This is a great distraction! Meanwhile mine covers US fascism, women's dependent citizenship (SAVE Act), Bonus March (mistreatment of vets), smallpox inoculation (anti-vaxers), Hays code (censorship), Anti-Asian laws, Disability protests, & a slave rebellion 🗃️ It's a different vibe adbl.co/3HEk4q6

If you're looking for a distraction from the world around us, check out my Great Courses/Audible series Early American Sex Scandals. From the Reynolds Affair to the Beecher-Tilton trial, this is basically early America's hottest gossip (backed up by scholarship) www.audible.com/pd/Early-Ame... 🗃️

It's book release day for @alansiegella.bsky.social! Congrats, Alan!

Hi all, do we know if anyone is working on preserving the NEH teaching resource site edsitement.neh.gov The site is huge, so we need an organization with server space to do it using a scraper tool.

When we get through this, one item on the legislative agenda should be an NEH budget pegged, at, say, 3% of NIH's budget.

The NHA has a very helpful case making resource here: nhalliance.org/federal-fund...

This weekend is the 250th anniversary of Patrick Henry's famous "give me liberty or give me death" speech. I wrote for @smithsonianmag.bsky.social about the famous phrase and its legacy--including its (widely varied) uses by 19thc abolitionists, protestors against covid lockdowns, and Harvey Milk. 🗃️

A ray of light today—the dedication for Arlington’s first three stumbling stones memorializing those enslaved in this location. Great community & local govt support for this project

🧵 🗃️ It saddens me to have to bring you news of yet another casualty of the Trump administration's war on any history that does not conform to a white-centered narrative. For the past few summers I've worked with teachers at Arlington National Cemetery. The historians and educational staff...

Join me online next Wed, March 12 at 7 pm for a discussion on First Family hosted by James Monroe's Highland #history #books 🗃️ highland.org/event/virtua...

Martin Luther King wasn’t asking people to do community service. He was asking folks to liberate oppressed peoples.

Never forget.

Another note for those designing syllabi—if you’re teaching either of my books (Founding Friendships or First Family) this semester, I’m happy to Zoom into your course! FYI-I have a bibliography for First Family online since there isn’t one in the book 🗃️ cassandragoodhistorian.com/first-family/

A few thoughts from a historian of memory and the American Revolution on why Speaker Mike Johnson used a fake quote on the floor of the House meant to depict Thomas Jefferson as a decidedly pious individual...

This is, or should be, a big deal -- Ann Telnaes, an absolute legend, quitting WaPo due to censorship of a cartoon criticizing billionaires anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...

Fellow #academicsky profs working on syllabi & looking for assignments that AI can't complete--check out my book hunt assignment. Students have to search for & check out a book from the library. It was a hit with my survey course this fall! /1 cassandragoodhistorian.com/2024/11/12/t... 🗃️

"The test of a government is not how popular it is with the powerful and privileged few, but how honestly and fairly it deals with the many who must depend upon it."—Jimmy Carter, 1971 President Carter embodied compassion & service. May his memory & his example be a blessing.

“We wanted to help ProPublica’s readers recognize the humanity of the people we had met and talked to, so we gave them notecards and asked them to describe their experiences with sweeps.”

I donated to Western PA Fund for Choice (supports abortion care for those in OH, PA & WV): www.wpafundforchoice.org/donate I mostly donated to higher ed given *gesticulates wildly*: UC Berkeley IGS: igs.berkeley.edu/about/suppor... UCLA Fielding School of Public Health: ph.ucla.edu/give-ucla-fi...

So excited to read this! Congrats @kawulf.bsky.social!

Totally agree when it comes to LLM’s for writing/reading.

Jennifer Harris (@mypbjam.bsky.social) and I are pleased to share the release of our @broadviewpress.bsky.social edition of William Hill Brown's THE POWER OF SYMPATHY (1789). Here's a short thread about the book, which its original printer, Isaiah Thomas, marketed as the first American novel. 🧵🗃️

Actual comment on a student evaluation: "this course stated no use of AI at all, however, everyone [who] uses AI gets way better grades than those who don't which I find so unfair." FWIW, the assignments were to turn in reading notes, 2-page field trip reflection papers, and an exhibit plan.

