽

Yay my university president invited us all to a wellness seminar! "This workshop will help us better understand those reactions and explore practical tools for moving through change with greater intention, agency, and adaptability." #AcademicSky #Skystorians

Relatable.

Here's an important piece reminding us that this Jefferson DNA guy has not solved a historical mystery, no matter how many times he keeps saying so. Historians had solved this decades ago. But now a white man using science has confirmed the conclusions of a Black woman historian so please clap?

Public historians, who has developed a driving tour on an app w/ location specific narration? "Now on our left we see Mount Rushmore [story]..." I used a commercial one in the Canadian Rockies a few years ago and it was slick. Is there a platform for building one? #publichistory #digitalhumanities

It's rainy and cool in Providence today, I'm sitting on my VRBO boat lodging and grazing on Trader Joe's items and working. I'm staying and extra day for a far lower airline rate but wish I was home right now.

Friends where are those "America Needs Historians" T-shirts coming from? Obviously I need one. #workofrevolution

Powerful teaching resource: Civil Rights Cold Case files: www.coldcaserecords.gov #workofrevolution

Friends, does your university, museum, archive or whatever have an official policy on the use of AI? And can you please share it? #workofrevolution #artificialintelligence #AI #publichistory

part of this is obviously national political conditions but don't underrate the extent to which a bunch of these incumbent republicans have never had to run a competitive general election campaign and basically do not know how to do it

Lobstah Roll at Dune Brothers in Track 15 food court. I'm a New Englander and this is the best I've ever had. #WorkofRevolution

Dang downtown Providence is so beautiful. When I was growing up in Connecticut in the 1970s it was a mobbed up shit hole of a town (or so thought everyone in Connecticut!). What a turnaround. #WorkofRevolution

What happens when you book your conference travel at the last minute and every hotel room in downtown Providence is full? You stay on a boat! #WorkofRevolution indeed.

I put in my earbuds before I took my seat on this flight and the woman who sat next to me wants to chit chat so bad and I am not taking these things out until we land.

Is there a hashtag for the @ncph.bsky.social @aaslh.org joint meeting? I miss the days when the NCPH meetings spilled over onto Twitter for rich conversations.

Charlie Kirk: 1993-2025.

Stay for the last line 😂

Hi-Way Bar Washburn, ND