Jason Petrulis
@petrulis.bsky.social
History prof in Hong Kong. My award-winning articles: “A Country of Hair”: ROK Wigs, Kor Am Entrepreneurs, Af Am Hairstyles, & Cold War Industrialization http://bit.ly/3PENmX0 The jawbone/quijada as global Black musical instrument https://bit.ly/4nAl7ba
Looking for a short interview about a instrument you've never heard of, which has an amazing global Black history? Look no further! Kristina R. Gaddy interviews me for her substack here: openstacks.substack.com/p/walk-jawbone
Walk Jawbone
Another Instrument Traversing Black Culture and White Appropriation; an interview with Dr. Jason Petrulis
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New! Kristina Gaddy, banjo historian extraordinaire, interviews me about the Jawbone as a global Black musical instrument... openstacks.substack.com/p/walk-jawbone
Walk Jawbone
Another Instrument Traversing Black Culture and White Appropriation; an interview with Dr. Jason Petrulis
openstacks.substack.com
Today was my last day as a Surfacing Overlooked Stories Fellow at @bpl.boston.gov. Over the past ten weeks in Special Collections, I read through 294 boxes of papers and 19 manuscript volumes, plus a further 134 boxes at other archives. Numbers, however, don’t really tell the story 🗃️🧵
Thinking about LLMs, through epigraphs from HL Gates Jr.'s The Signifying Monkey:
Anyone else hear similarities/vibes between Edwin Hawkins's Oh Happy Day (67) www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJoh... and Carole King's I Feel the Earth Move + It's Too Late (71)? www.youtube.com/watch?v=6913... www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkKx...
The Edwin Hawkins Singers - Oh Happy Day (Official Audio)
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Excited to be part of the Made by History launch with the long history of weather gambling, featuring rain betting, illegal "weather pools," and attempted bribery. TY @carlygoodman.bsky.social for terrific editing and @jmburns.bsky.social for reading and our many prediction market conversations!
Carly Goodman@carlygoodman.bsky.social · 4mo agoBecause it is our launch day, we have a second Made by History piece up today, by Jamie Pietruska, on the long history of betting on the weather, a practice now supercharged by phones, betting apps, and climate change. Everything has a history! 🎁 share.inquirer.com/XFrZX1
Because it is our launch day, we have a second Made by History piece up today, by Jamie Pietruska, on the long history of betting on the weather, a practice now supercharged by phones, betting apps, and climate change. Everything has a history! 🎁 share.inquirer.com/XFrZX1
The real-world consequences of gambling on the weather
Making bets on the weather is a practice that goes back centuries. In an age of climate change and online betting markets, the stakes are much higher.
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Carly Goodman@carlygoodman.bsky.social · 4mo agoExciting day! We have our first MBH piece up @inquirer.com! Cory James Young writes about George Washington's deep entanglements with slavery in Pennsylvania, beyond the president's house site, centering what historians know about these individuals. Please read and share! 🎁 share.inquirer.com/1BSWa8
Near the end of my residency at State Library Victoria, I had a chat with Paula Bray about the stuff I've been doing for the past 30 years, and why I think it's important. It's online now if you want to listen: https://lab.slv.vic.gov.au/experiments/my-place-tim-sherratt/interview #GLAM […]
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Have your used one of my publications, or digital projects like the Real Face of White Australia, in your teaching (since 2020)? If so, I would love to hear how you've used my work and how students have responded – and see your unit / course outline, too! Email kate.bagnall@utas.edu.au 🗃️
🗃️ 🐴 Happy New Year! In 1854, the US Navy's "Perry Expedition" to Japan and the Ryukyus was anchored at the main island of Okinawa (which they called "Lew Chew," for Ryukyu) for the New Year; and saw and translated the New Year wishes posted around them. From the Expedition's official Narrative:
There’s valuable information recorded in Chinese on Tasmania’s old Chinese headstones that is gradually disappearing, like on Claude Nam Shing’s headstone in Cornelian Bay Cemetery. I’ve worked out some of the characters, but not all of them. Any thoughts, clever people? 🗃️ #EverdayHeritage
My article is finally in print! I detail the impact of Japanese colonial policy on Ainu health during the early-mid Meiji period, focusing on the village of Tsuishikari. The article's subtext is the broader question of Indigenous health in historical research.
The Necessities of Life: Japanese Colonial Policy as a Social Determinant of Ainu Health, 1876–1887
Summary. In this paper, I reassess the Meiji period (1868–1912) Japanese public health and Indigenous management policies, focussing on the Karafuto Ainu i
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We are going to focus @douglassday.bsky.social in Feb 2026 on the Colored Conventions and their visions for citizenship. We need to tell a much fuller story about the 14th amendment. The history is crystal clear. The Constitution is crystal clear.
jamelle@jamellebouie.net · 9mo agobad actors like wurman are why i think it is important to place the birthright clause in the full context of section 1 and section 1 in the context of both dred scott and the two decades of antislavery and abolitionist agitation and political thinking that proceeded it
Love is the Message joins BlueSky! We're a podcast about music, the dance floor, sound systems and counterculture, hosted by @jemgilbert.bsky.social and Tim Lawrence. www.loveisthemessagepod.co.uk Apple: tinyurl.com/5n6ehsd6 Spotify: tinyurl.com/59fnvebu Patreon: tinyurl.com/mvbmdc9e
Our report is published! Free and available to the public! Black History at the Vassall Estate Longfellow House—Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site This is the story of a Black family in Massachusetts who exemplified the spirit of liberty. read: irma.nps.gov/DataStore/Do...
