Neighbor History

05/13/2026

https://neighborhistory.substack.com/p/how-bonner-county-turns-volunteers

Every so often, you stumble across a historical society that isn’t just preserving the past — it’s actively teaching people how to work with it.

05/13/2026

https://neighborhistory.substack.com/p/when-a-historic-society-chooses-people

Why History Cambridge’s pivot aligns perfectly with the principles of neighbor history

05/12/2026

https://neighborhistory.substack.com/p/how-the-ustc-redraws-the-map-of-ordinary

Why Rebuilding a World Matters More Than Tracing a Lineage

04/19/2026

https://neighborhistory.substack.com/p/englands-fire-and-the-meaning-of

The book, God’s Fury, England’s Fire by Michael Braddick, offers a sweeping account of how the religious and political upheavals of the 17th century shaped England, Scotland and Ireland.

04/05/2026

https://neighborhistory.substack.com/p/reading-a-society-through-its-books

And What Neighbor Historians Can Learn

04/05/2026

https://neighborhistory.substack.com/p/seeds-of-the-pomegranate

Suzanne’s Journey from Scholarship to Fiction

03/19/2026

https://neighborhistory.substack.com/p/the-olympics-community-and-the-power

If you’re anything like me, you’re watching the Winter Olympics and getting swept up in the spectacle, young athletes competing at the highest level, sharing in each other’s triumphs and heartbreaks, and reminding us what human effort can look like when it’s pushed to its limits.

12/25/2025

https://neighborhistory.substack.com/p/abandoning-america-life-stories-from

A Christmas Review!

12/20/2025

https://neighborhistory.substack.com/p/reflections-from-the-boston-antiquarian

A Window into the Past

12/09/2025

The US Post Offices dataset was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock. It is a spatial‑historical collection containing records for 166,140 post offices that operated in the United States between 1639 and 2000. The maps showing the expansion of post offices over time are particularly fascinating.

https://substack.com/profile/505035-john-cass/note/c-185964015

12/01/2025

https://neighborhistory.substack.com/p/what-happens-when-you-research-the

Isabel Wilkerson’s The Warmth of Other Suns