If you love women's history, sign up for the Women's History Network ‪@womenshistnet.bsky.social‬ annual conference. Running over 4-5 Sept, it's free, online, & packed with great panels on activism, archives, the arts and fashion, economic life, sexualities womenshistorynetwork.org/the-womens-h...

We're currently accepting articles for our 2026 issue, The Regenerative Rust Belt. Send us your articles and write with any questions. Also, please share the CFP far and wide! @katietrostel.bsky.social @valentinolzullo.bsky.social #academicsky #booksky

#ResistanceRoots Today in history, 1970: As many as 20,000 women protest in the Women’s Strike for Equality in New York City, with more throughout the U.S. The event was held on the 50th anniversary of the certification of the 19th Amendment, giving women the constitutional right to vote. /1

In 1907, Indiana became the first state to pass a eugenics-based sterilization law, allowing sterilization of the imprisoned and institutionalized who were deemed mentally or morally deficient. One of the most influential proponents of eugenic theory in early 20th-century Indiana was Dr. John Hurty.

Perfect weather this week for some time in our local parks, including White River State Park downtown. This post takes a detailed look at a 1981 panoramic photo of the land that what would become @WhiteRiverStPrk. www.class900indy.com/post/panoram...

John N. Hurty was the secretary of the Indiana State Board of Health from 1896 to 1922. He advocated for a scientific approach to public health and became so well-known for a variety of public health reforms that a state medical journal titled him "Indiana's most useful citizen."

Mix one grain of sulphate of zinc and one grain of foxglove (digitalis) in half a teaspoon of water, add four ounces of water, and drink. This "infallible" mixture, according to advertisements in Muncie newspapers in August 1893, would cure smallpox within twelve hours.

We are thrilled to share the programme for our upcoming seminar series. Please continue to check our socials and our website over the coming weeks as the links to register for each of the seminars are published. We look forward to seeing you all there!

My biography of Amelia Bloomer just got another nice review, this one from the Indiana Magazine of History @inhistoryeditor.bsky.social The author wished I had given more detail on where to read more of Bloomer's writing. Here you go!

In August 1893, Dr. Frank Jackson, city health officer of Muncie, diagnosed 14 cases of smallpox within one of the city's neighborhoods. The city council quarantined the affected houses, called for a widespread vaccination program, and began building 2 hospitals to house the sick.

📢 The OAH has issued a Statement on the White House Review of the Smithsonian. Read the statement: ow.ly/hgLR50WGhfQ

August is National Immunization Awareness Month. Vaccines have a long history in Indiana. In August 1893, Dr. Frank Johnson, the first public health officer of Muncie, Indiana, was called out to see a child suffering, he was told, from chicken pox.

historian and scholar friends (I forget the hashtag for this lol): What are some good secondary sources analyzing racial capitalism/industrialization and Native American removal in the 19th century? please repost! thanks in advance!

Since the 1950s, Summer Language Workshops at Indiana University have provided training in Russian, East European, and Central Asian languages. Generations have come to Bloomington to study Romanian, Polish, Kazakh, etc. Rubio just cancelled all of them languageworkshop.indiana.edu/summer-langu...

KKK was *everywhere* in 1920s Indiana. George Dale, the editor of a Muncie newspaper, refused to bow to them. He survived and eventually became mayor. For more on "the crossroads of America" in this era, see also: James Madison, _A Lynching in the Heartland_ Timothy Egan, _Fever in the Heartland_

#SCOOP: the new National Archives' day-to-day leader—who's the head of the private Nixon Foundation—fired a total of 27 employees across the presidential library system, including the deputy director of [checks notes] the Nixon. Most were in public-facing roles. #NARA medium.com/@anthony_cla...

If you're struggling to understand how eugenics impacts daily life right now, I recommend going back to the historical records to see how the eugenics movement took off 100 years ago. We need to be able to recognize it when we see it, so that we can push back and resist. 1/20

New at PB, Jessica Rucker interviews @katemasur.bsky.social about her new graphic novel “Freedom Was In Sight” (@uncpress.bsky.social with illustrations by Liz Clarke), which uses storytelling and illustration to tell the history of Reconstruction.

Please consider applying for this awesome opportunity!

A book about how racism shapes the American educational system and why that matters DEBUTED on the New York Times bestseller's list. Put simply, people still care about history. Congratulations to Dr. Eve Ewing! @eveewing.bsky.social www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/676681...

Today (Feb 22) in 1943, three courageous young people in the group White Rose were executed for distributing anti-Nazi leaflets in Germany. Sophie Scholl: "The greatest damage is caused by the silent majority that just wants to survive, submit and go along with everything."

The federal government has now removed the entire LGBTQ Heritage Theme Study from the National Park Service website. Be a rebel - read banned history. outhistory.org/exhibits/sho... 🗃️ 🏳️‍🌈 🍎 🗺️ #sschat #skystorians

Not sure if it was the same tour but here’s a post (and thread) I did earlier about the site where Frederick Douglass got rushed by a mob in nearby Pendleton which also was the site of the hanging of three men who murdered Native Americans bsky.app/profile/hist...

This is just a portion of the publications we consult to compile the annual bibliography of articles in southern history. We regularly check 300+ different journal titles! But also, if you've had an article out in 2024 related to the history of the U.S. South, let us know so we can check it out.

