Look what just dropped from the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social? Thomas Rzeznik talking about his #nuntastic new book, A Monument of Charity: St. Vincent’s Hospital and Catholic Health Care in New York City. I can't wait to have a listen! newbooksnetwork.com/a-monument-o... @achahistory.bsky.social

Call for Essays in United States Franciscan History: www.aafh.org/blog-1/

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11 June 1908 | A Dutch Jewish woman, Rachel Vredenburg, was born in Amsterdam. In May 1944 she was deported from #Westerbork to #Auschwitz. She did not survive.

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History Workshop@historyworkshop.org.uk · 3mo ago

How did the Catholic Church respond to the challenges of industrial life? Sam Young explores the complex history of the Jeunesse ouvrière chrétienne, which used Christian values to advocate for a more humane economy.

Were you rushing to get your ACHA Summer Research and Writing Grant application in? Good news, we have extended the deadline to March 15! For more information and to submit an application visit achahistory.org/summer-resea....

The Centre for Women’s Studies in Theology (KU Leuven) will host for International Women’s Day on 10 March 2026, 1-2pm CET, Prof. Catherine Cornille (Boston College) who will speak on “Women in Interreligious Dialogue and Theology.” To join online email cwst@kuleuven.be.

Ah, a new book has arrived. Congratulations to Joseph Mannard on his new book! The Two Worlds of Ann Gertrude Wightt share.google/fbZIYqm5uggP...

Here is some Sunshine youtu.be/2UQP6asc8CI?... The latest from Joan Hutton.

Sunshine ☀️

YouTube video by Joan Hutton Music

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Pilgrimage accomplished. Visited Old St. Joseph Cemetery and the Sisters of Mercy graves this afternoon. This included Mother Francis Xavier Warde's grave and those of the first Sisters of Mercy at Manchester, NH.

2-year postdoc opportunity: FCJ Postdoctoral Research Associate in the History of Catholicism at Durham University durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

"My father, an early and prominent computer scientist, passed away more than two years ago. Since then I’ve been trying to make sense of how rapidly the world that helped make him, and in turn the one he helped shape, is unraveling." 1/ scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/06/26/d...

Did My Father’s World Die with Him? Grieving the Incalculable Costs of “STEM.” - The Scholarly Kitchen

Grieving my father's death feels inextricably tangled with grieving the catastrophe overtaking the whole of our research infrastructure.

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26 June 1939 | Dutch Jewish girl, Helena Wilhelmina Polak, was born in Groningen. In February 1943 she was deported to #Auschwitz from Westerbork and murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection together with her younger brother Abraham.

The Conference on the History of Women Religious at the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism ended just yesterday. I think I will be processing all that I saw, heard, and most importantly learned for a good while. 1/2

#CHWR2025 1st full day! & we [really] begin! (Last night's keynote from Katharine Massam was super!] Today, 1st panels begin at 9am, I'm a chair. Later at 2pm I join @carmenmangion.bsky.social & Christopher Eads. Day ends w the work-in-progress film on Corita Kent! It is going to be #nuntastic.

In light of the Trump administration restricting access to trans-specific support on the national 988 suicide prevention hotline, I’m asking everyone to share this alternative loud and wide: The Rainbow Youth Project is here. There is always help.

Maggie Astor@maggieastor.bsky.social · last yr.

Breaking: The Trevor Project received a stop-work order last night on its contract with the national 988 suicide prevention hotline. The Trump administration is eliminating the option for LGBTQ callers to the hotline to press 3 and connect with someone who specializes in LGBTQ mental health.

"You need not caution me regarding any little remarks which you might make for to no one living [underlined in orig.] would I reveal them. I too have many things which I would like to speak to you of but yet it would not do to write about." Oh, come on Mother Agatha! Spill! #nuntastic gossip.

I have a feeling that the assholes currently running Interior are going to regret this directive in the end. There are too many smart, vindictive supporters of national parks out there. I just wish that park rangers were not caught in the cross-fire. #supportNPS

NPR@npr.org · last yr.

The Department of the Interior is requiring the National Park Service to post signage nationwide by June 13, asking visitors for feedback on any information they feel misrepresents American history.

Recalling travel from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh in Dec 1843, w 1 leg a 2-night journey by stagecoach, a "heavy clumsy concern," that fit 9 people (7 sisters & 2 men) a Sister of Mercy reported: "Passing the night in it was quite a penitential exercise." Oh, sister, tell me more. #nuntastic

I love this photo! Florence Barry was amazing - more on her here: map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/items/show/311 @lselibrary.bsky.social @gillianmurphy.bsky.social @ccshistorycatholic.bsky.social @ncronline.bsky.social @cushwa.bsky.social @mbfconnolly.bsky.social @achahistory.bsky.social

Catholic Record Society@catholicrs.bsky.social · last yr.

In our latest chapter spotlight, @carmenmangion.bsky.social gives an overview of her chapter on the role of Catholic women in Catholic Action organizations such as St Joan’s Social and Political Alliance. You can read more about the volume here: boydellandbrewer.com/978180543533... #skyhistory

Tuesday, March 11, I will present for the Mercy Heritage Center. My presentation is: "Willing to Engage in the American Mission": The Irish Sisters of Mercy in 1840s Pittsburgh and Chicago. This online presentation will be at 3pm Eastern/2pm Central. The Zoom link: us06web.zoom.us/j/810…

So, there is a pomodoro timer? Is this a thing people use when writing?

Here's a Sybstack worth following.

The laying down of lights, and striking a new match.

Trooper, transitions, and trying again

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Archivist and historians in conversation? Can they do that? Well, we do. Fun and helpful conversation had by all. #ACHA2025 #AHA25

Here we go, #ACHA2025 starting tomorrow! @achahistory.bsky.social

If you're traveling this week, spend the travel time learning history!

Follow UNSUNG HISTORY on your favorite podcast app

A podcast about people and events in American history you may not know much about. Yet.

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Oh my stars, grades in. Wow.

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.

Mary Beth Fraser Connolly @mbfconnolly.bsky.social reviews 'Subversive Habits: Black Catholic Nuns in the Long African American Freedom Struggle', by Shannen Dee Williams academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @dukepress.bsky.social

Subversive Habits: Black Catholic Nuns in the Long African American Freedom Struggle, by Shannen Dee Williams

Shannen Dee Williams’s book looks directly at the history of anti-Black racism in the longer history of the American Catholic Church. This much-needed hist

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Why, yes, I did watch Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood while using the treadmill this morning. Everyone should start the day with Mr. Rogers. Refresher on how to make paper chains & lesson on how paper is made ✅️ Time to take on the day!