‘I know you said not to get you anything so I got you a Diet Coke’ — my husband

Took a break from Bluesky and then got all in my head about what to post to ‘come back’ so now here’s that post. Hello!!

CFP - After 1776: Settlers, Slavery, and Citizenship in the Atlantic Republics Papers are invited that engage with any aspect of settler republicanism, revolutionary change, or political belonging in the Atlantic world. Deadline: 28th February

After 1776: Settlers, Slavery, and Citizenship in the Atlantic Republics - British Association for American Studies

We invite proposals for a two-day workshop that explores how the American Revolution reverberated in the emergence, expansion, and contradictions of settler republics across the Atlantic World. We…

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New article for #MenstruationMonday out of @commonplacejrnl.bsky.social! commonplace.online/article/padd...

Padding Out History: Menstrual Management in the Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century United States - Commonplace

Innovations in menstrual technology that emerged in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century allow us to infer what techniques women used to manage their periods in earlier decades by analyzing...

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HCV's first Book & Author chat is with Jessica Lake, the author of Special Damage: The Slander of Women and the Gendered History of Defamation Law. Thursday, 5 March, 6 pm at Bard's Apothecary, 24 Crossley Street, Melbourne. www.historycouncilvic.org.au/book_author_... #vichistoryevents

FAMU can't use the word Black on anything posted around campus related to Black History Month, to stay in compliance with Florida state laws against DEI. Black students can't use the word Black at their Historically Black College during Black History Month.

Well, let's give it a shot again and see what we get.

Adjunct pay/working conditions AY25-26

This form is part of a project to crowd-source pay and working conditions for people who teach and research in colleges and universities during AY2025-2026. This form is for people paid by the course ...

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Is the Chronicle still bothering to collect salary information on adjuncts or do we need to do another Google spreadsheet?

David Darmofal@daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 6mo ago

This headline in The Chronicle makes it sound like most adjuncts are independently wealthy when the reality is they have to hold second and third jobs just to make ends meet.

oooh we are posting super bowls? As a specialist in Islamic ceramics *cracks knuckles* I present this fabulous 11th c. lustre painted bowl from Fatimid Cairo depicting a Coptic priest. Its white glaze imitates Chinese porcelain and the lustre technique was invented in Iraq a century earlier.

Thank god for my walking pad as it continues to be snowpacolypse outside

y’all, one of the questions is about 1st century mark. email shouldn’t be fun. and yet…

Shaily Patel@vox-magica.bsky.social · 6mo ago

i have three(!) emails from students asking questions adjacent to class materials. not clarifications, these are personal research questions. tell me again how religious studies isn’t serving US college students.

Deadline to submit draft application is this Wednesday (4th Feb)! We're hosting a webinar on drafting applications for postdoc fellowships on 12th Feb. Your application will be reviewed and discussed by assessors and successful applicants. Full details below.

CEMS KCL@cemskcl.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Working on postdoc apps? We're hosting a workshop with assessors and successful applicants on Feb 12th. Submit a draft application for feedback by Feb 4th. Full details below! kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/apply...

Hello new followers! We're glad that our goal here resonated, but it's not what this account usually does. We're (mostly) about showcasing the great history questions and answers from our community. We'd love it if you clicked on them when you see them! It's all free and written by volunteers.

AskHistorians@askhistorians.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Please make it your new resolution to visit AskHistorians once a week, because we've never been this invested in overtaking another community.

How about a @askhistorians.bsky.social post for #MenstruationMonday? Have you ever wondered how women without periods thought about their (lack of condition)? Here is an answer in the context of 19th century US with the professionalization of male physicians: www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

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March 6 is the deadline to apply for Introduction to #Arabic #Manuscript Studies—a virtual, one-week intensive course held from June 22 to 26, 2026. Apply today: hmml.org/programs/arabic-mss-studies

This conference means so much to me. In 2019, @jenguiliano.bsky.social & I collaborated to put on the 1st ACH conference since the 1990s. I ran it for the next few years and now the labor has been taken on by other wonderful people. #ReviewsInDH, among other projects, would not exist if not for it.

ACH@ach.bsky.social · 6mo ago

ACH is holding our annual virtual conference, ACH 2026, from June 24 to 26, 2026. We are excited to announce that we have extended our call for papers to February 23, 2026: buff.ly/Rltfrcu

9 February (19:00–20:30 CET) | Book Launch: #PublicDataCultures with @jwyg.bsky.social Join us in Amsterdam to meet Jonathan, a researcher, writer, and long-time @archive.org collaborator, and hear about his new book exploring #PublicData. 🔗 Read more: www.internetarchive.eu/nl/2026/01/2...

Out today: THE CROWN'S SILENCE I'm delighted to share that my new book is officially out! It traces the British monarchy's involvement in the transatlantic slave trade and colonial slavery over hundreds of years. Please buy a copy, tell your library, & spread the word. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

***New post in our blog, Not from Here*** Sites of Spectacle and Sites of Sacrifice: Mapping the Ministries of 19th Century Female Preachers by @csgreer.bsky.social iehs.org/sites-of-spe...

Sites of Spectacle and Sites of Sacrifice: Mapping the Ministries of 19th Century Female Preachers

This work is funded in part by the IEHS Digital History Seed Grant. There are a million ways to read a historical source, and I have been interested in early 19th-century female preachers for so lo…

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it's always revelatory and yet disappointing when the expensive art materials work better

Our posting is up for the @jcblibrary.bsky.social Associate Director -- please share! It's a good place to work, imho. 😀 brown.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/staff-...

John Carter Brown Library@jcblibrary.bsky.social · last yr.

The JCB is seeking a senior leader for its ambitious digital programs. Our Associate Director for Digital Asset Management will guide the continuing development of our innovative platform, Americana, and oversee the digitization of library collections. 1/3

Congratulations to Worlds Turned Upside Down contributors @frankcogliano.bsky.social and @michaelhattem.bsky.social on their nominations for the George Washington Prize! You’ll hear from both soon in Episode 19: The Gambit www.mountvernon.org/about/news/n...

Nominees Announced for the 2025 George Washington Prize, One of America’s Most Esteemed Literary Awards

Nominees Announced for the 2025 George Washington Prize, One of America’s Most Esteemed Literary Awards

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when I grow up I wanna be me, but a me who has helped fight off authoritarianism

Historians who work with oral history etc know this effect. It increases significantly around traumatic events, & over multiple retellings, which is one reason testimony around eg the JFK assassination is contradictory. Memory isn’t a record of events; it’s your brain forming a narrative for you.

Richard J@preachypreach.bsky.social · last yr.

This is, incidentally, exactly why you should be very sceptical of most war memoirs that weren’t written shortly after the war in question (and even then memory can prove surprisingly malleable even unconsciously)

Also I got a cat named Harissa

friends, sorry for being MIA but I have sent everything off for my dissertation and have nothing else left to complete :)

The Rebellion is now in progress.

Team: I am sorry to report that RRCHNM is eliminating my position in late August. That means I am in the hunt for new full-time and consulting opportunities in history, public history, and podcast production. Have a lead? Please let me know! And yes, Worlds Turned Upside Down will continue.

Time means nothing it was two (2) days ago but I was barely a person yesterday :)

Caroline Greer@csgreer.bsky.social · last yr.

A quick announcement that I successfully defended my dissertation yesterday!