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Huge congratulations to @kathleenduval.bsky.social, former member of the UNC Press Board of Governors, on winning a Pulitzer Prize for her book NATIVE NATIONS 🎉👏 college.unc.edu/2025/05/duva...

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#CFP Submit a proposal for the Mid-Atlantic Regional AAS conference, which will be held at University of Pittsburgh, November 14-16. All paper and panel proposals should be submitted by July 1 for consideration. buff.ly/8gVGU1y

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Check out this book review from @contingent-mag.bsky.social and then be sure to check out @aimloiselle.bsky.social's monograph!

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Seeking 12 grad student Sharing Stories Fellows: for peer-reviewed, open-access website, Sharing Stories from 1977: Putting National Women’s Conference on the Map, a hub for documenting and interpreting 1977 National Women’s Conference (NWC) @womenknowhistory.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social

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Check out this #Jewish #BookHistory podast from @seforimchatter.bsky.social on the inimitable Jewish woman memoirist Glikl & get her book from @brandeispress.bsky.social 2 see the genius of English translator Sara Friedman & Glikl scholar Chava Turniansky @womenknowhistory.bsky.social spotify 1/

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Today on the blog I wrote up my reactions to the recent yougov poll asking Americans what they know about medieval history. (TL/DR more than they used to, less than I'd like. I am medium mad.) going-medieval.com/2025/04/30/o...

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Hello hello, Quaker history lovers and Pennsylvania residents! There's still time to sign up for this weekend's Spring event with the Friends Historical Association, a guided tour of the historic Harriton House. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Ever wanted to delve into the #history of the "Baby Blues" #Skystorians? We're hosting a fantastic #AMA with @rachellouisemoran.bsky.social , & looking to answer all your questions about the history of postpartum mental health, the politics of diagnosis, modern motherhood, & more!

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Exciting PhD opportunity – and funded! Performance and Musical Trade in the Caribbean in the Long 19th Century jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

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Tenure track job in humanities (Near East material culture being one possible area) www.paycomonline.net/v4/ats/web.p...

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A new podcast episode to kick off your Friday!

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This coming Monday: mark your calendars!

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Do check out this opportunity, historians!

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I'm pleased to announce that my paper 'Trans* people’s perceptions of political participation in the wake of voter identification requirements: evidence from the UK', co-authored with Ash Stokoe, is now available Open Access with the European Journal of Politics and Gender doi.org/10.1332/2515... 🌈🎓

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Just one week left to get your abstracts in for 'Ireland and the American Revolution: 250th Anniversary Perspectives'. Conference speakers include Eliga Gould, Patrick Griffin, Nicholas Canny, and James Stafford, among others. Please don't hesitate to email if you have any questions at all.

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I'm speaking tonight at the Irish-American Historical Society on charity and the Famine - and will be talking about - among other things - resonances between resistance to the Corn Laws and the current political moment in the United States. aihsny.org/events-2/aid...

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No better day than Earth Day to brush up on some environmental history! To mark the occasion, we're revisiting Laura Turner Igoe's piece from 2016 placing lumber and an elm bust of William Penn in the historic context of PA's changing environmental realities. commonplace.online/article/the-...

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@womenshistnet.bsky.social @nursingclio.bsky.social @emwjournal.bsky.social @womenknowhistory.bsky.social @ifrwh.bsky.social @historians.org @histoirecoloniale.bsky.social @myhnn.bsky.social @berksconference.bsky.social @zinnedproject.bsky.social @lgbtqhistorya.bsky.social

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Reading to start your week, historians!

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Pls repost. Help! Picking books for a US women's hist survey. What excellent memoirs get at the 1960s/70s? So far, I'm def using Moody's Coming of Age in MS and VanDevanter's Home Before Morning. What else? 🗃️ @womenknowhistory.bsky.social @jwomenshistory.bsky.social @thewphp.bsky.social

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In 1939, when Sec. of Labor Frances Perkins pushed back on pressure to ideologically deport Australian-born labor leader Harry Bridges, she faced impeachment by Congress. Perkins insisted on upholding the rule of law & ensuring it was appropriately applied to Bridges.🗃️ Ch. 4 in "Threat of Dissent"

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Are you a student or emerging professional interested in public history and looking to share your work/research? The @ncph.bsky.social New Professional and Student Committee would love to support you! Share your work, projects, and anything else : ncph.org/ncph-student...

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New episode! Historian @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social joined me to talk monsters, narrative structure, her new book HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY (@ucpress.bsky.social) and more. Listen here: draftingthepast.com/podcast-epis...

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It was a pleasure to talk about the history of unplugged, wood-burning stoves on History Unplugged www.parthenonpodcast.com/history-unpl...

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Heading off to New Orleans tomorrow for the @pcaaca.bsky.social conference! If you’re going, make sure you catch me and @librarianchef.bsky.social on Friday evening as we share a sneak peek into our forthcoming volume, “Libraries, Archives, and Collective Grief” 📚💀 #pcaaca25

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Doing a new kind of history where I talk to people. Aiming to learn more about women’s experiences of work in North London since the 1960s. If you are, or know, a woman over 65 from this part of the world, then please get in touch!