My very first public history project was a small exhibit & report on a 19thc Quaker woman in MD for my high school senior project. Surreal to bring it back to Holton-Arms today & talk to humanities students about doing public history work.

Delighted to hear @jmbeatty.bsky.social on @npr.org this morning in a story on trad wives; listen online at www.npr.org/2024/12/18/n... 🗃️

Question for #academicsky: does your university have a smart way to handle overhead/indirect costs on small(ish) grants? Strategizing how to make a grant for under $100k work when uni takes 30-40% overhead is extremely challenging. My dean is open to creative solutions that have worked elsewhere.

Turning a German tragic love story that spawned a wave of copycat suicides in the 18thc into a romcom is…somehow very 2024.

Happy publication day to #oathbreakers! Look for it at your local bookstore and if you see it on there, PLEASE post bc a pic and tag me & @lollardfish.bsky.social! #medievalsky 🗃️

It will rise from the desert like a mirage of the water it sucked dry to power the servers.

Yes, please. A student told me another prof told students they could use AI to help understand the reading. She was having trouble keeping track of when and how different profs said she could use it.

Would def read this!

Michael Blaakman wrote an excellent book on these schemes: www.pennpress.org/978151282448...

Actually I found the most amusing part of this article was this gem: "I once heard Boris Johnson, classicist, speak movingly about how a visit to the Marbles changed his whole outlook, being in their humanity and pathos so very different from the stylised work of other cultures..." 🗃️

🎤 Is this thing on? Hi, Bluesky! We're Commonplace Journal, an online publication for anyone interested in American history before 1900. Slightly less formal than a journal, slightly more scholarly than a popular magazine, we strive to bring early American history to a wide audience.

The choice of image here by @theatlantic.com looks like a nice portrait of a photographer taking a family photo…but it’s actually showing 2 siblings who had died, one over 15 years earlier. Look closely, the boy looks truly creepy. Learn more: americanart.si.edu/videos/direc... 🗃️ #arthistory

Across the country, people are starting meal preparations and traveling to be with friends and family. Tell us your favorite dish on the Thanksgiving table, and we’ll share our knowledge about the work behind the ingredients. #WeFeedYou

My Lafayette piece for Time's Made by History was published today. Thank you so much to MBH staff, especially Brian and Felicia, for your edits that made my pitch into something better. And extra thanks to @cgoodhistorian.bsky.social for her insight and advice. time.com/7177668/lafa...

Brief 🧵on fighting injustice

Fundamental human rights were not and will not be protected by following popular consensus or putting rights up for a vote 🗃️

Looking forward to this one! 🗃️

Here’s my latest, First Family: George Washington’s Heirs and the Making of America bookshop.org/p/books/firs...

Good news for fellow nerds out there who used to use Tweetdeck to sort your feeds/lists: there's a Bluesky version that looks just like it called @deck.blue deck.blue If you haven't used something like this before, it's esp. helpful for following a specific hashtag during a conference.

Feeling stuck coming up with good assignments that can't be completed with AI but don't require in-class work? I present: the book hunt. A simple but very useful exercise that went over well with my intro class this semester. cassandragoodhistorian.com/2024/11/12/t... 🗃️

Hello and welcome new followers! Trying to keep up with following back but also limiting social media time--so please feel free to DM me as a nudge to follow! Looking forward to rebuilding the online history community over here & supporting one another 🗃️

In the studio today to record an Audible/Great Courses 6-part audio series. Stay tuned for Early American Sex Scandals in May 2025! 🗃️

Thanks to AI, midterm exams are back in person and this old relic is getting back to work. Not shown: huge stack of bluebooks for the short answer sections. #academicsky 🗃️

One encouraging thing I'm hearing from students about AI: a number of them tell me they don't use it, because why are they paying to go to college if they aren't going to do their own learning? #academicsky