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As Lake Placid gears up to host the IBSF World Championships, the town highlights its long history & important heritage in bobsled & skeleton #sporthistory #sportheritage 🗃️ A Small Town and a Global Sliding Sports Legacy that Keeps on Delivering mtvanhoevenberg.com/2025/02/25/g...

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To host the Olympics a country must guarantee that they will allow all athletes, officials, etc into the country. There have been some ways to get around this during the Cold War but that was for non-recognition of countries (like East Germany) but this is clearly against specific athletes

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Sharing again over the weekend for any additional recommendations. Thanks historians! 🗃️

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These past few days, everyone and their grandpas has become hockey/sport scholars. And the takes have been bad. Yet, when it comes to funding the actual scholarship, it's echoes of "But why?"

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This is for my dad. He liked @sarahpmyers.bsky.social Earning their Wings about the WWII women pilots and loves everything @profloumoore.bsky.social writes on sport. Can be a new book or a classic history 🗃️

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These photographic history posts from my DMU colleagues are awesome - wr have such cool materials on campus in @dmuspecialcolls.bsky.social 🗃️

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Need a good academic book 📚recommendation for the British side during American independence. Can be a broader British history for the second half of the 1700s. Thanks historians! 🗃️ #milhist

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35 years ago, in the night of 19-20 February, the dismantling of the Berlin Wall in the Potsdam Square area began. Former East German border troops started taking down a two-kilometre-long segment of the Wall between Brandenburg Gate and Checkpoint Charlie.

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This is an exciting new series with @umasspress.bsky.social I published my monograph with UMass Press & they were fab to work with. If you have a book idea that fits, definitely reach out to them!

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Really excited to see this @ijhs.bsky.social special issue on field hockey 🏑 history. Lots of really interesting articles 🗃️

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This one feels like a game of French Revolution or Philly after Eagles Super Bowl victory? (The entire thread is hilarious though)

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This is a great list.

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✨GIVEAWAY✨ Smokes has taken over my CUP delivery box so it’s time for a giveaway of 2 paperback copies of Blue Helmet Bureaucrats! UK and EU addresses only pls (soz global pals!). RT & like for entry. Will randomly select the winners next Sat. 🩵💙🩵

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Historians - have a student interested in sport? Share our Sports History & Culture MA with them ⬇️ 🗃️

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Heather read several versions of this article and still finds it interesting! I can't recommend enough having a good academic friend (emphasis on friend) with a merciless purple pen!

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Yesterday marked 1 year to the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics. Interested in the Winter Games' history? Check out the @ijhs.bsky.social article @wpgsarah.bsky.social & I wrote (Open Access): "The Winter Olympics: A Century of Games on Ice and Snow" ❄️ 🗃️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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This is an excellent article from @beapichel.bsky.social - really fascinating photo history, medical history, & french history 🗃️

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This does not bode well for the USOPC especially with LA28 and SLCUT2034 in the works. IOC does not like government interference - just saying. apnews.com/article/dona...

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Congrats @zachtayler.bsky.social & welcome to the Hogan Fellowship club! Never easy to decide the winner but looking forward to his future work based on increased language skills. Excited for one more year on this @shafrhistorians.bsky.social committee since it was the first SHAFR grant I won 🗃️

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My former employer, the Chicago Tribune, asked if I would write something about the plane crash that killed some two dozen members of the figure skating family. Here it is:

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“Bosnia and Herzegovina and Sofia in Bulgaria had expressed plans to bid for the same event, but no other candidates were elevated to targeted dialogue by the IOC. In line with the new less-transparent bid process, details about other interested bidders were not disclosed.” Ahh, Olympic bidding…

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👀 www.latimes.com/sports/story...

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Even if you didn’t study history but would like to do this fully online course - from anywhere in the 🌎 - check it out! Can be done full tume in 1 year or part time over 2 years. Soccer! The Olympics! Any and all other sports - lots of choice for a thesis topic 🗃️

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First the sliding track closed, and now possibly the speed skaing rink. If that happens would be a huge loss for winter sport, and especially Canadian athlete development. #sportshistory 🗃️ www.cbc.ca/sports/olymp...

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These book cookies 🍪 are amazing! It feels like @cornellupress.bsky.social needs to hire @tgpeterson.bsky.social ‘s mom as part of the marketing team. And then promote book cookies in the pitch to authors for why it’s so great to publish with them

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Why are university presses important? A thread 🧵

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Have had a great week at our final @britishacademy.bsky.social International Writing Workshop on developing #sportshistory in Africa run by Tarminder Kaur, @malcomaxx.bsky.social @kschille.bsky.social (who took the 📸) & me. Looking forward to 2 special issues of @ijhs.bsky.social & Sport in History

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My latest for the @theguardian.com: "Donald Trump’s Return to Power Lays Bare the Lie that Sports Don’t Matter." Sports are politics by other means, and in the coming years, sports will be vital political terrain. www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/j...

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Exciting to see my PhD student @emmyailish.bsky.social first work from her research at The Hockey Museum 🏑 #sportshistory 🗃️

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This was my very first game in The Big House. Sat in the other endzone - had no idea how the play went until that end of the stadium erupted in cheers. #GoBlue

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Look how cool the #photohist collections at @dmuspecialcolls.bsky.social are!! 📷📸

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We are now on Bluesky! Follow us for all things #SportHistory, including new research in the field, along with @nassh1972.bsky.social to get updates about the organization and the annual NASSH Conference!

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We are now on Bluesky! Follow us for all things #SportHistory, including the annual NASSH Conference, along with @journsporthist.bsky.social to get updates about new research in the field!

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Team shimeji here! 🍄

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Skiers on Hardangerjøkulen, photographed by Anders Beer Wilse in the spring of 1910 🎿 📷: Norsk Folkemuseum

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Did you complete a PhD dissertation on any aspect of sport history between Jan 1, 2023 & Dec 31, 2024 or supervise a student who did? If so, consider applying for the NASSH Dissertation Prize before January 31. Details here (quick join if not a member!) www.nassh.org/awards/disse... #sportshistory 🗃️

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Any suggestions to help with the posting for @ijhs.bsky.social from our wonderful Editorial Committee member @fionaskillen.bsky.social ? Thanks! 🗃️

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