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History professor at KSU, specializing in nineteenth century America. Author of Slavery on the Periphery (UGA), editor of the journal Kansas History. She/her. 2w1. INFJ. Ideas and opinions my own.
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Heads-up for those who have purchased Amazon's Kindle ebooks: Starting Feb. 26, Amazon is removing feature that allows you to download purchased books to a computer (which is useful for backup or converting to formats compatible with non-Kindle e-readers) www.theverge.com/news/612898/...

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“I tell my students, ‘When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else”. - Toni Morrison born Feb 18.

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This was to be expected, but it doesn’t make it any less horrifying.

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Wherever possible please buy your books directly from authors and/or publishers. Even ebooks (then Amazon can't delete them either). We make a better cut and you get the same thing or better, plus Bezos and ilk don't get richer. Win win win.

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Brian Gibbs had no clue Friday would be his last day at his dream job. The education technician park ranger at Effigy Mounds National Monument in Iowa reported to work, only to be terminated on despite receiving an exceptional performance evaluation in the fall.

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Haskell has been an incredible asset to both Kansas and the many Indigenous communities its student body, faculty, and staff represent. This is a shockingly cruel blow.

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The University of Virginia has created a website of archived government websites—bookmark it—you’re going to need it later. guides.lib.virginia.edu/c.php?g=1451...

submitted 10 days ago • 74 comments

Civil War historians! The deadline for the Center for Civil War Research's Wiley-Silver Prize (Friday, 2/21) approaches! If you published your first book this year on a topic related to the CW, please submit! As @mkn.bsky.social reminds us all, authors, make sure your press has nominated you!

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Trump fires archivist of the United States, official who oversees government records

submitted 15 days ago • 5 comments

What we are seeing is Jim Crow 2.0.

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My university library is assembling a list of resources for disappeared US government #data. Check it out: subjectguides.library.american.edu/data_rescue

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Watching the Barbie movie to remember that despite the Kens’ coup, in the end, they get Barbieland and their Constitution back by working together. 💖

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Listened to Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) on C-SPAN. He listed many examples of USAID funds being spent on projects he considers useless, like 2.5 million for electric vehicles for Vietnam or funding to support DEI in Serbia. He was hoping to persuade us that this is wasteful spending. (1/2)

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This Black History Month, you'll be supporting Black Penned Stories. Follow this Starter Pack. This isn't DEI. It's Anti-Segregation. #BlackSky #BookSky go.bsky.app/Thz8U7e

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I know the staff there, and they are diligent and dedicated to telling these important stories.

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Does anyone know where I can find the original tariff schedule from Smoot-Hawley? I have been going in circles on .gov sites for a while and can only find amended ones

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The 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution granted African American men the right to vote. . . . Although ratified on Feb. 3, 1870, the promise of the 15th Amendment would not be fully realized for almost a century. Image: Alfred Waud, "The First Vote," Harpers, Nov. 16, 1867. Library of Congress

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Hey if anyone is considering backing up any datasets for some reason today, the Open Science Framework has free storage up to 5G/private repository, and up to 50G/public repository. (The OSF is run by a 501c3 (Center for Open Science), so if you do this you might also consider making a donation.)

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Has anyone access to full text of D.V. Nicholson (ed), The King’s Negroes: The Journal of Boatswain Fox, Antigua Navy Yard, 1820–1823? It was excerpted in the Antiguan Historical Association newsletter but unless I missed something it's not really clear if it's the entire journal. #MaritimeHistory

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She’s an absolutely fascinating woman.

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If you want to stop doom scrolling but stay informed, I recommend you watch @pbsnews.bsky.social. You get a digest of key issues, and they share some uplifting stories about arts and culture. Confining my news consumption to an hour per day does wonders. You can also access it as a podcast!

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On Holocaust Remembrance Day, remember that it was ordinary people who committed the atrocities. The Nazi’s were not born evil, nor were they monsters. It diminishes the reality of the Holocaust to think this way. It was people who were raised and conditioned to obey, and it can happen again.

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