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wstoutamire.bsky.social
Public historian | Associate Professor of History at the University of Nebraska at Kearney | Writes on the Antiquities Act, heritage, museums, & community history | Current Project -- Stealing Antiquity: Looting and Protecting the Past in Northern Arizona
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The family that Legos together, stays together.

submitted 130 days ago • 0 comments

No, they're not caught between anything. Stop it. The fact that AI may be used or useful in future jobs does not create a single dilemma at all for college students in how to actually complete their coursework. This is all nonsense & excuses for not doing the reading & learning how to think & write.

submitted 130 days ago • 71 comments

Michel Foucault: Even when the Elf is not on the Shelf, you are never free of it. You carry the Elf within you, monitoring your own conduct for Naughtiness. You hold yourself prisoner within a self-surveilled snow globe of Santa’s making.

submitted 131 days ago • 1 comment

"you'll be visited by three spirits" The three spirits

submitted 131 days ago • 69 comments

On the left, my image. On the right, the Al image that was clearly trained on, and designed to plagiarize, my image. All Al generated imagery is inherently theft. It's unethical, environmentally disastrous, and does irreparable harm to both artists and society.

submitted 132 days ago • 340 comments

Double Trouble inspecting my end-of-semester Lego build.

submitted 134 days ago • 1 comment

"The Birth and the Unanticipated Evolution of the Public History Movement" by T. Karamanski in the new Public Humanities journal: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @ncph.bsky.social #PublicHistory #PublicHumanities

submitted 134 days ago • 2 comments

Attention public historians

submitted 136 days ago • 0 comments

Congratulations to all our UNK History graduates! I am especially proud of Tawny Moore Painter, the first thesis graduate from our Public History MA program. Tawny conducted dozens of oral history interviews to write a social history of the Sioux Ordinance Depot. She is a brilliant historian!

submitted 135 days ago • 0 comments

"Leaving the 1900s and emerging into modern times" - Student paper. I didn't sign up for that kind of violence.

submitted 136 days ago • 0 comments

New job: Assistant Professor of History (Public HIstory) University of Nebraska - Kearney www.h-net.org/jobs/job_displa...

submitted 137 days ago • 0 comments

Come work with me! The person hired for this position will help support our growing graduate and undergraduate programs in #publichistory at the University of Nebraska at Kearney (UNK). #skystorians @ncph.bsky.social ncph.org/job/assistan...

submitted 137 days ago • 0 comments

Only two weeks and two days until #AHA25 opens in NYC! Let me know if you're attending and want to be added to our @historians.org #AHA25 starter pack. p s. AHA staff are in the "running on caffeine and vibes" stage of the meeting. Be nice to us, please.

submitted 137 days ago • 3 comments

Seems pretty simple to me: Using AI involves asking software to steal from copyrighted work without proper attribution. It's a form of plagiarism.

submitted 137 days ago • 0 comments

Come work with me! The person hired for this position will help support our growing graduate and undergraduate programs in #publichistory at the University of Nebraska at Kearney (UNK). #skystorians @ncph.bsky.social ncph.org/job/assistan...

submitted 137 days ago • 0 comments

Tupelo wishes everyone a happy holiday!

submitted 138 days ago • 0 comments

Today, my Introduction to Public History students pitched their proposals for new #SportsHistory exhibits at the Buffalo County Historical Society, focusing on baseball, recreation, and women in sports. Proud of what this group has managed to accomplish! Exhibits coming in 2025. #publichistory

submitted 138 days ago • 0 comments

There is something dystopian about seeing my university advertising a writing competition on Facebook, and then seeing Facebook has auto-inserted suggestions for AI queries based on the competition's theme.

submitted 138 days ago • 0 comments

Glad to see some #publichistory good news in the morning’s headlines apnews.com

submitted 139 days ago • 0 comments

Today marks 100 years since the lynching of Samuel Smith, a 15-year-old Black boy abducted from police custody on December 14, 1924, by a mob of armed, white men in Nashville.🧵

submitted 140 days ago • 1 comment

Does anyone have good resources for students on lecture note-taking? That is, examples of different styles of notes—outlines, bullet points, mind maps, diagrams, etc? I’m not interested in debates over handwritten/typed notes. I want examples of good (non-transcription) notes, handwritten or typed.

submitted 140 days ago • 5 comments

New here. I’m a historian of 19th & 20th century US & Caribbean history. Mostly histories of immigration, race, ethnicity, gender, & sexuality. Lots of LGBTQ history & public history. I curate exhibitions; former journalist, so I write a lot...

submitted 141 days ago • 3 comments

Nobody wants a student essay as a product; we want students to learn to compose their thoughts in written form as a process. I mean, would you have a machine run your laps or play your scales for you? In which case we would not say you had run or played.

submitted 142 days ago • 21 comments

Nobody asked for this. Educators are not soulless answer machines. AI cannot do what educators do. Please just stop it. I'd answer a million student emails before I'd ask AI to do my job for me.

submitted 142 days ago • 0 comments

We've just got word of another fantastic Call for Contributors! Jessica S. Hower, William B. Robison, and Valerie E. Schutte are seeking proposals for their two-volume edited collection on "Adapting the Tudors: From Novels to Film to Public History". 1/2 (part 1 attached)

submitted 143 days ago • 1 comment