Elise A. Mitchell
@bydreamphd.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in Swarthmore’s History Department studying how Africans survived enslavement, epidemics, and empires in the early modern Atlantic World. Insta: @bydreamphd
Belated congrats! It was a pleasure and honor to help judge this prize!
Nursing Clio@nursingclio.bsky.social · 2w agoCongratulations to @disabilitystor1.bsky.social for winning the NC Prize for Best Journal Article for their work: “Sometimes the Yoni Is Like a Jasmine Flower’: The Vayattati’s Hands in Twentieth-Century Kerala.” nursingclio.org/awards/
Got my print copy today! Thank you @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social and @hsmurphy.bsky.social Read it in print or online here: academic.oup.com/past/issue/2...
Available for preorder now: The Oxford Handbook of American Medical History edited by James A. Schafer Jr., Richard M. Mizelle Jr., and H. K. Quinn Valier. It was an honor to write the chapter on slavery and medicine. I hope it’s a helpful entry point for teaching. global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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NEW: The Trump administration is looking to urgently buy mobile surveillance trailers for the site of George Washington's home in Philadelphia after it replaced panels about slavery with a new exhibit. "The replacement of these interpretation panels is creating a lot of security concerns."
Trump administration ups security at President’s House after exhibit swap, citing ‘safety concerns’
The Department of Interior is looking to urgently buy surveillance equipment to monitor the President's House 24/7 after swapping the site's slavery exhibit with the Trump administration's panels.
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“The change happened overnight Tuesday into Wednesday, hours after the city hosted MLB All-Star game events near the site, allowing the government to switch out the displays and shut down the television screens while avoiding public scrutiny during the takedown.” www.inquirer.com/news/philade...
Slavery exhibits at the President’s House have been swapped for the Trump administration’s version
The change at the President's House happened overnight, allowing the government to switch out the displays and shut down the television screens while avoiding public scrutiny during the takedown.
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📢 Once more for the people in the back: - Most [more than 95%] of archives have not been digitized. - Most of humanity's knowledge and memory is *not* reachable by LLMs. - Believing that AI can provid you with comprehensive, definitive, "intelligent" results is folly.
Jesse Locker@jessemlocker.bsky.social · 3w agoGiving myself a headache in the archives
Actually want to amplify this further--95% haven't been digitized and even beyond that, archival CATALOGUING is its own patchy horrorshow of varying strategies, standards, and funding levels. To DIGITIZE something you have to FIND IT first!
Amalia S. Levi, PhD@amaliasl.bsky.social · 3w ago📢 Once more for the people in the back: - Most [more than 95%] of archives have not been digitized. - Most of humanity's knowledge and memory is *not* reachable by LLMs. - Believing that AI can provid you with comprehensive, definitive, "intelligent" results is folly.
The AC is out at ICE's detention facility in Newark, where it currently feels like 107 degrees. Detainees say not even the ventilation is working, and that the water is dirty. Health inspectors recently tried to inspect the facility. They were turned away. www.nj.com/politics/202...
Delaney Hall’s air conditioning goes out during N.J.’s worst heat wave in 15 years
Air conditioning failed at Delaney Hall during a major heat wave, prompting concerns for detainees as advocates cite ongoing complaints and inspection disputes.
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Holding a POWERHOUSE Residency a few years ago made all the difference. Without it I would not have finished the first draft of my book. I know there is so much need right now but, if you have the means, please donate to support this residency. givebutter.com/powerhouse-pride-crowov
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The eleventh issue of Hammer & Hope is now live! We are besieged by a ruling class focused on maintaining white power. They represent one tradition in the United States. But there is another, found in 250 years of resistance, rebellion, and refusal. One that continues today — because it must.
A new analysis found that the mortality rate for people in ICE custody has skyrocketed during Trump’s second-term mass-deportation campaign. Far more people are now in ICE detention than in prior administrations, and a far greater percentage of those detainees are dying.