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Thursday, April 17, The Toronto Old English Colloquium welcomes University of Minnesota-Morris' Janet Ericksen, who will present "Reading the Gaps in MS Junius 11." The colloquium includes a morning symposium on the poems of the Junius Manuscript, lunch, and a reception. uoft.me/brC

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I spoke with @katecarp.bsky.social on Drafting the Past about HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY, just out w/ @ucpress.bsky.social. We talked about: leaving academia for authoring; analogue & digital writing tech; ... 1/n 💙📚 🧪🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #HAMH

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ICYMI: Our Trans Day of Visibility reading list! Featuring 30+ articles and books, including work by Paisley Currah, Marquis Bey, Elizabeth Reis, Jules Gill-Peterson, Cassius Adair, Susan Stryker and more All journal articles free thru 15 April! tinyurl.com/jtamp6e3

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Another tough week but I’m really looking forward to ASEH in Pittsburgh, seeing friends and presenting as part of a great panel on the cryosphere. If you are interested in pitching to Endeavour come find me at the Omni! www.sciencedirect.com/journal/ende...

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'Kujitemea', or self-reliance, was a key understanding within Tanzanian socialist ideas in the 1970s. Yasmina Martin traces the spirit of self-reliance in African National Congress projects like the Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College (SOMAFCO): www.historyworkshop....

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A 2-year postdoc within the project EIDA at the Observatoire de Paris. The successful candidate will join an interdisciplinary team exploring historical astronomical diagrams. Project's languages: Chinese, Sanskrit, Byzantine, Arabic/Persian, Hebrew, or Latin: eida.hypotheses.org/postdoc-call...

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🔬 Applications are open for the UL and @universityofleeds.bsky.social collaborative doctoral studentship: The Hidden Gender of Collections: Women and the Curation of Scientific Heritage Deadline: 30 April 2025 Apply here: loom.ly/hXILBEo @camglamresearch.bsky.social

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Congratulations to Manon C Williams who won the British Commission for Maritime History 2024 Boydell & Brewer Doctoral Prize in #MaritimeHistory! Read about her thesis and research into the journals of Royal Navy ship surgeons in Manon's blog post. buff.ly/NUEE1Uq

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@womenshistnet.bsky.social @nursingclio.bsky.social @emwjournal.bsky.social @womenknowhistory.bsky.social @ifrwh.bsky.social @historians.org @histoirecoloniale.bsky.social @myhnn.bsky.social

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Check this out, historians!

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New job: Visiting Assistant Professor, Medieval/Early Modern History College of Charleston www.h-net.org/jobs/job_displa...

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As we wrap up the final week of Women's History Month, take a look at @natlhumanities.bsky.social webinar on "(Re)Thinking and (Re)Centering the Celebration of Women's History" with Emily Krichbaum. youtu.be/hI1ffqTocSo?... #iteachsocialstudies @sschat.bsky.social

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Has any environmental or social history PhD student worked on the @neorsd.org ? Looks like a great (GREAT!) diss topic in #envhist. #skystorians #academicsky @womenknowhistory.bsky.social #edusky #water #waterstudies

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The Call for Papers for our next biennial conference is now open! Submit your proposals by 1 October 2025 so you can join us at the University of Arizona in Phoenix/Tempe, Arizona on 22-23 May 2026. More information can be found at the link below ✨ nachemotion.wordpress.com/conference/t...

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For your podcast listening enjoyment!

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Colleagues: If you're teaching this Spring or next Fall, please let me know if I can help. Happy to talk with you & your students about immigration, free speech, ideological exclusion & deportation, Cold War/McCarthyism, War on Terror, & "Threat of Dissent." 🗃️ www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

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How did the narrative of a cordwainer's wife about her disabled son, 'which she wrote her own self', fit into the religious politics of #EarlyModern England? NEW #OpenAccess article by Laura Seymour, the first publication from #WrittenWorlds our project! 🗃️ Read it here: doi.org/10.1080/0268...

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My convo with Miranda Melcher about HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY @ucpress.bsky.social was the New Books Network Book of the Day! @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social 💙📚 🧪🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #politics #HAMH 1/ www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7r0...

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Have started making this a Sunday Go-To, even tho I barely have time and my To Do list is out of control. Goes great with AM coffee and laundry time. #academicsky #skystorians @academic-chatter.bsky.social @womenknowhistory.bsky.social #edusky #highered

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🚨 New article alert! Máiréad Enright, “Up with the Brave”: Gender, Transgression and Judges’ Use of Catholic Convents in England and Ireland, 1930–1959 open access ✅ doi.org/10.1017/S073...

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Two weeks until the deadline for #SHOT2025 in Luxembourg! There are some really interesting open session proposals on here including on #energyhistory and #maintenance #histtech #envhist #histstm

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