"Journey With Me Through Hong Kong, My Home," a children's activity book published by Professor Puja Kapai's DEIJB Lab at HKU, highlights the lives and careers of 12 ethnically diverse women in the city. In full: buff.ly/YnEFq69
Children's book on HK's ethnic minority women empowers young readers
"Journey With Me Through Hong Kong, My Home," a children's activity book published by Professor Puja Kapai's DEIJB Lab at HKU, highlights the lives and careers of 12 ethnically diverse women in the city.
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It's August 6 in Japan now. I'm thinking of my family's experience in Hiroshima 80 years ago and feeling grateful that I spent some time in the city this past January. Photo taken at Shukkeien, where my great grandmother evacuated to escape the fire that engulfed her neighborhood after the bombing.
永原宣 Hiromu Nagahara@hiromunagahara.bsky.social · 2y agoI’ve walked all over Hiroshima during the past few days visiting sites connected to my family’s experience of the atomic bombing as well as their premodern life as samurai serving the Asano house. I started in the northern end of the city, just east of the castle where my family lived in 1945.
BREAKING! Over the moon excited to announce Ai Hisano's appointment as next editor-in-chief at @entandsoc.bsky.social!
Enterprise and Society@entandsoc.bsky.social · last yr.@entandsoc.bsky.social is delighted to announce that Prof. Ai Hisano has been chosen as incoming Editor-in-Chief. This is a truly exciting appointment that promises a bright new phase in the journal's history. More about Ai and her fascinating work can be found here: www.aihisano.com
How can we teach about disaster & history using ephemera? Revisit our #NCCSpotlight “Earthquake Children Image Archive: A Window into Disaster & Humanity” by Dr. Janet Borland (ICU) to learn how her work on the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake translates to classrooms: guides.nccjapan.org/homepage/new...
💬 "The committee was impressed by the article's significant contribution to organology as it recontextualizes the jawbone/quijada, highlighting its multifaceted cultural roles." www.facebook.com/100064526028... 🏆 Learn more about the prize: www.amis.org/frances-dens...
📄 "From Jonkonnu and Son de los diablos to Congo Square and Son Jarocho: Global Histories of the Jawbone/Quijada as a Black Musical Instrument" @projectmuse.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/artic...
Project MUSE - From Jonkonnu and Son de los diablos to Congo Square and Son Jarocho: Global Histories of the Jawbone/Quijada as a Black Musical Instrument
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🎉 Congratulations to American Music author Dr. Jason Petrulis for being recognized as the 2025 Honorable Mention for the Frances Densmore Prize from the American Musical Instrument Society! @petrulis.bsky.social
🗃️ Reminder: if you are a university professor, professor emeritus, or associate professor of history, you are eligible to nominate *anyone you want* for a Nobel Peace Prize. www.nobelprize.org/nomination/p... Nominations for 2026 open in September!
Nomination and selection of Nobel Peace Prize laureates - NobelPrize.org
A nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize may be submitted by any person who meets the nomination criteria. A letter of invitation to submit is not required. The names of the nominees and other informati...
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The Smithsonian Folkways site is a treasure trove of African American, African diaspora, and African religious music. For Juneteenth, Folkways recommends "Spirituals and Shout Songs from the Georgia Coast."
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Acclaimed upholders of the African American ring shout, the McIntosh County Shouters keep the faith, form, and fervor of the generations-old tradition rooted in their small community of coastal Georgi...
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🗃️ So excited it is finally out: Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje's Fiddling Is My Joy: The Fiddle in African American Culture FREE download: play.google.com/store/books/... Apparently it is open access via @upmississippi.bsky.social and @uclalibrary.bsky.social!
Fiddling Is My Joy: The Fiddle in African American Culture by Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje - Books on Google Play
Fiddling Is My Joy: The Fiddle in African American Culture - Ebook written by Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. Download for offli...
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DC folks, come join me at the Smithsonian today from noon to 1! americanhistory.si.edu/events/calen...
Book Signing: Neil Young, "Coming Out Republican: A History of the Gay Right"
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Newberry Scholarly Seminar Deadline Approaching! June 6. Please apply!
Quite the time to be a historian of US civil rights and Black freedom struggles. Here's a reading suggestion, from well before we got quote-unquote woke. William Chafe, *Civilities and Civil Rights.* Capsule version? Civility discourse impedes rights. Period. archive.org/details/civi...
Civilities and civil rights : Greensboro, North Carolina, and the Black struggle for freedom : Chafe, William H., 1942- : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
xi, 282 pages : 21 cm
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Ansley Erickson@ansleyerickson.bsky.social · last yr.“I want students who can come here and add to the conversation on campus, but do it in the right way.” Sure, nothing can go wrong there. www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...
I had the pleasure of being one of the people Juli would share her insights with while walking around Hong Kong. It sparked lots of conversations about what we can vs. what we choose to call history. Super honoured to share Juli's work in From Place to Place!
History Workshop@historyworkshop.org.uk · last yr.How do you tell a history of a city hidden in plain sight? Fifty years since the first arrival of Vietnamese refugees to Hong Kong, Juliana Yat Shun Kei asks how to adequately locate Hong Kong's Vietnamese refugee camps.