The death rate for ICE detainees has skyrocketed under Trump
Medical care in immigration facilities has long been inadequate. A new report finds that conditions have gotten far worse.
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Ok hear me out, it’s about to get petty… it’s Saturday night. I’ve had 2 sodas (I quit drinking) and I’m feeling froggy! www.forbes.com/sites/courtn...
The unmasked anti-Haitianism in the U.S. is yet another articulation of the structural anti-Blackness of the nation. At 250, this is precisely what the U.S. is and what it has always been.
See all articles here. So delighted it’s out! They are currently free to read.
Past and Present@pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · last mo.Our 2026 Supplement (#18) "Medicine, Race, and Slavery in the Transatlantic World, 1600–1850" Edited by @hsmurphy.bsky.social (@kingshistory.bsky.social @cemskcl.bsky.social) Has now been published by @academic.oup.com academic.oup.com/past/issue/2...
I am so delighted and honored to be a part of this Past & Present Supplement, “Medicine, Race, and Slavery in the Transatlantic World, 1600–1850.” It was a pleasure and so enriching to work with @hsmurphy.bsky.social and the editors at @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/past...
Medicine, Race, and Slavery in the Transatlantic World, 1600–1850
As the title suggests, the provocation of this Supplement is simple: that the histories of medicine, transatlantic slavery, and race cannot, and should not
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As folks search for ways to help, here is an org from a reputable source that is helping Venezuelans. thehouse-project.org/products/sup...
Venezuela needs us. Let’s be a light today.
In a matter of seconds, thousands of families lost everything after the devastating earthquake. Today, the most urgent needs are access to clean drinking water, food, basic hygiene supplies, temporary...
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Very excited to be a part of this discussion! Nursing the Revolution: 250 Years of the Power of Nurses ana-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Honored and delighted to be a part of this @easmisc.bsky.social roundtable “Nursing the Revolution” web.sas.upenn.edu/earlyamerica...
Nursing the Revolution: Care Work in Revolutionary America – Meg E. Roberts – EAS Miscellany
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As a historian and digital humanist, the work about AI (and specifically LLMs) that I find most interesting and exciting is the work designed to disrupt, resist, and protect against it. It’s the work of largely Black and feminist scholars and it’s the work of organizers.
Happy Pride! Gratitude to the historians who have begun to highlight the last 500+ years of documented Black queer history in Africa and around the world! May their work continue despite the reprise of homophobic and transphobic Euro-colonial laws in parts of Africa and the Americas!
Happy Pride Month! 🎉 Over the course of three decades, Small Axe has published numerous works surrounding gender and sexuality in the Caribbean. We have compiled some examples to add to your reading list! Available through @dukepress.bsky.social ; link 🔗 read.dukeupress.edu/small-axe/is...
This week in @nursingclio.bsky.social, a beautifully narrated essay about intersex medicine and gender history in Colombia nursingclio.org/2026/06/03/a...
A Surgeon’s Case in the History of Intersex Medicine in Colombia
One day, while scrolling through social media, I came across the story of Santiago, a Colombian intersex man who underwent sex reassignment surgery during his adolescence. He was born with genitals…
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I’m delighted to join @lpolcha.bsky.social at @freelibrary.bsky.social to discuss @insurrecthistory.bsky.social on July 9! Join us if you’re in Philly! libwww.freelibrary.org/calendar/eve...
Events: Decolonizing Early America with Insurrect!
Insurrect! is an online publication devoted to anti-colonial frameworks and critiques of racial capitalism in Early American Studies. Editors Polcha and Mitchell join us in the Education, Philosophy, ...
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I’ve been thinking about this a lot… I don’t “skeet,” I “fly” because it’s a BlueSky… ok bye.
Nerd Alert 🤓 I just got the news that I got a little teaching grant that’s going to fund the first polished run of my Black History Taboo cards!
I spent the last week or so between New Orleans and Philly getting inspired by collaborative scholarship, new books, former students aspiring to become historians, and creatives using history in their work. Things are vibrant and the work is good. It’s worth taking risks to protect.
