Bobby Lee
@bobbylee.bsky.social
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Historian of the United States, mostly 19th c., colonialism, land, GIS
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My latest article just published and is open access, for now at least. Itās about how Brown got reparations for property made by slaves after the American Revolution. šļø
direct.mit.edu/tneq/article...
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Justice for the Edifice: Praying Compensation for Rhode Island College, 1770ā1800
In 1770, Rhode Island College, now Brown University, erected the biggest building in Providence. Donations tied to the slave trade funded the College Edifice, now University Hall. Some donors grew ric...
https://direct.mit.edu/tneq/article/98/2/138/131239/Justice-for-the-Edifice-Praying-Compensation-for
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Please stop sharing that video of RFK Jr and Kid Rock. Please!
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Jennifer Jordan
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No cover yet, but my new book, Beer Ghosts: In Search of Lost Hops and the Women Who Grew Them, has appeared on the
@uchicagopress.bsky.social
website! Out in Octoberā¦š»
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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Beer Ghosts
The little-known story of the young women who played a vital role in the rise of Americaās great breweries.Water, malt, yeast, and hops: these are essential ingredients of beer. Hops, specifically, pl...
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/B/bo271049878.html
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The Journal of the Civil War Era
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Now available for free! Please check out this important special issue. Now more than ever, the Civil War era provides us with important lessons for our harrowing current moment
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Shannon Mattern
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āIn 2019, as [Gannett] began fully moving operations out of the bldg, the entire collectionāby then scattered across the basementāwas suddenly in limbo⦠The Poughkeepsie Public Library stepped in, agreed to pay rent on a dedicated storage unit + took on physical custodianship of the archiveā¦ā
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The Poughkeepsie Journal Photo Morgue and the Fight to Save Local History
The Poughkeepsie Journal photo morgue holds decades of unpublished images. Artists, scholars, and librarians are fighting to keep it from disappearing.
https://www.chronogram.com/river-newsroom/the-poughkeepsie-journal-photo-morgue-and-the-fight-to-save-local-history/?utm_source=Chronogram+Newsletter&utm_campaign=a4fcd386d7-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2026_01_12_12_39_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-142e4633ca-150143532&goal=0_371ff4d22d-a4fcd386d7-150143532&mc_cid=a4fcd386d7&mc_eid=54dc3dc22c
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Jim Ambuske
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Stole an hour today to visit colonial NYC: 1. Stone marking SW bastion of Fort Amsterdam/George 2. Iron fence that guarded George III statue on Bowling Green 3. Alexander Hamilton Customs House, where Ft. Amsterdam/George stood 4. Pearl Street, where Catalina Trico & husband Joris once lived
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Applications open for the Keasbey Isaac Newton Fellowship in American Studies at Selwyn College, Cambridge. This is a 3yr postdoc/JRF for a scholar of US culture, society, politics or history from any discipline. Closes March 19 Please spread the word
www.sel.cam.ac.uk/jobs/Keasbey...
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Keasbey Isaac Newton Fellowship in American Studies 2026 | Selwyn College
https://www.sel.cam.ac.uk/jobs/Keasbey-Isaac-Newton-Fellowship-in-American-Studies-2026
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American Philosophical Society
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š Ella Deloria was an Indigenous anthropologist in the 20th century, a difficult time to be an Indigenous person and a woman in any professional field. Read this week's blog post by Madhavi Tiruchelvam, former APS Curatorial Intern, to learn about Deloria's life in the field.
https://bit.ly/4rhj0KI
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Ella Deloria: Navigating the Field as an Indigenous Anthropologist | American Philosophical Society
Header image: Ella Deloria, Courtesy of Dakota Indian Foundation, via Philip J. Deloria.As the curatorial intern at the American Philosophical Society Museum, most of my work involved archival researc...
https://www.amphilsoc.org/news/ella-deloria-navigating-field-indigenous-anthropologist
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Writing ātold here for the first timeā is just asking for trouble
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āThe United States used Fort Snelling as a concentration camp during the Dakota Indian Wars to imprison thousands of Dakota and Ho-Chunk people in abysmal conditions.ā
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A former Native internment camp becomes site of prayer camp - ICT
Dakota and other Native activists established a teepee camp near a federal immigration detention center in Fort Snelling, Minnesota, that has a dark history with Native people.
