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christinekooi.bsky.social

LSU professor, Reformation historian, immigrant, dochter van Nederlanders, birder (not necessarily in that order). Working on a book on the year 1572 in (mostly) Europe. Opinions all mine, and I speak only for myself.

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On July 6, 1650, the young Black woman Cathalina del Monte stood in the office of notary Willem Hasen behind the Stock Exchange in #Amsterdam. Cathalina was to serve at the royal court Lüneburg, as chambermaid to 'her royal grace'. #BlackHistoryMonth #agency #amsterdam750 #day23

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The tyranny of the bullet point.

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Van die razzia zijn foto's #EenFoto #WillemWilmink (1936-2003)

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To put it in terms that will hit home with many Louisianans: if there's no LSU, there's no LSU football.

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The rise of the far right is the left's fault? This is classic abuser language: "look what you made us do to you." Moral ambition, indeed.

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Movies you have watched more than six times, GIFS only.

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The ruins of my grandparents' home in Mijdrecht (NL), burned down by the Germans in 1944 in reprisal for local resistance activities. My grandfather barely escaped with his life. My father carried the trauma of that event in him the rest of his life.

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#skystorians 🗃️

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“If a married woman hasn’t paid $130 to update her passport —assuming she has one, which only about half of Americans do— she may not be able to vote in the next election if the SAVE Act becomes law,” @wendyweiser.bsky.social tells Glamour

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Digitization and its discontents.

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Below is the so-called "Fool’s Cap Map of the World", 16th c. 🌎 The globe is flattened onto the face of a court jester: an imago mundi as feast of fools at a time when cartography was still in its infancy & maps were not yet fully tools of imperialism. 🗃️ #earlymodern #map #history #Edusky

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In February 2024, KU Leuven and the Flemish Community purchased a special 2nd edition of Vesalius' “De Humani Corporis Fabrica” with personal notes by the humanist for a 3rd edition that never appeared. A video made upon its arrival is now available. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wk5B...