To dismiss the grief in Victorian stories as old-fashioned is to assume they're outdated bc of the passage of time. But a high child mortality rate was eradicated not by time, but by effort. To dismantle a century of resolute public health measures, like vaccination, invites those horrors to return.

In the early 20th century, 4,000 Hoosiers died every year from tuberculosis. Irene Byron was a public health nurse in Fort Wayne, Indiana, serving for four years as part of the city's campaign against the disease. Byron worked in the city clinic and tent hospital, and visited patients at home.

Rev. Moses Broyles, pastor of Second Baptist Church in Indianapolis, was instrumental in bringing Frederick Douglass to the city to speak at a two-night fundraiser for the local YMCA. The organization set aside seats for Black audience members in the balcony of the local opera house.

In 1907, Eugene Debs joined the staff of Appeal to Reason, a Socialist newspaper based in Girard, Kansas. His wife Katherine formed personal and professional relationships with some of the women instrumental to the paper's success, especially Grace Babbitt Brewer, the head of the Appeal Army.

The AHR’s December 2024 issue is now available. This issue inaugurates the annual publication of a special issue of the journal. Inside the issue authors explore how historical context and contingency shape and inflect resilience. 🗃️

🎤 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.

It arrived! Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery by @sethrockman.bsky.social tells a story of American capitalism through the materials that connected enslavers and “coerced consumers” to spinners weavers & owners in the North press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Katherine Metzel Debs has frequently been portrayed as an insignificant appendage of her husband, Socialist leader Eugene V. Debs. In truth, Kate Debs acted as her husband's secretary, ran a Socialist publishing concern, and maintained close personal and professional ties with other Socialist women.

Moses Broyles was born into slavery in 1826. Sold away from his family in Maryland, he grew up in Kentucky. Broyles was able to buy his freedom in 1854. Already literate, he moved to Lancaster, Indiana, where he enrolled at the Eleutherian Institute.

📚 #Librarians, #faculty, and #students: Explore Black Periodicals: From the Great Migration through Black Power by Reveal Digital–including 75,000+ pages of vital resources on #BlackHistory, #SocialJustice, and #cultural movements. 🔗 Learn more: bit.ly/3ZfIJaV

As we're all starting again here, I hope this is a useful thread for any #historians that use #digital #archives. I'm often surprised by how even experienced researchers miss important things about digital archives. So, here are my basic tips for maximising your time in digital archives:

Need a distraction from Election Day news coverage? The N American continent is approx 160 million years old, yet we tend to focus on 3300 millionths of that history, the period between 1492-present. @kathleenduval.bsky.social asks us to widen our view to 1,000 years of N American history.

In 1936, Indianapolis attorney Frederick Zainey founded The Syrian Ark, the official newspaper of the Midwest Federation of Syrian American Clubs. The Ark served as a place where the paper's correspondents and readers, part of the Arab diaspora in the US, could claim the Midwest as their homeland.

Just for good measure, I hope this goes to all #skyhistorians 🗃️

I might as well share a little from my book. This is a brief FBI memo of a high school student in #Seattle, Washington, who called the FBI and offered to be an informant. #skystorians

Can report there is still no opt-out. I'm part of a team of #milhist scholars that has voided its contract for a 4th ed of American Military History with Routledge because T&F sold out to Microsoft rather than protect its authors' IP. 🗃️ #academicsky www.thebookseller.com/news/academi...

I've created a starter pack for those researching and writing histories of the Atlantic world. If you are working in any field that falls within, or is related to, Atlantic history you are welcome. Just reply below and I'll add you. go.bsky.app/E8itZWt

It’s #GISDay! #DYK that GIS can be used to map history and injustice? This #NEHgrant -funded, award-winning project from the University of Minnesota uses GIS technologies to map the history of racial covenants in the Twin Cities. ow.ly/yg9s50Ua1fm

We are publishing first issue of Rust Belt Studies next year with support from @ohiohumanities.bsky.social and in collaboration with Midstory. In the meantime, we are planning our second issue: The Regenerative Rust Belt. Join the conversation and submit a piece to us. More at Rustbeltstudies.org

State Court Report is now on Bluesky! State constitutional law is a hugely important yet chronically understudied area of law. @statecourtreport.bsky.social covers legal trends, cases, scholarship, and other emerging issues. Check it out!

We've updated our website to show you what we've been doing recently. Check us out at Rustbeltstudies.org Reach out for collaborations both in person and online, submit to our journal, or just say hello! We're going to continue to work to define the Rust Belt with all of you!

Another one of my entries for the Encyclopedia of Indianapolis was just published. This one is about Governors Island, which was located in the White River just south of the Washington Street bridge. indyencyclopedia.org/governors-is...

And while you're waiting for the book, check out Aaron's article "Building a Student Movement in Naptown" in our September 2018 issue (online at Project Muse). The "Corn Cob Curtain" was an underground high school newspaper first published in 1971 by students at Arsenal Tech in Indianapolis.

From our March 2024 issue: Prof. Edward Curtis examines the history of the Syrian Ark, an Indianapolis-based newspaper that, from 1936 to 1954, chronicled Arab, Syrian, and Lebanese midwestern life. Look for the most recent years of the IMH on Project Muse. #projectmuse

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