https://ictnews.org/news/a-former-native-internment-camp-becomes-site-of-prayer-camp/
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Jesse Jackson gave a speech at my high school in the 90s. I can still picture him chanting āUp with hope, down with dope!ā RIP
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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her)
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New byline in
@latimes.com
on what a late medieval/Renaissance map has to do with politics today. š
#maps
#cartography
#histsci
#medieval
#renaissance
#earlymodern
www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
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Contributor: What 'America' meant before 1776, and who 'Americans' are today
The label is often wielded now to exclude brown people, but these two continents have been a melting pot since long before the U.S. was founded.
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2026-02-17/american-identity-bad-bunny-super-bowl-amerigo-vespucci
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Concerns over autocracy in the U.S. continue to grow
Is America still a democracy? Scholars tell NPR that after the last year under President Trump, the country has slid closer to autocracy or may already be there.
https://www.npr.org/2026/02/16/nx-s1-5705955/us-autocracy-concerns-grow
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A metaphor for our times
www.popville.com/2026/02/mass...
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Now about that Massive Potomac Sewage Spill ā Thing are, uh, NOT GOOD - PoPville
"A significant overflow occurred overnight after pump capacity dropped during a high-flow period. An earlier, smaller overflow was contained. New pumps may arrive this week to help stabilize operation...
https://www.popville.com/2026/02/massive-potomac-sewage-spill-thing-are-uh-not-good/
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Some good news
newrepublic.com/post/206625/...
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Judge Orders Trump Admin to Restore Slavery Exhibits It Took Down
President Trumpās National Park Service has suffered a blow in its attempts to whitewash U.S. history.
https://newrepublic.com/post/206625/judge-orders-trump-admin-restore-slavery-exhibits-presidents-house-nps
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Talking about grad school with a student today and it hit home how much external funding has dried up
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Joseph M. Adelman
2 days ago
We cannot separate the history of the nation from the history of slavery. George Washington was an enslaver. As President he brought enslaved people to Philadelphia, and rotated them out to evade a Pennsylvania law that promised emancipation after six months in the state. /1
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Read a banger article from the 1930s and shocked to find itās only been cited 7 times
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Cromwellās horse slept here
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3wombats
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theaimn.net/consent-and-...
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Consent and conquest: the legal foundation of British sovereignty in Australia
For generations, Australians were taught that Britain āsettledā an unoccupied land. Many First Nations people reject that description entirely, calling 1788 an invasion. The dispute is not merely sema...
https://theaimn.net/consent-and-conquest-the-legal-foundation-of-british-sovereignty-in-australia/
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Sad state of affairs when the most effective argument against mass detention camps might be that they have a negative impact on property values
www.ms.now/opinion/ice-...
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Opinion | ICEās warehouse detention centers run up against NIMBYism
A surprising number of Republican communities are coming out against the idea of ICE deportation facilities in their backyards.
https://www.ms.now/opinion/ice-warehouse-detention-center-gop-pushback
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For those following the NEH lawsuit
www.politico.com/newsletters/...
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ChatGPT cuts in action
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/west-wing-playbook-remaking-government/2026/02/13/doge-used-chatgpt-to-identify-cuts-to-neh-grants-00781563
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Given how AI works, Iām looking forward to soon reading an essay starting with āI have searched the depths of Historical Arguments not yet articulated or vetted on this subject, and will be presenting an irrefutable oneā
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Charles Keener
6 days ago
www.counterpunch.org/2026/02/12/t...
