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Exciting and practical house designs coming out of Scandinavia

submitted 17 days ago • 54 comments

Officially done with grading so Lou Lou and I went on a celebratory walk 😊

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Lou Lou keeping me company as I submit seniors’ final grades #amgrading

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Today I gave my last exam at Elon University. I’ve been blessed to get to know some wonderful students and faculty over the three years. (Also incredibly grateful for the extra income that adjunct and LT work brings a broke grad student) Bittersweet to leave, but I’m excited for the next chapter. 🙂

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

The number of students this semester writing the "late 1990s" has me feeling like I need to look for retirement homes. #amgrading

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I wrote about the first time that the @librarycongress.bsky.social became a battleground in an American culture war. @politico.com www.politico.com/news/magazin...

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The SAWH Triennial Conference is just over a month away, and we want you in Daytona Beach with us! Register now at sawh2025.org #sawh2025

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So many groundbreaking scholars are only in the field because of these grants. We are going to lose a generation's worth of knowledge that we will never get back: www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...

submitted 28 days ago • 7 comments

Wright Brothers Monument with the fam

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A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

submitted 31 days ago • 40 comments

The Conclave to elect the 267th Pope begins today. This broadside, probably printed in Venice, shows plans for getting food and drink to cardinals in a Papal #Conclave in 1605. The food was checked for hidden messages and the door was guarded. @theulspeccoll.bsky.social T*.4.51(D)

submitted 32 days ago • 2 comments

I always enjoy listening to my students podcasts — especially in an online course where I don’t get to see these students. It’s so much fun to hear their voices and thoughts on the readings we’ve been working through. 😊

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It's final paper season.

submitted 34 days ago • 11 comments

The Society for #Historians of the #GildedAge & #ProgressiveEra is on Bluesky! We'll share Society news, opportunities, & blog posts from the SHGAPE Blog (blog.shgape.org). Check out our recently refreshed website (www.shgape.org) & give us a follow! #history #skystorians #historysky #historiansky

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Ordered my ticket for #sawh2025 !! Getting excited 😊

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This gender split is troubling but not surprising. As girls have started out-achieving boys academically, school and related things like reading have come to be seen as "feminine." Which becomes a self-perpetuating cycle, leading some people to view school--and thus reading--as too "girly" for boys.

submitted 37 days ago • 24 comments

A bit from recent travels to Sioux Falls 😊

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In honor of May Day 🚩, we've scoured our archives to bring to you some of the best pieces that explore the history of labor struggles in the US. We've also linked to timeless advice pieces about how to find balance and joy in our work as academics. Give us a follow if you like what you see. 🗃️

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#SCOTUS's conservative majority seemed on Wednesday to be on the verge of taking a transformative step—a step that would for the first time allow overtly religious schools to be fully funded by the taxpayers. www.npr.org/2025/04/30/n...

submitted 39 days ago • 5 comments

didn't have "The NY Times discovers there are Christians" on my bingo card for this year

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Love detailing the ends and outs of historical figure’s inability to hold down a job because he was an OG Theo-bro…

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My two research assistants are sleeping on the job 🙄

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Thing I'm a big history crank about: you just cannot take at face value white narratives of slave rebellions/conspiracies nor testimony extracted from enslaved people as part of investigations into them.

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment

I’m beginning to think that 4 pm cup of coffee was a mistake

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You know you’re heading back to the Greensboro/High Point airport when there is a whole fancy furniture display on your way to baggage claim.

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

I'm writing about 1950s cancer quackery + the wellness to TradWife pipeline is robust: “We will again need real housewives, not eager to save kitchen time, but homemakers who will devote their lives to the benefit of all, especially the task of developing + maintaining a healthy family..."

submitted 52 days ago • 2 comments

I read Alexandra Walsham's excellent supplemental article "The Social History of the Archive" and am currently making my way through Jennifer Summit's remarkable book "Memory's Library." I'm struck again and again by how many efforts there have been throughout time to restrict people from knowledge.

submitted 58 days ago • 1 comment

The National Endowment for the Humanities' grants have wide reach. And they're hard to get! Decent coverage from NPR this morning. www.npr.org/2025/04/10/n...

submitted 59 days ago • 1 comment

I cannot overstate the importance of reading books, particularly novels by respected authors, for critical thinking skills and reading comprehension. If the big gun novelists don't interest you, start small and work your way up. Or read whatever interests you. Just read. Or listen. It's all books.

submitted 60 days ago • 279 comments

Check out the handout from the AHA’s Congressional Briefing on the history of deportation. Panelists @hidehirota.bsky.social, Ana Raquel Minian Andjel, & @yaelschacher.bsky.social shared policies concerning immigration & deportation throughout US history. 🗃️

submitted 61 days ago • 1 comment

This makes me want to cry

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Please contact your representatives and ask them to help save the NEH! It's easy--just go here to send them an email: p2a.co/DdtlGIT?mc_c...

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ˢᵒᵐᵉ ʰⁱˢᵗᵒʳʸ ᵐⁱᵍʰᵗ ʰᵉˡᵖ?? www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/b...

submitted 66 days ago • 1 comment

April 1st is critical reading skills day: the one day when EVERYONE approaches random data as if it might have an unseen agenda.

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

thinking of Mr Rogers today

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The AHA's Lepage Center Award is offered annually to recognize distinguished contributions to public history, broadly defined. Individuals and collaborative groups are eligible to apply. Submit nominations by May 15. 🗃️

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

"It’s not that historians are distorting the past to make a point about the present. The discomfort comes from the fact that historians are often disrupting or destroying connections people have already made between the past and the present, connections that may be based on no evidence at all."

submitted 73 days ago • 4 comments

"Strange posture for the Party of Lincoln." Thomas Stockett, Baltimore Afro-American, 7/30/1960.

submitted 73 days ago • 1 comment

SPOTTED: At House Oversight Committee hearing on PBS .. amid calls to defund public broadcasting

submitted 74 days ago • 19 comments

🔗 Websites vanish. Links break. But knowledge can live on with your help. Use the Wayback Machine’s Save Page Now tool to archive webpages that are important to you. 🕰️ 💾 📌 Try it now: web.archive.org/save

submitted 87 days ago • 67 comments

Contingent history peeps, check this out 🗃️

submitted 90 days ago • 1 comment

Researching my second book, I found that the first person to press the ACLU with a lawsuit against state-mandated Bible reading in public schools was Madyln Murray O'Hair, an outspoken atheist known as "the most hated woman in America." They advanced a case with a Unitarian family instead.

submitted 90 days ago • 8 comments

In personal news, I got married last week 😊

submitted 90 days ago • 2 comments