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The Reinvention of a Famed American Bookstore and Its Founder
Gioia Woodsā a professor at Northern Arizona University and the author of a new enlightening book about City Lights (City Lights: Lawrence Ferlinghetti
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/02/12/the-reinvention-of-a-famed-american-bookstore-and-its-founder/
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique
6 days ago
Feels like it's a good day to repost this:
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
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Does humanities research matter anymore? (opinion)
The rapid collapse in available research funding is one crisis in the humanities we arenāt talking enough about, Asheesh Kapur Siddique writes.
https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2023/08/15/does-humanities-research-matter-anymore-opinion
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Neglected Books
5 days ago
On February 13, 1951, The World of Willa Cather was published by Dodd, Mead. The first biography of Cather, it appeared four years after her death. It was Mildred Bennett's first book. š§µ
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What a sick conference program! Heavy hitters!
www.nyhistory.org/programs/lib...
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Liberty for All? Women in the Age of Revolutions | The New York Historical
The eleventh annual Diane and Adam E. Max Conference on Womenās History considers womenās lives and experiences within the Revolutionary period, to better understand the American story.
https://www.nyhistory.org/programs/liberty-for-all-women-in-the-age-of-revolutions?date=2026-03-01
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Theyāre not gonna be happy until the Cayahoga River is on fire again
www.ciel.org/news/us-roll...
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Rollback of US Protections Against Greenhouse Gases Disregards Science and Defies International Duties
The Trump administration eliminated federal limits on greenhouse gas emissions that drive the climate crisis in a scientifically baseless and legally indefensible move that sacrifices health and safet...
https://www.ciel.org/news/us-rollback-of-protections-greenhouse-gases-disregards-science-and-defies-international-duties/
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Itās a great time to study the US from an ocean away. So apply for the 3-year Mellon postdoc in American History at Cambridge. Closes March 1.
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/mellon-...
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Lost History Books
6 days ago
Can someone recommend an independent researcher that can visit an archive in New Haven, CT? I really need someone ASAP. I would prefer someone experienced, but in theory anyone that can read these city names and dates in cursive could be fine. It should take 4-6 hours. šļø
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Dr. John R. Legg
6 days ago
If you're teaching Digital Humanities, encourage students to participate in the Dear Data project. It's v. engaging for students to keep track of data in visually interesting ways. Doing it along side your students! Here's my visualization which traces my commute/weather from Hattiesburg to NOLA.
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The JER Pano
6 days ago
Our next The American Revolution documentary post on Ep. 2, "An Asylum for Mankind," is live! In "Ken Burn's Inevitable Revolution," Helena Yoo-Roth unpacks the significance and need for "interpretation" in history. Read this and others on the
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thepanorama.shear.org/2026/02/12/i...
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Ken Burnsās Inevitable Revolution
Helena Yoo-Roth explores the second episode of Ken Burnsās American Revolution.
https://thepanorama.shear.org/2026/02/12/inevitable_revolution/
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āIt marks a key development for the tribe, which was forcibly removed from its lands and saw its individual allotments stolen, said the tribeās chairperson, Serrell Smokey.ā
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Washoe Tribe buys 10,000 acres in one of Californiaās largest ever land returns
Tribe, which was forcibly removed from its lands near Lake Tahoe, used $5.5m grant and private donations for purchase
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/11/washoe-tribal-land-return-california
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Future generations will despise us
www.euronews.com/green/2026/0...
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Trump EPA to gut key scientific finding underpinning US climate policy
The 2009 'endangerment finding' is the legal underpinning of nearly all US climate regulations for planet-heating emissions.
https://www.euronews.com/green/2026/02/11/one-of-the-most-damaging-decisions-in-modern-history-trump-epa-to-repeal-key-climate-findi
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Always a mystery if the printerās gonna print
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So, Arkansas used to employ prisoners as armed guards to oversee their fellow inmates. Called them 'trusties.' Sometimes they put them on horseback and gave them shotguns to oversee prisoners laboring in fields
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Newest Western Historical Quarterly is up! Looks like itās accidentally a special issue on land, with articles on forced fee patents, boundary making, and real estate speculation
academic.oup.com/whq/issue/57/1
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Volume 57 Issue 1 | Western Historical Quarterly | Oxford Academic
The official journal of the Western History Association. Publishes original articles dealing with the North American West. Each issue contains reviews and notices of significant books, as well as rece...
https://academic.oup.com/whq/issue/57/1
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Nicholas Guyatt
8 days ago
Friends, can I ask you to spread the word that we have a THREE-YEAR postdoc in American history at Cambridge up for grabs - ANY field, but applications are due March 1 so don't delay - apply, apply, apply!
networks.h-net.org/jobs/69790/u...
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Three-year Mellon postdoc in American History at the University of Cambridge. Any subfield. Fast turn-aroundāapplication closes March 1. Please spread widely.šļø
networks.h-net.org/jobs/69790/u...
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University of Cambridge - UK - Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Fixed Term) | H-Net
The Faculty of History at the University of Cambridge welcomes applications for the Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, a three-year postdoctoral fellowship open to those working in any field of American history from the colonial period to the twenty-first century. This is an exciting opportunity for a candidate who has or is close to obtaining a PhD in a relevant specialist subject area.
https://networks.h-net.org/jobs/69790/university-cambridge-uk-mellon-postdoctoral-research-fellow-fixed-term
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Shocking stat from the first paragraph of the annual report of the Carlisle Indian boarding school in 1893: the death rate of students was more than double the graduation rate
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Ryan Quinn
14 days ago
A āBarrage of Billsā Would Overhaul Higher Ed in IowaāIf They Actually Pass
www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...
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āBarrage of Billsā Would Upend Iowa Higher EdāIf They Pass
The stateās new House Higher Education Committee has advanced a raft of bills that would hit universitiesā pocketbooks, hide presidential candidatesā names, and more.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/governance/state-oversight/2026/02/04/barrage-bills-would-upend-iowa-higher-ed-if-they-pass
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Kenneth F. Duggan šØš¦
9 days ago
PLEASE REPOST š„ŗš The Canadian Letters & Images Project is an online digital archive of Canadiansā experience during wartime at home & in battle. It contains thousands of personal letters & photos that reveal peopleās experience through their own words & eyes.
www.canadianletters.ca/content/abou...
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Jimmy Sweet
9 days ago
I came back to share that I just did a podcast about the book for those interested.
newbooksnetwork.com/mixed-blood-...
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Jameson R. Sweet, "Mixed-Blood Histories: Race, Law, and Dakota Indians in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest" (U Minnesota Press, 2025) - New Books Network
https://newbooksnetwork.com/mixed-blood-histories
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WashPo newest section: Not Made by History
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A whole article about US imperial expansion. Not a word about Native nations
theweek.com/history/amer...
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American empire: a history of US imperial expansion
Donald Trumpās 21st century take on the Monroe Doctrine harks back to an earlier era of US interference in Latin America
https://theweek.com/history/american-empire-a-history-of-us-imperial-expansion
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Michael Oberg
11 days ago
Iāve started moving my blogposts over to Substack. Consider it a running commentary on the historical issues raised in NATIVE AMERICA, my textbook on Native American/Indigenous history. Please feel free to subscribe (at no cost) and follow along.
open.substack.com/pub/nativeam...
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Native America | Michael Leroy Oberg | Substack
A Digest of News, Opinion, Insights, and Analysis for those interested in Native American History. New posts every Wednesday and Sunday. Click to read Native America, by Michael Leroy Oberg, a Substa...
https://open.substack.com/pub/nativeamerica
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āAmericaā Vespucci was the Anna Delvy of the 1830s. Broke, charming, and European, she nearly convinced Congress to give her a land grant because the continent was named after her family. Her real name was Elena
portraits.allenbrowne.info/Vespucci/Read/
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āIf they're going to censor anything about broken treaties, that's certainly not good. We want the truth to come out," added Eugene Little Coyote, assistant to the tribal vice president. "We have a lost narrative about this battle that needs to be brought to light.ā
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Tribe, federal officials differ over proposed sign revisions at Little Bighorn National Monument
A dispute has emerged between Northern Cheyenne tribal leaders and the federal government over how history is presented at the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument.
https://www.ktvq.com/news/local-news/tribe-federal-officials-differ-over-proposed-sign-revisions-at-little-bighorn-national-monument
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This outfit was so fly it caused riots
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Almost like I can feel myself turning into a curmudgeon in real time. Like a middle age version of growing pains
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